Got Lent?

I wanted my New Year’s Resolution to be about blogging more. It’s a wise decision I didn’t commit to this undertaking because as you can see I am off to a damn fine start. Still, I would like to find the time to be a better blogger in terms of output. Ideally, my goal is to blog at least every other day and if at all possible every day. But that would require a lot of work, a lot of work I am not willing to commit to. Not yet anyway. So in the meantime 2-4 blogs a month will have to do.

What would be really cool is if I spent so much time blogging that come the season of Lent I gave up some of my blogging for Lent. But that won’t happen because I don’t give up anything for Lent anymore because I don’t Lent anymore. I haven’t observed Lent since I don’t know when-probably the last time was when I gave up Lent for Lent. For all you non-Catholics, Lent is this weird, wacky time of year when you are expected to give up something that you really like to do. Like berating others or doing the nasty or sucking helium or masturbating or flossing or eating waffles. Lent ends on Easter Sunday when you can finally go back to all your many vices and evil ways. Sinner.

Lent is all about sacrifice. At least that is how I remember it. It starts on Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday is (you guessed it!) on Wednesday. This is the day you go to church and have the priest smudge ashes on your forehead in the style of a cross. Symbolism. Subtlety. And then you walk around the rest of the day with ashes on your forehead in the shape of a cross and people stare at your forehead when they talk to you and then you get home and look at yourself in the mirror and think, “Damn, not only am I cool, but I’m also Catholic.” And then you have unprotected sex because Catholics don’t believe in condoms or birth control. Lube is probably okay though. I'll check in the Catholic's Handbook and get back to you.