The Other Side

DorothyMH DorothyMH Logging since September 2022
Wed, Sept 16, 2026

AM- awake at 6:30am (PDT) after 8ish hours of dreamless sleep🛌💤😏
Outside is sunny, 56 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🍳🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Pack up, check out, walk to meet stepson, his gf, and my daughter for brunch✅
Noonish-
  • Away from home walking: 2.5 miles ✅

  • ❌Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831
  • Journaling✅
PM-
  • Hang out at daughter’s for chores and visit until check in time at new location Airbnb✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep: order, fetch and take to daughter and granddaughter✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee September 30-day Challenge- Cardio Streak, Day 16✅
 
Thurs, Sept 17, 2026

AM- awake at 7:30am (PDT) after nine hours of pretty solid sleep with no dream recall.💤😏
Outside is sunny, 58 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🍳🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅

  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee September 30-day Challenge- Cardio Streak, Day 17✅
Noonish-
  • Away from home walking: 3 miles✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • ❌Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831
  • Dinner prep: walk to daughter’s then to dinner✅
  • House chore✅
 
Fri, Sept 18, 2026

AM- awake at 7:15 am(PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep with no dream recall💤🛌
Outside is partly cloudy, 56 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🌤️🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • ❌Fighting Cancer: DareBee September 30-day Challenge- Cardio Streak, Day 18
  • ❌Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831
Noonish-
  • Travel Day- drive 5+ hours home✅
PM-
  • ❌Quilting
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Sat, Sept 19, 2026

AM- awake at 7:15am (PDT) after 7ish hours of sleep.🛌💤. For the travel yesterday, I had more than usual coffee plus chocolate, so eyes wide open to drive…😳
Outside is sunny, 50 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🍳🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Drop doggo for Spa Day✅
Noonish- UNPLANNED REST Day
  • Dinner prep✅
  • House chore✅
  • Fetch doggo from Spa✅
PM-
  • Journaling✅
  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
 
Sun, Sept 20, 2026

AM- awake at 6am (PDT) after 7ish hours of sleep💤🛌. As I woke up, I was dreaming again about a communal living environment. I wonder if that is in my future….🤔
Outside is smoky/hazy, mostly sunny, breezy, 50 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🔥🌬️🌤️🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅

  • DareBee September 30-day Challenge- Cardio Streak, Day 18✅
Noonish-
  • DareBee September 30-day Challenge- Cardio Streak, Day 19✅

  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅
PM-
  • DareBee September 30-day Challenge- Cardio Streak, Day 20✅

  • Quilting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Mon, Sept 21, 2026

AM- awake at 6:45am (PDT) after 8+ hours of sleep with no dream recall💤🛌
Outside is mostly sunny, breezy, hazy, 50 (F) degrees with LOW pollen🌤️🌬️🔥🌺🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dentist appt✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅
PM-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee September 30-day Challenge- Cardio Streak, Day 21✅
  • DareBee EotD✅
Workout-
  • Stationary bike: 10 mins mod/heavy resistance with 30 sec intervals✅
  • DownDog yoga: 20 min Vinyasa practice with upper body + hip flexor focus✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • ❌Dinner prep…husb did
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
 
Tues, Sept 22, 2026

AM- awake at 6:50am (PDT) after 8+ hours of sleep. Very detailed dream involving my ex from 25 + years ago, my current spouse, stepson, and daughter. So weird. Clearly, I still have unresolved feelings and haunted issues, there…😮‍💨🤔🫣
Outside is hazy, partly cloudy, 53 (F) degrees with LOW pollen.🔥🌤️🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee September 30-day Challenge- Cardio Streak, Day 22✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Workout-
  • Stationary bike: 15 min heavy resistance and 1 min intervals✅
  • DownDog yoga: 20 min Vinyasa practice with core + inner thigh focus ✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • ❌Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831
  • ❌Journaling
  • ❌Quilting
  • Dinner prep: stepson + gf here✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Wed, Sept 23, 2026

AM- awake at 6:30am (PDT) after 7+ hours of sleep and no dream recall💤🛌m
Outside is partly cloudy, a little hazy, 53 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🌤️🔥🌺🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Lawn mowing followed by allergy mitigation✅
  • News update✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee September 30-day Challenge- Cardio Streak, Day 23✅
Workout-
  • Stationary bike: 20 mins heavy resistance with variable intervals✅
  • DownDog yoga: 20 min Vinyasa practice with core & inner thigh focus✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • ❌Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831
  • Book Club: Watch 3 epis of Vinland Saga with stepson’s gf✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner✅
 
Thurs, Sept 24, 2026

AM- awake at 6:50am (PDT) after 8+ hours of sleep. Dreaming was wild. I dreamed my oldest brother reappeared alive and well, and insisting that the suicided body I saw on the morgue table nearly 13 years ago was *a fake.* All this in the middle of trying to prepare for some terrifying alien or other foreign invasion. Too much talk of horror movies last night at dinner, I suspect🤯
Outside is mostly sunny, a bit hazy, 45 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🌤️🔥🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Dinner prep: salmon, leftover kale, potatoes
  • NYT puzzle page✅
Noonish-
  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee September 30-day Challenge- Cardio Streak, Day 24✅
Workout-
  • Stationary bike: 25 mins heavy resistance with variable 15-60 sec intervals✅
  • DownDog yoga: 20 mins Vinyasa practice with upper body & flexibility focus✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Book Club: watch episodes Vinland Saga at stepson’s gf’s house✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Fri, Sept 25, 2026

AM- awake at 6:45am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep, with no silly dreams to recall😮‍💨💤🛌
Outside is cloudy, windy, wet, 57 (F) degrees with LOW pollen☁️💦🌬️🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee September 30-day Challenge- Cardio Streak, Day 25✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • DareBee EotD: 40 standing tricep extensions✅
Workout-
  • Stationary bike: 30 min moderate to heavy resistance with work intervals varying from 30 sec to 3 mins and rest intervals of 1 min✅
  • DownDog yoga: 25 min Vinyasa practice with upper body & flexibility focus✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
PM-
  • Book Club: watch more episodes of Vinland Saga with stepson’s gf✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Sat, Sept 26, 2026

AM- awake at 7:15am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep.💤🛌. I did dream pretty vividly again, although I cannot now recall the contents of the dreaming. It was not unpleasant, but I don’t think I was me in it, either….🥴
Outside is mostly sunny, 45 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🌤️🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
Noonish-
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee September 30-day Challenge- Cardio Streak, Day 26✅
PM-
  • Stationary bike: 30 min steady state cardio at moderate resistance, with a couple of 1 min intervals, as I was talking to my daughter the entire time✅
  • DownDog yoga: 25 min Vinyasa practice with glutes & flexibility focus ✅

  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831
  • Quilting✅
 
Sun, Sept 27, 2026

AM- awake at 6:45am (PDT) after 7+ hours of sleep🛌💤. Some bizarre dreaming about multiple people (unknown to me) staying in our house. I assume another communal living theme. I had had a huge incontinent/fecal accident in our basement bathroom that had a toxic element that everyone was freaking out about. There were cats also, however, they were an aside. I suppose this was all a subconscious projection of some deep aging-related fear of mine🫣🙄😮‍💨
Outside is mostly cloudy, breezy, 42 (F) degrees with LOW pollen🌥️🌬️🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
  • Book Club: watch 4 episodes of Vinland Saga with stepson’s gf✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅
  • Journaling✅

  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee September 30-day Challenge- Cardio Streak, Day 27✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • Meet stepmom + her husb at movie theater for Heart of the Beast😩✅
  • Dinner prep: meet stepmom + her husb in town for dinner✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
 
Mon, Sept 28, 2026

AM-awake at 7:10am (PDT) after 8 hours of anxiety dream-filled sleep🛌💤. I thought a lot about the movie we saw when I was conscious. But, the dreams involved watching my stepmom deteriorate as she ages. Both her cognition and her physical ability to move are SO compromised, and more so every time I see her, it’s frankly scary to me. And, I have seen a LOT in my life, both as a nurse, and as a person with 3 sets of parents. Perhaps the scary part IS that she represents my *final set* of parentals..
Outside is sunny, clear, 38 (F)degrees with LOW pollen.☀️🌺🤧
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
Noonish-
  • Massage appt✅…a long one, which I desperately needed, to stem the uncontrolled emotions I feel today….
PM- unplanned additional REST DAY
❌Mobility/warmups-
  • Book club: to stepson’s house to finish Vinland Saga with his gf✅…and DONE
  • ❌Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831
  • ❌Dinner prep
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅

  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee September 30-day Challenge- Cardio Streak, Day 28✅
 
Tues, Sept 29, 2026

AM- awake at 6:30am (PDT) after 8 hours of dead sleep💤🛌. No dream recall…🥴🫣
Outside is partly cloudy, 55 (F)degrees with LOW 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 September 30-day Challenge- Cardio Streak, Day 29✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Workout-
  • Stationary bike: 15 mjn steady state moderate resistance cardio while talking to daughter on phone✅
  • DownDog yoga: 30 min Vinyasa practice with glutes and flexibility focus✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Journaling✅
  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Wed, Sept 30, 2026

AM- awake at 7:15am (PDT) after 8 hours of sleep with no dream recall🛌💤
Outside is mostly cloudy, 54 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🌥️🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
  • Journaling✅
Noonish-
  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅
PM-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee September 30-day Challenge- Cardio Streak, Day 30✅…and, DONE🤩🥳
  • BaoDing balls✅
Workout-
  • Stationary bike: 20 mins variable resistance (mid to heavy) with varying length intervals✅
  • DownDog yoga: 25 min Vinyasa practice with upper body + inner thigh focus✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Thurs, Oct 1, 2026

AM- awake at 6:45am (PDT) after 7+ hours of sleep💤🛌. No dream recall or impressions of any dreaming at all, today….🥴
Outside is partly cloudy, 47 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🌤️🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 1 ✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Workout-
  • Stationary bike: 25 mins of moderate resistance, 2 min work intervals + 1 min rest intervals✅
  • DownDog yoga: 20 min Vinyasa practice with core + inner thigh focus ✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Quilting✅
 
Fri, Oct 2, 2026

AM- awake at 5:30am (PDT), just BEFORE my alarm, after 7 hours of sleep with no dream recall🛌💤
Outside is still dark, but clear, 47 (F) degrees with LOW pollen☀️✨🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
Noonish- Travel Day
  • Pack up and drive 5+ hours to Portland, pick up granddaughter at her school and go to daughter’s condo✅
PM-
  • Still driving✅
  • Fetch granddaughter at school✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge-The Ranger, Day 2✅ + punches✅

  • ❌Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Congratulations on such a well-organized routine. The fight against cancer is sad news and it tests us day by day, but you will overcome it. I'm sending you my best wishes and hoping everything goes well for you.💪🏽🫶🏽
 
Kathe O'higgins said:
Congratulations on such a well-organized routine. The fight against cancer is sad news and it tests us day by day, but you will overcome it. I'm sending you my best wishes and hoping everything goes well for you.💪🏽🫶🏽
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I should be clear, I am not beset with cancer. I merely participate in the thread Fighting Cancer, in memory of a dearly departed Bee and in honor of those who are in fact fighting it in their lives.🥹. I was also an oncology nurse for 20+ years, as well, so I do feel like I am a part of that community, for what it’s worth…🙂
 
Sat, Oct 3, 2026

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after 8ish hours of moderate sleep with no dream recall🛌💤🫤
Outside is hazy but sunny, 56 (F) degrees with LOW pollen🔥☀️🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Errands with daughter✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 3 + 40 punches✅
PM-
  • To roller derby with granddaughter and daughter✅
  • Away from home walking: 2 miles✅
  • Dinner prep
  • NYT puzzle page✅
 
Sun, Oct 4, 2026

AM- awake at 8am (PDT) after 9 hours of horizontal time. Had slept okay until 3am, then felt pushed to the edge of the bed (daughter is a bed hog!), and painful left hip (chronic pain site), for which I was unable to find a comfortable position. After getting up for pain med, tried again, and slept, thank the gawds💤🛌
Outside is hazy, sunny, 55 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🔥☀️🌺🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
  • ❌Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831

  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 4 + quad stretches✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY

PM-
  • Meet daughter’s friend + kid at private school open house✅
  • Dinner prep: meet same folks for dinner downtown✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
 
Mon, Oct 5, 2026

AM- awake at my daughter’s 6am (PDT) alarm, to which she did not respond😤. Not enough sleep for anyone last night. I imagine it will be a challenge to get out the door in time for all our business. Girls to school, and me on the road to my mother in law’s property to do some stuff for my husb there. Then home.
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅

  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 5✅

  • ❌Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831
Noonish- Travel Day
PM-
  • Arrived home after a full day of driving✅
  • ❌Dinner prep…husb did
  • NYT puzzle page✅
 
Tues, Oct 6, 2026

AM- awake at 6:30am (PDT) after 8ish hours of dream-filled sleep; none of which I can remember….💤🛌🫤
Outside is hazy, sunny, 44 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🔥☀️🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
PM-
  • Nap✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk✅

  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 6 + stretches✅

  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅
  • Quilting✅
 
Wed, Oct 7, 2026

AM- awake at 6:50am (PDT) after 8+ hours of (mostly)sleep💤🛌. Just before deciding to get up, I was dreaming about communal living again. Not in my house, but the concrete basement stairs of my house were in this facility, where an obese elderly man fell down, then and hit his head. It seems to be the story of my life these days: the old folks I know fall and hit their head. Why not dream bout it, too?🫣😩
Outside is hazy, sunny, 45 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🔥☀️🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Appt at cannabis dispensary for medical use renewal✅
  • Journaling✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 7 + 40 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Quilting✅
  • ❌Dinner prep…husb did
  • ❌Doggo walk…husb did
  • ❌Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831
 
Thurs, Oct 8, 2026

AM- awake at 6:30am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep with no dream recall💤🛌
Outside is hazy, sunny, 40 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🔥☀️🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Appt for flu + covid vaccines✅
  • House chore✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 8 + 40 punches✅
  • EotD: 50 speed bag punches✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
Workout-
  • DownDog yoga: 30 min Vinyasa practice for upper body + inner thighs✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner✅
 
Fri, Oct 9, 2026

AM- awake at 7:30am (PDT) after 8 ish hours of sleep.💤🛌. Lots of dreaming, but no recap of content. Plus a huge immune response to my vaccines yesterday: body aches, headache, temp variable.🤕🤒
Outside is partly cloudy, breezy, 50 (F) degrees with LOW 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✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 9 + 60 punches✅
Workout-
  • Stationary bike: 10 mins moderate resistance at steady state cardio✅
  • DownDog yoga: 20 min Hatha practice with upper body and inner thigh focus✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Foot soak/pedi✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Sat, Oct 10, 2026

AM- awake at 8am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep💤🛌. Stayed up late watching Dark Matter and Chad Powers. Less pain than the night before, thankfully. Then had disturbing dreams this morning, involving getting lost in a hospital building I used to work in, being pursued for nefarious reasons within that building and coerced into staying there by my daughter and my ex-partner. So weird….😮‍💨🫣
Outside is sunny, 45 (F)degrees with LOW pollen☀️🌺🤧
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 10 + nothing extra✅
  • DareBee WOD✅
  • DareBee EotD✅
  • DareBee Quest: The Lighthouse at SaltReach✅ (just documented the punches from WOD)
  • DownDog yoga: 25 min Vinyasa practice with core + flexibility focus✅

  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Sun, Oct 11, 2026

AM- awakened at 7am (PDT) after 7+ hours of sleep by the dog-monster slithering up onto the bed, to wedge himself between us to lick faces🥹🥰
Once he started sprawling his long legs out perpendicular to us, it was clear I should get out of the way (aka: get UP already, mom!)
Dream recall consists of a sweet time with husb that was interrupted by the doggo😮‍💨🫣
Outside is sunny, breezy, 45 (F)degrees with LOW pollen, but blowing dust☀️🌬️🌺🤧
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 11 + 40 punches✅…also, added to Quest👊🥊
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Quilting✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Mon, Oct 12, 2026

***Indigenous People’s Day

**11th year since my mom died

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after 7+ hours of sleep with no dream recall💤🛌
Outside is sunny, breezy, 36(F)degrees with LOW pollen☀️🌬️🌺🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 12 + nothing extra✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day and my mom’s death-versary, I had a 🍄 tea ceremony intending to see my mom. While that did not explicitly happen, I did feel her. Also, I inhabited other beings, felt all shades of the light to dark spectrum, including an inter-dimensional opening, experiencing all the things which my normally very tightly wound brain cannot imagine. The space between life and death was opened to me, such that there was no difference between them, and all my dead family could be accessed if I wished, but not in any creepy way. Just clearly there was no difference between life and death. Which is honestly reassuring, to me. It was the best mind-expansive, and truly religious experience I’ve ever had. It made coming back into, and living in my corporeal husk of a body seem…simple🥹😅 No wonder this is used as therapy for depression, anxiety, PTSD and addiction. I really do feel lighter🔅
  • ❌Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831
PM-
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Dinner prep
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
 
Tues, Oct 13, 2026

AM- awake at 6:15am (PDT) after nearly 8 hours of sleep💤🛌. Dream recall consist of me being someone “not” myself. I was with a young man who was receiving continual chemotherapy, and acknowledged that I had never been on the receiving end of chemo, either as a patient, or a support person (only on the giving end). We were in a “demo-bunker” at a buffet, where we were to watch VERY low flying F-16 jets go by, while trying to visit….🫣😤Very strange, but not inconsistent given yesterday’s experience.
Outside is dark, partly cloudy, 35 (F) degrees with low-to-no pollen🌤️🌺🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 13 + 40 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
PM-
Workout-
  • Stationary bike: 10 min moderate & heavy resistance with 1 min each work/rest intervals✅
  • DownDog yoga: 20 min Vinyasa practice for upper body + flexibility ✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Quilting✅
 
Wed, Oct 14, 2026

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after 9 (NINE) hours of sleep💤🛌🥰. Was awakened at 4ish by some pretty crushing chest pain, which was a surprise, and took repositioning to my back, and about 5 minutes to dissipate. After that, I dreamed about taking care of an older gentleman at a facility who had just had a cardiac bypass surgery. I was myself in this dream. As I prepared to leave him to take care of my other patients, he started having chest pain again, so I gave him some morphine and stayed. Then the place seemed to transform into an assisted living facility, rather than a hospital, as I remained with him for the day. After Monday’s trip, I still feel the veil between life and death to be quite thin, so that the dream and my own body really seem “connected,” psychologically.
Outside is partly sunny, 43 (F)degrees with LOW pollen⛅️🌺🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 14 + 40 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • DownDog yoga: 18 min gentle flexibility practice✅
PM-
  • ❌Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831
  • ❌Quilting
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Massage appt✅…assume the chest pain in the night was a leftover spasm from the ‘shroom trip on Monday, as it has not recurred, and had no other associated pains or breathing issues, and it was at rest, with no exertion.🤷🏼
  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf who are fetching my husb in town for dinner✅
 
Thurs, Oct 15, 2026

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after 8+ hours of sleep with no dream recall….💤🛌
Outside is sunny, 41 (F)degrees with LOW pollen☀️😎🍁🍂🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Visit stepmom to help her husb with physical tasks✅
PM-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 15- broke 100 lunges into sets of 20 lunges✅ + 40 punches after the final set of 20 lunges below⬇️✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
  • LaCrosse ball/Foam roll on Left hip as prescribed massage therapist✅
Workout-
  • 20 lunges✅
  • Rowing: 5 mins at moderate resistance with alternating 1 min work/rest intervals✅
  • 20 lunges✅
  • Stationary bike: 5 mins moderate resistance with a 2 min work interval sandwiched between (2) 1 min rest intervals✅
  • 20 lunges + 20 lunges✅
  • DownDog yoga: 25 min Yin practice with inner thigh + hip flexor focus✅

  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • MORE quilting✅
 
Fri, Oct 16, 2026

AM- awake at 5:30am (PDT) after 7.+ hours of sleep and no dream recall💤🛌
Outside is dark, clear, 40 (F)degrees with LOW pollen.✨🍁🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Dog walk✅
  • Travel Day: drive 3 hours to Seattle to brother in law’s, for lunch and leave a finished quilt✅
Noonish-
  • Travel Day: drive another 3 hours to Portland, stopping at m-i-L’s property to let in a potential buyer, then finishing the drive to daughter’s condo✅
PM-
  • Travel Day- get to daughter’s and receive call about medical issue of stepmom’s, needing to contact my younger brother, her son✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
 
Sat, Oct 17, 2026

AM- awake at 5:45am (PDT) after a very poor night of sleep, with lots of physical pain and emotional turmoil from a row with my daughter after dinner. It’s all fine now, but, boy I haven’t felt that upset for years. So, sleep was not in the cards, despite being so fatigued. No dream recall😮‍💨😫
Outside is cloudy, wet, 54 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🌧️💦🍁🤧
  • News update✅

  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 16 + 40 punches✅
  • Quest: 25 step jacks✅

  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: Quilted Secrets, by Ann Hazelwood, 2019✅
Noonish-
  • Granddaughter to French lesson✅

  • Away from home walking- 2.5 miles ✅
PM-
  • Open house attendance at the second on our list private high school✅
  • Dinner prep: meet daughter’s friend’s family down town after open house ✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
 
Sun, Oct 18, 2026

AM- awake at 6:45am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep. 💤🛌. Not sure when the girls came in. But, I thought I heard my daughter holler MA! from my sleep, so I hollered (actually) YEAH! She came in and gently woke me up to ask if I was okay. Apparently, she had NOT hollered for me, but I had, indeed hollered from my sleep; it was in my subconscious, that I could feel they were in the door. I told her I was fine and just answering her call, and she was like we just walked in the door, and had said nothing. But she was alarmed that I was yelling😮‍💨😵‍💫. Weird…..no dream recall.
Outside is cloudy, 43 (F)degrees feels like 41 with LOW pollen✅
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅

  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Quest: 25 step jacks✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 17 + 60 punches✅
  • Quest: 25 step jacks✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Walk to park to hang out + people watch✅
PM-
  • House chore✅

  • DareBee EotD✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 18 + nothing else✅
  • Quest: 25 step jacks✅

  • Reading: Quilted Secrets, by Ann Hazelwood, 2019✅
  • Nap✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Mon, Oct 19, 2026

AM- awake at my daughter’s 6am (PDT) alarm, after 7+ hours of sleep with no dream recall.💤🛌
Outside is cloudy, 49 (F)degrees with LOW pollen.⛅️🍁🌬️🤧
  • News update✅
  • Journaling✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll Legt hip✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 19 + 40 punches✅

  • NYT puzzle page✅
Noonish-
  • Weighted workout on daughter’s plan with her at her gym✅

  • Help daughter with Medicaid and Snap applications✅
PM-
  • Away from home walking: 1.5 mile✅
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Reading: Quilted Secrets, by Ann Hazelwood, 2019✅
 
Tues, Oct 20, 2026

AM- awake at 6am (PDT) to daughter’s alarm, after 7ish hours of fair sleep with no dream recall💤🛌😏
Outside is dark, 48 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🍳☀️🍁🤧
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅

  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll Left hip✅
  • DareBee EitD✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 20 + quad stretches✅

  • Chat with husb to catch up✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: Quilted Secrets, by Ann Hazelwood, 2019✅
PM-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Help daughter w/ her applications✅
  • Attend granddaughter’s parent teacher conference✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • House chore✅
 
Wed, Oct 21, 2026

AM- awake at 6:10am (PDT), with no alarm, as my daughter wound up all night on the couch🫣😵‍💫. I had 8ish hours of sleep💤🛌
Outside is dark, clear, 47 (F)degrees with LOW pollen☀️🍳🍁🤧
  • News update✅
  • House chore✅

  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 21 + nothing extra✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll Left hip✅

  • Journaling✅
Noonish-
  • Help daughter with task list✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Reading: Quilted Secrets, by Ann Hazelwood, 2019✅
  • Pick up granddaughter after school for derby practice✅
  • DareBee Walking Club- Away from home walking (while granddaughter is skating at derby): 3 miles✅
 
Thurs, Oct 22, 2026

AM- awake at 6am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep and no dream recall💤🛌
Outside is hazy, 47 (F)degrees with LOW pollen🔥☀️🍁🤧
  • News update✅

  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll Left hip✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 22 + 40 punches✅

  • Journaling✅
  • House chore✅
Noonish-
  • ❌Reading: Quilted Secrets, by Ann Hazelwood, 2019
  • Sit with daughter while she works on appt making for daughter on new insurance✅
PM-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • DareBee Walking Club: 1.5 miles✅
  • Attend another high school’s open house with girls to assess appropriateness for granddaughter’s next year✅
 
Fri, Oct 32, 2026

AM- awake at 6:20am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep and no dream recall💤🛌
Outside is foggy, partly cloudy, 42 (F) degrees with LOW pollen😶‍🌫️🌤️🍁🤧
  • Journaling✅

  • ❌Wrist extension/flexion
  • ❌Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee October 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 23 + 40 punches✅
  • ❌LaCrosse ball roll

  • News update✅
  • ❌Reading: Quilted Secrets, by Ann Hazelwood, 2019
Noonish-
  • Travel Day- drive 5+ hours home✅
PM-
  • ❌Quilting
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌NYT puzzle page
  • ❌Nap
  • House chore✅
  • ❌DareBee Walking Club- Doggo walk…husb did
 
Sat, Oct 24, 2026

AM- awake at 7:45am (PDT) after 8+ hours of sleep🛌💤. Was definitely dreaming, but cannot now recall what about…🫣😵‍💫
Outside is frosty, sunny, 30 (F)degrees feels like 25 with negligible pollen🤧🥶🌞🍁
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • DareBee Walking Club-Dog walk, 10 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Quilting✅
  • ❌Doggo walk…husb did
  • ❌Journaling
  • ❌Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831
  • ❌Reading: Quilted Secrets, by Ann Hazelwood, 2019
 
Sun, Oct 25, 2026

AM- awake at 7:15am (PDT) after 9 hours of dream-filled sleep💤🛌. I have just scant traces of recall but no detail to make any sense….😏
Outside is partly cloudy, 37 (F)degrees wth negligible pollen🌤️🍁🤧
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • DareBee Walking Club- Doggo walk- to park for play date with his doggo girlfriend✅
  • News update✅
  • House chore✅
  • Journaling✅

  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 24 + nothing extra✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Book Club reading: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, 1818, 1831✅…and, DONE, at last! What a classically good illustration of nature vs nurture and how disastrous the results can be…
  • ❌Reading: Quilted Secrets, by Ann Hazelwood, 2019
PM-
  • ❌Quilting
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • ❌DareBee Walking Club- Doggo walk…husb did
 
Mon, Oct 26, 2026

AM- awake at 7am (PDT) after 8ish hours of sleep with no dream recall💤🛌
Outside is cloudy, wet, 45 (F)degrees with LOW pollen☁️💦🍁🤧
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • DareBee Walking Club- Doggo walk: 1 mile✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • News update✅
  • House chore✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: Quilted Secrets, by Ann Hazelwood, 2019✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 25 + 60 punches✅
  • DareBee WOD✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 26 + nothing extra✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Quilting✅
  • ❌DareBee Walking Club- Doggo walk…husb did
 
Tues, Oct 27, 2026

AM- awake at 7:15am (PDT) after 8+ hours of sleep and no dream recall💤🛌
Outside is foggy, 36 (F)degrees with LOW pollen😶‍🌫️🍁🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • DareBee Walking Club- Doggo walk: 1.5 miles✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: Quilted Secrets, by Ann Hazelwood, 2019✅
  • Dinner prep✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • FitBeast hand exercisers✅
  • DareBee EotD✅
  • DareBee WOD, 3 sets✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll Left hip✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 27 + 40 punches✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Quilting✅
 
Wed, Oct 28, 2026

AM- awake at 7:30am (PDT) after 8+ hours of sleep with no dream recall💤🛌
Outside is mostly cloudy, wet, 38 (F) degrees feels like 31 with negligible pollen🌥️💦🍁🤧
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • DareBee Walking Club- Doggo walk: 45 mins✅
  • Journaling✅
Noonish-
  • Quilting✅
  • Reading: Quilted Secrets, by Ann Hazelwood, 2019✅
PM-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • DareBee EotD✅
  • DareBee WOD, 3 sets✅
  • Fighting Cancer: DareBee Oct 30-day Challenge- The Ranger, Day 28 + 49 punches✅… doing walking lunges on these long stretches in one go😛
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll Left hip✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • House chore✅
  • ❌DareBee Walking Club- Doggo walk…husb did
  • Dinner prep: meet stepson + gf in town for dinner✅
 
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