We're hooked

It started out innocently enough. It was the middle of summer and we had been renting movies to watch in the evenings. I was at Blockbuster one day and saw "24" on the new releases aisle. I hadn't seen it but had heard good things about it from friends so I brought home a 4 episode DVD. I showed it to DH and we decided to watch it. How bad could it be?
That night we watched the whole disc. Then fell asleep at 1 or 2 in the morning, but who's keeping track.
The next day I went back...and the next. In less than two weeks we watched the whole season. We loved Jack! When it finished I breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness we made it through.

Then we realized there were other seasons available to watch.

I didn't want to, I needed a break. DH did. So we started on another season. That one I didn't watch as closely. I would read and peek over the top of the book, or sleep during some of the episodes. Still I had the gist and we kept watching. When we were in the middle of our third season and in total Jack overload DH woke up in the middle of the night with a shriek and rolled out of the bed yelling for me to get down. I tackled him as he ran toward the closet to get what? a shoe? A neatly pre-pressed little engineer shirt? to fight the bad guys with. "Get back in bed, you're not in CTU!!!" I Yelled. "Yes I am" he insisted for a minute, until he woke up and with a sheepish grin rolled back into the bed.
That's it, we're done I told him the morning. We finished the season and took a long break.

For Christmas I gave him season 5. After all we would have some free time, and the new season is starting up....and I'm weak. I know he loves it and it's Jack. So, now we're getting ready, catching up, doing our homework. The countdown's on and the new season will start. I think I'll like watching it one hour at a time week by week.

Found this somewhere on line and in honor of the countdown thought I'd share:

Basic Truths About Jack Bauer

• Killing Jack Bauer doesn't make him dead. It just makes him angry.
• If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he'd shoot Nina twice.
• If you wake up in the morning, it's because Jack Bauer spared your life.
• Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.
• If it tastes like chicken, looks like chicken, and feels like chicken, but Jack Bauer says its beef. Then you better believe it's beef.
• Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.
• 1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight.
• Let's get one thing straight: the only reason you are conscious right now is because Jack Bauer does not feel like carrying you.
• Jack Bauer was never addicted to heroin. Heroin was addicted to Jack Bauer.
• Jack Bauer played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.
• When life gave Jack Bauer lemons, he used them to kill terrorists. Jack Bauer hates lemonade. Jack Bauer once won a game of Connect 4 in 3 moves.
• Osama bin Laden's recent proposal for truce is a direct result of him finding out that Jack Bauer is, in fact, still alive.
• Jack Bauer is the leading cause of death in Middle Eastern men.
• Jack Bauer doesn't miss. If he didn't hit you it's because he was shooting at another terrorist twelve miles away.
• When Jack Bauer was a child, he made his mother finish his vegetables.
• Jack Bauer killed 93 people in just 4 days time. Wait, that is a real fact.
• Simon Says should be renamed to Jack Bauer Says because if Jack Bauer says something then you better do it.
• Jack Bauer won the Tour de France on a unicycle to prove to Lance Armstong it wasn't a big deal. He thinks yellow wristbands are gay.
• When Jack Bauer pees into the wind, the wind changes direction.
• Jack Bauer's favorite color is severe terror alert red. His second favorite color is violet, but just because it sounds like violent.
• When Google can't find something, it asks Jack Bauer for help.
• You can lead a horse to water. Jack Bauer can make him drink.
• Jack Bauer can get McDonald's breakfast after 10:30.
• When the boogie man goes to sleep, he checks his closet for Jack Bauer.

• In 96 hours, Jack Bauer has killed 93 people and saved the world 4 times. What the heck have you done with your life?
• Jack Bauer killed so many terrorists that at one point, the #5 CIA Most Wanted fugitive was an 18-year-old teenager in Malaysia who downloaded the movie Dodgeball.
• In kindergarten, Jack Bauer killed a terrorist for Show and Tell.
• What color is Jack Bauer's blood? Trick question. Jack Bauer does not bleed.
• Guns don't kill people, Jack Bauer kills people.
• If Jack and MacGyver were locked in a room together, Jack would make a bomb out of MacGyver and get out.
• People with amnesia still remember Jack Bauer.
• Jack Bauer literally died for his country, and lived to tell about it.
• Jack Bauer has been to Mars. That's why there's no life on Mars.
• Superman's only weakness is Kryptonite. Jack Bauer laughs at Superman for having a weakness.
• When Batman is in trouble, he turns on the Jack Bauer signal.
• It took Jack Bauer two minutes to beat a confession out of OJ.
• Jack Bauer was conceived by torturing the other sperm until they gave up the location of the egg.
• Jack Bauer's family threw him a surprise birthday party when he was a child. Once.