Personal Digest Saturday: January 18 – January 24

Life news this week:

• Saturday Meg and I had breakfast and coffee before going out to get our nails done. I was happy with mine--I picked a pretty blue color with sparkles. Afterwards we ate at Ahi, stopped at Michael's, and went home. Meg stayed a short while and then went off to Adam's, leaving me with the rest of my weekend to do whatever. I took a nap, updated my blog, messed around on Tumblr, chatted with Jeaux, and wrote some of my novel.
  
  
• Sunday I slept late, got laundry started, and vegged a while before exercising and working on the photo project. I paid all my bills and recorded an audition. Sent a Polo to Steve, took some weird naps, and practiced my ukulele.
  
  
• Monday I did have to work since I don't get MLK Day off. Nothing happened. I read through some new projects at work. Later, I worked on my novel, practiced ukulele, and ate cake. I prepared some interview questions and talked to Steve and Patricia on Polo.
  
  
• Tuesday I worked on a letter at work and found out we got shortlisted on another one. Attended a virtual interview for a new opportunity. Played DDR, sent a Polo to Meg, sent out some queries, and worked on my novel.
  
  
• Wednesday I got up a little late because I stayed up late the night before working on writing. Worked on tasks for our shortlisted project and some upcoming projects. Sent a Polo to Steve. Jeaux came and we ate at Moe's, did our grocery shopping, took a walk, and had ice cream together. After he left I practiced ukulele and reformatted my projects calendar.
  
  
• Thursday I did more work on the shortlisted project, including finishing a transcript. Recorded a karaoke song, wrote my webcomic, exercised, sent a Polo to Steve, submitted some short stories, and went to Game Night with my friends. Drew a little bit of my comic. After games, I watched a Polo from my sister and did a little playing and reading.
  
  
• Friday I had internet troubles at work and then COINCIDENTALLY later started having internet troubles at home! Service was still out when I went to bed and it made getting my work done annoying. I did my timesheets and reports at work, completed my comic, took a walk and sent Polos to Meg, and practiced music while putting laundry away. Edited my short story.

Words Written: 4,418.

Interviews, Articles, Mentions:

• A new themed edition of After Dinner Conversation will be released in May 2025 which will include my short story "Everyone's Gay in Space." This story was previously published by After Dinner Conversation in 2020. Here is the placeholder page for the collection.

Health Plan Update:

• Weight stuff: All week long I just got the high numbers I thought were long gone! I know it's only a couple pounds' difference but it's a little weird. (I did eat out a few more times than usual, but I feel like that shouldn't make that big of a difference, especially since I eat pretty reasonably at restaurants.) I guess I've been feeling a little snacky lately though, so maybe that explains it. I recorded a high of 118.7 and a low of 117.4.
  
• Nutrition stuff: Looks like I need to focus on my protein a little bit more. I had a low-protein day five out of the last seven days. I did mostly get fruits and veggies in (one day I was short) but the balance was a little wack if I'm honest. I am still regularly taking vitamins.
  
• Activity stuff: I'm continuing to play my dance game twice a week and doing an exercise video with weights twice a week (so far). And I met my walking goal every day this week. My low day was Saturday at 10,362 steps, and my high day was Tuesday at 11,697 steps.

Books Read: 

• Finished Reading: Nothing this week.
  
  
• Currently Reading: Dream to Me by Megan Paasch. I'm on page 278.
  

New singing performances:

This week's karaoke song is "Glory of Love" by Peter Cetera.

 

Stuff drawn:

My weekly fantasy webcomic, Negative One:

 

#1028: adele #252: misfired.

Videos Made: 

None. 

New photos:

My first professional manicure

Birdle's fluffy butt is back on my porch

An enormous cardinal on my bird feeder!

Social media counts:

YouTube subscribers: 5,479 for swankivy (no change), 681 for JulieSondra (1 new), 16 for v & V Vids (no change), 210 for Not-So-Giant Women (no change), 66 for Tides of Time Band (no change). Twitter followers: 794 for swankivy (lost 4), 3,583 for JulieSondra (lost 46). Facebook: 299 friends for swankivy (no change), 642 likes for JulieSondra (lost 1), 82 followers for Negative One (no change), 251 followers for So You Write (no change), 100 followers for Not-So-Giant-Women (no change). Tumblr followers: 2,424 (lost 1). Instagram followers: 280 (no change). Threads followers: 77 (no change). Bluesky Social. Bluesky followers: 299 (4 new).