Comments on: Happy Earth Day.

By: RegularMom

RegularMom — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:04:59 +0000

Yeah, I’d take it from him too, if he did that. For me, it’s not so much that my husband flicks through the channels, it’s more that he goes so fast and before I can even decide if I want to watch something he’s moved on. Argh.

TV doesn’t bug me so much. But reality shows really drive me nuts. If I want to watch vapid people treat each other badly, I’ll just have a barbeque and invite the extended family, or maybe I’ll just pop in to my high school reunion. (ha ha)

Anyway…we’re good. Still trying to sell our house out west and living in this little country rental, but we’re good. We school year-round, so I’m not in ‘wrap it up for the summer’ mode, but we’ve just had a little more time off than I’d have liked for April because of the well pump breaking, and then we all came down with colds.

But, that’s the cool thing about schooling year round, I guess. You’re never really behind.

How about you guys?

By: Scarlett

Scarlett — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:16:56 +0000

Oh, I know. I agree. Ds is on line right now. But he has finished an hour of math and an hour of spelling.

Even if I can’t hear dh flipping channels, I find the visual just more than I can take. It puts me in a trance. Or when he gets on the phone and holds the remote mindlessly flipping with it on mute while he chats to his friend or some such. I take it out of his hand at those tiems.

We do ok without tv during the day. But it comes on in the evenings around 6:30 because I like to watch Househunters while I cook. Then dh comes in and takes over the remote.

I mostly hate tv. My mom took it out of our house for 5 years when I was a kid. We didn’t miss it one bit.

So how are you? Are you about to wrap it up for the year–schoolwise?

By: RegularMom

RegularMom — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:30:35 +0000

That’s where ear-buds come in. I don’t mind watching TV in the evenings, but my husband tends to flick through the channels at a high speed which I find difficult to listen to or watch. Once he starts that, I pull out a book or my IPod.

If they’re gonna push a no-TV week, they ought to make it really hard and include the INTERNET! That’d be something.

By: Scarlett

Scarlett — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:32:49 +0000

I did nothing for earth day, BUT dh has agreed to do the ‘turn off the TV week’. I am sooooooooooo looking forward to it. I feel a little sneaky because 3 days of it will be during our vacation—-my dh and a tv with remote control in a small hotel room is almost more than I can bear. A pair of 7 year olds? No problem. But dh mindlessly flipping channels in a room where I have no where to run—let me tell ya….it stresses me JUST a tad.