GlennM's Journal, 10 November 2014

Be careful with green vegetables like broccoli, they can make you bloated and gasy if you eat themon a rregular basis  

Hi, Glenn - congrats on the condo! Long time no see, I am just popping in on my way to FB! 

Hi abbadabba - Yes, good to hear from you... I am living in Westfield, Massachusetts now. The condo may/may not go through next week. I am doing OK. Today was Thanksgiving - I went to a local Knights of Columbus dinner, by chance sat with a woman... who is sisters with a woman I knew well in my last town. Small world. Anyway, I am thinking of moving to Panama (the country) next year if the condo does not go through. I am really fed up with winters. I can go as I have a pension. I would be able to lead a very good life there - I have enough money to live overseas with a much better standard of living too. I want to stay, but I have been waiting almost seven months for this property... and if it is not meant to be I will move. I will take my pets. I am nearly fluent in Spanish, I would be completely fluent in six months I was told as I speak it well enough now. Dieting going OK, I hope to get to the gym more often soon. I have been swimming. I am done with Facebook. A whole lot of nothing but arguing - and I am sick of it.  

Sounds like a great plan! 

Thanks Springskinny. I will go to Panama next year to visit and figure out what I am going to do. If I like it there I will move. I lived overseas (stationed in the Philippines) and after a month back in the States - I'd wish I had stayed longer. And so I know what it is like to live overseas... dieting going OK. I am easing into low carb. It was easier in the past.  

I will stay here if I get the condo, but that is not guaranteed. I am trying to become a published author but that is next to impossible I have found, as I am not a celebrity and I don't know anyone in NYC. Maybe I will have luck getting published in Spanish if someone translates it for me - in a foreign country. My Spanish is good, if I am speaking it constantly it will be very good. Plus in tropical places everyone sweats all the time so most people are much thinner in year-round hot places as a lot more calories are burned walking around in the heat all the time as opposed to cold weather times of the year.