Lent 2010

Lent started last Wednesday.  Last year I gave up 4 things - Chocolate, Diet Coke, Brick Breaker and French Fries.

I stayed off Diet Coke (for the most part) after Lent last year, so it wasn't a reasonable thing to give up again this year.  After deleting Brick Breaker from my phone I couldn't get it back, so that's out.  Chocolate and I have been on a break - I'm still trying to figure out where my sweet tooth went.  And French Fries aren't really so much of an issue unless we eat out.  But they're still a good thing to go without.

So this year, I'm going to church every week and abstaining from French Fries and Potato Chips.  Not too enlightening, I need to develop a new vice for next year.

B was still deciding on Ash Wednesday.  We were at Ash Wednesday Service last week and I asked him what he'd decided on.

B: "Well, I was going to give up all fried foods, but I really like the idea of giving up criticism."
E; "Oh, nice.  Who gave you that idea?"
B: "Well, Em, I was actually listening to the Homily and the Priest gave me that idea. You know, 5 minutes ago."

Caught.  So I'm thinking I should add listening in lieu of day dreaming in church to the list of things to work on in the next 6 weeks.

And for the record, B has been pretty good with not criticizing, unless you are talking to him about:
1) Tiger Woods and his press conference.
2) Apolo Ohno in general.  Sole Patch, attitude, the whole shebang.
3) Sappy or ultra-personal and TMI Facebook statuses.

We're going to be much better (albeit boring) people come April 3rd if we can stick with it.