I called our priest and got her today. I told her about two plaques I remembered being on pews, but couldn't find: one for Mom's mother, and the other for Dad's father. She took down their names carefully. I told her I'd be willing to give a donation if it came to replacing them, but I also admitted that I hoped it wouldn't be expensive as the first donation, since they are replacements. {smile}
Our deacon came to visit. We chatted, and prayed, and she gave us home communion. That's a service for the shut-ins who can't get to church, which includes Mom. They're trying to do it every two weeks now. She and another gal who does this will switch off next month, so everyone can see different faces. Training might bring more people into this program after that. {Smile}
I got a brief call from Auntie Barbara, and another brief call from our former nurse. It was nice hearing from each of them. {Smile}
I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I think her eyes were open a bit more than yesterday, though she did close them at times. I began with scripture and thoughts about it first. Then I finished her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2021, followed by a brief birthday car from her other sister that I found last night. Mom does enjoy hearing her cards. Next, I read a couple of pages from _Music Stars 1940-1960 Memory Lane_. Then I read a few poems and a story from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. Then I finished with the 14th of November's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "The Flying Dog." Patch's master had his own small plane which he flew most weekends. If he was only going for a short flight, he took Patch along, and let him run around while. Patch was well-behaved, and other pilots let him jump in their planes and pretend to fly. Patch really wanted to fly in his mater's plane, but his master thought that was too dangerous for a dog. One day, while his master was talking to the man in the tower, Patch saw his chance. He hopped into the plane and hid. Soon the engine started up. They took off down the runway and took flight. Patch was excited to be up in the air at last. He tried sitting up, but the wind was too strong, so he got back under the seat and stayed there. Patch's master was surprised when he saw Patch jump out. "Brave dog!" he patted Patch. {Smile}
I did my walking exercises, my leg exercises, and my arm swinging exercises after I finished teaming for the evening. Then I did my salsa dancing warmup set. Next, I took a break. After that, I did my les structured salsa dancing set. I found new ways to mix it up a bit, too. then after a shorter break, I did my arm resistance exercises, my two standing arm weight training exercises, my head exercises, and one of my four sitting arm weight training exercises. My shoulder didn't twinge again, but it didn't feel quite right during the standing arm weight training, so I thought giving it a longer break from the three sitting arm weight training exercises that use the shoulder would be a good idea. Thankfully, one exercise uses the shoulder minimally, so I only felt I needed to skip that last night, after the twinge. {Smile}
I shared yesterday's daily update, then read comics, articles, and a web novel in the morning and over lunch. then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. There, I found Pierogies. We chatted and briefly teamed up on low-level characters just long enough to start a hunt before he was called away. I started to solo a little on the low-level character I was on but got invited to team up with the new fellow who helped a different character get a badge a couple of days ago and joined him. Perogies joined us after a few missions. Then the team broke up too close to time to read to Mom for Perogies and I to team by ourselves, so we chatted until I left to read.
After dinner, I started writing this up and read some comics and a web novel. I chatted with Paradox on the chat server. They were too busy to play tonight. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I saw few on who I usually team with and did some paperwork. Then I got the low-level character, and started soloing, since they had one of the few story arcs that can be less fun to share with others. I started chatting with Owl Girl and Nox on the chat server. Owl Girl offered to come in and play. I took them up on it, and invited Mysty and another friend, too. They helped me with the end of the arc, which is more fun to team with than most of that arc. Mysty asked me to add a friend which I did. After that mission, Mysty's friend disappeared. We finished the hunt Pierogies, and I started earlier. Then we started the next mission about the time Mysty's friend came back, saying their internet had disconnected. I added him, and we finished the mission. Then I broke to start my exercises. I said goodnight to Nox and read articles and the web novel. I did a little paperwork in the game, but not much. I also worked on writing this up but took a lot of notes to write from the next day because it was getting late. {Smile}
