I haven’t talked about my shows in FOREVER… or so it seems. I just don’t seem to have the time like I have in the past. Plus I’m sick and all I’ve wanted to do for the past week is sleep. Not that I have but, when I wasn’t doing one of the chores on my To Do list or working a conference for work, I was daydreaming about my pillow.

Anyway, some quick thoughts, mmm’kay?

First up, I’d like to congratulate Dave and Stacy for winning the signed Val Emmich “Little Daggers” CD & Poster giveaways! Both of them were for their families as were many of the others who entered the contest. I’m not gonna lie, it was lovely reading what people were thankful for over the past week. A nice way to fill up my inbox. I’m grateful to you all for entering and, if you didn’t win this giveaway, don’t forget to enter to win an ABC Family 25 Days of Christmas Prize Pack. And keep checking back because we’ll have a few more giveaways for the holidays.

Speaking of the 25 Days of Christmas giveaway, congratulations to Jordan for winning the first of our two prize packs! I’ll be drawing the number for the second prize pack this Thursday. All giveaway winners should expect an email from me soon.

Heroes: If I’m honest? At this point I’m mostly watching the show for non-show related reasons. Because I no longer give it my full attention when it’s on and I’m not even the slightest bit interested in trying to figure out what’s going on… I’m not going to hate on it because, well, I don’t hate it. I feel like a lot of the people who are ragging on it are letting their emotions color their opinions. Not that it’s been good lately, I just don’t think it’s as god-awful as everyone else is claiming. But I digress. My reasons for watching seem to be (1) in case it gets good again I don’t want to be so far behind that I can’t watch (see Lost circa Season 2), (2) Jody still likes it and I want to love it again like she does, (3) I like Greg Grunberg and Brea Grant on Twitter and want to support their show as a consequence, and (4) Bryan Fuller will be returning. Good reasons to keep watching? I dunno. I just know the show alone would have lost me several weeks ago so I hope it starts to get better and quick. I’m not sure how long those extra factors will keep me tuning in with Mondays being so crowded.

Chuck: This week’s Chuck was enjoyable but not nearly as good as the rest of the episodes this season. I wanted more of the Awesomes (though I admit this is because of the actors playing them, not because I really care about them as characters). I’ve seen a lot of people suggesting the Buy More story could have been dropped but I don’t agree. It was the most entertaining part of the episode in my opinion. Ultimately, it felt like they stuffed way too stories into one episode. It may have served all of the stories a little better if they had been spread out among other episodes. I’m savoring these last few episodes, though, before the long break we’re going to have when the show disappears for the month of January. Can I just say, NBC, you should try re-running Chuck… I think it’d do better than you think. It’s the one show this season I’ve consistently watched multiple times.

Samantha Who: Yeah, I think I’m calling it quits on this one. I’ll still check it out when everything thing else is on break but I haven’t been enjoying it nearly as much this season as last and my Mondays are full enough that I don’t need keep up with a show that’s lost my interest. In all fairness to Samantha, I’m not that much of a sitcom fan and my schedule is suddenly full of them so I suspect I’ve just reached my saturation point. I’ll catch it in reruns. Y’all let me know if it suddenly gets great again.

The Office: I like this show so much better when it’s about the stuff going on in the office. Not that people’s relationships don’t affect the people you work with – they often, especially when you’re dating someone you work with – but lately there’s been too much of a focus on those. I want to get back to office politics. Hence why I really liked last week’s sub-plot about the dirty microwave (an issue in my office as well) and this week’s story about the budget surplus. That said, I didn’t find this week’s episode nearly as funny as some others because I’ve had enough of the Angela/Andy/Dwight triangle. It’s gone on for too long and it’s made me despise Angela. She wasn’t all that likable in the first place but now she’s toying with both guys and the show seems way too dismissive of the whole thing. I know it’s a sitcom so naturally the storyline needs to be played for laughs but I’d like to see someone take it seriously.

Grey’s Anatomy: I don’t begrudge anyone their opinions but, at this point, I feel like it’s just become popular to hate on Grey’s and Shondra. I didn’t see anything in this last week’s episode to warrant sudden flood of “OMG, hate it!!” posts everywhere. Perhaps it’s because I’m not disliking the current storylines as much as everyone else but I actually felt like this episode was an improvement over the past few weeks. In large part because they finally revealed that no one else can really see Denny. As much as I think they’ve dragged this particular storyline out too long (or, more aptly, they didn’t use Denny sparingly enough) and it was the imaginary sex that really pushed the limits of what we were all willing to believe, people finally noticing that something’s up with Izzie means that it’s not going to last that much longer and it’s not likely to turn out that Denny really is a ghost. So, yeah, not sure what exactly in this episode enraged so many people. I’d understand more if the uproar was about the portrayal of Asperger’s syndrome. I don’t know anyone with AS but I’ve seen enough complaints to get that the show isn’t doing a bang up job of representing it. However, that’s always more of a footnote in the whinging I’ve seen.

Still Loving: Privileged, Fringe, Life, and The Mentalist. Don’t have much to say about them at the moment however. I’ve also really enjoyed the last several Boston Legal episodes. It’s amazing what they let David E. Kelley get away with… though I hope he’s not as bitter about the show coming to an end as the show’s commentary would lead one to believe. Because it’s definitely time. I will miss the breaking of the fourth wall, though. Not that there’s really much of a fourth wall left what with the way they’ve been tearing it down lately.

What else? After a sad leg on The Amazing Race, I’m not nearly as excited about the end of the race as I was a week ago. I really kind of fell in love with Toni and Dallas and I’m seriously bummed one major mistake ended the race for them. I’m also not loving this season’s Top Chef as much as everyone else but I suspect that’ll change once a few more contestants go home.

Pretty certain I had other things to say but it’s taken me several days to write this as it is! I should wrap it up or I fear it’ll never get posted. How’s TV for you?