The Other Side

DorothyMH DorothyMH Logging since September 2022
Fri, July 5, 2024

AM- awake too early at 6:30am (PDT), after a poor away-from-home night’s sleep. Outside is sunny, 60 (F) degrees, with MED pollen🤧
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
  • Reading: 20+ pages The Reversal, by Michael Connelly, 2010✅
Noon-PM—
  • Walking: ~6 mile total with granddaughter in pike street market area + walk to dinner✅
  • MORE Reading: ~20 pages The Reversal, by Michael Connelly, 2010✅
 
Sat, July 6, 2024

AM- awake for the final time after 6am after a rather apocalyptic dream😵‍💫. Outside, it is sunny, 60+ (F) degrees with MEDium pollen.
  • Walking total: 4 miles✅
Another travel day after getting granddaughter onto her plane to Germany.

It was a ate night, getting to daughter’s condo in Portland with her at nearly 11pm, cleaning up, and trying to cool off the condo to sleep.🥵
 
Sun, July 7, 2024

AM- didn’t get to sleep until after midnight, due to long travel day, heat, late arrival to daughter’s condo, condo clean up, showers and trying to cool off. Woke up at 3ish with a headache, managed to sleep some more til 7am (PDT)

Another travel day with husb coming from his mom’s, the hour south to Portland this morning to fetch me. We will drive the 5 hours back to our home after we take daughter to bkfst for brief visit….

A good sized rock hit the windshield of our new car and left a chip with spidering just before before the first signal light coming into town. Grrrrr😣

Arrival home late afternoon, unpacking, calling mom in law & daughter, making easy dinner and trying to regroup….
 
Mon, July 8, 2024

AM- awake after 6am (PDT) after only 7ish hours of sleep. But, I need to get out and mow before the heat sets in. Outside, it is already 70+ (F) degrees with MED-HI pollen🤧🤧
  • Lawn mowing: x1+ hour✅… followed by allergy mitigation steps🤧
  • Arrange for windshield repair✅
  • Fetch doggo from kennel/grocery stop✅
Noonish-
  • Yard Clean up: x25 mins✅
  • Canoe water play: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Doggo walk
PM-
  • Reading: ~30 pages The Reversal, by Michael Connelly, 2010✅
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Doggo walk…not at 100 (F) degrees🥵🤯😱
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min Hatha practice✅
 
Tues, July 9, 2024

AM- awake just after 7am (PDT) to sun, 75 (F)degrees, with MED-HI pollen🤧🤧It was a struggle to wake up. Canoe oozed onto the bed and made us very hot, so gave up in order to cool off.🥵
  • Yard Clean up: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: 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 side kicks✅
  • Elliptical x30 mins✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Quilting: x1+ hour✅
  • Reading: 20 pages The Reversal, by Michael Connelly, 2010✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Ball throwing in the shade + short walk: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Wed, July 10, 2024

AM- awake at nearly 7am (PDT) after 8 hours of sleep, but my eyelids weigh a ton. Hoping coffee helps🫣
Outside is 79 (F)degrees with MED- HI pollen🤧🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x40 mins✅…after a hosing off, so he could be cooler
  • Journaling: x10 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: 100 front kicks ✅
  • Elliptical x35 mins✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBod✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Quilting: x30 mins✅
PM-
  • Reading: 30 pages The Reversal, by Michael Connelly, 2010✅
  • Nap: x1+ hour
  • ❌Dinner prep.. husb did
  • Ball throwing in shade + short walk after hosing down my black doggo for heat🥵: x30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min gentle practice✅
 
Thurs, July 11, 2024

AM- awake just after 6am (PDT) to sun, smoky haze on the horizon, 73 (F)degrees and MED pollen🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x45 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- 50 side kicks✅
  • Elliptical x40 mins✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
  • Reading: Prologue of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman✅
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
Internet guy here to help change out cat cable

PM-
  • Reading: 30 pages The Reversal, by Michael Connelly, 2010✅
Windshield repairman here; says it’ll full-on crack if he puts any pressure on it to fill the chip, so we need an entirely new windshield….😩🤑
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Dinner prep… got take -out
  • Front yard ball throwing in the shade
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Sat, July 13, 2024

AM- awake at nearly 7am (PDT) to blue sky, smoky haze, 74 (F) degrees, and MED pollen🤧🤧
Prepping to drive to Seattle today for my younger brother’s wedding.

Noonish- pick up stepson & his gf and drive 3 hours to Seattle.

PM- arrive to our hotel, rest a little, dress up and then drive to wedding venue. Lots of fun family visiting. It was a quick ceremony, then we drove to a waterfront restaurant where a big room was reserved for the reception/dinner. More visiting with my nephews (sons of both of my deceased older brothers).
 
Mon, July 15, 2024

AM- awake at nearly 8am (PDT) after a restless night with lots of wake ups😵‍💫. Outside is sunny, hazy, 76 (F)degrees and MED pollen🤧
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
  • Fetch doggo from Spa✅
  • Canoe ball throwing: x20 mins✅
  • ❌Doggo walk
  • Reading: 5 pages The Reversal, by Michael Connelly, 2010✅… and, DONE😎🥳. This was another exciting and quick case in the Lincoln Lawyer series. Good read & fun relief from anxiety of 24-hour news cycle😛
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender Transform with Erica, Day 1: Lower Body Giant Sets, 40 mins✅
  • ❌Quilting
PM-
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Front yard shaded ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Tues, July 16, 2024

AM- awakened at 6ish by a big black doggo oozing up onto the bed to snuggle🥰. Slept better last night, thank the gawds. But, woke up super sore in the quads and glutes😅🦿
Outside is sunny, hazy, 71 (F) degrees with MED pollen🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x35 mins✅
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo trainer here to work with husb + Canoe: x1 hour✅
Noonish-
  • Desk work: x2hours✅
PM-
  • FitnessBlender Transform with Erica, Day 2: Upper Body with Kickboxing Finisher incl Tabata Intervals to Sculpt the Shoulders, Chest & Triceps, 35 mins✅
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
  • ❌Quilting:
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Shady yard ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 10 min gentle practice✅
 
Wed, July 17, 2024

AM- up at the ungawdly hour of 3:30am (PDT) to take husb to train station in next town. He will ride to Seattle, transfer to southbound train to neighboring town by his mom’s, then Uber/Lyft the remaining miles to mom’s. Plan is to drive previously broken car home that he fixed 2 weeks ago. As I was waking up, the train status was very late, so….😵‍💫🤷🏼
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Take husb to train station✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x40 mins✅
  • Nap: x3 hours✅
Noonish-😵‍💫

PM-
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 sidekicks ✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Quilting❌
  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
  • ❌House chore
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Shady front yard ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min restorative practice✅
 
Fri, July 19, 2024

AM- awake after 8am (PDT), for nearly 10 hours of sleep!!🤯🫣. As old as I am, it still amazes me that more sleep is so regenerative, and how much more I seem to need with age😵‍💫
Outside is sunny, hazy, 82 (F) degrees with MED pollen🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x20 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x35 min✅
  • 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: 100 front kicks ✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Fetch CSA box in town✅
  • FitnessBlender Transform with Erica, Day 4: Upper Body Pull Strength with Bodyweight Burnout- Unilateral and Bilateral Exercises for the Back, Biceps, and Rear Delts, 35 mins✅
PM-
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Shady front yard ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • Phone call with daughter: x30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20min gentle practice✅
 
Sleep can be so important. I am lucky that sleep is very rarely an issue (and if it does, it generally means something not good is brewing in my body, most often of the Irritable Colon kind) ; but I noted that since my heart surgery, I do need nearly one hour more of sleep, and sometimes 1h30 if I have been pushing it.
 
Sat, July 20, 2024

AM- awake before 7am (PDT) after a tad more than 8 hours’ sleep.😅
Outside is sunny, smoky/hazy, 72 (F)degrees, with MED pollen🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x20 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x35 mins✅
  • FitnessBlender Transform with Erica, Day 5: Power Yoga-Inspired Sculpting Flow, 35 mins ✅
Noonish-
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • Shady front yard ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • Quilting:
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
PetiteSheWolf said:
Sleep can be so important. I am lucky that sleep is very rarely an issue (and if it does, it generally means something not good is brewing in my body, most often of the Irritable Colon kind) ; but I noted that since my heart surgery, I do need nearly one hour more of sleep, and sometimes 1h30 if I have been pushing it.
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In the last year, I’ve noticed that I don’t recover from travel, a hard workout, any major emotional stress UNLESS I either have 9-10 hours of sleep, OR get a 1+ hour nap during the day. It’s really remarkable how that 1+ hour additional affects my chronic pain issues, ability to concentrate, and ability to calm myself.
When I was younger, I had nightly trouble sleeping. Not any more. I have that problem sorted with a good sleep prep hygiene routine. Now, it seems like just allowing the adequate amount of TIME in the 24 hour day to get enough sleep is the larger issue🫣I hate to lose time, spend time, waste time “just” sleeping. But, it really is necessary to be the least worst person I can be. (Also known as the best person I can be🤪)
 
Sun, July 21, 2024

AM- awake at 7ish to a LOT more smoky haze, 80 (F)degrees, lousy air quality, but only MED pollen.😵‍💫🤧
  • Journaling: x25 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk at park w/ball throwing: x20 mins✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY

PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Quilting: x2 hours✅
  • ❌Doggo walk…too hot (102 F degrees)
  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min gentle practice✅
 
Mon, July 22, 2024

AM- awake around 7am (PDT) to cloudy haze, 75 (F)degrees with MED pollen🤧
  • 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: EotD— 60 sec backfists✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender Transform with Erica, Day 6: Total Body Strength, Power & kCardio for Metabolic Conditioning, 45 mins✅
PM-
  • Reading: Ch 1 of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022✅
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Doggo walk…. husb did
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Tues, July 23, 2024

AM- awake after 7am (PDT), after a restless night. I had ONE extra piece of chocolate yesterday, and my mind was busy ALL night😵‍💫

Outside is less hazy, sunny, 79 (F) degrees with MED pollen🤧

Windshield replacement guy here to do the job.
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • Lawn mowing: x1.5 hours✅… followed by allergy mitigation
Noonish- unplanned REST DAY
  • In-town errands✅
PM-
  • Drop car to mechanic for brakes ✅
  • Reading: 5 pages of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022✅
  • Nap: x2 hours✅
  • Journaling: x20 mins✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Doggo walk… too hot
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga…. too tired and my foot is very sore😩
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Wed, July 24, 2024

AM- awake after 6am (PDT) after another rough night with foot pain and allergic inflammation😩
Outside is sunny, less hazy, 68 (F) degrees, with MED pollen.🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x20 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • Doggo to daycare for kennel practice✅
  • Drop new car at dealership for recall remediation✅
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 frontkicks✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • House chore✅
  • FitnessBlender Transform with Erica, Day 7: Upper Body Tri Sets with Abs Finisher for Function, Strength, & Definition, 49 min✅
PM-
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • Fetch doggo from daycare and new car from dealership✅
  • ❌Dinner prep… husb did
  • Front yard shady ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Journaling
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Thurs, July 25, 2024

AM- awake just after 6am (PDT) to wind, blue sky and little haze, although wild fires are bad here in eastern WA state. But, the wind is blowing the smoke away from us at this time….
  • Journaling: x20 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x35 mins✅
  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
  • ❌Quilting
Noonish-
Lunch with senior friend

PM-
  • House chore✅
Stepson here to trim lawn
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • FitnessBlender Transform with Erica, Day 8: Bored Easily Bodyweight Cardio, Glutes, and Functional Core, 45 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Fri, July 26, 2024

AM- awake at nearly 8am (PDT) after almost 9 hours of sleep. Outside is sunny with fire smoke/haze, 70 (F)degrees, with MED pollen.🤧
  • Journaling: x20 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x35 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 frontkicks✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Fetch CSA box in town✅
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
  • ❌Quilting
  • Ball throwing: x45 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Sat, July 27, 2024

AM- awake around 6:30am (PDT) to cloudy haze, 63 (F)degrees and MED pollen🤧
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x40 mins✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
  • FitnessBlender Transform with Erica, Day 9: Bored Easily Full Body with Isometric Burnout, Compound Strength and Power Supersets, 50 mins✅
PM-
  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
  • ❌Quilting
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • Ball throwing: x20 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min gentle practice✅
 
Sun, July 28, 2024

AM- awake too early just after 6am (PDT), to smoky haziness outside, 66 (F)degrees, and MED pollen🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x45 mins✅
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Desk work: x1+ hour✅
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender Transform with Erica, Day 10: Total Body Power Pilates Core-Focused Routine for Long, Lean Muscles, 45 mins✅….and, DONE😎🥳
PM-
  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
  • ❌Quilting
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 18 min gentle practice✅
 
Mon, July 29, 2024

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after NINE hours of sleep. Such a difference an hour makes😅🥳.

Outside is partly cloudy, hazy, 68 (F) degrees with MED pollen🤧

  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x40 mins✅
  • Journaling: x15 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: 50 frontkicks✅
  • Elliptical x30 mins✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: Finish Ch 1, part of Ch 2 of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Nap: x1+ hour✅
  • Ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Tues, July 30, 2024

AM- awake at 7:30am (PDT) after 8 hours of solid sleep. My light was out by 10pm, but my feet were SO painful, that it took another 1.5 hours to get comfortable enough to sleep😩. Outside is partly cloudy, 69 (F) degrees with MED-LOW pollen🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x50 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Lawn mowing: x1+ hour✅…. followed by allergy mitigation
PM-
  • House chore ✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
  • ❌Journaling
  • ❌Quilting
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • ❌Doggo walk… husb did
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min Hatha practice✅
 
Wed, July 31, 2024

AM- awake before 7am (PDT) after a restless night from prednisone and pseudofed meds yesterday.

Outside is sunny, expected to be hot, but is currently 65 (F)degrees with MED pollen.🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x45 mins✅
  • Doggo to daycare for kennel practice✅
  • Journaling: x15 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 sidekicks ✅
  • Elliptical x35 mins✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Thurs, Aug 1, 2024

AM- awake after 6am (PDT) to sun, smoky haze, 70 (F)degrees, with MED pollen🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x40 mins✅
Husb departed for 5 hour drive to see his mom.
  • Desk work: x2+ hours✅
  • Journaling: x15 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— 60 sec punches✅
  • Elliptical x35 mins✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min restorative practice✅
  • ❌LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody
  • ❌Foam-rolling back/lower body
PM-
  • ❌Reading: X pages The Fifth Witness, by Michael Connelly, 2011, 421 pages, 15 pages/day to finish by Aug 31
  • Front yard shady ball throwing: x 30 mins✅
  • Reading: finish Ch 2, all of Ch 3 of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌House chore
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk: x10 mins✅
 
Fri, Aug 2, 2024

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) with Canoodles rubbing his flat head against my back upon the bed. Outside sunny with smoky haze, 75 (F)degrees with MED pollen.
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x45 mins✅
  • ❌Journaling
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/body bar✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 sidekicks ✅
  • Elliptical x30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min Yin practice✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • ❌LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody
  • ❌Foam-rolling back/lower body
Noonish-
  • Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022✅
  • Quilting: x30 mins✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Nap: 1 hour✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Water and indoor ball play: x30 mins✅
 
Sat, Aug 3, 2024

AM- awake and sweating at 5:30am (PDT)🥵It’s only gotten down to 75 (F)degrees over night, and it is partly cloudy, very hazy, with MED pollen🤧
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x45 mins✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/body bar✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 sidekicks ✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: Ch 4 of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022✅
  • House chore✅
  • ❌Quilting
PM-
Husb arrived home after 5 hour drive from his mom’s
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • Doggo walk: 15 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min Hatha practice✅
 
Sun, Aug 4, 2024

AM- awake at 8am (PDT) after a NINE hour night of sleep🥳 Outside is partly cloudy, breezy, and already nearly 80 (F)degrees🥵With MED pollen.🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x45 mins✅
Noonish- Planned REST DAY
  • Journaling: x25 mins✅
  • Prep some things for my trip to Portland this next week✅
PM-
  • Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022✅
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Ball throwing: x30 mins
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Mon, Aug 5, 2024

AM- slept until 7:30am (PDT), but I had trouble getting to sleep, so the actual *hours slept* was about 6, I think…😒 And, then a thunder storm woke me up at 5ish this morning😤
Outside is partly cloudy, 75 (F) degrees, with MED pollen🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x45 mins✅
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/body bar✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 front kicks ✅
  • Elliptical x25 mins✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022✅
PM-
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • House chore✅
  • Ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min gentle practice✅
 
Tues, Aug 6, 2024

AM- awake about 6:30am (PDT) to sun, smoky haze, some clouds, 70(F) degrees, with MED pollen.🤧
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x35 mins✅
  • ❌Journaling
  • ❌Quilting
  • Trainer here to work with doggo & husb to prep for my upcoming absence✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022✅
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Doggo walk…too hot and doggo is pretty tired from training
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min gentle practice✅
 
Wed, Aug 7, 2024

AM- awake at 4:30am and struggled until 6 to get back to sleeep. Then I woke up at nearly 8am (PDT) to hazy air, blue sky, 75(F)degrees, and LOW -MED pollen👏🏼🤧. Even tho it is down, I am still quite snotty, sneezy, and stuffy. I think it was the cut grass, on Monday, which although my husb did the work, I apparently inhaled, regardless.😫😫😫
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x25 mins✅
  • Doggo to daycare for kennel practice✅
  • Journaling: x20 mins✅
  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
Noonish-
  • Desk work✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/body bar✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 sidekicks ✅
  • Elliptical x30 mins✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • ❌Quilting
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Fetch doggo from daycare✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Thurs, Aug 8, 2024

AM- awake at 6am (PDT) to blue sky, haze, 65 (F)degrees and LOW-MED pollen🤧
  • Journaling: x20 mins✅
  • Quilting❌
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x40 mins✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • Travel day- drive 1.5 hours to catch bus for 4hour ride to downtown Portland to be picked up by my daughter

  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
PM-
  • ❌Dinner prep
  • Walk: 1.5> miles✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Sat, Aug 10, 2024

AM- awake at 7ish after another late and poor night’s sleep😩. This is the point where I confirm that without enough exercise, I can neither feel good during the day, nor sleep well at night.😵‍💫
Today, I plan to fix that problem😎🤩
Outside is partly cloudy, 68 (F) degrees with LOW-MED pollen🤧
  • Journaling: x20 mins✅
  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
Noonish-
  • Town errands✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Walking: 2.6 miles✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Sun, Aug 11, 2024

AM- wake at 8:30am (PDT) to partly cloudy skies, 62 (F)degrees, and LOW-MED pollen🤧
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
Noonish- planned REST DAY

PM-
  • Stationary bike riding: 5 mins x 2 ✅
  • Help daughter to muck out granddaughter’s room: all day✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Walk: 1.5+ miles✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Mon, Aug 12, 2024

AM- awake at 7:30am (PDT), after a late night but decent sleep. Outside is mostly cloudy, 61 (F)degrees, with LOW-MED pollen🤧
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
  • More help for daughter to catch up in her condo✅
  • ❌Reading: Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America, (Kindle), by Maggie Haberman, 2022
Noonish-
  • Walking: 1.5+ miles✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Drive daughter to Portland airport for her school trip✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
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