Today was Sunday, so I called Uber, and a nice, somewhat chatty driver came and took me to church. I've been getting up a little earlier again, and actually got there with time to settle in by Auntie Barbara and learn that the Sunday School had enough teachers, she didn't need to be in it. So, we sat together for the service. {Smile}
Our priest was there, with her new baby and a friend. I stopped to chat - or listen to her chat with others - after the service. She said she'd actually come last week, too, but to the early service. This time, they were at the late service, which is the one I go to. I have enough trouble getting there by 10am. I'm not going to think about trying to get there at 8am instead. {Chuckles}
Auntie Barbara and I sat together on the lanai for lunch afterwards. At first, we sat with some folks who had just returned from a few months in Minnesota with family. They leave in the spring, and I guess come back around now, for four months there, and eight months here. Then Auntie Barbara moved to sit by our priest so she could hold the baby, so i joined her there to finish lunch. Then Auntie Barbara took me home, and came in to visit with Mom, singing six songs with her before Mom stopped singing. {Smile}
I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Next, I continued with the beginning of her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2021. Then I showed her the next several pages in The Calming Cat Book, describing the cat in each picture. After that I read from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. I read her a story in a poem "Troll, Two, Three, Four," and three more stories. The Little Red Hen was a little shorter, and "Counting Stars" and "Lion's First Day" were even shorter. I finished with the August 20th story, "The Shelter," from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. Jennie and her brother Ben went into the forest. There, they built a little shelter just big enough for the small woodland animals they considered friends. They watched the animals in the shelter as they ate the picnic they'd brought. {Smile}
I did my arm swinging and head exercises while I was waiting for Uber to come and take me to church. Those two have no special equipment, nor a special place to do them, so they work very well while I'm waiting. I did my walking exercises after the soloing I did right after Ulty left for the evening. I did my arm resistance exercises and leg exercises after a bit more solo badge hunting. Then I did my salsa dancing, first the warmup set, then the less structured set, for over 20 minutes of salsa dancing in all. I ended with my arm weight training exercises, both sitting and standing. {Smile}
After Auntie Barbara left, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I started with paperwork. Then Kitten got my attention and invited me to join them and their friends in a base. It took a couple of tries to get the right base, but I did. Somehow Jag joined us, though I haven't seen him with this group before. We visited some, and played a competitive match, then visited some more. Then we took off to run a bunch of missions. They asked for someone with some electrical powers, which my third best badge collector has a few of, so I ran on her. WE got a badge I rarely get, and ran several missions, right up until it was time to read to Mom... well they continued, but I had to stop then. I chatted with Ulty a little on the chat server, too, where she mentioned she'd like to get together after my dinner. {Smile}
After dinner, I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I found Ulty ready to get together. We ended up doing some roleplaying where we mainly talk. Then we segued into chatting as us instead of our characters. When she left, I did some solo play, then started on my exercises. I also read some comics, catching up where I could. One service I read most of my daily service didn't work yesterday or today. Today, i checked my other service, and caught up with several, though not all. I also did my exercises, then my salsa dancing, and more exercises, interspersed with reading articles and comics, and doing some online shopping as well. Oh, and writing this up was mixed in there, too. I tried to say hi to Nox but missed their reply until they left for bed. I need to work on that. {Smile}
