TV Purge - Day 1

I had a weird idea. What if, like those freaks who do food purge diets, I purged TV from my system in a kind of cold-turkey week long extravaganza. Hm...

Being a self-proclaimed TV freak, this seems nuts to me. But it's become such a big fixture in my life...yes, I would actually dub myself a FULL BLOWN couch potato. That's kind of hard to hear.

I realized that although I am a wife and a mother, the television (and the consequent fictional escapades and characters that live within) have been getting more of my attention than my own family! Yikes!

So, midnight this morning it began. The week-long TV purge. I was up with my baby at 7 this morning and to this minute (9:36 pm) I haven't watched any TV all day. It wasn't easy. For someone who constantly has it on in the background (and foreground), there's a lot of time to fill.

I was actually shocked by the length of the day. And how much can be accomplished. And what others must do to fill their days. More than all this, I was most shocked by me.

I didn't feel like a blob! I was off my potato-ey butt! Jude and I hung out and had way more fun than we usually do. We actually got out of the house and into the great wide world out there that, I'm kind of embarrassed to admit, Jude has seen very very little of in his life.

As the day went on, it got harder and harder to keep it switched off. It's such an easy escape, not to mention enjoyable. As I wrote that cliche saying, I realized how much sense it does not make! "not to mention enjoyable" is mentioning it! I wonder where that saying came from...

You see! If I wasn't purging TV, I would be watching TV right now, and I wouldn't have the inclination to write this blog post and ponder the meanings of widely known and accepted phrases!