I was just reading through some old cards and letters, and I found this "thank you" letter from my sister in law. I had embroidered a big table cloth for them, and she was so happy. At the end of th eletter her comment was, "I don't understand how you get time for this". I could not help but find it a bit... funny. I know this might sound awkward, but the reason is as follows...

At my brothers place, the TV is on all the time. Everyone knows exactly what is on TV when, and everyone has something they just "have to see". The first thing that goes on when they come home, is the TV, then the lights. It is on very loud (so the one who is watching TV can hear everything loud and clear in case there are someone NOT watching trying to talk somewhere). If no one is watching, the Tv is still on, even if they are in other rooms in the house. My sister in law seems to ble glued in front of the TV from she gets home from work untill she goes to bed. She sits there with apathic eyes with the coffee cup in her right hand zipping now and then, and stares at whatever soap or "real life something" that happens to be running. For me, it seems like the TV is of great importance in their life, and that it consumes a lot of their time, and espescially in my sister in laws life.

I do not watch TV. In fact, I have not watched TV (if you don't include DVD's and movies from CD) in almost a year. I read news online, and except from that I like documentaries and movies. All of that I rent in a DVD shop or download from the internet, if I feel like watching. I only put it on when I want to watch it, and turn it off when I'm done. I don't watch regular TV at all, we have not even had access to regular TV where we live now (and my boyfriend moved in here in autumn 2002, I in spring 2003). My daughter of soon 2 years old has watched a few viedos, but except from that she has never watched TV.
I actually have better things to do in the evening, and I feel like my brothers family must be insane or something. But then I lived with my sister for 8 months, and even though they are not quite that bad (my sister herself hardly watch TV), the TV was dominating quite a lot in that house too. I started to wonder if it was only me and my friends that do not watch TV, or maybe it's even just me an dthat my friends secretly watch TV? lol, not that it makes any difference, but now I'm curious! So....

How much do YOU watch TV, and what do you watch?

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