Lent is really hard this year and it is all my fault. In the past years, I have given up (separately in different years) coffee (never doing that again), alcohol, red meat (too easy!), and eating out. On Fat tuesday we had the wine tasting at my office and the following day onwards, I proclaimed that I would give up alcohol (yes, including wine and wine tasting) and meat (eggs, fish, and all other meats). Normally, I would give up just one thing, but the 'over-achiever' bug in me decided to give up a whole lot more. Lesson learned (or learning) the hard way that giving up too much will drive me nuts.

I have no idea, what possessed me to do the same. I thought I would use the 40-days to instill some good habits, but couple of weeks into it, and I have not done a dang thing! I know exactly what I am going to give up next year..... it will be that over-achiever bug in me. Now that will be a good challenge!

Anyways, I just realized that Lent is really not 40 days, but it is almost 47 days! Popular thoughts say, that Sunday does not count. But, that just sounds like excuses to me. I have never really bothered to find out how many days, but simply did what I needed to do to stay on track and by the time Easter rolled in, it did not really irk me to over indulge in the item that I had given up.

It has been hard this year, simply because, I am missing out on some tremendous wine tasting's. I land up going to wine tasting, but taste nothing. If it sounds great on paper, I sometimes purchase the wines and house is now getting pretty dang full with wine cases around. I have got to stop doing that. Perhaps, I should leave all purchasing powers at home and then get to the wine tasting, or even not go to the wine tastings. Giving up meat has not been that hard at all. I have well balanced meal normally, so, giving up meat was okay. I should have stuck with just that.

Well! All this next time! Lessons learned! Oh! by the way..... I am not Christian! Lent just sounds something of a challenge to do! Go figure!