This is a 10 day sample of what it’s like to live in my head.
If my brain were a TV channel, it would be BTV: All Babies, All The Time. Between episodes of Deliver Me, A Baby Story, and Jon and Kate, we have infomercials for kitchen products and money-making schemes. We also occasionally have an episode of Glenn Beck or Anderson Cooper, just to keep in touch with the “real” world. We have commercials for Pampers, Baby Einstein, and Fisher-Price, as well as those drugs that are supposed to help dampen chemo symptoms. Those “The More You Know” commercials feature advice such as “raise your hips after sex” and “dollar store HPTs are often more sensitive than digital.” We show the same after-school movie every day, and it’s always “15 and Pregnant.” If you’re up peeing on a stick at 4 in the morning just to capture that precious FMU, you might be lucky enough to catch an airing of “Juno” or “Knocked Up.” There are Weight Watchers commercials and episodes of Lost and Family Guy and Six Feet Under (usually the one where the baby dies of SIDS). And around dinner time every day there are episodes of America’s Test Kitchen and Good Eats, followed by that mystery diagnosis show, that crazy Duggar family, and Nanny 911. It’s a nice channel to watch. There are a lot of laughs, some good food, and a reason to cry at least once a day.
