Daily Update, June 8, 2024

    On Saturday, I got a phone call from Auntie Barbara in the evening. It was nice catching up with her, and talking about plans too. {Smile}

   The texts with my cousins about Grandmother's grave continued. It looks like I'm the one who gets to talk with the cemetery this time, by virtue of being the one who lives close enough to be a local phone call. 

   Our housekeeper came for double session on Saturday, and our house is definitely better for her attentions. I fear with my vertigo's "help," I am not a good housekeeper myself, though really, I could try better than I do. {Smile}

   I ate breakfast and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. the nurse was feeding her when I came in, but she soon got dozy, especially at first. I started my reading with scripture and thoughts about it first. Next, I continued her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2019. After that, I read the next few pages from _1940's Memory Lane_, only to stop when she said she didn't like it after a couple of pages. I wonder if it was World War II that bothered her. I'm also wondering if I should concentrate on babies and kids, fashion, and maybe animals. She does seem more interested in those. Anyway, then I read a story, "Merry's Big Wish," and three short poems, continuing _365 Animal Stories and Rhymes_. I tried to stop when she began to lose interest. I finished with the 8th of June's story, "The Big Baby," from _366 Stories for Bedtime_. {Smile}

   I did my arm resistance exercises and my arm swinging exercises between reading to Mom and dinner. Then I did my head exercises after dinner. After teaming for the evening, I did my salsa dancing warmup set. After a short break, I did my less structured salsa dancing set. Yes, two full pieces, though it was the shortest one I do, so it was a little under 20 minutes of salsa dancing, not a little over. Still, this was the most I've done since my dentist did the fillings, and much better than yesterday. {SMILE}

   After breakfast, I played Cross Stitch World and read comics. Then I wrote up Friday's daily update before lunch. Web fiction and Cross Stitch World followed lunch. then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I did some paperwork and chatted with Pierogies before I broke to clean myself up. Then I went back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I did some paperwork and found the later long, large-group event recruiting, so I joined it. Dennis and Pierogies came back after it had started in a way where you can't join partway through. I chatted with Dennis during it, and a bit with Pierogies, too. Then the three of us teamed up when it was done squeezing in two high-level individual missions before I left to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner and a little exercise, I began writing this up and making notes in it. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I looked round and decided to do a little paperwork. Then I looked around again, and spotted a friend in a dragon-themed group some of my characters are in. We teamed up and got a few badges first. I also started chatting with Nox. My dragon friend and I found a high-level taskforce we joined. I got one badge in it, and my friend and another in the taskforce helped me get another badge afterwards. Then my friend, another friend of theirs and I ran a lower-level signature story arc for badges. Then we started on individual missions with some strangers the friend recruited. I left after two or three to do my salsa dancing. I played Cross Stitch World in between the salsa sets, and afterwards, too. Then I wrote a little more of this up and made a lot of notes in it to write from the next day. {Smile}