#Journal of a slightly confused Dutch Pixy :pixy_party: (Monday, 01/09/2025). My alarm went, I turned it off (and not on snooze 🤦🏼) and I pulled up my legs to start my back exercises before I wanted to get up. When I got up, I was so confused, as the clock showed that it was an hour later than I'd set the alarm. Right? 🤔 I went to the scale, took my meds, and got dressed. I grabbed my bag and wobbled to Skoosh. We went to the gym. I played on my phone a bit and managed to get my shoes switched. I was a bit worried about that, as I don't have my helping thingies with me at the gym. I got to "action" and rode for 30 minutes on the seated bike. It felt a bit weird, as I'd not used my muscles like this for a while now. But with the backrest I was able to sit properly and I managed a half hour on low and slow speed. I wrote a bit for my journal Toot while I was riding. I checked my health score thingies, and for my sleep score, I got 80, which was "good". My energy score got to "good" as wel, with 79 points. It said it showed that I was doing well, and I could lead the day with my energy and be proud of myself. After the half hour, I went back to the chairs, changed my shoes, and when I was relaxed enough, I wobbled back to Skoosh. There still weren't any good parking spots available, thanks municipality for taking them all and not providing enough avaliable ones now (there will be more, but they aren't working on the bit that needs to he done now, so who knows how long we'll still be in this mess? Grrr... 😠). I got home and I went upstairs for a while. I worked on my blog, adding text and images to my journal post. When I had almost finished my post, I saved it and went back down again. I switched my shoes and headed out for a short walk. I had updated my Ingress game (

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) and made a new account so I could start fresh. In the little bit that I walked, there weren't too many points where I could do some things. And, to be honest, I kinda forgot some bits of how to play, so I needed to get back into it as well. I played a little and then I finished my journal Toot that I was still working on. I had some brekky when I got back. Then I updated my journal blog post some more, before I went to the home trainer to ride it for 10k, which took me about 26 minutes. I relaxed a bit after that, and then the weather cleared up a bit, so I headed out for a second walk. Just as I got back, I saw the neighbor with B and I gave B all the cuddles. I decided to walk along with them for their walk, so when I finally got back home again, I was a tad tired. But, I also had a good and longer walk, so I could take it a bit easier for the rest of the day. Dad got up and texted me. I got the info I needed to order the laptops that I found. Dad wanted two new laptops, not too expensive, oe for him and one for me. He had some wishes and with that, I was able to find one (

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) that was suitable and within the fund limits. I was glad to have been able to find these, and they had a sale going as well. As dad wanted to have a LAN connection, and many modern (simple) laptops don't support the port anymore. So to find one with all he asked for within the price range... Yay me... I ordered all that dad asked me to, and we'll head out to the store on Thursday afternoon to pick it all up. I tried to relax a bit and then I started to work on some other new blog posts. I made my warm food, and after that, I headed out for one more walk. There was a parcel coming in the afternoon, so I could not head out after this walk. I used my tablet and kept writing for my blog. My parcel came, I got ready for bed and all that, and when I put away the tablet, I had 3 more posts done for this week. And the journal post was done as well, so all was ready for some good sleep. I got as comfy as possible and grabbed my eReader. It didn't take too long to doze off. Unfortunately, I did wake up a few times during the night, and I had some night sweats as well. But, I woke up around 1:40, so 20 minutes before my alarm was set to go off... Ready to start a new day. :pixy_party: 💜 🍀 🐾 #PixysJourney #WeirdFolks @weirdfolks group PS. Sharing an older, edited, snap, because I can... 😇 Hopefully @Altbot can make a good text for me, as I am still rather emotional today when it comes to Arwen...

:kirby_prideheart: Ello sweet and lovely Friendos :purple_heart_sparkle: #GoodMorning and #TZAG everyone :blobcattea: It's 7AM here and I've been awake for a little while. I was sore when I got up, but I think my painkillers are slowly kicking in, so I shoud be able to help mum and then walk Basje in a bit. And, today mum and I will visit the Harley shop in Wetzlar, so I am really excited about that. My wallet is trying to hide at the moment as it knows it will need a diet when I've been at the HD place... :ablobcatangel: I had a rather decent night, but when I woke up, I wanted to visit the loo and sleep some more. And then I saw it was 3 minutes before the alarm was set to go off. And I wanted to be ready in time, in case my mum would be ready earlier. I think I will need to head to her room in a bit, so I will finish up this Toot and get going. I hope you will have a nice day, or that you are having a nice day! I will add an image that AI made for me. I know folks dislike AI and I understand it all too well. I don't use it for meaningless bits. But I wanted to try the image thing on a new one that I was using last night, and together with the image I made for the crystal glass thingies that I want to make, it came up with this one... I do love it. And I hope that @Altbot can help me with a nice and suiting alt text to add. Catch you all later folks!!! :pixy_party: 💜 🍀 🐾 #PixysJourney

#Journal of a slightly more relaxed Dutch Pixy :pixy_party: (Sunday, 24/08/2025). It was a bit of a bumpy night, as I had to find a way to be comfy in this bed. It's one with springs in the mattress and they're never my favorite ones... Especially now, with the hip not being all healed yet. And I did miss the handle above my head that I always used at home (with the bed in the living room) to pull myself up a bit when I need to reposition or get up. But I did manage to get a few hours of sleep. I got a sleep score of 91, which was very high for me considering how I thought I had slept that night. My energy score was at 84, which was good enough as well. When I woke up, I got dressed and then I texted mum to ask how far she was. She texted that I could come over, so I did. And when she was ready, we headed out for walkies with Bas, with the baker as destination, so that we had some brekky and lunch that day. Unfortunately we had not been able to visit a supermarket on Saturday and many stores are still closed here on Sunday, so it was some bread without topping for me 😔 . But mum, Bas and I had a nice walk, and a long one, as I had about 3k steps when we got back from the walk. We ate some brekky and then I went to my room where I wrote two journal toots. Then I finally emailed a good friend. After a while, I went out to walk with Bas again, a slightly shorter walk with about 2k steps. I ate my other bun and went back to the room, where I played a bit with some snaps. I saw that I didn't add all my Arwen snaps to my Flickr, so I am slowly trying to add some more of the older ones. Around 12:30, mum and I walked tot the Pizzaria with Bas. Mum went inside to see if they still had a table available for 3 for that evening. She got us a table and then we walked another way round back to the rooms again. I went back to my room and wrote a bit for my blog, as I didn't have a post lined up yet for the Monday. Around 15, I walked another round with Bas, a shorter one this time, so he would be OK for a while when we'd be out for dinner. I worked some more on my blog and around 17, we headed to the Pizzaria (again 😉). We had a very nice meal and it tasted really well. The price for the 3 pizzas and drinks was also very reasonable, so that was nice too. We got back again and I walked with Bas once more before I headed to my room to relax. I was rather tired after this day. But I also made it to 11,9k steps, so I think I did rather well. I finished my blog post and then I wanted to read a bit. But before I knew it, I was dozing off already around 21:30. I woke up a few times during the night as I had some very weird dreams. But in the end, I had slept about 7,5 hours when I woke up again and my body told me it was time to start the new day. :pixy_party: 💜 🍀 🐾 #PixysJourney #WeirdFolks @weirdfolks group Hopefully @Altbot can make something nice of this image for me...

:kirby_prideheart: Ello sweet and lovely Friendos :purple_heart_sparkle: #GoodEvening and #TZAG everyone :darkmodeparrot: I've had a productive day. At least, I wrote my two journal toots, I finally emailed my good friend, and I finished a blog post for tomorrow. And... I had several good walkies with Sir Little Noise™, the first and longest one with mum as well, and all in all, I got the most steps today since my surgery! Currently my watch shows me I'm at 11.845 steps, or 8,82km. So not too shabby at all! I showered 🚿 as well, yay me! And I saw how bruised my hip area still is, even after almost 8 weeks... 🫣 I'll include a crappy snap, and I'll CW it, just in case... Hopefully @Altbot can help with a decent description. 😊 Then, we had a nice dinner at a local pizza place. :blobCat_pizza: yay! Tomorrow morning, mum and I head out in time for some well needed groceries. I think dad wanted to visit some shops later on as well, so let's see how things will go... 😊 I'll go and read some on my eReader and maybe I'll be able to doze off a bit? But the fridge just started cooling again and damn, that thing is loud... :ablobcatgoogly: Hope you're all having a good time folks! Catch you all later, I hope!

:kirby_prideheart: Ello sweet and lovely Friendos :purple_heart_sparkle: Just walked another nice walk with Bas, we managed about 2000 steps together. :annoyingdog: Dad seemed to be in a wee bit of a better mood and wanted me to look for a cheap laptop replacement for him. And if I could find one that would do, maybe I could order one for myself too, as I had been struggling with my old laptop so much... 🤔 So first, I have to much screen time and now... He wants to give me another screen??? 😂 I just don't know what is up with him at times... But I tried to find something within his budget. It's a lower budget but it should work for the simple things that he wants to do. And for other things, he can still use the old laptop or pc. I shared the link with him so he can find out more about it. Just a quick ello here and then I will try to *finally* reply to an email of a sweet friend... He's been waiting for a while now (sorry about that! 🫣 I got a bit busy). I took a few snaps with Bas during the walk, though nothing too exciting. I did see a car with a license plate that made me giggle (I know, I am a child trapped in an ancient and broken down body!), so I will share that here now. And let's see if @Altbot can make something nice for the descriptive text for me... Catch you all later folks! :pixy_party: 💜 🍀 🐾 #PixysJourney

#Journal of a busy Dutch Pixy :pixy_party: (Thursday, 21/08/2025). Bas was rather restless during the night, so I didn't have the best night due to his feelings of anxiety in some way. I did manage a sleep score of 83, which was "good". According to my watch, I managed to sleep about 7:20, so it wasn't too bad, time wise. I was just feeling a tad tired due to Bas being restless at times. I got a rather good energy score though, as it went 5 points up to 91! Which was "excellent" according to the app. 😊 So hopefully today would go well, and all that... As it would be a busy day today. When I got up, I got to the scale. And then I prepared everything for brekky, got dressed and then I had brekky. After that, I took mum's things to Skoosh, as she was going back to Nijmegen with Bas. When mum was ready, we drove to Nijmegen. We unloaded the car and then we got ready to head to Germany for some more groceries. It was the first time that I drove in my parents "new" car, so I had to get used to the controls. It wasn't that different from all the other Toyota's, but the display was different and all that, so I had to get used to using this one and finding out how to "hold" the gas so I would not speed, and all that. But wel made it to the stores all safe and sound. We filled up the tank, so we can drive to Greifenstein this Saturday. Mum and I had been to Appie after the hospital visit on Tuesday, so we only needed the German shops this time. I helped mum clearing out the groceries. And then I walked a short round with Bas, before I went back to Herpen. It was a bit scary to drive alone for the first time, and I hoped that things would go well. But I managed and all went well. I cleaned up my groceries. I started a load in the washing machine and I started the dishwasher as well. So most could be clean before I'd go on vacation this Saturday. I hung the laundry and then I got my headphones and headed out for a walk. Have to keep practicing, even though it feels strange to walk just to walk. I miss having a "purpose", like walking to a store, or walking with the dog... But I had my music, which I started listening to again after several weeks without it... After the walk, I tried to write my journal toot, an email, and for my blog. I tried to distract myself from the loneliness that I was feeling now, without a dog or other human in the house. I felt like I kept hearing little paws (dogs paws mind you, not rats or something 😂 ) walking through the room. It made me sad and I had a good sobfest. It's been almost 7 weeks and I still miss her every day. She was just such an important part of my life... 😢 I fixed myself some food and after dinner, I got my headphones again and went for another short walk. I wrote a bit more, and played a bit with some photo editing, and then I was very tired. I took my meds and watched some TV. Dozed off for a while, then I woke up again and got ready to actually sleep. I had a very restless night. I did sleep some, even on my left side, but I had the weirdest dreams and woke up a few times feeling sweaty and weird... So when I got up, I felt a tad tired still, but it would have to do to prepare myself for the upcoming vacation. I went to the scale, got dressed, and walked a short round... Ready to start the day... :pixy_party: 💜 🍀 🐾 #PixysJourney #WeirdFolks @weirdfolks group Hopefully @Altbot can make a nice description of Arwen's edited pawprint image I am adding here... 😇

#Journal of a slightly sad Dutch Pixy :pixy_party: (Wednesday, 20/08/2025) Well, I have to admit, to me, last night was a very good one! I fell asleep with Bas rather quickly and didn't wake till about 4am, when Bas woke up when he heard mum come down for the loo. I went to the loo as well, and then back to bed. Bas snuggled up again, and we slept some more. Mum came back down and walked with Bas. When they were back, I slowly got up and prepared everything for brekky. But I had a good night, as my watch told me that I had slept for almost 9 hours in total! I started with dozing on and off a bit while we were watching telly, then I slept much in one go, I woke up for the loo, I woke when mum took Bas for walkies and then I got up when they got back again. My sleep score was very excited about it all, as it gave me 22 more points than the previous night, getting me to an "excellent" of 87 points. My energy score was excellent as well, with a score of 86. After brekky I got ready to walk with Bas. I tried to relax a bit while writing my morning toot and an email to a sweet friend. Then I wanted to walk Bas before we had to leave to head to Cuijk for my physio. I drove us there and it went well enough. The treatment was a bit painful but also very nice, as there was a lot that needed some TLC in my back and neck area. I drove us back to Herpen again. I walked a short bit with Bas before we relaxed with some telly. Mum and I watched some of the Defenders, and I tried to write a bit for my blog. Then I walked a bit with Bas again. Made him his dinner and then I made dinner for mum and myself. I walked one more short round with Bas and then I changed to relax on/in bed. While we watched some telly, I kept dozing on and off again. I tried to prepare everything for bed time, so if I would fall asleep, it would all be ready. When mum went to bed, Bas got all anxious and I could not understand what was wrong. It took some time before he finally relaxed a bit again and snuggled up for some sleep. I woke up a few times during the night, as Bas still was restless from time to time. When mum came down to walk with Bas, I got up as well and started my day. :pixy_party: 💜 🍀 🐾 #PixysJourney #WeirdFolks @weirdfolks group Adding a snap that I took a year ago (20/08/2024) of Arwen at the Herperduin... Still missing her so much every day... :parrot_sad:

#Journal of an exhausted Dutch Pixy :pixy_party: (Monday, 18/08/2025). Thanks to my leg, I had the most rubbish night. The dissipating hematoma still has some edema floating around, and some last bruising that's still tighter and swollen. Every time I wanted to lay on my right side, the bits in my leg would press against one of the bigger muscles, and that muscle would then cramp up some. It was rather painful and when it happened, I had to get up to stretch the leg and get the muscle to calm down again. In the end, I had to sleep on my back, with the head rest popped up some, and a pillow under my right knee. It was a rubbish night, even though the watch said that I got some sleep here and there. Because I had slept a little while we were watching TV, my total sleep time did get to 7 hours, but I didn't feel rested at all. I got a sleep score of 60, which is fair, and a rather high energy score of 87, which they called excellent. But that was mostly due to the activities that I had been doing during the previous day. I got up, feeling rather sore and broken, and got dressed. Fixed some brekky and after that, I got ready for walkies with Basje. He wanted the longer walkies, but as I was rather sore, and the pathway of that walk wasn't too easy to manouvre, I guided him to another way. Still, we walked a longer walk, so he got all his stiffs and pees in... When we got back, I went upstairs for a bit to work on my PC. I took Bas upstairs with me, so he would not be alone while I did some work on my blog and journal and such. After a while, we headed back down. We relaxed for a short while and then it was time to go out for walkies again. As I was a wee bit tired, we walked a little shorter round this time. Basje got some more sniffs and all in, and he seemed like a happy doggo. I had to finish something on the PC, and then I headed back down to relax a bit. Bas joined me for a bit, and all went well. I was finishing up something on my tablet when it was time for another walkies. Bas wasn't too pleased, as it was definitely time for his walkies. (He adjusted to that rather quickly... 😉 ). Bas and I went for a longer walk again. We had just gotten bacl and got on the bed to relax a bit, when mum came back home. Mum made Bas his dinner and then I made dinner for mum and myself. We watched some telly and then Bas got a bit restless. So we went on an earlier walkies together and then I got ready to really relax in bed. We watched more telly while I tried to be comfortable. I was hoping that I could get a better night this time around. Mum walked with Bas and I prepped everything for the next morning. I found a way to be a bit more comfortable in bed, and then Bas wanted to join me, but he couldn't. I checked him out and found out that he had a small twig with some fort of thorns in his fur. I got it out and helped him n the bed. I almost dozed off and then Bas made some silly sound, so I was awake again. After a while I got comfy again and managed to doze off for a few times. I didn't get too much sleep, just over 5 hours in total, but as I had been able to lay on my right side more, I was less sore when I got up again in the morning. :pixy_party: 💜 🍀 🐾 #PixysJourney #WeirdFolks @weirdfolks group

:kirby_prideheart: Ello sweet and lovely Friendos :purple_heart_sparkle: #GoodNight and #TZAG :kirby_tired: Well, it's not been a too bad day, after a rubbish night... I would want to tell you all about it, but as I am rather tired, and I do need some sleep (or time to at least attempt to get some sleep)... Today I did all I could to "help" my leg to relax and recover. And I was able to lie on my right side for a bit during the evening. When I tried to switch to the right side to get comfy for sleep... The muscle acted up again! :parrot_sad: So yeah, why can I be decently comfy when watching telly but when I wanna sleep... The stupid edema/hematoma remains decide to push against the big muscle and make me very uncomfortable...? I'll send this Toot and then try again to get comfy enough to get some sleep :kirby_sleep: We have an important appointment tomorrow to I'd like to be a bit more rested... (and be in less pain for the night). Fingers crossed 🤞🏻 for some decent sleep... 🍀 Attaching a lovely snap of Bas, paws in the air, next to me on the bed now. Wonder if @Altbot can make something of it... 😉 Have a good night/time everyone! :darkmodeparrot: :pixy_party: 💜 🍀 🐾 #PixysJourney

#Journal of a slightly busy but OK enough Dutch Pixy :pixy_party: (Saturday, 16/08/2025). I wanted to get up in the morning after mum had walked with Bas, but I dozed off again and then woke up just after 8. Because of that extra snooze, I got to about 7,5 hours of sleep last night, with a sleep score of only 63. My energy score was higher though, with 86, being "excellent". So it was a bit of a mix, sleep and energy wise. I got up, got dressed, and had brekky. Mum went to Nijmegen for groceries and chores, and I took Bas out for the 9am walkies. Bas was very enthusiastic and he wanted a longer walkies, which we had not walked in the last few weeks. But the weather was good and I had some energy, so we went for the longer walk. Bas was very excited about that, so when we got back, he was a tad tired and eager for a snooze. I started cleaning the loo's and I got my tablet to work on my journal Toot. I was ready and wanted to answer an email by a friend, and then I got an update about the Ikea delivery of my chair. I took out Sir Little Noise™ again for walkies, so that he'd be OK as we waited for the delivery van to come. I managed to finish the email and I worked on another blog post as well. The delivery time of the parcel was being delayed a bit, and I got a message that mum would be back a bit later as well. The parcel had arrived and I had been working a bit on getting older journal texts into my journal app. Mum came back, so I helped her with the groceries. We walked with Bas together, and then watched a bit of telly before I started to make dinner. After dinner, we unpacked the big chair box and mum and I took all the items upstairs. Then, mum and I watched some more "Iron Fist" until it was time to walk with Bas again. After that I changed clothes and tried to relax in bed. We watched more of the Iron Fist, while I also used my phone to keep working on the journal text copying. When I was done with a part of the texts, I tried to focus on getting all the right snaps added to tje journal entries. It seems like an easy thing to do, and it's not too hard, but it is time consuming... I was almost done with the bit that I was aiming to do. I prepared everything for the next day and mum walked with Bas. She went up, and I finished adding the last bits of snaps before I tried to snooze a bit. After a while, Bas joined me on the bed, and I was able to fall asleep. I woke up a few times during the night, once because Bas had fallen off the bed while rolling over in his sleep... Silly Weener... I had slept almost 7 hours in total, and I tried to be ready for the new day to start... :pixy_party: 💜 🍀 🐾 #PixysJourney Let's see what @Altbot will make of Bas looking out the window. 🐾