Today was Sunday, so after breakfast, I contacted Uber, and a driver came to take me to church. It was one I haven't seen in a while, and we had a lovely talk all the way down, catching up. {Smile}
She got me there during the announcements, so I got all the main parts of the service. Our priest was back today - her first day back since she started maternity leave late in her pregnancy. I didn't see the baby today, but I saw lots of animals, because it was the day we honor Saint Francis, and part of that is blessing the animals.
We didn't have much to eat, but we had lots of peanuts. Some of mine were left over, along with a few of the snack bars, and I brought the other bottle of peanuts. Folks seemed to like them. At the end, someone poured the last of the old bottle into the new one, so they didn't have to worry about two bottles. {Smile}
Ed asked if I had a ride. When I said not yet, he took me home. It was really fun talking to him on the way. {Smile}
I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I started with scripture and thoughts about it. I only read today's entry, since I finally caught up with my readings. After that, I continued reading Mom's niece's long family Christmas letter from 2019. Then, I showed her the next several pages of _The Picture Book of Kids and Animals_. Next, I read a story and a few poems from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. Yes, I'm finally back to that book. I ended with today's story, "Training Rex," from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. Rex, a big, boisterous puppy, greeted his friend, Patsy, the poodle next door. Rex was confused by his mater's behavior. He'd started taking Rex for walks on short leads, shouting "Heel!" frequently, and never letting Rex pull ahead, or sniff interesting smells. He wondered why his master did that. Patsy wondered if he was afraid an enemy would attack and wanted Rex to protect him. His master also threw a stick and called "Fetch!" Rex sat down and looked at him when he didn't understand. His mater then picked up Rex, took him to the stick, put it in his mouth, and made him bring it back. Patsy said her mistress liked to throw sticks for her to bring back, too, but she didn't mind because her mistress was very kind. Rex agreed his master was kind, then went when he heard the whistle that calls him to dinner, still puzzled. {Smile}
I did my head exercises while waiting for Uber to come get me and take me to church. I did my arm resistance exercises, my walking exercises, and my arm swinging exercises after teaming with Kitten in the evening. Then I did both of the pieces I did yesterday back-to-back for 6 1/2 minutes of salsa dancing at once. I was so excited, I told Kitten immediately, since they were the only friend who I thought was up. Then I tried more after a rest and did the third salsa warmup piece and the first less structured salsa piece back-to-back. I told Kitten about that too. They congratulated me each time. {SMILE}
I had a bit more lunch when I got home. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. Kitten wasn't there, or responding much on the chat server, but Perogies was there. We joined the early, short, large-group event together, then the early long, large-group event. Then we teamed up, doing a couple of the individual high-level missions with good rewards. Then I switched to a slightly lower-level character and did one of his missions. Then Perogies said he was tired and left so quickly that Kitten - who was just getting on - missed him entirely. Kitten was pretty upset. They're quite excited about their warshade, and wanted to get at least a level. We waited for Perogies, but he was definitely gone to bed, so I suggested we team up, and we started the next arc in the zone, doing the first two missions and a talk that followed before it was time to read to Mom. {Smile}
After dinner, I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. Perogies was still not there, but Kitten was eager to continue, so we did the third and last mission, and the talk that followed that. Then we started the next story arc, which is the last for that zone. The first two missions were straight-forward. Then there's a set of four missions that are done one after another. We got three of them done before I felt I needed to stop and exercise. We did chat on the chat server afterwards, and they congratulated me when I told them how much the dancing improved over yesterday. {SMILE}
