Hey peeps, it’s time for my monthly update. This past month has seen a lot of things going on in the world that have boggled my mind. So much, in fact, that I’ve had to sort of close up how much interaction I have with the news, and information overload. So this update’s going to focus on my personal life.
We’ve got snow, for one thing. And we’re looking at more snow this weekend. We also have subfreezing temperatures at night so there’s ice on some of the roads and it’s nice and chilly. I’m just grateful we have power — knock wood. I wish this had come when we still had the Yule lights up on the house and on the trees outside, though. I love lights shining against the snow.
I’ve been meeting my goals this month on my writing, and on personal objectives. I made it a personal challenge to write every day this year, at least a few hundred words. That is, unless I am editing, which takes a tremendous amount of energy and focus. But every day this year I will be doing something with my writing, even if it’s just a little. And I’m finding this helps me focus on staying in my lane, rather than getting dragged into drama from all over the writing world, the political world, and in friends’ lives.
As far as my personal life, I’m on a new journey. And I think I’m going to start blogging about it. I was going to do YouTube videos about it but I’m still unsure whether I want to do that. Three weeks ago, I started Mounjaro. And unlike the Ozempic I tried a year ago, I’m having much better results with it.
It’s definitely helping my blood sugar–quickly, in fact–and I’m getting some unexpected positive side effects out of the drug. Since I’m doing it primarily for diabetes — as you know I’m a type 2 diabetic, which my doctor thinks was probably brought on by the MCAS, I want to make that my focus: my diabetes and my health in general.
Yes, I am hoping to lose some weight on it. I’ll be extremely honest about that. I need to lose some weight to ease up on my joints, to have better mobility, and just for personal reasons. I did lose a lot some years ago, and I kept off about 2/3 of it. Now, if I could lose it through low-carb again, like I did before, I’d be happier. But without being able to eat some of the low carb foods I could be for, that’s a lot more restrictive.
Anyway, yes, most of the blogs and videos that I find about the GLP-1 and 2 class drugs focus only on the weight loss, so I want to address the reason why they were made in the first place: to help Type 2 diabetics. (Note: as long as they take the versions specifically for weight loss, I don’t care if others use the GLPs for weight loss. It’s not a good/bad thing…I just want diabetics to be able to get the drugs they/I need). So, I’ll be putting out my first blog about it soon. I will mirror it on my Patreon, too.
In other news, our little girl Brighid ended up being confined to the large dog crate that we have. She got locked up for a week because she sprained her back foot and needed a rest. And boy did we pamper her.
My assistant Andrea made a joke which seemed all too apt — to the other cats it looked like a retirement villa, to Brighid it was a prison. But she’s out now, and while I can still tell she’s got a little bit of limp, she seems to be doing quite well.
I’m thoroughly enjoying writing Haunted Eclipse and you’re going to see a couple cameos in it (YAY! WOOHOO!), but I’ll leave that to you to find out from which other world that they peek out from. As I go further into the paranormal women’s fiction, there are going to be more and more crossovers between the four series that I have placed within the world. (Moonshadow Bay, Married At First Bite, Magic Happens, and Whisper Hollow).
Anyway, that’s it for now. I hope you’re doing well. What’s new in your world?