GlennM's Journal, 31 August 2012

I hope the surgery helps, Glenn. You've sure been through a lot with your back.  

Nice to see you are giving the writing another try. 

Hi, time flies. It is hard to believe it has been twelve days since I have been on here. I am walking as much as possible. Today a break from that, a lot of nausea probably from medicine I am on. I am going gluten free in the next few months. I am eating the rest of my food that has gluten in it - no sense in throwing it out. And so it will be basically a natural diet. A lot of people who have arthritis are gluten intolerant and so in a few months I will be doing a gluten-free diet. There won't be much eating out at that point, but I don't do a lot of it now anyway. The books are going well and in October I will be sending out two of them in their final draft form. A third book is done, I am just doing one more edit before I send it out too. Three other books are well on their way and it is my hope to have the better part of two more done by the end of next year so you can all see I am busy... one book is over 700 pages long, the second over 300 and the third over 630 pages, so you can see that I have a lot of work done. The weight scale is inching down ever so slowly, and it's in the right direction and that is the important thing and I am aiming to be below 210 by spring. I am tall so I am not too heavy for my weight but I do need to lose this weight, it is not good for one to be overweight in the least the only thing it leads to is chronic health problems.  

Buffy - I have been writing daily for a long time, years probably. I have been very busy. Tonight I did not get much of a walk in; it is getting dark too early now and the mosquitoes can be a problem so I came in early. My best friend has a new girlfriend by the looks of things, so you know what that means - I won't hear or see much of him. The weather here of course is getting cooler, but it has been a very nice September. I am trying to walk as much as possible to lose weight and I have been going down ever so slowly, probably a half pound a week, so by spring it is likely to be 15 or 20 pounds off if I get enough walking in and watch the calories. Carbs can be a problem with me, and gluten-free dieting does not help ease my arthritis pain. I will try to get back on here daily, and journal on buddies' journals in the weeks coming up. I will be submitting three books to literary agents in October - they are in final draft form and 320, 640 and 700 pages - for each one.