I’m probably one of the few weird women who would rather watch cartoons than any series/news/game shows on TV. Ok. It’s not the Disney or Nickelodeon type of cartoons, tho. I love the Simpsons-King of the Hill-Family Guy-Li’l Bush-American Dad-South Park-Drawn Together kind. The adult-oriented type of humor.

When hubs goes to work at nights and I’m left alone, I turn into a scaredy-cat. I don’t turn the lights, nor the TV off. I’m afraid to sleep in the dark and I’m also scared that if I suddenly wake up at night, I’d discover that the TV’s on a horror show. It’s a good thing that at nights, there’s about 3 or 4 channels on DirecTv that feature these cartoons one after the other. All I have to do is autotune to these shows until about 3am in the morning.

Why am I like this? I don’t know. I’ve always been scared of ghosts ever since I was a kid and upto now, honestly, I’ve never even seen “The Exorcist” ever. So hubs never takes me to watch horror movies and he warns me right away if the shows on TV are scary movies. Silly, huh? Told you, I’m weird…

So why cartoons? For some reason when I watch cartoons, I have a bigger tendency to fall asleep. There’s probably something about their colors or their “one-dimension-ness” that makes my eyes really tired and would just want to go beddy-bye. I tried watching other shows on TV – Desperate Housewives, Lost, whatever else except cartoons and I end up paying attention and watching, ergo, late nights for me. And I can’t afford late nights when hubs isn’t here because I need to wake up early the next day for me to do my 2.5 hours of commute to work. Until now I still don’t know why cartoons put me to sleep.

The other funny thing about me is sometimes, even when hubs is here, I would still autotune the TV and when hubs turn off the TV, most often than not, I wake up. Weird…

I tried not leaving the lights and the TV on. I ended up having nightmares. And I don’t like the horror-movie nightmares kind. They leave me really tossing and turning and I couldn’t get myself to wake up. Not good for my heart condition, hubs says. So… when hubs isn’t here, it will be the lights and cartoons for me.

Too bad… if nightmares were like bugs, a good dose of Terminix would’ve gotten them done, never to be experienced ever again!