My Week Without TV - Adventures (or Lent and How the Adventures Began)

When I first met my wonderful, loving, brilliant, handsome, goofy, amazing boyfriend (almost 4 years ago) I was stuck in a pretty serious rut...a TV rut. It was back in college and I was in a place in my life where it seemed like all I ever did was go to class, study, sleep, study, eat, study, and watch TV. TV had become what I did in my very limited free time and a crutch. 

Around the time I met The Boy (note the capital letters...they are important here in differentiating this boy, my cute, crazy adventure buddy of a boyfriend, from say...any other boy on the face of the planet), I came to the very important realization that I wasn't satisfied anymore with spending my free time watching other people (most of them fictional) living their lives instead of going out and living my own. I resolved that I was going to be the kind of person that had a life and had adventures of my own.

Climbing Trees at The Farm

My best college memories revolve around those adventures that we went on together: getting library cards, trips to the pumpkin patch, hiking, going to The Farm, cooking...but those are stories for another time.

The whole point of this long winded back story was that I had firmly resolved at that time in my life that I was going to be the kind of person that did thing,s and at one point I was...fast forward 4 years and I'm coming home from work to collapse on the couch with whatever food I can find in the house and watch reruns of shows I'm not that interested in or have already seen a hundred times before dragging myself to bed even more exhausted than when I came home.

 I was stuck again in the same rut with a slight variation...I had gotten myself stuck in a weekday rut. On the weekends, sure I watch TV, but I also spend time with The Boy going on the kinds of small adventures that make life so much fun. On weekdays though I turn into The Frump...a terrifying creature that lives in a bog of baggy sweatpants and would rather watch TV and pin a hundred crafts on Pinterest than actually go out and make the crafts (not, of course, that there's anything wrong with Pinterest because I actually love it very very much).

This year was a case of Lent to the rescue. I've resolved this year for Lent that I'm going to give up watching TV on weekdays and use that time instead to have small adventures. So far I've decided that I'm going to work to stick with a weekly schedule so that I can do all of the things I want to do and I don't have an excuse to be lazy...although I might need to rework it a little bit now that I need to incorporate blogging!

Here's my schedule that I've been working towards so far:

Monday:

- Mani/Pedi (part of the ongoing effort to suppress The Frump)

- Reading (part of the also ongoing effort to avoid library fines)

- Blogging? (looks like it might fit here best)

Tuesday:

- Crafting (time to unleash my creative side and try out some of those Pinterest ideas)

Wednesday:

- Socializing (this one's pretty flexible depending on other people's schedules but I thought it needed to be on the calendar to quell my natural tendency towards becoming a hermit)

- Exercising (this one is also not confined just to Wednesdays...it really should be an everyday, but on Wednesdays I have to have to have to!...unless I have something better to do...kinda kidding)

Thursday: (Responsible Adult days)

- running errands (totally counts as an adventure)

- managing my finances! (aka one of these days I'm actually going to sit down and start tracking my receipts again like I used to so that I can figure out how much money I shouldn't be spending)

- laundry (another task designed to help avoid The Frump...extra important on weekends with The Boy...nobody should be subjected to The Frump)

- Facials (yes. Facials and Finances...I think its meant to be)

As you've probably noticed, my weekdays only actually include 4 days...this is for a very important reason...Fridays are spend with The Boy and as such count as the weekend...I don't make the rules...oh wait...no judgement please.  

I already have my craft lined up for tomorrow. Check back later in the week to see how it turned out!

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