So, we have cable again. They offered us a good package, basically the same price for internet+cable as just-internet. The boy can’t resist sports, and I like to think that I am master of my technology and not the other way around.

This is going to sound weird, but I think a lot about what I want my future-non-existent-IAMNOTPREGNANT children would think of my lifestyle. Who wants a mom who spends her 90% of her hours watching TV/on a smartphone/on her laptop/playing video games? I try to cultivate non-screen habits whenever I can.

However, I love a lot of TV with the same love I reserve for books. It’s a medium that, when done well, can provide some complex storytelling. And I like staying relatively current with pop culture. I don’t like pushing my fingers in my ears whenever anyone mentions Mad Men while I am waiting for the latest season to show up on DVD (please don’t tell me anything about Mad Men, please please please).

Also, from a parenting standpoint, I LOVED TV as a child, watched a lot of it, and while I probably could have been cultivating better habits and skills, I feel really fondly toward many of my childhood favorites. Maybe my future-kid considerations are misguided.

Maybe I’ll do this on-off-on-off thing for the rest of my life. Enjoy it for awhile, then get rid of it. Catch up for a year, then do without.

For now, I am doing the following:

1) Catching up on shows I started watching in the Fall but had to quit

I’m currently taking second auditions for shows I DVR’ed from September to January. Up All Night, 2 Broke Girls, Suburgatory, The New Girl, Hart of Dixie (goddaaaamn I was watching a lot of shows…) Whatever is on the Season Catch-up list, I’ll give another shot. If not, then goodbye old shows.

2) Watching some new summer shows I seem to have missed out on.

So far, Bunheads has won me over. I’ve heard it gets questionable/terrible, but I’m not really sure how I could hate a show that includes ballet routines set to Tom Waits songs. Don’t ruin it for me.

3) Abusing my year’s worth of HBO and Showtime

When you have premium channels, you must take advantage. My recent poison? HBO’s Girls. Which I watched as it came out…. but  with OnDemand I ran through the first season again in less than a week. I regret nothing. I want to start again, but I should probably do something more mature like starting The Wire.