Daily Update, March 24, 2024

    After breakfast, Uber arrived too quickly for me to exercise, but that helped me get to the church during the announcements. I sat with Auntie Barbara and two kids who chose to sit with her. It was a nice service. It was Palm Sunday, which is always special, with a procession in that involves the congregation, and a partially dramatized Gospel reading. {Smile}

   After that, I enjoyed lunch with Auntie Barbara and others. Then Auntie Barbara took me home. We had a lovely talk on the way. We sang several songs with mom when we got home, since Auntie Barbara does like to do that when she visits with Mom. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I got there a little late because I did want to finish what I was doing with Pierogies. Mom was awake when I got there and seemed to enjoy the pictures. She did respond a couple of times later in the session. First, I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Then I continued her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2023. Next, I continued _Cats Galore: A Compendium of Cultured Cats_. After that, I read "The Musicians of Bremen" in _Five-Minute Stories: Over 50 Tales and Fables_. I ended with the 24th of March's poem from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "The Fair." {Smile}

   I don't quite believe what happened... not so soon. I ran late on City of Heroes: Homecoming, so started with my salsa dancing warmup. Then I took a break, during which I got my arm resistance exercises done after a short rest. Then I started a second set after another short rest. I did the piece I've done the last two nights and didn't feel tired. So, I did another piece... and made it all the way through. I was definitely puffing for a moment afterwards, and I'm tired enough, I don't think I'll even do my head exercises... but I did 20 1/4 minutes of salsa dancing tonight! I'm back up to the around 20 minutes I'm supposed to do. now I just need to repeat that and add in all the easier exercises that I can do, too. I really didn't expect to get that done today; I was hoping to work up to having the little exercise all added over the week, then add the rest of salsa dancing around Friday or Saturday... but now I can just work up to doing them too. {BIG SMILE, REALLY BIG GRIN}

I wrote Saturday's daily update after Auntie Barbara left. Then I played Cross Stitch World and read a couple of articles after Auntie Barbara left. Next, I read a few comics before I cleaned myself up. After that, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I joined the later long, large-group event with Pierogies. After the event was over, I did a little badge collecting with Pierogies before leaving to read to Mom. 

   After dinner, I started writing this up. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I found Dark. We started talking, and slowly got around to teaming up and deciding what we wanted to do. We finished an arc a particular character of theirs needed. I said goodnight to Nox but missed talking with them again. Then Dark and I talked for a fair bit. I also gave him some things I'd collected while playing, too. After we said goodnight, I started some paperwork of my own. I was in a bar, in public, and someone started chatting with me. We chatted for a while, until I had to quit to salsa dance. We said goodbye, and I established a contact method so we might talk again. Then I did my exercises and watched some videos. I also wrote a little of this and made notes to finish writing the next day. {Smile}