Lent

Wow!  Thanks for all the comments yesterday!  It's so nice to have people truly understand how good it feels when something like that happens.  My always-been-thin friends would be like "Great??"

OK...I don't talk about it much on my blog or even in "real life" really, but I'm Catholic.  Born and raised.  Now, I'm not devout...in fact, I think in Catholic terms, I'm a bad Catholic.  Other Catholics hate me because I'm the one who shows up on Easter, Christmas, Ash Wednesday and clog the parking lots, causing a standing-room-only situation inside when they normally don't have to deal with that many people.  I'm a holiday Catholic...I admit.  Both my girls have been baptized but I'm afraid I haven't enrolled them in Sunday School yet and I've really gotta get on that.  Why, you ask?  Because the one thing I do have a lot of is Catholic guilt. 

So anywayz...the Catholic season of Lent is upon us and it's a time where some people fast and all of us don't eat meat on Fridays.  Usually, something else is sacrificed for these 40 days and 40 nights.  I've had all kinds of sacrifices over the years...chocolate (did the best I could), all sweets (ever notice how Lent falls right around girl scout cookie time?), alcohol, caffeine and road rage.  So I came up with a few ideas this year...one was giving up sarcasm.  Then I figured it'd be easier taking a vow of silence so I scratched that idea.  So without further ado...the two I'm going with:

1. No more cussing.
2. No more talking bad about people.

I feel I should offer clarification.  It's not like I run around talking like a sailor and cussing people out.  But I have noticed that as my kids have gotten older, I'm not as good about it as I should be and I'm starting to hear my adorable little 5 and 3 year olds repeat some choice words throughout the day.  I thought about doing a cuss jar but I don't think I can afford it.  Just kiddin' but seriously...not doing a cuss jar.

As for the talking bad about people.  I'm catty.  Not in a "OMG! Did you see what she was wearing?" kind of way but more in a "How stupid can you be?" kind of way.  I'm considering anytime I've called another driver an "idiot" to be saying something bad about someone and calling my coworkers "incompetent" as well.  This is gonna be tough folks because to be honest, I feel that most of the time, what I'm saying is true.  However, it's not productive.  Maybe I'll be able to exist in a more Zen like state if I can let go of some of these things and not allow other people to affect me on that kind of level or take me to Negative Town.

So there you go.  Stuff I'm giving up for Lent.  Exciting stuff, isn't it?  I know a lot of other bloggers struggle with what to write about some days.  Judging from this post, I'm no exception.  LOL.  For the record, I did NOT do my 5k training at home on Monday.  Who else saw that coming?  I'm making my way to the gym today to get back to it.  I only have 17 days until my 5k...not a lot of time...not sure if it's enough time, but I'm going to do my best.  Happy Hump Day!