Productivity and LIFE

So yesterday marked 60 days of no TV.......
With the exception of Super Bowl and the worst day ever when Jon and I BOTH got sick and gave in and watched some TV it's been TV free.

I've been super productive with all that extra time that I don't put towards TV

-I've read 2 complete books
-I'm about halfway through 4 other books
-I've been able to do some spring cleaning and organize the apartment
-I've been crocheting a lot and have finished a lot of fun projects-including this beauty (Kindle cover)




Jon and I have had lots more time to just BE together too..........
-We've been reading the Harry Potter books out loud together and we're halfway through the 3rd one
-We've been playing 2 person card games-which is super fun and super frustrating sometimes since we're both so competitive
-We even took a nice long walk last night around our neighborhood (after I had to get 5 layers of clothing on since it's been so cold at night)

Other than all the productive things I've been able to do I've also found that I have more time to just BE and enjoy LIFE!! I'm not as stressed and overwhelmed all the time. I'm able to just take LIFE in.

I even took a 2 hour nap on Tuesday after a very tasty meal with my mom and Nono (grandma) at Red Lobster... 2 HOURS!!!


God really has been revealing a lot about my heart during this process as well. Realizing how much I've been trying to escape my feelings and escape him. I want to be PRESENT with him. Not escape him.


I really do feel like I'm slowly learning how to just BE..... and that feels fan-freaking-tastic

90 days

TV has always been MY thing……. 

Even though we don’t have cable I find ways to make TV shows my thing……. HULU, Netflix, different season of shows I own on DVD. I ALWAYS watch TV.

I’m in this Women’s study on Monday nights and it gave us a challenge to give up the thing that was “your idol” for 90 days. For me I was able to identify that it was TV.

Now you may be thinking like I have done many times…. TV isn’t an idol…. It’s just a way to relax. But the thing is……… it is for me. You can call it an Idol, a negative coping mechanism, whatever. For me I know my interaction with TV SCREAMS unhealthy.

If I’m having a bad day I go to TV instead of praying about it or giving it up to God.

If I’m bored I go watch TV not go do something productive.

In the mornings when I have extra time because I’ve woken up early I watch TV not go read my Bible.

After a long day when I get home with Jon I watch TV not clean the house together or go for a walk together or read together or play music together.

TV has been robing me of things I want in my life. But it’s not TV it’s because of my own doing.

And even worse I’m turning to TV to cope. Coping is defined in psychological terms as "constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific external and/or internal demands that are appraised as taxing". Basically what this is saying is that I’m trying to cover up what I’m feel when I cope. The external and internal stuff is too “taxing” so instead I’ll change my thinking onto something else. This is not healthy……... Bottom line.

So I’ve chosen to stop watching TV for 90 days. I could have picked something easier or said “Ok so I wont watch TV on Thursdays” but I know that TV is my issue. I know that I want to change my relationship with TV. My hope is that after 90 days I wont call in sick at work and binge on TV for days but that my relationship with TV will have changed dramatically. I know that this will be hard…. I’m only on day 3 and I already want to jump on HULU to see what I have on my queue. When someone I know fasted from their coping of choice for 90 days they actually went through some pretty weird withdrawals. Halfway into the process they woke up feeling intense anxiety that they had been masking with coping in unhealthy ways for years and years.

So stay tuned for, I’m sure, lots of crazy posts about all the extra things I’m able to do with all my extra time.