Daily Update, March 12, 2024

    On Tuesday, I got a phone call from nursing company. It was nice hearing from them. It's reassuring to know they're looking out for us. {Smile}

   I texted with Auntie Barbara, too. I'd emailed her a copy of the story I'm working on, but she couldn't open it. So, I sent her another copy by Windows Messenger in a different format. I think she'd sent me a file in that format once, so I'm hoping she can open it. {Smile}

   I've been thinking a lot about my writing, too. Enough feels stuck, I need to find another approach to some of this, but that doesn't include the story I'm revising. The thing is, right now that's the only thing that feels ready to move. {smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. Mom was awake when I got there. She seemed to enjoy looking at the pictures, especially the ones of the babies.  I began with scripture and thoughts about it first. Next, I continued the long family Christmas letter from her niece from 2019. Then I continued "The Happy Book: Babies."  After that, I read "The Little Red Hen" in _Five-Minute Stories: Over 50 Tales and Fables_. I ended with the 12th of March's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "Fluff and Silky." {Smile}

   I did my arm resistance exercises between reading to Mom and eating dinner. Then I did my head exercises while waiting for Phonso's taskforce. After the task force, I did a little over 3 minutes of salsa dancing. I was panting afterwards, but I did it! {Grin} I followed that with my arm swinging exercises, and my sitting arm weight training exercises. If I'd worked more at it, I think I could have done my standing arm weight training exercises, too, but it got too late. I don't know about doing the leg exercises or walking exercises after that salsa dancing, though. My legs got more exercise from the dance anyway, I think. {SMILE}

   I played a lot of Cross Stitch World while thinking in the morning. Then I read comics over lunch. Next, I finished Monday's daily update. After that I cleaned myself up before hopping into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I found Pierogies and Kitten, and the three of us teamed up to get a badge with benefits that the characters we played didn't have. That involved a mission, then hunting outside of a mission while Kitten ran an errand, leaving their character quiet. Next, we did another mission, and a couple of simpler badges. We finished just about time to read to Mom. It feels good to know that our characters have a little more energy now. {Smile}

   After dinner, I began writing this up, and played a tiny bit of Cross Stitch World before hopping into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I found Kitten and TheCyberChill in a farm. Kitten tried to invite me, but it's a mission where all the work is after it's technically finished, when new folks can't enter. They took a long time to exit, but I did join them late. They eventually came out, and I think the three of us ran a mission. Then TheCyberChill left for bed. Kitten and I tried to run another mission. Phonso invited us to a taskforce in the middle of it. I tried to finish first, but Kitten went quiet before the end, and I couldn't complete it without them. I ended up quitting and joining Phonso for the taskforce. Then we said goodnight, and I did a little paperwork before working on my exercises. I also read comics, played some Cross Stitch World, wrote a little of this, and made notes to write the rest from the next day. I even got to bed somewhat earlier than usual. {Smile}