Well, after cramming in as much tv as possible sunday night, O & I woke up Mon. morning to day no.1 of the NO-TV experiment.
So did I for that matter, and I cannot deny that I sorely missed not having Dr. Phil or Oprah (they are on simultaneiously, from 8-9 am) for company as i cleaned and swept, etc. Upon returning from teaching at 11am, I could feel that pull of the remote control. A habit ingrained. I found a pretty lace tablecloth and covered the TV.
Odelia returned from school and throughout the day proceeded to show definate signs of withdrawal! These ranged from raging around the house screaming "I hate you", and "don't want," sending me 3 or 4 sms's with "I don't want"and one sms with "stick out my tongue" icon," throwing and kicking the sofa pillows all around the house, ripping up an empty cereal box into confetti, screaming at the dogs and laughing uproriously at nothing in particular.
I tried to be extremely patient, drawing the limit at taking it out on the dogs. To be perfectly honest, at 10pm, my thoughts strayed to Jay Leno...and it was tempting!
However, she did get all her homework done, we played an hour of monopoly (at 9pm) - and I HATE monopoly. By the end of the hour, she was pretty sick of it too.
At 10pm she got out the dance mat (great exercise...highly recommended) and proceeded to dance her head off till about 11:15 pm. At that point we got ready for bed.
She was EXTREMELY tired this morning. She claims to have even layed down on the bathroom floor after her shower to sleep. I drove her to school, despite the sunny day, but only after exchanging this for a car-wash later today (MON.)
To be continued......
