Happy Thursday, LilyOnTheLam.Com Readers!
The next round of my adventures is about to start! I have found that during my most busy times I need to set aside some time to coordinate and organize myself - put form around the day to day functions to help guide myself forward versus just spinning in circles.
Although it has been centuries since I have been in school, I find summer to be almost a time for New Year's Resolutions. A New Season's Resolution, perhaps. A time when once again I can stop and ask myself: "What's It All About, Alfie?"
I have to say that the state of reality television on Bravo TV has declined dramatically in the past few years. I literally hate myself for watching it. This past weekend, I volunteered 14 hours of my time for two different causes. Sunday night, I came home exhausted. My DVR was filled with the most ridiculous of fake scripted drama. Now I appreciate TV and movies as a distraction, but I don't need my blood pressure rising following stupidity. What a waste!
So I decided after this season of Game of Thrones ends, I am ending my cable subscription. Goodbye television! (Hopefully, I will find a hot man who has cable by this October when "The Walking Dead" starts!) I am taking the summer off! In my childhood, I used to be a ferociously avid reader. Now I go in spurts- I may read five books in a couple weeks and then not read again (other than magazines and online newspapers) for months. Yet for some reason, I keep buying books. I have an entire bookshelf just waiting for me.
In trying to "better myself," instead of TV this summer I set a goal to read 12 books between June 16 - September 16. Now I know what you might be thinking "Ooooh this is a great time to read all the classics that you may have not read in high school and college." Um yeah, that would be a good idea but if I am forgoing TV I want to read for entertainment and some element of distraction from my stressful work. If I make the task too "homework-like," I won't do it. That's just me.
And like I said, I already have an entire bookshelf filled with tomes waiting for me to crack their bindings and enjoy. My summer resolution starts June 16 … I'll keep you posted on how bad my television detox gets and whether I stay on track of my goal!
P.S. The Jake Jarmusch movie "Only Lovers Left Alive" is at the Burns Court Cinema in Sarasota, FL for all you Central Gulf coastal Floridians. I saw it in New York City. It's not the best movie in the world, but I just loved watching Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as these swank, hipster vampires. Check it out!
The next round of my adventures is about to start! I have found that during my most busy times I need to set aside some time to coordinate and organize myself - put form around the day to day functions to help guide myself forward versus just spinning in circles.
Although it has been centuries since I have been in school, I find summer to be almost a time for New Year's Resolutions. A New Season's Resolution, perhaps. A time when once again I can stop and ask myself: "What's It All About, Alfie?"
I have to say that the state of reality television on Bravo TV has declined dramatically in the past few years. I literally hate myself for watching it. This past weekend, I volunteered 14 hours of my time for two different causes. Sunday night, I came home exhausted. My DVR was filled with the most ridiculous of fake scripted drama. Now I appreciate TV and movies as a distraction, but I don't need my blood pressure rising following stupidity. What a waste!
So I decided after this season of Game of Thrones ends, I am ending my cable subscription. Goodbye television! (Hopefully, I will find a hot man who has cable by this October when "The Walking Dead" starts!) I am taking the summer off! In my childhood, I used to be a ferociously avid reader. Now I go in spurts- I may read five books in a couple weeks and then not read again (other than magazines and online newspapers) for months. Yet for some reason, I keep buying books. I have an entire bookshelf just waiting for me.
In trying to "better myself," instead of TV this summer I set a goal to read 12 books between June 16 - September 16. Now I know what you might be thinking "Ooooh this is a great time to read all the classics that you may have not read in high school and college." Um yeah, that would be a good idea but if I am forgoing TV I want to read for entertainment and some element of distraction from my stressful work. If I make the task too "homework-like," I won't do it. That's just me.
And like I said, I already have an entire bookshelf filled with tomes waiting for me to crack their bindings and enjoy. My summer resolution starts June 16 … I'll keep you posted on how bad my television detox gets and whether I stay on track of my goal!
P.S. The Jake Jarmusch movie "Only Lovers Left Alive" is at the Burns Court Cinema in Sarasota, FL for all you Central Gulf coastal Floridians. I saw it in New York City. It's not the best movie in the world, but I just loved watching Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as these swank, hipster vampires. Check it out!
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