The first year I was here (here being law school) I gave up soda. It was difficult mainly because while I don't drink soda all that often, I usually keep some in the house because sometimes I crave the carbonation. Yes, I know that's weird, but some nights I wake up in the middle of the night dying for a soda. It doesn't happen to me all that often, maybe once or twice a month, and sometimes not at all, but it happened to me three times during that Lent season, and I struggled through it, but it was rough.
The second year I was here I gave up coffee. You can read through my blogs from that time last year, for the full story, but I will sum up with two things. One - I am way more addicted coffee than soda. Two - I woke my husband up early Easter morning for "coffee day" to go restart my coffee addiction. (Yes, it was very bad).
This year I am giving up two things. The first is dessert. Not the treat you eat late at night, but rather the foods one typically eats as a treat. Cake, pie, ice cream, candy, and cookies. This also includes all variety of things not listed. The one glaring exception to this list is the doughnut, because the doughnut is not a dessert, it is a breakfast food. Now here is the true extent of my belief in that statement: Yesterday, I met one of my besties at a doughnut shop for breakfast. I purchased one doughnut for breakfast and two doughnuts for later (The breakfast was chocolate cake with frosting and sprinkles, and the laters were both bacon maple bars). Last night I really wanted to eat the bacon maple bar - but if I ate it last night, it would be dessert, and even though lent hasn't started yet (tomorrow) I saved the doughnut for breakfast this morning to preserve it's breakfast food status.
On the whole I am a huge fan of dessert. I have always been a dessert person. I have a major sweet tooth, and find myself craving something sweet after dinner on a daily basis. This is going to be hell.
The second thing I'm giving up has the potential to be either way easier or way harder. I'm giving up voicing my frustrations with 'others'. This a really bad habit I have, if someone does something to upset me or bother me, I tend to share it. This is a recent decision, it hit me yesterday at breakfast (thanks Bestie!), but I'm going to give it a try. It's not fair to let my frustrations or annoyances color the views of others. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, and they are also entitled to have opinions not influenced by me.
So there you have it... my lentien resolutions. So if you see me in the next 40+ days, offer me some fruit to fix the sugar craving and if I start bitching about 'others' tell me to STFU (shut the *f* up).
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