Hey y'all. Don't know how many of you actually celebrate Lent, but yesterday was Ash Wednesday, and the big kick-off to the Lenten season.
So whad' y'all give up? Cailette and I decided to go Vegetarian.
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It's Lent already? Damn, I missed Pancake Day.
Last year I gave up chocolate and found it surprisingly easy, until a week before the end and I thought I'd done well enough and I'd just break it once. It was downhill from there. Not sure if I'll do anything this year (though it might be a good idea to repeat the same).
Last year I gave up chocolate and found it surprisingly easy, until a week before the end and I thought I'd done well enough and I'd just break it once. It was downhill from there. Not sure if I'll do anything this year (though it might be a good idea to repeat the same).
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We are giving up red meat - which will be especially hard for me, since I am already doing a reduced-carb diet... too many restrictions and I might waste away... 
In addition, we are both picking out books to read to stimulate our minds, and starting with AW mass yesterday, we have vowed to attend mass regularly again (we lapsed some last year).
Also, we are toying with the idea of paring down our cable channel options somewhat, then donating the monthly difference to charity. Haven't decided on that one - whether we can go without Robot Chicken?
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In addition, we are both picking out books to read to stimulate our minds, and starting with AW mass yesterday, we have vowed to attend mass regularly again (we lapsed some last year).
Also, we are toying with the idea of paring down our cable channel options somewhat, then donating the monthly difference to charity. Haven't decided on that one - whether we can go without Robot Chicken?
dw
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Re: Lent
Well done! I might do the same!Cail wrote:Cailette and I decided to go Vegetarian.
Waddley wrote:your Highness Sir Dr. Loredoctor, PhD, Esq, the Magnificent, First of his name, Second Cousin of Dragons, White-Gold-Plate Wielder!
Hit me up if you need any low carb ideas that don't involve red meat, I have many many ways you can make chicken exciting and low carb...but don't ask me about fish, i don't do fish.DukkhaWaynhim wrote:We are giving up red meat - which will be especially hard for me, since I am already doing a reduced-carb diet... too many restrictions and I might waste away...
In addition, we are both picking out books to read to stimulate our minds, and starting with AW mass yesterday, we have vowed to attend mass regularly again (we lapsed some last year).
Also, we are toying with the idea of paring down our cable channel options somewhat, then donating the monthly difference to charity. Haven't decided on that one - whether we can go without Robot Chicken?
dw
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storm,storm wrote:Hit me up if you need any low carb ideas that don't involve red meat, I have many many ways you can make chicken exciting and low carb...but don't ask me about fish, i don't do fish.
Please, please, please come post in The Galley. Hyperception keeps going on again/off again low carb. Maybe one day I'll join in, if I can find enough inexpensive variety.
If there isn't already one there, feel free to start a Low Carb recipes thread.
(...sorry High L-rd. The forum self-promotion is sorta on topic this time...)
As a mod Menolly, you're expected to pimp your forum(s).
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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We are? Damn, I've been getting it wrong the whole time.Cail wrote:As a mod Menolly, you're expected to pimp your forum(s).
(Okay, okay--when it's relevant. But I couldn't resist.)
On topic, I've decided to go with the chocolate thing. I've been needing to cut down on snacks anyway.
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Murrin wrote:We are? Damn, I've been getting it wrong the whole time.Cail wrote:As a mod Menolly, you're expected to pimp your forum(s).
(Okay, okay--when it's relevant. But I couldn't resist.)
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Um...off hand I don't think there is one already. But, one could always be started, if there is a call for it.Wyldewode wrote:I also have an large selection of vegetarian recipes for use during this time of year. Menolly, are we going to have a vegetarian thread over in the galley? I suppose I could go look. . .
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