Fri, Dec 8, 2023

AM- awake at 6ish with Canoodles’ cold wet nose poking around near my face🥰😅. Outside is partly cloudy, 34 (F)degrees feels like 28, no precipitation, yay🥳
  • Journaling: x20 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Dog/leash training walk: x50 mins✅
Mobility-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • DareBee DEC Challenge: Power Squats, Day 8: 5 power squats+ 5-count squat hold x3 sets✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 8✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Vacuum main level: x40 mins✅
  • Reading: 20 pages of Union by Colin Woodard, (2020)✅
PM-
  • Desk work: x2 hours✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Dog to park for ball throwing…husb did🥳
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min Hatha practice✅
 
Sat, Dec 9, 2023

AM- woke up late at nearly 7:30am (PST) to STILL darkness, mostly clear skies, 20 (F) degrees feels like 15 and thick frost.
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Dog leash training walk: x50 mins✅
  • Quick grocery shop✅
  • Park to play w/gfs: x20 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Journaling: x5 mins✅
  • DareBee DEC Challenge: Power Squats, Day 9: 14 power squats x3 sets✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 9✅
  • Reading: 20 pages of Union by Colin Woodard, (2020)✅
PM-
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Doggo walk
Long phone convo with daughter, who went to see husb’s mom today
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min restorative practice✅
 
Sun, Dec 10, 2023

AM- awake at 6, but didn’t get up until after 7am (PST), cuz Canoodles oozed up onto the bed to snuggle🥰
Outside is dark, cloudy, raining, 35(F)
degrees feels like 31.

—-Planned REST DAY—-
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Dog leash training walk: x45 mins✅

  • Change sheets/vacuum upstairs: x1 hour✅
Noonish-
  • DareBee DEC Challenge: Power Squats, Day 10: 5 power squats + 5-count squat hold x3 sets✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 10: Hall Pass #2: 60 sec march steps✅
  • Reading: 10 pages of Union by Colin Woodard, (2020)✅
PM-
  • Park for play w/gfs: x30 mins✅
  • Quilting: x2+ hours✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
A
Miss_Dada said:
Hi @DorothyMH I've come in here to see my ,family, for Christmas :ss: checking what's new. Sadly still in shock about Kanary:sad:...wondering if it is for real..😭
I see you have a new doggo? :confused::)

Your workouts are still very consistent💪 Well done! :u::flex:
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Ah, yes, sadly, it is for real. Her friend posted on her thread when it happened. She fought hard but her cancer came roaring back….
New doggo, Canoe, is 50/50 Doberman /Labrador. Super sweet, but adament about guarding and boundaries. We are in training with him to manage his behavior and prevent litigation due to his teeth🥴. He’s 95 pounds!!!!😂😱
Nice to *see* you!!🤭👋
 
Mon, Dec 11, 2023

AM- woke up close to 7am (PST) to clouds, 37 (F)degrees feels like 31.
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Dog leash training walk: x45 mins✅
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
Mobility-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅

  • DareBee Challenge: Power Squats, Day 11: 14 power squats x3 sets✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 11 ✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: 20 pages of Union by Colin Woodard, (2020)✅
PM-
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Canoe ball throwing/walk at park: x35 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 35 min Flexibility practice✅
 
Tues, Dec 12, 2023

AM- awake at 5am (PST) with Canoodles oozing up onto the bed between us for snuggles🥰🥰🥰. Then, I got up at 6, to clouds, 37 (F) degrees feels like 31.
  • Drop car off for axle/alignment work✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Dog leash/training walk: x10 mins✅…Canoe was UNinterested in paying any attention to my requests, so we went home.
  • Park play w/gfs: x30 mins✅
Mobility-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 60 sec knee strikes✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • DareBee DEC Challenge: Power Squats, Day 12: 5 power squats+ 5-count squat hold x3 sets✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 12 ✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish- long discussion about husb’s mom. He needs to make an unplanned trip tomorrow to see if her washing machine is really “broken” or if she can’t remember how to use it. And for some money business that must be done with her in person at the bank…..*sigh.* Better now than when the snow sets in for real, I think…

PM-
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • ❌Journaling
  • ❌Reading: X pages of Union by Colin Woodard, (2020)
  • Park for walk/ball throwing: x35 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
  • Fetch car from shop near dinner time✅
 
Wed, Dec 13, 2023

AM- awake around 6:30am (PST) to clouds, 35 (F)degrees feels like 28.
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
Husb left for 5 hour drive to his mom’s
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Park for gf play: x30 mins✅
Noonish-
Mobility- did things in reverse order today just to get myself to do them..
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands ✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Power Squats, Day 13: 16 power squats x3 sets✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 13 ✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • Dog leash tracing/ walk: x15 mins✅
  • Ball throwing at park: x30 mins ✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min Yin practice✅
  • Reading: 10 pages of Union by Colin Woodard, (2020)✅
  • ❌Quilting
 
Thurs, Dec 14, 2023

AM- wake and up at 6ish to high clouds, 35 (F)degrees feels like 30.
Mobility-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Power Squats, Day14: 5 power squats+ 5-count squat hold x3 sets✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 14 ✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Dog walk/leash training/park play w/gfs: x45 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Vacuum/mop basement: x45 mins✅
  • Kitchen grout cleaning project: x20 mins✅
  • Reading: 10 pages of Union by Colin Woodard, (2020)✅
PM-
  • Nap: x45 mins✅
  • Quilting: x45 mins✅
  • Ball throwing/ park walk: x30 mins✅
  • Reading: 10 more pages of Union by Colin Woodard, (2020)✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min Ashtanga practice✅
  • ❌Journaling
 
Fri, Dec 15, 2023

AM- Canoodles woke me up to go outside and do…NOTHING, at 3:30 this morning. It took about an hour for me to get back to sleep. Then woke up at 7 with my “late” alarm.
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Dog leash training walk: x45 mins✅
Noonish-
Mobility-… backwards order again🫤
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 15 ✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Power Squats, Day 15: 16 power squats x3 sets✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • Desk work: x1.5 hours✅
  • Quilting: x1.5 hours✅
  • Park for ball throwing/walk: x30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 35 min Hatha practice✅
  • Reading: 10 pages of Union by Colin Woodard, (2020)✅
 
Sun, Dec 17, 2023

AM- Canoe would not settle down in the night: tap tap tap went his nails on the floor, pacing around. After the third time outside, I had him lay down in his crate, and I locked it. My sleep was suffering. By the time I woke up for the morning, it was 8:45am (PST) 😱. Outside is cloudy, 37 (F) degrees feels like 30.

—-PLANNED REST DAY—-
  • DareBee Challenge: Power Squats, Day 17: 18 power squats x3 sets✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 17: Hall Pass used = 60 sec march steps✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Leash training/park for play w/gfs: x30 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Reading: 10 pages of Union by Colin Woodard, (2020)✅
PM-
  • Quilting: x30 mins✅
Long FT convo with daughter
  • Park for ball throwing/walk: x30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min restorative practice✅
 
Mon, Dec 18, 2023

AM- woke up around 7 this morning. Canoe slept when husb slept, which is to say, *not* the same hours as me….Outside is foggy, 33 (F)degrees feels like 30.
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Dog leash training walk: x45 mins✅

  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Reading: 10 pages of Union by Colin Woodard, (2020)✅, and, DONE😎🥳. This was supremely enlightening just like his book Nations before it was. I highly recommend both books to anyone interested in the history of US ethnonationalism in our country today and threatens to overturn democracy for real in the coming election year….☹️
Noonish-
Mobility-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Power Squats, Day 18: 5 power squats + 5-count squat hold x3 sets✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 18 ✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • ❌Quilting
  • Kitchen tile grout project: x20 mins✅
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • Ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Dog/leash training walk: 35 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 35 min Ashtanga practice✅
 
Tues, Dec 19, 2023

AM- awake after 6:30am (PST) to clouds, 39 (F)degrees feels like 30.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk/ park play w/gfs: x45 mins✅
  • Make dr appt for annual stuff✅
Noonish-
Mobility-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • DareBee DEC Challenge: Power Squats, Day 19: 18 power squats x3 sets✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 19 ✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • Nap: x30 mins✅
  • Reading: 20 mins (kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD✅
  • Quilting: x30 mins✅
  • Ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Dog/leash training walk: x40 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min restorative practice✅
 
Wed, Dec 20, 2023

AM- wake at 6:30ish to clouds, 39 (F)degrees feels like 35.
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk/park play w/gfs: x40 mins✅
😎Deliver Canoodles for Spa Day🥳
  • ❌Journaling
Noonish-
  • Pick up doggo from Spa✅
  • In town errands✅
  • See stepmom’s husb to help him with his computer Qs✅
PM-
  • Reading: 20 mins (kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • DareBee Challenge: Power Squats, Day 20✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 20: Hall Pass used= 1 min march steps✅
  • Canoe ball throwing: x45 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 35 min restorative practice✅
 
Thurs, Dec 21, 2023

AM- awake at 6:45am (PST) to clouds, 37 (F)degrees feels like 35.

Winter Solstice today🌦️❄️= shortest day of the year, woohoo☃️
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Dog/leash training walk: x30 mins✅
Mobility-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Power Squats, Day 21✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 21: #6 Hall Pass used= 60 sec march steps✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: 20 mins (kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD✅
  • ❌Quilting
PM-
  • Doggo walk to park for gf play time✅
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 15 min Yin practice✅
  • Ball throwing: x20 mins✅
 
Fri, Dec 22, 2023

AM- awake at 6:30ish to clouds, wetness, 36 (F)degrees feels like 31. It feels like we are IN a cloud….☔️🌧️
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Dog leash training walk: x40 mins✅
Mobility-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • DareBee DEC Challenge: Power Squats, Day 22✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 22 ✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • See stepmom’s husb again for computer help✅
  • Reading: 30 mins (kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD✅
PM-
  • Nap: x30 mins✅
  • Doggo walk to park for gf play time: x40 mins✅
  • Quilting: x40 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min Hatha practice✅
 
Sat, Dec 23, 2023

AM- awake at 6:30ish to clear sky, 31 (F)degrees feels like 26 with frosted grass!🤭
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Town errands and park for ball throwing: x45 mins✅
Noonish-
Unplanned REST DAY…I am SO tired🥱
  • Reading: 20 mins (kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD✅
  • Nap: x2 hours✅
PM-
  • ❌Quilting
  • Dog leash training walk: x40 mins✅
Stepson & gf here to visit
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Sun, Dec 24, 2023

AM- woke up before 6 due to husb’s snoring🙄So, just started the day even tho I would have slept at least another half hour…..
Outside is frozen, mostly clear, 24 (F) degrees feels like 14🥶😶‍🌫️
  • Yard Clean up: x10 mins✅
  • Town errands then Canoe ball throwing at park: x30mins✅
  • ❌Doggo walk…too slick on the sidewalk for my comfort😵‍💫
Noonish-
  • DareBee Challenge: Power Squats, Day 23✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Power Squats, Day 24✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 23 ✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 24: 7th Hall Pass used= 60 sec march steps✅

  • Foot soak/pedi: x45 mins✅
  • Reading: 45 mins (Kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD✅
PM-
  • Front yard ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1.5 hours✅
  • Canoe ball throwing/short leash training walk: x20 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min Yin practice✅
 
Mon, Dec 25, 2023

——MERRY WINTER HOLIDAY——

AM- woke up at nearly 7:30 by husb’s snoring again. Then 10 mins after I got up, he was up😣. This is why I usually go to sleep by 10pm: so I can avoid this wake up cycle…😏😤
Outside is cloudy, but the sun is out there. It’s 32 (F)degrees feels like 26.
  • Vacuum main level: x25 mins✅
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Park play w/doggo gfs: x60 mins✅..lots of drama between the 2 girl doggos a couple days ago, resulting in the older one being severely wounded in her ear and face. The younger one was all sorts of hyper vigilant today, such that the owner had to take the older one home while I kept the younger one leashed, and at the park with me and Canoe. Then later, when Canoe was playing (both were off leash) with the younger one as we were about to leave, he got his teeth stuck in her neck chain and the two of them panicked and were twisting around screaming, and scaring the two of us humans to death trying to get them disconnected. It was a bloody mess in Canoe’s mouth. But, I’m actually not sure whose blood it was, since I don’t see any leaking out of his face now….😵‍💫😨
Noonish-
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 25: 8th Hall Pass used= 60 sec march steps✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Power Squats, Day 25: 22 power squats x3 sets✅…I’ve got a sore R ileal-psoas that is causing me to go easy this week🥴
PM-
  • Reading: 15 mins (Kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD✅
  • Vacuum bedroom & change sheets: x45 mins✅
  • ❌Quilting

  • Short doggo walk as it’s getting dark, with ball throwing before/after: x40 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min flexibility flow✅
 
DorothyMH said:
  • ..lots of drama between the 2 girl doggos a couple days ago, resulting in the older one being severely wounded in her ear and face. The younger one was all sorts of hyper vigilant today, such that the owner had to take the older one home while I kept the younger one leashed, and at the park with me and Canoe. Then later, when Canoe was playing (both were off leash) with the younger one as we were about to leave, he got his teeth stuck in her neck chain and the two of them panicked and were twisting around screaming, and scaring the two of us humans to death trying to get them disconnected. It was a bloody mess in Canoe’s mouth. But, I’m actually not sure whose blood it was, since I don’t see any leaking out of his face now….😵‍💫😨
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Oh no! Hope everyone heals up well, and that doggos and humans can all return to a state of peace and tranquil relations.

DorothyMH said:
  • I’ve got a sore R ileal-psoas that is causing me to go easy this week🥴
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I hope your hip heals up quickly.
 
Tues, Dec 26, 2023

AM- awakened by Canoe vomiting in the wee hours. Took a long time to get back to sleep. So, I didn’t wake up for the day until nearly 7am (PST.)
Outside is cloudy, wet and 34 (F) degrees feels like 30.
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk to park for play with younger gf: x50 mins✅…older one is staying home with a swollen face and saggy eye. Hoping she’s not infected, but her owner is closely monitoring and they are seeing the vet today🤞🏼
  • House chore: x20 mins✅
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
Mobility-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Power Squats, Day 26✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 26 ✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: 20 mins (Kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD✅
  • Dinner prep: x30 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1.5 hours✅
PM-
  • ❌Park for ball throwing…husb did
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min flexibility practice✅
 
Laura Rainbow Dragon said:
Oh no! Hope everyone heals up well, and that doggos and humans can all return to a state of peace and tranquil relations.


I hope your hip heals up quickly.
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Amazingly, I do not see any missing teeth in his mouth. Those things must be rooted into his brain, cuz he was chewing up stuff incl bones, as if nothing had happened!🤷🏼😤
 
Wed, Dec 27, 2023

AM- awake at 6:30ish to partly cloudy, 38 (F)degrees feels like 30…this would have been my second oldest brother’s 65th birthday, had he lived. He died by his own hand in 2017 due to advancing early onset Parkinson’s. I miss him the most…🥺
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
Mobility-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 27: 9th Hall Pass used= 60 sec march steps✅….skipping the squats for the Challenge today, as well, to allow the groin muscle strain more healing time…

  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk/ park play w/younger gf: x50 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Quilting: x1.5 hours✅
PM-
  • Park ball throwing: x20 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 35 min Yin practice✅….this the most helpful for my groin strain…
  • ❌Reading: X mins (Kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD
 
MadamMeow said:
Good luck with the vet, hope your doggy feels better soon!
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It’s actually my doggo’s playmate/
girlfriend (aka: my friend’s dog). The owner took her to the vet and she does *not* have an infected face from the fight, although it is still quite swollen. But, he gave antibiotics anyway since she is an elderly dog and immune function is reduced, plus they live with a bunch of cats🥸
 
Thurs, Dec 28, 2023

AM- awake after 6:30am (PST), to dense frozen fog, 31 (F)degrees feels like 28, and slippery sidewalk and driveway, as I put the garbage cans to the curb.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up: x10 mins✅
  • Leash training walk: x10 mins✅
  • In town errands and to park for ball throwing: x40 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Lunch with mom-substitute friend: x2 hours✅
PM-
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 60 sec of punches✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Power Squats, Day 28✅
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 28 ✅

  • ❌Quilting
  • Dog leash training/ball throwing: x30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 35 min restorative practice✅
 
Fri, Dec 29, 2023

AM- wake at 6ish but waited until 6:30 to get up. But then, the black doggo was slithering up onto the bed to cuddle😅🥰. Outside is partly sunny, 41 (F)degrees feels like 35.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x35 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Read stepmom’s history/scrap/photo book
  • ❌Reading: X mins (Kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD
  • ❌Quilting
PM-
  • ❌DareBee Challenge: Power Squats, Day 29…see below
  • ❌DareBee Fit December, Day 29….didn’t happen; we spent the time chatting about the past year, the coming year, planning and changing things out we want to optimize…
  • Ball throwing & doggo walk: x60 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min flexibility practice✅
 
Sat, Dec 30, 2023

AM- awake at 6ish to slithering black doggo oozing up onto the bed with us🥰. Outside is partly cloudy, 33 (F)degrees feels like 28.
Husb leaving this morning to drive 5 hours to his mom’s.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Power Squats, Days 29✅, 30✅,27✅, and…DONE😎🥳🤩
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 29 ✅
  • Quilting: x1.5 hours✅
Noonish-
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x15 mins✅
  • Park for play w/doggo gf: x25 mins✅
PM-
  • DareBee Fit December, Day 31 ✅…doing Day 30 tomorrow😅
  • Desk work: x1.5 hours✅
  • Doggo ball throwing & walk: x45 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min Yin practice✅
 
Congrats & Happy New Year!

Happy New Year GIF
 
Sun, Dec 31, 2023

New Year’s Eve

—-Planned REST Day—-

AM- awake about 6:40ish to dense fog, and 37 (F)degrees.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1+ hour✅…with morning NPR listening😎

  • DareBee Fit December, Day 30: Hall Pass #10 used= 60 sec march steps✅, and, DONE🥳
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Dog leash training walk to park for gf play time: x50 mins✅
Noonish-
  • DareBee Badge Day donation MADE!✅🥳
  • Reading: 30 mins (Kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD✅
PM-
  • Quilting: x1.5 hours
  • Ball throwing + Dog leash training walk: x45 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min Hatha practice✅
 
Mon, Jan 1, 2024

AM- awake at 6:30am (PST) to Canoe’s tap tap tap toenails on the floor. When I woke up, he went back to bed! He was up earlier in the night and slept with me on the bed for a while. But, he wanted to be too close to my face for my comfort. I indicated by pushing his face away and he moved away🥰.
Outside is cloudy, crazy warm at 37 (F)degrees feels like 33.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting/listen to NYT news podcast: x1 hour✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins
  • Doggo walk to park for gf play: x40 mins✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Elliptical: 1.5 miles (15 min)
  • Reading: 15 mins (Kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • Kitchen grout cleaning project: x20 mins✅
  • Move WiFi doorbell closer to gate lock✅
  • Hard-water removal in master bathroom: x30 mins✅
  • Quilting: x30 mins✅
  • Reading: 7 pages of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • Doggo walk: x45 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min restorative practice✅
 
Tues, Jan 2, 2024

AM- woke up late at nearly 7:30am (PST), to thick cloud cover, 35 (F) degrees feels like 33.
Reconfigured my must-have exercise reqs into my day for this year. I think the new system made me super tired, but that’s okay. I was planning on getting more sleep this year on a daily basis, anyway😅😎
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x50 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: 2.3 miles✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: 20+ pages of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • Vacuum/mop basement floor: x30 mins✅
PM- husb arrived home from his mom’s in one piece🥳

Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • DareBee Power Hold Challenge, Days 1,2,3,4✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Doggo walk: .75 mile✅…with some ball throwing before/after
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min Hatha practice✅
 
Wed, Jan 3, 2024

AM- awakened by husb’s snoring at 6, so just got up at 6:15am (PST). Outside is cloudy, raining, 36 (F) degrees feels like 33.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x1 mile/rain💦✅
  • Reading: 17 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅

  • Elliptical: 20 mins (2 miles)✅
  • Reading: 20 mins (Kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • Kitchen grout cleaning project: x20 mins✅
  • Dinner prep: x20 mins✅
  • More quilting: x30 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: drive to grocery store, then park to leash walk, followed by ball throwing✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min restorative practice✅
 
Thurs, Jan 4, 2024

AM- woke up at 6:15ish to clouds, but NO RAIN, 37 (F)degrees feels like 33.
  • Quilting: x1+ hour✅
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: to park for gf play: 1.4 miles✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: 15 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer:100 sidekicks✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅

  • DareBee Power Hold Challenge, Days 5, 6(2pushuos), 7, 8(2 push ups with pushup hold)✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • Desk work: x2 hours✅
  • Doggo walk: 1 mile✅….oy, what a struggle, too many distractions and not enough running for my big guy😵‍💫
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min flexibility flow✅
 
Fri, Jan 5, 2024

AM- awake at 6:15ish to partial clouds, 30 (F)degrees feels like 26.
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x10 mins✅
  • Dr appt: x60 mins✅
  • Ball throwing/walking at park: x30 mins✅= 1 cumulative mile
Noonish-
  • Set up gate Bluetooth padlock✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
  • Elliptical: x20 mins✅(2 miles)
  • Reading: 20 mins (Kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • ❌Journaling
  • ❌Reading: X pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866, 449 pages/31 days= ~15 pages per day
Phone convo w/daughter
  • Kitchen floor grout cleaning project: x20 mins✅
  • Dinner prep✅
Stepson here to visit
  • Doggo walk: x10 min✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Sat, Jan 6, 2024

AM- woke up at 5:30am (PST) by husb snoring that I could not get to stop😵‍💫😤. Outside is dark, mostly cloudy, 38 (F)degrees feels like 30.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Reading: 15+ pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅

  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x20 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • DareBee Power Hold Challenge, Days 9✅10(3 pushups)✅
  • Dog park for gf playtime: x30 mins✅
  • DareBee Power Hold Challenge, Days 11,12(3pushups)✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min Hatha practice✅
 
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