The Other Side

DorothyMH DorothyMH Logging since September 2022
Tues, Apr 15, 2025

AM- awake at 7am after 8ish hours of sleep🥱🛌😴Too much chocolate (brownie edible🫣)leaves my brain on overtime🤯
Outside is sunny, 42 (F)degrees feels like 38, with HIGH pollen☀️🌷🌾🤧🤧🤧
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
  • ❌Yard Clean up…husb did
  • House chore✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 squat hold punches✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅

  • Journaling✅
  • Dinner prep: spaghetti squash with hamburger tomatoe basil sauce
  • FB30, Day 9: 1.) Quick Total Body Cardio Warm Up, 6 mins✅ 2.) Kelli's Abs and Upper Body Strength Training Superset Workout, 27 mins ✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
  • Foot soak/pedi✅
  • Nap✅
  • Quilting✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Wed, Apr 16, 2025

This would have been my dad’s 92nd birthday; he died in 2014, before his 81st🥺

AM- awake at nearly 7am (PDT) after 9 horizontal hours and well over 8 hours of actual sleep.🛌🤩💤
Outside is sunny, with expected high winds this afternoon (ugh🤧), 50 (F) degrees and HIIIGGGHHH pollen☀️🌼🤧🤧🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 knee strikes✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Doggo to DayCare for kennel practice and training✅
  • House chore✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
Noonish-
  • Receive shipments for eco (electric) lawn mower & food freeze dryer✅
PM-
  • Fetch doggo from Daycare✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 10: Bodyweight Cardio to Burn Fat Fast, 36 mins✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
  • ❌Nap
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min flexibility practice✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Thurs, Apr 17, 2025

AM- awake at 6:45am (PDT) after a restless 8+ hour night with poor sleep😩
My anxiety level is sky high with the economy and US gov’t in chaos😖
Outside is sunny, a little hazy, 44 (F) degrees feels like 40, with HIGH pollen🌼☀️🤧🤧🤧
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Journaling✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
Noonish-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 11: Tank Top Toned Arms, Shoulders, & Upper Back, 25 mins✅
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Quilting✅
  • House chore✅
Stepson here for lawn care help
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Fri, Apr 18, 2025

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after 9 hours horizontal (and mostly sleep) time🛌😴
Outside is sunny, 42 (F)degrees feels like 39 with HIGH pollen☀️🌼🤧🤧🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
  • Short hike with husb + doggo✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 elbowstrikes✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 12: 1.) Cardio Warm Up for Lower Body Strength Workouts, 5 mins✅ 2.) Fat-Burning HIIT Cardio + Pilates Blend, 35 mins✅
PM-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • House chore✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Foot soak/ pedi✅
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
  • ❌Yard Clean up
  • ❌Quilting
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min gentle practice✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Sat, Apr 19, 2025

AM- awake just after 7am (PDT) having 8+ hours of solid sleep.🛌🤩😴
Outside is cloudy, raining, 54 (F)degrees with HIGH pollen.🌧️☔️🤧🤧🤧
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
  • Quilting✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 13: Daniel’s Favorite Lower Back Stretches for Stiff Sore Muscles, 18 mins✅
  • Journaling✅
PM-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
  • House chore✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • ❌Yard Clean up
  • ❌Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Sun, Apr 20, 2025

AM- awake before 7am (PDT) after Canoodles oozed up onto the bed at 6:30, cuz our room was getting too warm. Also, I had trouble calming down to sleep last night, so only had less than 7 hours of actual sleep.😫🥱
Outside is mostly sunny, 56 (F)degrees with HIGH pollen🌤️🤧🤧🤧
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • ❌Dinner prep…husb did
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • ❌Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay
  • ❌Quilting
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Mon, Apr 21, 2025

AM- awake before 7am (PDT) after not quite 8 hours of sleep.🛌🥱😴
Outside is windy, sunny, 48 (F)degrees feels like 45, with HIGH pollen🌬️☀️🤧
  • News update✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
  • ❌Yard Clean up
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 frontkicks✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Journaling✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 15: Brutal Fat Burning Cardio HIIT + Dynamic Total Body Strength Training, 30 mins✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 12 min post workout stretch✅
 
Tues, Apr 22, 2025

AM- awake just after 6am (PDT) after less than 8 hours of sleep.🛌😴🥱
Outside is mostly cloudy, 42 (F)degrees feels like 37, with MED-HIgh pollen⛅️🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Doggo to DayCare for kennel practice and training for the day of appliance installation✅
  • ❌Yard Clean up
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 side to side kicks✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish- unplanned REST DAY
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
Deliveries of appliances: clothes dryer & wall oven🚛

PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Fetch doggo from DayCare✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
  • ❌Quilting
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Wed, Apr 23, 2025

AM- awake at 6:30am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep🛌🥱💤.
Outside is clear, sunny, 41 (F)degrees, feels like 37 with MED-HIgh pollen🌞🕶️🤧🤧🤧
  • News update
  • ❌Yard Clean up…husb did
  • Journaling✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 16: Fat Burning Core & Cardio Intervals, 20 mins✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • Long phone convo with daughter✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 17: Fun Kickboxing & HIIT Cardio, 27 mins✅
  • ❌Quilting
PM-
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
  • Dinner prep✅….meeting stepson + gf for dinner🌷🥰
  • ❌NYT puzzle page
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Thurs, Apr 24, 2025

AM- awake at 6:30am (F) after 8ish hours of sleep🛌🥱; feeling super tired after all this “moving” around in our house with new appliances. Yesterday, I spent time spring cleaning a large window that I can never reach, (but now feel inspired to), and organizing the utility room. Will do more of the utility room today….🏠🧹🧽
Outside, it mostly sunny, 44 (F)degrees feels like 40, with MED-HIgh pollen🌤️🌷🤧🤧🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 hooks✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
  • FB30, Day 18: 1.) Total Body Warm Up Cardio, 5 mins✅; 2.) Six Pack Intense Abs Burn Out, 17 mins✅; 3.) Fluid Yoga Stretches for Flexibility, 5 mins✅
PM-
  • Dementia support group✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
Stepson here for yard work
  • ❌Nap
  • ❌Quilting
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Fri, Apr 25, 2025

AM- awake at 5:30am (PDT) for some weird reason, after only 7ish hours of sleep. Every 5-10 years or so, in our life together living in this house, my husb and I have gone thru these periods where we *simulate moving.* Since we both grew up moving a lot as kids, we have a built in antsiness about staying in one place. Our house is old and big, and we dearly love it, so leaving it to actually move has always presented some internal conflict for both of us, even as the antiness sets in. So, this moving simulation usually involves a thorough purging of stuff, then a reorganizing of the stuff we have kept. There is usually some sort of sleeping arrangement change, as well. This time around, we have added some new appliances to the mix, which feels even more we are like *moving into a new place,* and merely traded our sleeping positions on the bed, versus moving into different rooms to sleep separately. Anyway, as spring is here, this antiness has set in, along with the need to upgrade things before they break or get too expensive, and we get too old to install ourselves. It’s an exhausting process, moving is, even if it’s within the same house!🫣🤯
Outside is sunny, 43 (F)degrees, with MED-HIgh pollen🌞🤧🤧🤧

Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 2 min squat hold punches✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 19: 1.) Cardio Warm Up, 6 mins✅; 2.) Quick and Fearless Kettlebell Cardio Ultimate Total Body Fat Burn, 12 mins✅; 3.) Cool Down/Stretching for Busy People, 5 mins✅
  • ❌Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
  • ❌Quilting

  • Dinner prep✅
  • Long phone convo with daughter✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 12 min gentle practice✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Sat, Apr 26, 2025

AM- awake shortly after 6am (PDT) to the roar of fishing boat traffic on the lake. We went to bed late, after watching an old Guy Richie film “Rocknrolla” from 2008 that my stepson recommended the other night at dinner😝. It was a pretty fun heist movie. But, I only slept less than 7 hours, so…🥴🫣
Outside is partly cloudy with some haze, 58 (F) degrees with MED-HIgh pollen🌤️🌷🤧🤧🤧
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
Noonish-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 20: Upper Body Active Stretch for Arms, Shoulder, Chest, & Back, 14 mins✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • ❌Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay
  • ❌Quilting
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅…yay🥳
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min gentle practice with hip stretches✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Sun, Apr 27, 2025

AM- awake at 6ish am (PDT) after 8 hours of sleep🛌😴Managed to get all the appliances and new tools registered, yesterday. Lots of *making new accounts* to do this online. Boy, how things have changed. And, the wifi connections of appliances?! Sheesh!
Outside is mostly sunny, 50 (F)degrees with HIGH pollen🌤️🌷🤧🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Journaling✅
Short but intense phone call from my dementia-ridden mother-in-law😵‍💫

PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • ❌Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Mon, Apr 28, 2025

AM- woke up late at nearly 8am (PDT). Husb was snoring from 4 to 5 am, and I could not get his position changes to stop it. So, my sleep was broken up surrounding a dream I was having….😏My sleep time totaled close to 9 hours, though🥳
Outside is sunny, 60 (F) degrees with MED-HIgh pollen🌞the lilac is in full bloom😍🤧
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 side kicks✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
Noonish-
  • Visit stepmom’s doggo while she’s out of town for the day✅
PM-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 22: HIIT Cardio Sweatfest Butt and Thigh Workout, 30 mins✅
  • ❌Yard Clean up…husb did

  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • House chore✅
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Tues, Apr 29, 2025

AM- awake before 7am (PDT) after nearly 9 hours of sleep, yay!🛌😴🤩
Outside is cloudy, drizzling, 56 (F) degrees with MED-HIgh pollen🌧️☔️🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 backfists✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 23: Upper Body Strength Training & Core Supersets, 30 mins✅

  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
  • ❌Quilting
  • NYT puzzle page✅
Husb arrived home from a massive shopping trip to Costco….help unload and put away/store
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Wed, Apr 30, 2025

AM- awake before 7am (PDT) after not enough sleep. Husb was snorting uncontrollably for way too long last night, so I could not get to sleep. Between his excessive fatigue, the economic and mom-related stress, and allergies that he won’t treat, the snoring is, again, a problem, in this later stage of his life.And so it is also my problem🥴
I’ll definitely need a nap today…😵‍💫
Outside is sunny, breezy, 52 (F)degrees with MED-HIgh pollen☀️🕶️🤧🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Doggo to DayCare for kennel practice + training✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 24: HiiT Cardio & Abs, 30 mins✅
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Fetch doggo from DayCare✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • House chore✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min gentle practice✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Thurs, May 1, 2025

AM- awake at 6:40am (PDT) after at least a decent 8 hours of sleep…no waking up to or being kept awake by snoring, YAY!🤩💤🛌
Outside is sunny, 52 (F)degrees with MED-HIgh pollen☀️😎🌷🪻🤧🤧🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 overhead punches✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 25: Upper Body Strength Superset + Cardio, 30 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • News update✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Fri, May 2, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am (PDT) after nearly 9 hours of horizontal time. I spent an hour around 4:30am trying to get back to sleep after a particularly disturbing dream of mob-like violence that involved me🤯😖🤔. I can just chalk that up to watching too much Mobland on Prime, Andor on Disney, along with reading the news about the US administration😓
Outside is sunny, hazy, 59 (F)degrees with MED-HIgh pollen🌞🪻🤧🤧
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
  • Short hike with husb & doggo✅
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
Noonish-
  • Fighting Cancer: 50 knee strikes + 50 elbow strikes✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, 8 week program: Day 26: 1.) Jumpstart Cardio, 5 mins✅; 2.) Brutal Butt & Thigh Sculpting - Drop it Like a Squat, 30 mins (incl cooldown/stretch)✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min gentle practice with inner thigh stretches✅
  • Foot soak/pedi✅
Long phone convo with daughter
  • ❌Quilting
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Sat, May 3, 2025

AM- awakened at 5:45am (PDT) by the roar of the stupid bass boats racing out to their fav fishing spots on the lake. Then I had a headache, then the heat came on. It was hopeless. I struggled to at least stay horizontal, until finally giving up at 7, and getting up for coffee and to start the day…😓Definitely need a nap today🥱
Outside is partly cloudy, 64 (F)degrees with MED-HIgh pollen🌤️🪻🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • Journaling✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 27: Quick and Easy Pilates Toning and Flexibility, 15 min✅
PM-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • ❌Yard Clean up
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Sun, May the Fourth be with you, 2025🥷🏻

AM- awake at 7:15am (PDT) after 9 horizontal hours, and just one part of an hour being awake in the wee hours….🤦🏼So, that’s a bit over 8 hours of sleep. I won’t complain about that, since exercise yesterday was so limited.🛌😴
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • ❌Quilting
  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • House chore: desk work til done✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Mon, 💃🏽Cinco de Mayo🕺🏿, 2025

AM- awake around 7 am (PDT) after a restless night of waking up every 2 hours and sleeping super light. Another crazy vivid and weirdly dream, this time involving Elon Musk😵‍💫☠️🤮I will definitely need a nap today, as this is a heavy Leg Day in my FB program🦿🍗
Outside is mostly sunny, 51 (F)degrees with MED-HIgh pollen🌞🌹🤧🤧🤧
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 palm strikes✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 29: Non-Stop Endurance Total Body Kettlebell Workout, 30 mins✅
PM-
  • ❌Quilting
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Tues, May 6, 2025

AM- awake just before 7am (PDT) after a little over 8 hours of actual sleep. It surprises me that I slept as solid as I did, because I took a dab of prednisone yesterday morning to tamp down my body-wide allergy/inflammation. It usually affects me 12 hours later; which is why I try to take it at night, when it’s necessary, so that that effect hits during the day. This time, I guess I was so tired, it didn’t matter😏😝🥱
Outside is mostly sunny, 51 (F)degrees with MED-HIgh pollen🌤️🌷🤧🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Doggo to DayCare for kennel practice and training✅
  • Out of town eye exams for both of us✅
  • ❌Mobility, etc
Noonish-
  • Lunch out of town with husb before heading home✅…this was a nice lunch date with car ride around the Basin area🥰
PM-
  • Fetch doggo from DayCare✅
  • Journaling✅
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 30: Cardio Kickboxing Cardio Intervals to Burn Fat, 20 mins✅
  • ❌House chore
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Wed, May 7, 2025

AM- awake at 7ish (PDT) after 8+ hours of sleep, but restless early morning….🥱🫩😴
Outside is mostly sunny, 54 (F)degrees with MED-HIgh pollen🌤️🌷🤧🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 1 min squat hold punches(= 100 punches)✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958,
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • FB30, Day 31: Bodyweight-Only, Fat-Burning HIIT/Cardio + Total Body Toning, 30 mins✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Thurs, May 8, 2025

AM- awake before 7am (PDT), after 8+ hours of mediocre-to-poor sleep. There is a problematic tendon in my left hip from when I slipped on icy snow on my PCT hike back in 2017 that has been bugging me non-stop for a couple weeks. It’s disturbing my sleep. My plant medicine is helpful, but isn’t completely eliminating it. Nearly all of my standing lower body movements in workouts are currently modified, so as not to make it worse. Ugh. Getting old is the pits🥴Anyway, disrupted sleep is the result.🫩
Outside is mostly sunny, 50 (F)degrees with MED-HIgh pollen🌤️🌷🤧🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 side kicks✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Dinner prep✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 32: At-Home Cardio with No Equipment, 30 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
  • Doggo to vet for annual vaccines✅
Step son here with gf to mow etc
  • ❌Quilting
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Fri, May 9, 2025

AM- awake at 630am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep. I took a whopping dose of CBD + ibuprofen last night just to get to sleep. However, staying asleep was then a problem🥱Maybe today will be less busy as we wrap up the buying to overstock for the impending financial melt-down we see coming….maybe I can grab a decent nap later…🫣🫩
Outside is partly cloudy, 49 (F)degrees feels like 47, with MED-HIgh pollen.🌤️🌷🤧🤧
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
  • ❌Journaling
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 30 elbow strikes✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅

  • FB30, Day 33: Total Body Toning Strength + Cardio= You Versus You, 35 mins✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Sat, May 10, 2025

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after nearly 9 hours of horizontal time. Most of that was restless sleep, but, at least there was no snoring involved. Although I did dream: I was flying with a male grandchild (I do not have one) to meet up with my granddaughter’s father….wtf is that about😜🥴🤦🏼….oh well, I feel okay emotionally, but my left hip still keeps me from comfortable sleeping positions. Last night, I had high doses of plant medicine to get a little comfy for a while🫣😴
Outside is mostly cloudy, 57 (F)degrees with MED-HIgh pollen🌥️🌷🤧🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • ❌Journaling
  • ❌Yard Clean up
  • Doggo walk✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
  • ❌Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay
  • ❌Quilting
PM-
  • FB30, (optional) Day 34: Full-Body, Yoga-Infused Stretching, 13 mins✅
  • Dinner prep✅

  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Sun, May 11, 2025
🌷Mothers Day🌷

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep. We had a late night, watching “A Complete Unknown,” the biopic about Bob Dylan with Timotheé Chalamet. We liked it😍It had good music, and that kid did a fine job of acting😎However, since it was not a miniseries, it ran overtime as a movie, and could have had way more depth had it been formatted differently. The historical pieces added great elements of authenticity. I highly recommend it.
Outside is cloudy, 59 (F)degrees with MED-HIgh pollen☁️🌷🤧🤧🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
  • ❌Yard Clean up…husb did
  • House chore✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
PM-
  • ❌Quilting
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Mon, May 12, 2025

AM- awake at 7:30am (PDT) after 9 horizontal hours. I was able for an hour between 3:30 and 4:30 this morning, with difficulty settling back down to sleep. So, it was only 8 *actual sleep* hours.🫣🥱😴No weird dreams, tho, just thinking about The Last of Us episode we watched😵‍💫
Outside is foggy, partly cloudy, 50 (F) degrees with MED-HIgh pollen🌤️🌷🤧
  • News update✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 30 sec backfists✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅

  • Journaling✅
  • ❌Yard Clean up…husb did
Noonish-
  • House chore✅…more spring cleaning: WINDOWS😜😎

PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Tues, May 13, 2025

AM- awake at 5:40am (PDT) after nearly 8 hours of solid sleep🛌💤🥱
Outside is cloudy, raining occasionally, with only MEDium pollen, yay! ☁️💧🌷🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Dinner prep✅
  • House chore✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅

  • Dog trainer here for review/ fine tune session✅
Noonish-
  • FB30, Day 36: Legs On Fire! Butt with Fat Burning HIIT Cardio, 25 mins✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Meet stepson + gf for dinner in town✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
 
Jaga said:
Do you have any started quilting project right now? or something special in mind?
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Ah, yes, I’m working on patching the first quilt I made as an adult from 35 years ago. My daughter has had it all these years and literally worn it thread bare in many places. She is 40 now, didn’t want to stop using it, so it’s been getting rehabilitated on my sewing table since Sept🫣 Many days I feel unmotivated or simply run out of hours to focus on the repair job. It’s a lot more tedious than building a quilt from scratch….😜
In addition, there’s a work in process on my wall.
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Wed, May 14, 2025

AM- awake at 6:30am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep. Although I was up 3 times, I was able to go back to sleep pretty quickly, as long as I didn’t try to lay on either side.😏

Outside is partly cloudy, 53 (F)degrees with MED-HIgh pollen🌤️🌹🤧🤧🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion ✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 squat hold punches✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
  • Doggo to DayCare for kennel practice and training✅

  • Yard Clean up✅
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 37: Upper Body Strength & Flexibility, 30 mins✅
PM-
  • Fetch doggo from DayCare✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Thurs, May 15, 2025

AM- awake just after 6am (PDT) with 8ish hours of fair sleep. I think I am just becoming numb to the left hip pain…ugh….Or, it could be the BCAAs I restarted are helping. I had stopped them a couple years ago, for a weight gain issue. At that time, I had noticed an uptick in my various hand pains when I stopped them, but just worked thru that: took more plant medicine, etc. But, now, with this hip tendon, I decided to see if they might help. Whether I just *think* they are, or they actually are? It doesn’t matter, if it feels less painful🫣
Outside is partly cloudy, 55 (F)degrees, with MED-HIgh polllen.🌤️🌹🤧🤧🤧
  • Doggo walk✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 overhead punches✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Journaling✅

  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
  • Dinner prep✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • FB30, 8 week program, Day 38: Intense at Home HIIT Cardio + Abs on Fire, 30 mins✅
  • Foot soak/pedi✅
  • ❌Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay
  • ❌Quilting
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Fri, May 16, 2025

AM- awake at 6am (PDT) after 8 hours of decent sleep, with just a short time of hip discomfort around midnight, trying to find a comfy position😏🛌💤

This morning, I had a dream. We were coming home from a road trip pulling an RV, to a house I had shared with my daughter’s father years ago. We found the front door wide open. Inside was an older woman who said she was a friend of one of my daughter’s friends, who had recommended us to adopt her little doggo. Her husb had died and the doggo was his. She was moving to assisted living, and could not take the doggo there. Since the house was wide open, we were hesitant to believe her, and my husb was SUPER suspicious. He had wanted to “get the Kleeg (sp?) lights out,” along with a megaphone and a gun🫣. I wanted to just call the cops. Last week, IRL, I had found the neighbors’ front door wide open and DID call the cops, cuz the neighbors live on the west side full time, and this was a second home. I’m sure that was the source material for the dream😏😜🤔
Outside, is cloudy, breezy, dampish, 54 (F)degrees with MEDium pollen☁️🌬️🤧
  • News update✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 elbowstrikes✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Journaling✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 39: Fat Burning Tank Top Arms Cardio Intervals + Upper Body Strength Training, 34 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Sat, May 17, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am (PDT), after 8ish hours of (mostly)sleep🛌💤We stayed up late watching Rogue One (movie from 2016) to complete our marathon follow up of the Andor series. This show followed Cassian Andor in the Rebel Alliance for the 5 years prior to Rogue One. It’s a good show, streaming on Disney. I highly recommend it😎
Outside is partly sunny, 55 (F)degrees with MED-LOW pollen!🥳🌷🤧Rain expected today, too, yay!💧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Noonish-
  • FB30, Day 40: Lower Body Strength + HiiT, 30 mins✅
  • FB30, Day 41: Pilates + Yoga Blend, 15 mins✅
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
  • Journaling✅
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
 
DorothyMH said:
Ah, yes, I’m working on patching the first quilt I made as an adult from 35 years ago. My daughter has had it all these years and literally worn it thread bare in many places. She is 40 now, didn’t want to stop using it, so it’s been getting rehabilitated on my sewing table since Sept🫣 Many days I feel unmotivated or simply run out of hours to focus on the repair job. It’s a lot more tedious than building a quilt from scratch….😜
In addition, there’s a work in process on my wall.
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Beautiful! It looks so complex.
And such a heart warming story :heartsit:
I'm a total beginner in quilting, have an idea/ a project that is still waiting for me as well. Hopefully in the next raining day I can just sit and continue a bit.
 
Jaga said:
Beautiful! It looks so complex.
And such a heart warming story :heartsit:
I'm a total beginner in quilting, have an idea/ a project that is still waiting for me as well. Hopefully in the next raining day I can just sit and continue a bit.
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The old quilt that is in rehab was actually a log cabin variation called Lover’s Knot. I pieced it on the machine. I remember that my machine broke mid-way thru, so I *had to* buy another one😂The actual quilting was just around the 3 borders “in the ditch” by machine, and the rest was tied. This rehab job is, indeed, way more complex, because I am machine stitching rectangles across seam lines, and through all layers, like bandaids. And, I am adding hearts scattered around, where more thinning spots are, to really add a “scrappy look” to it. All with the intent of brightening it up, since it has faded significantly over the years. I’ll lay it out on the bed and get a better picture here, soon. Honestly, your interest is kind of inspiring me to get back on it. I need to finish it up by the end of June, so I can take it back, and give it to my daughter at our family reunion.🥰
 
Sun, May 18, 2025

***Mt St Helens Day***🌋

It’s been 45 years since the thing erupted, and I remember SO well where I was, and what I was doing (high school nonsense)!😜
Awake at 6am (PDT) after 8 hours of sleep🛌💤
Outside is partly cloudy, breezy, 50(F) degrees with MED-HIgh pollen🌤️🌬️🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Meet younger brother + his wife (they live on the west side), + my stepmom + her husb here in town, for delayed Mother’s Day brunch✅
  • ❌Dinner prep… husb did
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page
  • Nap
  • Journaling✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • House chore✅
  • ❌Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Mon, May 19, 2025

AM- awakened around 6am (PDT) by Canoodles oozing up onto the bed and wedging his 100lb bulk in between us😂. After that, it was useless to try to sleep longer. That was 8 hours, anyway…🛌💤
Outside is blustery, cloudy, 45 (F) degrees feels like 40, with MED-HIgh pollen🌤️🌬️🌷🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 30 sidekicks ✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • News update✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 43: HIIT + Cardio Sweatfest Butt + Thigh, 30 mins✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • House chore✅
  • Quilting✅… I got some more done on the rehab project, yay🤩
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min gentle practice✅
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Tues, May 20, 2025

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after 9 horizontal hours but pretty lousy actual sleep. I don’t know what happened, cuz my hip was less uncomfy yesterday overall. But, I still struggled to stay asleep and comfortable in bed. I did use less (than I prefer) plant medicine last night…maybe that was it🫣🤷🏼‍♀️
Outside is sunny, breezy, 56 (F)degrees with MED-HIgh pollen☀️🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 20 crunch kicks✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • House chore✅
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 44: Upper Body Strength+ Cardio, 30 mins✅
  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • ❌Nap
  • Quilting✅
  • ❌NYT puzzle page
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 18 min gentle practice with flexibility boost✅
 
Wed, May 21, 2025

AM- awake at nearly 7:30am (PDT) after 9 hours of (mostly) sleep, yay!🤩🛌💤. I took a hefty dose of ibuprofen before bed, to add to plant medicine pain relief. 💊
Outside is clear, calm, sunny, 55 (F)degrees with MED-HIgh pollen.☀️🌷🤧🤧
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
  • Doggo to DayCare for SpaDay✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 front kicks✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅a

  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 45: Fat Burning High Intensity Interval Training with Warm Up & Cool Down, 20 mins✅
  • Lawn mowing: partial (husb did other half)✅
PM-
  • Fetch doggo from SpaDay/DayCare ✅
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Thurs, May 22, 2025

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after 9 hours of horizontal time but pretty lousy sleep due to left hip pain. Lots of dreaming when I did sleep. My (deceased) father, my granddaughter, my house, many other strange (to me) people involved.
Outside, is cloudy, 55 (F)degrees with MED-LOW pollen🤩🤧
This morning, I have my delayed morning meds and coffee in favor of getting my ordered fasting lab work drawn at the clinic🫣☕️
  • Journaling✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
  • House chore✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 1 min squat hold punches✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Day 46: Low Impact Recovery Cardio, 25 mins✅
  • Reading: (Kindle) Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay✅
PM-
  • Dementia support group meeting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Yard Clean up
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Dinner prep…husb did
  • ❌Nap
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min gentle practice with inner thigh stretches✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Reading: Elizabeth the Great, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1958
 
Mamatigerj said:
I hope all your lab results are good.:pose:
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Me too! It’s a standard annual thing, to make sure I am still okay to continue my hormone replacement therapy. Last year, the provider claimed she saw macrocytic anemia and told me to take vit B supplements. I already take a senior multi vit, so husb just added in nutritional yeast to the morning cereal mixture. There’s a ton of B vits in that. I’m sure it’s all fine.🙂
 
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