Saturday, December 28, 2024

Daily Update, December 27, 2024

 Friday was my first parents' wedding anniversary with neither parent to be with, not that I've really been able to celebrate it since Dad died. I didn't want to upset Mom by mentioning Dad when she couldn't go be with him. Our main nurse even had a note on the wall warning against mentioning him or her parents around her, because she'd want to go to them, and get upset when she couldn't. {smile}

After breakfast, I found a note that my counselor could meet before lunch, only an hour and a day later than usual. We had been planning to meet a couple of hours later. My nurse liked the earlier time, so I said sure. Counselling went well. We talked about a lot, and I did feel better afterwards. {Smile}

After lunch, my nurse and I did some errands. First, we went to Safeway, where I got my shingles booster shot. They called it my second shot, but I know I had at least one earlier one, if not two. They had no record of the earlier one or ones, which meant it or they were back before the current, improved shot, so they recommended getting the new pair. {Smile}

My nurse did some shopping while I got my shot. Then we went to Longs, and I picked up a package of caramels. As a diabetic, I shouldn't have candy most of the time, but I have to keep it around for both hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic attack, like the one I had before and into my counselling appointment that very morning. Thankfully, my counselor noticed I wasn't acting quite normal and asked about taking something for my blood sugar. I did and was much better after that. {Smile}

After teaming much of the evening, I did my salsa dancing warmup, followed by my head exercises. Then, after a break, I did two pieces of less structured salsa dancing. The second was the short one, that usually land me at 19 3/4ers, but twice I backed it up to get parts I wasn't happy with the first time, so I figured it's even closer to 20 minutes of salsa dancing, I was pretty tired afterwards, but I'm hoping I'll be less tired next time. {Smile}

Between breakfast and counselling, I did a bit of browsing on the web. After the counselling, I had lunch with more browsing on the web, After the errands, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I started with paperwork while talking with Pierogies. Then I began to team up with Pierogies on a mid-level villain, only to have Dr. Faustus finally show and ask if I was joining the supergroup's Regular Friday meeting. I was on the villain who belongs to the SG, so I figured I'd better. I apologized to Pierogies and joined Dr. Faustus and one other supergroup member mission in doing four or five winter-themed missions. That took me right up to dinnertime. {Smile}

After dinner, I wrote up Thursday's daily update, with breaks for Cross Stitch World and reading comics. After that, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I talked with Jenny, and did some paperwork and hunts by myself. I also talked with Nox on the chat server. Then an acquaintance who may be turning into a friend said hi. They go by Dragon. They joined me and helped me with three proper missions. We would have done more, but I had to exercise. So, I broke to do so. I watched videos on YouTube and started making notes and writing in the break between salsa dancing sets. Afterwards, I finished writing and making notes in this and snuck in a little paperwork on City of Heroes: Homecoming. {Smile}