Lent progress

Okay: Lent. I decided to A) only drink two pops a day (Isn't that rigorous of me? Only TWO instead of, you know, six). Unfortunately, the fourth day of Lent the electricity went out for FOUR DAYS, and there seriously wasn't anything to do EXCEPT DRINK DIET SUNKIST, so ... that was over.

I also decided (with Kim) B) not to let the small things stress me out. Unfortunately, the electricity was out during the Oscars which means that I missed viewing my Holy Grail, my Superbowl, my reason for living. It's hard not to get stresised when your reason for living is unavailable due to a bad-ass storm raging outside. Plus, I'm also hosting speech contest, and it was postponed ... twice (which means doing the same work three times), so ... not sweating the small stuff is over as well.

Also, because of speech contest and the blizzards that keep blowing through, I haven't spoken to Kim except for two very brief phone calls since last week, so I'm not even helping her uphold her end of the bargain.

Luckily, I also decided C) to write every day, even if it's just a paragraph. So far, things are going great!! First of all, I've already posted twice on my blog in about a week (!). In addition, I've written several pages on something else. I do love to write creative nonfiction essays, but I've set my goal a little higher (for me, I mean. It's much harder for me to do something completely fiction as opposed to writing creative essays about my life. That comes very easy to me.)

I've written fourteen pages in seven days (and with no electricity for three of those days), plus the essay on Lent which is another four (all double spaced, of course). This is more than I've written since last summer, so I'm feeling pretty good about it.