Personal Digest Saturday - October 17 – October 23

Life news this week:

How do I keep having super overwhelming weeks! AAAAAAA

• Saturday I succeeded in my goal of getting all the seasonal decorations changed out to Halloween decorations, dusting the living room, vacuuming the living room, and getting cleaned up before Jeaux came to pick me up so we could go get our flu and Covid vaccines. Now we'll be maximally protected for our trip to New York in a couple weeks! After that was over, I spent the day writing, working on my blog, and reading. I had no noticeable effects from the vaccines.
  
  
• Sunday I worked on house chores, mainly cleaning the kitchen in addition to doing my trash and laundry chores that I always do on Sunday, but I also did lots of writing and watched my short story approach 10K words. Yikes. Did some messing around on Discord and Bluesky. Did a couple of Polos and paced around planning stuff about my story. Folded my laundry.
  
  
• Monday I found out my novella, In Your Favor, was accepted by an editor at a small publisher and it's going to be published! It'll be its own released story but it's too short to have a physical release since it's not a novel, so it'll just be digital, but I'm very excited for people to meet my magical adventurers. :) I am not posting about this one on my official site until I see the contract, though. I went back to work and I had a meeting with a coworker, edited a letter, sent out invitations to teams, and went to another meeting. And then I got not one but two items that completed sets of Steven Universe collections that I've been trying to complete for quite a while! Very happy. I did some reading and went to bed.
  
  
• Tuesday I processed some timesheet stuff and went to a presentation at work, and then I helped with a proposal. I worked on printing out my food labels for Saturday's party but my printer has decided cyan ink doesn't exist. Talked to Tony outside. He helped fix my garage door that wasn't opening. I wrote my storyboard early for Negative One so I could get it finished earlier in the week and not have as much on my plate for toward the end of the week when I need to be working on party stuff. I also drew most of the comic. Tried on my costume for my party and it's pretty disappointing, but I'll make it work I guess. Wrote a bunch on my new story.
  
  
• Wednesday I got up early and worked on a proposal that needed to be turned in by 2. In between, I did Polos to Meg. After work, I made molasses-ginger cookie dough and let it refrigerate, and cleaned up a little. Finished my comic drawings and processed them. Jeaux came and took me out for sushi to celebrate my novella selling. I tried a new kind of roll and loved it. Today was the first day I was finally not limping from my leg injury--I'm not quite back to normal but my walking looks mostly normal again. Went shopping to get the rest of the party supplies (plus usual groceries). We didn't do much after--just told each other silly stories. After Jeaux left I cleaned the bathroom and finished processing my comic.
  
  
• Thursday I was busy at work with three proposals. Did some Polos for Meg. Wrote more on my new short story. Baked pumpkin pie and a pumpkin roll in the evening, then went to game night, and after game night I made candy corn fudge. I did a quick proofread for a writer in my writing group. Then I cleaned up the kitchen.
  
  
• Friday was busy. I had to work and was very busy there with proposal preparation and juggling communications plus getting my reports done. After work I made a new recipe for my party: apple cider donuts. They seem to have turned out OK. Then I made my pumpkin muffins and banana muffins. All done with baking! I cleaned up the kitchen and did some small projects around the house to prepare it for the party. And I did some writing.

Health Plan Update:

• Nutrition stuff: My goal to have three servings of fruits and veggies every day was met this week, and something weird also happened: I was very much not paying attention to protein goals but I somehow just ended up meeting the goals 5 out of 7 days. (As usual, one of the days I didn't was the restaurant day. I had a bunch of sushi.) I am still taking my vitamins.
  
  
• Activity stuff: I'm still not ready to get back to my every-other-day aerobic exercise goal because my leg is still healing. I finally stopped actively limping on Wednesday this week, but the torn muscle has a little ways to go before I'll feel comfortable doing anything more strenuous than walking. Based on my phone's app, my low day was Friday at 10,012 steps, and my high day was Thursday at 11,350 steps.

Books Read: 

• Finished Reading: Nothing this week.
  
  
• Currently Reading: Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli. I'm on page 137.

New singing performances:

Nothing this week.

Stuff drawn:

My weekly fantasy webcomic, Negative One:


#1119: ivy #371: more than a babysitter.

Videos Made: 

None.

New photos:

I did take some baking pics but I'm just going to wait and share them with my Halloween album next week.

Social media counts:

YouTube subscribers: 5,464 for swankivy (lost 4), 673 for JulieSondra (lost 2), 17 for v & V Vids (no change), 215 for Not-So-Giant Women (lost 1), 66 for Tides of Time Band (no change) 10 for Vinyl Impact Band (no change). Twitter followers: 735 for swankivy (no change), 3,310 for JulieSondra (lost 1). Facebook: 284 friends for swankivy (no change), 623 likes for JulieSondra (no change), 79 followers for Negative One (no change), 244 followers for So You Write (no change), 100 followers for Not-So-Giant-Women (no change). Tumblr followers: 2,406 (no change). Instagram followers: 335 (2 new). Threads followers: 92 (no change). Bluesky Social. Bluesky followers: 527 (2 new).