Lent, Day 34

Saturday evening. I'm glad I decided to take this challenge of giving something up for Lent, actually, it was to improve myself. I was rather naive when I started this. We've all heard of giving up something for Lent. I always thought it was rather strange. For the last 34 days, plus the 5 Sundays, so 39 days, I've thought about bedtime. I've also thought about why Lent is observed. At first I had this rather grandiose plan, I'd read about the last days of Christ in the New Testament, I'd get to bed at 11:30, no sweat, & I'd declutter the end of the bed, the easier to get in bed, huh!

I found this on a friend's blog:

An accurate depiction of Christ’s suffering contains objectionable material: Intense, Graphic Violence, Blood and Gore, plus Nudity. Not my style at all.

Nor is it my style. When I saw the movie, The Passion of the Christ, I wanted to see it in the theater, but couldn't find it in the valley. We rented it & Don & I watched it at home. I'm glad I got to see it at home. I asked several people if they had seen it. The response I got was that it was rated R. Well, duh, why wouldn't it be rated R? I had never seen such intense, graphic violence, my mind couldn't even wrap itself around it. It made a profound impression on me. Until that point in time, I couldn't even fathom the intensity of the violence.

I got to hear a little bit of LDS General Conference today. I wish I'd heard more, but I was running errands. And truth to tell, I'd forgotten it was conference.

Let's see bedtime was midnight, wake up time, Don said it was 10. I'd been awake for a little while trying to order in my mind what I needed to do today. Nick is out of topamax. I tried to get it the other day & was told to wait until the 10th. He ran out last night. I was hoping it was close enough to get some. Medicaid is playing god again. I so do not want to go to the bishop again for help. That is extremely hard for me to do. The good news is topamax is finally generic!!! Woo hoo! I just hope the generic helps as much as brand name. I know prozac helped until it went generic, then it was just like giving me a placebo.

The pharmacist asked me if the topamax was for seizures. No. Migraines? No, it's for his bipolar. Bipolar? He didn't know it was indicated for bipolar. Sigh. I got 4 pills for the weekend. Monday is a work day, but I guess I'll have to run an errand in the morning to see if I can get this worked through.

Speaking of seizures, a young man I worked with at the Deseret Industries died this week. He was 33. He had a seizure & fell & hit his head real hard. Bob, assistant editor, said it was a brain aneurysm. Whatever, it has haunted me.

Kim Kent & her daughter Shari Hokanson, left Endfield, Conn., this morning & are spending the night in Niagra, N.Y. They were in Schnectady this morning & the wind was blowing so hard the large lightpoles that have 4 lights on them were swaying in the wind.

Nick & Eddie went to see the movie, Fast & Furious, this afternoon. It is an auto-racing film. Don-Mike's been wanting to see it, so he took his dad with him to see it this evening.

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General Conference is also broadcast live on TV in the Salt Lake television market, which Preston is part of. We get Utah TV stations, but not Idaho.