The Other Side

DorothyMH DorothyMH Logging since September 2022
Thurs, May 14, 2026

AM- awake at 7:40am (PDT) after nearly 9 hours of sleep and no dream recall.💤🛌😏. However, I was up at 3ish to take more ibuprofen, so that I *could* sleep longer. As Topnotch mentioned, my rib(s) may be cracked; but, besides taping or splinting as I am doing, there is nothing to do but what I am doing🩻
Outside is mostly sunny, 56 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen.🌤️🌷🤧🤧
  • ❌Book club reading: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, 1960
  • News update✅
  • ❌Journaling
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
  • ❌Quilting
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Ground Work Abs, Day 11✅, Day 12✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner✅
 
Fri, May 15, 2026

AM- awake at 6:50am (PDT) after 8+ hours of sleep with no dream recall🛌💤😏Getting up in the night to take more ibuprofen truly makes the morning a bit less painful🥹😮‍💨
Outside is partly cloudy, 48 (F)degrees feels like 44 with MED/HIGH pollen🌤️🌬️🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
  • ❌Book club reading: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, 1960
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Ground Work Abs, Day 13✅, Day 14✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • ❌Dinner prep
 
Sat, May 16, 2026

AM- awake at 6:15am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep with no dream recall💤🛌😏Less pain with turning and moving over night, although I did still get up at 3ish to take more ibuprofen, so it wouldn’t get worse. Today is a travel day, so will see how that affects it🫣
Outside is mostly cloudy, 53 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen🌥️🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Noonish- travel/ out of town to Portland again, as my granddaughter is in a school play on Sunday.
  • Stop for midday break from driving✅
PM-
  • ❌Book club reading: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, 1960
  • Arrive/check into hotel✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Meet daughter + granddaughter for dinner✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
 
Sun, May 17, 2026

AM- awake at 6:30am (PDT) after not enough sleep (less than 7 hours), and a weird incident with my husb having a nightmare around midnight. We had to stay up discussing it for an hour before he could calm down enough to sleep again. Even then, the sleep was choppy😩
Outside is partly cloudy, 45 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🌤️🌷🤧
  • Book club reading: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, 1960 ✅
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅

  • Walking: 2 miles✅
Noonish- visit with daughter

PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Walking: 1 mile✅
  • See granddaughter’s play downtown✅
  • Meet daughter + my brother in law for dinner✅
 
Mon, May 18, 2026

***Mt St Helens Day🌋

AM- awake at 6:45am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep💤🛌😏. Some trouble getting to sleep initially, due to husb’s snoring. Eventually, I got him to quiet down enough so that I could drop off.🫣
My chest wall discomfort is down to a moderate level now, so ibuprofen use is more spread out. Most of the pain is now just with sneezing, coughing, laughing. Other internal pressure-based actions are more tolerable, thankfully.😤😂
Outside is partly cloudy, 52 (F)degrees with MED pollen🌤️🌷🤧🤧
  • Walking: 1+ mile✅
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Book club reading: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, 1960 ✅
Noonish-
  • Shopping errands✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • To granddaughter’s roller derby practice✅
  • Walking: 2+ miles✅
 
Tues, May 19, 2026

AM- awake at 6am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep with no dream recall💤🛌
My need for ibuprofen is now every 12ish hours. Except that it took so long for it to kick in last night that I only got 8 hours out of it😮‍💨🥴
Outside is partly cloudy, 49 (F)degrees with MED pollen🌤️🌷🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Start trip home✅
Noonish-TRAVEL DAY
  • Still driving✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Book club reading: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, 1960
 
Wed, May 20, 2026

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after 8+ hours of sleep. I can recall a significant amount of a dream surrounding a family reunion being held in a YURT!! It included my uncle who died in 2020, and my second brother who died in 2017. We were all participating in a landscaping project involving digging around the yurt. My brother was missing, and I’d seen the mother of his children (whom he had divorced years prior in real life) wander off, so I went that way to look for him. I found them both in a car hooking up, just like when we were all teenagers, complete with the same embarrassment and ookie feelings as back then.🫣😮‍💨🥴
Outside is partly cloudy, 61 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen🌤️🌷🤧🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Book club reading: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, 1960 ✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Ground Work Abs, Day15✅, Day 16✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Stationary bike x25 mins✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • Lawn mowing followed by allergy mitigation✅
  • House chore✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • ❌Quilting
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Thurs, May 21, 2026

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep with lots of dreaming but little recall🛌💤🥴
Outside is sunny, 59 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen🌞🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Doggo to vet for annual check up and shots✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Ground Work Abs, Day 17✅, Day 18✅
  • Stationary bike: 15 mins of intervals ✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • Book club reading: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, 1960 ✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner✅
 
Fri, May 22, 2026

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after 7+ hours of sleep💤🛌, filled with dreams, of which I have no tangible memory, just an awareness of having dreamt…😌
Outside is partly cloudy, 57 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen🌤️🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Book club reading: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, 1960 ✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Ground Work Abs, Day 19✅, Day 20✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Stationary bike: 10 mins heavier 30 sec intervals✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 10 min standing stretch✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • ❌Dinner prep…husb did
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
 
Sat, May 23, 2026

AM- awake at 7:30am (PDT) after 7ish hours of sleep and no dream recall💤🛌😮‍💨
Outside is sunny, 65 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen🌞🌷🤧🤧
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Doggo to Spa Day✅
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
Noonish-
  • Fetch doggo from Spa✅

  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30 day challenge- Ground Work Abs, Day 21✅, Day 22✅
  • Stationary bike: 10 mins of 45 sec intervals/sec *rest*(seated pedaling at same cadence), at higher level (40)✅
  • DareBee EotD modified to step jacks ✅
  • DareBee WOD with EC✅
PM-
  • Book club reading: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, 1960 ✅…and, DONE🥳
  • House chore✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
 
Mon, May 25, 2026

***Memorial Day🇺🇸

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after 8+hours of sleep🛌💤 There was a lot of dreaming about my first husb (my daughter’s biological father). He died suddenly back in 2014, but my feelings about him have remained somewhat unresolved….😮‍💨🫣. I’m sure the dreaming is process to work on that.
Outside is partly cloudy, 62 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen🌤️🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
Noonish-
  • Lawn mowing followed by allergy mitigation✅

  • NYT puzzle page✅
PM-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Ground Work Abs, Day 25✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Tues, May 26, 2026

AM- awake at 6am (PDT) after 7+ hours of sleep and no dream recall🛌💤🥴
Outside is cloudy, 56 (F)degrees with MED pollen🌥️🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Drop car to shop for maint✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Pick up car from shop✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Ground Work Abs, Day 26✅
Noonish-
  • Stationary bike: 15 mins variable interval lengths on increasing resistance levels✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 15 min post workout stretch✅
❌Cooldown/Stretch

PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • Movie day with stepson’s gf (Sheep Detectives)🥰…this was quite cute, and surprisingly, a good mystery!🥹😅
  • ❌Dinner prep
  • ❌Nap
  • ❌House chore
  • ❌Doggo walk
 
Wed, May 27, 2026

AM- awake at 6:50am (PDT) after 8+ hours of sleep and no dream recall💤🛌
Outside is partly cloudy, 61 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH 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: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Ground Work Abs, Day 27✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Stationary bike: 20 mins low level steady state cardio✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 10 min post workout stretch with inner thigh and chest/shoulder stretches✅
❌Cooldown/Stretch-

Noonish-
  • House chore✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • MORE quilting✅🥰
  • ❌Dinner prep
  • ❌Nap
 
Thurs, May 28, 2026

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after nearly 9 hours of sleep with no dream recall💤🛌
Outside is already warm, sunny, 69 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen☀️😎🌷🤧🤧🤧
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Ground Work Abs, Day 28✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Dementia Support group✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner✅
***wild, severe thunder/lightening storm at bedtime. No power loss, just a couple surges….
 
Fri, May 29, 2026

AM- awake at 6am (PDT) after 8+ hours of sleep💤🛌☺️. Disturbing dream just before waking up about my elderly neighbor across the street taking a negative turn in her health and looking very pale and bloated. I know she is not doing well irl…now, I’ll have to go check on her, although she has lots of folks coming to help her most days…
Outside, after last night’s storm is partly cloudy, 64 (F)degrees, with LOW/MED pollen🌤️🌷🤧.
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Lawn mowing followed by allergy mitigation✅…stepson’s gf here to help me🥰
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Ground Work Abs, Day 29✅
  • Stationary bike: 20 min pyramid intervals (seated/stand) at moderate resistance✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 12 min post workout stretch with upper body and hip flexor focus✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Quilting✅
 
Sat, May 30, 2026

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after nearly 9 hours of sleep💤🛌🤩. No dream recall.
Outside is partly cloudy, 55 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen🌤️🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
  • Reading: Go Set A Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
Noonish-
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Ground Work Abs, Day 30✅…and,DONE🥳
  • Stationary bike: 10 mins of pyramid intervals at higher resistance level (40)✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 10 min standing stretch✅
PM-
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅

***Badge Day donation made!😎. Thank you so much DareBee Team☺️🌷🙏
 
Sun, May 31, 2026

AM- awake at 6am (PDT) after only 5+ hours of sleep. I was awakened by Canoe’s vomiting up his bone feast in the hallway from last night. I was gonna sleep thru that, and then he slipped on the big rug in our bedroom and crash landed on the bare floor. Hard. When a 100 pound dog falls, it’s a dreadful sound.😩🤯. He made it back into his crate. So, I fell back to sleep and dreamed about a camp-like grouping of various folks, including some half grown kid that turned out to be much older than I thought. We were having weird conversations about odd topics, including cats….🤯🥴
Outside is breezy, partly cloudy, 62 (F) degrees with MED/HIGH pollen🌤️🌬️🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Journaling✅
PM-
  • FitnessBlender: Lower Body Strength Circuit w/ AMRAP Conditioning Finisher, 15 mins✅

  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Mon, June 1, 2026

AM- awake at 7:30am (PDT) after 9 hours of sleep with some unpleasant dreaming.💤🛌😮‍💨. The dream included what seemed like familiar folks from my early adulthood/life, in a group setting/living situation. While waiting for one to get home, another one slipped, fell, was unconscious, and then when taken to hospital was found to be dead on arrival! When the one that transported returned home, they would not tell the group what the outcome was. Only me. It was very disturbing “you can’t say anything,” I was told. This sort of prohibition has always left me with SO MUCH anxiety. I know this dream is another step in processing that particular item from my childhood, youth, young adulthood and even mature adulthood with siblings. Ugh🤯😩
Outside is partly cloudy, 64 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen.🌤️🌷🤧🤧
  • 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: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, 60 seconds, Day 1✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Journaling✅
  • Book club reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015✅
Noonish-
  • NYT puzzle page✅

  • FB Momentum, 30 Day Team Strength, HIIT, and Cardio Program, Day 1: Lower Body Strength with HIIT Circuits, 30 mins ✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Movie day with stepson’s gf: “Obsession”🧟psycho/thriller
  • ❌Dinner prep
  • ❌Doggo walk
 
Tues, June 2, 2026

AM- awake at 7:20am (PDT) after 9 hours of sleep and lots of vivid and lucid dreaming.🛌💤🤔💭Involving a road trip in a vehicle we have long since sold to husb’s son, with the dog, to Portland, at a house sale. Too many things to write here. Suffice it to say, it felt like an entire trip was had in the time I spent dreaming, which was likely only a few minutes…🤯🥴very “Inception-“like😎
Outside is mostly sunny, 60 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen🌤️🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Noonish-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • Journaling✅
  • Book club reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 2 ✅
  • DareBee EotD✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • FB Momentum, 30 Day Team Strength, HIIT, and Cardio Program, Day2: Upper Body Push Strength with Core, 35 mins✅

  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Nap
  • ❌Doggo walk…husb did🥰🥳
 
Wed, June 3, 2026

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after nearly 9 hours of sleep🛌💤☺️. No dream recall, but I was definitely dreaming, as I feel another life was lived over night🫣🤔🤯
Outside is mostly cloudy, 66 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen🌥️🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Session with dog trainer at park✅
Noonish-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 3 ✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • FB Momentum, 30 Day Team Strength, HIIT, + Cardio Program, Day 3: Upper Body Strength Pull + Cardio, 28 mins✅
PM-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Book club reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015✅
  • Quilting✅
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
PetiteSheWolf said:
Oh boy, as much as "to kill a mocking bird" is one of my very favorite books, "Go set" was ... a huge disappointment. It even seems to me the contrary of Mockingbird. You'll tell me what you think. Take care!
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I’ve been hearing that a lot. Wonder if she’d lost her game by that time, having written no other novels since Mockingbird, and near the end of her life. I mean, she was 89 when she died in 2016, and published Go Set, in 2015
 
Thurs, June 4, 2026

AM- awake at 6:45am (PDT) after 8+ hours of sleep, with many interruptions by doggo and husb in the night, and no dream recall.🛌💤🤯
Outside is mostly sunny, 60 (F)degrees and MED/HIGH pollen 🌤️🌷🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk ✅
  • Lawn mowing with stepson’s gf help + fertilizer spreading followed by allergy mitigation✅
Noonish-
  • Journaling✅
  • Book club reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015✅
  • Foot soak/pedi✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 4 ✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • FB Momentum, 30 Day Team Strength, HIIT, and Cardio Program, Day 4: Total Body Mobility with Dynamic Stretches for an Active Rest Day, 30 mins✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner✅
 
Fri, June 5, 2026

AM- awake at 7:30am (PDT) after 9 hours of sleep with no dream recall💤🛌🤔. Outside is breezy, partly cloudy, 61 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen🌤️🌬️🌷🤧🤧…super allergic the last day+, so had some prednisone last night. Still have bad gravelly itchy eyes, so fatigue level is high😩😮‍💨
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
Noonish- unplanned REST DAY
  • House chore✅
  • Visit stepmom + her husb and my brother who is in town✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Book Club meeting✅: discuss To Kill a Mockingbird; next person chose: “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” (poem)
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 5 ✅
 
Sat, June 6, 2026

AM- awake at 7:15am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep and no dream recall💤🛌
Eyes are still pretty itchy and red, and I feel so tired. Hoping coffee helps☕️😩
Outside is breezy, sunny, 56 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen☀️🌬️🌷🤧🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
Noonish-
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 6 ✅
  • FB Momentum, 30 Day Team Strength, HIIT, and Cardio Program, Day 5: Total Body Functional Strength Training with a Bodyweight Cardio Finisher, 35 mins✅

  • Visit brother at stepmom’s✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • Long phone convo with daughter✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Book Club reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by Anonymous, (Pearl Poet),1400-ish (ordered 06/06 from Amazon)
  • ❌Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
  • ❌NYT puzzle page
  • ❌Nap
 
Sun, June 7, 2026

AM- awake at 7:15am (PDT) after 9ish hours of dream filled sleep, but little recall💤🛌😮‍💨
Outside is mostly sunny, 56(F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen🌤️🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • House chore✅

  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 7✅
PM-
  • ❌Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
  • ❌Book Club reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by Anonymous, (Pearl Poet),1400-ish
  • Quilting✅
  • ❌Dinner prep….husb did
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
  • MORE quilting✅🥰
 
Mon, June 8, 2026

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after 8+ hours of sleep with no dream recall💤🛌🤔
Outside is partly cloudy, 60 (F)degrees with (only) MED pollen! 🌤️🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅

  • Lawn mowing with stepson’s gf followed by allergy mitigation✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 8 ✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • FB Momentum, 30 Day Team Strength, HIIT, and Cardio Program, Day 8/26: Heart Pumping Bodyweight Cardio Primer, Lower Body Strength and weighted Cardio Finisher, 35 mins✅…(cooldown included)
PM-
  • Movie day with stepson’s gf: Backrooms….creepy AF, lending to a body horror feel🫣
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Book Club reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1400-ish in Middle English), a New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage, 2007✅
  • Quilting✅
  • ❌Dinner prep
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • ❌Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
 
Tues, June 9, 2026

AM- awake at 6:45am (PDT) after 7+ hours of sleep and no dream recall💤🛌
Outside is mostly cloudy, breezy, with light rain, 59 (F) degrees and MED pollen🌦️🌬️🌷🤧🤧
  • 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: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 9 ✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • NYT puzzle page✅

  • FB Momentum, 30 Day Team Strength, HIIT, and Cardio Program, Day 9/26: HIIT Cardio + Upper Body Push Strength, 35 mins✅
PM-
  • Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner✅
  • ❌House chore
  • ❌Book Club reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1400-ish in Middle English), a New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage, 2007
 
Wed, June 10, 2026

AM- awake at 6:30am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep with no dream recall💤🛌
Outside is breezy, partly cloudy, 53 (F) degrees with MED/HIGH pollen🌬️🌥️🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Drop one vehicle at dealership for recall fix✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 10 ✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Pick up first vehicle and drop second vehicle at dealership for recall fix✅
  • Journaling✅
PM-
  • FB Momentum, 30 Day Team Strength, HIIT, and Cardio Program, Day 10/26: Upper Body Strength (Pull) with Balance and Tempo Challenges to Build Muscle + Core Circuits, 35 mins✅

  • House chore: prep supplements + coffee packets✅, reconcile retirement accounts✅, update Visas✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Pick up 2nd vehicle from dealership after recall fix✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
  • ❌Book Club reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1400-ish in Middle English), a New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage, 2007
  • ❌Quilting
 
Thurs, June 11, 2026

AM- awake at 6:45am (PDT) after a difficult time getting to sleep last night. My coffee routine was all screwed up, so I had more coffee, too late in morning. As a result, I was wide awake at bedtime. I think the total amount of sleep was around 6 to 7 hours…ugh. No dream recall🛌😤
Outside is sunny, 57 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen☀️🌷🤧🤧
  • 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: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 11 ✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • FB Momentum, 30 Day Team Strength, HIIT, and Cardio Program, Day 11/26: Mobility + Dynamic Stretches, 20 mins✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015✅
  • ❌Book Club reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1400-ish in Middle English), a New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage, 2007
 
Fri, June 12, 2026

AM- awake at 6:30am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep and no dream recall.💤🛌
Outside is mostly sunny, 66 (F) degrees with MED/HIGH pollen🌤️🌷🤧🤧
  • ❌Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
  • ❌Book Club reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1400-ish in Middle English), a New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage, 2007
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
❌Mobility/warmups
Travel Day- drive 5 hours to Portland, plan to spread mother-in-law’s ashes on Sat, with daughter and granddaughter in attendance…

Noonish-
Still driving…

PM-
Arrived at mom’s to check on property, start talking about clean up/prep to sell process…

Arrived at our hotel/check in…

  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 12 ✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Dinner prep: pick-up by daughter and granddaughter to go eat dinner
  • NYT puzzle page✅
 
Sat, June 13, 2026

AM- awake at 6:10am (PDT) after a restless night💤🫩🛌. Lights out at 9pm, but I was awake again at 2:30, stuffed up and in my head about Sat process of getting to mom’s and the heat wave we will be in the midst of by then + husb *snoring down all remaining forests*….finally back to sleep around 4am for a couple more hours…no dream recall😮‍💨
Outside is sunny, 64 (F)degrees with HIGH pollen☀️🍳🌷🤧🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
Noonish-
  • Drive to downtown Portland with daughter for granddaughter’s French lesson✅
  • Walking: 2.6 miles✅

  • Drive an hour north to m-i-L’s property to spread her ashes under the trees she planted 30+ years ago as per her wishes…daughter driving ✅
PM-
  • Travel the hour back south to daughter’s condo to prep for dinner with daughter + granddaughter✅

  • Dinner prep: nice French dinner at L’Orange in SE Portland for the four of us😋✅
  • ❌Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 13 ✅
 
Sun, June 14, 2026

AM- awake at 6:50am (PDT) after 7+ hours of sleep with no dream recall🫩🛌
Outside is sunny, 74 (F)degrees with HIGH pollen🍳☀️🌷🤧🤧🤧
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 14 ✅
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Walking: 3 miles✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY

Devise plan to come back down in July to start mucking out mom’s house….😮‍💨
  • ❌Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
Take granddaughter to get a burger + shake, then go visit daughter after her volunteer Trauma Intervention Program shift so she can decompress….
 
Sun, June 14, 2026

AM- awake at 6:50am (PDT) after 7+ hours of sleep with no dream recall🫩🛌
Outside is sunny, 74 (F)degrees with HIGH pollen🍳☀️🌷🤧🤧🤧
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 14 ✅
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Walking: 3 miles✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY

Devise plan to come back down in July to start mucking out mom’s house…🫩
  • ❌Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
Take granddaughter to get a burger + shake, then go visit daughter after her volunteer Trauma Intervention Program shift so she can decompress….😮‍💨
 
Mon, June 15, 2026

AM- awake at 6:15 am (PDT) after 7ish hours of sleep with no dream recall🫩💤
Outside is sunny, hazy (wildfires), 75 (F) degrees with HIGH pollen🔥🧯🍳🤧🤧
  • News update✅
Travel day: headed home via the 5 hour drive thru Columbia River Gorge🚙💨

Noonish- still driving….

PM- still driving; arrived home to a bouncy dancing doggo😂🥰
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • House chore ✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Tues, June 16, 2026

AM- awake at 6:45am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep, with plenty of dreaming + recall💤🛌🫣Dreaming of some sort of family gathering (my typical family reunion in summer), with various electric/motorized riding vehicles: bikes, scooters, recumbent bikes and family members on them…🚲🛵
Outside is partly cloudy, breezy, 76 (F) degrees with MED/HIGH pollen🌤️🌬️🌷🤧
  • 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: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 15 ✅ + Day 16✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • FB Momentum, 30 Day Team Strength, HIIT, and Cardio Program, Day 12/26: Total-Body Strength + Quick HIIT Burn, 35 mins✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Book Club reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1400-ish in Middle English), a New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage, 2007✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Wed, June 17, 2026

AM- awake at 6:45am (PDT) after 7ish hours of sleep🛌💤🫩. I have clearly dreamt, but the recall is fuzzy….🫣
Outside is breezy, sunny, 69 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen😎🌬️☀️🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Drop another vehicle to shop for warrantee maint✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 17✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Journaling✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • FB Momentum, 30 Day Team Strength, HIIT, and Cardio Program, Day 17/26: Core + Low Impact Cardio Circuits, 30 mins✅

  • Book Club reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1400-ish in Middle English), a New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage, 2007✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Fetch vehicle from auto shop✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner✅
  • ❌Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
 
Thurs, June 18, 2026

AM- awake at 6:15am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep with no dream recall🛌💤
Outside is sunny, 65 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen☀️🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Lawn mowing followed by allergy mitigation✅
  • Another vehicle to repair shop ✅
  • Journaling✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 18 ✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • FB Momentum, 30 Day Team Strength, HIIT, and Cardio Program, Day 15/26: Full Body Push Paired w/ Athletic Cardio for Strength+ Endurance, 40 mins✅
PM-
  • Dinner prep: short ribs, leftover Brussels sprouts + bread
  • Book Club reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1400-ish in Middle English), a New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage, 2007✅
  • ❌Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • House chore ✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
 
Fri, June 19, 2026

🖤🟰🖤***JUNETEENTH***🖤🟰🖤

AM- awakened at 5:30am (PDT) by my doggo’s nose and tongue in my face😂.
I told him to “go find dad,” so he went. I dozed for another hour before getting up for the day, totaling 8ish hours of horizontal time, no dream recall, but I feel like I was dreaming….💤🛌🤔
Outside is partly cloudy, 70 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen🌤️🌷🤧🤧
  • 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: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 19✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Journaling✅
  • Book Club reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1400-ish in Middle English), a New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage, 2007✅
Noonish-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Attend a mis-summer music event featuring my dog trainer and her spouse’s band😅✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Sat, June 20, 2026

AM- awake at 7ish am (PDT) after a late and restless night with trouble getting to sleep to start with, due to late coffee during yesterdays music event. I was dreaming of weird combinations of cats and dogs, mucking out houses after a family death, fixing our house for our aging process, among other things….😮‍💨
Outside is sunny, 73 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen😎🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • House chore ✅
  • Book Club reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1400-ish in Middle English), a New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage, 2007✅…and, DONE🥳…this was fun to read, but I found it necessary to use wiki for help with intelligent interpretation and then watch the 2021 movie adaptation for further dissection….🤔
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 20 ✅
Noonish-
  • FB Momentum, 30 Day Team Strength, HIIT, and Cardio Program, Day 16/26: Lower + Upper Body Pull Strength with Tempo and Scalable HIIT, 40 mins✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Sun, June 21, 2021

☀️***Summer Solstice*** ☀️

**Father’s Day**

AM- awake at 7 am (PDT) after less than 7 hours of sleep and fuzzy dream recall….🛌💤😮‍💨
Outside is sunny, 69 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen😎🌷🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Quilting✅
PM-
  • Meet stepmom + her husb in town for Fathers’ Day mid-day foods✅
  • Dinner prep: brought meal home for husb. He felt weird (some sort of allergic rash), so did not go with me to eat✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • ❌House chore

  • Doggo walk✅

  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 21 ✅
  • MORE quilting✅
  • ❌Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
 
Mon, June 22, 2026

AM- awake before 6am (PDT) with a headache, but insisted to myself that I needed at least another hour of sleep for an 8ish hour total🛌💤😮‍💨. That last hour, I dreamt heavily, involved in a road trip in our old dog-hauling car (we’ve long since sold it to my stepson), and a weird stop at a mall in Portland, where my husb and I seemed to be lost?! My prior doggo Boo was also with us🥹🥰
Outside is sunny, 70 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen😎☀️🌷🤧🤧
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 22✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • FB Momentum, 30 Day Team Strength, HIIT, and Cardio Program, Day 18/26: Slow-Paced Full-Body Mobility + Stretches for Recovery to Loosen Up + Check In, 30 mins✅

  • Journaling✅
PM-
  • Movie day with stepson’s gf: Disclosure Day✅. VERY good movie!!👽🛸

  • House chore✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Tues, June 23, 2026

AM- awake at 5:30am (PDT) after 7ish hours of sleep with no dream recall🛌💤

Outside is sunny, 62 (F)degrees with MED/HIGH pollen😎☀️🌷🤧🤧🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Lawn mowing followed by allergy mitigation✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee 30-day Challenge- Perfect Balance, Day 23 ✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • NYT puzzle page✅
Noonish-
  • FB Momentum, 30 Day Team Strength, HIIT, and Cardio Program, Day 19/26: Total Body Unilateral Strength Circuits with Buy-in and Cash-out, Cardio & HIIT, 35 mins✅
PM-
  • Desk work✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner✅
  • ❌Reading: Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, 2015
 
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