I am seriously slacking, y'all.

And I know this. I am slowly but surely trying to pull myself back into bloggy mode. I do love it when I can make it happen....but when there's nothing to say, well....there's really no point.

Which brings me to today. I don't have much to say here, except that finally, after a little over two years, my son's braces are coming off. Yay! I have one son's Christmas present bought already. Yay! And my other son's will be ready next week. Yay!

But I think the thing I'm most excited about is that tonight is the night for new episodes of both Criminal Minds and American Horror Story. I love all the tv shows I'm currently watching, but AHS is my absolute favorite!

I do have a post planned (well, planned in my head) for publication at some point, but until then, I think I'll just gush over Jessica Lange a bit. In my opinion, she absolutely STEALS the show. I was going to post my favorite scene of the week, but can't find it ANYWHERE. It's the scene where Constance tells Billie Dean to just cut to the chase - very closely rivaled by the scene where Constance tells her boy toy he'll never be famous - but every week, there is a new Jessica Lange scene to rave about, and I can't wait to see what she'll do this week!

In the meantime, I'm over at The Music Mamas with another edition of "Whatever Happened To...." Wednesday. You know you want to go over to find out who was featured! (Hint: popular in the mid 80s, but NOT a hair band or cheesy pop.)

Image source: American Horror Story Official Website

3 days till Halloween!

So I know what my final three movie selections for the countdown to Halloween to be, but I'm drawing a blank today for the fourth. I think instead, I'll focus on horror/supernatural/fantasy on television. There is so much good stuff out there these days! I started watching Supernatural way back, but for some reason didn't watch it beyond two seasons even though it was a good show. I think I'd like to play catch-up one of these days.....

In the meantime, here are some recent and/or current shows that I have enjoyed this past year or am enjoying right now:

1. The Walking Dead
2. The Vampire Diaries
3. The Nine Lives of Chloe King
4. Death Valley
5. Teen Wolf
6. True Blood
7. Game of Thrones
8. Being Human
9. The Secret Circle
10. American Horror Story (more on this one later, as I really, REALLY want to discuss it with other fans!)
11. Once Upon A Time
12. Grimm

Not to mention, I've enjoyed The Munsters, The Addams Family, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Twilight Zone, Tales From the Crypt, Night Gallery, and  Dark Shadows!  (And probably many, many, many more that I can't think of right off the top of my head.)  And I am very much looking forward to Hell On Wheels.

What are some of your favorite horror/supernatural/fantasy-based television shows, past or present?

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What do you get when you mix late night + travel + storms + temp change + allergies + the Scream Awards?

Apparently you get a dream like the one I had last night.

I arrived at this event, or party, and it's already in full swing. I ask to be directed to my husband, and am taken to him. Turns out I am married to Eddard Stark (yay, Game of Thrones, for your Scream Awards win!), and he is already well on the way to getting busy with another woman! I almost said this is weird because Eddard Stark would never do such a thing! But then....well, there is Jon Snow, so yeah. For some reason this doesn't bother me too much, but I am still excited to see him and he is excited to see me, and immediately stops what he's doing to be by my side for at least some of the evening.

I don't know if this is the SAME dream and Ned Stark has wandered off, or if I woke up but didn't wake up fully, turned over, and started something completely new. But I'm still at a party, this time in what seems like a hotel room overlooking the pool area. I walk out to the walkway, where chicks are jumping into the pool from six or seven stories up (no guys, though; strange.), shouting "you know what a sticky means!" on the way down. Obviously it means they never re-surface from their "dive."

I wonder what I'd have come up with if I'd actually taken allergy meds?

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Patrick Wilson has eluded me yet again!

If you've been following along, then you might notice that I have developed quite an attachment to A Gifted Man, due in no small part to a teensy-weensy crush on Patrick Wilson. You might remember me blogging about how I've not been able, even once, to watch this show on tv yet, due mainly to scheduling conflicts.

So earlier tonight (last night) I was home and I made plans to actually sit on my sofa, turn the tv on at the designated time, and watch the show at its regularly scheduled time.

Well? That didn't happen. Apparently I mistook the time of broadcast as 9/8 CST instead of 8/7 CST. So I missed it AGAIN tonight. Sigh....why must Patrick Wilson (and CBS) do this to me? But then I thought No problem. I'll just watch it online like I've done since the show debuted. And I tried. I loaded the video at CBS's website, only to have it constantly freeze.

Not funny, Patrick Wilson.

Not funny, CBS.

This is like the EXACT OPPOSITE of Josh Hartnett stalking me.

I shall try again after work tonight to watch the show online. But just so you know, Patrick Wilson (and CBS): even though I am a very forgiving person and am totally willing to overlook you ignoring me, our relationship cannot continue like this!

Another Friday night has come and gone

Which means that I have missed yet another episode of A Gifted Man. CBS, you kill me. You really, really do!

First, CBS puts this show on Friday nights. I am definitely gone every other Friday night while it's on (the premiere and now episode 3). I was here last Friday, but not at the time the show was on. I no longer have a way to record it. And to top it all off, CBS's website is a HORRIBLE way to try to get caught up. When I watched the series premiere online, it was broken down into 1.5 and 2 minute segments. The player repeated some of them, and generally skipped around. So I'm honestly not even sure if I saw it all! Now I have no choice but to try to view the latest episodes online as well.

Doesn't CBS know how much I adore Patrick Wilson and need to be able to watch this series???

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