Daily Update, February 29, 2024

    Thursday morning, I had a video appointment with my counselor. it went very well. We finally focused on a problem I've been breaking parts off of to make smaller. it's still not easily manageable, but it feels good to finally begin to tackle the biggest elephant in the room, instead of acting like it isn't there. {small smile}

   I also got a phone call from our former nurse. It was quick, delaying a meeting because his day was not working out as planned. I was sorry to hear about the difficulties, but it was nice to talk to him. {Smile}

   I ate lunch and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. Mom was awake but put her head down until there were pictures to look at again. Then she looked at all the pictures. Nox wondered if she found my voice soothing or something. I hope so. That's as nice an explanation as I can think of. I started with scripture and thoughts about it first. After that, I read and showed the pictures of cards from a cousin and both sisters. Next, I started _Cats on Quilts_, kind of. There's a lot of text to read in there - more than i think Mom would enjoy. So, I read the captions that told about each picture, showed her those pictures, and read a poem when I spotted one, too. That seemed to work well enough. Then I read the next story in _Five-Minute Stories: Over 50 Tales and Fables_, "Hansel and Gretel." I ended with the 29th of February's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "The New Baby."  {Smile}

   I did my head exercises, arm swinging exercises and arm resistance exercises after dinner. Then I did my standing arm weight training exercises and my sitting arm weight training exercises. I hoped to do more, but I got tired at the end of the sitting exercises and didn't recover fast enough. I guess I really am still recuperating from getting the root canal finished. Well, I did enough more today, I can hope to do even more tomorrow. {Smile}

   Between counselling and the phone call, I did some Cross Stitch World. I did more after lunch, then wrote up the day before's daily update before cleaning myself up. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I spotted Owl Girl, and they responded before I said hi to anyone else. We chatted a bit before I asked about joining them. They happily added the character I was on to the team, but I left to make a new character, and ended up converting a character I've had for a while that I haven't really cared for enough to play. I tweaked it to fit the group's owl theme, and Owllina got added to their owl-themed supergroup. We ran a few missions. Then some players left for various reasons, including Owl Girl. I stayed on for one or two more missions before leaving to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner and a few exercises, I did a little Cross Stitch World and began writing this up and making notes before settling into City of Heroes: Homecoming. There, I said hi to Michiel and Rivka. Michiel seemed less chatty, but Rivka was just finishing up with a group. They mentioned they had a character who had just reached 50, where the game changes rather dramatically. I know a story arc which is a bit of a tutorial about the way it changes, so I introduced them to the contact, and we did the first couple of missions. Then they needed to go to bed, so I made sure they didn't mind spoilers about what is coming up and told them about something coming up in their arc, and two more arcs to get into this part more. Then we said goodnight, and I looked around. I saw Dr. Faustus on and said hi. I noticed he was on a low-level character and found out what content he was doing. Then I found a character who was just behind him in content. We teamed up, backing up for me to catch up with him, then finishing the story arc together. Then he said goodnight. After that, I played Cross Stitch World, did a couple more exercises, made notes in this, did a tiny amount of paperwork on City of Heroes: Homecoming, and chatted briefly with Mysty, joining her for a tiny bit of roleplaying. {Smile}