Friday, November 22, 2024

Daily update, December 21, 2024

After breakfast, the driver came and took me to the restaurant for the monthly meeting's holiday lunch at Don's Grill. We were the first ones there, but others soon followed. I talked mostly with one follow's nurse and our leader during lunch. I even had dessert - maybe half a chocolate cream pie, with the other half taken home for Mom. The driver took another gal and me home afterwards. She dropped the other gal off first. I'd say this was a pretty enjoyable lunch. {Smile}

I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. Mom was fairly alert when I went in though I was somewhat late due to wanting to run a mission with Dennis. Mom was watching the TV again, both before and during me reading to her. She even watched when we got to the pictures, but I think she looked at t hem, too. First, I began with scripture and thoughts about it. After that, I read two cards, one from a friend, and one from her cousin's granddaughter. Next I continued sharing pictures in _Picture Book of Happy Babies_. Then I read a story in _Disney Princess 5-minute Princess Stories_. I ended with November 21st's story, "The Twins," in _366 Stories for Bedtime_. {Smile}

After playing on City of Heroes much of the evening, I started salsa dancing with a false start. then I backed up, restarted, and did my salsa dancing warmup set. After a break, I did one piece of less structured salsa dancing, for around 15 minutes of salsa dancing. I was holding my pelvic floor and abdomen in the whole time, or as much as feasible, which made for an intense enough workout, I was tired at the end. {Smile}

After I got back from lunch, I hopped into Vindictus. Div wasn't there that I saw. Later, I found an email that said he left just as I arrived. I played with each of three characters somewhat, my one high-level one, and a moderately low-level one, along with a really low level one. I advanced the really low level significantly and the moderately low-level a little. then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I found Dennis playing with his best friend. I joined them, and we ran a mission together. Then Pierogies joined us, and we did a second mission. After that, I dashed off to read to Mom slightly late. {Smile}

After dinner, I began writing and making notes in this. Then I wrote up Wednesday's daily update with a break for Cross Stitch World. Then I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I found Dennis and Pierogies together. We teamed up and ran a couple of missions. Then Phonso invited us to a taskforce. Dennis and Pierogies left for bed instead, but I joined Phonso on a character I thought needed it but didn't. Next, Phonso ran a strike force next. I switched to a character who needs it more, though I later realized another character needs it even more, but next time. I also talked with Nox on the chat server. We caught up with each other, since it had been a few days since they could come on and say hi. After the strike force, I talked with Phonso and another player from the strike force. while doing paperwork. Then I made more notes in this before I started my dancing. I played Vindictus in the break between dance sets, and more Vindictus afterwards. Then I made some more notes in this. {Smile}