Personal Digest Saturday: February 13 – February 19

Life news this week:

• Saturday I had a repeat recipe for a protein smoothie and talked to Jeaux on the phone while walking, and got the blogging done at a reasonable time. I had a popular tweet--I don't usually get much attention on Twitter so it was neat to see lots of people liking and retweeting something I'd said.
  
  
• Sunday I woke up to news of a health emergency from Victor. He was in the hospital. I don't want to disclose the specific details because that's up to him. I left him a message asking him to let me know when I can call him, and spent the day worrying and bouncing around trying to cope until he messaged me back. He'd already had surgery but he was able to talk to me for over an hour afterwards, so that was great. Ended up taking over 20,000 steps just pacing around the house, lol. My mom came over to eat lemon bars and she brought some berries to share. It was a nice time but I was too worried about Victor to properly enjoy it. I was impressed with her appetite though--she usually hardly eats, but she ate spaghetti with me and still had a lemon bar after! And took some home and ate more! I did manage to get laundry and trash done too.
  
  
• Monday I had to work. (Some people had it as a holiday but I did not.) I worked on a letter for the Department and a proposal for a local city. After work Jeaux took me to the hospital to visit Victor. We brought him a burrito and he enjoyed it. We were only allowed one person so Jeaux couldn't come up, so he waited in the car. (I bought his burrito too for the trouble.) After the visit Jeaux and I played games with Steve, Meghan, Fred, and Kathy. Then Jeaux went home and I tried to chill out. Twitter was still jumping a lot.
  
  
• Tuesday I woke up to find out I'd fallen asleep on the floor by accident, so I went to bed for a little while longer before getting into work. I had to spend most of the day bothering utilities. Dealt with Twitter some more, talked to Patricia on Marco Polo, found out Victor had another operation, and wasn't able to go see him. Spent some time with my recipe book and wrestled with trying to download some videos I didn't have in a collection.
  
  
• Wednesday was a heck of a day with work stuff. Busy with a big letter and lots of other errands. Then after work I did my usual shopping with Jeaux and we hung out and ate an easy meal (fake chicken nuggets, tater tots, breadsticks). We watched some of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts--will probably finish next week.
  
  
• Thursday I dealt with a bunch of work stuff, editing, organizing, updating, coordinating. Mom picked me up to go see Victor. She had cooked him a steak (with onions and mushrooms!) and he was so happy eating it. Lovely to see him but I couldn't stay long--their visiting hours aren't late and Mom can't wait very long sitting in the car. We talked about how Rush Limbaugh had died and some other stuff. Then after I got home I worked on my comic a bit and slept.
  
  
• Friday was a pretty low-key day at work, and I got some good news about my money situation and was happy that a package I sent arrived. And we hired a new guy. After work I finished my comic and took some walks. The day was not too eventful but I was very tired.

Interviews, Articles, Mentions:

• A blogger at Rambles by the Puddleside discussed the Goodreads to-be-read list--and had to decide whether to keep or drop to-read books. My book was kept. :) Well, thanks, person!
  
• The blog at After Dinner Conversation noted that my short story was the Amazon #1 seller in several categories.

New reviews of my book (and story!):

• Steve Sensenig gave "Everyone's Gay in Space a five-star review on Amazon.
  
• Alicia gave The Invisible Orientation a four-star review on Goodreads.
  
• Theresa gave The Invisible Orientation a one-star review on Goodreads.

Food Plan Update:

• The new scale came and I weighed in at 111.6. For four days straight. I thought maybe something was wrong, but it would go up a little if I put on a jacket, so . . . WEIRD! Then finally it went down to 110.8. This scale has tenths of a pound, while my old one only had half-pounds. Interesting.
  
• I really put forth an effort this week to get all my steps in (most days, I got them or got very close). On Tuesday I ended the day with 9,862 steps and on Friday I got 9,563. Close enough. Sunday was 20,637. From all that pacing.
  
• I put forth an effort this week to get more Vitamin A and Vitamin C! And . . . I never ONCE made it out of the "too low" category in EITHER VITAMIN. I don't really know what to do about it. :( I need to find something I like that I can eat often that has especially Vitamin A.

Reading progress:

• Finished Reading: The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. Five-star review.

• Currently reading: Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh. I'm just starting.

New singing performances:

This week's karaoke song is "Just a Girl" by No Doubt, special request from Dad.

Stuff Drawn:

Webcomic Negative One Issue 0823: "Honoring a Loss." 

New videos: 

None.

New photos:

I tried to wear a "medium" shirt

Lemon Bars!

Social Media Counts:

YouTube subscribers: 5,289 for swankivy (2 new), 668 for JulieSondra (1 new), 17 for v & V Vids (no change), 111 for Not-So-Giant Women (no change). Twitter followers: 938 for swankivy (3 new), 1,459 for JulieSondra (93 new). Facebook: 299 friends for swankivy (no change), 628 likes for JulieSondra (no change), 74 likes for Negative One (no change), 225 likes for So You Write (no change), 86 likes for Not-So-Giant-Women (no change). Tumblr followers: 2,469 (lost 2). Instagram followers: 230 (lost 1).