I need my tv

June 30, 2009

Photo via Toshi69

After realizing how few books I’ve read in the past year I decided to add ‘not watch tv for a week’ to my 101 list.

As many of you know, I work in a tv station, so avoiding it there wasn’t going to happen and I was allowing movies as well. Mostly I just wanted to stay away from going home after work, hoping in bed and spend my night mindlessly channel surfing. If I was going to stay in, the plan was to either be productive (clean, bake, exercise…) or read. My resolution to accept all offers to hang kept me out of the house most nights anyway.

On Saturday I almost gave in. I couldn’t find a willing soul to be my date for the evening, so I unhappily stayed home. My tv was just staring at me, begging to be watched, but I picked up Kabul Beauty School instead and read until I fell asleep.

I did have one little slip-up during my Sunday movie date where the tv stayed on after Gran Torino was over, but we were not paying much attention to the show (wink, wink), so I’m allowing it.

Last night I had totally forgotten about my anti-tv campaign and didn’t even think to turn on the tv while I waited for Jenn to be ready for dinner. I took Slayer for a walk, gave him a bath, did laundry, and wrote in my journal.

And then today I realized I made it a whole week. As with my no shopping resolution, I’m going to continue to stay away from my poor lonely tv as long as possible.

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