Admissions of a Couch Potato

Here’s a question for you - could you live without a TV? Right now, date nights for me and my hubby consist of TV watching for the most part, so maybe it would be healthier for us.

I’ve always been a TV addict – that was my parent’s chosen form of punishment for me – and it was quite effective. With an addictive personality, I have no problems immersing myself into things I enjoy. Whether it be gardening, crafting, tv watching, reading, etc… once I get into something obsessively, I’m good to go for hours. However, I know that’s going to change when McNugget comes along though – and that’s going to be a new experience for me. Let alone that our DVR will no longer be able to be 90% full of sitcoms – we’ll soon have to balance Spongebob and Little Bear with So You Think You Can Dance. Plus these things really aren’t doing me any good though – just filling up my time.

That’s why I’m glad that many of the show’s we’ve watched for the past few years are ending or being cancelled. We’ve decided to follow Lost until its last episode this weekend – although I probably could have stopped watching it two seasons ago. We stopped watching Heros this year – and the TV station agreed with us when they decided to cancel the show outright. After catching up on ever single episode of The Ghost Whisperer this year, I can take it or leave it- and that too was cancelled. Bo and I are also going to stop watching Grey’s Anatomy – something we should have done first thing last season since it hasn’t gotten any better. It makes me think that maybe I could live without a TV.

I know it’s completely doable to live without cable; my sister managed all year at college with just her computer. Our top shows right now are Bones, Fringe, House, Parenthood and the HBO series True Blood –most of which are available on Hulu or we could rent the season on Netflix. Better yet, we could camp out with the neighbors and watch their TV for HBO – a couple’s date night? So, if it wasn’t for the 50+ sporting events Bo watches every week, I don’t think we’d actually need a TV. Otherwise with that saved time we could join a bowling league or take a cooking class – or even (gasp!) exercise together and get our couch-potato butts in shape. Maybe once mcNugget comes along and changes the game we’ll drop down to basic cable… it sounds like an exciting change for me, but probably not a practical one. Ah, a girl could dream, right?