Daily Update, January 1, 2024

    Monday, I took it easy. looking back, there were two projects I didn't need to leave home that I could have worked on, but it's a holiday, and a bad day to go out because of that, so I just took things easy. The closest to "work" was my daily updates. {Smile}

   I realized that the shoulder that's bothering me is the one I usually sleep on. Last night, I started trying to sleep primarily on the other shoulder. I hope it's helping. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. She was awake and looked at the pictures. She even responded a few times. I began with scripture and thoughts about it first. After that I continued with more from her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2019. Next, I continued _Mele Kalikimaka: Christmas in Hawai'i_, reading a whole chapter; I think it was shorter. I read the introductions and the captions and showed her the pictures. Then I read a story from _Disney 3-Minute Bedtime Stories_. I'm more careful about not skipping pages still. I finished with the 1st of January's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "Happy New Year." Claire asked Mummy what a New Year's resolution was when she heard her parents talking about it. Mummy said you decide to do something good for a whole year or stop doing something bad for a whole year. You have to decide on New Year's Day, which was today. Soon she hard Claire telling Tibs, the cat, that they weren't to catch birds for a whole year, and then Claire wouldn't smack her. Mummy thought those were two good resolutions. (I can't help thinking that telling a cat not to catch small things that try to get away is a waste of breath.) {Smile, wink}

   Well, after playing for the evening, I did 6 1/2 minutes of salsa dancing. I was only slightly winded, though that was enough to keep from trying more tonight. I should be able to do more soon, though. then I did my standing arm weight training exercises, my arm resistance exercises, my leg exercises, my sitting arm weight training exercises, and my head exercises. I finally did all fifteen repetitions of the exercises that's been bothering my shoulder. Maybe sleeping on the other side to let that shoulder heal is really helping. I also interspersed chatting with Nox, and writing this, to give myself short breaks between exercises. {Smile}

   I read articles and comics and played the cross-stitch game in the morning and over and after lunch. After cleaning myself up, I played more of the cross-stitch game before hopping into City of Heroes: Homecoming entirely too late for either of the early large-group events. Kitten was unresponsive, but Pierogies and I talked a fair bit before teaming up for some individual high-level missions. Then we did a mission in a story arc before it was time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming too late to join the late-night short, large-group event, but I caught Pierogies wanting to watch a couple of shows with me before bed. We parked our characters in a farm for this, so we could get stuff while we watched. My character used up too much of one supply recently, but the farm gave me over half of what I need of it right now. First, we watched an episode of The IT Crowd, which he picked. Then he insisted I pick something, so, after I started to write this up, we watched an episode of RWBY. Then we said goodnight. After he left, I got together with Dr. Faustus, who was helping a new player with a story arc. I also chatted with Nox on the chat server. Dr. Faustus, his new friend and I did several missions, pausing to do a tutorial the new player didn't know about, and I hadn't done on my character. Then the new player left, and we did a few of my missions, doing most of a story arc. We stopped before the end of that story arc so I could do my exercises. I also wrote this up between exercises and made notes afterwards to finish this writing up from the next day. I snuck in reading a couple of comics; one I had read earlier flowed into today's enough, it was nice to go back and read both, one after the other. {Smile}