As per Request

It is Lent time right now. For those of you who arn't Christian, this is a time when those awaiting Easter "give-up" something for 40 days. For those of you who are bad Christians (like me) it is a time to feel guilty about not giving up something for 40 days. This year I guess I unintentionally gave something up for Lent with my butt kicking, who knew! I guess this is a step to being a good catholic once again...hmm...maybe not. This year my sister-in-law (who will forever be called sister from now on because writing sister-in-law over and over again becomes so redundant) is trying Lent out for the first (?) time. For noobs to the whole lenten season this time can be very confusing and down right depressing. Without going into a whole doctorine of faith here, basically this is the time in the holy season where we are leading up to the point where some dudes very long ago crucified a good guy and low and behold he rose from the dead. So these 40 days gives us time to reflect on these crappy days and reminds us how good we actually have it.

That $100 phone bill doesn't seam so bad when you think about someone jabbing some thorns in your head. 

Anyhow, as I said before I really am a terrible Catholic, I rarely attend mass, I observe the "Commercial" holidays (yes I like presents and chocolate) and I have that unfortunate feeling of "Catholic guilt" all the time. So what I am trying to say here is that I really am not preaching...more...explaining things as I grew up with it in the most simplified terms ever.   

Anyhow I made a comment about Lent and the way I see it out on the intra-net and my sister suggested I wirte a blog about how difficult it was to give up other things in comparison to my kicking the habbit. 

So here goes as long as my memory serves.

1.) I have given up chocolate for lent more times than I can count. It kind of became my go-to in elementary school. Apparently when I was younger I ate chocolate a whole lot more than now because I can remember dreaming about it every night I went to bed.  I had chocolate horses and rivers of cocoa flowing through my brain everyday. It sucked

*difficulty in comparison to giving up smoking meter---------->Nothing

2.) I gave up my stuffed animals one year. *FAIL* Although I must have been in single digits, cuddling with my bear at night won out. I think my sleepless nights before hand had something to do with that. It also sucked.

*difficulty in comparison to giving up smoking meter------------> Well I failed....so I guess it would be more difficult

3.) I gave up meat one year. I love meat, I really do and this really did suck..I mean the first 2 weeks were just gut wrenching and terrible. But as time went on it was actually pretty great. I didn't feel the guilt of eating animals, so I actually continued this well past the 40 days for a little over a year. I can blame my brother for destorying that good eating habbit when he waved freshly BBQed ribs in front of my face.

*difficulty in comparison to giving up smoking meter------------> The first 2 weeks I felt like I wanted to eat my arm off, but after that it was actually pretty awesome.

4.) I gave up coffee one year in university. It was horrible

*difficulty in comparison to giving up smoking meter------------> So much harder...! the only thing that got me through was knowing that on Easter morning I could have a great cup of coffee.

so all in all, this is my lenten post for Bonnie here. May whatever you believe during this season make you happy and healthy. For all those participating Christians.....hahahaha....just thank God you're not fasting from sunrise to sunset.