Personal Digest Saturday: October 11 – October 17

Life news this week:

• Saturday my ear behaved all day, which was nice. I listened to some music and relaxed for a long time, then got my blogging done and got around to sending Polos to my friend Ben. Then I cleaned old photos off my phone to make space and read old comic pages. I submitted a short story and edited my book.
  
  
• Sunday my ear was okay when I woke up but then it got bad again ALL day so I decided to make a doctor's appointment. Listened to music and did some laundry and took out trash. Had a chat with someone doing a project that I auditioned for. Did some more voice-over auditions. Worked on my photo page and got 2009 done. Recorded a karaoke song.
  
  
• Monday I called the doctor and managed to get a same-day appointment in. I did some filing and teaming invitations at work, and then in the afternoon I saw the doctor (and asked her about my foot too). She gave me a prescription for what she thinks is wrong with my ear and referred me for an X-ray for my foot. But no slots were open so I had to make an appointment for the next day. I got my prescription from the store and listened to some music. Recorded a song cover. Recorded a reprise audition and a callback audition for voice-over stuff. Worked on my book and my photos page.
  
  
• Tuesday I got up super early to get to my X-ray appointment. They knocked it out quickly and I went home and went to work. Later the same day they said everything is normal for my foot and they're going to refer me to physical therapy. I also started my medicine for my ear. No real difference. I outlined a proposal at work and did some dishes, listened to a Polo, worked on my photo page for 2008, and did some aerobics. Then I went out to talk to Tony. While we were chilling out there a little girl who lives next door who is mentally and physically disabled came wandering out of the house and kept coming up to us, then wandering back in the house--didn't seem like any adults were there and the door was left open for this poor kid to wander into the street over and over again, so I called the non-emergency number and had a welfare check done. Hope everything was okay. I finished my photo page for 2007 and edited my book, then updated my website with some new favorite music and movies.
  
  
• Wednesday my ear was doing better. I went to work and did project research. I cleaned up around the house, went to a meeting, and did some follow-ups for communications. Jeaux came over and we ate at Little Greek, then did our grocery shopping (a big one for me since I'm getting party supplies). My foot was really acting up. Hard to make it through the trip. Argh. At home we watched Pitch Perfect 2 because Jeaux wanted to show it to me. Then after he left I watched some reactions and relaxed.
  
  
• Thursday I worked on project research all day. Ear was still mostly behaving and foot was not as bad. I did some aerobics and wrote my webcomic, then went to Game Night. Send some photos to my sister for a project her son is doing. Submitted a query. Dealt with some random drama online.
  
  
• Friday I didn't sleep well. Got up and fixed up some packages for stuff I'm selling online. Fixed my messed up OKCupid account. (They flagged me for "attempting business activities" and wouldn't tell me what they thought was business activities. I promise I have never ever tried to sell anything on OKCupid, but maybe it's misinterpreting links that used to be allowed as if they're commercial material. I recreated it with no links.) At work I did some reports and timesheets and sent reminders to people. Then I worked on my comic, got my steps talking to Steve, and submitted a short story to a place I feel good about.

Health Plan Update:

• Weight stuff: I have no data this week. :)
  
  
• Nutrition stuff: This time only 2 out of 7 days were low protein (one, of course, was my restaurant day). I paid attention to it this time trying to get closer to the goals. Still managing to get the three servings of fruits and veggies and still taking the vitamins!
  
  
• Activity stuff: I'm continuing to do aerobics every other day. I made my 10,000-step walking goal every day this week. My low day was Thursday at 10,077 steps, and my high day was Wednesday at 13,075 steps.

Books Read: 

• Finished Reading: Nothing this week.
  
  
• Currently Reading: Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige. I'm on page 416.

New singing performances:

This week's karaoke song is "One Way or Another" by Blondie. 

Stuff drawn:

 

My weekly fantasy webcomic, Negative One: #1066: ivy #340: something in return.

Videos Made: 

None.

New photos:

None.

Social media counts:

YouTube subscribers: 5,445 for swankivy (lost 4), 680 for JulieSondra (lost 1), 16 for v & V Vids (no change), 215 for Not-So-Giant Women (no change), 66 for Tides of Time Band (no change). Twitter followers: 766 for swankivy (1 new), 3,461 for JulieSondra (lost 2). Facebook: 290 friends for swankivy (lost 1, don't know who), 626 likes for JulieSondra (lost 1), 80 followers for Negative One (no change), 247 followers for So You Write (no change), 103 followers for Not-So-Giant-Women (2 new). Tumblr followers: 2,414 (lost 1). Instagram followers: 285 (no change). Threads followers: 81 (no change). Bluesky Social. Bluesky followers: 402 (4 new).