Personal Digest Saturday: March 29 – April 4

Life news this week:

• Saturday I slept in because I can. Did some chores, worked on my book, sent a Polo to Meggie, took a long walk, and did my blogging then more book work. I didn't get much done but still felt like I was busy. Also watched a reaction and reviewed some voice-over opportunities but didn't find any I wanted to do.
  
  
• Sunday I got up relatively early to be ready for band practice. Dad picked me up and we got to catch up during the car ride, which is always nice. We even got time to stop for coffee because we were early. Then band practice (first full practice with our new second guitarist!) was really productive. Dad and I had sushi afterwards but I wasn't hungry enough to finish mine because I ate too many snacks during the band break. Once I got home I took out trash and started laundry, napped, made a Polo for Meg, drew my So You Write comic, did some aerobic exercise, and recorded some voice-over auditions. One of them was immediately shortlisted which was cool.
  
  
• Monday I had to edit two letters and we found out our team is shortlisted for a project and I will be part of the interview team, so it's time to start preparing for that! After some naps during the day I worked on my comic coloring and processing and then worked on my book. I fell asleep trying to write a scene.
  
  
• Tuesday we had a meeting and then I worked on a transcript all day to help us prepare for the interview and that took the whole work day. I worked on ukulele practice and checked in on the news to watch Cory Booker break a record. I talked to Tony outside when I went out to pay him. Then I played my dance game, played ukulele, and processed my March goals update. Did some more auditions and wrote the rest of the scene I couldn't seem to finish the day before.
  
  
• Wednesday I worked on documents for our proposal package at work and did some marketing research for a Turnpike project. I sent a Polo to Meggie too. Then Jeaux took me to a restaurant we hadn't been to before called Sogna Napoli. I had some yummy gnocchi there. Went shopping, came home, and he had me watch an episode of Seinfeld (surprisingly, I've never seen ANY Seinfeld episodes before). We took a walk and shared silly online things with each other. After he left I sent out some short stories, scanned some photos, and practiced ukulele.
  
  
• Thursday I finished some project research and attended a prep meeting for the interview. After work I wrote my webcomic, Polo'd Meg, played DDR, and found out the foreword I'm writing for an upcoming book is actually something they'll pay me for so that's cool. Went to game night, did some drawing, did a voice-over audition, submitted some queries, and played ukulele. I also got some stuff done that I'd been putting off: I made a doctor's appointment, booked air travel for a vacation, bought some event tickets, and called my Senators and Representative for the first time. Just as I was going to bed I had an hour-long war with a frog in the kitchen which resulted in a broken plant pot and a bleeding hand, so that was fun. (I did manage to get the frog out of the house unharmed, but was very sad about the broken pot. I had to rehome it.)
  
  
• Friday I was extra sleepy because of the Frog Encounter the night before. At work I did my timesheets and reports, and after work I finished my comic and did some ukulele practice. Posted the comic, did some karaoke, did some walking, and learned a new ukulele song.

Words Written: 6,035.

Health Plan Update:

• Weight stuff: Last week's spike settled down a little but it still hasn't ended up where I was hoping. I recorded a high of 115.9 and a low of 114.1.
  
  
• Nutrition stuff: Been happy with my diet when it comes to servings of fruits and veggies for the most part. But I'm really wanting to see protein high and carbs and fats low or on-target, and I'm seeing a lot of higher-carb days. (The percentage points are really small and debatably significant sometimes, but I still count it.) Last seven days:
  
  

  	Days High	Days On-Target	Days Low
  Carbs	4	1	2
  Fats	0	1	6
  Protein	4	1	2

  
  
  I missed my protein goals twice this week and carbs were high, so I guess I did something weird. I am still regularly taking vitamins.
  
  
• Activity stuff: I'm continuing to play my dance game every other day; I did do the aerobics once but I've been more interested in doing the DDR instead. I met my walking goal every day this week. My low day was Sunday at 10,007 steps, and my high day was Thursday at 11,706 steps.

Books Read: 

• Finished Reading: Nothing this week.
  
  
• Currently Reading: Assholes: A Theory by Aaron James. I'm on page 78.

New singing performances:

None this week.

Stuff drawn:

My monthly writing webcomic, So You Write: #166: ending it.

 

My weekly fantasy webcomic, Negative One: #1038: weaver #164: real worries.

Videos Made: 

None.

New photos:

None.

Social media counts:

YouTube subscribers: 5,480 for swankivy (lost 1), 682 for JulieSondra (no change), 16 for v & V Vids (no change), 213 for Not-So-Giant Women (3 new), 66 for Tides of Time Band (no change). Twitter followers: 778 for swankivy (lost 1), 3,516 for JulieSondra (lost 6). Facebook: 293 friends for swankivy (no change), 637 likes for JulieSondra (lost 1), 81 followers for Negative One (no change), 250 followers for So You Write (no change), 100 followers for Not-So-Giant-Women (no change). Tumblr followers: 2,422 (no change). Instagram followers: 283 (no change). Threads followers: 76 (no change). Bluesky Social. Bluesky followers: 334 (2 new).