Daily Update, August 6, 2023

    Today was Sunday, so after breakfast, I contacted Uber, and a nice, chatty driver took me to church. It was later than I like, but the car was only a few minutes away, so I still got there before the first hymn. I sat with Auntie Barbara, who was sitting with a family she's adopted much the way she's adopted me. There's a mother who brings two little boys to church. I occasionally hear about the husband and father, but I don't think I've met him, and he and his wife have different, full work schedules, so one of them can watch the boys when the other can't. {Smile}

   I sat with Auntie Barbara during lunch, and we had a nice chat with the others around us. Then we went to the car, and I called Safeway to see if a prescription was ready. It was, as were two more, but they were almost to their lunch break. Auntie Barbara suggested picking them up later this afternoon... if I hadn't been so busy, I would have. {smile}

   Anyway, Auntie Barbara took me home, and came into visit with Mom. We sang a few songs, and, since Auntie Barbara had asked about the song and finger game, and since our main nurse had been off when it happened, and wasn't now, I told them about the song she'd remembered three of four lines of. It was "the Itsy-Bitsy Spider." Auntie Barbara wanted to sing it today, and with auntie Barbara leading, Mom remembered all four lines. {SMILE}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Then I continued her niece's long family Christmas letter from last year. Next, I showed Mom the front and back covers of _Movie Stars: Memory Lane_, reading the back cover, then reading and showing her the first few pages of that book. After that, I read some poems from _Mother Goose Treasury_. I tried to sing because it was a song I used to know, but I could not remember the melody well enough to sing it. I finished with the August 6th story, "Where's the Wolf?" from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. A rabbit was waiting for his otter friend, who was late. Looking out the window, he spotted his old enemy, a fox. He got dressed up in a wolf skin, and scared the fox away when he answered the door in it. Then his otter friend came, and he got scared away when the rabbit opened the door still wearing the wolfskin. {Smile}

   I did my walking exercises, leg exercises, arm resistance exercises, and arm swinging exercises right after did. I did both my standing and sitting arm weight training shortly after with the new, adjustable weights, once I'd gotten them adjusted, and while waiting for Kitten to be free. I did my head exercises when Kitten still wasn't free. Yes, I did over 20 minutes of salsa dancing, including both warmup and less structured dancing. {Smile}

   After I saw Auntie Barbara up, I cleaned myself up. Then I hopped online and finished yesterday's daily update and shared it. Then I read a minimum of comics to catch up with that and hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. There, I found Ulty and Kitten eager to team up. As I was arranging to team with both of them, Perogies came in and wanted to join, too. We did, and chatted a bit, especially Ulty, Perogies, and I. Perogies asked if a friend of theirs could join, and I added them, too. Then we teamed up for the rest of my afternoon, running missions together, and chatting both in-character as roleplay, and out-of-character, as just us. We went right up to when I broke to read to Mom. Ulty did warn me that she probably wouldn't be on after my dinner, because she had an early morning. {Smile}

   After dinner and most of my exercises, I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I found Kitten, but I didn't notice they'd said hi at first, and by the time I did notice, they were halfway through a closed arc. We tried to catch each other when it ended, but I was so busy doing exercises while I waited, my character looked inactive when Kitten tried to talk to me, so they joined another round, which filled before I knew about it. So, we had to wait again. This time, after I finished my exercises, I collected badges on my third best badge collector to make sure she was active. This did help Kitten and I get together, though we dithered a bit to both of our frustration before figuring out what we wanted to do. We ended up doing a story arc I had that I think had reset to the beginning at some point. Then we did a few missions of another story arc I had, until it was time for me to exercise. I missed talking to Nox on the chat server, but Kitten and I chatted on the chat server between my sets of exercise. {Smile}