Oddly enough, Captain BigTeaBaggerVance commented on my return almost like a prophet speaking of the return of the Messiah. Coincidence and happenstance are further called into question given that I’m really just doing this for Lent, so clearly my return was prophesied, controlled by fate, and subsequently was inevitable. All bow down to the Great Jimbo. As my first order, because your new lord and savior doesn’t ask things of you, he orders them, I command you to
Wow, you did it. I didn’t think that would work, since I’m not really some sort of highly important religious figure come down to teach you all a few lessons, or at least I didn’t think I was, but your actions are making me think otherwise.
But moving along to my point for this blog, I’m going to publish my Lenten goals for all the world to see. I hope that this will help me make it through the 40 days (or 46 days, I guess, if you count Sundays), and continue these behaviors for a much longer period of time. As they say, it takes 2 to 3 weeks to create a habit, so maybe this will work.
Without further ado, here’s the list o’ Lent:
1. Give up something that I refrain from mentioning in a public forum. Take from that what you will.
2. Work out at least 20-30 minutes for at least 4 days a week. My real goal is every day, but sometimes work and travel make that impossible, or really difficult if I want enough sleep to be able to continue doing my high quality work. Kind of a cop out, yeah, but it’d be better than what I’m doing currently, i.e. nothing.
3. Eat out only once for dinner when I’m in Nashville. Normally, I’m too lazy to go to the grocery store and, if need be, cook at the office. Ok, cook is kind of a strong word. Microwave at the office if I don’t spring for a suite to do so at the hotel1.
4. Blog every day of Lent for an update on how I’m going on my goals shown above. However, because of my work schedule, I’m already behind in keeping up this blog, so maybe I’ll write two entries this weekend.
Technically, I cheated on the eating out thing, because I had too much work yesterday, I went ahead and picked up Pei Wei and worked from my hotel room. In my mind, this is cheating, because I had eaten out the prior two nights, but technically, this was the first night of Lent, so maybe I’m ok. Nevertheless, starting next time, it’ll be the grocery store for me.
I think that about covers it, so I can go read this new series I’m into. I’ve read about 1400 pages of this series in 3 weeks… ok, maybe 4 weeks, still seems like a lot. So you lot can look forward to daily updates on Lent, random shit that I notice (I create notes in my phone to remind me of life’s little absurdities), and maybe I’ll put up that stupid 25 things about me that is all the rave on MySpace.
Catch you on the flip side.
1 When I say, I spring for a suite, I really mean my work. And since, apparently, I have stayed at the hotel in Nashville more than every other one of their customers, except one (i.e I’m #2), I normally get bumped up to a suite anyway. Yeah, that’s right, I’m a BSD at Hampton Inns. BSD… look it up; reference: Liar’s Poker.
So in this simile, I’m John the Baptist to your Jesus? Oh, and I wanted to comment this blog with something like “finally you finished your festering absence, which I fortuitously foretold” but couldn’t think of any synonyms for absence beginning with F, and also didn’t think I’d be able to resist using the original F word. Good luck with that Lofty List of Lenten L… -F it- goals buddy.
Possibly, “finally you finished your frustrutating foray from this forum, which I fortuitously foretold”, that’d be my recommendation. Thanks Johnny B, or rather, John the B.