New Year's Resolutions

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Sorry for letting you all wait so long... And I am also sorry to say I fell back into old paths… since moving back to Germany, with no job yet, in a new town where I do not know many people, I found myself with not much to do all day. After sending out applications every other day and keeping the house clean and tidy there was always so much time left in the day I ended up watching a lot of TV shows. More precisely: every episode that came out in the new season I watched within a week of it going out… and started to watch some old ones also…

What I can say is that I have laid off a couple of shows, there were some shows that have already ended this season (for good) and I have not picked up any new series. Even though there are some interesting ones that started. So, some of my resolutions I could keep.

What I need is structure. A daily routine that takes me out of the house, away from the TV and the computer. I am doing everything in my power to get a job as soon as possible. Hopefully I will have good news soon. The next steps I am taking is signing up for a gym and guitar lessons. It's still early in the year and I am not willing to give up on my new years resolution yet! I want to accomplish them this year, not next year or the one after that…

I promise to not let you guys wait so long again for a new post. Another resolution for the new year is to write at least twice a month. So see you soon!

Moving

I am so sorry for letting you all wait so long for a new post!

Over the last couple of weeks I have been moving and am therefore without internet. It should have been installed by now, but the incredible people from the provider forgot to send our request out... so it will be a while until I am connected again.

Until then I will be working on my applications and writing posts, but will only be able to post them online when we get internet at the new place.

Hope you all can wait a little longer. I promise there are some very interesting posts coming along!

Cross your fingers that they don't screw it up again...

My TV addiction

In my last post I mentioned two articles/posts that give you useful steps to overcome TV addiction. Here are the 9 steps that I found most useful:

TV Addiction

After my realization I did a little bit of research on TV addiction. Even though it is not a diagnosable condition of DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV) it is recognized as a real problem. It is a form of behavioral addiction, in which an individual repeatedly engages in an action until said action causes serious negative consequences to the person's physical, mental, social, and/or financial well being.

There have not been any serious negative consequences for me, but I know this cannot continue this way. I have a very active boyfriend, who does a lot of sport. He does not like the fact that I spend so much time watching TV. And he is right: I could be using my time for other things.

While researching I found a couple of interesting articles and sites on TV addiction and how to overcome it.

Hello all, my name is Tina and I am a TV addict...

I have been a TV addict since my early teens. But recently it has become clear to me that I have to do something about it. While writing my dissertation for my Masters Degree I noticed how much time I spent procrastinating and how much of that time was spent watching series or looking for new things to watch when I already had watched all new episodes available. I handed in my dissertation last Friday (Yay! I'm done!) two weeks after the date that I originally had planed to submit... It was still on time, but I could have done it much faster and better.

So I decided to do something about it. Make more time to do all those things I wanted to do for so long. One of them is to write a blog. I had one years ago when I moved abroad to study. A blog to keep friends and family up to date. But it did not last very long... To start a new blog I knew I had to have a topic. A while ago a friend of mine started to write about fashion (Fashinably Late by Natalia Galbetti). I love her blog and what she has done with it. But I do not think I am qualified to write about fashion. Besides, there are a lot of bloggers out there doing that already. And most of them know what they are writing about.

Besides Nati, another thing that inspired me to write a blog again was the film Julie & Julia. I love cooking and thought the idea to have a project and acompany it with a blog was very good. In this way everyone knows when you give up, fall behind or break promises, even if you made them to yourself. Since I did not want to copy the idea of cooking I stil needed to find a project. When I realized how much time I spend watching TV I had my project.

I promised myself to not use this blog as a means to procrastinate. The only thing I did while still writing my dissertation was to find a name. The afternoon after handing in my dissertation I set this up and today I am writing my first post.

Whith this blog I hope to regain control over the time I spend watching TV, gain more experience with social media and analytic tools, try out new and exciting stuff, and get to do all those things I have been pushing to the future (like running).

Hopefully you'll enjoy my blog and acompany me in the journey of kicking my TV addiction. Over the next posts I will tell you a little bit more about me and what exactly I want to do with this blog.

Stay tuned for more! ;-)