Sorry shirft!'

And the best part is that I'll probably get sniped at for entering the information wrong.

I'm getting hungry. I wonder if I should risk eating at the cheap Chinese place I've never been to before...

My current problem is that I want the damn diet Coke NOW, but still not enough to go back to the store and make them give me a free one.

All she wants is a diet Coke. Just one diet Coke. And they wouldn't give it to her.

Maybe there's one in the work fridge. If not, maybe there's still a praline in there.

I was hanging out here for about the last year or 2 years I was in the Freak-Ass Church.

Yeah. You left it for good shortly before we migrated from WX, as I recall.

Wonder if my in-laws bothered with the ashes this year. They sometimes do it. When they're not busy.

I've given up meat, bread, and booze for Lent.

Sadly, the booze is going to be the easy one.

One glass of (IOW, a shot and a half on ice) of good whiskey last night left me feeling like I'd been attacked by a baseball bat during the night.

Sigh.

Go Fug Yourself just made me laugh in an unseemly manner. Ghostnads!

And it isn't just Catholics--Episcopalians do it too.

At least some Methodists too.

Meat and bread?

They didn't mention that, just the forehead mark.

Meat and bread?

Well, meat's so easy to stop eating for me--I had to go out of my way to eat it yesterday--that I felt I needed to up the ante. And bread--I like bread, so it's a nice sort of sacrificial object.

I usually give up booze for Lent.

And it isn't just Catholics--Episcopalians do it too.

Indeed they do! Big day when I used to work at an Episcopalian church. I would refer to it as the kickoff to the busy season. They go crazy on Easter week. Services every day! Retreats! Stations of the cross! Choir cast of thousands!