How You Lose Your Mind Before Entering A Creative Convent

I have been working hard to get things ready for my admission into a creative convent and here is what I discovered, you tend to binge on the things you will be giving up. I have been glued to my TV, my phone with Facebook and Twitter and eating things that are not good for me. I wondered if nuns do this before making their retreat from the world? I would bet they do since they are marrying God and giving things up for the rest of their lives. Me, I'm only retreating for three weeks and I'm missing things that are available everyday already. I think it's hitting me now that I have a start date and a starting event. I have a whole box of journals in my basement. To kick this off, on July 4th, I will be burning them. This is a strange decision on my part. I've saved them since childhood, but from the second the thought entered my head, I knew it was the right choice. I have a good friend who has the means of burning them safely. I approached her with this idea and she gave me her enthusiastic support for the plan and suggested that we do it as a ritual where I include my intentions for this new phase of my life and conduct the ceremony in relation to a certain phase of the moon. Now, I'm normally not the sort of person that cares about these things, but I figured, what the hell? Then, I looked up when the moon's next waning phase would be, and discovered it hit on Independence Day. That, well, seemed like kismet. Burning day set.

Today is a Sunday. It is a dangerous day. Lots of good television on today. Time for a little practice in the area of absence, of less is more. I am not turing on the television today. One day and we'll see how it goes. If it goes well, then I will enter the convent with some peace. If not, it's going to be an interesting three weeks. Either way, I'm beating that wimpy two week record!