Grumble grumble

Well, internet, I've decided that four months bites. And I would tell you what it bites except this is a family website.

My kid could not be cuter. That is not the issue. The issue is: my darling sweet-faced happy baby has turned into Prince Will Not Take A Nap and Master Hates My Bedtime. And four-and-a-half-months is just hard in general, I've decided. I don't have the biceps required to lug him around in his car seat anymore, but he has a long way to go before he grows out of it. I thought my hair was falling out before? OH NO. I can practically carpet the bathroom floor just by blow drying. Everything I own is covered with a sticky sheen of drool. Those two teeth have fully broken through and they are JAGGED. I am wondering if I should start solids already because he stares at everything we put into our mouths. I am still 15 pounds over my pre-pregnancy weight. Did I mention the sleep? And how there is none happening in my house?

So let's talk about something else, shall we? I will now completely rip off a book I read in elementary school:

FORTUNATELY Veronica Mars is returning to television!

UNFORTUNATELY she will not be returning to Veronica Mars.

FORTUNATELY she will be appearing on my  second favorite TV show!

UNFORTUNATELY I hear she will be playing a Bad Guy.

FORTUNATELY she is an excellent actress and will, I'm sure, handle the Bad Guy role with decency and aplomb!

UNFORTUNATELY Heroes did not find it necessary to hire Logan Echolls as well.

Oh dear, everything else I can think of is in the UNFORTUNATELY category. How I miss Logan Echolls.

Actually, the most unfortunate of the unfortunatelys is that Kristen Bell is going to be an entirely different character and we'll never see Veronica again. I don't see why they couldn't have just plopped Veronica down in New York or something and have her figure out the whole deal. The heroes could be flitting around saving the world and Veronica could be harassing HRG and acquiring classified Heroes information with her devious yet oh so charming ways. Wouldn't that be an awesome show?

Veronica, I mean Kristen, says a Veronica Mars movie could happen one day and she'd definitely participate. (Well, she'd have to, obviously. Veronica Mars without Veronica? What would that be like? At the very least they'd have to resurrect Sheriff Lamb.) I don't know about a movie. What would it be about? We already know what happened to Lilly and what happened to the school bus and all the things that happened during the (sigh) somewhat convoluted third season. Maybe Veronica could just hang out with the gang in the Neptune Grand's bar, trading witticisms and referencing pop culture and hanging on Logan's every word. I'd watch that. And this is why I am not a screenwriter. 

I've been getting a tiny Veronica fix from watching Big Love, where Mac and Lilly Kane and Beaver all have supporting roles. Since our TiFaux has been on the fritz, I've been watching cable news, the Food Network and a whole bunch of Foyle's War episodes I stole from my parents' giant library of British detective shows. (Does anybody else watch British detective shows?) Phillip isn't terribly interested in Mr. Foyle, seeing as how he has up and joined a fantasy football league (I KNOW) and wants to watch football all the time. LAME.

Late last night Phillip finally got our TiFaux up and running so I am all set to devote my evenings to television this week. At the very least, it'll help distract me from the no sleeping. Seriously. Four months is kicking my butt. 

Comments

[Laura]

Sorry about the Sleeplessness in your house. I hope that takes care of itself soon.

So excited about Prime Time Premiere week!! The Titans are on Mon night football tonight so I am DVRing (is that a word) all the shows tonight to watch tomorrow!!

[Tara]

I hear you on the four and a half months thing. Speaking of hair-carpeted bathroom floors, I should probably go clean mine. It's bad.

Teething sucks. Or rather, it bites. I keep getting excited for the day when we're fully past these two bottom ones.... then I think that there are what? 20 something more?!

[Angela]

I'm a big fan of the BBC and PBS in general, but I've always gravitated toward the comedies. When my parents came to visit earlier this summer they got me hooked on Foyle's War and Rosemary and Thyme. I've had trouble getting into the Poirot and Miss Marple shows, but if they're on and nothing else is, I'll watch them.

Hope you manage to get some sleep this week--although with all of the Fall Premieres I don't know how you'll manage to have time for sleep!

[Arwen]

Thinking four months sucks is a good sign, I think. It means you have a good baby! (In general, I mean, not at every specific moment.) When Her Royal Screamness was four months, even though she did hit a slight sleep regression, mostly we were just feeling happy that she'd finally stopped crying all the damn time and that we wouldn't be driven to some extreme like selling her.

On the other hand, I do have a friend whose baby was an angel until four months, and then stopped sleeping and hasn't really slept since. (She's now 27 months.) So you could be in for it.

There, I've managed to invalidate you and scare the heck out of you, all in the same comment. I have skillz.

I think I never told you how much we ended up enjoyed Veronica Mars. We love it! We Netflix-ed season two and can barely wait until October when season three comes out on DVD. We actually downloaded the first episode from iTunes because I wanted to know where Veronica went to college and what was in Kendall's suitcase and all that, but now I feel more confused than ever, so it might not have been a good idea. We're too cheap to buy the whole season when we can just watch it for free from Netflix in a month, so I guess we'll have to wait. Although I think I'm going to have a fit if the series finale doesn't end up being satisfyingly happy. It is happy, right?

Praying you get some sleep tonight!

[Christie]

The baby will definitely settle down- seriously, (although I can't guarantee the year!) as for the hair - check your iron level.
I was so anemic after my son was born that my daily brushing could make wigs!!
Cheers!

[Emily]

Yup. Four months. It sucked. The end.

[kellilu]

oh, i wish i could offer something more than sympathetic comment-leaving, but alas... like Arwen, I'll pray for good sleep - and non-chomping meals for the wee toothy one. (c;

Three cheers for a new tv season! I got off the Heroes track (missed the last few episodes) so now i'm a little wary of starting back up - so much goes on every week!! my stand-by addiction is still going to be Grey's Anatomy, and I'm finally on The Office bandwagon (albeit one season behind on dvd...).

On a side note... your mention of BBC detective series made me think you would really enjoy some of Jasper Fforde's books (if you have time to read with a baby? I don't know these things...). Anyway, he writes funny-in-that-wonderfully-dry-British-way but still great as whodunit sorts of books - either "The Eyre Affair" or "The Big Over-Easy" are excellent and great fun.

[Kanuck]

Sorry to hear about the sleeplessness, but at least you'll have some great TV to keep you company if/when you're up. It was great to have Heroes back yesterday, even if KB hasn't yet appeared there was Sark the unwilling Hero! Poor little Hiro!