The Other Side

DorothyMH DorothyMH Logging since September 2022
Wed, Jan 4, 2023

AM- awakened by Canoe’s cold nose poking at my arm at 6:20am (PST), outside is cloudy, 31 (F)degrees feels like 24…
Mobility-
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 4: 120 overhead punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 120 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: 1+ mile✅… play with 2 dawggie friends in the field, whose person I know was a huge fan of Boo, and who sympathized with our loss of him. That actually felt really comforting.🥰
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB-3 Day, Day 2: Hip Stretches for Tight Hips, 20 mins✅
  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • Desk work until done✅
  • ❌Reading: 20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
  • ❌Quilting:
  • Doggo walk: 1+ mile✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Thurs, Jan 5, 2023

AM- woke up at 3 when husb woke up and took about an hour to get back to sleep. Woke up and got up finally at 6am (PST) when my white noise stopped. Outside it’s warm, at 37 (F)degrees feels like 32, and we are expecting freezing rain today, ugh🙄
  • ❌Doggo walk…no time
Mobility-
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 5: 140 punches ✅
  • BaoDing balls: 140 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Appt to establish care with new provider for new insurance, prescription renewal, new year✅
Noonish-
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • DareBee: 2-minute Warm-up✅
  • Elliptical: 2.94 miles in 30 mins ✅
  • DareBee: Ease-Out✅
  • DareBee: Shoulder Stretch✅
  • DareBee: Post run stretching✅
PM-
  • Quilting: x1.5 hours✅
  • Doggo walk: ~1 mile✅
  • Reading: 20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
TopNotch said:
I was just reading today how noise, including white noise, overstimulates the auditory cortex and can cause all sorts of physical problems, including high blood pressure. Why do you use white noise?
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That’s interesting… I have used it for over 20 years. I had such bad sleep issues before I started using it. I use it because otherwise I hear literally everything, both externally and internally to myself. From a creak in the floor in another part of the house, to my own heartbeat, and it *all* keeps me from sleeping. Thankfully, my blood pressure is super low, so…yay…?😏. It’s only with the recent Boo issues that I’ve had more trouble sleeping. But this is minor compared to my youth and early adulthood. Many anxiety/depression issues caused disordered sleeping. I also have a hyper alert startle reflex, so if the ambient noise is not consistent, I am constantly jolted awake. White noise has improved my sleep by…many levels of magnitude😎
 
Fri, Jan 6, 2023

AM- awakened by Canoe at 1:30am to go outside. Apparently, he had just been there, says husb, but things were urgent, so out he went. He was out for 20 mins😵‍💫Took me an hour to get back to sleep. Finally got up for the morning about 6ish. Outside it is clear, 20 (F)degrees feels like 11 with an East wind🌬️😶‍🌫️
Mobility-
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexio
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 6: 140 overhead punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 140 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • ❌Doggo walk: husb did🥳
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x30 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Quilting: x1.5 hours✅
  • FitnessBlender FB-3 Day, Day 3: Core Balance and Strength Circuits with Three Round Match or Beat Cardio HIIT, 45 mins✅
PM-
  • Reading: 20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence✅
  • Nap!🥳: 30 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: ~1 mile✅…met a neighbor with a small elderly doggo that Canoe could visit with
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min Restorative practice✅
 
I just got caught up on your thread... I'm so sorry about your loss of Boo. I've loved reading about him the past few years, and I'm glad to hear that he passed with both you and your husband there with him. Sending you lots of love and hugs as you grieve and remember him.

Thanks for sharing photos of your quilts - they are beautiful, and all the more impressive for being done completely by hand!

Wishing you a Happy New Year!
 
DorothyMH said:
That’s interesting… I have used it for over 20 years. I had such bad sleep issues before I started using it. I use it because otherwise I hear literally everything, both externally and internally to myself. From a creak in the floor in another part of the house, to my own heartbeat, and it *all* keeps me from sleeping. Thankfully, my blood pressure is super low, so…yay…?😏. It’s only with the recent Boo issues that I’ve had more trouble sleeping. But this is minor compared to my youth and early adulthood. Many anxiety/depression issues caused disordered sleeping. I also have a hyper alert startle reflex, so if the ambient noise is not consistent, I am constantly jolted awake. White noise has improved my sleep by…many levels of magnitude😎
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I also use white noise. If I don't, hear "things" that keep me awake. I think someone/something is in the house. I have been a shitty sleeper since I was a kid.
 
Sat, Jan 7, 2023

AM- Canoe woke us both up again around 1:30am, first husb let him outside, then he woke me up to go out again, before husb was even back to bed. Something is bugging him in the night. Dunno if it’s his stomach, his grief, an intrusive fox or wtf….🤔This morning, I got up just before 7am (PST) to 34 (F)degrees feels like 28, with snow or freezing rain in the forecast. It never happened yesterday, so maybe it won’t today, either!🤞🏼
  • ❌Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing…rain, ugh☹️💦
  • ❌Doggo walk: husb did
Unplanned REST DAY
Mobility-
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 7: 160 punches ✅
  • BaoDing balls: 160 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • In town errands: pharmacy, visit to stepmom to provide IT help, grocery shop✅
PM-
  • Doggo walk: x1+ mile✅…more rain💦
  • Reading: < 20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 18 min Restorative practice✅
 
Sun, Jan 8, 2023

AM- woke up at 1:30am when Canoe woke up husb to go outside. This time, when he came back in and poked his cold nose at me, I petted him and told him to go back to bed and he did. Husb says he let Canoe take the time he needed outside this time, rather than pulling him in after 10 mins. Then when I woke up for the morning, it was 6:30am (PST) when my white noise stopped. Outside is cloudy, rainy, 35 (F)degrees feels like 32….💦💦

Mobility-
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 8: 160 overhead punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 160 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • ❌Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing:
  • ❌Doggo walk: husb did…says Canoe got to play with the young doggo that we come across every so often. Rolled around in the mud and ran like crazy, yay😅🥳
Noonish-
  • Reading: 20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence✅
  • DareBee: 2-minute Warm-up✅
  • Elliptical: 2.9 miles in 30 mins✅
  • Reading: 30 mins of Mother Hunger (digital) by Kelli McDaniel✅
  • DareBee: Ease-Out✅
  • DareBee: Shoulder Stretch✅
  • DareBee: Post-run stretching✅
PM-
  • Good chat with my daughter🥰
  • Quilting: x1.5 hours✅
  • ❌Doggo walk: raining and icky outside; just didn’t wanna☹️💦
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min Restorative practice with hip flexor focus✅
 
Mon, Jan 9, 2023

AM- woke up after 6am (PST) to some clouds, 31 (F)degrees feels like 22😵‍💫🌬️💦Canoe slept all night, according to husb who did NOT sleep😤🙄
  • ❌Doggo walk: husb did
Mobility-
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 9: 200 punches ✅
  • BaoDing balls: 200 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: 20+ pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence✅
  • Elliptical warm up: 1.5 miles in 15 mins✅
  • Reading: 15 mins of Mother Hunger (digital) by Kelly McDaniel✅
  • FitnessBlender FB-3 Day, Day 4: Power Yoga for Full Splits, 35 mins✅
PM-
  • Quilting: x1 hr✅
  • Doggo walk: 1 mile✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Tues, Jan 10, 2023

AM- Canoe did NOT wake me up, although he came to my side of the bed for pets in the night. I heard him get husb up….🙄. I woke up for the day after 6am (PST), but before my white noise stopped. Outside, I see clear sky, and it is 25 (F)degrees feels like 18🫣🥶
Mobility-
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 10: 200 over head punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 200 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Reading: 20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence✅
  • ❌Doggo walk…husb did
  • Drive 30 miles and back to pick up my new glasses✅
Noonish-
  • DareBee: 2-minute Warm-up✅
  • Elliptical: 2.43 miles in 25 mins ✅
  • Reading: 25 mins of Mother Hunger (digital) by Kelly McDaniel✅
  • DareBee: Ease-Out✅
  • DareBee: Shoulder Stretch✅
  • DareBee: Post run stretching✅
PM-
  • ❌Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: husb did
  • Doggo walk: 1 mile on leash/sidewalk✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Wed, Jan 11, 2023

AM- woke up late at nearly 6:30am (PST) to clouds outside and 32 (F)degrees feels like 29…

Mobility-
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 11: 240 punches ✅
  • BaoDing balls: 240 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x25 mins✅
  • ❌Doggo walk…Canoe had run plenty in the yard
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB-3 Day, Day 5: Total Body-Upper & Lower Body Superset Strength, 45 mins✅
PM-
  • Reading: <20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour

  • ❌Doggo walk…husb did
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Thurs, Jan 12, 2023

AM- woke up after 6am (PST) to rain, and 36 (F)degrees, ugh💦💦. Husb did not sleep🫣🙄. Yesterday, I read an article NPR about 2 different kinds of “time” that people operate by: event-time and clock-time. A person can operate by either depending on the situation. Or, they can operate predominantly by one or the other. Husb definitely operates by event-time wrt sleep. I definitely operate by clock-time for sleep. Interesting stuff that makes sense and reduces my stress about how “off” we are in that area.🤔

Mobility-
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 12: 240 overhead punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 240 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • ❌Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing
  • ❌Doggo walk: husb did
Noonish-
  • Reading: 20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
  • DareBee: 2-minute Warm-up✅
  • Elliptical: 2.9 miles in 30 mins✅
  • Reading: 30 mins of Mother Hunger (digital) by Kelly McDaniel✅
  • DareBee: Ease-Out✅
  • DareBee: Shoulder Stretch✅
  • DareBee: Post run stretching✅
PM-
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Doggo walk: 1 mile, with💦✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min restorative practice with hip flexor focus✅
 
Fri, Jan 13, 2023

AM- slept all night, woke up at 6:30am (PST) to clouds/fog, 36 (F)degrees feels like 32💦

Mobility-
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 13: 260 punches ✅
  • BaoDing balls: 260 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Doggo walk: husb did
Noonish-
  • Quilting: x2 hours✅
  • Chat with daughter: x2 hours✅
  • Reading: 20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence✅
PM-
  • Doggo walk: 1 mile, in a cloud☁️ ✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min Flexibility flow with hamstring stretches✅
 
Dorothy, I am just reading now about Boo's passing. I am so very sorry for your loss. I am glad you were all able to be there with him at the end. (I shared your same fear when Trudy was in her final days. I was so grateful to be with her at the end and could not have born it otherwise.) It is such a hard thing to say goodbye. But I know Boo provided you with much love during your years together and that you and your husband gave him a wonderful life.

:hug:


Your quilts are beautiful!
 
Sat, Jan 14, 2023

AM- woke up at 6:30am (PST) to clouds, 33 (F)degrees feels like 29…
  • ❌Doggo walk: husb did
Mobility-
  • ❌Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms
  • ❌Wrist extension/flexion
  • ❌LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody
  • ❌Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 14: 260 overhead punches✅
  • ❌BaoDing balls: 260 reps both directions both hands
  • ❌Foam-rolling back/lower body
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB-3 Day, Day 8: Time Under Tension Lower Body Strength Circuits with Bodyweight Intermissions, 45 mins✅
  • Reading: <20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence✅
PM-
  • Desk work: x1.5 hours✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: 1 mile✅
  • Quilting: x45 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Sun, Jan 15, 2023

AM- woke up late at 7:30am (PST) to dense fog, and 34 (F)degrees….
Planned REST DAY🥳😎
  • ❌Doggo walk: husb did
❌Mobility- changing this to Mon-Fri
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms
  • Wrist extension/flexion
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe
  • BaoDing balls: 300 reps both directions both hands
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body
Noonish-
  • Change sheets, Vacuum master level, vacuum main level: 2 hours ✅
PM-
  • Reading: 20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: 1+ mile✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 15: 300 punches ✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Mon, Jan 16, 2023

AM- woke up at 6:30am (PST) when my white noise stopped. Canoe woke us both up in the night again. Feels like he was rounding us up so we would all be together. I know he can tell husb is leaving for Mom’s today, and that makes him anxious.

Outside is super foggy, and 33 (F) degrees….

Husb left for his mom’s at 9am…

  • Doggo walk: 1+ mile✅, lots of play with the younger fem doggos we met out in the field🥳
Noonish-
Mobility-
  • Golf or spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 16: 300 overhead punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 300 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • FitnessBlender FB-3 Day; Day 9: Quick Core Blast Yoga Power Flow, 25 mins✅
PM-
  • Reading: 20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence✅
  • Doggo walk: 1+ mile✅. With small doggo meets/greets on the sidewalk🥳
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • ❌Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Tues, Jan 17, 2023

AM- slept all night except for Canoe pawing at the bedside around 1:30am. I petted him and invited him up onto the bed. He came up, settled right down and slept. He got down to his own bed around 3, I think. We got up at 7am (PST) to heavy fog and 32 (F)degrees.
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: ~1+ mile✅..with lots of doggo play, today, as yesterday I planned to meet the gal at 9am in the field with the younger fem doggo for Canoe to play hard😎🥳
  • Stepson gave me a ride to the mechanic’s shop to pick up my daughter’s repaired car✅
Noonish-

Mobility-
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 17: 340 punches ✅
  • BaoDing balls: 340 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • DareBee: 2-minute Warm-up✅
  • Elliptical: 3.21 miles in 32 mins✅
  • Reading: ~20mins of Mother Hunger (digital) by Kelly McDaniel✅…DONE🥳
PM-
  • ❌DareBee: Ease-Out
  • ❌DareBee: Shoulder Stretch
  • ❌DareBee: Post run stretching
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min Restorative practice✅
  • ❌Reading: 20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Doggo walk: 1+ mile✅. Met a puppy we had last seen half the size he is now: a Great Dane/great Pyrenees mix😱
 
Wed, Jan 18, 2023

AM- woke up after 6am (PST). No nighttime wake-ups by Canoe, yay! He pawed at the bed once, I think, on husb’s side. I couldn’t reach him to pet, so told him to go back to bed, or come up. He went back to bed. I think he’s just checking in, like Boo used to do. Husb interprets that as need to go outside. I do not, unless petting doesn’t work or the pawing persists enough to really wake me up. Then, I know it’s urgent🫣

Outside today is cloudy, 32 (F)degrees feels like 26, with some kind of freezing precip in the forecast

Mobility-
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 18: 340 overhead punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 340 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • 9am Doggo meet-up: x1 hour✅ in field with Jasmine!🥳
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB-3 Day, Day 10: Weighted Upper Body Tabata Circuits for Endurance, 45 mins ✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 15 min restorative practice with chest/shoulder stretches✅
PM-
  • ❌Reading: 20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅

  • Doggo walk: 1 mile✅…it’s amazing how fast I can walk with just Canoe. He only stops about 3 times to sniff and pee very quickly in that 1 mile. And, no digging in when I say it’s time to go🥴
 
Thurs, Jan 19, 2023

AM- slept all night, woke up at 6:30ish, to clear sky, 28 (F)degrees feels like 24….

Mobility-
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 19: 380 punches ✅
  • BaoDing balls: 380 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • ❌Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing
  • Doggo play-date: 45 mins✅ of hard play in field with Jasmine🥳
Noonish-
  • DareBee: 2-minute Warm-up✅
  • Elliptical: 3.21 miles in 32 mins✅
  • Reading: 30 mins Thinking Fast and Slow (digital) by Daniel Kahneman✅
  • DareBee: Ease-Out✅
  • DareBee: Shoulder Stretch✅
  • DareBee: Post run stretching✅
PM-
  • Reading: 20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Chores: x1 hour✅
Husb arrived home in one piece🥳
  • Doggo walk: x1 mile✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Fri, Jan 20, 2023

AM- slept all night; heard Canoe paw at husb’s side of the bed once, and husb petted him and he went back to bed, yay🥳.
I woke up at 6ish to mostly clear skies outside, and 23 (F)degrees…
Mobility-
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody😵‍💫
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 20: 380 overhead punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 380 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • ❌Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing
  • Doggo play-date: x60 mins✅ with Jasmine🥳😎

  • Pick up Walmart grocery order ✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB-3 Day, Day 11: Unconventional Total Body Morning Mobility, 13 mins✅
  • Meet with friend for late lunch✅
PM-
  • Reading: 20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence✅
  • Quilting: x30 mins✅

  • ❌Doggo walk….husb did, and says another set of Canoe’s girlfriends was in the field!🥰🥳
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Sat, Jan 21, 2023

AM- slept all night, but apparently Canoe woke husb up twice and was gone down the hill for quite some time stealing small dawg toys from other properties to the south of us🫣
I woke up at 6ish, to clear skies and 23 (F)degrees feels like 18. Plans to get out to meet Jasmine at 7:30am (PST) for romps😎🥳
  • Doggo play-date: x40 mins✅
❌Mobility- (it’s the weekend!🥳
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 21: 400 punches ✅
  • Reading: >20 pages of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence✅…and DONE🥳✅
Noonish-
  • DareBee: 2-minute Warm-up✅
  • Elliptical: 3.31 miles in 34 mins✅
  • Reading: 34 mins of This is Your Mind on Plants (digital) by Michael Pollan✅
  • DareBee: Ease-Out✅
  • DareBee: Shoulder Stretch✅
  • DareBee: Post run stretching✅
PM-
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • ❌Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing
  • Doggo walk: another play date with Jasmine🥳✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Sun, Jan 22, 2023

AM- slept all night, but husb was up with Canoe, apparently🙄. Outside this morning is partly sunny, and 26 (F)degrees.
Planned REST DAY—-
  • Doggo play-date: x45 mins of doggo fun✅
  • ❌Reading: X pages of Adolf Hitler, Vol 2, by John Toland
Noonish-
  • Quilting: x2 hours✅
  • Long chat with my daughter🥰
  • ❌Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing
  • ❌Mobility
PM-
  • Doggo walk: another 45 min play time with ALL his girlfriends in the muddy field!✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 22: 400 overhead punches✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Mianevem said:
What a harem Canoe has... 😂
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He’s very popular with the ladies!😂. The two youngest ones got into a squabble, and I thought it was due to him. But, then the fem boxer’s person says she tends to pick fights. My Penny used to do that too. Couldn’t take her anywhere where other female dawgs might “threaten” her alpha-ness🙄😤
 
Mon, Jan 23, 2023

AM- Canoe woke me up at midnight and at 4am for pets😵‍💫Husb says he was outside twice with him, tho🙄. I got up for the day at 6ish, and outside, it is 25 (F)degrees feels like 20🥶
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x20 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: 1+ mile✅…no fem doggos this morning; that’s later today!🥳
Mobility-
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody❌
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
Noonish-
  • Major cooking day for dinner tonight: chicken pot pies🥰✅
PM-
  • Doggo play time with Jasmine: x45 mins✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 23: 420 punches ✅
  • BaoDing balls: 420 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min full practice✅

  • Reading: 10 pages of Adolf Hitler, Vol 2, by John Toland✅
  • Quilting: x10 mins✅. Just to finish a row of stitching😎
 
Tues, Jan 24, 2023

AM- Canoe woke me up around midnight for reassurance and pets. Husb says he was never woken up, yay🥳. I woke up for the morning at 6am (PST) to clouds, 23 (F)degrees feels like 19🥶
Mobility-
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 24: 420 overhead punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 420 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Doggo play time: x45 mins✅

  • Quilting: x30 mins✅…to finish the quilting. Will only have the binding left to do when I get back from Portland. My goal is to get this thing to my nephew’s baby before she starts school🙄. She is about 5 months old now, I think, so I should be able to manage it🫣
  • Pack for tomorrow’s trip to see my daughter✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender FB-3 Day, Day 12: HIIT & Abs No Equipment Remix of Cardio & Core, 45 mins ✅… DONE😎🥳
PM-
  • Tire rotation on daughter’s vehicle for my trip✅

  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x25 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: 1 mile✅….met another new & cute young fem doggo down the street, named Penny!!🥰 That was the name of the doggo I had when we got Boo. Penny was a alpha super bitch, but Boo loved her. He was a puppy when she was 3 yo. She died in 2017; 2 weeks after my second brother died and 2 weeks before we started on the PCT at the Mexican border.

  • Reading: 10 pages of Adolf Hitler, Vol 2, by John Toland✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Wed, Jan 25, 2023

AM- woke up at 6 am (PST) when white noise stopped after 8 hours of sleep. Canoe had pawed at the bed one time and I told him to go back to bed or go to his crate. He went back to bed. Trying to train husb to do that, also, rather than automatically assume doggo needs to go outside. A young but grown dawg should be able to hold his bladder all night🙄He just got into a habit with Boo and kept it up😤

Outside, it is mostly cloudy, and 24 (F)degrees
  • ❌Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing
  • ❌Doggo walk: husb did
  • Drive 5 hours to Portland✅
PM- check into hotel, have a snack, drink some tea, rest

Mobility-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms ✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • ❌LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody
  • Shoulder mobility w/ resistance band✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 25: 460 punches ✅
  • ❌BaoDing balls: X reps both directions both hands… did not bring
  • ❌Foam-rolling back/lower body. Did not bring
  • Nubby peanut shaped massager/roller on back, hips & thighs✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
  • Reading: 40 pages of Last Dog on the Hill by Steve Duno✅. This is a super cute true story. Made me cry in the intro, for missing Boo. This is the first time since Boo died that I’ve been away from Canoe. Husb says Canoe is looking for and waiting for me to come home…🥹
 
Thurs, Jan 26, 2023

AM- woke up and finally got up at nearly 6am (PST). Outside, it is cloudy and 42 (F)degrees.

Mobility-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms ✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/ resistance band✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 26: 460 overhead punches ✅
  • Nubby peanut shaped massager/roller on back, & IT bands✅

  • EotD: 40 clamshells✅
Noonish- drive an hour north to see mother in law to help with her car issues, and assess her cognition for my husb, who needs a second opinion on her decline….then drive the hour back to my hotel during rush hour traffic😖

PM- dinner with daughter & granddaughter and decompress…
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga… really should have done this🫣
  • Reading: 20 pages of Last Dog on the Hill by Steve Duno✅
 
Fri, Jan 27, 2023

AM- woke up way too early at 5:30am (PST), to cloudy, wet and 40 (F)degrees feels like 32 here in Portland. Ugh. I’m exhausted even tho I slept hard….

Mobility-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms ✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/ resistance band✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 27: 480 punches ✅
  • Nubby peanut shaped massager/roller on back, & IT bands✅
  • EotD: 40 high crunches✅
Noonish-
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min restorative practice✅
PM-
  • Drive granddaughter to artsy class thing across town after school✅
  • Reading: 20 pages of Last Dog on the Hill by Steve Duno✅
  • Walk around while waiting: 2.8 miles✅
  • Escort granddaughter to her school dance…and DANCE!😎🥳✅
  • Got a jump from a nice stranger for dead battery in daughter’s car in Subway parking lot.✅What are the odds that after just dealing with my mother in law’s dead battery, I would have one?😵‍💫. Sheesh.🙄 Made for a late night….
 
Sat, Jan 28, 2023

AM- woke up at 5am feeling anxious and wide awake. Tried to stay in bed and go back to sleep but gave up and GOT up at 5:30am (PST). Outside is cloudy and 44 (F)degrees. Have to try the car this morning before my daughter is due to be in her class, so if it needs a jump she can drive her dad’s car to the hotel to do that. Then I would need to go get a new battery. I’m hoping & crossing fingers that it was a fluke, and some map light was left on that I was unaware of, and drained it yesterday, so today it’ll start right up🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

Well, of course it was dead as a door nail, so I spent the rest of the morning dealing with that. Ended up springing for a new battery installation as well as tests for alternator and starter jus to be sure the system is good. Now, it runs smooth AND starts easily….🥳

  • Roller skating: x2 hours✅ with granddaughter at Oaks Park rink…this was a place I had regularly taken my daughter to when she was growing up, sometimes with a friend, mostly just me and her. I have fond memories. I haven’t been on skates in decades. I felt super tired after an hour, and there were tons of little kids falling constantly around me. So, I opted *off* the rink for my own safety. Pushing it with too much fatigue can lead to a fall and a broken wrist in a “mature” woman like myself, which I seriously do not need. I let my granddaughter skate for the second hour and I watched🥰
  • Reading: 20 pages of Last Dog on the Hill by Steve Duno✅
 
Sun, Jan 29, 2023

AM- woke up at close to 5:30am (PST), having hit the hay at 9pm last night from so much fatigue and anxiety early in the day. Outside it is clear, 31 (F)degrees feels like 20. For Portland, that is ridiculously cold. Roads are slick says my weather app😖Hopefully, the bus ride to meet my husb today won’t be adversely affected!🤞🏼

Left daughter’s car at her condo, Ubered to the Greyhound station, rode the bus to TrCities, (sunny and cold the whole way) where husb and Canoe came to fetch me home😎🥳Arrived home in mid afternoon, so husb and Canoe napped and I decompressed, unpacked, had tea and did crosswords.

Planned REST DAY
 
Mon, Jan 30, 2023

AM- slept all night, woke up at 5:30am (PST), to clear skies, 9 (F)degrees feels like -1!🥶😖😱😶‍🌫️

Today is my daughter’s 38th birthday. Gawds, it makes me feel old💀😹
  • Dentist/prophy appt✅
  • ❌Doggo walk: husb did
Noonish- hanging out, visiting with husb, & resting….still tired from yesterday’s trip

PM-
Mobility—
  • Golf ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 28: 480 overhead punches✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 29: 500 punches ✅
  • Fighting Cancer/Punch Out! challenge, Day 30 500 overhead punches✅…DONE🥳
  • BaoDing balls: 500 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Doggo play date: 45 mins with Jasmine✅🥳

  • Prep/make dinner✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30min Restorative practice✅
 
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