Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Télé is short for télévision which is French for TV

So, long story short, we don't have a working TV. The long story is we have a TV, and we have a DVD player, but we don't have all the cords and gizmos and hookups and attachments and converters and whatever else to make it all work (and we don't want to pay to buy them). So we put a frameless picture of Jesus in front of the TV, and it's basically a nice decoration in our living room. We still watch movies - just on the computer.

It's one of those ah-ha moments when you re-realize that its actually really nice not having television. I definitely can still find ways to waste time, but at least its not in front of the tube. It's nice that I feel like we have the spirit in our house, which can at least be partially attributed to the lack of commercials and sitcoms and lots of TV in general.

I won't really be complaining when we're somewhere where we do have working television, all I'm saying is that the side effects are really pleasant.

1 comment:

Mamabug said...

The side effects are nice. I was in the doctor's office waiting a very long time (enough to watch 1/2 of some show called Parental Control) and left feeling like the girl was a terrible role model, plus being stupid to pick the most loser guy in the group and feeling that I don't miss TV with shows like that on.