Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Daily Update, July 22, 2024

    On Monday, Auntie Barbara called. The thing with the church's supper day camp was done for her, though the kids were staying much later. So, she wanted to come up to the house in a few minutes. I told the nurse and got myself ready. {Smile}

   She came to visit soon, coming inside to visit with Mom. we sang several songs with her, including one of two that I've found she still remembers. Afterwards, Auntie Barbara mentioned sitting outside, but I mentioned going with them to Safeway, which is on the way out of town back to the part of island they live. Auntie Barbara decided we should do that instead. {Smile}

   So, we got into the car, as did Michelle, who was waiting outside as usual when she's with Auntie Barbara. The three of us drove down the hill, Michelle doing the actual driving. We were talking the whole way. I even mentioned near the end how happy I was to finally get a good talk with Michelle. Between her only recently coming back to church, and her tendency to stay outside when we are inside, and by the lemon trees when we're in the carport, it's been a while since we've actually talked.  

   Auntie Barbara came into Safeway to do her own shopping, but we spl9it up pretty quickly inside. I picked up some vegetables and a couple of prescriptions that would get old before the nurse got back.  When I was done, I contacted Uber, and a new driver came and took me home. I think we chatted pretty much the whole way home. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and tried to read to her beforehand. however, she was sleeping, and not easy to wake. I started with scripture and thoughts about it first. Then I tried to read her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2022. Not far in, Mom woke up to cough out some phlegm. It was good in that the nurse was trying to get it up, and it did come up, but it stopped the reading. I'll have to try again tomorrow. {smile}

   I did my arm resistance exercises, my arm swinging exercises, and my leg exercises after dinner. Then I did my head exercises and started my sitting arm weight training exercises when the roleplaying slowed down. I finished the sitting arm weight training exercises after the roleplaying broke up, going more steadily. Then I did my salsa dancing warmup. After a break, I did my less structured salsa dancing set for a little over 20 minutes. I did my standing arm weight training after a short break. {Smile}

   After breakfast, I read articles until Auntie Barbara came. After I came back from Safeway, I browsed on Amazon. I also had lunch. Later, I played Cross Stitch World and read comics. then I wrote up Sunday's daily update before I cleaned myself up. Afterwards, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I teamed up with Pierogies. We got on moderately low-level characters - not the really little ones we'd been on the past couple of days - and did two moderately low missions of his, a typical length one, and a long one. Dennis came in just in time to say goodnight to Pierogies. Dennis and I did a quick hunt before we said goodnight, and left to attempt to read to Mom, but that didn't work out that day. {smile}

   After dinner, I did some exercises and started writing this up. Then I hopped into City of heroes: Homecoming. I said hi to Ulty and Jenny's player, and joined them in light role-play, visiting them two of their characters and some of their friends. I also talked with Nox on the chat server for a while. The role-playing lasted until exercise time. So, I exercised and danced salsa next. Then I watched videos before doing more salsa dancing. After that, I read comics and hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming for a fast hunt and some quick paperwork. Then I wrote a little more of this and made notes to write from the next day. {Smile}