Interesting weekend. I'd anticipated that I'd probably spend a lot of my time this weekend force feeding myself on all the programes I have backed up on my Sky box, but in fact I must have watched about 2 maybe 3 hours in total.
I think that since I made the decision to get rid of TV for a while, my brain settled straight in. On Friday night I went to my friends Ted and Sophie's for a lovely BBQ. Which was smashing. And while there I notice that Ted has a copy of K-PAX, which I'd been wanting to read - he lent it to me and I spent Saturday lounging in the sun and ploughing through the book. It was great. I don't think I can tell you the last time I read a book in a day.
Sunday involved heading up near Uckfield to spend a day helping my friend Ross out on his latest film shoot. I was bumbling around doing cast interviews and behind the scenes stuff in a beautiful bit of countryside. It just makes you wonder why we bother with TV at all.
I did get up early today to watch the final episode of Lost, as I said I would, but when I wrote out the rules, I didn't realise that it was on at 5AM today, which is the same time as it's being broadcast in the US. So i got up about 6 and watched it, said a bientot to my TV for a couple of weeks and find myself genuinely excited to be free from the telly for a while.
So here I sit, waiting out my day until tonight when I'm going to see brilliantly brilliant comedian Daniel Kitson.
The real interesting part will come when I've not got anything planned - we'll see how that goes.
m x
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Brilliant about the tv embargo. I've often thought about doing this, but I'm embarrassed to admit I completely use my TV to babysit Luther. He watches Postman Pat and I get 15 minutes to do something by myself. (Like poo -- always a winner.) *sigh* I don't know what's worse; not being strong enough to do it or knowing I'm not strong enough to do it and having to live with that guilt.
KEEP STRONG!!
P.S. I HAVE decided that in terms of my own tv watching I'm no longer going to watch anything that incites material lust in me. E.G. Extreme Makeover Home Edition -- I drool over all the polished shiny new things they get and this just leads me to want which leads me to haemorrhage money.
I started this by no longer allowing myself to buy magazines. So while I won't be joining you in your full embargo (as per previous comment) I will be with you in my moderation.
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