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Wed, May 1, 2024

AM- awake at nearly 7am (PDT) to blue sky, sun, 43 (F)degrees feels like 39, and MED-HIGH pollen🤧🤧
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1+ hour✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x20 mins✅
Noonish-

Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 side kicks ✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 1✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • ❌Doggo walk
  • House chore✅
  • MORE ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Reading: 20 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895 ✅
PM-
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
  • MORE quilting: x40 mins✅
 
Thurs, May 2, 2024

AM- woke up late at nearly 7am (PDT)with Canoodles pawing at my head, and his cold, wet nose on my neck!😂. It didn’t seem urgent, just fun and cute🥰
Outside, it is sunny, 40 (F)degrees with MED-HIgh pollen🤧🤧
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Long lunch with elderly friend✅
PM-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 side kicks ✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 2✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Journaling: x19 mins✅
  • Reading: 25 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895✅
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
Husb arrived home from his mom’s
  • Doggo walk: x30 min✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Fri, May 3, 2024

AM- slept poorly, awake a lot in the night, partly due to Canoe pacing and pawing and partly because of prednisone I had taken at dinner. So, woke up at nearly 7am (PDT) when Canoe wanted to join us on the bed. He’s so happy dad is home, he was on dad’s lap as soon as we were up and sitting with coffee😂
Outside is sunny, 39 (F)degrees feels like 36, with MED-HIgh pollen.🤧🤧
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x20 mins✅
  • Doggo to daycare for kennel practice✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 front-kicks ✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 3✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • House chore
  • Reading: 20+ pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895✅
  • Visit stepmom’s doggo while they are gone for the day✅
  • Grocery shop✅
PM-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Fetch doggo from daycare✅
  • Ball throwing: x20 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Sat, May 4, 2024

AM- awake before 7am, (PDT) to cloudy skies, 57 (F)degrees and MEDium pollen!!🤧🥳😎
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1+ hour✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 side to side side-kicks✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 4✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Doggo walk: x50 mins✅
  • Reading: 10 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895 ✅
  • MORE quilting: x40 mins✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min Hatha practice✅
 
Sun, May 5, 2024

AM- awake at 7ish to clouds again, 55 (F)degrees, and LOW pollen!🥳
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x4” mins✅
  • Quilting: x30 mins✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 5✅
  • House chore✅
  • Reading: 10 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895 ✅
PM-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk:x10 mins🤪
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min gentle practice✅
 
Mon, May 6, 2024

AM- woke up at nearly 7am (PDT) to wind, sun, 50 (F)degrees, and MED-ium pollen🤧🤧😎
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Canoe ball throwing: 10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x45 mins✅
  • Reading: 10 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895 ✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 side kicks✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 6✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 1: 1.) Easy Calorie Burning Cardio Warm Up, 5 mins✅; 2.) Pilates Abs, Butt and Thighs, 16 mins✅, 3.) Stress Busting Yoga Pilates Stretch for Flexibility, 10 mins✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • ❌Dinner prep
  • Ball throwing + short walk: x20 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Tues, May 7, 2024

AM- woke up at 6:30am (PDT) to scattered clouds, blue sky, 48 (F)degrees feels like 44, and MEDium- HIGH pollen🤧🤧

  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Drive to for doggo social and ball throwing: x30 mins✅

  • Quilting: x45 mins✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 40 side kicks✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 7✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: 10 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895 ✅

  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 2: Brutal Fat Burning Cardio HIIT + Dynamic Total Body Strength Training, 28 mins✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • MORE quilting: x40 mins✅
  • Foot soak/pedicure: x40 mins✅
Stepson here to mow, etc
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Wed, May 8, 2024

AM- woke close to 7am (PDT) to scattered high clouds, blue sky, wind, 53 (F)degrees and MEDium-HIgh pollen🤧🤧
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1+ hour✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x40 mins✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 8✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 side kicks✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: ~20 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895✅

  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 3: 1.) Standing Abs Warm-up to Tone Abs, Obliques & Lower Back, 10 mins✅. 2.) Fun at Home Cardio & Ab, 10 mins✅. 3.) Quick Abs/Oblique Workout for a Toned Stomach, 10 mins✅. 4.) Quick Yoga Cool Down and Stretch, 5 min✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Nap: x30 mins✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Doggo walk…husb did
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Thurs, May 9, 2024

AM- awake at nearly 7am (PDT) to blue sky, sun, 48 (F)degrees with MED-HIgh pollen🤧🤧
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 9✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 side kicks✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Internet in the fritz, so workout postponed to tomorrow😞
  • ❌Grocery shop….husb did
  • Desk work: x2+ hours✅
PM-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Nap: x30 mins✅
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Fri, May 10, 2024

AM- apparently, 7am (PDT) is the new wake up time, as I just don’t seem able to get up before then…. ***sigh***
Outside is sunny, 62 (F)degrees with MED-HIGH pollen🤧
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo to daycare for kennel practice✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 30 crunch kicks✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 10✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 4: Total Body Toning Strength & HIIT Cardio, 35 mins✅
  • MORE quilting: x1 hour✅
PM-
  • ❌House chore
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Fetch doggo from daycare✅
  • ❌Doggo walk….ran a ton at the kennel just prior to pick up, so he was super hot🥵
  • Reading: ~10 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min gentle practice✅
 
Sat, May 11, 2024

AM- woke up before 7am (PDT) to sun, hazy horizon, 64 (F)degrees, and MED-HIGH pollen🤧🤧
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x20 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x10 mins✅
  • Reading: 10 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895 ✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 side kicks✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 11✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody
  • ❌Foam-rolling back/lower body
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 5: Brutal Abs, Obliques and Lower Back, 30 mins✅
Long phone convo with daughter🥰

PM-

Younger brother and fiancé visited from Seattle for about 3 hours🥰
  • ❌House chore
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Doggo walk…crated during family visit
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga:
 
Sun, May 12, 2024

AM- awake at nearly 7am (PDT), after trying to see the geomagnetic-storm-caused-aurora last night, but not succeeding. Could see nothing but normal clear night sky….🤯
This morning is sunny, with a little haze, 64 (F)degrees, and MED-HIGH pollen🤧🤧

🌺💐Happy Mothers’ Day💐🌺

Planned REST DAY

Husb departed for 5 hour drive to his mom’s😵‍💫
  • Quilting: x1+ hour✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Doggo walk…too hot already and my time is short, plus Canoe needs time to recover his senses from visitors yesterday, enough to not get frustrated on the leash😵‍💫
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
Noonish-
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 12✅
Mother’s Day brunch with stepmom, younger brother + fiancé, and my stepson.

PM-
  • ❌House chore
  • ❌Dinner prep
  • Drive to park for doggo playtime ✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min gentle practice✅
 
Mon, May 13, 2024

AM- awake before 6:30am (PDT), but didn’t get up and going until 7… yesterday was an exhausting day with my stepmom, as her husb was needing some help, and she was being nasty about it. I have a pretty negative history as a kid with her nastiness😖
Outside, this morning, it already in the mid 70’s (F), windy, with MED-HIGH pollen🤧🤧
  • Quilting: x~2 hours✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 8: 1.) Total Body Warm-Up, 5 mins✅ 2.) Abs, Butt & Thigh HIIT Cardio, 16 mins✅ 3.) Abs/Core Firming Work, 8 mins✅ 4.) Lakeside Cool-Down Yoga, 6 mins✅
PM-
  • Reading: 20 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 13✅
  • Nap: x1+ hour✅… SO tired from weekend socializing🥱🥱🥱
  • ❌House chore
  • Doggo walk: 30 mins✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Tues, May 14, 2024

AM- Despite taking forever to get to sleep last night, I was awake at 6:30am (PDT) to sun, breezes, 62 (F)degrees and MED-HIGH pollen.🤧🤧
  • Journaling: x20 mins✅
  • Quilting: x<1 hour✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • Reading: 10 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895 ✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 50 knee strikes✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 14✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Desk work: x1.5 hours✅
PM-
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 9: Cardio Workout with No Equipment, 30 mins✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Ball throwing in the yard: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Wed, May 15, 2024

AM- awake shortly after 6am (PDT) with anxiety already apparent in my gut, hands and feet. I have a full day, with lots to get done….and husb drives back home today in the midst
Outside is partly cloudy, 66 (F) degrees and MED-HIGH pollen🤧🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x10 mins✅
  • Drop doggo at daycare for play date✅
  • House chores✅

  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
  • Quilting: x45 mins✅
Noonish-
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 15✅
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 10: 1.) Wake Up Call Cardio Warm Up, 6 mins✅; 2.) Total Body Strength Dynamic Supersets, 27 mins✅; 3.) Cool Down/ Stretch for Busy People✅
PM- husb arrived home in one piece
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
Fetch doggo from daycare; stop at dog park for snifari🐶👃🏻
  • ❌Doggo walk
  • Reading: 30 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895 ✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Thurs, May 16, 2024

AM- wake just after 6am (PDT) to power being off. The bedroom was heating up, the air filter was off, and I was already hot.
Outside is mostly sunny, 70 (F) degrees, and MED-HIGH pollen🤧🤧
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • Reading: 20 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895 ✅
Noonish- unplanned REST DAY
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 front kicks ✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 16✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Foot soak/pedi✅
  • Nap: x1+ hour✅
  • Quilting: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Doggo walk… wind is blowing at about 50mph, creating a huge blowing dirt/bad visibility problem, and it doesn’t seem safe to be outside….
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Fri, May 17, 2024

AM- awake after 6:30am (PDT) to blue sky, less wind, thankfully, 53 (F) degrees with MED-HIGH pollen🤧🤧
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x20 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x25 mins✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 60 sec backfists✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 17✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 11: 1.) Fat Burning Cardio Intervals, 25 mins ✅ 2.) Quick Cool-Down/Stretching, 5 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Quilting: x45 mins✅
Long phone convo with daughter🥰

Stepson here to do some printing🤓

PM-
  • ✅Reading: X pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895
  • MORE quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk/ball throwing: x20 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Sat, May 18, 2024

AM- woke up super late at nearly 8am (PDT). After I was up in the wee hours, I could t get back to sleep due to some of my chronic pain issues: achiness/zinginess….*everything everywhere all at once*😫. Not the movie. Me. My hands, forearms, legs, feet. No change of position did any good. If my feet didn’t hurt so bad, I would have gotten up to take something additional. Now that I am up for the day and moving around, having my morning *aids* it feels tolerable, finally. Night time is the worst for pain…..
Outside is partly cloudy wisps, breezy, 59 (F)degrees with MED-HIGH pollen.
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Dinner prep✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 side kicks✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 18✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x45 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Nap: x2+ hours✅…. this seems to have helped with my foot pain enough that I can manage the rest of the things🥳
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 12: Intense Abs on Fire HIIT Cardio, 30 mins✅
PM-
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min gentle practice✅
  • ❌Reading: X pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895
  • ❌Quilting
 
Sun, May 19, 2024

AM- awake at 7:30am (PDT), after 9 hours of sleep. Feeling quite a bit better today, thankfully. Foot still hurts, but not as bad, and most of the achiness is gone. Spent some much needed reconnection time with husb, which always helps my emotional state. This, in turn is reflected in my body’s condition. Who knew?🫣🙄
Outside, is partly cloudy, 54 (F) degrees, with MED-HIGH pollen.🤧🤧
  • Journaling: 10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x40 mins✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 19✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Quilting: x2 hours✅
PM-
  • ❌Reading: X pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Mon, May 20, 2024

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after being up with the doggo in the night. I don’t like disturbed sleep😏😵‍💫
Outside is sunny, 53 (F)degrees, and MED-HIGH pollen🤧🤧
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x45 mins✅
Stepson here to mow, etc
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 side kicks✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 20✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • ❌LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody
  • ❌Foam-rolling back/lower body
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 15: 1.) Total Body Warm Up Cardio, 5 mins✅. 2.) Stress Busting Cardio KickBoxing & Core, 23 mins✅. 3.) Pilates Infused Cool Down/Stretch, 7 mins✅
PM-
  • Doggo walk: x45 mins✅…. Doggo friend & her person visited our yard to try companionability, and walked a little with us before we walked *officially.*
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Nap: x1 hour✅…. Just lying down not sleeping to rest my very painful foot
  • ❌Reading: X pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Tues, May 21, 2024

AM- woke up at 7:30am (PDT), after a later night than I prefer… finally got enough relief for my foot to be able to sleep.🙄😴
Outside is mostly sunny, 55 (F)degrees with MEDium pollen🥳🤧
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x20 mins✅
  • Doggo Trainer here to see us for Canoodles: x40 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 21✅
PM-
  • ❌House chore
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Doggo walk
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
  • Reading: 5 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895 ✅
 
Wed, May 22, 2024

AM- woke up before 6am (PDT), due to wind rattling the siding on the house. Since we have a vet appt for doggo at 9am, I decided to just get up. Oof, I’ll need a nap today, for sure🫣🥱. Outside is windy, partly cloudy, 53 (F)degrees, with MEDium pollen.🤧🤧
It DID wind up raining yesterday, after all….💨💦
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • Vet appt for annual vaccines: x1 hour✅
  • Reading: 10 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895 ✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 side kicks✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 22✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 16: Butt and Thigh with Fat Burning HIIT, 25 mins✅
PM-
  • Baking✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Journaling
  • Quilting: x1.5 hours✅
  • ❌Doggo walk
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Thurs, May 23, 2024

AM- slept hard until almost 7:30 (PDT). I think Canoe needed the long sleep, too after FOUR vaccines yesterday, poor thing. Plus, we had him practice wearing his muzzle in the crowded waiting room, and staying in our space with other dogs nearby. Omg, it was stressful! Husb had a nap after that, but I never got one😩. I made up for it by sleeping 9+ hours🥱😅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo to daycare for kennel practice/ doggo social✅
  • Take car in for tire rotation✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 17: 1.) Feel Good Cardio Burst Warm Up, 8 mins. ✅ 2.) Kelli's Abs and Upper Body Strength Training Workout - Chest, Back, Arms and Abs Superset, 27 min✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 23✅
PM-
  • Journaling: x20 mins✅
  • ❌Reading: X pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895
  • Reading: 30 mins of The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, (Kindle), 1906✅
  • Fetch doggo from daycare✅
  • Ball throwing: play/calm switch: x30 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • ❌Dinner prep…husb did
  • ❌Doggo walk
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Fri, May 24, 2024

AM- woke up at 6:45am (PDT) trying to get a headache; feels like I need coffee…?🫤Canoe slept solid all night, came downstairs with me to go outside this morning, and is now back in bed, already….
Outside is partly cloudy/hazy, 51 (F) degrees with MED-HIGH pollen.🤧🤧
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 side kicks✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 24✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Dinner prep✅
  • House chore✅
  • Quilting: x~2 hours🥰✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 18: Lower Body Strength + HiiT, 27 mins✅
PM-
  • Reading: 10 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895 ✅
  • Nap: x30 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
Short phone convo with daughter, as she went to see husb’s mom today for us
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min gentle practice✅
  • Reading: 20 mins of The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, (Kindle), 1906, ✅
 
Sat, May 25, 2024

AM- woke up at nearly 8am (PDT)!
We finished watching Netflix’s mini series Bodies last night, so we weren’t in bed until 11 o’clock. Wow, what a mind **ck😵‍💫🤯.
Canoodles seems excessively tired and again is back in bed. His vaccine collection did him in, I think, poor thing.
Outside, is windy, mostly clear, 60 (F) degrees, with MED-HIGH pollen🤧🤧
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 side kicks✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 25✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: 15+ pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895✅
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 19: 1.) Warm Up Cardio, 6 mins✅. 2.) Advanced Abs, Back & Obliques, 20 mins ✅. 3.) Full-Body, Yoga-Infused Stretching, 13 mins✅
PM-
  • Quilting: x2 hours✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk: x40 mins✅
  • Reading: 20 mins of The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, (Kindle), 1906 ✅
  • House chore✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Sun, May 26, 2024

AM- woke up at 7:30am (PDT), after NINE hours of solid sleep. Omg, so much sleep!!🤯. Canoe is even ready to be up😤😂
Outside is hazy and partly cloudy, 53 (F)degrees with MED-HIGH pollen🤧🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x40 mins✅
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Reading: 20 mins of The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, (Kindle),1906 ✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Dinner prep✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 26✅
PM-
Stepson here to mow etc
  • Quilting: x2 hours
  • ❌Reading: X pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Mon, May 27, 2024

AM- woke up at 7am (PDT) after another NINE hours of sleep. I can’t believe how this extra hour has helped the way I feel physically and emotionally. Almost didn’t need a nap yesterday. Almost. 😤
Outside is partly cloudy/hazy, 58 (F) degrees, with MED-HIGH pollen.🤧🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x55 mins✅
  • Journaling: x5 mins✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 side kicks ✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 27✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Reading: 40 mins of The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, (Kindle), 1906 ✅
Noonish-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 22: Intense HIIT Cardio & Abs on Fire, 30 mins✅
  • Quilting: x2 hours✅
PM-
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Reading: X pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895
  • ❌House chore
  • Nap: x45 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min gentle practice✅
 
Tues, May 28, 2024

AM- awake at 6:45am (PDT), and immediately off to the clinic for fasting lab work. Ugh, I hate going anywhere before coffee and its results😒. Took Canoodles along for a different outing. He got to prowl around the parking lot before they opened. Then on the way home, we stopped at the dog park to practice NOT BARKING in the parking lot😵‍💫. He did his business, and then found a gross ball he wanted me to throw. After a few rounds of that, we went to the park near our house, and he ran some more, after practicing NOT BARKING in that parking lot. Oof, he’s a tough nut to crack😒😤
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x10 mins✅
  • Away from home ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 front kicks ✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 28✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Visit to stepmom to pick up family history stuff for my aunt

Noonish-
  • Prelim sorting thru boxes for my aunt✅…. and stewing about my stepmom interaction which was pretty shitty😤
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Quilting: x40 mins✅
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • ❌Reading: X pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895
  • ❌Reading: The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, (Kindle), 1906
  • Ball throwing: x45 mins✅
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 23: Fat Burning Tank Top Arms Workout - Cardio Intervals + Upper Body Strength Training, 34 mins✅… late but at least it happened😅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Wed, May 29, 2024

AM- Awake before 6am (PDT), after not enough sleep for a travel day to see my 86yo aunt & uncle. The cousin from Texas is at their place helping his folks after my uncle’s knee replacement surgery.🚶
  • Journaling: x20 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
Travel ~2 hours to my aunt’s to take a family history project from my stepmom, and for visit, and then back home😵‍💫
  • ❌Reading: X pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895
  • ❌Reading: The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, (Kindle), 1906
  • ❌Doggo to daycare for kennel practice…. Husb took and picked up, also doggo’s Spa Day
PM-
  • Ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 29✅
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge: Total Body /Core For Busy People, 27 mins✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌House chore
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min gentle practice✅
 
Thurs, May 30, 2024

AM- awake too early, at ~6am (PDT) to blue sky, finally no wind, 52 (F) degrees and MED-HIGH pollen.🤧🤧
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk to park, park playtime, walk back with gf doggo: x1.5 hours✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 side kicks✅
  • DareBee DeadHang Challenge, Day 30✅… and, DONE🥳😎… Badge Day donation made🤑😎
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Reading: 10 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895 ✅
  • ❌Reading: The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, (Kindle), 1906
  • ❌Quilting
Noonish-
  • Nap: x2 hours✅…. So tired from yesterday’s drive and visit🥱
PM-
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 25: Cardio intervals + UpperBody Strength, 28 mins✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk:10 mins✅
  • ❌Ball throwing: husb did
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min gentle practice✅
 
Fri, May 31, 2024

AM- awake at 6:30am (PDT) to clear sky, 55 (F)degrees, with MED-HIGH pollen🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x35 mins✅
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
HVAC guy here for maint on our system; doggo crated for safety🫣
  • Quilting: x1+ hour✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: 10 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895 ✅
  • ❌Reading: The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, (Kindle), 1906
PM-
  • FitnessBlender FB Abs 30-day Challenge, Day 26: Butt & Abs Fat Blasting Cardio Interval Tabata Workout, 28 mins✅ And, DONE🥳😎
  • House chore✅
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Sat, June 1, 2024

AM- awake at 6:30am (PDT) after a solid 8 hours of sleep.
Outside is cloudy, 57 (F)degrees with MED-HIGH pollen🤧🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
Husb departed for 5 hour drive to his mom’s🚗💨
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Reading: 20 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895 ✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 backkicks✅
  • DareBee Negative Pull-up Challenge, Day 1✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Quilting: x1+ hour✅…. And, quilting part of the project is done! Now, I just have the binding to finish up😅
PM-
  • MORE Reading: 20 pages of The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 1895✅..and, DONE🥳. What a fun collection of jungle stories, primarily about Mowgli. But, also including other stories about animal characters we hadn’t known in the JungleBook from my youth. Definitely some conservationist themes integral to the stories, as well.
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min gentle practice✅
  • Reading: 30 mins The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, (Kindle), 1906✅
 
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