a year without television

I lived a year without television. At first it was awful. I was constantly bored, frustrated that I didnt know what the latest celebrity gossip was, etc. Little by little I found other things to take up my time. I learned to knit, I read a few more books, I cleaned more often. Pretty soon I didnt even notice I didnt have television.
I did start renting DVDs, something I had never really been accustomed to. I rented TV on DVD. I watched the entire Sopranos series, Samantha Who, Bones, Big Love, Jericho, Deadwood, Rescue Me, How I Met Your Mother, Life, Mad Men, Dirty Sexy Money.
It was fun going to Blockbuster twice a week - though a bit embarassing because they started to know me and sometimes I paid them with nickels and dimes. We will talk about how overpriced Blockbuster is at a later date.
I moved into a new place almost a year to the day since I had lost any type of television. And I had TV again!
I thought my life was going to be complete. I thought I would be blissfully happy to now have this to fill my time...almost like it was going to fill a void in my life.
And I wont lie - the first few days were pretty awesome. And that's it - after a few days I had caught up on everything I missed out on in a YEAR.
Repetitivness. BORING.
Even more dissapointing - during the new season of my beloved shows like Grey's / Desperate / Friday Night Lights I wouldnt even let anyone mention what was going on in them to me. It only took me one episode to catch up on what was going on with all of them. Very dissapointing.
I pretty much missed out on NOTHING in my year without television.