Consumed

I have been so consumed with the chaos that is our life right now I have decided to take this blog in a different direction. (Not like it had a direction in the first place, besides the name of it) My wife is currently in school and working part time on the weekends as I work 70-80 hours a week, two of our kids are in school and two in daycare while my wife is in school. We have become the typical run around like a chicken with your head cut off American family. The thing that has struck me the last two weekends is the amount of time I spend on different things, with one thing in particular. Last weekend alone I spent over 17 hours watching TV, that is right, from Friday evening to Sunday night I watched 2 movies, 2 football games and several hours watching random shows. This might not be so bad if I just watched on the weekend. However, almost every night of the week I sit down at about 6:30 PM to watch Wheel of Fortune, followed by two to three hours of additional TV depending on the night. Last week was very busy for me and I still managed to spend over 30 hours sitting down and rotting my brain. I think about this number and wonder how much it corresponds to the 70 pounds I have put on in the last ten years. Today it starts, I hope to update this blog at least once a week as I chronicle an attempt to go TV-Free. I haven't yet decided if this will be possible (I haven't told my wife yet), but would like to give it a go and see how the next day, month , year, decade goes?!?

I have no illusions that this blog with be read by anyone, but we will see, and if you are I hope you enjoy our ups and downs.

For my own mathematical brain I want to track several stats that I think/hope will be affected by this experiment.
Weight: 253 lb
Average Bedtime: 10:30 PM ( I don't think my 4:30 AM wake-up will change anytime soon.)
# of Hours of TV in the past week: 30