Personal Digest Saturday: October 19 – October 25

Life news this week:

• Saturday I stressed over my messed-up house with all the bedroom furniture in the living room. Ended up procrastinating all morning. Finally started cleaning the kitchen. Then Yasmin came over to give me political signs for my yard and grilled cheese from Culver's, and I gave them all their stuff that they accidentally left at my house. They helped me move my furniture back in the bedroom! OMG they're awesome. I finished cleaning the kitchen after they left and tried to get most of the stuff back into the bedroom but I got tired. Got my blogging done as well. Pretty productive day.
  
  
• Sunday I got up and dove right into cleaning more. I put the rest of the guestroom back together and went on to clean the living room. It's a huge room full of nine bookcases so it takes a long time to dust and I was doing it thoroughly. While I was several hours into that, my internet finally came back after being knocked out by Milton last week! Wow. No internet for a week and a half. I vacuumed after all the dusting, then did my trash and laundry chores, and finally I worked on my Halloween costume which ended up looking GREAT!
  
  
• Monday I went back to work. Edited a letter and sent it in the morning. Worked on some spreadsheets and stamped some documents. Then I did some cleaning in my bedroom and rearranged a bit with my new night table Jeaux gave me. Also cleaned the guest bathroom. I started cleaning the office room while trying to edit my new Not-So-Giant Women video, but I got tired and fell asleep early.
  
  
• Tuesday I continued cleaning my office while listening to a presentation on how to use QuickBooks. (For work.) I also entered some data for timesheets. I installed my new keyboard and reorganized some Steven Universe merch items that had gotten too crowded up, so now I have hooks on the wall to hang my SU bags and I put my keychains up to hang on the wire shelves. Drew some of my comic early because I anticipated being in crunch time at the end of the week to prepare for the Halloween party. The office looks super good. Did some dishes, sent a Polo to Steve, and worked on the Not-So-Giant Women video more. Fell asleep early again.
  
  
• Wednesday I went to a debriefing meeting and did some more project research. I cleaned my little bathroom and waxed some floors. I spruced up the house of the odds and ends I'd missed, worked on my comic, called my lawyer, and talked to the lawn guy Tony. Jeaux came over and we ate at SoFresh. I got my party shopping done. We watched some Colbert videos and took a walk and then he left kinda on the early side for us.
  
  
• Thursday I had a meeting and did some follow-ups and research at work. I processed my webcomic, finished my Not-So-Giant Women edit, updated some labels for my Halloween treats, and talked to the bug guy. After work I made molasses-ginger animal cookies (a full recipe, which ended up being like six cookie sheets' worth), two pumpkin pies, and a cream cheese pumpkin roll. I went to game night with my friends and then cleaned up the kitchen while talking to Jeaux on the phone.
  
  
• Friday involved reports at work and updating some records. I got done kind of early and made some candy corn fudge and vegan pumpkin brownies. I decided to bake muffins too (sometimes I do that the morning of the party, but I had time), so I made mini banana muffins and pumpkin muffins. Did a pretty epic cleanup of the kitchen after that since I'd baked so much, vacuumed, and answered some messages. Also took a little break to read comics. :)

Interviews, Articles, Mentions:

• I was mentioned as a trailblazer in a visibility post on the LGBTQ SAVES page on Facebook and the matching Instagram page.
• A Spanish page called Homosensual has a post that includes me discussing asexual celebrities and calling me "one of the darlings of the asexual communities."

New Reviews:

• Rebecca gave The Invisible Orientation a five-star review on Goodreads.
  

Health Plan Update:

• Weight stuff: I got a new low this week, but the high didn't move. And it truly seemed like I got lower numbers when I was eating more. Weird. I recorded a high of 114.5 and a low of 112.8.
  
• Nutrition stuff: I have been continuing to get three servings of fruits/veggies nearly every day, but again have not been watching the balance much. I'm eating a lot of fruit. I am still regularly taking vitamins.
  
• Activity stuff: I met my walking goal every day this week. My low day was Saturday at 10,255 steps, and my high day was Sunday at 14,535 steps.

Books Read: 

• Finished Reading: Nothing this week.
  
  
• Currently Reading: This Night Is Ours by Ronni Davis. I'm on page 112.
  

New singing performances:

This week's karaoke song is "That Particular Time" by Alanis Morissette.

Stuff drawn:

My weekly fantasy webcomic, Negative One:

 

#1015: weaver #159: by chance.

Videos Made: 

Not-So-Giant Women Episode 67: Friend Ship is out. Join Daria and Ivy as they watch and talk about "Friend Ship" and cover such topics as the Steven's-perspective-only rule, the original purpose for many of the lethal features we saw on the spaceship, where Pearls might be in the Gem social structure, the eventual resolution between Pearl and Garnet, Amethyst's maturity, what Peridot meant when she said the Earth has an expiration date, Steven's increased confidence in his shield abilities, Peridot calling Steven "a Steven," philosophy on the Gems' weapons and body language, Pearl's poor self esteem and Garnet's confidence, what Peridot is really up to, and Sardonyx's return.

New photos:

Pine Warbler!

Social media counts:

YouTube subscribers: 5,461 for swankivy (4 new), 680 for JulieSondra (2 new), 16 for v & V Vids (no change), 199 for Not-So-Giant Women (1 new), 65 for Tides of Time Band (no change). Twitter followers: 829 for swankivy (lost 2), 3,876 for JulieSondra (lost 10). Facebook: 295 friends for swankivy (no change), 640 likes for JulieSondra (no change), 81 followers for Negative One (no change), 253 followers for So You Write (no change), 98 followers for Not-So-Giant-Women (no change). Tumblr followers: 2,429 (lost 1). Instagram followers: 277 (no change). Threads followers: 74 (no change).