On Tuesday, after breakfast, I contacted Uber. The driver came and took me to Sack 'N Save, a grocery store chain I think might be Hawai'i only. It's the closest store bigger than a 7-Eleven that might have something to hand out on Halloween, since we didn't have any, and Amazon couldn't get anything here before the second week of October.
There was a Halloween display right inside the front door of Sack 'N Save. Unfortunately, it only had candy, paper plates and napkins with Halloween designs, and a few makeup kits and such for one person per package. I reluctantly picked out a bag of candy with I knew would be rough on my diabetes if I took any, /then I checked out the rest of the store. The stationary had none of the cute, Halloween-themed notepads I'd eyed on Amazon. unfortunately, they would likely arrive in the second week of November if I ordered them. However, the aisle with a few toys in it had some packs of plastic dinosaurs, and some capsules with toy-shaped sponges that would expand greatly when wet. I particularly like the sponges, so I got three packs, but I also got two packs of dinosaurs in case kids seemed disappointed to get sponges. Then I very happily put the candy back. these won't upset my diabetes, but they should please trick-or-treaters if we get any. {Smile}
After I bought them, I contacted Uber, and a nice chatty driver took me home. {Smile}
I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. Mom was awake when I went in. She kept her eyes open, and looked at all the pictures, especially the ones of kids. First, I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Then I read three Christmas cards, one from each of her two sisters, and one from her cousin's granddaughter. Next, I continued with some pictures in _Babies & Toddlers Happy Book_. After that I read the last story from _Disney 3-Minute Bedtime Stories_. I finished with October 28th's story, "In the Evening," in _366 Stories for Bedtime_. {Smile}
I did my arm resistance exercises while waiting for Uber. Then I did my arm swinging exercises after dinner. After playing much of the evening, I did my salsa dancing warmup. Towards the end of the warmup, my knee started hurting, but I finished out the set. Next, I took a bath, and my knee stopped bothering me, so i tried more salsa dancing. However, my knee started hurting again. I tried for a bit but had to stop at not quite 10 minutes of salsa dancing between the first set and the aborted second. After a Cross Stitch World to calm down, I did my head exercises, and both my standing and sitting arm weight training exercises. One of them got broken up because of my elbow hurting, but fortunately switching to another exercise helped stretch it out or something, because it didn't twinge as much when I went back, so I was ablet o finish the usual number of repetitions. {Smile}
Over breakfast I browsed the web. When breakfast was over, I made my shopping trip to get treats for Halloween. After I came back, I played Vindictus over lunch and afterwards. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I joined the middle long, large-group event just too late to get credit for the big boss, but I still did the rest and got decent rewards considering I missed the early parts, including the big boss. I told them about Pierogies being without internet. Not long afterwards, Pierogies came on and said hi. His internet was finally back! We talked, then teamed up on low-level characters. We did several missions of mine. I finished one contact's story arc and gained a level. Then I left to read to Mom. {Smile}
After dinner, I began writing up Monday's daily update, pausing to play more Vindictus than I meant to. Eventually, I stopped to finish Monday's update. Then I began Tuesday's update before I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I found Dennis, who had found a Halloween giant monster earlier. He was still there, so I recruited a team. We fought the giant monster. The team had started to disperse when the same giant monster appeared among us. We fought it, and I declared it must be the son of the first one. After that, Dennis looked around for the other Halloween giant monster, since there are two. Instead, he found a third one of the one we'd just fought twice. So, we fought this one, too, and I declared that it must be the grandson. When it was done someone asked what to do next just as the other Halloween themed giant monster appeared among us. So, we fought him next. I declared he was obviously jealous of all the attention the other guy's family got. For the record, giant monsters almost never spawn while people are around. In fact, I thought they had to spawn when no one was around until this happened. Then it was twice in one evening! After the giant monsters, we did a Halloween mission Dennis had. I also talked to Nox on the chat server. Then we did a few normal missions one of the strangers had. Phonso said hi during them, so I invited him to join us. He did. Then Azurette said hi, and I invited them to join us. They did. Eventually the team broke up. Dennis, Phonso, and the strangers left. Azurette and I talked a bit until they disconnected. they did come back, but only to say goodnight because I still needed to dance. I started to write and make notes in this just before dancing. Then I cleaned myself up. Next, I tried to dance again, but my knee hurt too much. I played Cross Stitch World until I decided to try those arm exercises that I hadn't done yet. After I did them, I barely peeked at Vindictus before I wrote and made notes in this. {Smile}
