I headed to church after breakfast and got there to the news that I'd missed the service but arrived in time for coffee afterwards. Taht was actually more like a full brunch, and yes, I stayed for it, especially since AJ, the Filipino guy who took me home a few times and his mother were eager in offering me a ride home afterwards. They always stay to the end, helping to clean up. He said that's part of their culture. I sat with them, and some other folks there, and we had a nice visit over lunch. I also chatted with the gals who came for the last home communion a bit. {Smile}
AJ asked if I'd like to ride along while he took his mom home, and I said yes. She lives quite a way up the hill. I remember riding up there and all around town and even a way into the country with Dad when I was a teenager, as I told them when they asked if I'd ever been up there. Then he took me home, dropping me off on the way down the hill. {Smile}
I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. She was sort of awake when I started but got sleepier as time went on. I began with scripture and thoughts about it first. Next, I read a card from her niece, and a card from her sister, too. After that I continued reading _Mele Kalikimaka: Christmas in Hawai'i_. I showed her the pictures and read the captions. Then I read a few poems from _The Mother Goose Treasury_, reading and showing the pictures that went with each. I didn't read many, though, because she was getting tired. I went on to the 24th of December's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "Christmas Eve." Angela hung her stocking at the end of her bed on Christmas Eve. Seh told her mother it was a shame she never got to thank Santa for her presents, but she was always asleep when he came. Her mother told her she was sure he understood and left her a candle. Angela decided to stay up this time and sat up very straight in bed. but her eyelids started to droop, so she went to sit on the floor by the fire. Still, the excitement of the day, plus the late hour got to Angela, and fell asleep on the floor. She sensed quiet footsteps and strong arms putting her to bed later, but she was too sleepy to open her eyes. {Smile}
I did my head exercises while waiting for Uber to come take me to church. then I did two of my sitting arm weight training exercises while waiting for one or another task force in the evening. Then I did 3 1/4er minutes of salsa dancing, followed by the third sitting arm weight training exercise that didn't bother me last night. Next, I did my arm resistance exercises, my leg exercises, and my walking exercises. I was winded after the salsa dancing again, but I was distinctly steadier than I was last night. I'm not sure if that's from having done it last night, or from switching back to cough drops I know upset my blood sugar less than a new flavor I tried. {Smile}
I did a very little bit of cross stitch after getting home. Then I cleaned myself up before going into City of Heroes: Homecoming just in time for the early short, large group event. When that was done, I teamed up with Pierogies and Kitten, and we did a few missions together. This took us to time to read to Mom. I squeezed in starting to write this between reading to Mom and dinner. {Smile}
After dinner, I got back in ample time for the late night short, large-group event. I even wrote a little more of this before I joined. To my surprise, the event was almost full already when I joined, even around midnight Eastern US time on Christmas Eve. It went well. Then I teamed up with Kitten, well, sort of. We decided to watch a My Little Pony Christmas Special together. After that, we almost watched more My Little Pony, but tried to team up with Dr. Faustus in the game instead. Dr. Faustus got a friend and talked about task forces. Pierogies came in in time to join, and just before Kitten disconnected after falling silent. We ran the task force, and got ready to run another task force, but there were one too many people. So, Dr. Faustus left to make room for Sacred Prostitute. I ran that, then did my exercises, wrote and took notes for this. Yes, I had to finish next day again. I also did some paperwork, a little cross-stitch, read more comics, and chatted briefly with Owl Girl, Paradox, Dr. Faustus and Kitten on the chat server. {Smile}
