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WELCOME TO: GEMINI RISING   UPDATED INTRO 28 MAY 2024: Just a little about me. I've been married for 32 years this past NOV and currently live in Southern California, but I grew up in New Hampshire. I've got 2 boys who are young adults. I work as a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. I enjoy my job a lot. Still. If you can believe that. I love to write. Thankfully both of my boys achieved Eagle Scout. My Scouting days are over and I'm back to focusing on my writing. I like to get out in nature, drink coffee and watch football. Here's a little bio about my zodiac. GEMINI: Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless. Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them. They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts. Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers. This is me. I am a Gemini. Pure, Raw, passionate. The NEW focus of this blog is to share my adventures, travels, random thoughts, book reviews, thoughts, opinions, and writing adventures from actual writing, writing/editing tips, marketing, research. I'll get there. BLOG ACCOMPLISHMENTS: SEPTEMBER 2024: I participated in the
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| Well, I have a goal of 2 blog entries a month so I’m really coming down to the wire here. There’s many a topic to discuss, but one that’s come to forefront recently is health. It’s been tough keeping up with my health, especially since I had boy #2 (who is now 18 BTW). I had him when I was 38 and the boy just didn’t bounce back the way it did when I had boy #1 when I was 33. Now I’m 56, have High blood pressure and I’m prediabetic. Time to make some lifestyle changes, but I the lifestyle changes I need to make to be healthy will take time, so I require patience. Patience is a virtue in an instant gratification culture. I need to lose a total of 85 pounds. That will get me down to my pre-pregnancy weight with boy #1. Patience. In December I went back to Weight Watchers with the mantra however long it takes. So far I’m 5 pounds down and I’m coming off a 3 week plateau thankfully. Not much budge in the bloodwork, so far, but I’ll take more bloodwork in August. Hopefully I’ll be down more weight. Challenges: I work at night, sleep during the day and don’t get much opportunity to exercise. I do have 5 pound weights. Need to use them more. I go bowling, but that’s basically all the activity I get. It’s something. I’m 2 years away from retirement, but I could go any time and believe me the thought is tempting. To that end, I think I’ll be sharing the weight loss journey this year. It might be nice to share the journey and see the progress throughout the months. We’ll see where the journey takes me. Starting Weight taken 8 DEC 24: 226.0 Current weight: 24 FEB 25: 220.2 Recent pic of me: OCT 2024 at the USC Football Game  See you next month with another Weight Watcher/lifestyle post. Let the positivity shine! ![Merit Badge in Optimistic
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