Lent is here, and for the first time in years, I am going to try and stick to it.
I do remember the school chaplain telling us that you could have a break from Lent on Sundays because if you think about it, Lent is 40 days and from now until easter there's 46 days. Well let´s see how I´ll do.
Not easy though, but there are going to be 6 days when I'm not going to follow it. When it's my birthday because let's face it, I want a giant chocolate cake with the number 30 on it and of course on April 4th when I'll be celebrating my birthday again and 4 out of the 6 Sundays
Now the things that I will be giving up for Lent are the following. Diet cola, which I am addicted to. It might be hard to stop myself from actually pouring my self some at work. Chocolate and that includes drinking it. Cakes, biscuits, sweets, palmeras, and Ice cream. Which means yes, more room for yoghurt, fruit and savory low fat snacks.
I know what you're thinking, I must be out of my mind. I could at least keep the diet cola but since I can get my caffiene fix from my morning coffee, I think I can do this. I might go cold turkey and be very irritable but put it this way, my teeth will thank me for this break and since losing the weight healthy snacks don't actually appeal to me.
I still have a box of whole grain biscuits in the fridge (I don't have space anywhere else) which I'll let Moses have with his tea and biscuits (he picked that habit from me.) The last chocolate I had last night, but then I also had a giant palmera which wasn't vert appetising anf another chocolate earlier. I'm still suffering from my cycle which has left me a bit messed up. Last week there were days where I Could barely get out of bed. I almost bit poor Erick's head off at work and almost sent most of the clients straight to hell (That weekend all the ass holes came to my till!)
They'll be no Easter Eggs this time and since I've been living here in Spain, I haven't bought anything from any of the Italian shops because the prices are even higher than in London for the stuff in there. So no Colomba cake. Last Christmas I bought Panettone because I knew Moses would eat it too as it's something eaten in Peru for Christmas as well (that surprised me!)
Lent is about sacrifices, for those who are not familiar with Lent, it's when Jesus went into the desert for 40 days and nights to fast and was tempted by the Devil. In medieval times, that was taken seriously. Everyone use to gather up what ever they had lying around the day before lent and cook it up. Which is why in the UK there's Pan Cake day. Don't ask.
Nowadays no one expects you to go for 40 days and nights without eating or drinking unless you're David Blaine. Let's not go there.
You have to give up something that isn't enough to make you want to murder someone for it. OK, I'll see how I feel with my next period, Usually people give up candy, or savoury snacks. Some will attempt to give up alcohol, Caffiene and this one is always a good one... smoking.
Then you have to think about thinking or even doing something more positive in your life during Lent. Something that might help you as well as others. OK. I am going to attempt to meditate on a daily basis and perhaps be in the process in finding a better paid job. After all my New Year's resolution was to find a cheaper flat which I did but the cat had to go.
When I was in primary school, we were almost forced to give something up for lent. I never took it seriously, you're a kid for christ's sake. Oh yeah it was a catholic school. During lent me and my mum would do things together. She'd usually give up savoury snacks and me sweets. We'd have the piss taken by my dad and brother.
They suggested I should try and changed my attitude. Yeah right. I lose my temper, like normal people do, the only difference with me was that There was a lot more shit that I had to deal with at home and at school. Nobody was fucking listening to me so I had to respond loudly!
The last time I tried doing lent, it was when I was going out with the Iranian. He didn't take it seriously so the fucker kept tempting me with sweets. So that ended quickly. Lent that is.
I wonder if my mum is going to do what we normally do when we get invited to a birthday party of one of their friend's kids and the mother defrosts a black forest Gataeu from Tesco's. I will say this now that as a kid, I loved black forest anything. When the Ice cream van use to visit, I would order the black forest cornetto. Until this silly moo started buying the cake for birthdays and would leave it out from the night before.
My mum and I came up with the genius idea that if we were presented with this during lent, we'd say “oh we've given up chocolate or sweets for lent” they would still insist on us trying some anyway as it's a special occasion but we wouldn't budge.
The sad thing is that they still make their kids carry on with lent. the oldest is 35 and he doesn´t even live at home anymore. I'm doing it as an experiment. My brother turned athiest in the last few years and Moses isn't very religious.
I decided not to go to church today for the Ashes, first of all I didn't have bloody time. I had to be at work at midday. And second I had to be somewhere else that was more important.
Anyway, I'll let you know how I get on.
I wonder if my mum will give up smoking for Lent. Whoops almost got hit by a flying pig!
Perphaps I should try to swear less.
What? Swear less? Where I work? Almost got hit by flying hippo too!
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