Personal Digest Saturday: July 10 – July 16

Life news this week:

• Saturday I got my blogging done in the morning and wasn't as hungry as I wanted to be when Fen came over. They went to the water and got to see manatees! And when we hung out we had some fruit and cheese and then later when we were hungry enough we made enchiladas at home. Then we hung out and talked (mostly our hanging out is talking and talking, haha), and ended up also watching cartoons. We got the mid-season finale of Season 1 of Steven Universe and it's great. Finally after some more chatting they had to go back to the hotel.
  
  
• Sunday I got up early and tried to arrange going to my mom's but she didn't want me to come. I ended up just playing my ukulele, buying gifts for others, and doing my chores, plus karaoke fun.
  
  
• Monday I got up early for work but the meeting we were supposed to have was canceled. I wrangled some supporting documents for a letter due that day and worked on data entry for my project that was due that day. I did some more ukulele practice, talked to someone online about getting some toys I want, and sent Polos to my peeps.
  
  
• Tuesday was a little frustrating. I had to do some more data cleanup and then unexpectedly had to make report graphics when I was busy with some other stuff so I didn't even get to touch my proposals. After work I met up with Fen again and we ate at Joe's Diner and hung out at my place just talking and taking a walk. Always so good to see them and too bad it's so rare.
  
  
• Wednesday I had more graphics and research to do and then finally I got to work on my proposal stuff. I busted out the formatting and sent it in for review but I still had to wait to do the language edit. After work Jeaux took me to 4 Rivers and we went grocery shopping and home. We watched Colbert and Owl House and laughed at hilarious videos. Then we did some planning for our upcoming panel before he went home.
  
  
• Thursday work got really busy with all the proposal stuff. I did some Polos. Fen called me about some interesting opportunities! After work I took a short nap and then talked to Victor. Took some walks and got some drawing done.
  
  
• Friday was Katelyn's birthday. Happy birthday Katie! I went to work and got buried with proposal stuff all day. I took a break to go to the pool store to get chlorine for my water system. (With Jeaux because he's great.) Then back to work. Did the rest of my comic and then went BACK to work. Still have more work to do over the weekend. Boo.

Interviews, Articles, Mentions: 

• A French person receives a bunch of books, including the French edition of my book, in this video (starting at timestamp about 10:45). You can see from their video that it's got a bunch of color illustrations in it that aren't in the US version!

New Reviews:

• Jessa Franco gave The Invisible Orientation a three-star review on Goodreads.

Health Plan Update:

• Weight stuff: Continuing to deal with some instability here! Probably just because of frequent "special" meals lately in addition to some unhealthy eating habits (putting off eating for too long because I'm busy, followed by eating too much). I'm making an effort to reign this in now. High weight: 115.6 pounds. Low weight: 112.6.
  
• Nutrition stuff: I'm getting plenty of protein, so there's that! Not enough vegetables this week. I ate restaurant food three times in one week, though all three times included vegetables (cucumber sushi on Friday, cucumber salad on Tuesday, fried okra on Wednesday). Just really haven't been putting enough veggies into my diet except for beans. Looking to do better!
  
• Activity stuff: Did very well with my walking except I again didn't quite make it on Friday! Maybe I can try to do better earlier in the day and it will balance out? My low day was Friday at 9,321 steps, and my high day was Thursday at 20,023 steps.

Reading progress:

• Finished Reading: Nothing this week. 

• Currently reading: Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello. I'm on page 90.

New singing performances:

This week's karaoke song is "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Ukulele cover of "Lapis Lazuli" from Steven Universe.

Ukulele cover of "Wailing Stone" from Steven Universe.

Stuff Drawn:

Webcomic Negative One Issue 0844: "Behind Her Back." 

New videos:

None this week.

New photos:

Fen and me!

Social Media Counts:

YouTube subscribers: 5,307 for swankivy (7 new), 671 for JulieSondra (1 new), 17 for v & V Vids (no change), 127 for Not-So-Giant Women (1 new). Twitter followers: 928 for swankivy (lost 1), 1,921 for JulieSondra (2 new). Facebook: 300 friends for swankivy (no change), 631 likes for JulieSondra (no change), 79 likes for Negative One (no change), 227 likes for So You Write (no change), 86 likes for Not-So-Giant-Women (no change). Tumblr followers: 2,462 (no change). Instagram followers: 232 (no change).