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no TV tuesday - final week

(tv pillow by etsy seller: mymimi)

Yes, I know... It's not Tuesday, it's Thursday. I've been super busy the past week and just realized today that I missed the tuesday post. I spent this past Tuesday driving back from my awesome b-day weekend. It included 2 UK wins- GO CATS!!!, some cold, but fun camping, a little shopping and even some dancing. It was an all around fun Bday :)

Tuesday's drive back, on the other hand.... not so good. I got a flat tire about 2 hours into the 8 hour drive. YIKES! Thank God for these new electronically advanced cars. The Jetta has a tire sensor thingie that told me something was up with one of my tires. I happened to be near an exit with a gas station, pulled off and parked near the air pump. I hopped out walked around the car looking at the tires, and yep... the rear passenger side tire was hissing out air so fast I could hear it!!!

Long story short, I got the tire off with some help (lug nuts are hard to remove!) and got the tire plugged. I Finished up the drive and made it to work right on time. No time for tv that day. 

no TV tuesday - wk3

source: etsy

I made it through another Tuesday without clicking on the 'ol tele. I almost turned it on when I finally slowed down to eat some lunch, but I quickly caught myself and decided on a little silence instead.

I'm undecided on whether or not I am really accomplishing more without the television, but it feels nonetheless. Plus I think it is better to crank up some good music instead of having the tv on for background noise.

I remember when I was growing up I would spend a lot of time at my best friend, Emily's house and the TV time was limited. I think we were only allowed to watch an hour or something a day. We did a lot of dress up, and playing outside instead. I don't have a lot of memories watching a lot of television growing up. I remember a lot of imaginative play... dress up was a favorite, and all of us kids LOVED, I mean LOVED putting on shows. We would make up shows for all kinds of things. Sometimes we even incorporated commercials, all acted out with props, homemade costumes and sound tracks on our tape players. I remember also taking Emily's dad's tape deck and recording "interviews" with the people in the house... I used to have that tape, oh my it was hysterical listening to it after many years.

There was no imaginative play today.

Instead I:

• spent hours looking for hotels and making phone calls for a work trip
• caught up on some emails and blogs
• did laundry, and actually put it away!
• packed for trip
• played with Reese when the rain finally stopped
• picked out a super cool frame for one of my new prints
• I didn't forget to eat today like last Tuesday!
• caught up with Andrea a bit
• tried to help Kerry find some inexpensive table lamps

That's the gist of my day. Nothing too exciting, but NO tv watching :)

What kind of fun things did you do as a kid instead of watching TV? Was it just my family that loved putting on shows?

HGTV Design Star

Okay... so Design Star has begun again.  I finally watched the first episode on my TiVo this morning and I was a little disappointed.  I mean, they seem to get higher and higher qualified people on the show each season, so you'd expect some super cool, original, awesome designs.. but not on this episode.  They changed things up a bit, which I liked.  They did not decorate their living space as the first challenge, instead they had the white box challenge, which they designed for a fellow competitor.  My 2 favorite designs from the first episode are Michael Moeller's & Tera Hampton's:

 

I hope there are some more inspiring designs to come!