The Art of Not Watching TV

About a week ago, I found myself falling into the old habit of turning on a TV show for ten minutes, getting bored, spending forty-five minutes looking for something else, watching that for ten minutes, and repeating this process over and over. I set a new rule for myself a while back. When I catch myself in one of these loops, I either boot up a video game, open a book, do some writing, or work out. Basically, I find something else to entertain me so that I don't waste an entire Friday evening trying to find something to watch. It's been over a week now, but I still haven't found my way out of this TV/movie-watching slump. Sure, I've managed to watch a few things, but I'm SO not interested. In the past, this would stress me out. I'd feel like I was wasting my free time because I couldn't relax without watching TV. And worse, as discussed previously in regard to Halloween, I'd be even more stressed because I should be catching up on horror movies and TV shows. You know, consume,…