On Thursday, I had online counselling after breakfast. It was a nice session. We talked mostly about what I can do with my writing. She mentioned that I'm busy with appointments and gaming, so I don't have too much time for writing. I... hadn't realized, but I guess she's right? I'm sorting through my feelings over that. I enjoy my life, but I want more time for my writing. {smile}
I also got a call from our former nurse. We had a nice talk. {Smile}
I ate lunch and dinner with Mom and read to her before that. She was resting, but opened her eyes for me when I began. She kept her eyes open when I read and enjoyed looking at the pictures. I began with scripture and thoughts about it. Then I continued with a recent Christmas card from her niece, and a Mother's Day card from me. Next, I started _A Picture Book of Cute Kittens, vol. 1_, There are no words, only pictures of kittens so I described each kitten as I showed her the picture. After that, I read more from _The Mother Goose Treasury_, reading and once singing the poems and showing her the pictures that went with each. Lastly, I read the 21st of December's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "The Magic Carpet." Julian loved to visit Aunt Agatha. She'd travelled with world and brought back many treasures. She had beautiful shells, Chinese screens with birds and flowers painted on them, and a rug covered with tiny, mysterious designs. Julian lay on the rug one day, looking at the patterns, when he felt himself float up into the air, out the window, and over Aunt Agatha's vegetable garden. Down below was a tiny palace in the cabbages, and a tiny Indian prince riding a tiny elephant. Suddenly, a full-sized worm wriggled towards the elephant, who reared up, knocking the prince off his back. Julian laughed. The worm must have seemed like a huge snake to the tiny elephant. But now he was inside again. Was that a dream? {Smile}
I did my head exercises while waiting for the late-night task force to start. I meant to do more, but it ran too late. {small smile}
I read comics around the counselling appointment in the morning, and more after lunch. Then I cleaned myself up. I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming halfway through the afternoon. There, I found Pierogies, and we teamed up. We did a mission and a talk-mission that finished up a story arc one of my little characters had. Then we did a few short missions for another contact my character had. This took us to time to read to Mom. {Smile}
After dinner, I got into the late night short, large group event. Soothing Darkness was there, too, and afterwards, we talked. She was showing two other friends her base which she has begun building, so I joined them in a tour. Then one left, and we ran the pair of high-level task forces with a group she recruited to fill out the empty spaces. I was on my 5th best badge collector. She still didn't get the last badge for that. Then the group broke up, and our other friend left, but then Dr. Faustus joined us. We talked for a while, as I started to write this up, and others did did things they had, too. I also started talking with Nox and a little with Kitten on the chat server. Then Dr. Faustus suggested a different, fairly high-level task, so we recruited for it, and we did it. After that, I did some paperwork, a teensy bit of online shopping... well, browsing, not buying yet. I also took notes for this to write from the next day, because it was really too late to do more. {smile}
