Can You Give Up Laziness For Lent?

I was pondering this idea during my morning work out.  Facebook was full of questions/prayer requests for various friends and their Lenten choices.  Soda, coffee, caffeine, chocolate, and sugar in general were all things people were considering. These seem to me to possibly fall under the category of gluttony.  Is it a requirement that your Lenten sacrifice be one of the Cardinal Sins? As such shouldn't we be shying away from these items on a daily basis? I know we are all sinners and that is why Jesus died for us. I believe giving up laziness would fall under sloth.  If my theory is correct. Exercising seems to help put me in a place of communing with God.

I think it is time to work on The Thirty Project #29. I think in addition to giving up laziness, I will also try to add to my life by using the time frame of Lent to read the Bible cover to cover. I have 695 pages in my pink Bible so that works out to about 17 1/2 pages a day. UPDATE: Since I will be including Sundays as reading days it will really be 15 pages a day. Sorry, I didn't even think that Sundays weren't included in the 40 days.

Breaking Up (30 Project Related)

I am officially trying to break up with bottled water. Our water here tastes so awful that even after being filtered it is barely palatable.  So because of that I am taking a baby step and switching to the 2.5 gallon or larger bottles that I can recycle.  Shawn's company gave out fabulous Nalgene type bottles at the convention.  They have screw tops and hold about 1.5x the amount as a regular bottle of water.  I have been drinking 2-4 of these a day as I try to lay off of soda and caffeine.  Is it bad that I count it as a bonus that they match my handbag?

I haven't posted a 30 project update in a while, I am still plugging away at my list though.  I plan to post an update when I return from Hawaii, since that trip will be major parts of completing list items.

4 days, 6 posts!

Two of them are over at the training blog but they still count.  The 1/2 marathon page will be a group blog so if anyone wants to join in let me know.

I will be spending the afternoon with the Cowans before they return to California.

3 for 3

I have what may possibly be the most boring post ever. I am currently enjoying the view from my couch as I try to get over a cold. I felt so bad yesterday I found someone to cover for me at work today so I didn't even have to move.

I obviously didn't get to run today, sitting up is enough of a challenge. Well I am off for a nap, I may try to get the training blog up and running today. (HAHAHA)

Just to add to the randomness of this post some congratulations are in order. Congrats to the Alaburdas, Maury and Jake. Both of them got engaged this holiday season, to some of the loveliest people around. I just cannot wait to meet Jamie. We already totally adore JD and are excited it will finally be official that he is a part of the family.

January 2, 2010

I have no fun title for today. I think I may try to post every day, or at least more often than in 2009. I realized I had only posted a handful of times last year, and know that my family checks in to see how we are doing. For mama and Maury, I promise to be better this year.

Running: I had every intention of getting up this morning and starting to run. I however woke up with a cold and breathing is enough trouble without throwing in the cardio. I am kind of sad because I was really excited to try out my new shoes.

Happy New Year

I am trying to start off the New Year by blogging. We had a great NYE bowling with the Cowans. Aubs and Michaela both got their first strikes one frame apart.

I am going to try to blog better in 2010.

I have set another goal to run a 1/2 marathon in October. I think I will start a blog for this but for the time being I may track my progress here. I want it to be a shared blog because some others would like to run/walk the same event. That way we can be a support to each other. My first update to the 1/2 marathon goal is I bought new running shoes. My feet have changed sizes and my favorite Nikes are so big they hurt my feet. I now have a new pair of white, pink, and silver Nikes. They are Nike+ enabled so I may borrow Shawn's ipod and chip on the day of the race to have an accurate pacing.

I know it is a little late but here is one of Aubs' Santa pictures. I did them myself this year. Our local mall allows parents to use their own cameras if they donate to the Ronald McDonald house.