Daily Update, August 14, 2023

 Today, I looked at a notice I got just too late to deal with near the beginning of the weekend and got on the phone with an insurance company of Dad's. One long phone call later, I filled out a form, and discovered the mailman was in our driveway, so I rushed out to give him the envelope. I hope I didn't forget anything in filling out the form, but probably I didn't. {Smile} I was tired enough after that, I figured I'd done enough for one day. A similar project or two can wait. {Smile}

I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I read scripture and thoughts about it first. I continued with two Christmas Cards from the nursing company, a birthday card from church, and a Mother's Day card from her sister next. Then, I showed Mom the covers and title pages of _1940's Memory Lane, reading her the blurb then I continued with the first few pages of that book, reading a passage and the captions of the pictures. After that, I read a few illustrated poems from _Mother Goose Treasury_, starting with two long ones I knew the tunes to, so I sang, and then a couple shorter ones I didn't try to sing. I finished with the August 14th story, "The Bumble Bee," from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. Carolyn was out in the garden with her mother when she complained that she was hot. Her mother suggested she get a peach from the kitchen. She did and got scared by a bumble bee who popped out. Her mother assured her they don't sting, suggesting the bee might be hot, too. {Smile}

I did my walking exercises, arm swinging exercises, and leg exercises after the taskforce and paperwork that followed. Then I did over 20 minutes of salsa dancing in two sets, one the warmup set, and the other a less structured set. Then I did my arm resistance exercises, head exercises, and standing arm weight training exercises, and two of my four sitting arm weight training. No, not quite all... but I actually might have done my head and/or arm resistance exercises twice, so that might compensate? {Smile}

I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming over lunch to do some paperwork. Kitten messaged me just as I was getting ready to leave to clean myself up. So, I cleaned myself up, then messaged Kitten, and hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. Perogies messaged me not long after I got in, and we teamed up. We were just getting going when Kitten came back in. The three of us worked things out so we could all team up and run a few missions together. Then Perogies left, and Ulty said hi. Kitten and I got together with Ulty. I changed to a low-level character around the level of hers. We teamed up for a couple of missions before it was time to read to Mom.

After dinner, I hoped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming, and didn't see anyone immediately to team with. Things looked quiet, too, so when someone advertised a low-level task force, I volunteered. Turned out Mollymauk, my friend who streams, was running it. It was a nice, chatty group, though I was disappointed when I had to turn down Phonso's invitation to do a task force. We were a few missions in, but the taskforce I was running is known to be long, so we had a few to go still. After the taskforce, I did some paperwork. I was just ready to start my exercises when Kitten came in and said hi. I apologetically said I had to exercise, so I couldn't team. Really wish I'd made the exercises wait. After salsa dancing, Kitten was busy with a team... I think with a taskforce Molly had just started. So, I did more exercises, and worked on writing this. Then I started to join Mollymauk, but pulled out to join Kitten for a couple of missions instead. Then I made notes to finish writing this the next day. {Smile}