On Saturday, the nursing company secretary came after lunch. It was nice to see her. We didn't talk much this time, but she did check that I was happy. {Smile}
A while later, my main nurse took me to Prince Kuhio Plaza. We walked to the center, where I heard oriental drumming and gongs. I looked round and found two Chinese Lions dancing in front of GNC and a clothing store next to it, one lion per store.
They danced around, and collected a small red paper hung above each door. Then they went into the stores, dancing around, circling inside. I believe the papers are small red envelopes containing cash, and the dance performed while collecting them is supposed to bring luck by Oriental tradition. At least if my vague memories of a news story from when a Honolulu Lion Dance team placed in an Oriental competition are correct. {Smile}
The music was very loud. I approved of one gal playing gongs while wearing industrial strength ear protectors, like you see on airport runways. I used to do that while playing flute in the high school band, myself. Trust me that if you want ear protectors while playing music, you can hear the music fine with them on. I ended up turning my hearing aids down after I'd admired her for a while. {Smile}
The lions moved on from the first two stores, skipping a store where I couldn't spot a red paper, and teaming up to do one more store that did have a paper. While they were dancing inside the third store, two children with a smaller lion costume began dancing outside the store, apparently waiting for the larger lions to come out again. When both larger lions were outside with the smaller one, they danced over to the central part of the plaza, where they danced a little more in a kind of finale. I loved getting to see a lion dance like that. {SMILE}
My nurse and I then went on. walking around more of the Plaza until we reached Enjoy Comics, the comic store I like. They were having a Chinese New Year sale. I browsed a long time, finally picking out two books, both on sale. I chatted with the owner, mentioning I'd learned that a distant cousin frequents his store, too. {Smile}
Then my main nurse and I walked back to the car. He did a couple errands on the way home, encouraging me to wait in the car, where I read comics and napped. {Smile}
My main exercise was walking part way around Prince Kuhio Plaza. I also did some abdominal tucking and pelvic floor tucking. {Smile}
After breakfast, I browsed the web and played Cross Stitch World right through the morning and over lunch. Then the nursing company's secretary came to visit. After she left, I played a little more Cross Stitch World before we went to Prince Kuhio Plaza. I read web comics on my computer when I got back from Prince Kuhio Plaza. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming and started on paperwork. I found Kitten, and we teamed up. We did some missions together. Pierogies joined us partway through. Pierogies and I said goodnight when I left for dinner. {Smile}
After dinner, I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I did some paperwork, then broke to write up Friday's daily update. Then I went back to City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I did more paperwork before I found Kitten. We teamed up and started doing my missions. Dr. Faustus joined us. After a mission or two of mine together, Dr. Faustus spotted a strike force being advertised. We joined it and discovered we had too much for one team. We made two smaller, not full teams, and did the same strike force at the same time. My team ended first, despite starting slightly later. Then both teams split up. Dr. Faustus, Kitten, and I got back together to run more of my missions. Dragons joined us, then asked if their friend could, too, which I was happy to facilitate. after a couple more missions, TheCyberChill asked for help just as we started a mission. We joined up after we finished my mission, and TheCyberChill finished a mission they'd started in the meantime. WE did a few of TheCyberChill's missions. Then Dr. Faustus left. After another mission or two, Dragons and their friend left. Then Kitten went quiet and faded out, and after that, the team broke up. So, I did some paperwork, and made notes and wrote in this, with a break to read a comic. {Smile}
