GlennM's Journal, 05 January 2011

Hi Glenn and am glad to see you are holding your own with your calorie intake. You are so right about the employment... I have a job but do I? My employer of 14 years is behind in payments to me for 8 weeks..(sigh)..I am living on a wing and a prayer...Hopefully the job situation will improve soon or I'll be singing for my supper and we don't want that lol. TOWANDA!!!!  

Yes Lisa - CNN newspage said something like - the other day - do you believe the global economic recovery will gain pace. Hello? There is NO recovery in this country, many states are going to have to cut jobs and/or pensions to make ends meet. There are hardly any jobs outside the medical and service sector, or education. Our country can't run its total economy on taking care of old people and spending money on the military, it won't work. Thankfully, our country is blessed in that it can feed itself with America's Breadbasket located here, and a large number of farms still. The bad thing is wealthy people once created jobs, now most invest in a market where the dollar is/will lose its value if things keep going the way they are. Of everyone I know working, many have lost their jobs or had job benefits like health care cut dramatically, or they're in danger of losing their jobs in the year ahead. I believe (and I'm an optimist) that there will be more tough times ahead as the U.S. government tries to get a hold on the debt... Lisa, I hope you get paid before you get your pink slip, my younger sister got laid off again on Monday. All of my cousins on both sides have shaky jobs - or they don't work, my twin sister is probably the most secure out of all her siblings and cousins as a daycare provider. Be well everyone! I ate some sweets at a gathering tonight and won't do it next time as it was probably easily 1000 extra calories I didn't need! :) 

I am fortunant right now to have a working husband but my income was always for basic bills and extra's...Yep, it is a different world now. Those darn sweets are so hard to resist, I know that for sure as my daily intake was mainly that lol. Talk with you later Glen, Towanda!!!!  

I went to a gathering and had oatmeal/cranberry cookies and pineapple upside down cake - that thankfully didn't have the sweet thick pineapple on the bottom, but I had two pieces. It's time to have warm weather so I can go for a walk. I went to bed at 10 p.m and woke up at 12:30 a.m. like I slept all night and did great getting lots of the book edited. Things are going well on that front. I hope I'm not up all night, the weekends I work nights and it just throws everything off being on psych meds! I need a wife with a decent income to get out of poverty, but I can't even drive so it's unlikely I'll have a girlfriend until I get published...