Murder. 24x7
NCIS. CSI. Law and Order. True Crime. All of it. On the TV. All the time. It is not ever turned off. If our roommate is home then the TV is on and it is tuned into murder. Early on in her stay T went down to spend some time with her but after a few minutes came upstairs saying “well.. they found a dead body in the trunk…… so I came upstairs.” Good call.
Last weekend T was spending a lot of time with our roommate watching TV and I asked S to go make sure they weren’t watching murder together.
No, not murder. rape.
Yes. We made sure the channel was changed. I’m all about solving a crime in a perfect formulaic fashion but I don’t need my girl exposed to all that bullshit right now. When your Grandma moves in with you different things should happen. Nicer things.
The lower level family room is where we have set up a living space for our roommate, it is conveniently located next to a full bathroom, the guest bedroom, and the walkout so she can smoke under the deck. The guest bedroom has been slept in only one time. She doesn’t go to bed. She stays on the couch and naps on and off throughout the day.
T’s bedroom is also downstairs. It shares a wall with the TV. Sure, we have a fan. But I bought this fan years ago specifically because it is quiet and won’t drown out the TV. Guess what? Still quiet. Still won’t drown out the TV. And so our child never really gets into a deep sleep. Almost every single night in the last week she has appeared at our bedside, and the last 3 nights she came up while we were brushing our teeth for bed. I don’t parent after 8pm because I just don’t have it in me… so I leave her to sleep in the awesome king size bed with her Dad (and I justify that at least she is getting time with him even though they are sleeping) and I go downstairs to sleep next to the murder. And then smell the coffee at 3am when roomie wakes up and starts her day of watching TV. This also means that the very second I step out of the room in the morning my roommate is facing me and she always has something to stay. Lately its been something like this
Oh downstairs again huh? hahahahahahhaah
And that is why I am buying a sound machine today.