I had some aches and pains in the night in my right upper arm and shoulder.
The housekeeper came this morning and worked through my lunch. It was good to see her, and the house is definitely better for her attentions. {Smile}
I ate breakfast and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. She was awake when I went in and opened her eyes for the pictures, though at first I had to remind her. She answered once or twice. First, I began with scripture and thoughts about it. Next, I continued this year's long family Christmas letter from her niece. Then I started _1950's Memory Lane_. I showed the front and back covers, read her the back cover, and showed and read the first few pages. She does like the old pictures. After that, I read more from _The Mother Goose Treasury_, reading the poems, singing a couple where I know the tune, and showing her the pictures again. I finished with the 16th of December's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "A Wet Day." Puddy the tabby cat looked at the rain outside. He hated getting wet! So, he started looking for something interesting inside, where it's dry. He found the goldfish in their bowl, blowing bubbles, he meowed that they were poor things, being wet all the time, and wouldn't they like to come out? We won't know if he really felt sorry for them, or if he meant mischief, for in trying to tip the bowl, he tipped the flower vase over instead, so Puddy got wet after all. {Smile}
I did my head exercises, arm resistance exercises, leg exercises, and walking exercises before it got entirely too late after we finished teaming for the night. My arm resistance exercises had just enough discomfort, I didn't even try my arm weight training, and I wasn't going to try the arm swinging again after sleeping had some aches and pains last night. {Smile}
I cleaned myself up after breakfast, then had lunch. After that, I did some more Christmas shopping online; I'd done some the night before. That might be most of my Christmas shopping. Next, I wrote up my daily update, and read some articles. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming too late to join the early short or long large-group events. Instead, I did some paperwork and collected some badges. I chatted with Ulty, and with Dr. Faustus, but they were both busy. Then I teamed up with Pierogies, and we started the next story arc on my newly high-level character. Soothing Darkness joined us, and we finished it a little before I like to read to Mom. I squeezed in some paperwork, then left quickly. {Smile}
After dinner, I joined the late night short, large group event. It went to the worst condition it can. That's the first time I've seen it that bad. We regrouped, and I and a few other players got better characters for that mess (though I soon thought of an even better one for the future). Then we got ready and started cleaning up the mess. We pushed right through the hard parts, and actually won. We didn't try a second time. I'm not sure if they started early, so I only caught the second run, or if everyone just felt this was the right ending. Some folks mentioned being a bit tired after that. Then I wrote a bit of this and hopped back online. I spotted the pair of high-level TFs, and grabbed a character who needed it. I joined it and got up to do a bit while I waited, returning close to our starting time. Dr. Faustus came in while I was running the first TF. One person left at the end of it, and I got Dr. Faustus included for the second half. Then we chatted a bit. I began chatting on and off with Nox and Kitten on the chat server, too. Dr. Faustus and I started a high-level story arc my character had. Soothing Darkness joined us near the end. Then we ran the next high-level story arc. The second didn't have the nice reward most of those have, but we finished it just about when I needed to start my exercises. After that, I did some paperwork. Then I did my exercises. Next, I started writing and taking notes for this, and slipped in some more paperwork. I finished this the next day, after church. {Smile}
