Do you have to be Catholic to celebrate Lent?

So today I was reading some posts on a message board that I frequent often, and people were talking about what they were giving up for Lent. So I posted something and my friend posted back that since she's not Catholic she doesn't give anything up.

That got me thinking, I know people can do what they want, celebrate what they want ect. But do only Catholics give up something for Lent?

I'm not Catholic, but I've decided that for Lent, and for my health LOL, that I'm going to give up excuses for why I'm only half assing my attempts to lose weight. There is no excuse for this anymore.

They say it takes 2 weeks to make a habit, so I have 40 days to turn my half ass attempt at weight loss into a full ass weight loss. I know I won't lose 30 lbs in 40 days, maybe if I was on The Biggest Loser, but that wouldn't be healthy for me. 

I've been doing a weight loss program, and while I've lost 7lbs so far, it's been slow. I do have to say I'd rather the scale show 7lb loss than a 7lb gain though, so for that I'm happy. And last week I measured myself, and I have lost 2.5 inches total, again not a lot, but better than putting 2.5 inches on.

So what are you giving up for Lent?

Hmmm a blog....now what?

I'd been thinking awhile about starting a blog. So here it is LOL. Now what? I'm a lot of different things, I'm a wife, but I can't write about my marriage all day, for one we are your normal married with 2 kids couple. Kevin works, I stay home with the kids. We are your typical middle class family. 

I'm a mom, and while I enjoy talking about my kids, I'm sure not everyone wants to hear about them 24/7.

I have a lot of different hobbies, but my ABC disease (as Kevin calls my OCD, ADD, ADHD ect), (I've never been officially diagnosed with it from a professional, but I'm pretty sure I have a lot of signs from each one, but I also don't want to be a drugged person, besides, it's not that bad, I'm sure Kevin would beg to differ LOL).

I'm a couponer, not as extreme as lot of people who's blogs I follow, but I do ok. But there's enough coupon blogs out there to devote just to that.

I love to read, but again a blog just about the books I'm reading would be boring.

And I'm really wanting to lose weight, about 30 lbs.

So I guess this blog will be a little bit of everything. Maybe like Facebook, only more in depth.

Who knows where this blog will take me, maybe I'll get paid one day to write it LOL (doubt it). Until than let's just go with the flow.