June 5th, 2008 - No TV for a week
A nice side effect of the floor work is that our TV was unplugged all week. The LR TiVO (the HD one) was also unplugged although the old TiVO was left plugged in–but the TV wasn’t attached. Not that it would be comfy watching it on the porch anyway. We picked up some videos at the library at the beginning of the upheaval. We started watching one, but both found it boring. And I never picked up the rest. I read instead! (Plus worked late 5 nights, but that had been planned long before.) The only show I missed was So You Think You Can Dance, which is my second favorite reality TV show (the first being The Amazing Race). But, we set up the old TiVO to record it.
And it didn’t record.
Oh well! I missed it and am disappointed, but the week without tv reminded me that I’m always wishing I watched less. A forced week made it lots easier to give it up moving forward. I have to be honest–I usually watch less TV in the summer anyway so it’s not completely due to the floor work. But it was a nice kickstart. I intend to delete a number of shows on the TiVO that I just haven’t felt like watching before and I’ll go through the scheduler and take off a few other shows that haven’t been very interesting lately. I’ll fill the time working outside (and in) and reading.
Oh, and another added benefit. Um, actually, not sure it’s a benefit and I’m not sure why it’s happening: I’ve been having trouble sleeping, like waking up around 4 am (instead of 5) each day this week. Gives me lots more time to get stuff down around the house. Last night, I stayed up an hour late to see if that would help. Nope. I was out of bed before 4:30 again.