GlennM's Journal, 27 December 2008

Hi Glenn - have you considered getting a dog? I realize the ultimate goal is to meet a lady but a dog is a great companion. They offer unconditional love. Plus, taking a dog to the dog park or just walking it is a great way to meet new people. Consider a really social dog...like a lab or a golden. They love everyone and will be very friendly with all those new people you meet at the park.  

Good idea. We can only have little dogs where I live. If things don't change by March I'll get one. Everyone complains we have too many already. I just need one that's not a barker. Terriers are usually pretty good small dogs that don't bark - except jack russells. Cairn terriers seem OK. My apartment isn't too big. I'd have to be able to leave the dog alone without it barking. Many neighbors' dogs bark and they take these animals everywhere they go and I have no vehicle. Thanks for the thought! :) P.S. However by spring I'll have a bicycle, be in a gym, and able to get to places easier like church and to shopping and go to the parks and bike paths and libraries so a dog might weigh me down. It's your thought that counts though. I need to get out as much as possible and once the weather gets better and I hopefully will soon start allergy shots so I'll get out to go also to the writing and hiking group etc. I wrote to a priest I admire last night about getting prayer for a girlfriend/spouse. I think waiting fourteen years is being patient enough. I wrote I was getting ready to go down a wrong path. I may go on a dating site eventually. I'm not a monk, I'm tired of living like one. The Protestant prayer line had some good ideas but some weren't. Anyway, diet going well, had small bag of pretzels yesterday, but otherwise it wasn't too many carbs. I will do that 90 day challenge not to cheat. And will count the days down one by one!!! :) glenn 

I don't think you have to worry about venting here!! We all take it in stride!! All of us share quite a bit here - and, although I know this is supposed to be a dieting site...I think we have gotten a lot more out of it than that!!  

Thanks Paige, I'm going to journal my problems on a computer page that I'll open up to save for therapy - someone suggested it. Anyway, my neighbor Islyn commented how thin I was last night while I went down the hall to empty trash, I told her I've been dieting. I was wearing jeans and a short sleeved shirt. She's known me a long time, when I was really heavy. She asked how I did it, I told her dieting. So I realize even though I want to lose maybe ten or fifteen more pounds that I'm OK where I am even now weight-wise because I'm so tall I'm already thin. I'm not overweight for my height anymore. I can lose some more weight but don't need to get stressed out about it. I think if I can just do that 90 day no cheat challenge I'll get down to the 180s for weight. :) 

keeping a personal journal is a great idea. I do it - not as often as I would like. But I write in my journal about once every 8 or 9 days. It is great therapy in itself - I often go back and read what I wrote and have new ideas on how to deal with things. I do that here, too!! Its a great idea to share those things with a therapist.  

I will journal off of here, too. Anyway, almost done COMPLETELY with book# 1. I just made a specific punctuation error in the book so I'm reviewing the whole thing. It might take a week. Also I strangely got attached to the characters as if they were real, so all three books I've written all have been emotional books in that way for me - I think I may have the destiny to be successful as I feel myself tapping into something not present in many books... anyway who knows? Time will tell I suppose... :)