Up Late

When we stay up late, I blame it on our DVR. By the time we get home from work and have dinner, we only have a few hours to relax...and usually that involves watching shows we've taped during the day. It's one of those things we feel is worth the $7.00 a month if only because we hate commercials.

At around 10:30 PM we start promising each other that this is the last show...and then we're going to bed. Usually by 11:30 PM we give up, tell the other we aren't really sleepy, and start another show. Some nights David sits up with me the entire time...and sometimes I end up putting him in the bed, shutting the bedroom door and finishing a few more episodes alone.

We somehow get stuck on one show or the other. Right now, we watch Law & Order reruns or The First 48. Every Friday night we wait until 10 PM to watch Grimm (it comes on at 9 PM, but we wait so we can skip the commercials). Other than these recordings, we have the DVR set for The Closer and The Mentalist (which are currently not showing new episodes). By now we've exhausted NCIS and House and have watched almost every episode...recording either one of those forces us to watch 5 minutes and delete a show we've already seen.

The invention of the DVR is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because we can skip the commercials...a curse because we must drag ourselves out of bed the next morning. But with so many shows to watch...what are a couple of "night owls" like us to do?