Personal Digest Saturday: July 13 – July 19

Life news this week:

• Saturday I did a little more leftover maintenance on Negative One's pages--stuff I didn't get around to updating the day before. Then I managed to get the blogging and walking done, and got some reading done too.
  
  
• Sunday I had some decent productivity. Finished all my Negative One updates finally, cleaned up around the house a lot, did some laundry and took out trash, did a Polo for Steve, and completed my update for my SU merch and collection page (except what was in the package I hadn't opened yet). Changed out my phone case--old one had glitter flaking off.
  
  
• Monday I put together a submittal package for my office and sent it in. Did some other work for my boss and some data entry. In the afternoon, did some walking, played some games, made a Polo for my sister, and finally opened the package I'd been avoiding opening. Incorporated those items into my collection lists too.
  
  
• Tuesday I edited a letter and attended a meeting. Heard the sad news that my friend Blake from back in Gainesville is no longer responsive to interact with his loved ones and he's on his way out. (He had a cancer diagnosis from some time back and we thought he'd beat it, but he announced recently that no more treatment was available and we were going to lose him. So this is the sad but expected news.) Talked to the probate lawyer again and still can't get the information I need to wrap up Mom's estate. Also talked to the title company about taxes and they told me several contradictory things. Sigh. Did some cleaning. Opened a package from Cara with a sweet gift commemorating my mom. Played some games and did a karaoke song and updated some charts.
  
  
• Wednesday I went to meetings and invited teaming partners to work with us. Did some research. Did a lot of Poloing and walking. Jeaux and I ate at a new restaurant (Grand Hacienda) which was decent. We grocery shopped, watched Colbert, did our walking, and talked shit about people who annoy us.
  
  
• Thursday I did some data entry and went to two meetings. Wrote my comic, did some walking, played some games, and met my friends for Game Night. Did some more drawing after Game Night.
  
  
• Friday I did my reports and finished my data entry for this work order. Finished my comic and spent a bunch of time updating the support files (contrary to popular expectation, probably, the big upheaval happens at 1001, not 1000--I have to restructure a bunch of stuff every 100 issues). After the comic was posted I just wasted a bunch of time relaxing, which I probably needed to do. And I found out that Blake passed away. I'll miss his art and his kindness.

Health Plan Update:

• Weight stuff: All right, something to actually say here. Have adopted the smaller portion sizes AND eating them when I want to, not when I think I should. Has resulted in a nice slow downward trend this week. I recorded a high of 121.8 and a low of 120.0.
  
  
• Nutrition stuff: My health tracker recommends a balance of 55% carbs, 25% fats, 20% protein. I am intentionally skewing that a little bit to be lower on the carbs and higher on the protein (with fats on target). I did well with that balance this week. I am still regularly taking vitamins.
  
  
• Activity stuff: I met my walking goal every day this week. My low day was Saturday at 10,088 steps, and my high day was Tuesday at 14,036 steps.

Books Read: 

• Finished Reading: None this week.
  
  
• Currently Reading: Down Girl by Kate Manne. I'm on page 67.

New singing performances:

This week's karaoke song is "The Freshmen" by The Verve Pipe.

Stuff drawn:

My weekly fantasy webcomic, Negative One:

#1001: meri lin #142: conversation.

Videos Made: 

None.

New photos:

New 2024 poster

New poster wall

Jeaux's Mexican food looked like dessert for some reason

Social media counts:

YouTube subscribers: 5,450 for swankivy (1 new), 676 for JulieSondra (lost 1), 17 for v & V Vids (no change), 198 for Not-So-Giant Women (no change), 68 for Tides of Time Band (1 new). Twitter followers: 837 for swankivy (lost 1), 3,881 for JulieSondra (lost 7). Facebook: 299 friends for swankivy (no change), 644 likes for JulieSondra (no change), 82 followers for Negative One (no change), 256 followers for So You Write (no change), 100 followers for Not-So-Giant-Women (no change). Tumblr followers: 2,438 (no change). Instagram followers: 282 (lost 2). Threads followers: 64 (1 new).