Health and wellness check-in – 20 August 2023



I check in for a week summary of my health and wellness (social, mental, and physical) this past week (Monday 14 to Sunday 20 August 2023). On the whole it was a superb week.

0:00 – Introduction and week summary.

0:30 – Social – fed the critters all of their meals this week; interactions while walking/running.
– 1:04 – Other outings with social interactions included:
– Highland Terrace Elementary School (public elementary school, Monday 14 August).
– Shoreline Park (public park, Monday 14 August).
– Happy Lemon (boba and waffle shop, Monday 14 August).
– 76 (gas station, Tuesday 15 August).
– Bothell Feed Center (pet and animal feed and supply shop, Tuesday 15 August).
– Monroe High School (public high school, Tuesday 15 August).
– Thornton A. Sullivan Park (public park, Tuesday 15 August).
– Shawn O’Donnell’s American Grill and Irish Pub (Irish food restaurant and pub, Tuesday 15 August).
– Bothell Library (public library, Tuesday 15 August).
– Green Lake (neighborhood, Wednesday 16 August).
– University of Washington (public university, Wednesday 16 August).
– Red Mill Burgers (burger restaurant, Wednesday 16 August).
– Innis Arden Park and tennis courts (park and tennis courts, Thursday 17 August).
– Fred Meyer (department store, Thursday 17 August).
– Fred Meyer (department store, Saturday 19 August).
– Shoreline Library (public library, Sunday 20 August).

2:52 – Mental – two thumbs up.
– 3:15 – Writing and photography on Yelp – reached 31 written and published reviews for August 2023; reached 290 reviews for the 2023 year thus far; reached over 500 reviews all-time for businesses/places in Washington State; reached over 750 reviews all-time.
– 4:11 – Writing for Lucky Wallaby Courier (LWC) – on-location projects included food/eating, running, schools/libraries.
– 4:31 – YouTube – themed videos continued; on-location videos a focus; savory eats and sweet eats video fund update (finished everything on the handwritten lists I have mentioned with $14.50 left in my fund, briefly discuss approach moving forward and fund additions); got passed in number of subscribers by a channel I subscribe to; behind the scenes curation on my videos removing automatic chapters, automatic places, and automatic concepts and key moments (checked all 2,167 of my videos myself – took me Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to do); daydreamed about a YouTube running competition.
– 7:23 – Reading – “Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden (1997; February 1999 Vintage Contemporaries edition – paperback).
– Friday 18 August 2023 – read pages 1 through 44 (started the book).
– Saturday 19 August 2023 – read pages 45 through 81.
– 7:45 – Search Engine searched myself (DuckDuckGo via Firefox and Google via Google Chrome).
– Website linked to one of my YouTube videos about tire pressure on my car.
– Picture I published in March 2023 on Wikimedia Commons of Hungarian swimmer Hubert Kós was pretty high in search results when I searched my full name.
– Facebook account only showed up if I searched my name and “Facebook”.

10:47 – Physical (diet/food and exercise) – improvements across the board.
– Worked on fine-tuning The Tanis Diet with Running (low volume).
– Adjustment week in terms of exercise.
– Running felt better after a three day break for muscle relaxation (the break worked).
– Walking part of my walk/run is staring to feel more difficult than the running (a good thing for me, means my running is improving).
– Downhills are still slower than my flat ground running (treating them as recovery).
– Stationary bicycle set up in the garage and used Sunday 20 August (a sprints set I wrote).
– Getting my running tastebuds back.
– Elliptical disposed of on Saturday 19 August.

12:33 – Conclusion.

-Here is a link to my “Health and wellness check-ins” playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLReE5nuWjA2INgWRVCLbz5DshV0-Ug5eD.
-Here is a link to my “Lucky Wallaby Courier” playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLReE5nuWjA2IElPdAZ0wl8uz4w4mH_L9q.
-Here is a link to my “Running” playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLReE5nuWjA2JyCYmxUFZUl30z3Fk52i16.

Filmed by me (Tanis Coralee Leonhardi) in Shoreline, Washington State, United States of America starting at 6:07 p.m. on Sunday 20 August 2023. Uploaded by me (Tanis Coralee Leonhardi) and premiered (published here on YouTube, Seattle time zone) 20 August 2023.

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