TGIF! and No TV Night

Yay for Fridays!

Not that I have anything exciting planned for the weekend. I will probably venture out to the library and the grocery store. I have laundry to do. I desperately NEED to clean various rooms of the house and my desk.

So last night was night one of my turning off the tv. It felt weird at first, to be sitting in the living room with the blind eye staring at me. DD and I played a few rounds of Candyland and after she went to bed, I dug through a pile of stuff from college and found my old fill-in word puzzle book from 1992. Yep, from 1992. I had completed 17 of the 68 puzzles in the book. Last night I did 6 more. I had forgotten how much fun and how challenging they could be. However, I am better now at picturing the possible combinations of words than I was then, so maybe they were a bit too easy for me.

After puzzle time, I spent some time writing in my paper journal. I have been rather neglectful of late. After all, I wrote 200 pages in three weeks to complete journal #60, and now in #61, I've barely completed 170 pages out of 400. Sigh. When I don't write, I am annoyed with myself, but yet I sometimes feel I don't have anything to say, other than complaining so what's the use of writing that crap down? In reality, that feeling is just procrastination talking. Kind of like with this blog. :)

Anyway, I ended up writing for about an hour and a half. I was extremely tired for some reason (probably because of the mashed potatoes I had eaten for supper), and ended up going to sleep around 10pm.

It was weird, and quiet, not having the tv on. It was relaxing and calming, though. I didn't have to listen to the shrill calls of Nancy Grace and her pedophile of the day case, or the dulcet tones of Anderson Cooper blathering on about Warren Jeffs and polygamy, or the serious grit of Greta Van Susteren's chatter about the Duke University rape case.

DH & I talked about giving up cable tv altogether, but he doesn't think he can live without football or "Battlestar Galactica." If BSG were on one of the regular networks, I'd give up access to cable. Heck, at this point, I'd give up tv completely (BSG will eventually come out on DVD). TV really is a drain on the soul.

My friend A does not have cable tv. She has a tv for watching DVDs. When I spent the weekend with her, it was a different feeling to not have to worry about what was going on in the world, or just to have the tv on for noise. Her DH said that if they had cable tv, he'd never get anything done around the house. I had to agree with him on that point. It's way too easy to just veg in front of a movie you've seen a thousand times, or to aimlessly flick channels for three hours.

I hope that I can cut back, and then eventually cut out, my own tv watching habit. Maybe my habit will rub off onto my family. :)

One can dream.