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1: Personal Video Habits

While I try to limit my screen time each day, I am often in front of a screen more than I would like. I start my morning by making my coffee, sitting down, and watching TV for about an hour before I start getting ready for the day. I don't have class until 11 every day but I try each morning to be out of bed between 9:00 - 9:30, I enjoy my slow mornings and feel like waking up earlier than needed gives me time to get mentally prepared for the day. After I make my coffee I will sit on the couch and turn the TV on, click Hulu, and watch One Tree Hill, I have seen this show all the way through multiple times, but it's an easy show to watch because I don't have to pay attention. I scroll on all my social media while the TV is playing in the background to feel caught up on everything that happened while I was asleep.



Once I am ready for the day and in class, I will open my computer and check what I have due for the week, once I am caught up on my work for the week I will open up Hulu or Netflix and watch a show while I take notes or continue on my work. Every now and then I will check my phone and open up Snapchat to respond to the people who sent me a Snap, and then I will switch back and forth between Instagram, TikTok, and sometimes Facebook. Since I am a cheerleader here at SAU, I try to do all my work while I am in class so I don't have to spend time doing it while I am at home or on the weekend. Once I get home from class I will sit on the couch and watch TV while I relax before practice starts. Since The Bachelor has started back up my roommate and I have started to watch that together, after we finish our show we will both sit there together and recap our day while we have a random show on as background noise. 


By that time it's normally time to head to practice, we practice Monday - Wednesday from 5:00 - 7:00, after practice I will come back to my apartment and see if my boyfriend, Tyler, has eaten dinner. If he hasn't I will scroll on TikTok to find a recipe that is quick and easy to make for both of us for dinner. Finding a recipe on TikTok is super easy because they will give you step-by-step to something that tastes really good but isn't super challenging to make. Almost anything I make for dinner comes from something that I have found on the internet, I love to cook but hate figuring out what to make. 


After dinner, I usually get in bed around 9:30 - 10:00, I like to watch Friends before I am ready to go to sleep. Friends is something easy that I can turn on and scroll on my phone and not feel like I am missing anything. Around 11:30 I will pick a movie to watch to ultimately fall asleep, it takes probably around 20 minutes to pick a movie because I am indecisive, last week I watched all three Cars movies to fall asleep and didn't finish a single one. I have to fall asleep with the TV on so picking a movie is an easy way for me to make sure the TV is on when I fall asleep but will turn off after and not stay on all night long.





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