DAY ONE: Sand holes and Bradgelina.
Day One:
Well, today is my first day without television. I am experiencing some withdrawal symptoms but they are not as bad as I thought they would be. A couple headaches, some dizziness but nothing too serious. Tomorrow morning will be the “test” because I will not be able to watch my normal fix “The Today show.” Luckily, “The Today show” was one of the catalysts for prompting my decision to quite TV once and for all which I will explain below but first let me tell you when my addiction began. Let me take you back.
It was the week of 9/11 and I was all alone when the s--- hit the fan. I woke up not realizing I was watching a tape of what had happened and thought I was watching it live. I was alone because my guy was in Illinois, luckily with his parents but I was out in La La land (not my choice) alone. Of course there were worst places to be at that time, NYC for instance. Still I was scared and no one knew what would happen next.
I became glued to the television, GLUED! All day I flipped between FOX, MSNBC, CNN and “friends.” Luckily “friends” was on 4 times a day that week and I watched all 4 of them. I even watched Leave it to Beaver in the mornings. If only life were like that drug.
At night planes would fly over the house, not knowing they were military I ran outside thinking here comes another horrific event. Another night a helicopter searched the yard with flood lights. E.T. came to mind.
Thus began my addiction to television.
I weaned myself off for awhile but then began fighting with my mother more and more probably because my patience was wearing thin after seeing real suffering. I couldn’t deal with her complaining about everyday annoyances anymore so I turned to my drug of choice, E. I watched the birth of Lohan and the popularizing of Paris via sex tape. I got pissed when movie stars paraded their gazillion dollar jewelry and houses but then told us to give to charity.
Side note: Speaking of charity another catalyst for my going cold turkey was watching the birthday of Bradgelina’s 5 year old kid. They spent something like $30,000. Huh? I thought they were about charity. I thought Brad was going to live simply, what happened to that? No one holds them accountable. What if they spent $500 on cake and ice cream (a ton of money in Illinois, where I am from) and give the rest to a local school for new books and a new playground. Or perhaps throw the kids dying of cancer in the local hospital a party. That is charity. Don’t ask me to spend my hard earned money Mr. pitt if you spend someone’s salary on a kids b-day!!
Ya see!! I am way too addicted to television. I do give to Habitat for Humanity however.
Back to the Today show. Do I really need to hear stories of how some dumb kid got buried alive at the beach (he survived fine btw) and listen to his Mom tell all of us not to let kids dig holes. How about tell your dumb kid not to get buried in one. Uhhh, duh! Do I need to know that leopard prints are now in style, I don’t like leopard prints. Do I need to know that feeding your kid junk food isn’t good. Duh, really? BTW, I don’t have kids. “”The Today show” should be called “Common sense for the stupid plus news to make you appear not stupid.” Have I ever learned anything from staring at Katie Courics orange legs and listening to Matt have a go with movie stars. Actually, I did learn one thing. Did you know you can buy padlocks with word codes? That’s cool. I have one on my fence and the code is brain, which is something I hope to nurture once again sans TV.
Stay tuned for Day TWO!!
Well, today is my first day without television. I am experiencing some withdrawal symptoms but they are not as bad as I thought they would be. A couple headaches, some dizziness but nothing too serious. Tomorrow morning will be the “test” because I will not be able to watch my normal fix “The Today show.” Luckily, “The Today show” was one of the catalysts for prompting my decision to quite TV once and for all which I will explain below but first let me tell you when my addiction began. Let me take you back.
It was the week of 9/11 and I was all alone when the s--- hit the fan. I woke up not realizing I was watching a tape of what had happened and thought I was watching it live. I was alone because my guy was in Illinois, luckily with his parents but I was out in La La land (not my choice) alone. Of course there were worst places to be at that time, NYC for instance. Still I was scared and no one knew what would happen next.
I became glued to the television, GLUED! All day I flipped between FOX, MSNBC, CNN and “friends.” Luckily “friends” was on 4 times a day that week and I watched all 4 of them. I even watched Leave it to Beaver in the mornings. If only life were like that drug.
At night planes would fly over the house, not knowing they were military I ran outside thinking here comes another horrific event. Another night a helicopter searched the yard with flood lights. E.T. came to mind.
Thus began my addiction to television.
I weaned myself off for awhile but then began fighting with my mother more and more probably because my patience was wearing thin after seeing real suffering. I couldn’t deal with her complaining about everyday annoyances anymore so I turned to my drug of choice, E. I watched the birth of Lohan and the popularizing of Paris via sex tape. I got pissed when movie stars paraded their gazillion dollar jewelry and houses but then told us to give to charity.
Side note: Speaking of charity another catalyst for my going cold turkey was watching the birthday of Bradgelina’s 5 year old kid. They spent something like $30,000. Huh? I thought they were about charity. I thought Brad was going to live simply, what happened to that? No one holds them accountable. What if they spent $500 on cake and ice cream (a ton of money in Illinois, where I am from) and give the rest to a local school for new books and a new playground. Or perhaps throw the kids dying of cancer in the local hospital a party. That is charity. Don’t ask me to spend my hard earned money Mr. pitt if you spend someone’s salary on a kids b-day!!
Ya see!! I am way too addicted to television. I do give to Habitat for Humanity however.
Back to the Today show. Do I really need to hear stories of how some dumb kid got buried alive at the beach (he survived fine btw) and listen to his Mom tell all of us not to let kids dig holes. How about tell your dumb kid not to get buried in one. Uhhh, duh! Do I need to know that leopard prints are now in style, I don’t like leopard prints. Do I need to know that feeding your kid junk food isn’t good. Duh, really? BTW, I don’t have kids. “”The Today show” should be called “Common sense for the stupid plus news to make you appear not stupid.” Have I ever learned anything from staring at Katie Courics orange legs and listening to Matt have a go with movie stars. Actually, I did learn one thing. Did you know you can buy padlocks with word codes? That’s cool. I have one on my fence and the code is brain, which is something I hope to nurture once again sans TV.
Stay tuned for Day TWO!!
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