Thursday, I ate lunch as well as dinner with Mom. {Smile}
Friday, I did call Alan to arrange to take Val to the vet next Wednesday and take me to pick him up the next day. That's the next chance to get an echocardiogram for Val, and they offered to board him when they learned I'd have trouble taking him in that morning, between late rising and a counselling appointment, though my counselor was happy to reschedule if needed. {smile}
On Friday I ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. I read scripture and thoughts about it first. Next, I read a Christmas card from our friend, and a Thanksgiving card from church. Then, I showed several pages of pictures in _A Picture Book of kids and Animals_. She seems particularly interested in kids interacting with animals. After that, I read her a short story, a poem, and slightly longer story from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. I finished with "Nick and Brownie," The 13th of October's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. Nick took his puppy, Brownie for a walk in the woods. They saw a hare. Nick tried to stand still to not scare it, but Brownie ran at it, barking, and the hare bounded away. Then they found a lizard. Brownie wagged his tail and sniffed it, and it hid. Nick consoled Brownie, and suggested looking for horse chestnuts, since they were under a tree. He filled his pocket. Suddenly Brownie gave a yelp, picked something up very carefully, and brought it to Nick. Nick told him that while it looked like a baby hedgehog, it was really a chestnut shell. {Smile}
After teaming with Kitten and qworty in the evening, I did my arm resistance exercises, my walking exercises, and my standing arm weight training exercises. Then I did my salsa dancing warm-up set, and noticed my balance seems relatively good today. I did my full less structured set after a rest for over 20 minutes of salsa dancing total. {Smile}
I read articles and comics in the morning and hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming after cleaning myself up after lunch. I quickly found Perogies and Kitten, and we tried to team up on warshades. However, but Kitten faded out. I did team with Perogies on our warshades, and added Meroa, too, though they brought a different kind of character. We did two or three missions, though Perogies was afraid he was too tired for the last one. The last mission ended just before a costume contest Perogies wanted to catch, and woke him up enough, he did try entering the contest. He didn't place, but there were lots of entries, and only five places. Those who did win got good prizes; it was sponsored by a group that makes a point of that with their contests. This took us up to time to read to Mom. {Smile}
After dinner, I found notes from Kitten saying they'd fallen asleep again. After my phone call with Alan, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. As I hoped to, I found kitten, and we teamed up on our warshades. We did a few missions, and qworty said hi. I invited him to join us and apologized for not saying hi and inviting them to join us sooner, but he said he was in a task force earlier. Somewhere along the line, I started chatting with Nox on the chat server. I think we had a nice talk this evening. Kitten, qworty, and I ran a few more missions until I had one more mission for the story arc... and just enough time to either do that or do some of my other exercises before my salsa dancing. Qworty excused themselves, saying they were too tired, but assuring us we could continue without him. Kitten said I needed to exercise, so we switched to talking on the chat server, which I did enjoy. I also read some comics, and did some stuff in preparation to read more, since some I read these days require you to do things to "unlock" them. It could be as simple as waiting, but then they lock them back up after a few days, so I do the slightly more complicated stuff to unlock them permanently. I also did some paperwork on City of Heroes: Homecoming. {Smile}
