Comfort Zones

I'm not Catholic, and I wasn't ever really that familiar with Lent until I moved to Michigan. A lot of people I worked with discussed what they were sacrificing for the 40 day of Lent. I always thought it was interesting. I think one year I even said I was going to do something for Lent. Similar to a New Year's Resolution, I didn't follow through.

Even though it began on Wednesday, I'd like to have goal for Lent. I know that technically you're supposed to sacrifice something, rather than just have any old goal, but since I'm not looking at this from a religious perspective, I think I'll be okay. I like the idea of the 40 day timeframe, as it makes goals a bit less intimidating.

In order to have some accountability, and also in order to have something to write about in my blog. I am going to post my goal here, and give updates every couple of days on how I'm doing. Don't worry, my goal won't be boring. I won't be promising to eat healthy every day and then post lists of everything I ate during the week.

My initial goal was to stop letting my own insecurities affect my behavior, meaning my interactions with other people, or things I'm not willing to try. That seemed kind of broad and overwhelming, so I'm narrowing it down a bit. For every day of Lent (that I haven't already missed) I will try something new that tests my comfort zone.

So now I need some ideas? What are some things I can try? Keep in mind that most of these need to be simple if I am to pick one on a daily basis. I'm not going to be able to backpack through Europe by myself or anything crazy like that. I was thinking something along the lines of going to a movie by myself, starting a conversation with someone I don't know, etc. Any good ideas? What are some good things I could try?

Come on guys!

I have to say I'm completely appalled by the turn the voting has taken. Only one vote for No - they're all a bunch of crazies!? And let's be honest, that vote was mine. I feel like you guys have some kind of death wish for me.
But you'll be happy to know that I have date #2 with a guy I met on-line Saturday. So far he seems pretty normal. (As a side note, if you're reading this and feeling offended that I didn't tell you about date #2, just know it's because I didn't want to tell you that I caved. You know who you are).
Anyway, wish me luck. Hopefully things will go well enough that by this time next week we'll have moved on to the Facebook friends stage. At which point I will have to immediately delete this entry. That happened once before with the '10 things you should never say to a girl' post. I started talking to the guy again, who had numerous entries on the 10 things never to say post, so I deleted it. Two weeks later we're on the fritz again and I'm missing my dang funny post. Maybe I should re-write that one?

Excuse me?

I've dabbled in internet dating. I'll admit it.

The screen name of my latest match? FuneralDirector27. I kid you not.

Why?