The Other Side

DorothyMH DorothyMH Logging since September 2022
Tues, Nov 18, 2025

AM- awake at 6:20am (PDT) after nearly 8 hours of sleep.🛌💤😏. No dreams that stand out this time….🤔
Outside is partly cloudy, 38 (F)degrees feels like 32🌤️💨🍁🥶
  • News update✅
  • 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 18✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 15/26: Lower Body HIIT and Upper Body Strength, 38 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 12 min post workout stretch for upper & lower body✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner✅
  • ❌Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025
 
Wed, Nov 19, 2025

AM- awake at 6am (PST) after 8ish hours of (dead) sleep💤🛌🥱 I felt gravity pulling me SO hard when I went to bed, I just could not stay awake for anything. Just konked out immediately.😮‍💨
Outside is hazy, mostly sunny, 33 (F) degrees feels like 28🔥🌤️🍁🌬️🥶
  • 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, 30-day challenge, Day 19✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Dinner prep: leftover hamburger soup, cabbage or sauerkraut
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 16/26: 1.) Jumpstart Energy Boosting Cardio, 5 mins✅. 2.) Core + Cardio for People who get Bored Easily (incl cooldown/stretch), 30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 10 min post workout stretch with side body stretches + twists✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Younger brother in town from Seattle, and here for visit + dinner (doggo crated + gated for my brother’s sake)✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Thurs, Nov 20, 2025

AM- awake at 6:30am (PST) after 8ish hours of sleep💤🛌🥹. No dreams, just dead sleep. Then woke up super sore from workouts this week. Gawds, some days I feel so stinkin old👵🏻
Outside is partly cloudy, 39 (F)degrees feels like 36.🌤️🌬️🍁🤧
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • House chore✅
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 20✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
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 17/26: Total Body Toning Strength + HIIT Cardio, 34 mins✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 20/26 (out of order due to time issues): Relaxing Full Body Yoga Pilates Blend, 35 mins✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep/plan: meet stepmom, her husb and my out of town brother + his wife in town for dinner✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
 
Fri, Nov 21, 2025

AM- awake at 8:30am (PST) after a rough night. It looks good on paper, tho, cuz I went to bed at my usual 10:30pm. But, doggo woke me up “quietly licking” himself in his bed at the foot of my bed. I struggled to block it out, even turning up my white noise, for half an hour. Then got him up to go outside, thinking maybe he needed to go. Once back inside, he went to his crate (also in our room), and HE went to sleep. However, I did not. My mind was full on, so I spent well over an hour trying to breathe, toss, turn, lay still, turn off my mind before finally sleeping again. At least I stayed in bed, avoiding eating, drinking or otherwise waking up my body. So, my horizontal time was prolly 10 hours in total. But actual sleep? Chopped up and restless🥺🛌💤
Outside is super foggy, mostly cloudy, 37 (F)degrees feels like 33.⛅️😶‍🌫️🍁🤧
  • 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 21✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
Noonish-
  • Meet stepmom + her husb, my brother + his wife, along with my husb in town for brunch✅… last visit (early Thanksgiving Day🦃) before the Pass thru the Cascades becomes too dicey to plan visits in winter😰
PM- really unplanned REST DAY
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • House chore✅
 
Sat, Nov 22, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am (PST) after 9ish hours of sleep, yay!🛌💤. Dreamed about my extended family living together in a newly built large house with multiple levels of outside maze-like decking. I saw my (deceased) mom + stepdad, as younger than my current age! Omg, it was so good to see them🥰. My uncle was the one in charge of construction of this house. In real life, he is 85+ now, but in the dream, he was young enough to be managing this project….
Outside is foggy, cloudy, 40 (F)degrees feels like 37.⛅️🌫️🍁🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • News update✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
  • Fighting Cancer: Arms of Steel, 30-day challenge, Day 22✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 18/26: Fitness Blender Advanced Core Strength, 34 mins✅

  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 19/26: Total Body Strength for People who get Bored Easily, 35 mins✅

  • ❌Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025
  • Quilting✅
  • Loooknnnggg FT convo with my daughter🥰✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
 
TopNotch said:
I find it interesting how you dream about people you know/knew. One recent dream I had, I was watching the Pope fry eggs. He cracked those eggs in a very odd way...
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Funny…. Yeah, usually, there are family folks that have died that appear in my dreams.
Last night, however, I was dreaming that I was starting at a new high school. At my CURRENT age! I knew NO one, and there was NO one to help me. This was my typical sort of anxiety dream. Except I didn’t actually FEEL anxious in the dream. I was just alone among strangers. Happens all the time in adult life. But, when I was a kid, and was truly and constantly moving, I was a nervous wreck.🥴
 
Sun, Nov 23, 2025

AM- awake at 6:15am (PST) after 7ish hours of sleep🛌💤🥴. More dreaming that included family members who have died in the last decade, but the details are lost this morning😟
Outside is again foggy, cloudy, 40 (F) degrees feels like 38.🌫️💧🍁🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Arms of Steel, 30-day challenge, Day 23✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 15 min Restorative practice with hip stretches + hip flexor stretches✅

  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Quilting✅
  • ❌Nap
  • ❌Doggo walk…husb did
 
DorothyMH said:
Last night, however, I was dreaming that I was starting at a new high school. At my CURRENT age! I knew NO one, and there was NO one to help me. This was my typical sort of anxiety dream.
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I once had one of those dreams when you find out you've got an exam but you've no idea what it's about. I looked at the group of worried people with me and said, "Sod it, let's go have lunch". Guess I don't really stress much...
 
Mon, Nov 24, 2025

AM- awake at 6:15am (PST) after 7+ hours of sleep🛌💤😗. Another dream, but no one familiar appeared. Just what would have been an anxiety producing situation when I was young (starting at a new school), and now, it is just a time of being along among strangers, with no real sense of anxiety about it….which is odd, as I consider how many times I felt dread at that thought and it actually was part of my life growing up.😏
Outside is clear, cold, 36 (F)degrees feels like 29☀️🧤🌬️🤧🥶🍁
  • News update✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Husb departed for 5 hour drive to check on his mom’s house, then see his mom at her memory care community in Portland, and stay with my daughter.
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • 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 24✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish- extra REST DAY
  • Dinner prep✅
  • House chores✅

PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
  • Foot soak/pedi✅
 
Tues, Nov 25, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am (PST) after 8 hours of sleep🛌💤🥱. At the end of sleep, my dream was about my feet having skin issues like when I was little, from anxiety. I have not experienced that problem for many decades, but my husb has now developed psoriasis on his feet from the last 3 years of dealing with his mother. My feet *only* sweat, as an adult, which is plenty wretched, but at least they are intact🫣🦶🐾
Outside is cloudy, and 30 (F)degrees feels like 25 with snow in the forecast, ugh🤯🌨️🥶
  • 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 25✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Visit stepmom✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 22/26: HIIT Cardio and Lower Body Strength, 30 mins✅

  • Quilting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025
 
Wed, Nov 26, 2025

AM- awake at 5:30am (PST), but tried to sleep longer, waiting til 6:30 to get up. So, that was…7-ish horizontal hours😮‍💨🥴
Outside is cloudy, 36 (F)degrees feels like 33.☁️🍁🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
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 26✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 23/26: Lift Like You Mean It for Strong, Lean, Toned Arms + Chest and Shoulders, 30 mins✅
***husb arrived back home🥳

PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Thurs, Nov 27, 2025

🦃🫛🍠*Thanksgiving Day*🍠🫛

***12 years ago, my oldest brother hung himself from his back porch rafter🪢 This year I feel less immobilized by the memory than in any previous year. I spent last week working out the emotional clogs remaining from the week BEFORE his death. As a result, today can be just a normal weekday for me, yay🎉
  • News update✅
  • 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 27✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 24/26: Core + HiiT For Busy People, 30 mins✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • ❌NYT puzzle page
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner✅
 
Fri, Nov 28, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am (PST) after NINE hours of sleep🎉🛌💤. No dreams that I can recall🤔
Outside is mostly sunny, 38 (F)degrees feels like 32🌤️🌬️🍁🥶
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
  • 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 28✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Dog trainer here for short session✅

  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 25/26: Upper Body Isolated Functional Strength for Coordination and Control, 35 mins✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌NYT puzzle page
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Sat, Nov 29, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am (PST) after NINE hours of sleep🛌💤🥳. No dream recall; just heavy sleep🤔💭🌙
Outside is cloudy, 35 (F)degrees feels like 28☁️🌬️🥶🍁
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
Noonish-
  • Fighting Cancer: Arms of Steel, 30- day challenge, Day 29✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 4, Day 26/26: Burnout Butt & Thigh Strength + HIIT for Lower Body, 35 mins✅…and, DONE🥳
  • BADGE DAY donation made✅: THANK YOU DareBee Team😍
  • Down Dog Yoga10 min restorative practice with hip flexor + hip stretches✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner
  • ❌NYT puzzle page
  • ❌Nap
 
Sun, Nov 30, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am (PST) after 8+ hours of sleep🛌💤🥱So tired….🫩
Outside is cold, sunny, 28 (F)degrees feels like 23🌞🥶🌬️
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
Noonish-planned REST DAY
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Arms of Steel, 30-day challenge✅……and, DONE🥳
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
 
Mon, Dec 1, 2025

AM- awake at 7am (PST) after 8+ hours of sleep🛌💤🥱. I was dreaming at the time, but it was gone as soon as I woke up….🤔
Outside is cloudy, 29 (F)degrees feels like 25 with snow in the forecast this week☁️❄️🥶
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Journaling✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 2-Minute Mobility, 30-day challenge, Day 1✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Doggo walk✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 5, 4-Week Fat Loss Program For Busy People, Day 1/27: REMIX HIIT Cardio Butt and Thighs, 30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 12 min post workout stretch with lower body + inner thigh focus✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
 
Tues, Dec 2, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am (PST) after nearly NINE hours of sleep🛌😴. I was dreaming of another communal living situation where an assignment/project was due and I was not quite finished. Lots of debate and social issues in the situation, but no details ….🥴💭🌙
Outside is mostly cloudy, 34 (F)degrees feels like 31.🌥️🌬️🥶
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 2-Minute Mobility, 30-day challenge, Day 2✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Doggo walk✅
  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
Noonish- unplanned REST DAY
  • House chore✅….tons of desk work went way into the pm hours😫…but, I’m still quite sore from yesterday, so I guess a rest day is in order🥹
  • ❌Dinner prep…..husb did🥰
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Wed, Dec 3, 2025

AM- awake at 6am (PST) after 8ish hours of horizontal time. Sleep was very restless, and elusive, I suspect, due to lack of exercise yesterday.🥴. Ah, well, today I’ll fix that🫣😅
Outside is cloudy, 34 (F)degrees feels like 29☁️🌬️🥶
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra K lein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 2-Minute Mobility, 30-day challenge, Day 3✅ + DareBee EotD✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 5, Day 2/27: Upper Body Supersets of Push-Pull Combos with Arm Finisher, 30 mins✅
PM-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 5, Day, 6/27 (out of order due to time issues): Active Recovery, Mobility and Stretching, 30 mins✅

  • Quilting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner✅
 
Thurs, Dec 4, 2025

AM- awakened at 5:30am (PST) by Canoe pawing at my side of the bed. He was able to comply and go to his own bed. I went back to sleep for an hour and got up for the day at 6:45 after, 8+ hours of sleep.🛌💤🥱.

Dream recall: remember dreaming about my daughter, granddaughter, a *known* cousin and a cousin I don’t recognize. We were looking in all the storage areas and boxes in a huge house that was “ours,” (but which is not actually ours in real life), and pulling out things like baby shoes, and small personal mementos. But, not finding whatever we were actually looking for….🤷🏼‍♀️

Outside is cloudy, cold, wet, 35 (F) degrees feels like 31🌧️💧🥶
  • 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: 2-Minute Mobility, 30-day challenge, Day 4✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 5, 4-Week Fat Loss Program For Busy People, Day 3/27: All Standing Total Body Tabata Cardio, 30 mins

  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
PM-
  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅
  • Quilting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner✅
 
Fri, Dec 5, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am (PST) after NINE hours of (mostly) sleep🛌💤🥳
No dream recall this morning. I must have been dead asleep….🤭
Outside is cloudy with rain expected, and wind tonight, 36 (F)degrees feels like 31🌧️🌬️🥶
AM-
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 2-Minute Mobility, 30-day challenge, Day 5✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
Noonish-
  • Quilting✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 5, 4-Week Fat Loss Program For Busy People, Day 4/27: Total Body Strength Training with Lower Body, Upper Body, and Combo Sets, 30 mins✅

  • ❌Dinner prep…husb did🥰
PM-
  • MORE quilting✅
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
 
Sat, Dec 6, 2025

AM- awake at 7:10am (PST) after 8ish hours of sleep💤🛌😌.
No dream recall today.
Outside is partly cloudy, foggy, 33 (F) degrees feels like 25🌤️🌬️😶‍🌫️🥶
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • News update✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅
Noonish-
  • Fighting Cancer: 2-Minute Mobility, 30-da challenge✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 5, 4-Week Fat Loss Program For Busy People, Day 5/27: Pure Bodyweight Core, 35 mins✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Sun, Dec 7, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am (PST) after 8ish hours of sleep💤🛌🥱. Canoe woke me up at 4-something to go outside for stomach cramps. Took me some time to get back to sleep. We watched The Substance last night which left me with many disturbing thoughts + impressions.😵‍💫🤯
No dream recall, however…😏
Outside is cloudy, windy, 47 (F)degrees feels like 43🌧️🌬️🌴
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • House chore✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅

  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 2-Minute Mobility 30-day challenge, Day 7✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 15 min Restorative practice with hip and hip flexor stretches✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • ❌NYT puzzle page
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Mon, Dec 8, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am after 9 hours of sleep💤🛌. Canoe woke me up less than an hour after I had fallen asleep to go outside. His tummy is still cramping, poor thing😫. After that, tho, we both slept the rest of the night, thank the gawds🥲
No dream recall, but I feel like I was dreaming….
Outside is cloudy, 49 (F)degrees feels like 45🌧️
  • 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: 2-Minute Mobility, 30-day challenge, Day 8✅
  • ❌BaoDing balls
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • ❌LaCrosse ball roll upper body
  • ❌Foam-rolling back/lower body

  • House chore✅….very physical, like an upper body workout😅
Noonish-
  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
PM-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 5, 4-Week Fat Loss Program For Busy People, Day 8/27: Quick + Effective Lower Body Strength, 26 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga

  • Quilting✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
 
Tues, Dec 9, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am (PST) after NINE hours of sleep.🛌💤😅
Dream recall: I was on a road trip with my (deceased) stepdad, my (deceased) doggo Boo, and another gal, younger, blurred face, not sure if she was my kid, my grand kid, or a childhood friend, or *anyone* I actually know. We were stopped at what we used to call a greasy spoon cafe, to eat. There was a lot of fuss about driving the car, and Boo’s need to get out. While a worker did something with the car, Boo got out and pooped in front of the restroom door. The worker cleaned it up and told me when I came out to get my phone/wallet to pay for food. I remember commenting on how the place *was* truly a greasy spoon to my stepdad. We wandered around quite a bit, in and out *looking for something.* Thereafter, it’s quite hazy….😵‍💫

Outside today is cloudy, 48 (F)degrees feels like 44.🌧️🌴
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Long phone convo with daughter✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
PM-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 2-Minute Mobility, 30-day challenge, Day 9✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 5, 4-Week Fat Loss Program For Busy People, Day 9/27: Bored Easily Upper Body Tri Set Isolation Strength, 30mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga

  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
 
Wed, Dec 10, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am (PST) after NINE hours of sleep, yay!🛌💤☺️. Doggo slept all night, finally, without waking me🥰
No dream recall….😞
Outside is mostly cloudy, foggy, 47 (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: 2-Minute Mobility, 30-day challenge, Day 10✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅…again a heavily upper body set of chores😮‍💨
PM-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 5, 4-Week Fat Loss Program For Busy People, Day 10/27: Low-Impact HIIT Ladders, 33 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga

  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅
  • ❌Nap
  • Quilting✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
 
Thurs, Dec 11, 2025

AM- awake at 7:20am (PST) after nine hours of horizontal time. My sleep was very broken and restless. The wind blew a gale most of the night, crashing against the house. The doggo got me up at 1:15am to go outside again. It was a struggle to sleep at all….😮‍💨💤🛌
No dream recall, either…😏
Outside is now calm, mostly cloudy, and 52 (F)degrees!!! Last night it was nearly 60!!🌴🌴🌴🌴
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, 2025✅…and, DONE😎…highly recommend this commentary on what this country has done since its founding, and what it is capable of doing going forward, given the breadth, capacity and possibility of the brainpower and leadership within it.
  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅

Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 2-Minute Mobility, 30-day challenge, Day 11✅ + EotD✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 5, 4-Week Fat Loss Program For Busy People, Total Body Toning and Cardio, 30 mins✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner✅
 
Fri, Dec 12, 2025

AM- awakened at 6:15am (PST) by Canoe, who was happy with pets and went back to bed. I however was still finishing up a dream and dozed some more until finally getting up at 6:45. That was 8ish hours of sleep.💤🛌😏
Dream recall: I was working on some detective project with two gals I don’t know, one older, one younger than me, and a grumpy older man that was not happy about the younger gal being involved. She was doing the best work, tho, so we told the dude to bugger off so she could help. Then I was futzing around trying to get her cuffs buttoned up (!) while telling her to “get this job done, find this thing” before the man came back. We were in an apartment I had lived in after my first divorce in my early 20’s, backed up against a flooding creek, with an out house (latrine) outside, up against a rock wall beside the creek. My daughter showed up, grown as she is now, informing me she LIVES THERE, now. I started, then, futzing around about the outhouse position, so it would “drain”…? I don’t know what that was about.. sometimes the details I get caught up in dreams are SO weird🤔.
Outside is super foggy, cloudy, 42 (F) degrees feels like 39.☁️🌫️

Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 2-Minute Mobility, 30-day challenge, Day 12✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅ or car ride to dog park or grass area for ball or snifari
  • Dog trainer here for short session✅
  • Journaling✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅

  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 5, 4-Week Fat Loss Program For Busy People, Day 12/27: Bodyweight Cardio and Abs HIIT, 33 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Visit stepmom to help with her devices✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Sat, Dec 13, 2025

AM- awake at 7:15am (PST) after 8ish hours of sleep.🛌💤😌
No dream recall…although it feels like I did dream🤯
Outside is partly cloudy, 37 (F)degrees feels like 32🌤️
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅ or car ride to dog park or grass area for ball or snifari
  • Journaling✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • Fighting Cancer:, 2-Minute Mobility, 30-day challenge, Day 13✅
  • DareBee EotD✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 5, 4-Week Fat Loss Program For Busy People, Day 13/27: Bored Easily Total Body Mobility, 33 mins✅

  • Quilting✅
  • ❌Dinner prep: beef roast, tortillas, lettuce/salad
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Sun, Dec 14, 2025

AM- awakened at 6am (PST) by my Canoe-doggo, for no particularly good reason that I could see. I’d had just shy of 8 hours of sleep.🛌💤😮‍💨Once he’d been fussing at me and gone back to bed 3 times, I was awake, so gave up and got up…..🙄
No dream recall, although I know I was dreaming when he woke me up.🫣
Outside is foggy, cloudy, 34 (F)degrees feels like 31🌥️🥶
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 2-Minute Mobility 30-day challenge, Day 14✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Mon, Dec 15, 2025

AM- awake at 7am (PST) after nearly 9 hours of sleep🛌💤🎉
No dream recall, but again feels like I was dreaming…🤔
Outside is cloudy, raining, 48 (F)degrees feels like 44🌧️☔️🐠🌴
  • News update✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 2-Minute Mobility, 30-day challenge, Day 15✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅
PM-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 5, 4-Week Fat Loss Program For Busy People, Day 15/27: Lower Body HIIT & Strength Circuits With Tabata Glute & Core Finisher, 33 mins✅

  • House chore✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Tues, Dec 16, 2025

AM- awake at 6:15am (PST) after 8ish hours of sleep🛌💤😏Feel super tired and a tad sore from yesterday’s workout…
No dream recall today….🫤
Outside is partly cloudy, 44 (F)degrees feels like 40.🌤️🌴🌬️
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Take stepmom to her dentist appt (her husb is driving himself to an out of town medical appt, and she cannot drive)✅
Noonish-
  • Journaling✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer:, 2-Minute Mobility, 30-day challenge, Day 16✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 5, 4-Week Fat Loss Program For Busy People, Day 16/27: Slow Tempo No Repeat Upper Body Strength, 30 mins✅

  • House chore✅
  • Quilting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner✅… I was a day early for this, so husb and I just had a date night, the two of us🥰
  • ❌Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998
 
Wed, Dec 17, 2025

AM- awakened in the wee hours by high winds crashing into the house. It took 2 hours for me to get back to a light sleep. Then at 6, Canoe had his paw up by my head. I held him for a minute and he went back to bed. I didn’t wake up again until 8:15am (PST), after 10 hours of horizontal time….🛌🫤
Dream recall: I was in a camp-like environment, “testing” a piece of athletic equipment, on my head, and wired to the gear set up next to a pond (!), and it failed, and I was being shamed about my “failure” to set it up correctly, by a friend of my daughter’s.
Outside is sunny, very windy, 42 (F) degrees feels like 32🌴💨☀️
  • 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: 2-Minute Mobility, 30-day challenge, Day 17✅ + DareBee EotD✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅
PM- unplanned REST DAY… ran out of time, still fatigued from windy night and sorting mother in law’s stuff…😞
  • Quilting✅
  • House chore✅
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Dinner prep✅: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner (for real this time🫣)
 
WolfDreamer said:
What are your thoughts? I read it over a decade ago, but I remember being very emotionally affected by it.
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Well, I am only about a quarter of the way through it (I’m a slow reader🥴). As I read the different perspectives of the daughters, I’d say I am entertained, more than anything, currently. My teenaged granddaughter was reading it in her language arts (do they still call it that?) class, so I thought I’d give it a shot. I do plan to finish it, however slow I am. I’ll say more at that time.🤔😬
 
Thurs, Dec 18, 2025

AM- awake at 6ish am (PST) after 7+ hours of sleep🛌🥴💤
No dream recall….😞
Outside is cloudy, cold, 38 (F)degrees feels like 31🌧️🥶🌬️
  • 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: 2-Minute Mobility, 30-day challenge, Day 18✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 5, 4-Week Fat Loss Program For Busy People, Day 17/27: Brutal AMRAP Bodyweight Cardio Circuits, 28 mins ✅
  • FitnessBlender FB30, Round 5, 4-Week Fat Loss Program For Busy People, Day 20/27: Stretch and Relaxation Yoga, 30 mins (out of order to time issues)✅
PM-
  • Foot soak/pedi✅
  • Reading: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
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