Caution some ugly whining is about to commence.
I MISS T.V. and I am not too ashamed to say it! It has been over two months now that we have gotten rid of our satellite and I am still not used to it.
I feel like a smoker trying to quit after a lifetime of smoking. Seriously I am not one of those sweet Molly Mormons who was never allowed to watch t.v., or even a normal kid who could only watch say, an hour a day. I grew up watching hours upon hours a day. (Not to make my parents sound like bad parents, I think it is more a case of the research not being out about how bad it is for a kid. Like how they didn't used to make six year olds sit in booster seats.)
I get the shakes bad. Some times I just want to flip on the tube and watch mindless Friends reruns. But no, I am at the mercy of Netflix and Hulu Plus, (which sucks by the way.) There is something stressing and depressing about knowing that you had to make a serious effort to choose the crap that you are watching.
Yes, we do have a patch. We stream netflix to our PlayStation and can watch stuff over the Internet. We even got an antenna a week ago that gives us access to Fox, NBC, and some weird local channel that only shows t.v. shows from the 60's and 70's.
A few things I have learned from this experience.
You can only watch so many episodes of "Say Yes to the Dress," before wedding dresses become unspecial and boring.
Masterpiece Theater existed before I starting watching it in 2006, and it is awesome, but I am still not going to contribute like "viewers like me." (especially since I can't even get PBS)
You can miss something you never watched. And by this I mean now that I don't have ESPN anymore I suddenly want to watch college football. There have been several games I have wanted to watch this year. Last year we had so many ESPN and sport channels and had taken them all out of our flipping rotation.
Only good thing from this experience.
Well besides the money we are saving.
Max is very cutely confused by the mail Netflix. Max loves to get the mail and will even get bugged if you get it before him. He gets terribly confused when he puts the red Netflix envelope in the mail box, and then sees it returned two days. Mean as this makes me sound I crack up every time he get upset over this. Yes, I have tried to explain, but he forgets and doesn't really understand.
2 comments:
I have every season of Friends on dvd. Trade me, so I can watch hours of Gilmore Girls for a week.
It does get easier. I will say that the addiction never goes away, though. When I go to a friend's house and their tv is on, I become so over stimulated that I pretty much am useless for conversation, because I am dying to know if there is a rerun of Arrested Development or My So Called Life on somewhere, and suddenly, I really care that I am missing it. And forget about trying to get me to leave if you go anywhere near food network, an ETrueHollywood Story, HGTV, or behing the music. I'm sucked in forever. I won't even hear you telling me to go home. But as long as you avoid cable at other people's houses, you're good to go. Sort of like crack addicts having to avoid all their junkie friends during rehab, because they'll be too tempted to bum them for a hit.
We have lots of tv seasons on dvd. We have the Office, 30 Rock, and a whole bunch of others. Have you ever seen Eureka? I am a total tv addict. I only lasted a month without the satellite before we had to get basic cable. I grew up in a house where the tv was on most of the time though. My Mom banned tv one summer and my Dad was the one always breaking the rule and watching it in the middle of the night.
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