On the outside, I try to project an image of having it all together. But underneath that, I'm kind of a disaster. Hence... the name of the site: GlossyVeneer. There was once a time when I thought we would have to upgrade our DVR to a multiple-channel version. There were so many shows on TV that interested me and several would air at the same time. We had several evenings where we would record something on the DVR in the family room while watching another channel upstairs in the bonus room.
And then I started to get bored by TV shows. Many of the shows I had watched just weren’t doing anything for me, so I stopped watching. I no longer watch Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives and uh… what the hell else did I watch? Why did it all seem so important?
As our TV watching whittled down, it still felt like a tremendous amount of time that we were scheduling and devoting to the networks. And we just have 1 or 2 shows on 4 or 5 nights that we follow.
Neither of us have the chance to watch much TV when we are traveling for work, so shows tend to pile up on the DVR. We have the entire season thus far of CSI recorded and haven’t watched one single episode. Now it’s tempting to just delete them all.
Two days ago my husband was saying that he hoped the writer’s strike continued. If there are no new shows being put out, we no longer have to feel “obligated” to follow shows that have seemed essential for so long.
Then last night while watching a DVR’d episode of Heroes we saw a promo for American Gladiators on NBC. My husband immediately said, “I give… I miss the writers. Give them what they want!”
It must be bad when the mere suggestion of American Gladiators on primetime makes my husband change his mind in regard to television lately.
Have to admit, we haven’t had one or any sort of connection for one to be honest, the actual device called a television we had, but like OMSH we had only a channel called static. (Unfortunately, a couple of years ago, we discovered abc online.)
