Anyone reading this will notice that I've been posting much more often in the last few days. I'm probably going to continue that. I'm not going to post it on Facebook. Those who want to read will want to read it.

It's not like I haven't been writing blog posts over the last few years, but 95% of them were private notes to myself. My journal, if you will. 

So what I'm doing is posting publicly what I had been posting privately--with a few more filters attached. Business-wise, I can post the same things, but not with specific numbers, but percentages or trends. 

Fair warning: I'll probably repeat myself a lot. Other than going over every post I've done, this would seem unavoidable.  

 

I went to my doctor yesterday. My A1C has been bumping upward for a few years now, and it was finally at a point where she thought I should really deal with it. 

I didn't get a lot of sweets when I was younger; mostly for special occasions. So around the time I hit 60 years old or so, I decided to let myself indulge. I've managed to keep my weight down. I didn't think I was predisposed for diabetes, and why not? Life is short. 

But it's now getting close to edge of needing medication, so I've decided to quit consuming mass quantities of Sour Patches and pastries and bread. Going to test myself in four or five months to see if that has done the job.

The biggest change is that I'm going to ween myself from drinking lemonade constantly, even though it's always been sugar free. Apparently, the body can be fooled into thinking that artificial sweets are the real thing. So water it is. (I've been doing water for a few days since I got the lab results and I'm already bored. But I think I can stick to it.) 

 

Huge numbers of books are showing up at the store. I'm ordering from four or five publishers now, so I have no control when they show up. So sometimes they all show up at the same time. I have to remember, 90% of these books are books I've sold.

It's crazy how many books we're selling. It's pretty much getting to be a full time job just ordering, collating, and stocking the books. Hell, I spend probably a couple hours a week just dealing with the boxes and the packing material.  

But what fun to see the store fully functioning. It's what I always dreamed of...