I seem to be running full bore into this lifestyle change thing though, yes, I’m still on the relatively "light" end of the scale. Cloth diapers and cloth toilet paper (for pee only in this house), Diva Cups and baking soda/ACV un-shampoo, whole foods, no preservatives or artificial colours/flavours, square-foot gardening, rain barrels, Freecycle, green smoothies, and now - GASP! - I’m considering no tv. B watches quite a bit of Treehouse; it seems to be on all the time while he’s up and in the house even if he’s not watching it every single minute. In the rec room downstairs, a room we don’t use much but probably will use more once the hot weather hits, we have a tv with built-in DVD player. Upstairs, we have, well, wait just a second and I’ll take a picture…

Upstairs, we have this. Pardon the messy room, please. I have a 3.5-year-old who is awesome at taking out but not so hot at putting away. Also, we have a little bit of a storage issue so even when "tidy" there are piles against the cabinet and wall to the left of it. And not that it matters but the walls are actually a light sage-y green, not the off-white whatever they look here. And yes, I am aware that I have absolutely nothing on any of the walls in my house as yet unless you count the four-hook key rack inside my back door; I’m working on it.

I’m thinking (just occurred to me about 10 minutes ago after reading this blog post by Chrysanthemama) that I could put the tv in the furnace room and, after clearing off the upper shelves of the cabinet (you should have seen the top before yesterday morning - nothing like having someone in to wash all your windows inside and out to motivate you to look like less of a slob), relocating the printer, storing the VCR and DVD players, and putting the shelf back into the current printer spot, I could put a curtain up over the tv hole and we could store some of B’s bigger toys behind there (after doing yet another major purge, that is). I could attach it with a simple tension rod and use a dark fabric so it doesn’t jump out at you. Yes? I’m thinking so but we’ll see. We won’t exactly be tv-free but its usage would be greatly reduced, I think. I don’t watch it much (despite ending up with a full cable package for free - seems my provider inadvertently connected me when they were out a few months ago to fix my internet) and we can have movie nights instead of movies-any-time-of-the-day-or-week and it’ll maybe be a bit of a bonding thing. I’m thinking, again, that it doesn’t sound like a bad plan. Of course, it will suck not being able to watch Prison Break from the beginning on DVD with my honey at my house (I’m hooked but he’s never seen it); we’ll have to do it at his place since B’s bedroom (and mine, incidentally) is directly off of the living room and it would be too loud once he’s in bed. S just chuckles and shakes his head when I do things like this but I know that he is impressed and proud and love my "quirks" (sad that they’re classified as quirks, isn’t it?). Maybe someday I’ll get him converted and then he’ll be able to join me in my different-ness.