At the library yesterday, a man walked past me with a black, smudgy X on his forehead and I remembered that I forgot to give something up. I stopped being a Catholic a long time ago but I've never really let go of Lent. I just looove the opportunity to prove to myself that I can Go Without. So, what would it be this year? I've given up chocolate, meat, drinking, smoking and coffee in the past but none of those really exists in any substantial way in my life anymore (especially not the smoking, thank god!) so to give them up would not be very sacrificial of me. I decided on caffeine, because I drink a lot of tea. I'd already had a cup that morning, so I had missed the starting gun, but I figured I could make up for it at the end of Lent; that cup was out of memory lapse and not weakness, so totally forgiveable.
So today was my first caffeine-free day in what I am guessing is a really long time. I can't even remember the last time I avoided it altogether. Normally, I just have a hot beverage every few hours, some caffeinated, some not, without thinking about it too much, and I'm normally relatively alert. Today though, I just felt dopey and I had a headache.
Now, B has come home with some caffeine-laden chocolate, but I will be stashing that away for Easter because I am Going Without!
M-hmm. Feels good.
I still have that headache.
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so I guess this morning was your fat tuesday (or thursday as my polish students tell me)
have fun! hope that headache goes away....what about the lights
now you should go here
something I just linked to through suttonhoo
Headache is gone this morning - yay - but we'll see how the rest of the day goes.
The lights are off! I went in to talk to them Wed. morning and they turned them off right away and they haven't been on again since.
Ha! Mom gave up religion for lent a few years ago and has not gone back...
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