Saturday, I had a quiet day at home. I didn't even have any notable phone calls. {Smile}
On Saturday I ate breakfast and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. I started with scripture and thoughts about it first. Then I continued with three Christmas cards from her nephew one each from two of her cousins. Then, I showed the last several pages of pictures in _A Picture Book of kids and Animals_. She does like the pictures of kids interacting with animals. Next, I read her four short stories from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. Last, I finished with "The Giraffe," The 14th of October's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. A tall giraffe lived in a zoo, far from the land where she was born, and caught at a young age. Her keeper was kind, and her enclosure was big enough to walk around, and had a tree in it, but she was lonely, and missed the hot countryside she had been used to. One night, a monkey escaped his cage, and got into her enclosure, where she slept in a shelter. the monkey begged her to let him stay, and also to tell him about her homeland, for he'd been born in the zoo, and his parents had come from the giraffe's homeland. They talked long into the night, and then the giraffe helped him find a hollow stump to hide in. She never felt lonely again. {Smile}
I did my head exercises and my walking exercises before doing my salsa dancing warm-up set. Then, after a rest, I did my less-structured salsa dancing set. That added up to over 20 minutes of salsa dancing tonight. {Smile}
In the morning, I finished and shared yesterday's daily update after breakfast. Then I read comics, one of two web-novels I'm reading, and more clickbait articles than I like to be honest. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming a while after lunch. I found Kitten on, and learned I'd missed Perogies. Kitten and I teamed up and started doing missions together. Meroa said hi, and I invited them to join us. Azurette started talking next, and I asked if they'd like to join, and they did. Then Perogies came on and said hi, and I added him, too. We kept doing missions the whole time, except for pausing to handle a surprisingly short zombie invasion. We picked up another team member, who I added as a new friend by the end of the afternoon. Next, qworty and I talked a little, and he joined us as well. I actually gained a couple of levels over the course of the afternoon. That had me reach my personal goal. When Kitten and Perogies are both ready to play, we can continue with the next warshade story arc, but I didn't do it today. I was too close to dinner, and Perogies was tired enough to head to bed. He is several hours ahead of me, after all. {Smile}
After dinner, I read one of the web-novels, and did a few other things, including feeding the cat. Then I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. Perogies was nowhere to be seen, nor was Kitten. qworty and Azurette were both on, as was Meroa, so I started talking to them, or tried to. Qworty was busy, and soon fell quiet. Azurette was willing to talk, as was Meroa. Azurette wanted to show me the changes to her base, and didn't mind if Meroa joined us, so we did that first. Kitten came on and mewed at me, so I asked if they could join us, and they did. I also chatted with Nox on the chat server a bit. Eventually Meroa left, and I asked if we could do some missions, so we did a couple. Qworty finally finished what they were doing and joined us after we'd started the missions. Then we broke so I could do some exercises, though talking slowed me down for a while. I didn't want to leave when Azurette and qworty were distinctly lower level than the zone they were in. While I led, they were near my level, but when i left, they'd change. Finally, I prepared to leave without leaving them in a lurch, and somehow, we finished breaking up. {Smile}
