I’m a Methodist, and we don’t fast. But I am having a couple church folks over for dinner and then we’ll go to service tonight.
It’s so nice and sunny here. Really cold out but when I’m inside or in the car, the sun is just great.
I think I need to stop at Dunkin Donuts when I go out to run some work errands in a little while. 
Today is bread and maybe cinnamon buns baking day. Yes, it’s a fast day, so I’m only going to eat some toast and tea until evening, and then have scrambled eggs or something.
anyrose, I don’t know. We have a crappy postal service in Canada. I guess I could (would have to) ship them by courier. I’ll think about it.
I’d like to throw in my 2¢ about fasting - you guys eating light early in the day, then nothing til a late dinner - bwah!
For Yom Kippur we stop eating at sundown (say, on a Monday for sake of example) and go to services. The next morning we go to another service. Some go to a third service in the afternoon. There’s one more service just before sundown (Tuesday). Then everyone stops at the Chinese Take Out place on the way home and pigs out. That’s how you fast.
Okay - not everyone eats chinese food. But, in the most observant of households - they don’t even brush their teeth for that 24 hours.
Whereas at my house, Dad would say “Make sure you eat before we leave for Grandma’s–she’s not going to feed you until sundown.”
I don’t do planned fasts, but I have been known to get caught up in a weekend project to the extent that I don’t bother eating for a while. I’m sure that counts, right? Sure . . .
anyrose, your post about fasting made me laugh.
I was baptized Catholic, but essentially was raised without religion. So I wasn’t familiar with the whole “fish on Fridays” and fasting thing of Lent. Fast forward to a few years ago, when a coworker says he’s fasting for Lent. But he eats a bag of chips. Oh, you don’t have to totally fast, or somesuch which I don’t recall.
I worked with this guy for a couple years, and every Lent I was secretly pissed off at his calling it fasting. If it’s fasting YOU DO NOT EAT ANYTHING.
So yeah, I’m ignant in the ways of the Lenten observers.
No, I am up and about–just miserable. I will probably go to work tomorrow (since I dont’ have enough PTO to call in)–I have an orientee who is almost independent. Tomorrow may be “come to me and report any problems” day.
It’s only 12 hours, right? And I’m off until Tuesday after tomorrow.
I’ve been known to fast for non-religious reasons, but never for religion. I’m pretty much a pagan/heathen/agnostic these days. I do think that if you’re gonna fast, then actually do fast. Anything else is half-fast. (say it quickly).
I’ve fasted lots for my religion. Not anymore, but I used to be pretty well into it. I liked it, way back when.
I used to fast for…let me think. Most of the major holidays, especially Janamashtmi, which is Krishna’s birthday, in late August. Um…Karva Chouth, which is really a woman fasting for her husband, but young girls often fast with the older women, too, both to be part of it and learn how to do it. It’s kind of like playing dress-up.
I can’t remember what else. Oh, and while I don’t mind or anything, I do kind of wonder why my LOTR calendar marks Catholic holidays. Huh? 
I applied for more petty cash last Friday. I get an e-mail yesterday, saying that the form that I used is the wrong form, and we’re supposed to be using a new form. Well, it’d be nice if someone told me, right?
The second part of this folly is that the form is hard copy only. Apparently no one has it on the computer. I flat-out told the girl, “This is a great way to lose things, you know. Any chance anyone could type it up?”
Her answer? “No.” No qualifications, no explanations. Well, thanks for the help, lady. :rolleyes:
Half-fast! I love it. Band name! Yeah, I was also raised Jewish, so when an acquaintance of mine walked into the campus newspaper office with ash on his forehead, I licked my thumb, affected my best Jewish grandmother impression, and said, “Oy, ye’ve got a little schmutz there, lemme wipe that off for ya…”
Anyway, here’s today’s Cheese of the Day …
I’m gonna make all of you who are fasting really jealous…
I just had a donut! A chocolate frosted one no less! And it was GOOOOOOOD.
<evil laugh> TIME for lunch here!
chicken noodle soup and a brownie (it’s balanced-right on my plate!)
Keep the cheesey cheese bits coming. They’re pretty edam goude when I’m so bleu…
I did the 30 hour famine four times during highschool. Only water and fruit juice, and our youth leaders always made us go out and do food bank or soup kitchen work. It was bad and evil of them.
I have three batches of bread dough, one of what I hope will be foccaccia, and cinnamon bun dough rising. At five or six cups of flour each. That’s about four and a half pounds of flour.
Tonight I make danish pastry dough. It needs to chill overnight. I also have to make Stealth Onions (onions caramelized and then ground up in the food processor so Mr. Lissar doesn’t mind them), hummus, and maybe grill a lot of veggies if I’ve got time and energy.
mmmm…gouda…drools
I have ashes (N.O.A.) on my forehead. I forget they’re there until somebody says, what’s that on your forehead and I say something like… umm… eyebrows? and then it dawns on me. I mean, I can’t see 'em!
The fast is supposed to be a sunup til sundown thing. Thing is, I’m not hungry but should be. I had a bottle of water bout half an hour ago. Maybe it was extra heavy water.
Heavy water will make you glow in the dark. Careful with that.
Pfft. D[sub]2[/sub]O is for wimps. Real men use tritium. :dubious:
Isn’t that more correctly N.O.A[sup]2[/sup].?
I’ve been on hold so long, I forgot what I was calling about.
That looks like a chemical.
Speaking of Ashes, it’s been a long time since we’ve seen her or Kallessa here. Hope they’re doing okay.