Thursday morning, I was getting ready to find an electrician to fix the dining room light when I realized that I'd missed a crucial step: making sure it was the light, not the bulb. With the relief nurse's help, I determined that the light bulbs we tried the night before didn't work in a floor lamp that had a working bulb. I got a working bulb screwed into the main dining room light. I thought I had another working bulb, but three bulbs I tried in the lamp that had started with the working bulb didn't work. The working bulb was now in the most important light in the room, so I stopped there, and ordered more bulbs from Amazon. I also put the non-working bulbs in a bigger box that can hold them all, and labelled it, to prevent me thinking they work in the future.
I also developed a sore left upper arm and shoulder Wednesday night. I wasn't paying attention to it enough to put it in yesterday's daily update, but it made itself better known overnight. but i think it encouraged me to sit quietly and not use it, even thought that meant getting none of my other plans for the day beyond dealing with the light bulb done. Well, until the relief nurse came in at 2 to point out that I hadn't had lunch yet.I ate breakfast, lunch and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. Mom was awake and looked at the pictures with a little prompting, but my shoulder gave me so much trouble trying to hold pictures over the bed rail, which was raised, that I got up in the middle and asked the relief nurse to lower it. She did but explained that Mom had been leaning to that side, which is why she'd put it up. That's fine, but while I was reading, I really needed it down with my bad shoulder. First, I began with scripture and thoughts about it. Next, I started the long family Christmas letter from her niece form 2019. Then I continued _Cats on Quilts_. After that, I read "Tom Thumb" in _Five-Minute Stories: Over 50 Tales and Fables_. I ended with a story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, the 6th of March's story, "What am I?" {Smile}
I did my head exercises, my leg exercises (with increasing repetitions still), and my walking exercises after I finished teaming for the evening. I even added two new walking exercises inspired by Wednesday's physical therapy. I didn't do any arm exercises because of my sore arms and shoulder plus the late time getting started. {smile}
After breakfast and working out the light bulb situation, I sat down to play a little Cross Stitch World. Next thing I knew, the nurse came in and said it was 2 pm, and I hadn't had lunch. I had lunch, then wrote my daily update. Then I cleaned myself up and hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. There, I found Kitten in a farm with a friend. I joined them, both chatting and playing. Then Pierogies joined us, waiting for us to come out of the mission, since it had technically ended before he joined, and they don't let people enter a mission after it's over. We slipped in a last-minute individual mission before I broke to read to Mom. {Smile}
After diner, I began to write this up. Then I did a little more Cross Stitch World, but not too much, I hope. Next, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming and found Dr. Faustus. He was busy with paperwork while he waited for a friend to finish a late-night long, large group event. I need to look into if those are a regular thing now. They didn't used to be, but the server grew when it became fully legitimate, so maybe there are enough to do one now. Anyway, I teamed up with Dr. Faustus and a mutual friend. We did a story arc I was just the right level to do without using time travel, which doesn't allow adding players mid-story-arc. I also said goodnight to Nox on the chat world. We missed a chance to talk again. Then Dr. Faustus, our mutual friend and I started a sequel story arc. Phonso came on and joined us. Then our mutual friend left. We finished the story arc and said goodnight. Then I did my exercises, checked out an article online and made notes to write this from the next day. {Smile}
