Here We Go Again…
by Lisa Donovan
So, those of you on the edge of your seat wondering when and if we are going to finally get a TV - your time has come! But we are entirely hiding it from the kids. Does this make me a bad person? Really, it is all Lost’s fault. I’m grotesquely obssessed unlike any other series since The Monkees. It’s no joke.
This weeked I will venture out to Circuit City and other places of fine technological gadgetry and purchase a TV. Then I will venture out to various furniture shops and antique shops to purchase a peice of furniture that will cleverly disguise my initial purchase from earlier that day. The cable man should be here sometime around noonish on Tuesday so that I can be set to go Wednesday night, 8pm. I don’t know that I have looked forward to anything so much in quite sometime.
Thus ends the life long debate - To TV or not to TV. I guess I’m a sellout but, it’s for a good cause - which would be my sanity. Having that one night a week where I allow myself to get sucked into another world might just be the tonic I need to let go of some stress, lighten up and remember how to chill out.
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September 29th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
We used to be hardcore like you — well maybe you’ve been more hardcore than we’ve ever been — but we finally gave in and it’s great if done in moderation (like most things). We have a modest TV and Tivo and are in entertainment heaven.
We now get to watch the handful of shows we would always miss, because we would be putting our kids to bed. We try to only watch about 2 hours max per night and we only let our kids — really just my almost 3-year-old daughter — watch an hour a day, if any, and that’s usually just Dora the Explorer and/or Charlie and Lola.
So enjoy it! TV is not bad in and of itself. It’s only bad if it’s the only thing on your mind and you spend at least 8 hours a day watching it — which by the way is the new national average. Crazy, I know.