My Lenten Resolutions were an "epic fail" as the young people call it. Partially because of my trip to Guatemala, but mostly due to my own shameful lack of self-restraint, my resolve to not eat out went right out the window. So too did my promise to not check Facebook at work. In fact, on two occasions I broke both rules on the same day. Shame, shame, double shame.
Upon the end of Lent (and the arrival of Easter!), I decided that I needed to make things right and give Lent another try. Lent 2.0, if you will.
1 But this time I am only focusing on my Facebook Addiction.
It's been going great, thanks for asking. I've made it a week without checking Facebook at all, even when I am not at work. I had forgotten how liberating it is to not have a Facebook Addiction!
And what, you ask so intrusively, have I been doing with all of my new-found free-time? Mostly I have been letting my creative and social side out for a much-needed whateverwordIamsearchingfor.
I wrote the first essay for a distance ed class that I signed up or all the way back in January. And I started the second assignment (a highly emotive personal narrative which made me highly emotional, so I just cut that right out). And I posted three blogs. You gotta love that, right? And I have read good literature.
2 I went rollerblading for the first time this season.
3 And I even filed my taxes. And I've spent hours and hours of time with real.live.people. All in all, I gotta say Lent 2.0 is the way to go.
~g.mango was meant for Lent--
1. I cannot take credit for coining Lent 2.0. Big ups to the
Clown and her Crocodile Tears.
2. See
Wrath, Grapes of3. If you know me well at all, you will know that rollerblading is less of a recreational sport, but more a creative outlet that produces shortness of breath and a damp brow.
