So my return to blogging didn't happen quite as soon as I thought it would but I finally feel like I have space and thoughts.
In July I was talking to Adam about what a racket cable television is. As in, "Can you believe we are paying this much for cable? It's such a racket!" But this time I got the great idea to convince him that we should cancel cable and then think about becoming new customers again after the 60 days, because of the huge savings we would get. We counted out the days to see how many Michigan football games that would include (3) and called my parents to make sure we could go to their house to watch them. Read: we invited ourselves over so we could cancel cable, BUT I did bring food and we have really enjoyed cheering together! After we made sure we had plans for the games we would miss, I called and bid adieu to DISH and our $76/monthly bill.
At first it seemed a little quiet in our house but I got used to it quickly. We aren't really show watching people so I found myself only missing it when I would have typically "checked out" after a long day at work or to sit and put my feet up for an episode of Love It or List It.
Adam has been listening to the Tigers on the radio and we now find ourselves listening to podcasts or sitting and talking during what would have been TV time.
It has been good for us but we hadn't yet talked about the plan at the end of the 60 days.
This week we are on vacation in Colorado and having a hotel room means CABLE. Prior to coming out I did think about what a treat that could be to watch HGTV again after Isla goes to bed at 5:30 (because of the 2 hour time difference) and we are relegated to our room. BUT a surprising thing has happened. We did watch an episode of Love It or List It the first night so we didn't go to bed before 9pm but otherwise our trip has been TV silent. We started to watch a movie last night but stopped it after 15 minutes because I didn't want to waste time watching it when we could be getting vacation sleep. Tonight we weren't even tempted to turn it on because of wanting to read and talk.
Now I have nothing against tv (besides the cost) and that really was the reason we finally decided to go without it but if I am honest with myself I had felt an itching to examine this area for me for a few months prior. I felt that we used tv to "check out" and therefore had times where we didn't know where the time went or what we had done with our night after we had both been looking forward to time together.
We still haven't had a conversation about our next step in our war on cable but myself I could continue to go without. This quiet space has been good for me (I'm blogging aren't I?) and I think also for us. We'll have to see about those Michigan games though..... :)
