Lent 2010

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Today is Ash Wednesday. The season of Lent has begun.

Last night I set my phone reminder to not eat meat on Fridays.

And today... I'm giving up...

Non-Diet Pop

Yes. I know. I'm going easy on myself this year. Last year wasn't too hard either. I gave up MySpace. And I never really missed it! I was considering giving up pop all together, but I'm looking down the barrel of 10 weeks of student teaching with a baby that wakes up at 5:30am everyday (even weekends), so I don't think I can do it without caffeine!

However, I deserve a couple easy years since the two years before that were HARD.CORE. Giving up beer followed by giving up swearing. Just to recap how those went, the swearing went quite well. The church got a lot of money at the beginning of lent, but it tapered off really quickly. The beer... Was a travesty. I compensated with wine and hard alcohol, which I'm pretty sure is NOT in the spirit of lent. My liver was not pleased.

I think that Lee is giving up Sportscenter. I tried to throw Around the Horn in there too, but he was worried that if he didn't watch that show he wouldn't know what the guys on PTI were talking about. SIGH!

Oh, in other news, the icicle has hit SIX FEET!