Unemployed, Writing, Losing Weight

Well, I'm still hard at work juggling a number of projects at the moment, and trying to find a new "day job." I've had a bit of car trouble the past couple of days, but I have hopefully sorted it all out. There's still a looming larger problem with my truck that may also be worked out fairly soon, which, once corrected, will broaden my options for "day jobs."

I've mostly been hard at work on further research and an extensive outline for what I expect to be my next novel. I have been neglecting finishing that Nod story I've been working on, but not in my mind. It is still very much happening in my mind, and I will get it finished as soon as I can. It's really been a matter of not being able to sit down without anything pressing looming over me on any given day. I need to be able to lose myself in a manuscript, and I don't have to do that so much when outlining or researching. Hopefully the end of this week will be more conducive to manuscript writing, and I'll finish up the new Nod story. :) Then it's on to that ghost story, then focusing fully on the new novel.

I managed to gain an impressive amount of weight during my eight years of youth ministry. I hadn't hit clinical obesity yet, but I had definitely attained "overweight" status. I've been on a diet and lost six-and-a-half pounds in the first fifteen days. I did this diet once before, and it was really quite good. It's called The Body Type Diet, and I truly recommend it, because it's not a one size fits all diet, it's absolutely not a starvation diet, and it includes a maintenance diet for keeping the weight off for your particular body type. For the first time in my life, I'm quite pleased to be not half octopus, for it is by that one particular stroke of pure luck that I was able to identify myself by the illustrations in the book as a thyroid type and proceed with Dr. Abravanel's sound recommendations.

All things considered, life is good. :)