First Entry

This is my very first entry in my very first blog, so I hope anyone reading will give me a break on the my lack of savvy. My grand plan is to spew all the nonsense flowing in and out my head on a regular basis (we shall see how well that goes). I am in day one zillion (at least that's how it feels) of a fruitless job search. I spend a good portion of my time trying to adjust and readjust my blood sugar (I am a diabetic and take insulin) and the rest of it messing that up. I have struggled with loneliness and sitting home with a scheduled programming of regular junk on TV. A little over a month ago, I started volunteering at a nursing home, got a library card and began reading again, and starting really trying to lose some excess weight. I decided to enrich my life on my own, and some of it is helping. There's nothing like having a yoda-like 90-something, half-blind, deaf, one-legged black woman tell you how much she likes to talk to you to make you feel like you're in a different world. I am dragging my way through three recommended book lists, and I so far have lost just about twenty pounds. I am currently stuck on a weight loss plateau, as they say. That's my beginning.