Comments on: What’s it like to be a stay-at-home dad? Answer 8: Unrelenting

By: doodaddy

doodaddy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:52:38 +0000

@Arron - No problem; hijack away! I very consciously don't drink when I have insomnia (and actually haven't had much more than an occasional glass of wine for weeks). One quibble, though: why horrible movies when there's so much good stuff for free online?

By: Arron

Arron — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:15:08 +0000

Seriously, I was going to post on the same topic yesterday. Sunday night, I stayed up far too late (1:30am — 4am . . . wow, that’s tough) watching a horrible movie on tv while playing some cards online. Mindless crap. I had finished a single bourbon — wasn’t pounding drinks or anything. But I didn’t want to go to bed.

Like you, I do this a couple of times a week AND, like you again, it hurts so bad the next day (or two . . . ). Yesterday, after dropping off Xav and Mar at school, I forced myself through a run and then piddled around the house. I got in a short nap w/ Mar . . . and then sucked it up. I always feel like I have to suck it up — I can’t complain to Doc, b/c I did it to myself, and besides, she’s working too.

And yet sometimes I just want to whine and whine and whine.

Sorry to hijack your post . . . I feel your pain, that’s all I’m saying.

By: doodaddy

doodaddy — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:37:55 +0000

@David - I decided around the time Boobaby was born that I was just not able to take on any new television. I watch an occasional Iron Chef because I like cartoons but otherwise only shows I saw 5 or 25 years ago for me...

By: David

David — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:06:07 +0000

Grandparents help? What?

My latest guilty pleasure: The Wire on DVD, just because they get to say all the words I don’t get to anymore.

Here’s to a day of nonstop coffee and hope for regular naps.