My procrastination, let me show you it.
I changed my layout but am not pleased with it at all, so if you've just stumbled across my LJ and you're like "OMGWTF WHY SO BLUE???" just know that I'm working on it. It's just not happening tonight.
This week is going to be so crazy at work. We have a reporter coming tomorrow to do a story on the store, then Santa comes to visit Tuesday night so we're staying open late, and I'll be running the store alone on Thursday. I'd like to go get a Christmas tree on Thursday, so I'm hoping she'll let me close early enough to make it happen. Hopefully the kittehs behave better with the real tree than they did with the fake Charlie Brown tree I bought :-(
Criminal Minds. Yes, I know that it's almost time for the new episode, but I have to address 100.
I knew they'd kill Haley off after seeing last week's teaser, but the conversation on the phone between Hotch and Haley? Holy. Shit. As I told my brother and 24_centuries, Thomas Gibson deserves an award for that. I could not believe how emotional that whole scene made me. Needless to say, Mom & I cried together. Mom actually cried a lot more than I did, which is saying something. She even got teary just talking about it on Thanksgiving Day.
I had no doubt that Jack would live, even though Mom & 24_centuries both thought that Hotch had shot him. I figured they wouldn't kill both of them because then what reason would he have left to live? He'd have let Foyet kill him. I've never cheered the killing of an unsub before, and I know that the opening quote implied that I probably shouldn't take pleasure in it, but I admit to cheering Hotch beating the hell out of Foyet. It sounds horrible, but I loved it. What can I say? I've got a little vengeful streak and I thought that it was a fitting end for them both. Foyet died and Hotch finally lost it and let out every ounce of anger and frustration and hate that he'd been building up since he got blown up.
I have to admit, I *loved* that Erin Strauss grilled the team mercilessly, because she gave me someone to curse at while jittering in my seat, but then she earned an "atta girl!" when it turned out that she was putting on a show for the others on the panel to keep from giving the impression of being too lenient. That was a fabulous and very unexpected touch.
I think that the ending - Hotch going to the round table room to hug Jack while his BAU family circles around him - was meant to quell the sadness and give us hope and although I will admit that it helped, it was still the most heart-wrenching episode of a television show that I have ever seen. To the point that we wound up having to watch NCIS so Mom didn't go to bed weepy.
If I were at all articulate, I'd have written this article, rather than the incoherent babbling paragraphs behind the cut. Obviously there are spoilers if you click. And a man that is not afraid to admit to being a sensitive man, which I approve of.
I've been procrastinating all day, but I suppose that I should go do what I have to do. Tomorrow night, I will fix my wonky layout.
ETA: If you've never heard it, The Calling does a killer "Carol of The Bells" - you should totally listen to it.
This week is going to be so crazy at work. We have a reporter coming tomorrow to do a story on the store, then Santa comes to visit Tuesday night so we're staying open late, and I'll be running the store alone on Thursday. I'd like to go get a Christmas tree on Thursday, so I'm hoping she'll let me close early enough to make it happen. Hopefully the kittehs behave better with the real tree than they did with the fake Charlie Brown tree I bought :-(
Criminal Minds. Yes, I know that it's almost time for the new episode, but I have to address 100.
I knew they'd kill Haley off after seeing last week's teaser, but the conversation on the phone between Hotch and Haley? Holy. Shit. As I told my brother and 24_centuries, Thomas Gibson deserves an award for that. I could not believe how emotional that whole scene made me. Needless to say, Mom & I cried together. Mom actually cried a lot more than I did, which is saying something. She even got teary just talking about it on Thanksgiving Day.
I had no doubt that Jack would live, even though Mom & 24_centuries both thought that Hotch had shot him. I figured they wouldn't kill both of them because then what reason would he have left to live? He'd have let Foyet kill him. I've never cheered the killing of an unsub before, and I know that the opening quote implied that I probably shouldn't take pleasure in it, but I admit to cheering Hotch beating the hell out of Foyet. It sounds horrible, but I loved it. What can I say? I've got a little vengeful streak and I thought that it was a fitting end for them both. Foyet died and Hotch finally lost it and let out every ounce of anger and frustration and hate that he'd been building up since he got blown up.
I have to admit, I *loved* that Erin Strauss grilled the team mercilessly, because she gave me someone to curse at while jittering in my seat, but then she earned an "atta girl!" when it turned out that she was putting on a show for the others on the panel to keep from giving the impression of being too lenient. That was a fabulous and very unexpected touch.
I think that the ending - Hotch going to the round table room to hug Jack while his BAU family circles around him - was meant to quell the sadness and give us hope and although I will admit that it helped, it was still the most heart-wrenching episode of a television show that I have ever seen. To the point that we wound up having to watch NCIS so Mom didn't go to bed weepy.
If I were at all articulate, I'd have written this article, rather than the incoherent babbling paragraphs behind the cut. Obviously there are spoilers if you click. And a man that is not afraid to admit to being a sensitive man, which I approve of.
I've been procrastinating all day, but I suppose that I should go do what I have to do. Tomorrow night, I will fix my wonky layout.
ETA: If you've never heard it, The Calling does a killer "Carol of The Bells" - you should totally listen to it.