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February 22, 2007
Lenten Promises
Categories: Personal
Lent started yesterday. I am giving up:
1. Fast Food
2. Television
The fast food thing is easily done. Well, it may be hard to do, but requires little planning on consideration on my part. I've fallen back into eating way too much crap after all but giving fast food up in Charlottesville. By my definition, fast food includes any place that has a drive through.
The TV thing is harder. Not only will it be hard to do, but I have had to build in some caveats. I can't avoid TV alltogether. If I go to a bar or something and the TV's are playing, I am not going to sit with my back to them (which is hard to do, because in most places they are situated to be seen from every angle). This caveat will also let me watch some of the NCAA tournament when it gets rolling. Second, I will still watch DVDs. Movies and shows on DVD are okay. The point of this promise is to stop me from just randomly watching crap because it's on TV.
Note that Sarah has not given up TV, so there will be a lot of me sitting in the bedroom reading -- which is okay by me. I've got two new books ready to go.
We're also trying to go to church every Sunday, contribute regularly to the offering there, and get to the gym at least three times per week. While I have been to the gym twice this week already, we missed Ash Wednesday service because of some last minute complications with a real estate deal Sarah's working on. Not a good start, but we'll get back on track.
Posted by Nakia at February 22, 2007 04:21 PM