The Calm Before the......Calm. Day 0

I am Kate, and I will not talk all through Lent this year. There are 3 exceptions to this:

1. Work. I will talk for business-related issues
2. Debit-or-Credit, paper-or-plastic, butter-on-your-popcorn questions in public.
3. Emergencies. I will be checking my phone from time to time in case they come up.

I've got a full 15 mins before I go silent, but I already feel committed, so here I go....we'll just give me an extra 15 minutes on Easter Saturday to start talking I guess. Oh man, 1 min in and I'm already thinking about getting out. Bad sign, bad sign.

Prepping for a silence has been a massive undertaking---things you wouldn't necessarily think of have needed preparing:

1. Boyfriend: Little sensitive about losing girlfriend for 6 weeks.
2. Friends: It's hard losing a Kate! It is!!
3. Cell Phone: Now has a special voicemail message ("I will be out of phone contact until April 8. For urgent issues please leave a message and I will do my best to return it asap.")
4. Email: I've bucketed the "usual suspect" joke/shenannigans emailers [oh, you know who you are]. Their emails now automatically drop into a folder tragically titled "Not Til Easter, Lady." It's going to be tough to keep my mitts off of.
5. Cat: I have worked on talking less around my cat. Hey, sometimes the cat gets talked to in the course of a day! But I've gotta avoid that from here on in.

I've had to say my goodbyes to friends and family, and plan for emergencies. I live alone, so if anything were to happen to me, no one would know, because the people who I usually talk to on a daily basis won't be hearing from me anymore. Yikes.

Anyway, I think I'll close out with some predictions for the silence. We'll see just how close I am in 45 days. In fact, I think everyone should make predictions! Let's all gamble on the lunacy of this project.

Predictions!

• I will begin talking to my cat. A lot.
• I will take up singing to myself in the shower, car....pretty much everywhere.
• I'm gonna get big into playing music when I'm putzing around the apartment.
• There's going to be some gaining of weight. Bigtime.
• I could see a good cry in my future. At some point.
• I don't know what it is yet, but you better believe a new, even more old-ladyish craft is getting added to my repitoire.
• All of my secret goals to become more organized and tidy and pulled together are going to bottom out, and I'm really just going to spend 45 days watching adultswim and Food Network and eating peanuts in the shell.

Listening to:






Comeback Girl, Republic of Loose