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Health and Fitness

I exercised 22 times, which is pretty good given that I often miss Friday (because I visit Wyndsong) and Saturday (because I don't tear myself away from Ong's stream). 

I took Dad for a routine check-up in March. He's scheduled for a follow-up in April, and also he needs to see a nephrologist because his kidney function is poor. I made that appointment on April 2 (the doctor's office didn't even get the referral sent over until March 31), but it's on the schedule for April 23 now.

I also took myself for a doctor's appointment! I haven't had a regular GP visit for like 2 years, so that was good. My blood work showed that my cholesterol and blood sugar was high, so the doctor wanted me to eat better. I doubt I will get all the way to "eating well", but my diet has been a smidge better this month. I made seafood potatoes four times, and ate more vegetables in general than usual. And a little less sugary foods. My resolve to cut back to one Coke float per day (or equivalent sugary food) has not been entirely successful, but it's still an improvement over "I'm not even trying."

Dailies

I did better at tracking these, though I think I lost track a few times. I checked off some boxes every day, though, so I'll treat it as close enough. I drew 9 times, wrote 11 times, and edited 11 times. I wasn't reading as much; even manwha is no longer enticing me to read daily anymore. Still, 21 times.

Writing

I made more notes for Kingslayer; the file is up to 7,247 words, so 2800 this month. I opened the file for A Dragon's Secret a few times and made very little progress on it: 700 words, up to 59,700. 

Business of Writing

I still have zero enthusiasm for working on The Jewel-Strewn Night. I spent my editing time on A Game to You instead. I spent a lot of time on the editing list, breaking down the "I will never finish this" points into manageable chunks, and figuring out how to address a few issues I'd wanted to change but hadn't been sure how to do so. At long last, I have an editing list that has difficulties for every point and doesn't have anything that feels completely insurmountable. I haven't hashed out everything where I went 'maybe I should change this but idk how', but I hashed out all the important stuff.

The editing list stands at 23% done, because I've been poking at edits for a long time and had completed a good 10-15% of it over the course of all that time. Still, I made meaningful progress on it this month: at least 8%. I even counted "fix the editing list" as a significant chunk of work, given how much effort I'd put into it. And that doing so has genuinely made editing the book significantly easier.

Art

I finished "Olive in a modern business suit" and started a new fan art, this one inspired by a photographic technique for backlit images. The new fan art is close to done, but not finished yet.

Following the pattern, I showed the new fan art to Maria and the Olive fan server Maria started, which has maybe five people total on it. Maybe I'll post it somewhere else someday, idk.

I should draw another thing that's not Olive, just for variety.

Reading

I caught up on What a Bountiful Harvest, Demon Lord! and This Isekai Maid Is Forming a Union! There's like 5 recap episodes of Isekai Maid that I hadn't read, but I figured I'd read the recap after the new episodes started this month. Even though I've read the entire series in the last two-three months, I still could use the recap. There's been So Much going on with that series.

I also finished The Coming Calamaties at last! Time Princess had a live chat with the author, and that gave me the impetus to finish it. It's a good story! I am happy I read it.

Social

All three of my siblings visited for a long weekend in March, with the first arriving Thursday night and the last leaving on the following Wednesday evening. It was good to see everyone! I am not particularly good at socialing, but I didn't hide in my room very often, and we did various social things: played poker, played Pax Porfiriano, went out to dinner for Dad's birthday, shared some meals in the kitchen, and went for several long walks together. It was a good visit.

Afterwards, I realized the thing that makes most visits tiring is not so much "I've had enough of these people being in my house" but "I am incapable of sustaining quality time with anyone." Eliyahu's visits cause me zero stress because neither of us expect the visits to involve quality time. I still spend most of my time on all my solitary activities -- games, writing, drawing -- when they're here. Whereas with my siblings, I'm like 'oh they're only here for a little while, I need to make sure I'm available to be social' and so even though I am not particularly good at being social while they're here, I'm not doing much of my normal solitary stuff, either.

I also visited Wyndsong a few times, and imported Eliyahu starting on the 29th.

March Goal Scorecard

• Do not go into hermit-mode during sibling visit: done!
• Provide care for Dad: done!
• Pay March bills & brokerage withdrawal: done!
• Make A Game to You's editing list actually useful: done!
• Do a perceptible amount of work on something else: I'll count A Game to You for this, since it's where I made the most tangible progress (even beyond the editing list thing).

March Stretch Goals

• Do some art: Done!
• Visit friends: Did this!
• Exercise 15+ times: Up to 22 aw yeah
• Completed 2025 taxes: This wasn't even on the goal list, but I did it! There was even some tax weirdness (my first quarter 2025 payments had been applied to 2024 taxes instead, so they were refunded to me in 2025 and I had to pay them again now), but I took care of that too. 

April Goals

• Provide care for Dad
• Enjoy Eliyahu's visit
• Do April withdrawal from brokerage & pay April bills 
• Pay 1st quarter 2026 taxes. See if there's a way to make the government believe you are paying 1st quarter 2026 and not have them apply it to 2025 again like last year.
• Complete one (1) of the creative stretch goals. You can combine progress to count if it's scattered enough

April Stretch Goals

• Organize Jewel's editing list. 
• Write 5000 words of A Dragon's Secret
• Complete a rough outline for Kingslayer (beginning, middle, end. Does not need to be fully-fleshed out, just clearer idea of the middle stuff.)
• Make 5% of progress on A Game to You
• Any of my other usual stretch goals