Turn Off The TV Week is Over: How Did You Fare?
Well, I did it. I didn't watch TV (or videos or DVDs on my notebook) for a week in honor of 2007 Turn Off The TV Week.
I listened to WEBN for several days, switched to 89.7 for the weekend and listened to a lot of my CDs, too. I read a lot of books, organized my place and I went out more often than usual last week, which made it more difficult, because every bar in town has a TV these days.
So it's Monday, and I'm working on a big project... and listening to the radio. Yup, no TV yet. Oh, I'll turn it back on eventually, but for now I'm alternately enjoying NPR again and perfecting my Steven Tyler high kicks whenever I listen to rock radio. So far, I have two bruised toes and a scraped knee- I have a lot of love for Aerosmith, but I'm not particularly coordinated.
Lessons learned? I'm going to be more thoughtful about what I watch on TV in the future. I'm also going to watch a movie or the news (or a schlocky Lifetime movie), and then turn the TV off, and turn the stereo on, instead of leaving it on all the time while I'm working. I may still shop at the grocery store like my parents are out of town for the weekend, but I know that it's up to me to monitor my TV watching.
Note: Like a lot of these offshoot holidays, I found that a lot of people didn't even know last week was Turn Off The TV Week. If you participated, how well did you do?
I listened to WEBN for several days, switched to 89.7 for the weekend and listened to a lot of my CDs, too. I read a lot of books, organized my place and I went out more often than usual last week, which made it more difficult, because every bar in town has a TV these days.
So it's Monday, and I'm working on a big project... and listening to the radio. Yup, no TV yet. Oh, I'll turn it back on eventually, but for now I'm alternately enjoying NPR again and perfecting my Steven Tyler high kicks whenever I listen to rock radio. So far, I have two bruised toes and a scraped knee- I have a lot of love for Aerosmith, but I'm not particularly coordinated.
Lessons learned? I'm going to be more thoughtful about what I watch on TV in the future. I'm also going to watch a movie or the news (or a schlocky Lifetime movie), and then turn the TV off, and turn the stereo on, instead of leaving it on all the time while I'm working. I may still shop at the grocery store like my parents are out of town for the weekend, but I know that it's up to me to monitor my TV watching.
Note: Like a lot of these offshoot holidays, I found that a lot of people didn't even know last week was Turn Off The TV Week. If you participated, how well did you do?
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