I had a quieter day than yesterday, thankfully. Val has thrown up two or three times, with the repeats too late to call the vet, and they're what convinced me I need to. So, I'll have to do that tomorrow. {resigned look}
A short text conversation with the nursing company made me more confident that I can continue to do as I did yesterday. {Smile}
The other notable thing that happened was getting to talk to our former nurse on the phone. It seemed to involve a few phone calls, at least one because he had to take care of something, and at least one because we got cut off. I'm not sure for at least one more. It all added up to one nice, long conversation, though. I did enjoy talking to him again. {Smile}
I ate lunch and dinner with Mom today and I read to her before dinner, too. the nursing company decided it was okay as long as I masked up while reading and kept my distance while eating. I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Since I'm still catching up, I started with Sunday, September 24th's entry, then read today, Thursday the 28th's entry. Next, I read a birthday card from her sister, and a birthday card from me, too. Then, I skipped the picture books again, and read a story from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. Last, I ended with two stories from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. The first was _The Rhubarb Leaves_, the September 24th story. A fine, strong rhubarb plant stood in the garden, sad that people pulled out the plants, cut the stems off to use in puddings and pies, and throw the leaves away. Then the sky went dark, and rain began to fall. A bee, a butterfly, and a marmalade kitten all took refuge from the rain under the rhubarb leaves. They were happy to be useful at last. The second story was actually a poem called _Three Little Ducks_, about three little ducks who strayed from home, made noise, and then went back to their nest when they got tired. {Smile}
After the evening play in City of Heroes: Homecoming, I did my head exercises, arm swinging exercises, arm resistance exercises, and walking exercises. Those all went well, and up to speed with no trouble for the first time since I got sick. So, I tried salsa dancing. That was up to speed because not keeping up with the music isn't really an option, but I got winded during the first piece, and simply had to sit and rest. That was around 3 minutes and 10 seconds. At first, I hoped I could break it up, and at least finish my warmup that way, but after a while, I realized that was a bit ambitious for my first day dancing again. So, I did my leg exercises, my standing arm weight training exercises, and my sitting arm weight training exercises. I figured that was enough. My leg exercises were also up to speed. The weight training exercises are deliberately slowed down, so I can't say that about them. {Smile}
I read articles and caught up on comics in the morning and after lunch. One of the sites I read comics on malfunctioned yesterday and part of the day before, so I caught up today. I also chatted by text with Ulty a bit. Then our former nurse's phone call pulled me away from that. When that was done, I cleaned myself up, and read some of the longer comics before hopping into City of Heroes: Homecoming. There, it was a little late for the later short, large group event, but Perogies came on, and we joined the later long, large group with time to spare. We ran that whole event, which as usual ended where I had just barely more time than I needed for the paperwork it produced before reading to Mom. {Smile}
After dinner, I checked in City of Heroes: Homecoming. Not seeing anyone I particularly like to hang out with, I a new comic. I was interested at first, but just a few issues, and I'm losing interest. Unlike a manga-style comic book I'm falling in love with and read when i eat with Mom, and when I'm out. Yes, the one I talked about yesterday, _The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife_. Then I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I did a little paperwork, and noticed someone advertising a giant monster, so I joined them. We took it down after a team had gotten together. Then one who'd done it advertised another giant monster. I joined, and this time stuck around, and we got two more giant monsters before splitting up for real. I also started talking with Nox on the chat world, and we had a nice, long text conversation. The monster-hunting team paused long enough at one point that I'd started to join another team doing a particular kind of individual missions before they started up again. When they really quit, I did join that team with the individual missions. We did several missions together before they broke up. Then I did a little paperwork before stating on my exercises, with comic reading and writing this in between, and later paperwork on City of Heroes: Homecoming, too. Then I slipped in one high level individual mission and continued to write this part-time. Then Perogies said hi, and we started to talk. Eventually, he started doing a mission for the stuff you can get from it and let me sit in while I finished this. I had to share it in the morning, though. {Smile}
