Personal Digest Saturday: September 20 – September 26

Life news this week:

• Saturday my foot was still bothering me but I did my dance game anyway (didn't make it worse). Worked on my blog. Watched the new Knights of Guinevere pilot and thought it was pretty good. Did some reading and editing, and read some older issues of my comic.
  
  
• Sunday my hand suddenly started bothering me out of nowhere so I had to deal with that all day and couldn't do most stuff that required two hands. Still managed to record a karaoke song, do laundry, and take out the trash. I did some digital errands regarding a credit card and started working on the photo project's digital half. I got everything done back to the year 2012, which is pretty significant progress.
  
  
• Monday I went to a meeting, sent some teaming coordination e-mails, edited a letter, and updated some data. Managed to get in a quick nap. Practiced some band music. Tried to do DDR even though both my foot and my hand were hurting. (It hurt to move my hand even though it wasn't doing anything.) Made a cool dish with fake meatballs I was trying for the first time. (Had trouble getting the sauce jar open because my hand is messed up.) Still managed to do the dishes somehow. Tried to do more work on the photos page but I was really distracted by not being able to use my hand right, and then my ear started making a noise for no reason like there was thunder in it.
  
  
• Tuesday the weird noise in my ear woke me up, so I went to work early and started work on a proposal. Also went to a debrief meeting and caught a lizard trying to go in my dishwasher. My hand was still bothering me for the beginning of the day but it randomly just stopped hurting halfway through the day, though it stayed kind of tender, but nothing like the past couple days. The ear issue persisted. VERY annoying. I put in an earplug to try to distract me from the noise (which works but doesn't fix it). Redecorated the house for the next season. Looks very Fall in here! Listened to/watched a new episode of The Best Show because the guest was Rebecca Sugar. I wrote up some details about the appearance and put them on my blog. My typing was almost back to normal since my hand started behaving. Finished editing a chapter of my book.
  
  
• Wednesday the ear issue persisted, waking me up again. I discovered a couple more temporary ways to get it to stop making the noise but they're not very sustainable (like weird jaw positions or actively chewing something). Worked a lot and stayed busy all day--entering data for timesheets and working on a proposal. Did my DDR game (no problems with my hand, but I still couldn't lift the board--my hand is still a little weak). Didn't meet up with Jeaux because we had a special event the next day. I worked on the next book chapter and practiced music, and sent in some voice-over auditions.
  
  
• Thursday I STILL had the ear issue. Meghan suggested taking Claritin. I did but there was no difference. I did some proposal stuff and some data entry. Wrote a comic script and got my stuff ready to go to the Weird Al concert. By the time Jeaux picked me up for grocery shopping, the problem with my ear had lessened to the point that I wasn't sure if it was happening anymore. After we got back, we left again to go to Clearwater. We went to a restaurant called Clear Sky and met up with Meghan and Adam, who already had a table outside. I had pretended to Jeaux that I didn't know they were coming, and pretended to just randomly notice them. We didn't tell him we had planned it until after we were all together. ;) We had some really good food (I got a Beyond Burger!) and then we went to the Weird Al concert. The show was great, though it was really hot outside and this was an outdoor venue. This was the first time I'd seen Al in 25 years! And it was fantastic. Afterwards, we went our separate ways and Jeaux and I got drinks at the Wawa before going back to my place and hanging out a bit. Good night, and my ear was behaving so I didn't need to sleep with an earplug in.
  
  
• Friday I woke up and my ear was doing the thing again, but it's much less severe and sometimes it goes away for a while, so I guess it's getting better. (The kind of issue I'm having seems to be one of those things where it's likely doctors will just say "huh. well that sucks. but we can't help you." Meghan thinks me having so many random issues not caused by injury within days of each other has to be an inflammation response. We don't know to what.) I went to work and did my usual reports, some project research, and another proposal outline. Finished my drawings for the comic, played DDR, and processed the comic. Then I just worked on music for the evening. And I got an offer to publish one of my short stories.

Health Plan Update:

• Weight stuff: I have no data this week. :)
  
  
• Nutrition stuff: 4 out of 7 days were low protein again. I am gonna need to focus on this to get the balance better more consistently. It looks like it might be because the protein sources I'm choosing these days are also higher-fat sources? I will think about it. Still taking the vitamins!
  
  
• Activity stuff: I'm continuing to do aerobics or play my dance game every other day. I made my 10,000-step walking goal every day this week. My low day was Tuesday at 10,095 steps, and my high day was Thursday at 17,234 steps.

Books Read: 

• Finished Reading: Nothing this week.
  
  
• Currently Reading: Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige. I'm on page 262.

New singing performances:

This week's karaoke song is "Santa Monica" by Everclear. 

Stuff drawn:

 

My weekly fantasy webcomic, Negative One: #1063: ivy #337: no judgment.

Videos Made: 

None.

New photos:

Just a bunch of photos from the Weird Al concert and our hangout with Meg & Adam beforehand!

Social media counts:

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