Monday, I started out with a couple of phone calls. I got my doctor's office, and they recommended some painkillers and keeping an eye on the shoulder for now. {Smile}
I also called church, and ordered three memorial poinsettias, for Dad, his brother, and Mom's sister. {Smile}
Then this afternoon, my ear started having trouble popping. Then my jaw developed a very tender spot on the right side, which felt like not-quite-pain radiating out to my teeth. After a fair bit of debate and an aborted call to my doctor's office that got the answering machine, I called my dentist when it settled into more by the teeth, less by the ear. I now have an appointment Wednesday at 10:50 am. I'm hoping they can fix it, but if they decide it's more ear, I can go to my doctor after that. {smile}
I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. Her eyes were closed when I got there, but she opened them briefly to say hi, and they stayed open when there was stuff to look at. She responded a few times, too. It was a reasonably good day. I read scripture and thoughts about it first. Then I read some cards: one from her cousin's granddaughter, a (different) cousin, her sister. Next, I showed her the first few pages of _1940s Fashion in Pictures_. After that, I read the next story in _My Little Pony: 5 Minute Stories_. "Saving the Crystal Empire." I finished with the 4th of December's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "Roller Skates." Simon had saved up his pocket money and bought a pair of roller skates. Now his father thought he spent every moment of his free time outside, roller skating. Ho complained that the boy should read or play football, but Simon's mother thought it was just a phase. She thought he wanted to be the best skater at school. One day, Simon's father telephoned from the train station on his way to work. He'd left his wallet at home, and the train left in ten minutes. Simon took it on his roller skates and got there just in time. His father was very impressed, saying he should get a pair. Then they both laughed. {Smile}
Teaming with Kitten ran right up to time to start my salsa dancing. So, I started my salsa dancing warmup, and grabbed for a chair to steady myself after the second piece. I also noticed my tooth getting less comfortable with the exercise. So I stopped that for the evening, and just took it easy. {small smile}
I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming soon enough after lunch to join the early short, large group event. After that, I found Pierogies, and we joined the early long, large group event. Then we teamed up, and tried to team with Kitten, but Kitten had to leave for personal chores. So Pierogies and I teamed up on the low-level characters. I asked to run a story arc, and we did. Then we did one mission in the story arc we worked on earlier. After that, we tried to get into the later short, large group event next, but the zone was full. We saw Kitten, and tried to join them, but they turned out to be quiet. (Kitten later complained about falling asleep.) I had gotten a character who needed to work on something that folks often work on in the zone where Kitten was, so we did work on that, making significant progress on that until it was time to read to Mom. {Smile}
After dinner, I caught the late-night short, large-group event. Then I got together with Kitten. Except I took time out to start writing this before we really teamed up. They were working on the thing Pierogies and I were working on before, so I got the same character, and we both got what we needed. Next, they noticed fewer friends were around, so we watched a My Little Pony longer story that I'd asked about recently. I asked about a sequel I could see should follow that story, but I really wanted to run a particular story arc so I could follow what Pierogies is doing without having to stop for this story arc. We got it done just in time to do my salsa dancing, except that didn't go so well. I also chatted with Nox on the chat server, and I wrote a bit more of this after the salsa dancing. Then Paradox chatted with Kitten and I briefly in our joint conversation, but soon went quiet. Then Kitten and I watched My Little Pony story that that I'd asked about earlier. Yes, I'd seen a direct sequel to the first one that actually did happen too. After that, I wrote a little for Nox and Kitten about something I'm hoping they can help me sort out with my writing. I also made notes for the parts of this that I hadn't written earlier. I had to write it up the next day. {Smile}
