Lent

I think it's safe to say that my Lenten promise has been broken since the day I started it on Ash Wednesday. I tried to give up cursing.

Woe and behold I uttered the first few words of "cr--" and "fu--". At least once or twice, sprinkling them in like paprika in a soup. It bites. I shouldn't have to give it up just for those 40 days, I should really just learn to keep a clean mouth altogether. College has given me too much leeway to talk like a sailor. I'll admit I still find it hilarious that I used to think 'stupid' was a curse word. As I got older, my vocabulary got a bit more, how do I put this, 'diverse'.

My other idea for Lent was to give up social networking, not Facebook 'cause I did that already. Twitter seemed likely, but it's just going to get me to vent, blurb, or write someplace else. So instead of giving it up, I think I'll push myself to blog more. This gets me to actually do something. It's just as hard as giving something up for more than a month, so why not try to do something and maintain it as a (good) habit for just as long? Blogging it is!

I still can't figure out how to use the Lijit widgit here, but I guess it doesn't really matter who reads my blog all that much. Livejournal was a hit back in the day with the high school crowd I was with and most of it was spammed with "25 Questions" and "Look at my new haircut--see photos". It's just as bad as MySpace. I definitely plan to write more meaningful posts here and not cheat by copying photos or writing blurbs as small as three sentences.

The goal should be to write at least every other day. Or better yet, just write more than I have in the past 2 months. Done deal.