Good Riddance
Today, I did something that I thought I would never do. I called SuddenLink and told them to cancel my subscription to cable. All those glorious channels are now history. When I was in Germany I vacillated if I wanted to make the leap to a cable free life. I had solid examples that people can continue living without cable. My friend, Pat in Washington DC seems to be living a perfectly normal life and Isabel in Texas seems to happy without cable (but she can't get enough of Korean dramas), so why couldn't I? I have plenty of other hobbies to entertain me like the six behemoth classic books sitting on my shelf - 6 books for $2 - I can't pass that up. Plus, I have the vast internet at my disposal. It's truly a more gratifying experience than tv. This leads me to another topic for tomorrow. Our lives are bombarded with too much of everything. More the merrier, right? Oh, hell no. More just means more time I have to take to decipher the crap from the all the other crap. Leaving me less of the thing I want the most - time.
2 comments:
Good for you! I have standard cable, but I'm never even home to watch that... and now that I can watch Grey's Anatomy on the abc website, I have no use for cable at all!
Of course my room mate is talking about getting HBO and other fancy channels... well, he can just pay for that himself! Don't even get me started on the 50" TV that's supposed to arrive soon!
Gotta love Conshy for the $2 book deal ;)
That is freaking cool. When I first moved to PA I did not have cable, I barely had a TV. I got to the point that it did not bother me. It wasn't until I moved in with you that I had cable, when we moved I just kept it. When you left it was all over was addicted and I am still trying to break the addiction.
A couple of weeks ago I decided that I am not turning on the TV at all on Sundays. No: TV, Movies, PS3, PS2...NOTHING. It was hard the first few Sundays. Hopefully it is easier this Sunday. Anyway!
Talk to you soon,
Aus
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