T.V.

The Greek word for "far" is tele. The Latin word for "sight" is visio. These two words together form one pretty awesome word: TELEVISION. The TV is been commercially available since the late 1930s, and I love it.

Today, over 99% of American households own a TV. Also, the average home has more than 2 TVs and 66% of Americans have 3 or more sets. According to Nielsen, the average American watches over 4 hours of TV a day. In a 65-year life, the average American will have spent over 9 years watching TV! Almost as surprising, only 49% of American's feel that they watch too much TV. Does this mean that 51% don't think 4 hours is enough!!

I believe I more than qualify as an "Average American." I currently have six TVs in my house, not including the two sets sitting in my basement that aren't plugged in. I don't watch four hours of TV a day...but I might if I could. By no means am I a TV junkie, but I do indulge far too often. I started typing a list of all the TV shows a regularly follow...this doesn't even include the shows that I'll watch when nothing else is on. Some of my favorites.

• Amazing Race (Truly AMAZING...I'm going on it one day and winning a cool $1,000,000)
• Desperate Housewives (Its my guilty pleasure & I watch it every week with my mom)
• Survivor (I've been watching all 20 seasons and we still hold "Survivor Parties")
• The O.C. (My heart broke when Marissa died...stupid Volchok)
• Seinfeld (The classic...always an awesome watch at 10:30 on Fox)
• 30 Rock (The show is comedic genius...Liz Lemon is hysterical)
• The Office (I'm fading on this one...but still always hilarious to watch)
• SNL (No show makes me laugh harder...those ESPN Classic parodies are priceless)
• The Big Bang Theory (Highly recommend it...Sheldon is a genius...literally)
• Lost (This is the show I hate to love...its addicting. I've broken the obsession a few times, but I've started back up again - I have Season 6 left...so many questions)
• Law & Order (Dick Wolf is an icon and I love him. I have a L&O ringtone on my phone and I'm pretty sure I've seen every episode ever produced...yet I openly participate in those TBS marathons
• Arrested Development (If I had a time machine, my first stop would be to go back and beg people (myself included) to watch this when it was airing so it wouldn't be cancelled...3 seasons was not enough...)