Monday, November 20, 2023

Daily Update, November 19, 2023

    Today was Sunday, so I called Uber after breakfast, and they came and took me to church. I actually got there early, despite hunting fruitlessly for a skirt I thought I'd found... but it was another skirt whose waistband needs to be shortened seriously, as well as not being quite the color I was looking for. {smile}

   Anyway, I had time to visit with some folks before the service started, including explaining to Ed, who's our treasurer as well as the fellow who sometimes takes me home, who the Baldwin plaques are dedicated to, and which grandparents' plaques are missing. {Smile}  

   It was a nice service. I did enjoy sitting and talking with Auntie Barbara and others after the service. I tried my best with lunch, but it was heavy on the sweets, and light on both vegetables and protein. I still tried to limit my sweets. {Smile}

   Auntie Barbara took me home from church. She came inside to visit with Mom, and we sang eight songs, two of them twice. Mom hasn't sung that many in a good while, but she did today, and might have kept going if we had.  I tried to adjust for the low protein, low vegetable lunch with cheese and carrot sticks after Auntie Barbara left. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. Her eyes were mostly closed today, but she did open them for pictures, and occasionally responded. I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Then I continued with Christmas cards from her nephew, cousin, and both sisters. Next, I read a few pages from _1960's Memory Lane_. After that, I read a story from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. I finished with the 19th of November's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "The Champion Footballers" Peter and his new friend Luke took a soccer ball onto the common to practice kicking goals. Peter bragged that he often played forward, so might get more goals, but Luke said he's often goalkeeper, so we'll see. They set two poles to make the goals. They agreed on five shots each. Peter kicked his first goal straight into the middle, and Luke blocked it easily. After that, he aimed for the corners, and got four goals in a row. Then Luke got his first four goals in but missed his fifth. They went home celebrating being champions together. {Smile}

   I did my head exercises while I was waiting for Uber to come take me to church. I just had time to do that and walk out before the fellow got here. Then I did my walking exercises and leg exercises just before my salsa dancing warmup set. After a break, I did my less structured salsa dancing set. After another break, I did my arm resistance exercises, my arm swinging exercises, and one of my sitting arm weight training exercises. My right shoulder complained just enough during both the arm swinging exercises and the sitting arm weight training exercise that's easiest on it that I didn't think I should try any of the weight training exercises that use the shoulder more, sitting or standing. I really need to talk to a doctor, a therapist or both about that shoulder, I think. {rueful look}

   I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming as I settled down after Auntie Barbara left after bringing me home and visiting with Mom. I found Perogies in the early short, large group event, but it sounded late for me to join. He wanted to do the early long, large group event next, so we did. Then he got a character he wanted to work on, and we did one high-level story arc, and most of another high-level story arc. That took us up to time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After supper, I read comics and a web novel or two, and hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I didn't find anyone around who I particularly like to team with, so I took advantage of this to do some serious badge-reward hunting, first on my fifth best badge collector, then on a gal I'd like to be my sixth best badge collector, who needs to hop over the gal currently in that spot. I also talked at some length with Nox, Radio's boyfriend, and Radio on the chat server. I chatted less intensively with Kitten and Paradox on the chat server, as well. I continued the badge hunting between exercises and chatting on the chat server. I also wrote a lot of this up, only taking some notes at the end, to finish the next morning. {Smile}