Daily Update, January 13, 2024

    I've been much better about sleeping on the other shoulder for several days now. It's feeling better, too, but whenever I wonder about sleeping on the side I'm used to sleeping on, the shoulder feels not quite well yet. I guess it needs a while longer. {resigned smile}

   Saturday morning, I called to follow up on the email that's not working. The phone tree offered to call me back because of a wait time of around an hour. I took them up on it. When they did call me back, I got such poor reception, I had to move to the front door, and they hung up on me before I could get a response. I called back, navigated the phone tree, and got a person who insisted she couldn't help me with the email because I wasn't the account holder. She wanted to email me what I need to covert the account to my name, but kept insisting my working email is invalid, even when she finally seemed to have it right, so she arranged to send me stuff by U.S. mail instead. {SIGH}

   Our former nurse called while I was starting to get ready for bed. It wasn't quite too late, so we had a nice chat. it was good to hear from him. He's been pretty busy recently, so it's been a while. {Smile}

   I ate breakfast and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. She was awake when i went to read to her, and looked at all the pictures. First, I began with scripture and thoughts about it. Next, I continued her niece's long family Christmas letter from last year. After that, I finished "'Classic Christmas' Vintage Fine Art Picture Book Volume 2." Then I read the last story from _Disney 3-Minute Bedtime Stories_, finishing it, too. I ended with the 13th of January's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "The Nutcrackers." Simon loved to play with a pair of old nutcrackers when he went to visit his grandmother. They were beautifully carved and painted. His grandmother asked him to be careful with them, because they'd belonged to her grandfather, and were very precious. One day, when he went to play with the nutcrackers, one of the handles fell off. Simon was very upset. He didn't dare tell anyone, so he hid them behind a book. The next day his grandmother came to him, and explained she'd broken the nutcrackers, not Simon. She added that he should always tell a grownup if he thought he'd done something wrong.  {Smile}

   I did my salsa dancing warmup set before lunch for 8 1/2 minutes, and another piece after lunch for 5 3/4 minutes. That evening, while sitting in Pierogies' farm, I did my head exercises and arm resistance exercises. Then after the task force, while visiting with Mysty, I slipped in my leg exercises. After the visit, I did my standing and sitting arm weight training exercises. I only missed my walking exercises and one more salsa dancing song. When I get those, too, I'll be doing as much as my physical therapist recommends. {Smile}

I read articles before the phone call with my internet provider and watched videos and read comics after that phone call, before, over and after lunch. Then, after cleaning myself up, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming, and found Div and Pierogies. We teamed up to talk, but when Pierogies and I started asking about things to do together, Div said to go on, so we caught two "casual" high-level trials. That meant not getting badges beyond the basic, and maybe something else if we got lucky, because we weren't really trying. Pierogies ran a couple, then left to rest. I continued with a regular trial lead by the same person next. Then the leader left, and I worked on paperwork a bit. Pierogies came back, and we parked our characters in a farm while we watched another episode of RWBY. It was the grand finale of the 7th season. We didn't have quite enough time to start the next episode, so we chatted and farmed until it was time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I found Pierogies on, but getting ready to go to bed. We chatted a little and started another farm. I started writing this up, then played with the farm until I got bored. Then I did some paperwork while I looked around. Soon I spotted a task force starting that I've been wanting one more of this week. I grabbed the character who needed it most and joined it. I also chatted with Nox on the chat server a bit. After the task force, I started badging on another character, with time out for some of my exercises. Then Mysty said hi, and we got together to visit for a while until she had to lie down. I did a few more exercises and read some comics. Then I wrote a little of this, got out former nurse's phone call, and made notes in this to write from the next day. {Smile}