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Ali in OR

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  1. 20 min fitbymik cardio this morning. My weights were out on the floor last night--not because they are used frequently but because I never put them away Thursday. I accidentally kicked one and have some sore toes now.
  2. Thanks for posting! Wildlife in the backyard here would be squirrels. We see deer crossing streets in town often enough, also wild turkeys. Opposums we're mostly likely to see as roadkill. Raccoons are around too. No koalas, roos, or wallabies!
  3. I probably started in 2004 or 2005, prepping for dd's kindergarten year starting September 2005. But I read a lot more than I posted those early years, so it would take awhile to find me.
  4. All right, I had to google ruck plates. Watched a Goruck YouTube video. My brothers were onto this idea decades ago when I was about 12 and bragged about how much weight I could carry in my backpack on a backpack trip (our family vacations were always week-long backpacking trips in the Sierras). So they kept hiding large rocks in my backpack that I wouldn't find until the day was done and we reached our campsite. Day 23 of 30 Days of Yoga done. We have some sunny days now and eventually it will warm up. Yesterday started in the 30's but it was over 70 when I picked up dd at 4:00. More of the same for the next few days--definitely want to get outside this weekend.
  5. 20 min on the treadmill this morning.
  6. 20 min fitbymik dumbbell workout.
  7. 16 min on the treadmill this morning. Short cold walk with dd yesterday afternoon
  8. Day 22 of 30 days of yoga.
  9. I teach high school math in person. During the shut down Zoom era we know students used Photomath and cheated their way through everything. And then we returned to in-person with in-person paper tests, no tech allowed. It was a rough year. They knew less than they knew before shut down because they actually lost skills they once had through atrophy of thinking muscles. If I taught language arts, I think I would have writing done in-class where we can at least lock down the tech a bit. I do think this generation will use AI for a lot, but I would prefer that to happen after they have developed their own writing abilities.
  10. I did Jessica Smith's Cardio Core Flow this morning. Did not sleep well--woke up a lot. This is always a rough week adjusting to the time change--alarm woke me this morning (I usually wake up 5-10 min before).
  11. What we learned about norovirus is it's super contagious and will spare no one. And you're still contagious after you're feeling better, so stay away from others. But pretty short-lived (except for the hitting everyone serially part).
  12. Day 21 of 30 Days of Yoga this morning. Lots of schoolwork this weekend. Still cold and rainy but yesterday reached the high 50's. Next weekend looks glorious--in the 60's. I am a bit sleep deprived and really not looking forward to the time change, but I went to bed early last night and I'm up early today to spread the adjustment over more days.
  13. 20 min on the treadmill this morning.
  14. 20 min Fitbymik dumbbell workout this morning.
  15. 20 min on the treadmill this morning. And dd and I took a short walk yesterday, during which we discovered that while sunny and not raining, it was just a little too cold for a walk (45°) and then her wheelchair foot plate just fell off at the end of the walk.
  16. Day 20 of 30 Days of Yoga this morning.
  17. Fitbymik cardio this morning.
  18. My grandmother gave me something like this when I was a teenager (not Waterford I'm sure!) It's still where I keep my rings every night. Re Prongs: a good local jeweler checked my ring maybe 20 years into marriage and said they still looked good. I had the ring re-sized maybe 30 years into marriage (dog leash injury permanently changed size of knuckle) and at that point they said to re-tip them so I did. A friend did lose the diamond from her ring and found it eventually in the front seat of her car.
  19. I'm facing our front window watching the snowflakes come down--beautiful. We have night/morning snows probably over the next few days but with highs in the 40's it will melt off quickly. After I got to school yesterday the snow was coming down and started sticking--all of the students wondering if they'll cancel school and send us home. Umm, no, not with the temps rising. No snow anywhere by the time school was over. But I think we wouldn't mind a 2-hour delay on Monday (no more cancelled days please--we have to make those up in June). I skipped Flow Day 18 (9 min meditation) and went on to Day 19 this morning. I want yoga to feel like at least a little exercise. Maybe I'll pick up Day 18 some evening when I want to relax.
  20. Yesterday I thought it was Friday--treadmill day for me. So I did 16 min on the treadmill (after grading some papers). So today I did a dumbbell workout I should have done yesterday. We have big fat snowflakes this morning but they melt after a few seconds on the ground. A nippy 34° here.
  21. We have open shelves in our hall bathroom that are obscured when the door is open. You have to be in the bathroom with the door closed to see them. They're a bit of a mess right now (I need to clean them off a bit), but it can look pretty nice when I try. They're wider, so I have room for two piles of folded towels on 1 shelf, I have three 20-year old white wooden bins from Target across the next, 3 white plastic basket bins across the next, and I should clean up the top shelf into bins. The bins hide collections of like stuff--OTC meds, bandages, teen girl grooming supplies, etc, but they look nice and neat--I don't feel like I need doors at all.
  22. Woke up at 4:00 and never fell back asleep. So I got up a little early and did a full 30 min workout--another Jessica Smith. I used to do treadmill 5 days a week but about 4 years ago my shoes were too tight and I got tensor tendonitis. It only hurt if I had a shoe across the top of my foot. So I searched for barefoot exercises and found Jessica's Cardio Ballet--did that one today. Through the process I decided a variety of exercises is better for me than treadmill every day. And I think barefoot exercise keeps my feet a bit healthier--no problems the last 4 years anyway. Stepped on the scale and I'm down to a pound range I haven't seen since mid-December.
  23. Day 17 yoga this morning. Looks like a cold and rainy day ahead, so I may not get a walk in with dd (didn't last week either).
  24. Nothing yesterday. Today I did a Jessica Smith cardio workout--haven't done one of hers in awhile and it was a nice switch up. I picked this one for the length--25 min. Longer than 20 but a little bit shorter than the 30 min workouts which seem to really be about 32 min. I have time to sit here for a few minutes. We're back to colder rain this week after a few days that felt like spring. There' s even a snowflake on my weather app for Friday and Saturday.
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