Monday, August 28, 2023

Daily Update, August 27, 2023

    Today was Sunday, so I called Uber, and a fellow came and took me to church. i got lucky; he was pretty close, and I go there shortly before the service started, even though I got started later than I'd like. Though that's mainly because I'm often less lucky about them being close. {Smile}

   I sat with Auntie Barbara, and we enjoyed morning prayer. That's a traditional service int he Episcopal church, which ours is, but these days we rarely use it unless we don't have a priest. Since ours is still on maternity leave, that happened. WE expect a supply priest again next week. {Smile}

   After the service, I sat with Auntie Barbara and some others for lunch. Then Auntie Barbara took me home, and came in to visit with Mom, and with me, too. {Smile}

   I did try to call Aunt Valerie three times after Auntie Barbara left, but she must have been busy. She was not answering her phone. I did leave a message the first time, and after the third call, I called our former nurse. We had a nice long chat, which was great. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I read scripture and thoughts about it first. I read the next part of her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2021 after that. Next, I showed her the last few pages in _A Picture Book of Cute Kittens vol. 1_, saying a bit about each kitty or group of kitties. Then I read a story, a few fairly short poems, and a longer poem from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. I finished with the August 27th story, "Rudy is Lost," from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. Rudy, a very young Kangaroo got out of his mother's pouch for the very first time and went exploring. He found a koala bear who asked if his mother knew he was alone. Rudy lied, saying he did this often. Then a parrot warned about a sandstorm, but Rudy got lost in it... until his mother found him and put him back to bed in her pouch. {Smile}

   I did the three walking exercises that don't use the railing after the evening taskforce. I slipped my arm resistance exercises in between the two sets of salsa dancing. Yes, I did over 20 minutes of salsa dancing, starting with the warmup set, then doing the lass structured set later, as is my habit. I did my arm swinging exercises, head exercises, and two of the 6 arm weight training exercises, both sitting, before it got too late after the salsa dancing. {Smile}

   After the phone calls, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I did a little bit of paperwork, then joined the early long, large-group event not long after it started on a character which I hope will become a ranked badge collector but isn't yet. I did the paperwork that produced, too, then joined Perogies. We chatted and ran some missions until they got tired and left. Then it was more paperwork until it was time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   I came back on after dinner to news that Ulty had another early night. I hopped into City of Heroes, and said hi to Mysty, but she was just leaving. So did some badge hunting on my third-best badge collector until I was truly tired of it. At that point, I noticed a task force advertising, so I joined it on the hopefully soon to be ranked badge collector. That went pretty well. I did some paperwork and exercise after that. Then Perogies came on and said hi. We started chatting and teamed up for a couple of missions. Then I did my salsa dancing and what other exercise I got done. After the salsa dancing, along with the other exercise, I did paperwork, joined a group that was taking down a giant monster, and wrote most of this up, leaving only a little for the next morning. {Smile}