Daily Update, April 12, 2024

    Friday, I stayed home and worked on my story through most of the afternoon. I got a scene that's been bugging me most of this week down in rough form. Now that one and a previous one just needs polishing, and first scene replaced with two scenes covering the same stuff in hopes that makes it easier to keep track of the characters. Well, the whole thing needs some polishing, I suspect, but the new parts will need more than the rest, I suspect. {Smile}

The housekeeper came, and our house is very much better for her attention. She even helped me move a collection of boxes to a more out-of-the-way spot where they shouldn't fall as much, and moved a floor pad back, though I had to turn it around because a damaged part bothered my dancing. 

   I ate breakfast, lunch and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner, and I'm back to usual amounts. Mom was resting when I got there, but partially roused when I started talking to her. First, I began my reading with scripture and thoughts about it. Next, I continued her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2022. After that, I finished _The Picture Book of Vintage Vogue_. Then I finished _Disney Princess 5-minute Princess Stories_ with "Opening Night," about Cinderella. My last reading was the 12th of April's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "Lucky Flowers." Then I showed her two books I plan to start reading from tomorrow, since we finished two books today. One is _The Happy Book: Babies_, which she seemed to like particularly, and the other is _Five Minute Fairy Tales_, which I gave her for Easter. It's the one I found late last year, and hoped to give her for her birthday, but I misplaced it, and only found it again recently. {Smile}

   I did my walking exercises after dinner. When the team was down to Kitten, I snuck in my head exercises, then did my salsa dancing warmup with Kitten's approval. Next, I did my head exercises, and my standing arm weight training exercises and one of my four sitting arm weight training exercises. Then I did my less structured salsa dancing set followed by my arm resistance exercises and my arm swinging exercises. I was too tired to do the rest of my sitting arm weight training exercises before it got too late, but that's more exercise than I've done before, especially if you add in helping the housekeeper move the boxes and turning around the floor pad. {Smile}

   After breakfast, I read articles and played Cross Stitch World. Then I finished writing Thursday's daily update. then, after lunch, I started writing more of my story. Then the housekeeper showed up, and I got into helping the housekeeper, and chatting. Eventually, I got back to writing more of my story. Only after I reached the end of what I was adding did I clean myself up. After that, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming so late, the later long, large-group event was a little over halfway through. I still tried to join. They were full, but I was on a top-level character, so I hopped in and did what I could.  I hoped they'd add me when a space opened up, but space didn't open up. I still got what I could. Then I talked with Pierogies afterwards, catching up with each other until it was time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I started writing this up, and did a few exercises before hopping into City of Heroes: Homecoming. there, I found Kitten with a mutual friend of ours who wanted to work on a particular part of a particular badge that improves a character. I found a character of mine who needs it too and was ready to work on a story arc that helps it but is easy to out-level. The mutual friend found another friend who needed it, while I checked with a few friends. I found Dr. Faustus happy to team up, though he didn't need what we were working on. We worked on that story arc all evening and got maybe halfway. We made plans to continue the next day. Kitten can't play then, but they don't need the badge, and says go on without them. Then all left except Kitten. They helped me get a badge I needed for another self-improving badge while I started my exercises. After my exercises I did paperwork, wrote some of this, and made notes for the rest, finishing too late, but by the time I realized, I was almost done, so finished anyway. {Smile}