Okay, so I'm not Catholic (or a religion that practices lent)... BUT I'm a Christian who has some bad habits that could use this as a time to get more into The Word... be more "present" and be more productive... So when I logged on to facebook yesterday & saw that a friend was giving up FB for lent I thought to myself that I should too.
I will say that I've contemplated it quite a bit in the past. While I find that FB has many useful attributes like staying in contact with people I don't see too often etc... It also has negative ones like wasting my precious time (that I complain I don't have enough of) etc... I do mainly get on FB at work during down time (in between court hearings etc), BUT I'm sure I'll get more done like clean out my filing cabinets and those boring little jobs that I just put off b/c they aren't things that really HAVE to be done. I can also log onto biblegateway.com and get more into the word at work instead of getting on FB. While I will miss certain people and seeing their posts there are many things I won't miss.
I will see how it goes and if I go back to it or not.
I have found that on this first full day of work w/ out facebook I'm a little lost! I keep clicking on the page out of habit to log in and then think, "Oh yah I'm not on FB anymore!". Wow, you know it's a habit when you click the button and don't even think about it.
I also am giving up Diet Coke. Mainly b/c I drink entirely TOO much and I know it's not good for me. When I say too much I mean I don't drink anything BESIDES diet coke. eeekkkkk! I'm looking forward to cutting the addiction (which I have done before, but have always gone back to it), but not so much the headache I'm already getting. I know it won't last too long though so I'll pray my way through it :) I'll be healthier in the long run and who knows maybe it'll motivate me to work out or even eat healthier (lol, yah right, I probably shouldn't try to work on too many bad habits at once!). I've had a bottle of lemonade today & a cup of Hi-C... while I know those aren't the healthiest things either I'm for sure going to have to work my way into drinking water, bleck!
Okay, so a very random post, but the more people to hold me accountable the more likely I'm to stick with it! When I told Ryan I was giving up FB & DC he laughed at me and said "yah right."... so supportive, lol!
6 comments:
Crack me up! I def need to limit my fb time also. Sadly it's one of the things that helps keep my mind off of when where & how I will go into labor ha though that could be another week or more and that is fine too! I'll try to make sure baby a gets posted on here soon but u r free to text meif u ever get curious if I pop. Until then u better be blogging!
You are one brave woman...cutting yourself off of facebook AND diet coke cold turkey!! Good luck - wish I had that much motivation:)
oh chels, good luck girl! Haha, I know you can do it! I'm a pop addict too, diet mt dew is my go to drink. I've done better since staying home with the kids, but still go grab one more often than i should. I'm trying to limit my fb time, too. I'm like you, its a habit to click on it when I've got my laptop in front of me. Btw, crystal light to go packets that you put in bottled water are one of my faves lately!!
You can do it girl! I'm not on fb a ton, but ill still miss your posts!!!
Jon would laugh at me too if I said I was giving up fb. What a good idea though!! I can't stand diet coke, but I love dr pepper! Good luck giving both up!
I don't like to drink plain water either - too boring. I put a couple drops of vanilla stevia in my water and that makes it yummy (with no artificial sweetener or calories).
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