I check in for a week summary of my health and wellness (social, mental, and physical) this past week (Monday 2 to Sunday 8 October 2023). It was a more mellow week socially, mental internal transformation is ongoing as is running-related physique change. I varied my experimenting up for my sweet and/or savory eats videos and received some useful insight about my retirement account.

0:00 – Introduction and week summary.

1:10 – Social – fed the critters all of their meals this week; interactions while walking/running (including deer and one apple tree with a few red apples).
– 1:46 – Other outings with social interactions included:
– Quality Food Centers – QFC (grocery store, Monday 2 October).
– Safeway (grocery store, Tuesday 3 October).
– Shoreline Library (public library, Tuesday 3 October).
– Quality Food Centers – QFC (grocery store, Wednesday 4 October).
– Sunset School Park (public park, Thursday 5 October).
– Fidelity Investments (financial investments office, Thursday 5 October).
– 85°C Bakery Cafe (Taiwanese drinks and baked goods shop, Thursday 5 October).
– 76 (gas station, Friday 6 October).
– Fred Meyer (grocery and department store, Friday 6 October).
– Quality Food Centers – QFC (grocery store, Friday 6 October).

2:33 – Mental – internal transformation ongoing.
– 3:24 – Writing and photography on Yelp – reached 16 written and published reviews for October 2023 (new all-time personal best for me for any one October – previous personal best was 3 reviews in each 2020 and 2022); reached 340 written and published reviews for the 2023 year thus far, increasing my all-time personal best for number of reviews in any one calendar year.
– 3:56 – Writing for Lucky Wallaby Courier (LWC) – eating/food (including restaurants, training tie-ins, and sourcing); awards and honours selection and contextualization; investing, retirement account(s), finances; athletic performance contextualizations.
– 5:22 – YouTube – themed videos continued; worked on videos filling in background about some of my awards and honours; writing supplies; at least one sweet and/or savory eats video each day (filmed and published same-day); worked on my “The Tanis Diet (definitions)” playlist (curation focus and new content); added gender pronouns for my channel (she/her/hers on Friday 6 October 2023).
– 6:28 – Reading – “Blackbeard’s Ghost” by Ben Stahl (1965; 3rd printing hardcover edition) – read pages 58 through 184 (finished the book).
– 6:39 – Finances.
– My healthcare (Medicaid, Amerigroup plan) has extended coverage through 30 September 2024 (delayed update here, extended 2 August 2023).
– Talked to a financial advisor at Fidelity Investments on Thursday 5 October and learned I could withdraw funds, though there would be an early-withdrawal penalty (for not being 59.5 years of age or older at the time of withdrawal) and taxes taken out.
– Student loans payment amount was $0.00 for this payment period.
– Current sweet and/or savory feats videos fund (including gas expenses) is at $91.25 (spent $14.59 since fund at $105.84 on Sunday 1 October 2023 – last Sunday; 8 videos, 11 products, 0 gas fueling).

10:30 – Physical (diet/food and exercise).
– Did good on maintenance food intake/weight regulation even with my increase in eating videos.
– Physique change (running-related) ongoing.
– Running – made my workouts 5 out of 5 days.
– Rowing – made my workouts 6 out of 6 days.
– Strength training – made my workouts 6 out of 6 days.
– Cleaning house/yard work – made all of my workouts (2 days).
– Stationary bicycle – made my workout (1 day).

12:48 – 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 “Savory eats” playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLReE5nuWjA2JO9bIPMkD1wS1OcxQgyV_S.
-Here is a link to my “Sweet eats” playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLReE5nuWjA2InLsfRMR8tEPrdggZB6IbE.
-Here is a link to my “Athletic performance contextualizations” playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLReE5nuWjA2InRPOYFLhBdfyeqDQ6m1zN.
-Here is a link to my “The Tanis Diet (definitions)” playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLReE5nuWjA2IPlul7uf0xr-pheI3U0Tch.

Filmed by me (Tanis Coralee Leonhardi) in Shoreline, Washington State, United States of America starting at 6:42 p.m. on Sunday 8 October 2023. Uploaded by me (Tanis Coralee Leonhardi) and premiered (published here on YouTube, Seattle time zone) 8 October 2023.

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