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DorothyMH DorothyMH Logging since September 2022
Fri, Oct 31, 2025

***🧙‍♀️👻🎃Halloween🎃👻🧙‍♀️***



AM- awakened at 6:15am (PDT) by Canoodles at my face saying he was awake🥹🫣😍. I petted his chest and he went back to bed, but I was awake now with a splitting headache. Not enough sleep (less than 7 hours!) due to a late night, and sugary snack before bed. Bad combo. Ugh….I know better, and yet…

Outside is hazy, partly cloudy, 33 (F)degrees feels like 27🔥🌤️🌬️🍂🍁🤧

Husb is driving home today. M-i-L is still in hosp, as she keeps developing problems that they will not discharge her with. Plan is now to transfer on Sat, after all the beds locally have been filled. The nearest place is <1 hour south, near where my daughter is…..🙄
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 40 hooks✅
  • BaoDing balls
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender De-Load Week, Day 5: Bored Easily Total Body Unilateral Strength with Core Circuit, 27 mins ✅…and, DONE🥳…
  • Badge Day donation made to DareBee✅
PM-
  • Raking leaves in back yard✅… ugh, I positively loath this chore, but it IS good exercise😅
***husb arrived home safely🥹
  • Quilting✅
  • ❌NYT puzzle page
  • ❌Nap
  • ❌Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Sat, Nov 1, 2025

AM- awakened at 5:30am (PDT) by husb snoring, and unable to really get back to sleep, so got up for the day at 6:30, after 8 hours of horizontal time🛌💤🥱
Outside is hazy, mostly cloudy, 42 (F)degrees feels like 39🌥️🔥🌬️🍂🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
Noonish-
  • Rower x 5 mins✅
  • Spin (stationary bike) x 5 mins✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30 day challenge- Arms of Steel, Day 1✅
  • DareBee EotD✅
  • DareBee WOD: 3 sets with EC✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 12 min post workout stretch✅
PM-
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Dinner prep✅: dinner out with husb on a date🔥🥰
 
DorothyMH said:
Sat, Nov 1, 2025

AM- awakened at 5:30am (PDT) by husb snoring, and unable to really get back to sleep, so got up for the day at 6:30, after 8 hours of horizontal time🛌💤🥱
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I am thinking about buying socks for my father with a message : "I am not snoring, i am dreaming i am a motorcycle..."
Of course, my husband is not snoring. ( but i love my earplugs)
 
Sun, Nov 2, 2025

Daylight Savings Time ends: FALL back🍂

AM- awake at (the new) 6:30am (PST), after what would have only been 7 hours of sleep, but is now EIGHT💤🛌🥱. I’ll take it😅😜
Outside is clear, mostly sunny, 45 (F)degrees, feels like 39🌤️🍂🌬️🤧
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • News update✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Arms of Steel, 30 day challenge, Day 2✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga

  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
 
Mon, Nov 3, 2025

AM- awakened by Canoe at the new time of 6:15am (PST); I’m sure he thinks it is *really,* 7:15 and high time we were up🫣😅. So, that means I got 8ish hours of sleep🛌💤🥱
Outside is cloudy, 42 (F)degrees feels like 36☁️🌬️🍂🤧
Husb is leaving this morning to go see that his mom is settled in the facility, and to work on mucking out her house with my daughter’s help, this week.
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 30 day challenge Arms of Steel, Day 3✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Dinner prep✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
Noonish-
  • Quilting✅
PM-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 1/26: Fat Burning HIIT Cardio with No Equipment, 37 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 10 min post workout stretch for lower body✅

  • MORE quilting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • MORE quilting✅
  • House chore✅
 
Tues, Nov 4, 2025

AM- awake by alarm at 5:30am (PST) after less than 7 hours of sleep.🛌💤🥱. Will be driving my stepson’s girlfriend over the mountain pass to Kent (just under 3 hours away) for a medical appointment🩺
Outside is still dark, cloudy, 41 (F) degrees feels like 37☁️🌬️🍂🤧 my
  • News update✅
  • ❌Journaling
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Left home for drive at 7:45am✅
Noonish- dog trainer visited my Canoodles (doggo)at home to let him outside and have a short training session with him.🥰🐾

PM-
  • Returned to home by 3pm✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • ❌Quilting
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Wed, Nov 5, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am (PST) after NINE hours of sleep🛌💤🥳
Outside is cloudy, wet, 46 (F)degrees feels like 43.🌧️🌬️☔️🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Leaf raking✅…x2 hours🍂
Noonish-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
PM- counting leaf raking as workout, today.😎
  • Quilting✅….LONG quilting session while on the phone with my daughter
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Thurs, Nov 6, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am (PST) after 8 hours of sleep🛌💤🥱
Outside is mostly cloudy, 45 (F)degrees feels like 43🌥️🌬️🍂🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling
❌Mobility/warmups-
  • Fighting Cancer: Arms of Steel 30-day challenge, Days 4✅ + 5✅ + 6✅

  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
  • Dinner prep✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 2/26: 1.) Relaxing Stretching warmup, 5 mins✅ 2.) Great Bored Easily Arms & Shoulders + cool down, 28 mins✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 6/26 (out of order, due to time issues): Stretching, Pilates, Yoga Blend, 27 mins✅

  • House chore✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅…lots of work on 2 projects, so nap is skipped. Besides, it’s getting dark so early I don’t want to miss any daylight.😮‍💨
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Fri, Nov 7, 2025

AM- awake at 6:45am (PST) after 7+ hours of sleep🛌💤🥱
Outside is windy, sunny, 44 (F)degrees feels like 38.🌬️☀️😎🍂🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Journaling✅
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: Arms of Steel, 30 day challenge, Day 7✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
  • Dog trainer here for short session✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 3/26: Fat Blasting HIIT + Lower Body Strength For Busy People, 30 mins ✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 12 min Post Workout Stretch for hamstrings + inner thighs✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
***husb arrived back home in time for dinner; doggo was SO happy🥰😂
(I was too, of course!)

****ALL GREEN!✅
 
Sat, Nov 8, 2025

AM- awakened by husb snoring at 5:15, tried to go back to sleep but was wide awake, so gave up and got up at 5:35am (PST), after 7ish hours of sleep🛌💤🥱
Outside is hazy, with no cloud cover (due to be sunny, but still dark), 28 (F)degrees feels like 21🌞🍂🌬️🥶🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅

  • Fighting Cancer: Arms of Steel, 30-day challenge, Day 8✅

  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 4/26: Upper Body Strength Workout for Arms, Shoulders, Chest & Back, 34 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 12 min post workout stretch for chest, shoulders, hands, wrists + arms✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep: meet stepmom + husb in town for 3 of our birthdays, which are next week✅
 
Sun, Nov 9, 2025

AM- awake at 7am (PST) after 8ish hours of sleep🛌💤😇 Having some interesting dreams these days, involving camping, neighbors and doggos; actually pretty pleasant. I was sorry to wake up☺️💭😴
Outside is partly cloudy, 34 (F)degrees feels like 29.🌤️🌬️🍂🥶
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Yard work w/ husb: more tree trimming, raking, branch cut up/stacking✅
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • Dinner prep✅

  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Arms of Steel, 30- day challenge, Day 8✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 15 min Restorative practice focusing on hips, wrists + arms✅

  • ❌NYT puzzle page
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • ❌Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025
 
Mon, Nov 10, 2025

AM- awake at 6:45am (PST) after 8ish hours of sleep🛌💤🥱. This morning I feel quite stiff from the tree/yard work yesterday, ugh. This always accentuates (makes me feel) my age🫣👵🏻
Outside is hazy, cloudy, 38 (F)degrees feels like 36☁️🌬️🍂🤧
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • House chore✅
***husb departed for 5 hour drive to continue the process of moving his mother into memory care from rehab***
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: Arms of Steel, 30-day challenge, Day 10✅ (est 500 punches in 5 mins🥊)
  • ❌BaoDing balls
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 5/26: HiiT Cardio + Abs, 30 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
PM-
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Long phone convo w/daughter✅🥰
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Tues, Nov 11, 2025

***Veterans Day***

**husb’s 68th birthday**

AM- awake at 6:45am (PST) after 7+ hours of sleep🛌💤🥱
Outside is foggy, cloudy, 35 (F)degrees feels like 31😶‍🌫️☁️🍁🥶🤧
  • News update
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
***Drive 90 mins west to fetch grass fed lamb (meat) from farm, drive 30 mins further west to visit my cousin, drive home
PM-
  • Doggo walk✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: Arms of Steel 30-day challenge, Day 11✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Journaling✅

  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 8/26: Muscle Building, Fat Burning HIIT Cardio + Lower Body Strength, 34 mins✅

  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025
  • ❌Quilting
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
 
Wed, Nov 12, 2025

***MY 63rd birthday***😳

AM- awake at 6:45am (PST) after 7+ hours of sleep🛌💤🥱
Outside is cloudy, 45 (F)degrees feels like 42☁️🍁🌬️🤧
  • 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: Arms of Steel, 30 day challenge, Day 12✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 9/26: Functional Upper Body for Strength and Coordination, 30 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Lunch out w/ a “mom-type” friend✅
PM-
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
  • Quilting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅…met stepson + his gf in town for dinner
  • Journaling✅
 
TopNotch said:
:birthday:

(Technically, though, isn't it actually your 64th birthday if you could count the actual day of your birth... Even though you are celebrating the end of your 63rd year of life. Perhaps I just think too much...)
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Nope, you are not wrong about that. That is exactly how I look at it too: I’ve just competed my 63rd orbit, so, I’m actually in my 64th year.🤓
 
Thurs, Nov 13, 2025

AM- awakened at 4:30am (PST) by the doggo’s incessant, tho quiet licking of…something. I figured since he’d eaten late that he needed to go outside but was trying to not wake me up. So, I let him out, but he would not do anything. Once back inside, I already had a headache, and struggled to get back to sleep. Then I did not wake up again until 7:45(!)🫣That was pretty close to 9 hours of horizontal time. 🛌💤🥱🥴
Outside is cloudy, foggy, with rain in the forecast, 45 (F)degrees feels like 42☁️😶‍🌫️🍁🌬️🤧💧
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: Arms of Steel, 30-day challenge, Day 13✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 10/26: Pilates Abs & Obliques, 25 mins✅

  • Dinner prep✅
  • House chore✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
 
Fri, Nov 14, 2025

AM- awake at 7am (PST) after 8ish hours of sleep.🛌💤🥱If Canoodles was licking in the night, I did not hear him. He did come to the side of my bed this morning at my head level to look at me and wake me up, tho🥰
Outside is mostly cloudy, and 51 (F) degrees⛅️🍁🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: Arms of Steel, Day 14✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅

  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 11/26: Upper Body & Cardio Kick-boxing, 35 mins✅…PLUS…
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 13/26 (out of order due to timing): Static Stretches for Flexibility and Range of Motion, 26 mins✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Visit stepmom’s pup while she’s out ✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
 
TopNotch said:
Creed does that but if I keep my eyes shut, he thinks I'm still asleep and, with a heavy sigh, he goes back to bed. Does that not work for you?
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Sometimes, yeah. But, damn it’s hard to keep my eyes shut with eyes staring at me. That’s how my daughter used to wake me up when she was tiny.🥹😂It depends on how close I am to waking up anyway, I guess….
Also….Creed? I LOVE that name for a doggo!!
 
Sat, Nov 15, 2025

AM- awake at 6:15am (PST) after 7ish hours of sleep🛌💤🥱. Canoe slept all night, then came to tell me he was awake at 6🥴🫣
Outside is partly cloudy and 49 (F)degrees.⛅️🍁🤧
Husb successfully moved his mom into a nice memory care facility yesterday, so he is making the 5+ hour drive home today!🥰🎉
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo to groomer for Spa Day✅
  • Fighting Cancer: Arms of Steel, 30-day challenge, Day 15✅
  • Fetch doggo from groomer✅
Noonish-
  • Lawn mowing + yard work followed by allergy mitigation✅
PM- husb arrived home, yay!🥰
  • Quilting✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page
  • ❌Nap
  • ❌Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025
 
Mon, Nov 17, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am (PST) after NINE hours of sleep😎🛌💤. When I awoke, I had been dreaming about living in a camp situation (basic supplies, limited power, rough shelter) possibly homeless? in a group, and trying to arrange a bus ride 70 miles west to see my second eldest brother (who is dead, irl). My phone was not picking up any signal, so I kept moving around the camp, and encountering either the dogs, or conversations that I should not be hearing or involving myself in. I was also trying to pick up a dozen cinnamon rolls to take to my brother, AND get to the bus stop on time. The group included my kennel owner/groomer, her kids, and 2 oncology patients I’d had back in my nursing days, and several unfriendly German Shepards (dogs). My kennel/groomer gal advised me to NOT try for the bus, due to the *sketchy nature* of the riders, and to take her car instead. I’m not (in real life) wild about borrowing cars, so I was persistent in my own travel attempts.This seemed to be sort of a post apocalyptic scene all around, not just in our camp area. The shelters were old cars….
Outside is foggy, cloudy, 50 (F)degrees feels like 49.☁️😶‍🌫️
  • Dinner prep✅
  • 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: Arms of Steel, 30-day challenge, Day 17✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 12/26: 1.) Cardio Warm Up for Lower Body Strength Workouts, 5 mins✅ 2.) Squats + Deadlifts for Lower Body incl cooldown/stretch, 30 mins ✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 10 min post workout stretch for hamstrings + inner thighs✅
PM-
  • ❌Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025
  • Quilting✅
  • ❌NYT puzzle page
  • Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
 
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