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throw away the tv

This healthy living stuff can take over your life.  First you're trying to find your perfect weight.

Then you're having a conversation at lunch and you decide to turn off the television from October 20th to November 1st.  

That's what happened to us.  We're not cutting it out completely, but we're not going to sit all evening and watch television.  If there is a show that we specifically want to watch and has some value, we will watch, but the plan is to turn it off when that show is over.

I have a real love hate relationship with television.   I can waste endless hours watching and sometimes I watch things I've seen before which is an utter waste of time.   

Right now, we sit on the couch together but not really together, you know?  We don't talk, we don't interact, we don't accomplish anything.  We're not even sitting on our nice furniture, we're sitting on the saggy old basement couch and I love our living room furniture but because of the television watching, I don't sit on it very often.

We're giving it a try, because frankly, this view has anything that is on television beat, hands down.

xo

Kath

animals shooting animals

John Downer’s incredible collection of wildlife films, real and tongue-in-cheek. Tigers filmed by elephants carrying their cameras disguised in tree stumps....these are must see clips. click on the photo.

Getting ready in the morning involves only two television stations, decorating or the BBC news. You see, we are smart and talented at the same time. This morning the BBC news featured a short clip of John Downer explaining his newest filming technique, elephants with cameras. We pushed the rewind button several times to watch these little baby tigers and that POOR MOTHER. What a handful those cubs were! This is a must see http://www.jdp.co.uk/programmes/ .

how to

I know how to get more things done. 

When we moved here, four years ago, we lived in staff housing and did not have a television. For four months I never watched television at all, in the fifth month I watched it when I would go to the gym and in the last month, a cold & wet November,  we acquired a small television that we hooked to an aerial that snagged a few channels out of the air. There was never any doubt that we would be hooking up the cablevision when we moved into our house and retrieved our big television from storage.  But those four months without?  I accomplished a  lot, I was happliy busy all the time.

I was thinking about this today when I realized that I have accomplished nothing this week.  Well, not nothing but not a lot either.   What I have done when I get home from work is settle in front of the computer or the television.   I'm happy to do that, it's easy, but then the week starts to draw to a close and I realize that I wanted to bake muffins, weed the rose garden, put a present in the mail, exercise, put the laundry away, clean the fish bowl and that all those hours have passed and I didn't do any of it.

So that's my "how to" advice for this week:  Use the OFF button.