random thoughts II

1. The OC sucks. I continue to watch because I feel some loyalty to the show. Mr. D and I watched the first season on DVD while simultaneously watching the second season on the air. We were hooked. During that time I was teaching at a pretty rough middle school outside DC and hated, and I mean hated, my job. The kids were unruly, to put it mildly, and I had so many more responsibilities than teaching, grading and planning. I was working 12 hour days at the beginning of the school year. The OC really helped me take my mind off my misery. I was actually happy while I was watching the show. Now I read Real Simple and half watch the show because it is so awful. I can't stop watching now with only five episodes left, but man does it suck. I could go into the details of how much it sucks, but it would take too much time and I have to put the laundry in the dryer before BD wakes up from his first nap of the day.

2. Baby Doodle decided to wake up last night at 1:00 a.m. I went downstairs (usually Mr. Doodlebug goes for the first wake up if there is one, but last night he was feeling more sick than I was -- all three of us have colds) and rubbed his head. He would start to drift off and I would think I could go back to bed in a few minutes and then, as if he could sense that I was thinking about leaving the room he would wake up and whine a little. I rubbed his head some more. This routine continued for 40 minutes. At that point I had had enough and thought he might fall back asleep more easily if I wasn't there. So I went back to bed and let him cry. He seemed to have fallen asleep about 20 minutes later (this is an hour after he originally woke up), but then started screaming and this time he didn't let up. Mr. D went down and rocked him back to sleep, but alas, he cried as soon as Mr. D put him back in the crib. At that point we let him come to bed with us -- it was about 2:15 a.m.

3. The cold. We walked around the King of Prussia mall yesterday for two hours to give us something to do while it snowed outside. It was too cold and windy to go for a long walk with baby Doodle so we went to the second biggest mall in the country and walked around. I bought some clothes for BD at Old Navy because they were having a really great sale, and I bought a pair of pants for me. They're cute but a little too big. It turns out I'm back to a size 2.