Although, if something more
exciting was happening while we were performing what most considered dull or
routine than would it still be mundane?
I think not!
Hooray!
We have been chosen and I am
not speaking biblically, I am speaking of now in this time and place to be part
of an enormous family!
No, and it’s not just the
family of mankind or of Mother Earth or any other new age thingy… we have been
recruited to be a part of what is a family that all of us fifties kids wanted
to be a part of… THE NIELSENS!
The advertising firm that has
been around since the 1920’s but went to polling TV ratings in 1950, the same
year I was born! I told you that I have been waiting all this time to be called
by them to be a part of letting them know what programming I enjoy. And it
finally happened a few weeks ago, they called and last week they sent us the
forms to fill out while we watch and we are now a member of the ones who let
everyone else know… we’ll know… what we do when not out and about being active!
We are TV programming enthusiasts! And voracious consumers of all things TV via
antennae/broadcast plus inverter boxes and they know that and still chose us! (We gave up cable
way back in 1995, and never looked back.)
So even when we appear to be
boring I do think that being part of such a long time industry of keeping an
eye on an idea on what people enjoy in their time off from their busy lives or
in our case of enjoying our retirement and for everyone it is different…I
really, really think this is a very neato thingy to be doing! See I speak 1950’s-60’s
slang, Ta Da!
When I was a kid I wondered
who the Nielsen family was and now I know… it’s us!
Or could be you, oddly enough
I do not know how they chose any of us, we did not request it and they just
called then mailed the forms for us to fill out weekly, one for each TV and no return
postage needed just flipped over, sort of like the DVD return envelopes, but
thicker due to all the pages in the weekly surveys.
It is interesting and simple
at the same time to fill out, not always though i.e. too simple. With your local
stations call letters and the number of station used on our sets to access as well as the affiliate station
letters, program’s name and time and if the TV is on or off and who is watching
and which TV…and sure at our ages, perhaps any age, we made a couple of entry mistakes, but we
fixed them and I do hope that was alright…
If the TV is off it asks that
too, but not why or where you might be so it is NOT BIG Brother like I think I
hear some of you thinking; boy I am good I can hear you thinking, KIDDING! But you all knew that, ha!
So now when we think that we
are truly bums, although Hubby mowed our lawn today and finished trimming back
our other, the baby from the original up by our patio, Bougainvillea down by
the canal and I did some laundry and washed all our lamp shades as well as the
return vent for air/heat that is in our hallway. First I sprayed it with white
vinegar and water and then once removed I hosed it down outside while adding
pool water and watering our potted plants.
So we were doing things
besides watching the boob tube, oops did I say that out loud?
I sure did!
On that note of not being as
big a dope as some might think, allow me to be the very first to wish all of
you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your
blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!
And next time please be here
or be square, ya hear!
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