Dawson’s Creek

I wake up every morning around 5:15, about the time the puppy starts to whine loud enough to wake the neighborhood. I take him outside, come in make a pot of coffee, stare blankly at the stove for a few minutes while it brews, pour a cup and head back to my bedroom. Not to get ready for the day, not to decide how I am going to style my hair or what clothes to wear. No, I go back to my bedroom, flip on the TV and tune in TBS. TBS has re-runs of Dawson’s Creek from 6 am to 7 am every weekday morning.

Now, I was never one to watch Dawson’s Creek when it was on during its first run. I don’t know why, but something about the show didn’t appeal to me then. I have to say that it doesn’t really appeal to me now, but what does appeal is that this show was created about teenagers doing things that I would never have been allowed to do when I was growing up. Taking trips together, sleeping over at each others houses (boys/girls in the same room) and let’s just say it ….SEX SEX SEX is pretty much the undertone of the whole show.

Joey loves Dawson, but he is seeing somebody, so she dates Pacey and then they break up while Jen has a never ending crush on Dawson. OMG…WHAT? I really don’t remember my teenage years being this complex, but maybe they were and I just didn’t get it? I mean come on..the best way to tell someone something is to just tell them.....not go from this friend to that friend and then it gets back to the other person....is this really how it is? I am I really this out of it?

Anyway, I’m hooked. I don’t know why. I have gotten better about this whole process. I now can actually start to get ready for the day and listen to the show in the background. It was getting to the point to where I would watch the whole show and then try and get myself and my kids ready in 15 minutes so that nobody was late. That wasn’t working, so now I have disciplined myself to have it on as background noise. However, on those critical moments when you know something “important” is going to be said I stop what I am doing and watch the show for a few minutes.

I find myself looking forward to it each morning and other than the puppy whining to be let out it is the first thing I do in the morning. Flip on that TV so that I can (for an hour) peer into the lives of 5-7 teenagers that seem to have much more complicated lives than I remember having at that age, or maybe I can now see it for what it is worth….teenagers learning about life….that I now as an adult look at and say…”It’s not that big of a deal…you want problems…I’ll give you problems….”