Saturday, I stayed home. I did search both Dad's security box and my security box for my second safe deposit box key. I have one, but the bank gave out two. I found some keys in Dad's box, but not that one. I'll have to look in Mom's things, though I was in the habit of using Dad's box for backup, not Mom's storage places. If it's not there either, I'll keep thinking about places to look, but I might go ahead with straightening out Mom's and my safe deposit boxes. They're both at the same credit union, where only I still have an account. It's supposed to be one safe deposit box per account, so one needs to be closed, and the one I keep needs to be attached to my account. {Smile}
I ate breakfast and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. She was awake and enjoyed the pictures. I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Next, I continued with more from her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2019. After that, I restarted _Mele Kalikimaka: Christmas in Hawai'i_. I showed her the pictures and read the captions, as well as a one-page introduction, which meant skipping a bunch of text-heavy pages before that. After that, I read a story from _Disney 3-Minute Bedtime Stories_. I made sure to describe each picture as I went along. Except I kind of read it twice. I read and showed pictures for four pages, and discovered I was already at the end because I'd missed the middle two pages. So, I went back and read all six pages, with the middle right they ought to be. I thought that would be less confusing than reading out of order, and more satisfying than leaving the full version to another day. I finished with the 30th of December's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "The Wood Gnome." A little old man lives in the woods who's as old as the hills, as quick and nimble as a squirrel, and as mischievous as a monkey. He wears a pinecone hat, a moss waistcoat, and toadstool skin boots. His cloak is a leaf that changes color with the seasons. He tries to protect the woodlands from thoughtless people. If he sees folks littering, he leaves ants in their sandwiches. If ladies pick flowers, or worse, take whole branches of flowering shrubs, or even dig up plants, he hides their handbags and tears their tights on thorns. but he likes children! If they're good, he might show them paths to hidden places. {Smile}
I did two of my head exercises in a couple of lulls in City of Heroes: Homecoming. Then I did 6 1/2 minutes of salsa dancing longer after stopping teaming than I meant to take to get around to it. Then with short breaks for writing this up and such, I did my walking exercises, the rest of my head exercises, my arm resistance exercises, my standing arm weight training exercises, my leg exercises, and my sitting arm weight training exercises. I only did 10 repetitions of the last sitting arm weight training exercise. That's not the 15 I'm hoping to work up to, but it's better than the 6 I did last night. {Smile}
I finished writing yesterday's daily update after breakfast. Then, after searching for the key, and continuing over and after lunch, I read some comics and articles, and played more of that cross-stitch game than I quite meant to. Then I cleaned myself up and did a bit more of the cross-stitch game before hopping into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I got in too late for the early short, large group event. I looked around, and spotted Pierogies, looking like they were in a farm. We chatted, then teamed up to do some missions. We switched characters to do an individual high-level mission, and ended early enough, we tried a second. However, that didn't go so well. We quit when it started eating into time to read to Mom. I started writing up this daily update between reading to Mom and eating with Mom. {Smile}
Then after dinner, I got back to City of Heroes: Homecoming too late for the late-night short, large group event. So, I continued writing this up a bit, then got back into City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I caught up on paperwork. Next, I looked around for something to join that a couple of my characters really need, but I didn't spot what I really wanted. I debated starting one myself, but realized I really wanted to hang out with a friend. Michiel was on, so I said hi. We chatted, then teamed up. I helped him finish his mission, which he was having trouble with. I also chatted with Nox on the chat server. Then we did a few of my missions until he was ready to leave, and I need to start my exercises. Somehow, I did more paperwork than I meant to first. Then I did the exercises, interspersed with short breaks, mainly writing up the part about them, and part of the beginning of this update. After the exercises, I finished this, switching to notes to write from the next day as it got late. I got offline later than I like, especially on Saturday, with church the next morning, but I was still slightly better than I have been. {Smile}
