Val is home and doing okay. but more of that in Monday's update. This is Sunday's update, and he wasn't home yet on Sunday. {SMILE}
Today was Sunday, so after breakfast, I contacted Uber, and a nice, chatty guy I've ridden with several times came and took me to church. I didn't have to wait long at all; in fact, I only had time for my head exercises before he came. We had a nice talk all the way there. {Smile}
I got there early enough to visit with a couple of friends, as well as prepare the hymnal for the service. It really helps to get the bookmarks set up for the hymns before the service. It was a nice service. Auntie Barbara was busy with the Sunday School, so she didn't come sit with me until after communion. We sat together for lunch after the service. I will miss her; she's going home for over a month to visit long-time friends and family back in South Carolina. Her husband is staying here, as is his habit, so the house won't be empty. {Smile}
She took me home and visited with Mom. She mentioned how odd it seems to not have Valentine at home when we get there. Yes, it is odd, but I hope things will return to normal soon. {Smile}
I apparently missed a call from the veterinarian herself, but she left a message on my cell phone's voicemail. She assures me he's eating fairly normally, and while he's still not quite back to normal, they hope he will be ready to go home tomorrow. {Smile}
I did call my aunt Valerie after Auntie Barbara left. She even talked with Mom a little, though Mom stopped responding and started just listening after a few questions, so Aunt Valerie stopped. It wasn't long, but they did get to talk. And I talked with her both before and after she talked with Mom, so we got a nice chat. {Smile}
I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Then I continued with the last of her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2020. Next I showed her the next several pages in _the Picture Book of Vintage Vogue_, with its pictures of old Vogue magazine covers from the early 1900's. This time I tried to read the full date, though one didn't have a date, and some it was so tiny, I couldn't make it out. She woke up for it again, and enjoyed the pictures, too. After that, I read a short story and a few poems from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. I finished with _Baby Kiki_, the September 17th story from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. Bertha, the mother kangaroo was going to visit Granny Kangaroo, but she was afraid it would take her all day just to get there, because she was moving so slowly. Granny Kangaroo saw her and asked why she was moving so slow. Was she sick? No, it was baby Kiki, who insisted on staying in the pouch as the baby of the family, even though he was getting big and heavy. It made moving around, especially travelling, hard. He told Granny he got blisters on his feet and liked it in there. Granny made him colorful striped socks. Then Kiki was out all day, showing them off to his friends. {Smile}
I did my head exercises while waiting for Uber to come take me to church, and I did my arm swinging exercises after church, while waiting for Auntie Barbara to take me home. I did my walking exercises while waiting for the evening task force to start. Then I did my arm resistance exercises and leg exercises after the evening trial, when the second trial fell through. I did my salsa dancing at the usual time, first the warmup set, then the less structured set, for over 20 minutes of it. After that, I did my standing arm weight training exercises after a little rest after my salsa dancing. {Smile}
I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming after calling Aunt Valerie. There, as I tried to start some paperwork, Perogies called me to hurry to join the early short, large-group event. I did, and ran it, and got the rewards I hoped for, as well as the ones I knew I'd get. Then I think he had to leave. I got some paperwork done, but not much before Kitten came in. They mentioned being frustrated about getting behind on the new low levels we three all have. I got mine out, and we started running Kitten's missions to help them catch up. Perogies came back in and joined us. Then Meroa came in and joined us, too. We ran a few missions together. Then Meroa left. Perogies, Kitten and I kept going until it got close to time to read to Mom. {Smile}
When I came back, Kitten was on, but not the others... but kitten was quiet. They'd fallen asleep. I found a low-level taskforce and found a character who needed it. After that, a low-level trial advertised, and I jumped into it. When it was done, the leader was going to run it again. I asked if I could switch. He said yes, and I made the switch pretty fast, but they were gone when I got back. However, as I was trying to figure out what to do next, Kitten woke up, and we started talking. We teamed up, running a few missions. I chatted with Nox briefly on the chat server, since I didn't remember until they were almost ready for bed. I did tell them the news that Val was better, at least. I kept teaming with Kitten until it was time for salsa dancing. I interspersed writing this and paperwork with the dancing and exercise, and with chatting with Kitten on the chat server after the dancing. Yes, I made notes to finish writing this up the next day. {Smile}
