Stuck at home...

Guess what??? Our car broke down, again. Tim had to be on the road by 3:00 today so he took my car and now I'm stuck at home. Oh well, I could use some quality internet time to catch you up on our news, which really isn't anything at all; I hope your hopes aren't up too high. Anyway here it is... we canceled our satellite. Is that even anything worth sharing?? In my world, YES!

I've pretty much made watching TV like a part-time job for myself. It has gotten bad, really bad. I've had a few moments where I've tried to either pause or rewind real life. No joke. I come home from work, unload the dishwasher, make coffee and park in front of the TV for a good hour. Then Tim comes home and sometimes I can get him stuck in the same trap. After awhile we make dinner and eat it, where?? In front of the TV. Then I watch some more while he plays basketball or guitar. Then it's off to bed. Blah.

Once 2009 rolled around we decided to set some new goals [check some out here] and our TV watching started to get in the way of almost EVERYTHING on our list. When we made our list of goals we thought we could put on our big girl and big boy pants and turn it off every once in awhile... that didn't happen. We also talked about canceling our satellite for almost half of a second, and putting the money towards something more important [which should have been a duh moment]. Obviously we decided not to.... until it came up again about a few weeks ago. I made a list of pros and cons for canceling it... here's a quick version:

Pro's to canceling it (in no particular order):
1. We'd have more time TOGETHER
2. We'd have more time to read
3. We'd have more time to get things done around the house
4. With more time to get things done around the house, we'd have more time for you!
5. Tim could spend more time playing guitar
6. We'll have a little more money
7. We have a ton of movies/shows on DVD to watch [which have already been paid for]
8. We're starting P90X soon [thanks Mo for your tip, that sped things up!] and not having the satellite will help us stay focused
9. Somehow doing our devotions got put on the back burner because we stayed up too late watching TV... not anymore.
10. You can watch almost EVERYTHING online

Con's to canceling:
1. We'll have to watch commercials [grrr!]
2. We won't know much about whats going on with Jon & Kate, Regis & Kelly, 18 Kids & Counting, Say Yes to the Dress, Dog the bounty hunter, Bill O'Reilly, LOST, The Office, Baseball Tonight, Judge Judy, Fox and Friends [ugh!], We Mean Business, Greys, Glenn Beck, Little People Big World, ... you get the point. We had 100+ "events" on our DVR.

So we've decided to get rid of it. Well, we decided last week and then all of the sudden Tim texted me letting me know he canceled it Tuesday morning. He pulled the bandaid off... I thought even though we had made a decision we hadn't really committed to the idea completely... yet. He knew if he didn't do it right away, we'd never do it. He's good for me.

We're going to take the money we would have spent on it every month and go out on a big date or a lot of little coffee dates. I'm super excited and very SCARED!! Someday we'll be able to juggle TV watching and life... right now we just want to do things a little differently and focus more on our relationships with each other, with God and with our friends [near & far].

When we told a couple of friends that we were thinking about doing this their first response was "What are you going to do without it?!" I was surprised by how many people couldn't believe we were doing this. Hmmm.... Something tells me we will be fine and that life is about to become a lot more interesting!!

With all of that said, if you have cable/satellite or a slingbox and you record any these shows please, and I mean pretty, pretty please, invite me over once in awhile or send your codes!! :)

holler!