Lenten Recap

Lent is over.  I've had my first coke.  And my second.  And even a third!  Though I didn't finish the third one.  Thankfully, it was in a 12 oz. bottle with a lid and it may be salvageable with some time in the refrigerator.

How did we do with our Lenten disciplines?  I was completely successful with giving up Coke.  I didn't have a single one.  I did substitute with the occasional rootbeer, Sprite, 7-Up, or Sierra Mist.  Also lemonade, but even among these five different drinks, I had less than one a day, so a definite improvement from a caloric and general health aspect.

What about the positive discipline?  The goal was to write or shoot every day.  I didn't quite make it.  I made 16 entries here, and none elsewhere, unless you consider the essay I wrote for my history class.  So with 46 days during Lent (including Sundays), I had about a 35% hit rate on writing.  But I could also shoot, so how did I do there?  According to the information I have on hand (there's more in other locations) I took pictures on 16 different days.  Seven of those days overlap with journaling days, so we're up to 25 days on which I either wrote here or took pictures.  54% hit rate.  Eh, not great.  I'm certain I took pictures on more days that I just don't have records for here, so I may update at a later time, but probably not. 

While I didn't meet my discipline goal, this was a successful exercise in other ways.  I'm more confident about taking pictures than I was when I started.  I probably took at LEAST a thousand pictures, of which, I kept more than 800.  Probably 30 or so meet my "Oooh, I like that picture," criteria.  Heh, that's about 4%, obviously leaving LOTS of room for improvement.  But overall, I'm content.

I think I'll keep the blog.  I'll post picture samples here.  We can watch my improvement together.  Or not, depending on how my work progresses!  While I wasn't totally successful, it still served a very useful purpose and got me a little bit away from my hangups.

(More to come on those hangups in another post).

Oh yeah, happy Easter!!