The Other Side

DorothyMH DorothyMH Logging since September 2022
Fri, Jan 17, 2025

AM- Awake at 7am (PST) after nearly 9 hours of sleep🛌💤; the last couple hours were neither solid nor sound, however…
Outside is mostly sunny, frozen, 25 (F) degrees feels like 19🌞🧊🥶… this depth of cold makes my old eyes water when the air hits them😭
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 30 knee strikes✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Noonish- unplanned rest day…. feeling awfully anxious about the whole mom-thing. Lawyer told husb yesterday that even tho she is demented, she retains the right to consent as to where she wants to live and how much help she receives. The only way around this is if she breaks the law, police are called, or she physically breaks, so that a physician says she cannot go back to her home. There was more, but this was enough to be disturbing. So…. my job now is to detach myself from my husb’s *business* with regard to this, so that I can stop wringing my hands about when the next shoe will drop.😵‍💫And don’t get me started about the other shoe of the incoming administration on Monday😖
  • House chore✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Down Dog Yoga-Jan Daily Challenge: 20 min vinyasa practice ✅
 
DorothyMH said:
Noonish- unplanned rest day…. feeling awfully anxious about the whole mom-thing. Lawyer told husb yesterday that even tho she is demented, she retains the right to consent as to where she wants to live and how much help she receives. The only way around this is if she breaks the law, police are called, or she physically breaks, so that a physician says she cannot go back to her home. There was more, but this was enough to be disturbing. So…. my job now is to detach myself from my husb’s *business* with regard to this, so that I can stop wringing my hands about when the next shoe will drop.😵‍💫
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I'm so sorry, @DorothyMH . I ran into this issue multiple times with my father refusing medical help that he needed. And sure: it's the person who's ill who suffers physically for refusing the help. But it's the people around them who suffer mentally and emotionally and end up sacrificing boatloads of time in their efforts to try to avert disasters. I'm wishing for your family continued strength, and for you, yeah: some success in finding detachment. Because you cannot change your MIL or the law.
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DorothyMH said:
And don’t get me started about the other shoe of the incoming administration on Monday😖
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Laura Rainbow Dragon said:
I'm so sorry, @DorothyMH . I ran into this issue multiple times with my father refusing medical help that he needed. And sure: it's the person who's ill who suffers physically for refusing the help. But it's the people around them who suffer mentally and emotionally and end up sacrificing boatloads of time in their efforts to try to avert disasters. I'm wishing for your family continued strength, and for you, yeah: some success in finding detachment. Because you cannot change your MIL or the law.
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Thank you; I know you know whereof you speak (write) on both topics. It helps to vent….😕. I have one elderly friend who has continually advised me to “make my husb promise to bring her this time….” Well, hells bells, I can’t make him do anything of the sort, and it’s crazy to think I could. Besides, he lives his ethical code as a (retired) physician and son of a lawyer would: strictly legal. And, my step mom does the same harassing: “trick her or drug her,” she says. Nope, nope and nope. Oof😤
 
Sat, Jan 18, 2025

AM- awake at 6:30am (PST) after 8ish hours of unsettled sleep🛌😭
Outside is clear, dry, frozen, 24 (F)degrees feels like 16🌞🥶🥶
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 20 lunge punches✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • DareBee Universal Warm-up✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Standing Abs, Day 17✅ + 18✅
  • DareBee program: Total Body Strength Plus+, Day 17✅ + 18✅
  • DareBee FarPoint (Cool-Down)✅
PM-
  • ❌Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927
  • ❌Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH

  • Quilting✅
  • ❌Nap
  • ❌House chore
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Down Dog Yoga-Jan Daily Challenge: 15 min restorative practice✅
 
Sun, Jan 19, 2025

AM- awake at 7:45am (PST) after 9 hours in a horizontal position, but NOT that many hours asleep🛌🥱😩. Yesterday, I did have some reprieve from the anxiety with an hour + of quilting, along with an extended workout to catch up on my DareBee program and challenge. I could definitely stand more of all of that to help distract me…..😵‍💫🥺
Outside, is mostly cloudy, 28 (F)degrees feels like 21⛅️; the lake is freezing up🧊
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
Mobility/warmups- planned REST DAY

Noonish-
  • DareBee Universal Warm-up✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Standing Abs, Day 19✅
  • DareBee program: Total Body Strength Plus +, Day 19✅
  • DareBee FarPoint (Cool-Down)✅
PM-
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
  • Nap✅
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Down Dog Yoga-Jan Daily Challenge: 20 min flexibility practice ✅
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Mon, Jan 20, 2025

**MLK Jr. Day** + **Inauguration Day**

AM- awake at 7am (PST) after 8+ hours of (mostly) sleep🛌💤
Outside is sunny, frozen, 17 (F)degrees feels like 10🥶🥶🥶
  • Journaling✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 side kicks✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅

  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
Noonish-
  • DareBee Universal Warm-up✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Standing Abs, Day 20✅
  • DareBee program: Total Body Strength Plus +, Day 20✅
  • DareBee FarPoint (Cool-Down)✅
PM-
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Nap✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Down Dog Yoga-Jan Daily Challenge: 20 min gentle practice✅
 
Tues, Jan 21, 2025

AM- awake at 7am (PST) after 8+ hours of (mostly)sleep🛌💤. Lots of restlessness on my side and snoring on husb’s😵‍💫😴
Outside is clear, sunny, frozen, 20 (F)degrees feels like 13 🌞🧊🥶
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 front kicks✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
PM-
  • DareBee Universal Warm-up✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Standing Abs, Day 21✅
  • DareBee program: Total Body Strength Plus +, Day 21✅
  • DareBee FarPoint (Cool-Down)✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Nap✅
  • ❌House chore
  • Down Dog Yoga-Jan Daily Challenge: 15 min restorative practice✅
 
Wed, Jan 22, 2025

AM- awake at 6:30am (PST) after 8 hours of fairly good sleep🛌💤🥳
Outside is clear, dry, frozen, 16 (F) degrees feels like….8😱🥶🧊
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 backkicks✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Doggo to daycare for kennel practice✅

  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
Noonish-
  • DareBee Universal Warm-up✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Standing Abs, Day 22✅
  • DareBee program: Total Body Strength Plus +, Day 22✅
  • DareBee FarPoint (Cool-Down)✅
PM-
  • Quilting✅
  • Fetch doggo from DayCare✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Nap✅
  • Down Dog Yoga-Jan Daily Challenge: 10 min flexibility flow✅
 
Thurs, Jan 23, 2025

AM- awake before 6am (PST) after not quite 8 hours of solid sleep🛌💤😏
Outside is dark, clear, frozen at 22(F) degrees feels like 16🧊🥶
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 elbow strikes ✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • Nap✅
  • DareBee Universal Warm-up✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Standing Abs, Day 23✅
  • DareBee program: Total Body Strength Plus +, Day 23✅
  • DareBee FarPoint (Cool-Down)✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Dinner prep
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Down Dog Yoga-Jan Daily Challenge: 10 min guided meditation ✅
 
Fri, Jan 24, 2025

AM- awake at 6:30am (PST) after 9 hours of horizontal resting/meditation/dozing, and 8 hours of solid sleep🛌💤
Outside is partly cloudy, with some sun, 29(F)degrees feels like 22🧊🥶
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 sidekicks✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Doggo walk
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Nap✅
  • DareBee Universal Warm-up✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Standing Abs, Day 24✅
  • DareBee program: Total Body Strength Plus +, Day 24✅
  • DareBee FarPoint (Cool-Down)✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Down Dog Yoga-Jan Daily Challenge: 25 min gentle practice✅
 
Sat, Jan 25, 2025

AM- awake at 6:30am (PST) after 8ish hours of sleep🛌💤
Outside is mostly clear, sunny, frozen, and 24 (F) degrees feels like 14🧊🥶🌞
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore m✅
  • Dinner prep✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
PM-
  • ❌Quilting
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅

  • DareBee Universal Warm-up✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Standing Abs, Day 25✅
  • DareBee program: Total Body Strength Plus +, Day 25✅
  • DareBee FarPoint (Cool-Down)✅
  • Down Dog Yoga-Jan Daily Challenge: 12 min post workout stretch yoga✅
 
Sun, Jan 26, 2025

AM- awake at nearly 8am (PST) after 9 (NINE!) hours of sleep💤🛌🥳Which I badly needed after Day 25 of the Total Body Strength Plus program😅😤
Outside is mostly sunny, frozen, 21 (F) degrees feels like 14🌞🥶🧊I am waiting a full 2 weeks of freezing for the lake to be safe to walk on.🙀🫣
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927, 249 pages~ 10 pgs/day✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
Noonish-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Quilting✅
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅

  • DareBee Universal Warm-up✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Standing Abs, Day 26✅
  • DareBee program: Total Body Strength Plus +, Day 26✅
  • DareBee FarPoint (Cool-Down)✅
  • Nap✅
  • Down Dog Yoga-Jan Daily Challenge: 18 min Yin practice✅
 
Mon, Jan 27, 2025

AM- awakened at 6am (PST) by a big black doggo slithering up onto the bed and wedging himself in between me and husb😵‍💫😤. I had to convince him it was too tight, he was a cover hog, and that I still wanted to sleep, so he would move to his own bed. But, I was hopelessly awake, so just got up at 6:45am. At least that was close to 9 hours of horizontal time🛌💤🙄
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 knee strikes✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅

  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
Noonish-
  • DareBee Universal Warm-up✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Standing Abs, Day 27✅
  • DareBee program: Total Body Strength Plus +, Day 27✅
  • DareBee FarPoint (Cool-Down)✅
PM-
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Down Dog Yoga-Jan Daily Challenge: 15 min post workout stretch✅
 
Tues, Jan 28, 2025

AM- awake at 6:45am (PST) after close to 9 hours of sleep🛌💤. Outside is clear, frozen, 18 (F)degrees feels like 9🥶🧊🌞
  • Journaling✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 front kicks✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Financial planning consult phone call ✅
Noonish-
  • DareBee Universal Warm-up✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Standing Abs, Day 28✅
  • DareBee program: Total Body Strength Plus +, Day 28✅
  • DareBee FarPoint (Cool-Down)✅
PM-
  • Dog training session✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Down Dog Yoga-Jan Daily Challenge: 12 min Guided Meditation ✅
 
Wed, Jan 29, 2025

AM- awake at 6:30am (PST) after 8ish hours of sleep. 🛌💤. After the last day of the TBS+ that had dumbbells, the DOMS in my thighs is still quite apparent😩
Outside is sunny but hazy and frozen solid, 17 (F)degrees feels like 8🥶🧊
  • Journaling✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 sidekicks✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Doggo to daycare for Spa Day✅
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • Fetch doggo from SpaDay✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅

  • DareBee Universal Warm-up✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Standing Abs, Day 29✅
  • DareBee program: Total Body Strength Plus +, Day 29✅
  • DareBee FarPoint (Cool-Down)✅

  • Doggo walk✅
  • Down Dog Yoga-Jan Daily Challenge: 12 min restorative practice✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Dinner prep✅
 
Thurs, Jan 30, 2025

😱***My daughter’s 40th Birthday***🤯

I can’t believe I am old enough to have a 40 yo kid!🫣

AM- awake at 6:50am (PST) after 9 hours of horizontal time and about 8ish hours of fair sleep. Our room is insulated really well, and I have a heavy comforter on the bed, so it felt too warm to get comfy to sleep. So, I spent an hour being still and meditative before feeling calm and cool enough to drift off….🛌🥱
Outside is partly cloudy, frozen, 22 (F) degrees feels like 15🥶🧊
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 30 sidekicks ✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Doggo walk✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
Noonish-
  • DareBee Universal Warm-up✅
  • DareBee Challenge: Standing Abs, Day 30✅… and, DONE🥳
  • DareBee program: Total Body Strength Plus +, Day 30✅…and, DONE 🥳
  • DareBee FarPoint (Cool-Down)✅
PM-
  • Dementia Support Group✅

  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Nap
  • House chore✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Down Dog Yoga-Jan Daily Challenge: 20 min flexibility practice ✅

  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
 
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Fri, Jan 31, 2025

AM- awake at 7:45am (PST) after 9+ hours of sleep🥳💤🛌
Outside is cloudy, with freezing rain (yuck🤦🏼😖), 32 (F)degrees feels like 26🧊☃️🥶
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 backkicks✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927, 249 pages~ 10 pgs/day✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
PM-
  • Nap✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌House chore
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Down Dog Yoga-Jan Daily Challenge: 5 min guided meditation ✅.and, DONE🥳
 
Sat, Feb 1, 2025

AM- awake at 7:40am (PST) after a poor night’s sleep, but, at least it was 9 hours horizontal🛌💤
Outside is sunny, windy, 40 (F)degrees feels like 34…wow, a heat wave🫣🤯🥵
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Nap
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min gentle practice✅
 
Sun, Feb 2, 2025
***GroundHog Day*** he saw his shadow, so we have 6 more weeks of winter. What a shock…ugh🫣
AM- awake at nearly 7am (PST) after 9 hours horizontal, of which under an hour I was just *conscious,* not sleeping🛌💤
Outside is mostly sunny, frozen again, 24 (F)degrees feels like 16🥶🧊
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • House chore ✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
PM-
  • Nap✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 10 min sleep meditation✅
 
Mon, Feb 3, 2025

AM- awake at 7am (PST) after nearly 9 hours of sleep🛌💤🤩
Outside is cloudy, frozen, with stuff on the ground, 24 (F)degrees feels like 18🥶🧊❄️
  • Journaling✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 punches✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
Noonish- additional REST DAY
  • Desk work✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Quilting✅
PM-
  • ❌Nap
  • MORE desk work, oof✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min Hatha practice✅
 
Tues, Feb 4, 2025

AM- awake at 6:30am (PST) after 8+ hours of sleep.🛌💤. We did a sleep meditation last night, and just as I was drifting off, husb had to get up. I hear this morning that he was up for 4 hours, trying to get his heart to flip back into a normal rhythm from an atrial fib episode. Four hours. Ugh….😰
Outside is cloudy, frozen, 27 (F)degrees feels like 18🥶🧊
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 50 (overhead) punches✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Doggo walk✅
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender KickStart, 30 Day Team Strength + Cardio Program, Day 1: Half Lower Body Strength Circuits + Half Cardio Circuits, 30 mins✅

  • Dinner prep✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
PM-
  • ❌Nap
  • ❌Doggo walk…husb did
  • House chore✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min flexibility practice✅
 
Wed, Feb 5, 2025

AM-awake at 7:15am (PST) following a crummy night’s sleep. I had had a tiny bit of chocolate in my edible (brownie) after dinner, and it amped me up: wide awake and mind busy. However, I remained in bed with my eyes closed “enjoying the ride…..”🙄💨. But it amounted to way less than 8 hours of actual sleep.😩💤
Outside, it appears to have snowed a little, it is cloudy and frozen, 21 (F) degrees feels like 15🥶☁️☃️🌬️
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 sidekicks✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • ❌Wednesdays: Doggo to daycare for kennel practice…. Taking the week off of this, to reset my doggo’s kennel reactivity to other doggos🦮
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
Noonish-
  • FB KickStart, Day 2: Upper Body Strength Dynamic Circuits for Muscle and Endurance, 30 mins✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
PM-
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
  • Nap✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Down Dog Yoga: 15 min post workout stretch✅
 
Thurs, Feb 6, 2024

AM- awake at 7am (PST) after another lousy less than 8 hours of sleep😩At least my husb slept🫣🥰
Outside it snowed a little overnight; it’s now cloudy, frozen, 24 (F)degrees feels like 16☁️🥶☃️
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 squat hold punches✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅

  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
Noonish-
  • FB KickStart, Day 3: Cardio Supersets + Deep Core Total Body Low-Impact Recovery, 30 mins✅
  • House chore✅
  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min flexibility practice✅
 
Laura Rainbow Dragon said:
I am wishing for you some sort of path to better sleep and peace of mind, Dorothy, and safe travels for your husband.
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Thanks, Laura. I’m not usually the one in my house with the trouble sleeping. But, lately, it seems to have returned. I’ve been thinking of *all my dead* family members in the last couple weeks. Coming up on the 11th death-versary of my dad, with whom I had some issues for much of my life: we were on opposite socio-political sides. I feel better about him since he died, interestingly….but my mother in law’s dementia just gives me fits of anxiety, unlike any of my dead ever did.. I’ll sleep eventually😜 I take immense solice in the fact that NAPS are usually possible😂
 
Fri, Feb 7, 2025

AM- awake at 6am (PST) after only 8ish hours of sleep🛌🥱😴I tried to stay in bed longer, but, my mind started up, so my body got all the anxiety messages going: sweat, stomach “busy,” etc.😤
Outside is cloudy, frozen, 25 (F)degrees feels like 15☁️🥶☃️
  • Journaling✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 frontkicks✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅

  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender KickStart, 30 Day Team Strength + Cardio Program, Day 4: Total Body Combination Exercises for Maximum Muscle Engagement, 30 mins✅

  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min restorative practice✅
 
Sat, Feb 8, 2025

AM- awake close to 6:39am (PST) after 8ish hours of sleep🛌😴. Being alone, I was hearing things that woke me up🫣. Probably either Canoodles sleeping in his crate, or the frozen lake “moaning” (it expands and contracts and make some pretty eerie noises) and permeating through the house walls😂👻
Outside is frozen, white, cloudy, 24 (F)degrees feels like 18☁️🥶☃️
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Journaling✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • Doggo walk✅

  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
Noonish-
  • House chore✅

  • FB KickStart, Day 5: Lower Body Strength + Cardio Alternating Circuits, 30 mins✅
PM-
  • Snow shoveling✅
  • Nap✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min restorative practice✅
 
Sun, Feb 9, 2025

AM- awake at 7:30am (PST) after 8ish hours of sleep🛌😴
Outside is cloudy, frozen, 22 (F)degrees feels like….22! 🥶☁️☃️No wind, yay!
  • Journaling✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
  • ❌Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927, 249 pages~ 10 pgs/day
  • ❌Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH
  • Binged “Younger” on Netflix & loved it✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • ❌Quilting
  • Dinner prep✅
PM- husb arrived back home in one piece🥰
  • Nap✅
  • House chore ✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
Mon, Feb 10, 2025

AM- awake at 6:15am (PST) with a headache and 8ish hours of sleep. I did a sleep meditation last night, so I fell asleep pretty quickly after lights out.💤
Outside is mostly cloudy, frozen, 16 (F) degrees feels like 5…FIVE🥶🥶🥶🥶
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
  • House chore✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 hooks✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Doggo walk✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
  • Dinner prep✅
PM-
  • FitnessBlender KickStart, 30 Day Team Strength + Cardio Program, Day 8: Upper Body Push/Pull Strength with Cardio Sandwiched Between, 35 mins✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Nap✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 18 min post workout stretch✅
 
Tues, Feb 11, 2025

AM- awake at 6:15am (PST) after 8ish hours of sleep🛌😴🥱
Outside is clear, frozen, 10 (F)degrees feels like 4😱🥶⛸️🧊
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 backfists✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Doggo walk✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
Noonish- unplanned REST DAY
  • Dinner prep✅
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min restorative practice✅
 
Wed, Feb 12, 2024

AM- awake at 7ish (PST), after a night of active “sleep,” for 9 hours. I had a bit of chocolate in my edible last night. Since I am not using that form regularly, the chocolate is too stimulating. I should that know by now🫣Consequently, my night was restless, full of waking dreams and hearing every little noise in the house.…oh well🥱🤷🏼That’s what naps are for, I think🤪😤

Outside is sunny, frozen solid, 6 (F) degrees feels like -3😱🥶🧊🌞Been having to wrap Canoodles up in his warm coat if we are outside for longer than a couple of minutes or he will freeze to death, poor thing🦮🥶
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 knee strikes✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Doggo walk✅
  • Doggo to daycare for kennel practice✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅
  • NYT puzzle page✅
Noonish-
  • FB KickStart, Day 9: Strength-Heavy Lower Body with a Cardio Sandwich, 35 min✅
PM-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • House chore✅
  • Fetch doggo from DayCare✅
  • ❌Quilting
  • Nap✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min flexibility practice✅
 
Thurs, Feb 12, 2025

AM- awake at 7am (PST) after 9 hours horizontal, most of it sleep with a couple times awake, but not actually up. So, over all, a better night.☺️💤🛌
Outside is bitterly cold, partly cloudy, 10 (F)degrees feels like -3🫣🥶🧊
  • Journaling✅
  • News update✅
  • Reading: The 36-Hour Day (a family guide to caring for people with dementia), by Nancy L, Mace, MA and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH✅
  • Reading: Reading: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb, 1927✅, and, DONE🤩
  • NYT puzzle page✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball roll on hands/arms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • BaoDing balls✅
  • Fighting Cancer: 100 elbow strikes ✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll upper body✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Yard Clean up✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Nap✅
  • FB KickStart, 30 Day Team Strength + Cardio Program, Day 10: Total Body Low Impact Cardio + Core for Active Recovery, 40 mins✅
  • Quilting✅
  • Snow shoveling✅
  • Doggo walk✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 10 min sleep meditation✅
 
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