Sunday, March 10, 2024

Daily Update, March 9, 2024

    On Saturday, I did a lot of thinking about my writing. Then I started revising the story again. It's good to get back to it. I 

   I also needed more electrolytes again in the afternoon, but this time I recognized and treated it before I had too much trouble. {Smile}

   I had a phone call in the evening with Auntie Barbara. We touched bases and planned to get together at church and lunch after church the next day. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. Mom was resting when I got there, but perked right up when the nurse and I told her I was ready to read to her. She looked at the pictures with a little prompting. I started with scripture and thoughts about it first. Next, I continued the long family Christmas letter from her niece from 2019. Then I continued _Cats on Quilts_. After that I read "Jack and the Beanstalk" in _Five-Minute Stories: Over 50 Tales and Fables_. Then I read the 8th of March's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "The Playful Rhino." Mom said she didn't like it, and I didn't want to end on something she didn't like, so I read a random page from _Cats on Quilts_. {Smile}

   I did my arm resistance exercises and my arm swinging exercises between reading to Mom and dinner. Then I did my head exercises, my sitting arm weight training exercises, my leg exercises, and my walking exercises before I got too tired, and it got too late to continue. {Smile}

   I read a few articles and did a lot of Cross Stitch World in the morning and around lunch. I don't feel as bad about the Cross Stitch World, because I did it while I thought about my writing. That makes it more productive, and less of a plain old time-sink. After that, I wrote up my daily update. Then I cleaned myself up before hopping into City of Heroes: Homecoming. There I found Dark. We chatted, and then we decided to team up. He was running a particular kind of character at a particular level. I happened to have one of that kind of character really close in level, so I got mine. We teamed up and did his missions until it was time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I started to write this up. Next, I did a little Cross Stitch World, then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I found Dark and Pierogies on. Pierogies was too tired to team, or even talk as much as we'd hoped. Dark was on a low-level character. I got an even lower-level character, and we teamed up, doing my missions. Near the end we switched to talking, mainly about characters and story ideas. I'm delighted to discover he writes, too, and enjoys brainstorming, as well. Eventually we said goodnight, and I did what exercises I could, plus a little City of Heroes: Homecoming paperwork and writing notes to write this up from. {Smile}