Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Daily Update, May 21, 2024

    On Tuesday, shortly after breakfast, the ride I'd arranged yesterday arrived It took me down to the monthly meeting - not a picnic this month - which got going shortly after I got there. After a while, the meeting moved to the kitchen, where we had a long, chatty lunch. Then it was back to the meeting room after that, for a bit more talk before we adjourned, and they took me home. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. She was awake when I got there and stayed awake, looking the pictures, and sometimes responding. First, I began my reading with scripture and thoughts about it. After that, I read four cards: an Easter card from her cousin, birthday cards from a friend and church, and a Christmas card from her sister. Next, I read the last few pages from (the other) _The Picture Book of Babies_. Only one baby in a costume, and only if you count a pumpkin bib... but that wasn't a regular bib; it was too pumpkin-like. I showed her the next book I picked, _Picture Book Babies_ right after that. Then I read "Undercover Princess," starting _5-minute Disney Junior Stories_. I ended with the 21st of May's "Igor's Pipe," from _366 Stories for Bedtime_. {Smile}

   I did my walking exercises between reading to Mom and dinner. Then I did my salsa dancing warmup set after teaming. After a break, I did the first piece of my less structured salsa dancing set, but I was unsteady enough, I had to treat the vertigo. Unfortunately, it was too late to do more afterwards. {small smile}

   After I got back, I played Cross Stitch World, then wrote up Monday's daily update. Next, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. There, I teamed up with Kitten. After a couple of mission, first bowlofdro, then Pierogies, and lastly Dennis joined us. bowlofdro was the first to leave, then Pierogies. the others continued doing missions until it was time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I cleaned myself up. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I chatted with Ulty, bowlofdro, and Shepherd int he game, and Nox on the chat server. None were free to play for a while, so I worked on paperwork, then more active badge collecting. Eventually, Shepherd was ready to play, since he'd been busy with paperwork of his own for a fair while. We teamed up and did some stuff from one of my contacts. Then I showed him how to do some of my favorite story arcs on the character he had, since he'd just outlevelled the first two of a four part set before we started to play tonight. Then I started dancing, watching videos and playing Cross Stitch World in between. I also talked with Kitten a little on the chat server and did some paperwork on City of Heroes: Homecoming. I also wrote a little more of this and made lots of notes to write from the next day. {Smile}