Today was Sunday, so I contacted Uber, and a driver came and took me to church. I got there earlier than usual, which was nice. Auntie Barbara sat with me for most of the service, since they didn't have any kids for Sunday school. Well, the pastor brought her daughter, but she had a babysitter, and is young for Sunday school still. {Smile}
After last Sunday being all desserts, this Sunday's lunch didn't have any desserts. There was lots of good food, though, and it was easier for me to eat well for my diabetes. {Smile}
Auntie Barbara took me home by way of the natural food store, since it's the monthly customer appreciation day. I picked up 5 snacks I was running low on: dried fruit, seeds, and nuts. She did even more shopping. Then she took me home, and we sang with Mom, and I showed her the book of stories Mom's particularly enjoyed. {Smile}
I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. She was awake and looking at pictures today but didn't respond often. I started with scripture and thoughts about it first. Then I read a card from her sister, and the beginning of this year's long family Christmas letter from her niece. Next, I showed her the last several pages of _The Calming Cat Book_. After that, I tried a picture book, _The Strange and Terrible Adventures of Popoki the Hawaiian Cat_. I should have read the full title earlier and picked something else... or stuck with the regular books. I stopped halfway through, when the cat had gotten lost, but it was too long for one sitting. I'm not sure if I'll continue tomorrow or not. Picture books are longer than the stories in _My Little Pony: five Minute Stories_, I guess. I finished up with the 10th of December's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "The Snow Queen." Sally and Laura were making up stories. Sally said she'd be Queen of Snow when she grew up. She'd marry the King of Ice and live in a castle of crystals and diamonds. She'd wear a shining white dress and a fluffy cloak of snowflakes. She'd drive across her kingdom in a sledge covered in crystals and diamonds pulled by a white reindeer with golden bells and hang icicles in the trees. Laura said her nose would go red in that place. Sally said it wouldn't, and that she'd turn rude people into ice. Laura countered that she'd marry the Prince of Summer, and they'd come melt their snow and ice. The two girls burst out laughing. {Smile}
Still no exercise. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be skipping because I just had a root canal and need to heal up, but we shall see. I did have one tooth that couldn't be fixed; it had to be pulled. {small smile}
I cleaned myself up after Auntie Barbara left, then hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. It was technically early enough to join the short, large-group event, but the zone was full, so I couldn't get in. It starts early when that happens anyway. Next, I looked around. Kitten and Pierogies were on, but when I talked to Kitten, they were busy running a story arc with a team. They suggested that I join, since there was space, but there was only one space, and Pierogies wanted to team with me. So Pierogies and I teamed up on our little ones and worked on finishing the last story arc. Kitten joined us during the last real mission, which is quite long. They helped us finish quickly when it got close to time to read to Mom. We finished the whole arc, which goes a little beyond the long mission. Pierogies suggested we park in their farm while we went AFK. {Smile}
After dinner, I tried to join the late night short, large-group event, but it was almost time, and again, the zone was full. Instead, I started writing this, then worked on paperwork that had piled up on my character. Then I discovered the character I'd parked in the farm was still there, and went back in. I played with doing some things in the farm and chatted with Nox on the chat server. When I got bored with the farm, I looked around and saw a fellow asking publicly for a team fairly recently. I switched to a villain because that's what he wanted, and found he'd teamed with someone else. They were happy to add me, so we teamed up and played together. Then the leader noticed I could do the arc and started me at the introduction to the whole series of story arcs. About then, Kitten came alive, and decided to quit the farm and join us. We started my arc, and I disconnected. I've been doing this every once in a while. I reconnected and got back with them. One other had joined us. The new left, then the one who I talked to first left, inviting me to stay in touch, as did the leader at that time. Then the leader, Kitten, and I finished that first arc before we quit the game. I wrote some more of this and made notes to write from the next day. {Smile}
