Filling the Void

I am quite the fan of Friday Night Lights. And tonight, after a long summer of watching Big Brother and too much HGTV, my show is back on.

Coach Taylor, Tyra, Julie, Matt and all the rest of the Dillon Panthers are back.

I am ready for my show to start. There are not many shows which I call MY show. But this one, most definitely, is MY top show.

Last fall, K asked me to watch this show about a high school football team in Texas with him. And I resisted. I see enough football on Sundays, Sunday night, Monday night and Thursday night, all winter long. I hear about fantasy football, all winter long. My Sunday evening shows are always late to start, because of football, all winter long. So why would I willingly add another hour of football to my life?

BECAUSE FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS IS THE BEST SHOW EVER!

EVER.

I love this show. It is like the best soap opera/nighttime drama/dry humor on TV. When Alias was cancelled and I knew I would not see my BFF, Jennifer Garner every week, I was diagnosed with a mild case of depression. I had not been so down since Beverly Hills, 90210 went off the air. I mean, Brandon and Kelly were my peeps.

Thankfully, the void they left in my viewing schedule was soon filled by Sidney Bristow. I wanted to be Sidney Bristow. (I actually still do.)

Then, she had to get all parental and have a baby and stay home with her kid. Whatever. It's not all it's cracked up to be, sister. Especially when you could be on TV being Sidney Bristow, for cry eye.

(For Cry Eye? I sound like my husband's grandfather. Excuse me. But clearly,I am passionate about my Sidney Bristow.)

So with my peeps on 90210, married, and all, and Jennifer Garner hanging out in parks playing with her kid, I was left with a TV viewing void.

I had nothing to loose, so I gave Friday Night Lights a whirl. And, I really didn't have a choice because K won't let me touch the remote afte 7pm.

And I loved it. Internets, it is so not about the football. Not.About.The.Football.

I mean, there is football on most every episode, but it is so much more than a football show. Look past the football people. It is about family and friends, friendships and betrayals, first loves and break ups, drug use and depression, absentee parents and over protective parents. It is all encompassing.

And, IT'S ON TONIGHT!

Now, what could a midwestern mom possibly relate to in a show that takes place in Dillon, Texas?

Plenty.

How can you not love a show where they chant "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose." I mean, isn't that the truth no matter where you live? I love that. That is a piece of Americana right there. It just makes me want to charge through my television screen right out there onto the field with them.

Except I couldn't do that, it's not like I'm Sidney Bristow or something.

And, I love Connie Britton as the main characters wife, Tami. She is fantastic in her role. And, she has that shampoo commercial girl hair that I want.

Enough said.

Lullaby and Goodnight; or Maybe More Aptly Titled: I Can't Believe I Just Wrote About Pee

I think I may be up all night. I was so tired today, we have had rain and dark skies for the past 5 days and the humidity has just been killer. I have had a headache for 4 days, I think because of the high humidity, and just overall have felt like I've been hit by a truck. This is a riveting read so far, right?
Anyway, today I really needed a nap this afternoon but instead, trucked all 4 kids off to the BIG BLUE STORE, known to others outside of my home as, quite simply, IKEA. More on that another time.
No nap today, so for sure thought I would get at least the two younger kids to bed and then head off to bed myself by at eight. I say no nap today, like a nap is actually a recurring thing in the afternoons for me, which IT IS NOT. Anyway, the older ones would watch TV or baseball with hubby and he could get them off to bed on his own. Tucked in the 3 year old, and off to Taco's room to sing him his 5 nighttime songs, but because my hubby keeps this house at a freezing 68 degrees, I had to crawl under the covers to do the singing and lullabying for the night because I was just to cold to sing on top of the covers. Who wouldn't be? Well, apparently singing lullabies under a big old comforter with a smiling farmer on it not only puts my son to sleep, but me as well. So at 7:20 this evening I was out for the night. Or so I thought.
But, as I do every night, I had to get up to use the bathroom. This means I had to pee, people.
And normally, when I go to sleep at 10 or 11, my normal bedtime hours, that puts me at waking up for a bathroom break at about 1 or 2 am. No problems ever going back to sleep. But, as I found out tonight, when you fall asleep 3 hours earlier than your norm, you wake up to pee three hours earlier...so you guessed it... at 10:30 I was wide awake. I tossed and turned for an hour trying to pretend I wasn't wide awake, but finally gave in and headed downstairs. Hubby was just on his way up to bed and gave me a weird look as I plopped on the couch, remote and laptop in hand. So, now it is almost 2am, what I guess one would call the wee hours, and I am contemplating getting up and organizing the junk drawer and maybe the cabinet in the kitchen that we keep all the medicine in. But first, I must finish watching my 3 hour session of Big Brother, After Dark. Emmy-winning TV, people, Emmy winning. Any questions you may have about bunny suits and back-stabbing, feel free to send them my way. Don't get me wrong, I do watch the weekly show, I laugh, and think it is fine for summer TV watching. But this Showtime After Dark show? Surely I could find a better use for 3 hours of my life. Or not.