On Thursday, I had counselling int he morning. I logged in and waited to connect. instead, I got cut off. I found a note from my counsellor asking if I could join. The system said we were finished. I told her, and she sent another link. Once we actually started, we had a reassuring session. She was reassured that I was actually working on stuff, and I was reassured that the frustrating delays aren't a problem in the larger scheme of things. It looks like we're making progress, and my counselor is happy with that. {Smile}
I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. Mom was resting when I went in again. She roused a bit, but not a lot. She sometimes looked at the pictures when prompted. I started with scripture and thoughts about it first. After that, I continued her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2022. I restarted _The 40 Cutest Children & Animal Photographs_, finally moving the bookmark. Next, I read a story from _5-Minute Mary Engelbreit Fairy Tales_. I ended with October 3rd's story, "Feeding Birds," in _366 Stories for Bedtime_. {Smile}
I did my arm resistance exercises between reading to Mom and eating dinner. After teaming for later into the evening than I meant to, I did one of my head exercises, then started salsa dancing. I had to restart the first piece. By the end I had to grab the chair and was breathing more heavily. Combined the with time, I realized I should stop, though I only got around 4 minutes of salsa dancing done. Well, the next is physical therapy, so that should make up for it. I also have an ultrasound of the diastasis recti late in the afternoon, so I should be busy, even without other exercise. {smile}
After breakfast and counselling, I started web browsing while thinking. I wrote some writing of Wednesday's daily update over lunch. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I found Div, and we teamed up fairly quickly. We tried trick-or-treating in the quieter zone on a character of Div's that was a bit low level. The first character I tried was high level, but not a good enough fighter to protect them from the worst enemies. Div was ready to quit, but I insisted on trying a tougher character. With me on a better fighter, things went enough better, Div did more than they thought they would, I think. We'll try with that character again. After a while, we said goodnight and Div left. Shortly after Div left, a couple of folks who were trick-or-treating in that zone invited me to their team. One other joined us after a while. Then the others left, and I turned to paperwork. Then Dennis said hi, and invited me to join him fighting a giant monster. I switched to a character who needs the rewards from that, and we got the giant monster. After that, most of the folks left. Dennis and I stayed together, and I invited one player who was showing costumes off to Dennis back. We switched zones, and the stranger got another character to show more costumes. They left, saying goodnight. Then Dennis and I did a couple of those individual missions I like. After that, we said goodnight in case before I left to read to Mom. {Smile}
After dinner, I finished writing Wednesday's daily update, then began making notes in this. After that, I read comics before I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I spotted Saiyala, and we began chatting. He invited me to a run of just the taskforce with the badge I want. I joined him, and we ran it. Some of the team left, and Phonso joined us for another run. Then Phonso took over to run the other taskforce of the pair. I still didn't get that badge I keep trying for, but I got another badge I've been working on for even longer, which was wonderful! During Phonso's taskforce, I mentioned that I was frustrated with how easily this character gets hurt while fighting. After the taskforce, Saiyala spent a long time figuring out how to fix it. In the end, he suggested a relatively easy fix that I tried. While Saiyala were working at it, Kitten said hi. So, when I was done, I invited Kitten to join us, and the three of us ran a mission of Saiyala's character as a test. That ran late, but I still squeezed in some exercise, including dancing. Then I wrote some of this and made notes to write from the next day. {Smile}
