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DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Sun, Jan 7, 2024

AM- woke up at nearly 7am (PST), to partial clearing, 30 (F)degrees feels like 25. Apparently, husb didn’t sleep again so he is now back in bed🥴
—-PLANNED REST DAY—-
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Reading: 15 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • Doggo walk: 1 mile✅
Noonish-
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Park for gf doggo play: x30 mins✅
PM-
  • Master bedroom clean: : x1 hour✅
  • Doggo leash training walk: x35 mins✅ (1+ mile)
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min restorative practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Mon, Jan 8, 2024

AM- woke up late at 7am (PST), to clouds, 28 (F)degrees feels like 22.
  • Yard Clean up: x10 mins✅
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1+ hour✅
  • Master bathroom cleaning: x20 mins✅
  • At the park Canoe ball throwing: x30 mins (<1mile walking)✅
Noonish-
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 50 lunge punches✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅

  • Elliptical: 2.5 miles over 24 mins✅
  • Reading: 24 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-
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Reading: 10 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • Snow shoveling: x1 hour✅
  • Doggo walk: x20 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min restorative practice✅…had planned on 35 mins, but dear doggo barfed in the living room where we practice during the last 3rd of the show😤🤮
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Tues, Jan 9, 2024

AM- woke up close to 7am again…..outside is mostly clear, 35 (F)degrees feels like 28 with wind🌬️
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Yard Clean up: x10 mins
  • Doggo walk: around parking lot at park: x10 mins✅
  • Canoe ball throwing: x20 mins✅
Doggo trainer here for lesson: x90 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✅
  • DareBee Power Hold Challenge, Days 13✅,14(3 push ups x2+ 6 knee push ups)✅,15✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • Reading: 10 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • Nap: x45 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x15 mins✅
  • Dinner prep: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Wed, Jan 10, 2024

AM- awake at 6:45am (PST) to partial clouds, 30 (F)degrees, feels like 25. Canoe’s tummy seemed fine, but he was up in the night for some ear problem. He couldn’t stop shaking his head and digging at his right ear🥺Husb looked in it with his otoscope but only saw some dried blood on a scrape. So we gave him some extra CBD and told him to leave it alone. He went back to sleep, yay. Seems less problematic this morning🥳
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅

  • Dinner prep: x20 mins✅

  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: ~1 mile✅
  • Reading: 5 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
Noonish-
  • House chore: x1 hour✅
  • ❌Elliptical
  • ❌Reading: X mins (Kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD
PM-
  • Doggo walk: 2.25 miles✅…doggo gfs were delayed so
  • Park for gf play time: x30 mins✅
  • Quilting: x30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min Ashtanga practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Thurs, Jan 11, 2024

AM- we made the mistake of giving Canoe some bones from the leg of lamb we had for dinner. He ate them super fast without much chewing. This is not his usual. Consequently, he was barfing them up in the wee hours, waking us both up. Poor baby….
So, when I woke up for the morning, it was close to 6:30am (PST), with clear skies, 26 (F)degrees feels like 14🥶🤯
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1+ hour✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Dog walk: <1 mile, on/off leash✅ …sub freezing, so he wore a coat!🥰
  • Reading: 15+ pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
Noonish-
  • In town errands✅
  • Dog walk to park for gf play time before snow arrival: x45 mins✅
PM-
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 16 (10 pushups, full+ knee)✅,17✅,18 (10 reps)✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
Snow & wind look like a moonscape
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 35 min Hatha practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Fri, Jan 12, 2024

AM- awakened twice in the night by Canoe who *apparently* needed to go outside. However, he prolly would have just gone back to bed. Husb forgets to just pet him and have him go to his bed or come up on ours. It was SO bloody cold in the night, Canoe may not have been warm enough in his own bed….
This morning it is clear, breezy, 2(F) degrees feels like -21😱🥶😵‍💫🤯. Will be spending most of Canoe’s activity time in short outside bursts, today so he and I don’t get frostbite.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Reading: 15+ pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • Quilting: x4” mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x20 mins✅… in segments of 5 mins to avoid dangerous outside temps for doggo
  • ❌Doggo walk…having him follow me around the house to practice heeling indoors
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 3.3 miles in 32 mins✅
  • Reading: 30 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-
  • Doggo walk: around the house and yard with several 5 min ball throwing times outside and training exercises inside to make up for the difficult cold outside….
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 35 min restorative practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Sat, Jan 13, 2024

AM- when Canoe woke us up in the wee hours, I had him go to his bed, and then I put a blanket over him. He slept til morning, yay! He was all snuggled up when I woke up at 6:45🥰Outside is cloudy, breezy and -3(F)degrees feels like -21, with the wind chill🥶😶‍🌫️
  • Journaling: x15 mins✅
Unplanned REST DAY

NO SCREEN USE day

Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: in 5 min intervals thru out the day🥶😶‍🌫️🥶
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Sun, Jan 14, 2024

AM- slept until 6:30ish when my head needed caffeine and I was SO done with bed. That was 8+ hours of sleep after spending most of yesterday on my bed with my doggo.

Outside is partly cloudy, 7(F)degrees feels like -3. It’s downright warm compared to the last 2 days!😶‍🌫️😂
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅🥶😶‍🌫️
  • Reading: 15+ pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
Noonish-
  • DareBee Power Hold Challenge, Days 19✅,20✅,21✅
  • Doggo walk: outside for 5 mins every hour to take brief leash walks ✅
PM-
  • Quilting: x1.5 hours
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk: outside for 5 mins every hour to take brief leash walks✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Mon, Jan 15, 2024

AM- woke up at 7ish to clear sky, 2 (F)degrees feels like -10🥶😶‍🌫️….gonna be getting the doggo out for 5 mins every hour on the hour today as much as I can….😎🤞🏼
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up: x10 mins✅
  • Canoe ball throwing: x5 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x25 mins of leash walking alternating with sitting in the warming up running car to get warm then back out😶‍🌫️✅
  • Reading: 10 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: 1.5 miles in 14.5 mins✅
  • 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✅

  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
PM-
  • More Reading: 10+ pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • Basement floor mopping✅
  • Drive to Park for quick gf play time✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 35 min Flexibility practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Tues, Jan 16, 2024

AM- awake a couple times in the night to cover up Canoe, then woke up for the day at 6:45am (PST). Outside is partly cloudy, 7(F)degrees feels like -3😶‍🌫️🥶
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Desk work: x1+ hours✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅ alternated short leash walk with warming in car and short neighborhood drives to work on NOT barking in the car😵‍💫
Noonish-
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
❌Mobility/warmups-

PM-
  • To stepmom’s/training exercises for Canoodles: x1 hour ✅
  • Reading: 10+ pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • DareBee Power Hold Challenge, Days 22✅, 23✅, 24✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 35 min Yin practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Wed, Jan 17, 2024

AM- awake at 5:45am (PST) after Canoe slithered up onto the bed between us to get warm🥰
Outside, it’s snowing, 15 (F)degrees feels like 8😶‍🌫️🥶
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Reading: 15+ pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Snow sweeping/Canoodles outside snow play: x20 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Vacuum main level: x45 mins✅
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✅

  • More Quilting: x1+ hour✅
PM-
  • Outside snow sweeping & doggo play: x20 mins✅
  • More Quilting: x1.5 hours✅
  • Snow sweeping/Canoodles outside snow play: x45 mins✅… alternating with time in the car to warm up and get the ice out from between his toes😵‍💫
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Thurs, Jan 18, 2024

AM- Awake before 6 by Canooodkes slithering up onto the bed to snuggle. Outside it is 10 (F)degrees feels like -5😶‍🌫️🥶
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x15 mins✅
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✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Doggo outside training work: x10 mins✅. I do this every day to some degree; this particular exercise includes husb😎
  • FitnessBlender Free 2-week Challenge, Day 1: Lower Body Strength with HIIT Cardio, 30 mins✅
  • Reading: ~20 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
PM-
  • To stepmom’s to help her with computer problem: x1 hour✅
  • Doggo walk/ball throwing: x25 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min Flexibility flow✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Fri, Jan 19, 2024

AM- awake around 6:30ish to more fresh snow, clouds, 26 (F)degrees feels like 16😶‍🌫️🥶SO much warmer!
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1+ hour✅
  • Dog walk training & play/snow shoveling: x1+ hour✅
  • Reading: 20ish pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender Free 2-week Challenge, Day 2: Upper Body Strength and Core, 30 mins✅
PM-
  • Nap: x30 mins✅
  • Doggo leash training/no-bark in the car” training: x1 hour✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: x30 min restorative practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Sat, Jan 20, 2024

AM- awake and up shortly after 7am (PST) to clouds, freezing rain, 27 (F) degrees, feels like 17.
  • ❌Journaling
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Yard Clean up: x20 mins✅
  • Reading: 10+ pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
Noonish- unplanned REST DAY
  • DareBee Power Hold Challenge, Days 25✅
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • Park for doggo gf play time: x30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min Flexibility practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Sun, Jan 21, 2024

AM- awake just after 6:30am (PST) to freezing rain, clear ice coated sidewalks porch and patio, ick😖Temp is 31 (F)degrees feels like 25…
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1.5 hours✅
Waiting for temp to come up so the icy coating on the pavement is less solid and/or melted off….

Noonish- Planned REST DAY
  • Bedroom clean/sheets change: x45 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x20 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x15 mins✅
PM-
  • DareBee Power Hold Challenge, Days 26✅, 27✅
  • Doggo ball throwing: x20 mins✅
  • Reading: 20+ pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min Restorative practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

Well-known member
from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Mon, Jan 22, 2024

AM- awake at 6:30ish to fog, drizzle, and 34 (F) degrees feels like 30.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x20 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x20 mins
Noonish-
  • Grocery shop✅
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✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Quilting: x1+ hour✅
PM-
  • FitnessBlender Free 2-week Challenge, Day 3: Low Impact Cardio Workout with Mobility Exercises, 30 mins✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Reading: X pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866
  • ❌Doggo walk: husb did
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min Yin practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

Well-known member
from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Tues, Jan 23, 2024

AM- awake at 6am (PST) to clouds, fog, drizzle, 32 (F)degrees feels like 29.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1+ hour✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
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✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Meet with dog trainer at park: x1 hour✅
  • Reading: 10 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • Nap: x45 mins✅
PM-
  • FitnessBlender Free 2-week Challenge, Day 4: No-Repeats Lower Body, Upper Body, and Core, 34 mins✅
  • Kitchen tile grout cleaning project: x20 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x20 mins✅
  • Quilting: x30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min flexibility practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Wed, Jan 24, 2024

AM- Canoe woke me up around 4 to go outside. Trying to get back to sleep was difficult with husb trying to snore, but I made it. Then woke up after 7am (PST) to dense fog, 34 (F) degrees feels like 25.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Yard Clean up: x10 mins✅
Mobility/warmups-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • Wrist extension/flexion✅
  • Shoulder mobility w/pvc pipe✅
  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 60 knee strikes✅
  • BaoDing balls: 100 reps both directions both hands✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Canoe at park for practice: x20 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Deliver doggo for SPA DAY✅
  • FitnessBlender Free 2-week Challenge, Day 5: Pilates Core Strength & Stability, 32 mins✅
  • Pick up doggo from Spa✅
PM-
  • Reading: 10 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Doggo walk: x20 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 35 min Flexibility flow✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Thurs, Jan 25, 2024

AM- woke up close to 6:30am (PST)to darkness, dense fog, 33(F) degrees feels like 29.
  • Journaling: x5 mins✅
  • Quilting: x45 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk to/from park for gf play time: 1.7 miles✅
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✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • FitnessBlender Free 2-week Challenge, Day 8: Lower Body Strength Training with HIIT Bursts, 30 mins✅
PM-
  • Meet elderly mom-type friend for lunch/visit: x3 hours✅
  • ❌Reading: X pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866
  • Dinner prep✅
  • ❌Doggo walk…husb did
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min restorative practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Fri, Jan 26, 2024

AM- woke up at 2:30am when Canoe was vomiting in the hallway outside our bedroom. It was the bones from our dinner😖. After letting him outside and cleaning up the rug, getting back to sleep took me well over an hour. Woke up for the day shortly after 6am (PST), as husb is prepping to make the 5+ hour drive to his mom’s this morning.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
Husb departed to his mom’s
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: 1.6 miles training walk and heel/free at park for about 20 sets✅
Noonish-
  • FitnessBlender Free 2-week Challenge, Day 9: Total Body Mobility and Stretching for Sore Muscles, 30 mins✅
PM-
  • Desk work: x1+ hour✅
  • Quilting: x45 mins✅
  • Reading: 15 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Sat, Jan 27, 2024

AM- slept all night without Canoodles having tummy issues or pestering to go outside🥳Woke up shortly after 6am (PST) to rain, 34 (F)degrees feels like 31.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅

  • Fighting Cancer: EotD- 60 side kicks✅

  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x15 mins✅…very quick with his rain jacket on, just to practice loose leash, and a little heeling.
Noonish-
  • Phone convo w/ daughter✅
  • DareBee Power Hold Challenge, Days 28✅,29✅,30✅…. And, DONE🥳😎
PM-
  • Reading: 15 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • Nap: x1+ hour✅
  • Park for gf playtime: x30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min restorative practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Sun, Jan 28, 2024

AM- awake before 6am (PST) but didn’t get up til nearly 7am. Outside is dense fog, damp, 37 (F)degrees feels like 34. Positively WARM!🫣😵‍💫
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x20 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: 20 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • 3 house chores: x1+ hour✅
Planned REST DAY

PM-
  • Nap: x30 mins✅
  • Park for doggo gf play time: x30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min gentle practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Mon, Jan 29, 2024

AM- woke up as 7am approached. The sky is mostly clear with some fog, 32 (F)degrees feels like 26.

Husb returning home today…
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x20 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
Noonish-
  • House chore: x30 mins✅
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✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: 10 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866 ✅

  • FitnessBlender Free 2-week Challenge, Day 10: Upper Body Strength Workout Strength with Dynamic Tri-Sets, 33 mins✅
  • 2nd house chore: x30 mins✅
PM-
  • Reading: 10 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • Drive to park for doggo gf playtime: x30 mins✅
Husb arrived home🥳…with more and worse than ever frustrations of mom’s cognitive decline.
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
  • Reading: 10 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
 
DorothyMH

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Tues, Jan 30, 2024

AM- had a poor night trying to sleep. My mind was very busy, doing….i can’t imagine what😵‍💫Finally got up at 6:40am (PST) to dense fog with a red glow, that looks like Aug forest fire season, but is 35 (F)degrees feels line 29.
Today, my daughter is 39 years old. Gawds, it makes ME feel old🥴
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
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✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
Noonish-
  • Quilting: x1 hour
  • Reading: 10 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
PM-
  • FitnessBlender Free 2-week Challenge, Day 11: Lower Body Strength + Cardio in a Bored Easily, Bodyweight-Only Tri-Set format, 30 mins✅

  • Reading: 10 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Drive to park for ball throwing, leash walk practice: x40 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 30 min restorative practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
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Wed, Jan 31, 2024

AM- awakened at 5:15 by Canoe complaining of being cold. So, up onto the bed he came to snuggle/spoon between us. As much as a 95+ lb dog monster with nail-tipped baseball bats for arms can snuggle🫣🤪🤣. I gave up and got up for the day a little after 5:30am (PST). Outside is raining, 37 (F)degrees feels like 32. Sheesh, the ground is SO saturated, it feels like a mud bog…
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Plan Feb workout schedule: x30 mins✅
  • Quilting: x40 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Drive to park for gf playtime: x30 mins✅
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✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: 10 pages Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866✅…DONE🥳This was an excellent story with all sorts of societal, psychological, and political themes, as well as some good suspense. As a classic, it is well worth the time to read. It is one of the books I always thought I “could never read, cuz it was a book my mom read. That was for grown ups!”
  • Quilting: x30 mins✅

  • FitnessBlender Free 2-week Challenge, Day 12: Core Workout with Targeted Bodyweight Circuits & No Repeats incl Active Recovery Stretches, 30 mins✅
PM-
  • Hunt for stepmom’s pictures for her family history project✅
  • Doggo walk: x30 mins✅
  • Dinner prep✅
  • E-mail the pics to stepmom✅
  • ❌Down Dog Yoga
 
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Thurs, Feb 1, 2024

AM- awake at 5:45am (PST) to dense fog outside, 41 (F)degrees feels like 36. New month, new plan!
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x40 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x10 mins✅
  • Drive to park for doggo gf play time: x30 mins✅

  • Reading: 30 mins (Kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD✅
  • MORE Quilting: 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✅
  • DareBee Epic Cardio Challenge, Days 1✅,2✅,3✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • Reading: 35 pages of The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly, 2005✅
  • Doggo walk: x40 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 35min Flexibility practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Fri, Feb 2, 2024

AM- bumpy night of sleep, lots of half conscious times of awareness, hearing the doggo snoring, husb coming to bed and thrashing, stuff like that…awake around 5, but snuggled with Canoe for a while and finally got up close to 6:30am (PST). Outside is dense fog, 41 (F)degrees feels like 39.
  • House chore✅
  • Reading: 10 mins (Kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD✅
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1.5 hours✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Town errands with doggo incl stop at park for ball throwing: x1+ hours✅
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✅
  • DareBee Epic Cardio Challenge, Days 4✅, 5✅, 6✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
PM-
  • Reading: 25 pages of The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly, 2005✅
  • Nap: x1 hour✅
  • ❌Doggo walk: husb did
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min flexibility practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Sat, Feb 3, 2024

AM- woke up too early (5ish) with dog noises and husb snoring. So, turned him over and got closer to my white noise and slept til nearly 7:30am (PST). Outside, it’s…LIGHT, cloudy, foggy, 38 (F)degrees feels like 34.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x1 hour✅

  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x45 mins✅
Noonish-
  • FitBeast hand exercise equipment x5✅
  • Reading: 10 mins (Kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD✅
  • DareBee Epic Cardio Challenge, Feb 3=Days 7✅, 8✅, 9✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • Spiky ball rolling on hands/forearms✅
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅

  • Reading: 25+ pages of The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly, 2005✅
PM-
  • ❌Doggo walk: husb did
  • House chore✅
  • ❌Dinner prep: husb did
  • Drive to park for gf play time: 30 mins✅
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min Hatha practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Sun, Feb 4, 2024

AM- awakened in the wee hours by Canoe vomiting in the hallway outside our bedroom. After getting him outside and cleaning up, we all went back to sleep and slept til nearly 7am (PST). Outside is foggy, with some partial sun, 36 (F)degrees feels like 31.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x45 mins✅
Noonish- planned REST DAY
  • Nap: x1+ hour✅ (we watched Oppenheimer last night, and my mind is DONE😤😵‍💫)
PM-
  • House chore✅
  • Park for ball throwing: x30 mins ✅

  • ❌Quilting
  • ❌Reading: X pages of The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly, 2005, 404 pages= 12- 15 pages/day
  • ❌Reading: X mins (Kindle)The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD

  • Down Dog Yoga: 35 min Hatha practice✅
 
DorothyMH

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Mamatigerj said:
I am looking forward to reading your thoughts on The Body Keeps the Score; it has been on my radar.
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Well, my provider recommended it way back when all my family members were dying month after month, and I was having physical symptoms in response. I can tell you that every time I pick it up there are more enlightenment and aha moments that assure me that I AM sane, just damaged and need to acknowledge myself and all my body connections to my psyche. He confirms the benefits of yoga on traumatized psyches as well which is huge. It’s definitely worth reading.
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Mon, Feb 5, 2024

AM- woke up close to 7am (PST) to rain, 39 (F)degrees feels like 32.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x20 mins✅
  • Doggo walk: x15 mins✅… in the rain🥴💦
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✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Reading: 15 pages of The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly, 2005✅
  • Desk work: x15 mins✅
  • Quilting: x30 mins✅
  • House chore✅
PM-
  • Dinner prep: 1 hour✅
  • FitnessBlender FB Burn 2-week Challenge, Day 1: Build a Booty Strength & Pilates Workout for Butt and Thighs, 40 mins✅
  • ❌Doggo walk: husb did in the rain🫣💦💦
  • Down Dog Yoga: 25 min restorative practice✅
 
DorothyMH

DorothyMH

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from Eastern Washington State, USA
Posts: 1,123
Tues, Feb 6, 2024

AM- woke up after 6am (PST) to dense cloud-like fog/rain, and 39 (F)degrees feels like 36.
  • Journaling: x10 mins✅
  • Quilting: x2 hours✅… done with baby quilt I’ve been working on for husb’s niece’s new baby🥳
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✅
Cooldown/Stretch-
  • LaCrosse ball roll UpperBody✅
  • Foam-rolling back/lower body✅
Noonish-
  • Plan for 2024 eclipse in Texas✅
  • Yard Clean up/Canoe ball throwing: x15 mins✅
  • Drive to park for training practice/ball throwing: x45 mins ✅
PM- stepson here for visit, to help with doggo socializing
  • Dinner prep✅
  • Reading: 25 pages of The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly, 2005✅
Stepson returned, so more doggo social going on🥳😎
  • FitnessBlender FB Burn 2-week Challenge, Day 2: Upper Body Strength Supersets, 35 mins✅
  • ❌Doggo walk… skipped due to all the socializing and training practice😎🥳
  • Down Dog Yoga: 20 min restorative practice✅
 
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