Ash Wednesday is tomorrow. That means the beginning of Lent. I always try to give up one type of food that I love and one bad behavior for Lent. For the last two years I have given up all desserts and also given up gossip for Lent. I am really good at giving up the desserts but really bad at giving up the gossip. This year I am going to do something different. I am going to give up meat and saying bad things about one specific person. I am not going to say who it is, but I will say that it’s not you. Not that I say bad things about you. Because I don’t. Anyway. I think this is going to be a positive change. I am much more worried about giving up meat. I have never tried this before.
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I just caught H watching Who’s The Boss, and when he discovered that I had caught him, he quickly changed the channel to Family Guy. But it was too late. I know his secret.
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I called a friend today to leave her a funny message, and I cracked myself up. How embarrassing. The message was like, “[Insert funny reference to thing that happened at work.] HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. Bye.” There is no graceful way to end a message after you have just made yourself laugh.
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I am interviewing Little Miss Mel for the Great Interview Experiment. Stay tuned for that. Someone is supposed to interview me as well, but I have not heard from her.
Oh My God…that third thing? That’s why we will be friends forever.
I do that all the time.
That’s why I like blogging. No one can hear me laughing at myself.
I just did a post about giving up things for Lent. ALL desserts? Wow. I’ve gone with a particular dessert before…But that’s kind of lame, really, because there’s always another dessert. Meat? That’s a tough one. We only eat meat for dinner probably half of the nights. Giving it up wouldn’t be as hard as coming up with dinners those 3 or 4 nights!
Good luck!
I love that message. I bet your friend cracked up when she heard it, too.
how in the world did you give up ALL desserts? i am very impressed.
Dude, if I find out there’s ONE MORE meat-avoider on my blogroll, I am GIVING UP THE INTERNET for lent. Heh. Well, let’s not be hasty, I guess. You are just a temporary meat-avoider.
It is SO AWK when you crack yourself up. Yesterday I put in a tech request at work, and of course I was trying to be all cute about it in the online form and I started CHUCKLING AWAY. AT MYSELF. Sigh.
Um, yeah, I just wrote a post about cracking myself up. It’s sad really.
And I love Who’s the Boss. Am I supposed to be ashamed of this?
OK, are you also giving up fish? Because I could NOT do that. I don’t really think I could give up meat in general, but I’d have to at least keep the fish.
You should hear the voicemails I leave. I ramble on and then suddenly realize it. Then I say something to the effect of, “Wow, I’m rambling, ‘kay, bye.” It’s super.
We were just talking about Tony Danza and Judith Light yesterday, trying to remember if they ever did get it on. They did, right? Towards the end of the show? I must know! Can you ask H for me?
Also, I crack myself up in person AND on the telephone, which is very awkward. Also, typing the word awkward seems awkward itself.
Okay, bye now.
I don’t think Who’s the Boss is as bad as Little House on the Prairie, which my sweetie watches proudly. Okay if you’re a 12 yo girl, or loved it when you were a 12 yo girl, but a 30 yo man? Hmmmm.
I have not figured out what to give up for Lent. The obvious things (diet soda, chocolate) just seem too hard. Which I realize is the point, but…well, I feel like in my emotionally fragile state, I am alotted some leeway in the Lenten season.
When I first read what you were doing for Lent, I thought you were saying that you would ONLY say bad things about ONE person. HAHAHA! I limit my personal attacks to BOB, and Bob only! Hee.
I have left a voicemail in which I laughed hysterically and choked out a few unintelligible words, too. Always awesome. I also seem to choke on my own breath/saliva a lot when leaving messages; I sort of wheeze into the phone and emit a few short barking coughs and then hang up. This is why I prefer email.
I’ve decided that, instead of giving up something for Lent, I’m going to START a good behavior during Lent– with the hopes that I will be able to continue that good behavior indefinitely.
Ay oh, oh ay! You gotta love Who’s the Boss… especially Angela’s ginormous glasses! Way to go, H!
Giving up meat is a really great thing for you and the environment and the world at large. I hope you keep it up after Easter! Let me know if you want some good recipes.
I have wanted to bail out of so many voice mails in my life that I often just don’t leave them at all.
Oh, and in response to NPW, they did get it on, both at the end of the show and when they were kids and Judith Light called herself Ingrid and ran away. I wish I didn’t know that fact and furthermore wish I couldn’t picture exactly what that scene looked like.
shewwwwt – Lent? already? Damn.
Yeha, I usually give up swearing. Or try to.
One year I have up soda. Drank a lot of choc. milk that year.
I am giving up meat, too. I wish you luck! I’m going to need it with my second resolution: stopping cursing. Or trying.
I was totally obsessed with SAM, which is clearly so unique, but Jonathan always drove me NUTSO.
Last year I gave up pizza, which was incredibly hard, but I made it. This year I am doing the same but adding No-TV-TUesdays. (Unless of course some awesome show starts on Tuesdays. Then I may have to reassess the sitch.) Good luck with that!
I’m tempted to give up meat too, but not sure I can do it. Also? I’m about as far from Catholic as humanly possible.
Sometimes I start laughing even before I get a funny comment out.
It’s a good thing I crack myself up. I know someone will always laugh!
I was going to answer NPW’s question, but I see Noelle already beat me to it. Also, I think I just had a heart attack considering Tessie’s suggestion to give up the Internet for Lent. (Then again, think how many productive things I might get done!! Nah, still not worth the trauma.)
Like H, I secretly love Who’s the Boss, too. If I was Catholic, I’d probably have to give that up for Lent.
My roommate gave up all sweets for Lent one year. That was the year my mom decided to mail a 1-pound box of hand dipped truffles for us to snack on.
My roommate kept her truffles in a bag on her desk and she would look at them, open the bag and smell them, and pat them gently until St. Patrick’s Day, when she gobbled them all down and was sick for a couple of hours.
I’m giving up swearing for Lent. I don’t think I could give up gossip and I admire you for even trying.
My husband keeps catching me watching Made-for-TV movies on the Hallmark channel lately. But I can’t stop. It’s an illness- I swear!
And, what is this Lent thing you speak of?
I don’t know what to give up this year! I did meat a couple years ago and, if nothing else, it made me far more sympathetic about eating out with my vegetarian friends. All I can think of is, basically, giving up “being a big, whiny, negative slacker,” which is what my life has been like lately.