Lost is known for throwing people off, making them scrunch their eyebrows and say, “Huh?” So are we. And if you ever saw us watching Lost, I’m not sure which would mystify or disturb you more: the time-traveling happenings on the Island or the weird arrangement in the Cool Studio.

The castaways wonder if they just saw the mythical Cool ‘Rents

This is our Wednesday routine:

• A normal work day except that I remind Cool Mum at least 10 times that the boy needs to be asleep by 9:00.
• After work, we have dinner and proceed to wear the boy out with dancing and running around.
• The routine begins at 7:30: bath, change into PJs, brushing of the teeth, putting away of the toys, and speaking in soothing tones that are great for relaxing a crazed, energetic guy. Oh, and we get the boy ready for bed, too.
• By the grace of God, he falls asleep around 8:57. We drape blankets over his crib to keep it dark.
• We turn on the TV and scramble to Lost-watching positions.

Lost-watching positions are the most disturbing part of the Wednesday routine. To keep the room quiet for CB, we plug a set of headphones into the TV. These are cheap headphones that I broke on purpose years ago to share with a friend.

The broke ‘phones

CM wears the main piece of the headphones that can wrap on her head. My piece is the small arm. To hold it in place, I put on a tight beanie cap and tuck it in to sit over my ear. Like the beanie that I wore when it was 20° outside.

Since the wire is only 3 feet long, we sit on the floor right under the TV. And the wire between the two pieces is short, so we have to lean against each other. Oh, and during commercials, we complain about how our backs hurt.

We actually have two sets of headphones, but we’d have to buy a headphone splitter to use them both. In this economy, who has the money to throw out for some newfangled gadget?

What we’ll do for some quality television viewing; so extreme that I think The Others would be proud.