The Lentenator ...

Well Lent 2009 Extravaganza is over and so is my Junkless for Jesus™ experiment. And, I have to say it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it might be. I wasn't perfect. I confessed my sins once already. Since that time I did backslide a couple of times. Maybe a candy bar here, some ice cream there and Krispy Kremes for brunch. But, I did stay away from the afternoon of gorging on chips and nacho cheese and I didn't do the fast food and pizza thing. So, I can't give myself an "A" but I think I at least scored a high "B" which was better than most of my college career, so that's not too bad.

I have to say it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I didn't find myself desperately wanting to drive through McDonald's or Wendy's, although a couple of times I thought that Sonic or even Hardee's would be nice. Mostly though it was sitting around at night watching TV or on weekends watching basketball or whatever that things got kind of tough.

You know that "I'm pretty sure I'm hungry for something cause I don't have anything else to do" feeling? Yeah, that hits from time to time. And like I said a few times it resulted in a Butterfinger being consumed. But, I'm not going to beat myself up for backsliding. If I do that then all hell breaks loose and things really go downhill quickly.

I do want to take a quick minute to congratulate my buddy Matt-Man for completing his pledge to go Meatless for the Messiah. And, as if that wasn't impressive enough, Matt-Man decided to pile on and show off a bit by fasting the last 72 hours of Lent, otherwise known as "The Dead Period."

Very impressive Matt-Man. You might specialize in insulting all the true believers out there with most of your blog posts, but you made a commitment and stuck too it. Going without meat for 46 days for a guy who loves bacon like trailer park trash loves meth, was no small feat.

And anyone else out there who made it through Lent and never gave in to temptation and gutted it out, and did it all without using it as naval-gazing blog fodder, I salute you too.

But, back to me. As I said it wasn't really as bad as I thought it would be. I'm already thinking that maybe next year I should turn it up a notch and go for something bigger. Like no alcohol .. no, let's not do that. Maybe I will be like Matt-Man and go without meat? No, that's not gonna happen. I guess I could go with the no red meat and that would leave me able to each chicken and, you know, bacon. But, that doesn't seem all that hard either. (That's what she said.)

So, I don't know. I guess I'll think about it. Lent 2010 is still a long ways off. Who knows where we will all be or what social networking site will be the hot thing by then. And who knows what new addiction I will have picked up either. So, I guess I'll just give it some time before I start thinking about what I'll give up next year.

Besides, I don’t have time for that right now. My pizza was just delivered…