Jaylen and Dash were on Katie Couric last night and it was a lovely little segment. You can view the video at dashmihok.com.

Had a good Halloween even though the weather was super gross because it was cold and rainy. Aidan and Alex each ended up with like 5 pounds of candy. No, I’m not joking. They weighed it.

Been reading a lot lately. Finished Wicked Lovely on Monday, Dead and Gone Tuesday and Ink Exchange yesterday. I LOVED Ink Exchange so much. It’s very dark, but in the end, everyone ended up where they needed to be. A lot the reviews I read weren’t very positive, but I don’t understand why. It might be a story about faeries, but the themes are that of pain, suffering, addiction, loss, need, survival and trying to reclaim yourself. It’s sad and awful, but having lived through a lot of things in the book and coming out the other side broken but still alive and breathing really struck a chord in me. Maybe the people who reviewed it negatively don’t have any frame of reference and therefore just didn’t understand. No idea. Anyhoodle, on to some of the characters… I’m in love with the character of Niall and I hope to see much more of him in the next book. I never cared for Irial, but I understand why he did what he did from start to finish. As for Leslie, I feel for her and understand the awful pain she feels and why she so desperately wants to reclaim herself and make it all stop even though the way she can make it stop could ultimately destroy her. I didn’t really like the characters of Aislinn and Keenan in this one though. They seem different than in the 1st book. Aislinn grated on my nerves until the end of the book and I just hated Keenan in this one. He was a total ass, which kind of sucks because I actually grew to like him in the 1st book. Seth is still a great character, but just not in this one for long. The one character I really miss in this one is Donia. She was my favorite in the 1st book and I’m really hoping she returns in the next one.

TV Talk:

Jane Lynch gets more and more fabulous with each passing Glee episode. Is it wrong that I thought Rachel and Noah/Puck were kinda hot together and that his hotness factor was raised a few more bars by singing Sweet Caroline even though he’s a sleaze just trying to get into her pants? Yes, I thought it was wrong. Don’t care though. Totally H-O-T.

White Collar is so going to be my new favorite show of the season. It’s a nice little mix of drama, light comedy and action and Matt Bomer is perfectly charming as the lead. I loved him in Tru Calling, adored every minute he was in Chuck and thought he was really good in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, so yayness for a weekly fix of charm and prettiness. Now if Lee Pace would get another show, I’d be in TV heaven.

I’ve been enjoying Eastwick, though it’s not something I must watch on a weekly basis. I typically watch/listen to it on Hulu while at work.

I’ve also been watching/listening to Flash Forward at work because I just can’t get into it. It’s not bad or anything, it’s just not something I can tear my eyes away from. I can’t figure out exactly what it is that doesn’t do it for me, but it’s just missing something.

I hope they end OTH after this season. It’s just time. I am hoping that Clay and Quinn will end up together, but we’ll see. Also, it’s time for them to let Brooke be happy damn it! Just let her get married and get pregnant already. Good grief! Also, they should bring Sam back or at least mention her once in while. Oh and the Millie on diet pills storyline? Stop it now because I’ve seen that one waaaay too many times.

Watched the first few eps of Fringe S1 and liked it a lot. It’s not something I’d need to see on a weekly basis, but I think I’ll finish out S1 and then download recent S2 eps.

Is Sons of Anarchy good? I adore Charlie Hunnam, but it doesn’t really look like something I’d like.

As most of you know, my dad passed away a couple of weeks ago. We weren’t close and I hadn’t seen him in 10 years so being there at the very end was kind of odd, but I’m so glad I went to see him and had a chance to talk with him briefly. We didn’t get to say all the things we wanted to say, but we said enough and there was peace for both of us. I still haven’t cried over it, but I will one day.

I turned 34 earlier this week. It was an OK birthday other than Aidan being sick and us not getting to cook dinner and stuff like we’d planned. I didn’t want a germy birthday dinner and certainly didn’t want to catch the bug he had. We’ll probably bake a cake or something this weekend, just so we can celebrate properly.

As I’ve plugged several times already, dashmihok.com and sophiabushphotos.com are now online if anyone wants to affiliate. I’ve got spots open for family, top and regular affies. Just email me through either of the sites and I’ll be happy to add you.

Aidan and I dropped dominic-monaghan.org due to lack of time. We didn’t want to let it go, but there was just entirely too much to do to get it to where it needed to be. We might open another one under a different domain one day with a smaller gallery or something. Or not. Who knows.

I’m in love with Glee and more specifically Lea Michele. The show is super fun and super pretty and all, but I don’t know if I’d be as into it if it weren’t for her. She just kind of brings the whole thing together and makes it all work. At least for me anyway. I also totally love Jane Lynch as Sue. She’s just absolutely perfect in her role.

Supernatural is rocking this season. I have a feeling they will break my heart by the end of the season though.

Tried to watch Vampire Diaries and boy does it blow. I still think Paul Wesley is super cute, but he doesn’t really embody Stefan just as Ian doesn’t embody Damon and Nina totally doesn’t embody Elena. Truthfully, hardly any of the characters look like they were described in the book (see descriptions here) which bothers me. Maybe if the actors or scripts were better, I might like it more. As it stands though, I had to give it up.

One Tree Hill isn’t very good this year, but I love Sophia so I will continue watching. Plus, they’ve had some really great tunes and Bethany looks amazing. I also like Shantel in her role, but she does happy and fun better than she does sad and hurt. The storylines are just so lame and some of the dialogue is just so forced. There is just no question that the show should have ended last season. I hope that they let it go in peace after this season because otherwise it’s just going to be unwatchable. I know some of the actors won’t have much of a career after it ends because they don’t have much talent, but they should have made a nice little nest egg for themselves by now and they could live comfortably for a while even if they don’t get much work.

Gossip Girl is kinda meh as a whole, but I LOVE Chuck to pieces. He seems just as smarmy as always, but less smarmy at the same time and much better dressed. I do miss S1 clothes on Chuck though. They were the best. Why do they keep putting Blair in shoes that don’t match her outfits in any way whatsoever? It’s weird and makes her look like she has no fashion sense even though she totally does. OK, I know it’s the stylists on the show that dress the cast, but still. And don’t get me started on that hideous outfit they had Serena in a few weeks ago. You know which one I’m talking about. Ugh times infinity. I wish they’d cut Vanessa’s hair again because trying to go for the messy Serena hair on her just doesn’t work at all. Also, why do they continue to make her annoying?

The True Blood finale was a let down. It took me weeks to finally watch it and then I felt like it was an hour wasted. I so wish they would have combined books 2 and 3 for Season 2 because they could have done it pretty easily and then that dreadful Maryann storyline would have ended long ago like it should have since she was barely present in the book and didn’t even have a name. Yeah.

I hope Dollhouse survives. I would hate to be without my weekly Joss and Enver fix. I’m so bummed that I can’t watch tonight because our stupid cable box is dead and I won’t have a replacement one until sometime next week.

Still practicing Russian, but I’m still not very good. I can say a few things fully and properly, but it’s getting really hard now. I keep getting the “I” and “You” and male and female forms of things mixed up, as well as the word order. I can’t even pronounce anything on the disc I started yesterday which makes me a little unhappy and somewhat frustrated. I think part of it has to do with my Southern accent. I just can’t wrap my mouth and vocal chords around certain words no matter how hard I try. I’ll have to take the discs back to library soon too which kind of sucks. They have a whole language section though, so I could try Farsi, Italian, French, German, Chinese and the list goes on. I might give a few others a whirl to see which one(s) I like best because learning Russian has definitely been fun and a good exercise for my brain and that’s exactly what I needed.

I think I’ll end here since my lunch break is now over. I’ll try to start tweeting again soon too. Just haven’t been in the mood lately.

I finally watched The Sarah Connor Chronicles S1 recently and it was really good. Lena Headey bores me greatly, but I will continue to give her a chance. Other actors have grown on me over time, so she might grow on me too.

Butch Walker has a new CD out. Check out some samples here and then go forth and purchase it.

Aidan and I went to see Changeling last weekend. It was his idea that we go see it, which surprised me because he’s usually more of a cheesy horror movie nut. We both thought it was a really well made and well acted on all parts, especially by Angie and Jason Butler Harner who played Gordon Northcott. I hadn’t realized how skinny Angie was during that time, but she was just skin and bones. It worked in her favor though because it added an extra layer of fragility to her character and all that she went through. Jason was just too creepy for words. (WARNING: The rest of this entry contains some slight spoilers regarding Jason’s character and how some of the scenes were filmed.)He played his character differently in almost every scene (this actually worked really well), but he always had this underlying child-like quality in there too and it just added to the creep factor. How he could take such a disgusting person from real life and play him in so many different ways and manage to bring a slightly human quality to such a monster is beyond me. I do hope that if I see him grace a screen again that it’s in a friendly role even though I know darker roles give an actor more of a chance to really act. Kudos to Clint Eastwood for not showing any real gratuitous violence or nudity or some of the other unspeakable things that happened to those poor little boys in real life. Even though he didn’t focus in on these things on camera, he did show a few scenes like the little boys screaming (the terrified bloodcurdling high pitched child screams that are the most disturbing thing in the world) in the chicken coup while Northcott is chopping (you can’t see what he’s chopping, but you know it’s a kid) with an axe with blood splattering all over his face. These scenes were highly disturbing and gave me chills and had many of the people in the theater were crying. If you are thinking of checking it out, I say go for it. Do your research on the real story though, either before or after you see the film. It’s both a fascinating and horrific story that deserved to be told. I’m just glad that it ended up in the right hands with the right cast and was handled in such a way that didn’t showcase things in a disgusting way.

In honor of my re-watching, I thought I’d do a little Brooke picspam today. Below are some of my favorite S2 and S3 Brooke happy faces, shock faces, cute faces and funny faces. Enjoy!