Daily Update, August 18, 2023

    Today was quiet, except for a couple of phone calls. The first was from our former nurse before lunch. He'd thought we might get together today, but he had to call off. We'll try again soon. Beyond that, we chatted a bit. {Smile}

   The second phone call was from Auntie Barbara, later than I expected from her, but plenty early enough for me. It was nice chatting with her. We'll be meeting at church on Sunday as usual. she is likely to be with the Sunday school during the service, but we can sit together at lunch. {Smile}

   I ate breakfast, lunch and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner, only slightly late. I started with scripture and thoughts about it first. Next, I continued with a Christmas letter from a friend, and a birthday card from her sister. Then I started The Calming Cat Book, showing her the cover, and the first few pages. She wasn't as interested in it, so I switched to the last few illustrated poems from _Mother Goose Treasury_. Then I started reading 365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes. I tried the first story, but again she wasn't as interested in it, so I read a few short poems that followed. She liked them better. I finished with the August 18th story, "A Sunshine Song," from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. Sally loved to sing and learned all the nursery rhymes set to music by heart. Her mother suggested she make up new words to an old song, so she came up with a song about the sunny summer holidays set to Sing a Song of Sixpence. {Smile}

   Okay, I did over 20 minutes of salsa dancing, including both warmup and less structured dancing, but I got so dizzy during the less structured dancing, I'm taking a break from most of my other exercises. I did my arm resistance exercises and my sitting arm weight training exercises, but the walking exercises, the leg exercises, the arm swinging exercises, and head exercises are meant to challenge my balance, and even the standing arm weight training was not handing it well, so I stopped near the beginning. I don't think now is a good time for any of them. {rueful smile}

   I read articles and comics in the morning, then hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. Perogies and Ulty both left as I was settling in, so I started by teaming with Kitten. We finished the story arc where we each had a character who couldn't join other teams until they were done. When we were done, they said they were tired, and went quiet, eventually timing out. So, I some paperwork, much of it rather complicated and to be honest boring. I happily left it for some other time when Perogies came back on, and we teamed up for a few missions. Ulty came on just as I was leaving to read to Mom, but we did say hi. {Smile}

   I came back on after dinner and teamed up with Ulty for a couple of missions. Kitten joined us during the first one, and stayed to do a few more, with a pause because they fell asleep when I took too long choosing my next mission. I made sure to keep moving. I said goodnight to Nox on the chat server, both of us having forgotten to start talking while we had time to chat. Kitten and I did chat a bit on the chat server. I also chatted a little with an acquaintance there. {Smile}