No TV doesn’t mean "a little bit of TV," and there is a reason for that!
Last night I got home at 6pm, and I accomplished tons of things: made dinner for me and my husband, did the dishes, did 2 loads of laundry (inc folding and putting away), baked oatmeal chocolate chip cookies for tonight’s Spa Night (to benefit Angela’s Triathlon fund), cleaned up the kitchen, went through coupon books (for which I did not find much use), and went to bed at 11pm.
My dreadful confession: I did watch the equivalent of 2.5hrs of TV as well. The Office was on, and Brian wanted to finish watching the episode of Psych we had started watching over the weekend.
I felt VERY guilty afterwards. I wanted to turn it off and do some more non-TV tasks, but it kept drawing me in!!! It’s an evil force! In all truthfulness, I was dead scared that if I turned it off I’d have to face the reality that I had to go to work the next morning. Yeah, I’m pretty damaged.
My hyper awareness of TV time also made me realize one thing: my subconscious ultimate goal in the evenings is to do enough stuff fast so I can go watch TV. Can you believe this? It’s like my body doesn’t feel like it got a chance to rest until it is sitting in front of that mind-numbing box. But, in reality, TV doesn’t relax me, it just presses the Fast Forward button on my life, and suddenly it is 11pm, and I feel as tired and drained as I did when I first sat down. How messed up is that?
I think I should say No to TV during the weekdays, and just catch up on my shows on weekends. I really do feel more relaxed when I go to bed after not watching TV or being on the computer, because it really feels like time goes by slower, and I have all that time to unwind. It helps me get up in the mornings and be more productive at work, too!
I’ve rambled long enough. I think you get the idea 🙂 I’ll leave you with a quote from Psych:
Lassiter: … the infamous J.T. Waring.
Gus: Who’s that?
Shawn: Come on, Gus, it’s the guy who wrote all the Harry Potter books.
Gus: That’s J.K. Rowling, Shawn!
Ha! Sometimes those guys manage to remind me why I watch the show 🙂
ina