No Media: Day One

OK well I am going to be giving up all media, which are tv, internet, music, and magazines (I can only read books). In my house, a media play a huge role in daily activities and it seems most of my family’s life revolves around watching tv. It gets on my nerves sometimes.

So I wanted to see if I would be able to give it up for a week. My family will also be participating with me, as far as tv is concerned anyways, which should be interesting. Hopefully they don’t make me live in the garage because I’m sure this will get on their nerves by day two.

Seriously, what am I getting myself into? Well, we will soon find out.

Today was the first day of zero media. I started out just fine, having a confident attitude that this will be a cinch!

Being at school and constantly being busy with schoolwork for the first half of the day, I didn’t really have time to think about it. Now that I’m at home, it’s starting to get difficult. It is really hard because this is such a sudden change from all media to practically no media.

I don’t know why, but this “no media” thing is sort of stressing me out especially knowing that I can’t do any of the simple things I enjoyed at this time yesterday. I never realized how attached I am to the media.

I can’t imagine what it must have been like back in the ol’ days when people lived such simple lives without the iPod, facebook, and Nascar illustrated.

I feel like a little kid when they get a toy taken away. The child is just focusing on that one toy when there are plenty of other things to do. I am focusing on what I can’t do as opposed to the things I can do.

Basically, I need to change my attitude because this is barely day one… noooo!! This is barely day one!! :( … maybe a chocolate chip cookie will make me feel better.

Let me just say I am ready for Friday night to come and come fast! Pretty please?

p.s. my family, who was supposed to participate, bailed on me.