TUESDAY POST8b

-firstly, i was slightly grumpy to dad forcing me off to bed @ 9:30pm;i mean, i'm not three years old anymore! luckily, sleep IS my favourite hobby, and i managed to cuddle my darling bear bear and snore all the way till 12:30pm! :D :P
-but i used the pot:P and got myself kitted. not really sure why sylvia jie jie refused to help me out @ all, but hey, no biggie. i managed.
-sylvia jie jie Forced me to walk to her car. much thanks to her who helped me to buckle my seatbelt all day.
-she tootled us off to neway for lunch again. i asked if we could please try dong fong/sunnybank oriental, but she said no coz only neway has the comfy sofas to sit in. fair enough.
-we shared a pineapple chicken fried rice, yummy! i did try asking if we could have one each coz i was hungry but she said no. oh well, doesn't matter. i drank a yummy horlicks. i was satiated after lunch.
-sylvia jie jie Forced me to walk back to her car, then tootled around to sunny park to buy some groceries. i managed to sing 10% of my second-favourite song out aloud softly.
-sylvia jie jie tootled us back home; i used the loo once for two tinkles, then popped online.
-dad just came home. :)
-well, the carer/life coach/support worker/ whatever they're called now :P should arrive in about fifteen minutes, sylvia jie jie's just about to rock off and i'll try my hardest to come back online tonight with my final plodding total and the rest of today's events!
cheers,
em. ^^

tuesday post8

good afternoon! i plopped online @ 2:30pm, meaning i've still got @ least THIRTY MINUTES left for myself online after the carer/life coach/support worker/whatever they're called now :P leaves. add that to the time i'm already owed, and that equals SEVEN HOURS and THREE MINUTES i'm owed online!!
-anyways, today em's been hard @ work plodding 986 steps today. hopefully, i'll have passed 1000 steps by tonight's end!
-and, sylvia jie jie demands to use the computer now so she can check her e-mail, so i'll relinquish the computer over to her and enjoy my nice cup of rice green tea. bbl!
cheers,
em. ^^

monday post 8c

good evening! em's final plodding total for monday now stands @ 2825. anyways, events after my last post?
-lyn came, Forced me to walk into the laundry for what could be my last nice hot shower in the laundry - hairwash today.
-i had one tinkle before lyn flipped the nice hot water off, dried myself and had another tinkle, got creamed and had another tinkle. lyn rekitted me, and i had one last tinkle before she Forced me to walk back outside to the gobbling :p table.
-lol, lyn almost gave me the perfect arvo tea! a toasted cheese - yup, two slices and ham sandwhich, cut into four triangles. when i asked her, "lyn, i thought you said you'd added mayo?" she replied sheepishly, "sorry, i forgot." :P i also drank a cuppa, white and two, incorrectly. lyn takes her tea without sugar, BTW.
-anyways, i read my tales of the otori until lyn decided to give ela a massage @ 5:35. she painted me yellow with orange spots today, i think. she's got one son that's just joined the full time army/navy and another that plays indoor soccer. both are living elsewhere (one's down @ canberra), but she's still waiting for grandchildren.
-lyn passed me one mug of water, my second i could hold 'incorrectly', and took me to the loo, where i did a stinky unspeakable. lyn left while i was using the loo, and dad got me back out, of course also forcing me to un-dak myself and making me walk over to wash and dry both hands, before making me walk back to the gobbling :p table, where i watched seven's news, read out by rod young and kay mcgrath, sport by shane webcke and weather by john schluter. eep, the first day of winter promises to be cold!the minimum's only ten degrees toms! we'll definitely get into the single digits for the middle of winter! ><
-the slams arrived for dinner. dad used anna to gleefully force me to plod twenty minutes on that bloody treadmill. i listened to SBS's world news for the first five, then counted down the last fifteen.
-dinner: rice tonight, with lotsa bok choy and broccoli, some yummy chicken and two wee slices of BBQ pork. dinner was washed down with more blood. :p
-dad finally went to plod his remaining ten minutes (he 'claimed' he'd 'already done ten' earlier), then took me once more to the loo before i came back online.
-toms: lol, i don't think there's any plan for toms. dad's off for work again, meaning sylvia jie jie will be back to keep an eye on me again. i wonder if she'll order me to thank her for feeding me breakfast in the morning, like she did today? dunno why she demands i thank her for that, but hey, no biggie. then, i think she says she'll teach me how to use MYOB! hopefully, if i can use that program, it'll be easier for me to find a job. anyways, i'm going to check my e-mail now, hope everyone has a smashing day toms!
cheers,
em. ^^
P.S. dad says he's forcing me off to bed @ 9pm. argh, guess that just means that toms, i'm owed SIX HOURS and THIRTY-THREE MINUTES! i'm still promising i'll try my HARDEST to get back EVERY SINGLE MINUTE THAT I'M OWED!!

monday post 8b

well, this morning dad left for work and sylvia jie jie came to mind me. i snored my head off with bear bear until she bashed on the door (sylvia jie jie knocks REALLY hard :P) and told me 'fifteen more minutes.' i counted that down, then spent the last thirty or so seconds in a desperate, silent and fervent prayer to god, asking him to please heal my most beloved godmother.
-sylvia jie jie came back inside. i used the pot :P once, then kitted myself. sylvia finished with my socks and shoes, before Forcing me to walk out to the gobbling :P table.
-surprise - we're outta weetbix! so i just had two small scoops of yummy frosties.
-sylvia jie jie Forced me to walk to her car. thanks to her who helped me with my seatbelt all day, and we also listened to 96.5FM all day, too.
-sylvia drove us to UQ for physio. i used the loo once on arrival, then settled down with a who gossip mag until max came for me with a walkbelt.-phew, no tilt table today. :p just lotsa sit-to-stands, stepping for erf, weightshifting and walkies.
-i suggested we go to the runcorn chinese BBQ restaurant for lunch to sylvia - and she agreed!
-so she got a singaporean fried noodle, while i got a BBQ pork with tofu rice dish. i did ask if we could please buy an iced lemon tea to drink, but she refused and said to just drink the chinese tea offered for free there. oh well, no biggie.
-sylvia jie jie went to the nearby fruit and vegie store to pick up groceries for their dinner tonight, then tootled us home.
-dearest dad was home, too, just eating his lunch. :) i used the bathroom once, then tootled online.
-just talking to rolls now. sylvia's coming over soon and i'm installing MYOB onto the computer. hopefully, i'll be able to get a job easier if i can use myob!
-hmm ... CODA rang dad earlier, said lyn was coming today ... she should arrive in ten minutes thereabouts. well, i certainly hope dad won't force me to walk on that bloody treadmill tonight, and i also hope someone nice will come for dinner! anyways, will try my hardest to come back with tonight's events and my final plodding total for monday! off for my facebook fix now~
cheers,
em. ^^

monday post 8

argh, beep. i handed the computer over to sylvia jie jie to use for thirty minutes, and she closed my brosing windows. >< i know i've still got THIRTY MINUTES left to me after lyn leaves tonight, add that to the total i'm already owed and that brings total time to SIX HOURS and THIRTY-THREE MINUTES i'm owed! and as always, i can only promise i'll try my HARDEST to get back EVERY SINGLE MINUTE THAT I'M OWED!!
-anyways, i've been hard @ work plodding 1795 steps so far. but i wanna go check my e-mail first, so i'll bbl, okies?
cheers,
em. ^^

sunday post9b

good evening! my final plodding total for sunday now stands @ 2890. i think i'll satisfy the PISSY two hour time limit that PIG mum likes restricting me to; so toms, i'm still owed SIX HOURS and THREE MINUTES ONLINE!! i guess i can only keep promising i'll try my HARDEST to get back EVERY SINGLE MINUTE THAT I'M OWED!! anyways, events after my last post?
-aunty a walked me over to the dinner table. dinner tonight was rice, lotsa bok choy and chives, a small chunk of egg and one tiny chunk of BBQ pork. dinner was washed down with one yummy mug of blood - nah, just kidding, 'twas fruit and vegie juice, only the deep red colour that resembles blood. :P personally, i prefer the orange crush one.
-dad took me once to the loo, also giving me one mug of water, which he didn't notice me holding 'incorrectly'. but i didn't feel like doing a stinky unspeakable so called him after three tinkles. dad came back, made me walk over to wash and dry both hands, before making me walk back to the computer.
-actually, uncle wallace's here now. he's stuck that bloody annoying splint on ela, but sayshe'll take it off after five mins.
-anyways, toms: i think sylvia jie jie's coming back to take me to UQ for physio again. i wonder if we'll go anywhere for lunch? if she's short on ideas, i'll definitely suggest the runcorn BBQ chinese restaurant!
-think chrissy's back in the arvo, goodness knows how late. :p anyways, the spam count for the weekend's NINETY-FOUR. HOPE EVERYONE HAS A SMASHING WEEK!
CHEERS,
EM. ^^
P.S. lol, sorry, shrieking! ><"

sunday post9

good evening! hmm ... i know i said i was owed SIX HOURS and THREE MINUTES online; i came online @ 5:30pm but have zero idea when uncle wallace and aunty a will appear for dinner, so i'll just minus the time when they arrive. anyways, so far, i've been hard @ work plodding 2732 steps today. righteo, today's events?
-dad poked me awake this morning with fifteen more minutes." i counted the time down, then spent the last few seconds in a silent but fervent prayer to god, asking him to please heal my most beloved grandmother.
-when dad came back into my room, i used the pot :p once and he got me kitted before making me walk out to the gobbling :p table.
-first he forced me to drink one entire mug of water - i did so 'incorrectly' - then breakfast was three weetbix with almost one whole spoonful of honey.
-dad made me walk out to the 4WD. today, he gleefully forced poor em to buckle her seatbelt all day, and he also gave me permission to listen to my car CD once he was driving us to foodcourt.
-dad left me with aunty a and letty while he rocked off upstairs to the cantonese service.
-for worship today, aunty a and letty forced poor em to stand for ALL of worship, i.e. five songs! >, i sang the harmony for one and also clapped along for another.
-speaker today was shane mccarthy, and his sermon topic was about knowing how/when to apologise,
-no communion afterwards. just janice who walked me to the loo, over to wash and dry era, and to the morning tea area.
-i drank a cup of coloured water. thanks to peter pie who brought me over two half wholemeal crackers and a plastic mug of orange cordial. i told him the little kiddies story i was about to tell.
-dad made me walk to the little kiddies room, where a funny thing happened: aunty peggy said, "umm ... uncle calvin's gone home to cook lunch, but he was meant to be playing piano. can you do it?"
-so i had a quick practise before worship started. jenny/ka yee also scampered along to play a tune. sth like twinkle twinkle.
-then i did the story-telling! funniest thing was, there were some kids there that only spoke canto, , but i was telling the story in english! so some aunty roped e-ting to translate! whenever she faltered, i tried to help with my meagre canto skills.
-and the lil kids are very cute! when i reached the end of the story and said "let's pray" all the lil kiddies obediently clasped their hands and bowed theie heads! :)
-i scooted my chair over to the craft table. today, aunty michelle taught us how to make bells! we used ceramic cups, resulting in two breakages. thanks to aunty michelle who helped me with mine, like, tying a knot with the string. then we got lotsa stickers to decorate our cups/bells with! i stuck 'chan' and 'em' on mine, plus other various smileys, stars and animals.
-dad took me once to the bathroom before making me walk all the way back to the 4WD. i was somewhat disappointed coz i wanted to participate in the church luncheon! :(
-dad tootled us to foodcourt, me copping my weekly tirade. ><
-hmph. dad PROMISED me, both last night and this morning, that i WOULDN'T haveta eat lunch @ cafe mi! why, then, did i find myself seated @ that restaurant next to anna?! ><
-dad ordered the asian meal, fish fillet in corn sauce with rice; i got almost half, as well as half his hot milk tea. huh, i thought i was also allowed a pearl drink whenever i stood up for worship! ><
-dad made me walk back to the car and tootled us back home. happy erf got to sit sideways all day. :)
-karen was waiting for us @ home.
-a nice hot shower first - no hairwash today. i had one tinkle before karen flipped the nice hot water off, dried and creamed myself, had another tinkle. karen rekitted me, then i had one last tinkle when she went outside to put the kettle on.
-arvo tea was the second half of my kebab. i also made myself a cuppa, white and two, myofficial cup of the day i could hold 'incorrectly'.
-i finished off my sudoku while karen read her book.
-around 4:45, karen started giving ela a massage; i got painted orange with aqua spots today.
-karen gave me two plastic cups of water and took me to the loo for a stinky unspeakable.
-i went back to the table, read aloud my tales of the otori trilogy and karen continued giving ela a massage until dearest dad came home.
-karen walked me to the computer table just as PIG mum rang. :) dad signed karen off, and i said my thanks and byes. not sure when karen's coming back again ... not thursday, that's trace. maybe next sunday?
-i tootled online, and rang aunty a, telling her dinner was ready. guess she'll be over in twenty minutes, thereabouts.
-dad hit me with the eye goo :P and now i'm listening to seven's news. our dinner guests should arrive shortly - ahh, aunty a's here! i'll try to bbl tonight!
cheers,
em. ^^

saturday post3C

actually, dad decided to lemme stay online tiull 10pm, meaning that toms, i'm owed SIX HOURS and THREE MINUTES!! righteo, goodnite!
cheersa,
em. ^^

saturday post7b

good evening! my final plodding total for saturday now stands @ 3650. anyways, i came back online @ 9:05pm and dad says he's forcing me to bed in thirty minutes. that just means i'm owedc SIX HOURS and TWENTY-THREE MINUTES! i can only keep promising that i'll try my HARDEST to get back EVERY SINGLE MINUTE THAT I'M OWED!!! anyways, events after my last post?
-lisa came Forced me to walk into the laundry for my nice hot shower - hairwash today.
-i had one tinkle before lisa flipped the nice hot water off, dried myself and had another tinkle, got creamed and re-kitted. lisa Forced me to walk out to the gobbling :P table.
-i made myself a cuppa, white and two, while lisa made me half a toastie with two slices of cheese, ham and mayo.
-lisa gave ela a massage for thirty mins; said i was being painted white with black spots today, like a leopard. her and her husband are having KFC for dinner, lucky things!
-after she left, dad came downstairs and made me walk to the car. he gleefully forced me to buckle my seatbelt all night, and he also lemme listen to my car CD.
-dad tootled us off to the slam's place, making me walk inside. uncle tyrone arrived shortly afterwards, and diunner started.
-i got three, maybe four chicken and avocado sushi rolls dunked in soya sauce, and 2.5 slices of crumbed chicken dunked into some mayo. i drank 1.5 cups of yummy rice green tea.
-anna told me to deliever my toastmasters icebreaker speech, so i complied, then finally, i could return to my sudoku.
-anna asissted me once to the loo and over to wash era before we said our thanks, byes and see you tomorrows. dad tootled us home.
-almost forgot - PIG mum rang us while we were @ the slams'! i talked to dearest grandma, who said she had congee for dinner, and some vegetable i didn't recognise the name of.
-well, church toms, then i'm doing the story telling! hope we'll make some cool craft afterwards~ there's always the wish that we won't be asked to stand for worship, but like i've learnt, it's okay to dream, but it's foolish to dream THAT big and fancifully.
-also fingers crossed for some KFC toms!like i said in my previous post, it's been @ least three weeks! then, i think karen's coming in the arvo - yay, she'll gimme the perfect arvo tea, i'm pretty sure, unless dad tells her only to feed me fruit! hope to see everyone @ church toms!
cheers,
em. ^^
P.S. sorry for any mistakes tonight; i've already just passed the 9:30 bedtime dad imposed on me, toodles!

saturday post7

good afternoon! i came online @ 2:18pm, meaning that tonight, i'm still owed EIGHTEEN MINUTES online!! add to that the total i'm already owed, and that brings the total amount of net time owed to me is SEVEN HOURS and THREE MINUTES!! and i can only say that i'll try my HARDEST to get back EVERY SINGLE MINUTE THAT I'M OWED!!
-anyways, i've been hard @ work plodding 1954 steps today. and let's start with last night's events first!
-trace came late, coz of the traffic. she Forced me to walk into the laundry for my nice hot shower - i washed my hair today. but we had a slight tiff coz she said i didn't wash my calves for as long as i'd washed the other parts of my body. actually, i think she called me manipulative, or sth like that.
-i had one tinkle before trace flipped the nice hot water off, dried and creamed myself, had another tinkle. trace rekitted me, and i had one last tinkle before she Forced me to walk out to gobbling :p table.
-arvo tea was one juicy orange and one banana. lol, i just realised - i forgot to ask trace to please make me a drink! :P
-trace gqave ela a massage for one good half hour, blue with green spots. she gave me a hug and apologised, coz all before we were both saying we'd ring alice on monday; i said i'd ring her to ask if i could please change workers for thursday, that i didn't want trace taking me out to garbo. but we made up. :)
-surprisingly, trace and dad lemme watch seven's news seated @ the table! 'twas read out by rod young and kay mcgrath, sport by shane webcke and weather by john schluter.
-after the news, trace microwaved my dinner for me and also gave me half a plastic mug of yummy fruit and vegie juice. we watched today tonight, appalled by the fact that some hugely irresponsible dad had taught his son to smoke @ like, age 1.5!
-trace took me to the loo once, before i clambered up the step dad had made for me and into her car. unsurprisingly, dad forced me to buckle my own seatbelt, and trace tootled us off to church, listening to 97.3FM.
-trace Forced me to walk inside; i said my thanks and byes. i wonder if she'll be back before thursday?
-thanks to belinda who helped me once to the loo and back before uni fellowship started.
-for worship last night, i clapped along for one song and sang the harmony to another.
-program tonight was question and answer night! thanks to belinda who helped me sit on the floor like everyone else was doing.
-my question was answered; i'll put up the sheet i took off belinda for that.
-actually, thanks to belinda who helped me once more to the loo @ 8:30.
-i wanted to crash on the floor like everyone else; again, thanks to belinda who helped me lie tummy-down onto the carpet, and also thanks to ross who tossed me two cushions to lie on.
-so i listened to lotsa questions and answers; about bible smuggling, characters in the bible, etc. karson helped me back into my chair after some time, and ross snared his cushions back. :) also thanks to karson and ross who passed me sugus lollies and jelly babies.
-lol, next week's uni fellowship finale! and we each picked out a slip of paper containing another UFers name and haveta come dressed like them! i picked up joey; i'll prolly ask pole toms if there's some basketball shirt of joey's she can lend me.
-dad picked me up, tootled us back home, listening to some readers's digest disc? i didn't know they produced music, but hey.
-argh, in the past, when i came home from uni fellowship, i'd just head into the bathroom, PIG mum would bring me my half cuppa of milk and i'd complete my nightly routine then and there. why then, did dad force me to walk all the way to the fridge, pour the milk and drink it, brush and floss ( era gets to do that herself), put the milk back, and then walk to the loo? ><
-i also wonder why dad forces erf to do one hundred times of the ankle up and down exercise. i mean, he doesn't force elf to do them! but she's not jealous, no. :P
-back to today;
-firstly, yay for em who managed to swing herself over to use the pot :P once last night without falling to her death! :P o_O
-when tess came, she got me kitted before Forcing me to walk out to the gobbling :P table.
-i took a seat and waited for breakfast; tess suddenly remembered i hadn't brushed my teeth yet and Forced me to walk over to the sink and do that.
-breakfast was one mug of milo held 'incorrectly' and a toasted cheese sandwhich cut into four squares.
-i read the story i'm gonna tell the wee kiddies toms out aloud three times; i'll read it again this arvo and also toms and once more during morning tea before.
-tess gave ela a massage while reading the paper. brown and yellow spots today. actually, she wrote me down her e-mail addy; i'll send her an e-mail if i get the chance.
-tess made me a cuppa, white and two, the second i could hold 'incorrectly'. i read my tales of the otori trilogy, and reached page one hundred @ 11:50am.
-tess took me once to the loo for my stinky unspeakable and once more for a tinkle before vincent the bloody physio arrived for my torture session. ><
-he hid five snoopy's (the ones aunty nga forced uncle fung to eat cheeseburgers for :P) and my task was to walk and find them, not touching anything. he dragged me back like four times for touching the wall; i also lost my balance and fell twice. >< luckily, only bum falls.
-i went to the loo after the session finished.
-lunch was rice, lotsa wombok, three strips of chewy beef and one tiny chunk of pork.
-thanks to dad who poured me a plastic cup of fruit and vegie juice to wash down lunch with.
-dad made me walk back online after completing one sudoku. i've got around forty-five mins (well, thirty, after checking :P) until the carer/life coach/support worker comes, so i'll just check the check my e-mail. doubt i've got any time for naruto or the news, but they're next in line.
-just church toms, and story-telling! prolly off to food court for lunch, i wonder what my chances are of getting some KFC? coz i haven't sunk my teeth into their juicy chicken for @ least three weeks!
-anyways, hope everyone's enjoying their weekend!
cheers,
em. ^^
P.S. i found and corrected two errors in my post this afternoon.
P.P.S. almost forgot! thanks to tess who brought over two little tubs of le rice and lemme try one! it had a lil dash of caramel drizzled over the rice; 'twas quite yummy, indeed!

friday post8b

good afternoon! em's final plodding total for friday now stands @ 3250, and the spam count for the week's sixty-four (which seems unusually low, but okay, doesn't matter). anyways, events after my last post?
-uncle stephen came, Forced me to walk one or two laps with him. then i sat and stood up for five minute intervals, just weightshifting. the novelty was that he told me to weight-shift to the right! i'm so used to shifting my weight to the left that i've more or less forgotten how to weightshift to the right!
-uncle stephen Forced me to walk one more lap with him, then i came back online, just as PIG mum rang.
-i got to talk to dearest grandma. :) i continue to keep her in my prayers. :)
-PIG mum hung up after talking to me, saying she'd ring dad tonight when i was @ uni fellowship.
-well, dad says some carer/life coach/support worker's coming @ 3:30 and driving me to uni fellowship tonight. if it's chrissy, she's already five minutes late. :p
-toms: tessa's coming in the morning. fingers crossed she won't force me to play scrabble with her! actually, i haveta learn my little kiddies story - i'm telling it to them this sunday! and argh, but vincent the physio's over to torture me in the arvo. >< hope i'll survive ... hope everyone has a smashing weekend!
cheers,
em. ^^
P.S. alice just rang, said that trace's stuck in traffic. lol, will i need to start a spreadsheet for her too, like i do for chrissy? :P but dad says i can stay online till 4pm regardless, meaning that i'm still owed SIX HOURS and FORTY-FIVE MINUTES!!

friday post8

good afternoon! lookee, i popped online @ 1:40pm. dad's asked uncle stephen to come over @ 2:15, meaning that after he leaves, i've still got ONE HOUR and THIRTY-FIVE MINUTES left online for me. add that to the time i'm already owed, and that equals SEVEN HOURS andFOURTEEN MINUTES of net time for myself. and, as always, i PROMISE i'll try my HARDEST to get back EVERY SINGLE MINUTE I'M OWED!! anyways, today's events?
-today, i've been hard @ work plodding n3062 steps so far.
-breakfast was three weetbix with one spoonful of honey.
-today, dad gleefully forced poor em to buckle her own seatbelt all day, and he also gave me permission to listen to my car CD all day, too. oh, and happy erf got to sit sideways all day also. :)
-physio @ your :P turn. dad took me once to the loo, then i sat down and he gleefully forced poor ela on all these different exercises, like, theraputty and random moving around.
-i got sixteen minutes on the motomed today, and also had a cup of tea, white and two, with one cream bikkie.
-had a chat to joy - her hubby's flying to bangledesh for six months teaching english to 1000 students!
-uncle stephen's here, bbl!
cheers,
em. ^^

thursday post8b

good evening again! em's final plodding total for thursday now stands @ 2407. anyways, today's events?
-breakfast was three weetbix with almost one spoonful of honey.
-dad lemme listen to my car CD all day and he also gleefully forced me to buckle my seatbelt all day.
-UQ for physio. dad forced me to dak myself, made me walk over to wash both hands for thirty seconds and left me with some gossip mag before rocking off to pay.
-patinkenba's a new south welshwoman! so i had good fun giving her crap about NSW losing in last night's origin. :P
-thankfully, no tilt table today. just work for ela, posture work and stepping for erf.
-dad drove us to plaza for lunch. i introduced him to mr. kebab guy; we ordered a regular chicken kebab cut into half; dad's half had the onion.
-dad tootled me home. i declined to head inside, coz i knew karen would be @ my house shortly.
-so i munched my half a kebab and karen tootled us off to ikea!
-in sparkless, we wheeled me to the toilet first. then we started shopping!
-we picked up most of the things dad had written on the shopping list, and, after one more loo trip, i had a 50c soft serve while karen got herself a coffee. thanks to karen who shared with me a small chunk of her chocolate bar, which contained sth ... cookie?
-karen tootled me home. we were met @ the door by lyn, followed by lisa.
-dad made me walk into the laundry for my nice hot shower - hairwash today. i had a tinkle before lyn flipped the nice hot water off, got dried and creamed, had another tinkle. lyn rekitted me, and i had one last tinkle when she was tying erf's laces before she Forced me to walk out to the gobbling :P table.
-lyn's from CODA; lisa's from staffing options. lyn cleaned the bathroom while lisa made me a perfect arvo tea, yum yum. :)
-@ 5:40, lisa gave ela a massage - and lyn gave era one! can't remember what colours lyn painted era, but lisa painted ela light blue with white spots with light blue spots again in the middle.
-they left @ 6pm. think lisa's coming back on saturday, then tuesday, then wednesday again.
-dad let me online till uncle wallace arrived for dinner.
-i used the loo once, then dinner was rice, lotsa normal lettuce and yummy garlic stem, one small chunk of beef and one even smaller slice of chicken that uncle wallace had brought over from some thai restaurant.
-dinner was washed down with a yummy mug of fruit and vegetable juice, then dad hit me with the eye glop :P before ordering me to read the paper till 7:45.
-so i did that, and @ 7:45 he allowed me to pop back online.
-toms: physio @ your :p turn around 10am. i really dunno my luck @ dad taking me out for lunch @ the runcorn BBQ chinese restaurant afterwards, but it can't hurt to ask! dunno if it's chrissy or some other unknown coming toms arvo, but then uni fellowship's @ night. :) hope everyone has an enjoyable end to their week!
cheers,
em. ^^

thursday post 8

good evening! em's been hard @ work plodding 2231 steps today. anyways, without further ado, today's events?
-QUEENSLANDER!!!!!!! firstly, we belted those silly blues last night. lemme just go send an e-mail to mel and have a good laugh @ her before i come back with today's events.
cheers,
em. ^^

wednesday post8c

good evening again! my final, final plodding total for wednesday now stands @ 2428. anyways, events after my last post?
-i stayed online until our dinnger guests for the night, uncle danny and aunty shirley arrived.
-dad made me walk over to the gobbling :P table. dinner tonight: rice, lotsa yummy garlic stem and wombok, one small chunk of beef/pork and one more of equally tiny chicken. dinner was washed down with a yummy mug of fruit and vegetable juice, which i got to hold 'incorrectly' coz dad was too busy yakking to our dinner guests to take nite of me.
-dad took me once more to the loo before i plopped onto the couch to wait for the game. but i asked to come back online coz 'twas only 7:30, and the game doesn't start till 8pm.
-again, QUEENSLANDER!!!!!!!!!!!! for tonight! i'm so sending mel a message and ribbing her if we win! the other reason why i hope we win is coz i'm holding dad to his promise of going out and celebrating if we win! but if we lose, i'll beg for a big bowl of ice-cream as consolation.
-anyways, toms: physio @ UQ. karen's taking me to ikea in the arvo - hope we can eat the cheap meals there! - then trace's taking me to garbo @ night. think dad said i'm only allowed half a bowl of chicken katsudon, but no biggie, coz he said i could have a shake, too. :) anyways, i sincerely hope the idiot headache that's been plaguing me for two days now will seriously bugger off! hope everyone's having a great week!
cheers,
em. ^^

wednesday post8b

good evening! my new final plodding total for wednesday now stands @1851. anyways, the rest of today's events, quickly?
-lyn Forced me to walk to the laundry for my shower - hairwash today. i had a tinkle just before lyn flipped the nice hot water off, lyn dried me, i creamed myself and had another tinkle. lyn rekitted me, and i had one last tinklewhen lyn was tying erf's laces. oh, one thing i forgot to add: the reason i like lyn so much is coz she's cool with the "i'll start undressing you from the bottom if you'll start undressing yourself from the top."karen used to do that too, but sadly, she doesn't anymore. but she and lyn both help me to wash my calves. :)
-lyn Forced me to walk back out to the gobbling :P table. there she made me the perfect afternoon tea: a toasted cheese - yup, two slices - ham and mayo sandwhich, cut into three or four triangles. i drank my cuppa, white and two, 'incorrectly'.
-lyn gave ela a massage for about ten minutes. lol, that means she's as bad as chrissy! :P she painted me light green with bright yellow spots today, BTW.
-lyn's divorced from her husband, who lives in perth. she's got two boys, both in their late twenties. one plays indoor soccer; the other's joined the army.
-lyn took me once more to the loo for two tinkles before dad signed her off and she left. she's having herb and garlic schnitzel(sp?) for dinner tonight with roast vegies. she lives in chatswood, and has three dogs: win, angie and ... lol, i've forgotten the last one's name, sorry! ><"
-i tootled back online. just wondering who'll come for dinner tonight ...
-QUEENSLANDER!!!!! state of origin tonight - i certainly hope we'll win, especially coz dad pinky promised me that if we win, we'll go out to celebrate! but if we lose, i'll need one big bowl of ice-cream for consolation. :P
-anyways, sorry for any mistakes, i'm off to check my e-mail now.
cheers,
em. ^^

wednesday post9

good afternoon! righteo, i came online @ 3:01pm, meaning that after chrissy/whoever comes along to look after me, i've still got ONE HOUR and ONE MINUTE left online. add that to how much i'm already owed, i'm actually owed SIX HOURS and FORTY-ONE MINUTES online!! and i PROMISE i'll try my absolute HARDEST to get back EVERY SINGLE MINUTE THAT I'M OWED!! anyways, let's start off with last night's events first!
-karen gave me a nice hot shower - hairwash today. i had a tinkle before she flipped the hot water off, dried and creamed myself, had another tinkle. karen got me rekitted, and i had one last tinkle before she Forced me to walk out to the gobbling :P table.
-i made myself a cuppa, white and two, and thanks to karen who made me the perfect toastie - two slices of cheese, ham and mayo cut into three triangles.
-she gave ela a quick massage as i wolfed down my arvo tea. then, time to go, dad made me walk out to the car.
much thanks to karen who helped me buckle my seatbelt all night, and she tootled us off to QUT for toastmasters, listening to 97.3FM.
-i was incredibly surprised and grateful when karen popped the boot to get sparkless out for me on arrival, but thought the better of it to ask why. so karen and i wheeled me over to Q block. yes, we did haveta ask like, three security guards for directions along the way. :P
-hey, i almost forgot - so far today, i've been hard @ work plodding 1249 steps
-while we waited for some security guy to unlock the door for us, i had a chat to leonard and michael, told them i was a nervous wreck. :P
-when toastmasters started, warmup was about
-mariana wheeled me out to deliver my speech. firstly, i apologised if i'd speak too fast coz of nerves, then got into it!
-when the red light came on, i said, to everyone's amusement, "yay, the red light is on, i can finally stop." i'd reached me punching that boy bully who'd harrassed me during year one.
-i received a standing ovation, coz 'twas my icebreaker. i also taled a lil overtime, sth like 6:20, but the timekeeper said, "but we'll forgive you coz you gave us quite some laughs." :P
-during the interval, i asked karen if she could find me a vending machine anywhere, coz the speech had parched my throat. we tried basically every floor on the elevator but couldn't find a vending machine anywhere, so in the end karen braced sparkless and i stood up to take thirsty gulps from the water fountain.
-back inside, mariana and david said they were leaving. i gave them both hugs, thanked them heaps for coming to support me.
-evaluations started! i was evaluated by leonard; i'llput up what he said tonight if i can get dad to please pass me my page i took notes from. i keep forgetting; i haveta ask dad to please get me a new notebook coz i've filled outthe one i've been using.
-karewn took me once to the bathroom before we wheeled me back down to her car.
-we went to the red roosters in springwood for dinner. i got a tropoicana pack, and drank the 500 mL chocolate breaka i'd picked up from a vending machine we'd past as we were leaving; karen ate a fish and chips and was slightly disappointed that red roosters (she keeps calling them 'big roosters', lol :P) doesn't sell iced coffee.
-karen tootled me home, she'll be back to take me out to ikea come thursday afternoon! wonder what dad wants us to buy from there ...?
-repeat the usual nightly routine, i had a brief chat to PIG mum on the phone then dad kicked me to bed. zzz.
-but uh oh for last night. i'd swung myself over to use the pot :P then whimpered to bear bear, "my head hurts ... " :( he immediately scampered o the edge of my bed, and ordered, "call dad." dad came downstairs, fed me two panadol and three glasses of water - i was extremely careful to hold each one 'correctly', of course. then he prayed with me and i taught him how bear bear says giving a tummy rub is the best way for a headache cure.
-huh? oh, it's not chrissy, she's never early! it's lyn lynette. righteo, will try to bbl later tonight with the rest of today's events!
cheers,
em. ^^

tuesday post7

good afternoon! today, i was hard @ work plodding 3804 steps. anyways, i'll get roughly thirty minutes online, meaning that i'm still owed ONE POINT FIVE HOURS online when i get back. somehow, i doubt that i'll get anymore time online, meaning that toms, i'll be owed FIVE HOURS and FORTY MINUTES online!! and i've promised i'll try my HARDEST to get back EVERY SINGLE MINUTE I'M OWED!! anyways, today's events?
-last night was troublesome. >< i'd brushed my teeth and everything, was ready to use the loo once before hitting snooze land, when dad ordered me upstairs! i mean, i know the downstairs bathroom works now; it's just waiting final inspection before i can use it. so when dad wouldn't lemme use the downstairs bathroom, i was like, "oh well, i'll just use the pot :P in my room.' but he wouldn't lemme do that, either! >< so he made me walk upstairs, gleefully forced me to dak myself. i stayed over the loo for three tinkles - ignoring his attempts to get me off the loo - then dad gleefully forced me to un-dak myself. i was ready to head back into my bedroom for sleep, but no, dad forced me to walk back downstairs again! >< ARGH.
-but i swung myself over to use the pot :P once last night without plummeting to my death. :P o_O
-then i snored, and i snored ... and i snored! :P i did get up once to use the pot :P again before dad left for work, then i cuddled bear bear and kept snoring - all the way till mrs. dent arrived - @ 12:50!
-so sylvia jie jie and mrs. dent got me kitted. sylvia jie jie rocked off for some job interview, mrs. dent put sparkless into her boot, then Forced me to walk to her car.
-much thanks to mrs. dent who helped me with my seatbelt all day. off she tootled us off to garbo, listening to 4BC or 4BH. whatever 882 is, anyway.
-i thought our deal was that i walked to the coffee club with her, then got to spend the rest of the shopping trip in sparkless; but hey, i didn't complain when mrs. dent got out sparkless for me!
-we wheeled me to the coffee club, where mrs. dent's intentions became clear. turns out i just had to walk inside once we arrived there. no biggie.
- i ordered the Hawaiian open grill with chips and a chocolate milkshake; mrs. dent ordered some vegetarian open grill with a cappuccino.
-we just yakked away, about nana, my grandma, mr. dent, etc. like last

monday post 5c

*two slices of pear and one slice of orange later ...* :P
-i think 'twas aunty melody who took me downstairs - and it was trace who awaited me! dunno where chrissy was ...
-anyways, a nice hot shower - i washed my hair today.
-i had a tinkle just after trace flipped the water off, dried and creamed myself, got rekitted. trace Forced me to walk out to the kitxgen to prepare my arvo tea.
-argh, dad had left a note on the table saying that if i wanted tea, it was to be with ZERO sugar! >< understandably, i just had milo instead. as for the arvo tea, if i wanted to have a toasted sandwhich, 'twas only with one slice of cheese, so, again, understandable i just went with the fruit option.
-one banana and one juice pear later, trace sat down to give ela a massage for ONE HOUR!! i must show chrissy this, whenever she comes back. :P i got painted white today, with black spots. "black, like my own heart," laughed trace evilly. :P
-actually, trace Forced me to the laundry to wear one more shirt when she learnt we were to have dinner guests tonight. but thanks to her who went upstairs and came back with my tales of the otori trilogy for me to read.
-all the time, aunty melody was chopping stuff in the kitchen. trace had a convo with her, like, jobs and stuff.
-dinner guests tonight: uncle slam, anna (argh, dad let anna force me to plod on the bloody treadmill for twenty minutes! he claims he plods his own time in the morning, when i'm still asleep - how can i ever be sure?! ><) uncle cyras and aunty melody. i got three fried dumplings with literally one tiny drop of soya sauce, lotsa lettuce and three yummy chicken and cucumber sushi rolls that anna made! i also drank roughly one cup of yummy aloe vera. which reminds me, i gottago send my thanks to christine~
-uncle colbert popped over to visit. anna took me to the loo once and i did a stinky unspeakable after she kindly passed me a mug of water.
-actually, everyone's just left now, and dad says he's forcing me off to bed @ 9:40. meaning that toms, i'm owed FOUR HOURS and FORTY MINUTES online!!
-toms, sylvia jie jie's back to keep watch over me; hopefully, she'll be less cranky. but mrs. dent's taking meout to the coffee club for lunch, then we're going shopping, i think! i'll haveta walk to the coffee club, but i get to spend the shopping trip in sparkless. oh well, i'll survive. anyways, hope everyone has a great day toms!
cheers,
em. ^^
P.S. sorry for any mistakes tonight; i've no time to check - just ten mins left! i'm heading for my facebook fix. :P
cheers,
em. ^^

monday post 5b

good evening! my final plodding total for monday now stands @3456. lol, a very convenient number to type. :P anyways, events after my last post?
-before that though, in my previous post, i said that i still had FIVE MINUTES left online; i came online @ 8:40 and it's already 8:45 now, so i'll just minus that time from the FIVE MINUTES and FORTY MINUTES that i'm still owed! anyways, events after my last post?
-lol, sylvia jie jie did try to boot me offline. she didn't listen to my explanations of the time i'm already owed, either; in fact, she flounced downstairs and shut the modem off! luckily, that didn't bother me - i just stayed on the page i was reading from and finished the story. :P
-actually, bbl, okies? sylvia jie jie's just handed me some fruit. *gobble gobble gobble* :P
cheers,
em. ^^

monday post5

good afternoon! well, i tootled online @ 2:05pm, meaning that after my carer/life coach leaves tonight, i've still got FIVE MINUTES left for myself online. add to that the time i'm already owed from previous days/nights, i'm owed FIVE HOURS and FORTY MINUTES online!! i'll work some of that off tonight, i'm pretty sure.
-anyways, today i've been hard @ work plodding 1937 steps. anyways, last night's events?
-dinner with aunty a. i drank a yummy mug of fruit and vegie juice afterwards 'incorrectly'; dad and aunty a were too busy yakking to notice me.
-i headed upstairs and tootled back online until 'twas time for house. dad made me walk back downstairs and we had dinner with aunty a.
-dad ordered me to complete one sudoku before letting me back online upstairs.
-@ 9pm, i went back downstairs, did my nightly routine and said goodnite, goodbye and thanks to aunty a. bear bear doesn't really like aunty a, though, she threatened to take him away from me! o_O ><
-last night's episode of house was about some famous blogger.
-dad was obviously asleep after the show ended, so i just sat and watched V until he woke up and remembered to come downstairs and kick me to bed.
-i heard PIG mum ring dad around 11pm; i yelled out that i wanted to talk to her too, but she ignored me. ><
-so i cuddled bear bear and snored my head off. i also managed to swing myself over to use the pot :P once last night without falling to my death. o_O :P
-sylvia jie jie arrived like 7:30. i kinda half-mumbled a good morning to her before bear bear demanded my attention again and we snored our heads off.
-sylvia jie jie rapped on the door some time later with "fifteen more minutes." so understandably i protested when she came to dig me up @ thirteen! but she refused to give me two more minutes. :( so i got up, used the pot :P once more and kitted myself. sylvia jie jie finished with my socks, AFO and shoes, then Forced me to walk out to the gobbling :P table.
-i was going to have weetbix for breakfast, but sylvia jie jie couldn't find them ands offered me 'cornflakes' instead. upon seeing the box, i knew it was actually frosties, and told her so. too bad, i shouldn't have, coz then she only allowed me one ladleful. but oh well.
-sylvia jie jie Forced me to walk to her car. thanks to her who helped me buckle my seatbelt all day, and we also listened to 96.5FM all day, too.
-i gave her directions to UQ. when we arrived, i used the loo once first, then sylvia jie jie passed me a who magazine to browse while she went back downstairs to pay.
-nadia/nadine soon came for me. she lent me a walkbelt but no stick and Forced me to walk into the gym.
-eep, the dreaded tilt table for twenty minutes first. >, ann was a meaniepoo who forced erf to stand up on a chair. ><
-then sit-to-stands with nadine/nadia and the other girl. max/pertinkeba/katinkenba shouted hello. :P
-nadine/nadia Forced me to walk back down to sylvia jie jie's car. i gave her back the walkbelt, and sylvia jie jie tootled us off to neway, where she said we could share a lunch for seven bucks.
--stir fried beef ho fan and some kinda hokkien dish were the set lunches. i asked a waiter what was in the hokkien dish; when he said it contained prawns, i went with the stir fried beef ho fan. i ordered a warm horlicks with the meal, thanks to sylvia jie jie who put in one small spoonful of sugar. i also asked some waitress to please pass me a fork.
-when our food arrived, sylvia jie jie ate two bowls worth while i just had one bowl worth.
-dunno why sylvia jie jie refused to see if there were any closer parking spots available for me. >< but oh well.
-she tootled us off to ding ho (anyone know whether it's got an english name?) and left me inside the car while she went to buy some groceries. i hit the hazard lights once for twenty-three flashes, and also sang 1/5 of my second-favourite song out aloud before sylvia jie jie came back. wow, she likes ong choi(say that in canto)! eww, if you ask me. :P
-she tootled us home. i went upstairs and tootled online. think sylvia jie jie said sth about kicking me offline @ 3:05pm and leave the remaining hour for tonight? i guess i'll try and explain i'm just trying to use all the net time i'm already owed.
-anyways, alice just rang, looking for dad. i told her to try his mobile. anyways, i'll try come back online later tonight!
cheers,
em. ^^

sunday post4b

good evening! my final plodding total for sunday now stands @ 4737. anyways, events after my last post?
-aunty a arrived, spied on me facebooking. :P
-i went to the toilet once before heading downstairs for dinner.
-rice tonight, with lotsa bok choy, three slices of beef and one small but yummy slice of egg.
-dinner was washed down with a yummy mug of fruit and vegie juice, which i got to hold 'incorrectly' coz dad and aunty a were too busy yakking to take notice of me.
-dad wanted me to complete another sudoku; i refused coz i'd already done one this arvo when karen was here. so he ordered me to read my bookclub novel instead - and guess what? i finished it!
-dad made me walk back upstairs and online. he says i gotta do my nightly routine @ 9pm coz house starts @ 9:30.
-toms: dad's back to work, so sylvia jie jie's over to look after me. that's why i'm sleeping downstairs tonight. sylvia jie jie will take me to physio @ UQ. hopefully she can take me out for lunch afterwards, but hopes aren't up. to be honest, i'm really sad and pooped that the parents wouldn't take me out for dinner tonight - i mean, today marks TWO YEARS since i've come outta the hospital! ai, well, mother refused last year also ... >, well, third time lucky next year, i hope ... anyways, hope everyone has a smashing week!
cheers,
em. ^^
P.S. the spam count for the weekend's twenty-six.

sunday post4

good evening! i'll put the spam count for the weekend up later tonight, but so far, today i've been hard @ work plodding 4307 steps. anyways, dad says i'll get roughly one hour online tonight before dinner time; i should get some more net time before house starts @ 9:30, so i'll guess i'll satisfy my PISSY two hour time limit. meaning that toms, i'm owed FIVE HOURS and FORTY-FIVE MINUTES online!! anyways, today's events?
-dad poked me awake with "ten more mins." lol, but the funny thing was that i must've fallen back asleep, meaning that when dad poked me up again ten minutes later, i whined @ him, "go away; it's only been three minutes!" dad laughed and said he'd gimme five more mins. so i counted that down, then spent the little time left over praying fervently to god, begging him to please heal my most beloved grandmother.
-dad got me up. i swung myself over to use the pot :P once, then dad got me kitted. he made me walk to the bathroom to spit out my mouth splint first. i was somewhat grumpy coz in the past, i'd always gone downstairs and sat down @ the gobbling :P table first before spitting out my mouth splint.
-breakfast was three weetbix with one whole tablespoonful of honey. :)
-dad made me walk to the car. today, he gleefully forced me to buckle my own seatbelt all day, and for the trip to church, he wouldn't lemme listen to any music. oh well, i just sang in my head, then. :)
-dad made me walk all the way down to the service hall, and left me in the care of pole and janice. aunty a popped over, warned i'd haveta stand for worship when called.
-service started. i had to stand for ALL of worship - like, four songs. >< i sang the harmony to two.
-hey, wonder if i can catch nine's news on the radio? bbl~
-speaker today was shane mccarthy, and he gave us the last part in his four part series.
-holy communion afterwards, then pole and some other girl - janice or christy jie - helped me once to the loo.
-for morning tea, i got a mug of tea ... think i ate a bikkie, too.
-pole and aunty a walked me up to aunty a's car, we all jumped in and she tootled us off to fi's for bible study.
-pole and kelvin helped me up the two steps into fi's house, and thanks to wilfreddy who helped wipe down my shoes for me.
-bible study started. i learnt that poor dora's grandad has passed away. :(
-pole helped me to the loo once afterwards, then dad tootled us off to plaza for lunch.
-argh, he parked in that place where i'd haveta walk uphill. >< then, he wouldn't lemme hold onto the siderail when walking into foodcourt. ><
-dad decided we'd share a bacon deluxe meal. i got two bites and roughly fourteen chips dunked into tomato sauce. when i told dad there was zero way i'd feel full, he made me walk over where i got half a small kebab. and i drank an orange juice after dad refused me a pearl milk tea, even though i'd stood up for worship today. ><
-but uncle noah and aunty margaret plopped along for a chat, and aunty margaret gave me a present, but said i couldn't open it till i got home.
-uncle noah walkws with us back to the 4WD, we said our byes and dad tootled us home. dad lemme listen to my car CD this time, and happy erf also got to sit sideways all day.
-karen wasn't here yet, and i was perfectly content to sit and wait until she arived, but dad made me walk all the way back inside, and i settled down with my book club novel - i've almost finished it!
-karen came, and i headed inside for my nice hot shower - hairwash today.
-i had one tinkle just before karen flipped off the nice hot water, dried myself and had another tinkle, got creamed and rekitted. i had one more tinkle when karen was tying erf's shoelaces, then she Forced me back out to the gobbling :P table.
-i made myself a cuppa, white and two, for arvo tea, and ate the sausage bun tess had bought dad yesterday. lol, i think the one's from sunni bakery taste better! :P
-i did one sudoku coz dad had ordered me to complete one. karen took me upstairs to the bathroom and back down, after washing and drying era.
-karen gave ela a massage for THIRTY MINUTES (i gotta show chrissy this :P dunno why she refuses to give a massage for even fifteen minutes!) and i got painted maroon with light blue spots today.
-when she left (coming back to tuesday and taking me to toastmasters!) dad made me walk upstairs and online.
-i'll try my hardest to come back tonight with my final plodding total, the weekend's spam count and the events for tonight, okies?
cheers,
em. ^^

saturday post 4b

-firstly, thanks to dad who watched me swing myself around to use the pot :P once last night and once again this morning.
-when tess arrived this morning, she got me up, kitted, then Forced me to walk to the bathroom to brush my teeth. then she Forced me to walk to the loo, Forced me to walk back to the bathroom to wash and dry era, then Forced me down the stairs and i took a seat on the sofa while she had a chat to dad.
-dad made me walk to tess's car, gleefully forcing me to buckle my own seatbelt.
-tess tootled us off to the coffee club @ plaza! she Forced me to walk inside, but lemme hold gently onto her hand, meaning that erf was able to step past elf all day. :)
-i ordered an eggs benedict with bacon and a chocolate thickshake, tess ordered two poached eggs with toast and one hot chocolate. lol, when tess flagged over a waitress to ask where her hot chocolate had vanished to, i told the waitress, "i ordered a thickshake, not a milkshake. please make it thicker." :P
-so yummy food and happy conversations. :) tess finished eating before me, and left me eating while she popped off to ma baker to pick up some bread for her girls and dearest dad! so hopefully i'll get a yummy sausage bun for arvo tea, not just fruit.
-tess Forced me back to her car, and she tootled us off back to her house to drop off the bread she'd picked up for her girls. i shook hands with elsa, i think she's ... fifteen, sixteen or seventeen. :P carlem was using the bathroom, so i didn't get the chance to meet her. maybe i'll find them on facebook ...
-tess tootled me home. she Forced me up the stairs and into the parent's bathroom. thanks to dad who passed me a plastic cup of water, and i did a stinky unspeakable. tess came back for me, Forced me to walk over to wash and dry era, then Forced me to walk to aunty a's room, where dad said i couldn't pop online till i finished one sudoku.
-roughly forty minutes later, i finished. dad made me walk over to the computer and i tootled online.
-look, i've no idea where vincent the physio is. he rang yesterday to say he'd arrive @ 12:30. hey, thanks, man, for not turning up! :P
-church toms. is there bible study? i dunno. but hopefully i can get a kebab for lunch afterwards! i've honestly giving up wishing for any KFC! :P
cheers,
em. ^^

saturday post 4

good afternoon! okay, i came online @ 1:45pm, meaning i'll have been online for two hours and fifteen minutes online whenever my carer/life coach for this afternoon arrives. that's alright, it just means that i'm still owed FIVE HOURS and FORTY-FIVE MINUTES online!! i'll try my HARDEST to get back EVERY SINGLE MINUTE THAT I'M OWED, okies?
-anyways, i'm just gonna check my e-mail first before blogging about last night and today, so lemme just say that i've been hard @ work plodding 1833 steps today. bbl!
cheers,
em. ^^

friday post3

good afternoon! righteo, i didn't pop online till 3:05pm, meaning that after i get back from uni fellowship tonight, i'm still owed ONE HOUR and FIVE MINUTES online. however, if dad just forces me off to bed, toms, adding in all the times that i'm already owed, i have SIX HOURS online!! lol, guess i'll just haveta try work that time off slowly ... :P
-anyways, today i was hard @ work plodding 2264 steps.
-this morning, after i counted down the ten/fifteen more mins dad gave me, i spent the rest of the time in a silent fervent prayer to god, begging him to please heal my most beloved grandma.
-when dad came inside, i swung myself around to use the pot :P once.
-dad got me kitted for the day, then made me walk downstairs.
-breakfast was three weetbix with one spoonful of honey.
-dad gleefully forced poor em to buckle her own seatbelt all day, and we also listened to my car CD all day.
-your :P turn for physio first. dad left me sitting with an australian physiotherapists journal while he rocked off to repark the car.
-i started @ the table today, dad forcing ela on all these different activities.
-but i got sixteen minutes on the moto med today, and a cup of tea, white and two, for morning tea along with one bikkie with chocolate cream. dad didn't demand half the bikkie like PIG mum usually does, but he did take a slurp from my cuppa.
-dad took me once to the loo before my thirty minutes with emma started.
-mostly posture work today. i also lay on my tummy for awhile, with this e-stim machine thing attached to my left shoulder.
-dad had bought this footlong meatball sub for us while i was having my session with emma, and he tootled us home, saying that fi would come over shortly.
-dad made me walk back into the house, and fi arrived shortly, followed by christy jie, who just had an MRI on her back.
-lunch was almost 1/3 of the footlong meatball sub and a mug of plain milk. thanks to dad who fed me a wee chocolate egg afterwards.
-fi brought along her laptop with the new testament disc, and we listened to john chapter seven, i think.
-christy jie and fiona left when uncle stephen arrived. so he Forced me to walk around with him, weightshifting and stuff.
-when i finally got to sit down, he had me doing more arm exercises and took a look @ my AFO.
-finally over, he saw me upstairs and i tootled online.
-well, karen's here now - TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES EARLY! gotta tell chrissy this, if she comes toms. :P
-well, UF tonight; i think it's the second last for this semester? but it should be good. :)
-and toms, fingers, toes and all other appendages crossed that tess can take me out to coffee club toms!! i also think vincent the physio will come and torture me. >< argh, but i should survive. hope everyone has a smashing weekend!
cheers,
em. ^^
P.S. the spam count for the week is ninety-one.

okay, am now owed FOUR HOURS and FIFTY MINUTES goodnite!
cheers,
em. ^^

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righteo, dad's forcing me to bed now. toms, i'm owed FIVE HOURS and SEVEN MINUTES!
goodnite~
em. ^^

thursday post3

good evening! righteo, i know i'm owed FIVE HOURS and SIX MINUTES online; i came online @ 8:10pm; hopefully, dad'll allow me to stay online till 10:10pm before forcing me off to bed.
-today, i was hard @ work plodding 3711 steps.
-this morning, dad poked me awake with "fifteen more minutes." i counted the time down, then spent the rest having a silent but fervent prayer to god, begging him to heal my most beloved grandma.
-when dad came into my bedroom, i swung myself around to use the pot :P once. dad got me kitted, then made me walk downstairs.
-breakfast was 2.5 weetbix with half a spoonful of honey.
-dad made me walk to the car. today, he gleefully forced me to buckle my seatbelt all day, and we listened to kenny bee for the drive up to UQ.
-dad made me walk up into the waiting room. he passed me a who magazine and also hit me with the eye goo.
-nadine came for me with a walkbelt and Forced me to walk inside.
-phew, no tilt table today. :P just lotsa sit-to-stands, stepping with erf, and some work for ela.
-nadine Forced me to walk back down to the 4WD. dad lemme switch discs to my car CD, and tootled us home. oh, and happy erf got to sit sideways in the car all day. :)
-home, dad made me walk back inside to the gobbling :P table.
-lunch was one small yummy slice of mrs. dent's chocolate cake and a glass of milk.
-ding dong! karen arrived. she was followed by a second ding dong - patsy and margaret had come to take me out!
-so i said bye to karen, and after a loo trip, patsy (who drives a hyundai) tootled us off to the underwood shopping centre with margaret in the backseat.
-the ladies got out sparkless, and we wheeled me into woolies to pick up groceries for dad. then, we continues our shopping foray into big w. finally all done, we stopped at michel's patisserie for a drink. i slurped a yummy choc shake, patsy had a latte and margaret drank her earl grey black, without sugar.
-we just yakked away. i told them my behavioural optom story. :P patsy told me that buddha's one, and margaret told me that poor harry recently had like, seven! teeth removed.
-crap, nature's calling. gotta pee. time's now ... 8:32pm.
-8:50pm now. so i'll try to stay online till 10:28pm. anyways, where was i?
-margaret tootled us home.
-dad made me walk back inside; i said thanks and byes to the ladies; i think they said sth about taking me out again next next wednesday?
-then i waited for trace. and waited. and waited. i ended up calling CODA like, three times.
-trace ended up coming @ like, 5:10! she Forced me to walk into the laundry for my nice hot shower - i washed my hair today. ied and creamed myself. trace got me rekitted then Forced me to walk out to the gobbling :P table.
-argh,from now on, tea with one teaspoonful of sugar isn't coloured water. tea with HALF a teaspoon is. >< so i drank one 'incorrectly' and also munched a juicy pear.
-trace gave ela a massage, said i was being painted black for my bleak mood. :P
-she left around 6:15pm. i stayed in my seat and read my bookclub novel for awhile, until the phone rang.
-"hello?" said i. "hello!" replied some voice i couldn't recognise, but knew it belonged to someone from church coz it sounded vaguely familiar. so i asked, "what's up, aunty?" a slight pause. "umm ... this is ... UNCLE danny." he replied. needless to say, i was mortified! ^^" :P
-but they arrived for dinner soon after. aunty shirley laughed when i apologised profusely to uncle danny, saying, "ppl think he's female on the phone all the time."
-but zero thanksa to dad who gleefully forced me to plod twenty minutes on that bloody treadmill. >< at least i could watch SBS's world news during, though.
-dinner: rice, lotsa normal lettuce, one small chunk of surprisingly yummy beef and one even smaller chunk of chicken. dad, aunty shirley and uncle danny got salty egg; dunno why dad wouldn't gimmee any. :(
-dinner was washed down with a yummy mug of fruit and vegetable juice, which i got to hold 'incorrectly' coz dad was too busy yakking to our dinner guests.
-i did a sudoku while they yakked away. aunty shirley checked it for me, then dad made me walk upstairs and i tootled online.
-only nature called. >, so dad took me to the loo. thanks to him who passed me a mug of water - one i got to hold 'incorrectly' coz uncle danny and aunty shirley were just leaving - and i did a stinky unspeakable.
-dad came to get me, forced me to un-dak myself, made me walk over to wash both hands with soap for thirty seconds, made me walk over to dry both hands, and made me walk back to the computer.
-toms: your :P turn physio @ 10:10? sth like that, anyways. hopefully i can get more than ten minutes on the motomed, hopefully cara'll being morning tea, and hopoefully dad'll take us to naz for a kebab! i think trace is back toms arvo, and driving me to UF too. hope everyone has a nice end to their week toms!
cheers,
em. ^^
P.S. almost forgot - my final plodding total for thursday now stands @3741 steps.

wednesday post3

*beep*! >< morale of the story: don't install real player onto your computer while google chrome's opened - it'll just close everything. ><
-anyways, i was hard @ work plodding 1883 steps today.
-bell ringing this morning; i rang four more bells than last week. 1908? 1912? sth like that, anyways.
-a toilet trip @ maccas, then i enjoyed a mighty mcmuffin meal with an orange juice.
-bloody torture session with vincent the physio. >< today was just about me sitting on that backless chair with wheels while ela did reachy exercises.
-thanks to dad who grabbed me two sushi rolls before driving us back home. oh, today he gleefully forced poor em to buckle her own seatbelt all day, and we also listened to kenny b all day.
-aunty wendy took me to the loo once, then over to wash and dry era. but no thanks to dad, who made me walk all the way back downstairs! ><
-i enjoyed my two sushi rolls - one chicken teriyaki, the other chicken katsudon. thanks to aunty wendy who gave me a little dipping bowl of soya sauce and mixed me a yummy chocolate nesquik.
-i rang leonard about my icebreaker and also alice about going to garbo on thursday night.
-aunty wendy gave ela a massage and brought bear bear and sunnybank over to visit me! :)
-when dad came home, aunty wendy took me back up the stairs and i tootled online.
-chrissy should arrive in around fifteen minutes. i dobbed her in to mariana yesterday; hopefully, she'll be more on time!
-and tonight should be fun! we're off to see robin hood with uncle yuk tai! fingers crossed that we can have dinner @ cafe mi afterwards!
-last thing: toms, i'm owedFIVE HOURS and SIX minutes online! i promise i'll try my hardest to get my precious internet time back!
cheers,
em. ^^

tuesday post2

good evening! today, em was hard @ work plodding 2563 steps. also, i didn't tootle online till 7:12pm; hopefully, dad'll let me stay online till 9:12pm before forcing me off to bed. but don't worry, i still remember that i'm actually owed FOUR HOURS AND THIRTY-SIX MINUTES of net time; hopefully, i can work some of that off toms after aunty wendy leaves. anyways, today's events?
-actually, last night first. i was very happy to talk to my dearest grandma. i asked her to please pray with me too; it's one of the things i treasure most in this world. :)
-this morning, when dad woke me up, i used the pot :P and got kitted. dad made me walk downstairs, just as ding dong! mrs. dent arrived~
-and she'd baked me a chocolate cake! she said she'd cooked it too long and the cake therefore wasn't moist enough, but hey. tasted great to me. :)
-mr. dent tootled along awhile later. he'd been to the hospital for an MRI, see. sth about his hearing going wonky recently. hope he's okay!
-so dad carved us all slices of chocolate cake. i noticed that mrs. dent's slice was easily double mine, and that dad's was nearly TRIPLE mine, but oh well. no biggie.
-after mr. and mrs. dent left, ding dong! along came mariana! so dad took me once to the loo - no guesses as to who gleefully forced who to do everything, of course.
-so mariana tootled us off to the coffee club somewhere, and Forced me to walk inside. some waiter with a monosyllabic name served us, ian, i think. i ordered an iced chocolate minus the cream, while mariana ordered a hot chocolate with marshmallows.
-dunno why mariana keeps pushing me to do my icebreaker speech; anyways, i ended up promising her i'd ring my mentor guy this week. she also asked me about my skills and talents and took lotsa notes.
-time to head back home, mariana tootled us off. dad made me walk back into the gobbling :P table, and i sat down to read my toastmaster's magazine and awaited evelyn's arrival.
-but CODA rang saying she was stuck in traffic, and she ended up coming twenty-five minutes late.
-argh, two attempts to get up from the table. then evelyn Forced me to walk into the laundry for my nice hot shower - i washed my hair today.
-i dried and creamed myself, got rekitted. evelyn forced me to un-dak myself before having me sit back down and told me to yell dad downstairs, coz she'd noticed bruises all along my left foot. so i telled, but dad mustn't have heard me, coz evelyn eventually had to head upstairs to find him herself. dad came downstairs, told evelyn to rub some hirudoid onto elf. finally all done, evelyn Forced me to walk to the fridge to get my arvo tea, Forced me to walk to the benchtop to make myself one cup of milo - think she said PIG mum only allowed one teaspoon of milo? dunno why.
-arvo tea was my milo plus a few slices of sweet orange. actually, i'd asked evelyn to please pass me a fork to eat my cake with, but when she was all for forcing me to walk and get the fork myself, i decided i'd just eat it with my hand. then she handed me one. :P
-'twas already 5:40 by then. i asked her to please give ela a massage, but she pulled a chrissy and said she hadn't cleaned the bathroom yet. she didn't start till almost 5:50, then i got painted dark blue with yellow/orange spots today.
-i stood up to hug her goodbye.
-after she left, dad decided to gleefully force me to plod twenty-five minutes on that bloody treadmill. then i sat and did a sudoku while he whipped up dinner. aunty a was supposed to come over for dinner, but the poor lady's crook.
-so, dinner tonight: rice, lotsabok choy, one slice of mushroom and one tiny piece of chicken. dinner was washed down with a mug of fruit and vegetable juice, which i got to hold 'incorrectly' coz dad was too busy watching television.
-toms: we're off to ring the bells @ 9am. must remember to ask PIG mum to please tell dad that i'm allowed one whole burger @ maccas afterwards. it's another bloody torture session for me then with vincent the physio, then aunty wendy's coming. :) and finally, chrissy. dunno how late, but i told mariana about her tardiness today and she rang alice from CODA. so hopefully, cheissy'll be on time toms. :) hope everyone has a great day toms! as for me, i need to pee! :P
cheers,
em. ^^

monday post4

good evening! my final plodding total for monday now stands @ 2692. anyways, events after my last post?
-useless chrissy came twenty-five minutes late. she Forced me to walk downstairs and into the laundry for my nice hot shower - i washed my hair today.
-i had a tinkle just after chrissy flipped the nice hot water off, dried myself and got creamed. chrissy rekitted me, and i had one last tinkle when she was tying erf's laces.
-chrissy Forced me to walk out to the gobbling :P table. arvo tea was one yummy sausage bun and one cup of tea, sweetened with a single spoonful of sugar.
-thanks to chrissy who gave me a bite of her apple turnover! she said she didn't like it coz 'twas too sweet for her.
-as always, i asked chrissy to please give ela a massage @ 5:40, as always, she refused till almost 5:50. she said she "hadn't cleaned up the laundry yet". then, tell me, what were you doing when i was eating arvo tea and reading?! huh, i reckon she's just plain lazy, sometimes. :P
-after chrissy left, i sat and read my book club novel. when dad switched on the television to seven's news then headed upstairs to shower, i switched to watching the news instead. first, though, some lucky woman won more than ten grand on deal or no deal or no deal. seven's news was read out by rod young and kay mcgrath, sport by shane webcke and weather by john schluter.
-the slams came for dinner @ exactly the same time dad decided to gleefully force me to plod twenty-five minutes on that bloody treadmill. actually, he delegated that job to anna, while he and uncle slam yakked away.
-dinner tonight: rice, lotsa little tong vegetable, two slices of yummy tofu, one of sweet mushroom, and ... lol, i can't remember what meat! my bad. ><
-dinner was washed down with a yummy mug of fruit and vegetable juice, which again, i got to drink 'incorrectly', coz dad was too busy yakking to the slams to notice me.
-both anna and i did one sudoku each. uncle slam checked it for me.
-i headed upstairs and into the loo for two or three tinkles. dad came upstairs to feed me two 'eck-in-a-sha' tablets - i was very careful to hold the cup 'correctly', of course. then i tootled online.
-well, toms should be fun! mrs. dent's coming over! can't remember if she was gonna take me out for morning tea or if dad was gonna cook her morning tea. either one. dunno what i'm doing in the arvo, but evelyn's coming in the arvo, for the very last time ... lol, i feel like i should print her out another farewell card. :P anyways, hope everyone has a smashing day toms!
cheers,
em. ^^

monday post

good afternoon! i came online around 2:35pm, which means that i've still got THIRTY-FIVE MINUTES left over for me tonight after chrissy leaves. add to that the time i'm already owed, and that equals to FOUR HOURS and THIRTY-SIX MINUTES i'll try my HARDEST to get back over the coming days, weeks, and if need be, months.
-anyways, so far, i've been hard @ work plodding 1002 steps today.
-thanks to dearest dad who supervised me use the pot :P once last night and once again this morning.
-actually, 'twas funny. last night i watched house. when it finished, i was about to call dad and let him know that i was ready for bed myself, when i heard him loudly snoring in my room next door. "i won't wake him," i thought, so i just lay back and watched the show playing after house, V. i think it's some futuristic show with spaceships and aliens and stuff. but then ... yup, i fell asleep too! dad poked me awake around 11pm and kicked me off to bed then. :P
-this morning, dad poked me awake with 'fifteen more mins." ha, he's nicer than PIG mum, who only gives ten. :P but i counted that down, then spent the remaining time in silent and fervent prayer to god, begging him to please heal my most beloved grandma.
-dad got me up, kitted. i used the pot :P once more, then he made me walk downstairs into the dining room.
-breakfast was three weetbix with half a spoonful of honey.
-dad made me walk out to the car. today, he gleefully forced poor em to buckle her own seatbelt all day, and we also listened to kenny bee all day. he sounds alright. billions of times better than andy hui, anyways. :P
-dad tootled us off to UQ. one more happy thing - erf got to sit sideways all day. :)
-dad took me to the loo once on arrival. too bad, he forced me to both dak and un-dak myself.then he made me walk over to wash both hands for thirty seconds. i dried them, then he made me walk over to take a seat in the waiting area.
-but before dad had time to hand me a gossip mag before going downstairs to pay, ann came for me with a new student! sorry, i've forgotten all their names, but one's a boy, while the other three are girls.
-so i lay down on a plinth and ann moved all my left limbs around.
-then it was the dreaded tilt table! >< :P i spent twenty minutes on that thing, all the while ela doing some cone work.
-the girl walked me back down to the 4WD. i gave her back the walkbelt, she gave dad a parking permit for thursday, then dad tootled us away.
-i was just about to ask dad where we could go for lunch, when he said that uncle yuk tai had rung and invited us over to his workplace!
-so dad tootled us off to maccas to grab some lunch @ the drive-thru. he got himself a small big mac meal and uncle yuk tai a small mcchicken meal. i tried for a double cheeseburger without pickles; he refused and just ordered me a filet-o-fish. then i tried for a choc shake, again, he refused and got me an orange juice. oh well, no biggie.
-dad gleefully FORCED :(first time) to walk into uncle yuk tai's office, who came out to meet us. as we were walking in, i asked, "where's kenneth?' and he replied, "oh, he's inside somewhere. just yell out to him." so i took a deep breath and hollered, "hi, kenneth!!!" and he heard me! :P
-we sat around a square table for lunch. i enjoyed my food, but only just realised today, that when i eat my chips, i only hold them with my third and thumb. my pointer just floats in the air. lol, hope PIG mum doesn't read this post! :P
-kenneth told me that kitty's still doing dental work, @ UQ, maybe? and that Alastair is five years old while emma's three. Alastair attends some primary school ... kingston? and emma still goes to childcare.
-kenneth returned to work after lunch, leaving uncle yuk tai to chat with dad and i.
-i asked uncle yuk tai if wilfreddy had asked his permission first before asking janice's hand in marriage - and he said yes! aww, who's a good boy, then? :P
-time to head home, dad made me walk back out to the car. i asked uncle yuk tai where kenneth was, coz i wanted to say bye to him, and he laughed. "he's just above you." he said, pointing to the balcony.
-actually, kenneth wandered out to say bye, too. i asked him to please pass on my fond regards to kitty for me, in the hope that she still remembers me. :P
-dad tootled us home.
-he made me walk up the stairs and into his bathroom, coz i said i wanted to do a stinky unspeakable. of course, he forced me to dak myself. but thanks to him who passed me one mug of water - which i was very careful to take 'correctly', but i admit, once he went back outside, i released my pointer from the ear and drank the cup 'incorrectly'. but i was careful to put the pointer back inside the ear before handing him back the cup.
-so i did a stinky unspeakable. dad came back, made me wash both hands for thirty seconds, made me walk over to dry them both, then made me walk into my old room, where i sat on the bed and waited for him to finish off whatever he was doing on the computer before he made me walk over to the chair and i tootledonline.
-well, there's just over thirty minutes until chrissy's meant to arrive; i honestly hope she'd arrive promptly! and maybe it's the slams coming over for dinner tonight? anyways, off to check my e-mail now!
cheers,
em. ^^

sunday post3b

good evening! the spam count for the ENTIRE (ie. all seven days) week's 303, and my final plodding total for sunday's 2305. anyways, events after my last post?
-i stayed online, read my naruto manga. phew, kakashi's still alive. :P
-then i spoke to dearest grandma! who said caramel's really cute. :) i pray really hard for her safety every night.
-anna came upstairs. i used the loo once, then headed downstairs.
-dinner was five, maybe six boiled dumplings. thanks to sylvia jie jie for a little place of dipping soya sauce. i drank a mug of fruit and vegetable juice 'incorrectly', then snacked on crackers, dip, and some asian tofu crunchy snack thing until we cut cake for uncle slam!
-we sang happy birthday, i also went over to the piano and thunked out the happy birthday tune for him.
-i got one tiny slice, plus some of anna's yummy lychee jelly and some ... mango pudding stuff?
-anna saw me back upstairs, to the loo and back online.
-house time!! hope everyone has a smashing day toms!
cheers,
em. ^^

sunday post3

good evening! i'll put up the spam count for the entire week later tonight, but so far, i've been hard @ work plodding 1798 steps. righteo, today's events?
whoops. both dad and i overslept this morning. meaning i didn't get my ten more mins snooze time. :(
-dad just got me kitted and made me walk to the toilet, of course both forcing me to dak and un-dak myself. then he made me walk over to wash both hands for thirty seconds and made me walk over to dry both hands, before making me walk out to the car, where he gave me a mug of milk.
-today, he gleefully forced poor em to buckle her own seatbelt all day, and he tootled us off to church listening to my car CD.
-dad made me walk all the way down to the service hall, and service soon started.
-for worship today, dad gleefully forced poor em to stand for for songs. i sang the harmony for one.
-hmm ... maybe the speakers aren't working? i'm trying to listen to the 6pm news ... but there isn't any sound ... :(
-speaker today was uncle/pastor chong, and his sermon topic was on some kinda prayer.
-almost forgot - CONGRATS to janice and wilfred!! they're engaged!!!
-no communion afterwards. dad took me to the loo once, forced me to do everything, made me walk over to wash both hands for thirty seconds. i dried them, then he made me walk over to take a seat @ the morning tea area.
-i ate two wafers and drank two cups of coloured water.
-dad made me walk into the little kiddies sunday school.
-i sang along to all their songs, of course.
-aunty melody took story-telling today, some continuation of the beauty and the beast tale.
-craft time. uncle calvin pushed my chair to the table, and we made paper snakes, complete with eyes and tongue!
-aunty melody took me once to the loo afterwards. then, i just sat with the four girls while they played with stamps and ink pads.
-dad collected me, made me walk up back to the car and tootled us to plaza. he'd changed discs to kenny b? someone like that, anyway.
-i tried for a regular kebab, zero thanks to dad who only ordered a small one. oh well.
-i also drank not quite 1/2 a pudding milk tea and had exactly seven hungry jack's chips dunked in ketchup.
-dad tootled us home, and when karen arrived, i had a nice hot shower - hairwash today.
-i had a tinkle before karen flipped the nice hot water off. then i dried myself and had another tinkle, creamed myself and got rekitted. i had one last tinkle when karen was jamming on my AFO, then she Forced me out to the gobbling :P table.
-i made myself a cuppa, white and two, and gobbled a banana.
-karen and i just yakked away. evil matthew's in trouble right now coz he got into the cupboard and attacked poor scruffy's food! :P i also recorded an SMS alert for karen's mobile:"karen, you've got an SMS! hurry up and read it!" :P
-gotta show chrissy this: karen gave ela a massage for TWENTY-FIVE minutes!! gold and red spots today, BTW.
-karen hauled me upstairs and took me to the loo once before i tootled online and she left, off to buy herself sth from noodle box for dinner.
-but oh noes, poor aunty a! she can't make it to dinner tonight coz she's feeling crook. ><
-and mrs. dent just rang! dad's yakking to her right now.
-toms: UQ physio @ 11am. i wonder if i'll have any luck in persuading dad into taking me out somewhere to lunch? fingers, toes and all other appendages crossed, anyways! hope everyone has a smashing week!
cheers,
em. ^^

saturday post 2b

good evening! well, it's only just past 5:30 right now, but coz the sun's already set, i've decided. yup, it's evening. :p righteo, let's continue with last night's events!
-dad tootled us off to the cheung's place, and made me walk inside. first, though, he sat me down on a seat and tightened the straps on my AFO coz chrissy always does them too loose.
-i sat down @ the table. aunty winnie was cooking dinner, while sam and mel were watching avatar. actually, after i'd dropped my bum onto a chair, sam looked over and invited me to come watch the movie with them! so i crashed onto a comfy recliner chair - thanks to mel who stuck up the footrest for me - and enjoyed the last part of the movie with them.
-movie over, we seated ourselves for dinner. i had roughly half a bowl of rice, lotsa bitter vegetable, one slice of chicken and almost one spoonful of steamed wgg.
-we just yakked away. mel and sam gobbled up their dinner quickly and excused themselves back to their rooms.
-fruit: i got one bowl of apple, orange and mandarin. thanks to aunty winnie who helped me to the loo once afterwards.
-i crashed back on the comfy reclinder chair and uncle colbert showed me the replay of the broncos thrashing the titans. actually, he just fast-forwarded to the tries and stuff.
-time to head home, aunty winnie called out sam and mel to say goodnite. i said my byes, thanks, and see you tomorrows.
-dad tootled us home and kicked me upstairs to bed. first, though, i talked to dearest grandma and PIG mum! when i fretted @ grandma how terribly bored she must be, all alone @ the hospital all day, she told me not to worry coz she had television to keep her occupied. phew. :) so i cuddled my darling bear bear and snored my head off. :P
cheers,
em. ^^
P.S. my final plodding total for saturday actually stands @ 4360.

saturday post 3

good afternoon! well, i didn't tootle online till 2:55pm, meaning, after dad and i get back home from dinner tonight, i'm still owed FIFTY-FIVE MINUTES online! and, add that to what i'm already owed, i'm supposed to get FOUR HOURS and ONE MINUTE online!! lol, the one minute sounds somewhat drastic, but hey. that's how much i'm owed. :P anyways, let's start off with last night's events!
-trace Forced me downstairs and into the laundry for my nice hot shower - no hairwash today.
-i had a tinkle before trace flipped the water off, dried and creamed myself, got rekitted. trace Forced me to walk back out to the gobbling :P table.
-arvo tea was a juicy pear and a mug of milo, which i made myself. originally, i'd drink tea, but trace said dad only allowed one or half a teaspoon of honey, so i said no thanks and made myself a milo instead.
-trace gave ela a nice long massage, meaning that to date, chrissy remains my only carer that refuses to give ela a massage for @ least twenty minutes.
-@ 5:30, trace Forced me to walk over to the television, where i watched ten's news first, headed upstairs for a loo trip (she forced me to do everything) and came back downstairs to watch seven's news.
-trace drives some big monster truck! but with the help of dad's home-made block, i clambered up and trace drove me to church. she lives near evelyn, BTW. my. gravatt somewhere.
-on arrival, trace took me to the loo once first, again forcing me to do everything.
-when she left, everyone else came inside and, after the newbies were introduced, hailey prayed for us and hot pot started!
-i sat @ a table with all guys. lol, better hope PIG mum doesn't read this entry, lest she jeer @ me that i've no friends anymore. >< i sat beside uncle chong. ray, josh cham and some other boy also sat @ our table.
-i ate: some pork, beef and squid balls, some beef, some udon, lotsa greens and my favourite egg @ the end! lol, thanks to karson who cooked the egg for me, and uncle chong who peeled the egg and plopped it into my bowl without me even noticing! also thanks to josh who poured me two cups of aloe vera and one cup of orange juice to drink.
-then, thanks to joey and julz who helped me to the toilet once.
-dad picked me up, drove us home. repeat the usual nightly routine, then he kicked me to bed. zzz. :P
-today: after poking me awake, tess dug me up, got me kitted, and Forced me to walk to the bathroom to brush my teeth.
-a loo trip afterwards, then tess Forced me to walk downstairs.
-breakfast was a yummy chicken bun, plus a cuppa, white and two, my first i could hold 'incorrectly'.
-tess gave ela a massage, told me that she was doing her chaplaincy work trial @ the logan hospital.
-i kept reading my book club novel. tess took me upstairs, gave me a plastic mug of water, and i did a stinky unspeakable.
-tess fed me a warm milo. fingers crossed that dad will let tess and i have lunch @ the coffee club next week!!
-when tess left, lunch was around five yummy boiled dumplings. thanks to dad who poured me a tiny bowl of soya sauce and also poured me a yummy mug of fruit and vegetable juice.
-but then vincent the bloody physio came. >< he said he'd only force me to walk four laps today, not touching anything. i did three before he decided that i was walking crap and that he'd reset the count! coupled with the laps he held my hands and Forced me on, i reckon i must've done more than ten. ><
-but he left, thankfully. dad hauled me up the stairs and i used the bathroom once, before going to wash both hands for thirty seconds, before i finally tootled online.
-well, chrissy should be here in just over thirty minutes; i'll definitely remember to wash my hair tonight; dad was somewhat pissed that i didn't wash it with trace yesterday.
-i'm not really feeling confident that i'll be allowed back online after dinner with the cheung family tonight, so i'll just wish everyone a good night, and hope to see everyone @ church toms! no bible study, i don't think, coz i think there's some meeting about our church changing it's start time?
cheers,
em. ^^
P.S. almost forgot! today, i was hard @ work plodding 3310 steps.

friday post2

good afternoon!well, i didn't pop online till 3:06 this arvo, but since i believe the chances are better for a blue moon tonight rather than dad allowing me to stay online till 5:06 before having a shower with my carer, i'm just gonna note down that toms, i'm owed THREE HOURS and SIX MINUTES online!! anyways, i'm off to check my e-mail first. will come back @ 3:45 to continue this post. oh, and just for the record, today i was hard @ work plodding 1679 steps.
cheers,
em. ^^
P.S. trace's here now! and she's taking me to UF tonight!! :)

thursday post2b

good evening! my final plodding total for thursday now stands @ 1802. righteo, what happened after my last post?
-i used the bathroom once before i headed downstairs.
-lunch was half a bowl of two minute noodles, lotsa vegies and some meat. thanks to dad who poured me a mug of fruit and vegetable juice to wash down lunch with.
-then we just yakked away. uncle chong prayed for us before him and aunty sooi pheng left.
-i read my book club novel until karen arrived.
-dunno why dad refused to put sparkless into karen's boot. >< he just made me walk to her car, and karen tootled us off to sunnybank plaza.
-she Forced me to walk inside (phew, there was a carpark available downstairs and karen could park there) then rocked off to grab a movie sheet.
-but poo poo. >< no good sessions available. like, there were sessions, but by the time the movie time finished, it'd already overlap into evelyn's time.
-so karen just got me a pearl milk tea from easy way (like garbo, they don't have pudding?) and herself a choc shake from hungry jacks. dunno why dad refused permission to buy sth to eat, oh well. :(
-karen took me once to the loo, then tootled us off to some lookout along logan road, pausing along the way to buy some cat milk for matthew. apparently, if cats drink human milk, they'll get diarrhoea?
-karen tootled me home. oh, i almost forgot! this arvo, i met some worker dude called les! not sure if i'd recognise him again, though ... ^^"
-evelyn soon arrived, Forced me to walk into the laundry for my shower - i washed my hair today.
-i dried and creamed myself, got rekitted. evelyn Forced me to walk back out to the gobbling :P table.
-arvo tea was just a banana. i asked evelyn just to peel the banana, no need to cut the banana, lest she stick that red grip thing on the fork and force poor ela to feed me.
-actually, i asked her if she could please make me a drink too, but decided against drinking anything when she wanted to force me up to make the drink myself. water and a banana did fine.
-dad made me walk to the car. he gleefully forced me to buckle my seatbelt all night, but he also allowed me to listen to my car CD all night. besides, erf got to sit sideways all night, too. :)
-dad made me walk up into the library room. i introduced myself to phil, who just laughed, saying, "don't you remember me? i'm the one who joined you in the bookclub! ^^" lol, sorry, phil! :P
-thanks to phil who made me a cuppa, white and two. i also nabbed myself five bikkies - scotch finger, cream bikkies and one ANZAC cookie.
-we yakked away. seems like quite lotsa ppl didn't really enjoy the book. for me? way too much swearing!
-dad collected me, made me walk over to borrow the book (i had to ask for a one month loan - apparently, logan libraries have reduced the borrowing time down to two weeks) then made me walk to the toilet, both forcing me to dak and un-dak myself. he then made me walk over to wash and dry both hands for a ridiculously long time - era for thirty seconds, ela for two minutes! why?!
-dad made me walk back down to the car. guess i should just be thankful that he didn't gleefully force me to walk up and down the stairs, like PIG mum did last month!
-but sadly, like PIG mum, he refused to take me through the red rooster drive-thru to pick up some dinner. :(
-back home, dinner was a chicken bun thanks to aunty susan - not BT's mum, some other aunty susan who's also got two boys, just younger than us.
-dad fielded an order from one of his customers, and i also got to drink a mug of fruit and vegie juice 'incorrectly' while he was ripping up the carpet in prep for laying wood tiles down.
-dad made me walk up the stairs, and i tootled online. he says he's forcing me off to bed @ 10pm, so i'll check my e-mail first before coming back to proofread this post, if i've the time.
-anyways, toms: physio @ your:P turn @ 10:sth. 10:20? 10:40? one of those, anyways. fingers, toes and all other appendages crossed that we can go see naz for a kebab toms! not sure who's coming to shower me in the arvo - but toms night looks awesome - hot pot @ UF!
cheerS,
em. ^^
P.S. i found and corrected one error in my post tonight.

thursday post2

good morning! it's very rare that i get the chance to pop online in the morning, but dad allowed me online coz uncle chong's coming to visit!
-anyways, today so far, i've been hard @ word plodding 754 steps. it's only just past 11am!
-this morning, dad got me up, kitted, made me walk to the toilet, of course forcing me to dak and un-dak myself.
-then he made me walk over to wash both hands for thirty seconds, made me walk over to dry both hands, and made me walk down the stairs to the gobbling :P table.
-first, heforced me to drink 1/4 mug of water, then breakfast was two weetbix with about 1/3 a spoonful of honey.
-two OTs came visiting! the student's name's rachel, both dad and i have forgotten the teacher's name. i prouldly displayed the knowledge of the cubital fossa. :P
-the OTs Forced me to walk into my new bathroom! it's looking good~ i took a seat on the toilet seat as ppl measured the heights they'd install the bars for me from.
-back in my seat, i just chatted with rachel until they left. then i read my book club novel until nature called.
-dad hauled me up the stairs, forcing me to dak myself also. but thanks to him who passed me a mug of water - which i was very careful to hold 'correctly', of course - and i did a stinky unspeakable. dad came back for me, forced me to un-dak myself, made me walk over to wash both hands for thirty seconds, made me walk over to dry both hands, and made me walk over to the computer table table, where i tootled online.
-hey, uncle chong and aunty sooipheng are here now! cya later!
cheers,
em. ^^

wednesday post2b

god evening! my final plodding total for wednesday now stands @ 3704. anyways, today's events?
-i finally got to drink a cup of milk this morning. :)
-off to ring the bells. 1914 or 1918 today. i sang both my favourite and second-favourite songs in my head through once.
-and today's helen's bday!!
-dad tootled us off to maccas for breakfast.
-a loo trip, then i got half a hash brown and half a mighty mcmuffin.
-i browsed the courier mail; dad browsed the australian.
-dad tootled us off for a torture session with vincent the physio. ><
-home, aunty susan had bought dumplings for lunch! so i had six yummy boiled ones. thanks to aunty wendy for a little dipping plate of soya sauce and a yummy mug of chocolate nesquik.
-aunty wendy took me upstairs, passed me a mug of water, and i did a stinky unspeakable.
-after washing and drying era, i settled down to read my book club novel.
-aunty wendy took me once more to the loo before leaving. i tootled online to await chrissy's (late, duh :P) arrival.
-chrissy Forced me down the stairs and into the laundry for my nice hot shower - i washed my hair today.
-i had a tinkle before she flipped the water off, dried myself and had another tinkle, creamed myself and had another two tinkles, chrissy rekitted me and i had one last tinkle when she was tying erf's shoelaces.
-arvo tea: one cup of tea, sweetened with two teaspoonfuls of sugar, and a banana. then i continued reading my bookclub novel.
-as always, i asked chrissy to please give ela a massage @ 5:40, as always, she refused to start until well after 5:45. she ends @9pm tonight, BTW.
-our dinner guests arrived! uncle wallace, then aunty melody and uncle cyras.
-but before dinner, dad delegated aunty melody to force me to plod 25:01 on that treadmill. >< then i got my toasted feet. :P
-dinner tonight: rice, lotsa bok choy and garlic stem, quite a lot of fish - coral trout - one slice of charsiu and two tiny slices of BBQ pork.
-dinner was washed down with a yummy mug of fruit and vegetable juice.
-dad took me upstairs to the loo, both forcing me to dak and un-dak myself. then he made me walk to wash and dry both hands for thirty seconds, before making me walk to aunty a's room and ordering me to read fifty more pages of the slap.
-finally, i tootled online!
-and i just spoke to PIG mum and dearest grandma. :) please keep her in your prayers!
-toms: some home mods guy is coming over to take measurements for the handrails he'll stick to the walls. then, in the arvo, i think karen's taking me out to see a movie? finally, book club toms night! i'm so excited! :) what do you think the chances are of dad taking me to red roosters for dinner afterwards? fingers crossed!
cheers,
em. ^^

wednesday post2

good evening! sorry i couldn't post yesterday - after i got home from toastmasters, dad just kicked me to bed - without any milk, either! >< meaning that after chrissy leaves tonight, i'm still owed TWO POINT FIVE HOURS!!!i know i've got more time owed for me still; i'll worry about that once i've sorted this out first.
-anyways, i've got an e-mail from PIG mum i'd like to read, so i'll bbl, 3:45 @ the latest to post about my day. see you then!
cheers,
em. ^^
P.S. but yesterday i was hard @ work plodding 2392 steps.

good evening! my final plodding total for monday now stands @ 2772, and argh, i've lost my entire post! >< in that case, guess i'll check my e-mail first, before coming back quickly to try and finish this post.
cheers,
em. ^^
-chrissy arrived twenty-five mins late in a shockingly grumpy mood, swearing her head off and everything.
-she Forced me to walk down the stairs and into the laundry for my shower - i washed my hair today.
-i had a tinkle before chrissy flipped the hot water off, dried myself and had another tinkle, creamed myself and had another two tinkles. chrissy rekitted me and i had one more tinkle when she was tying erf's shoelace.
-chrissy Forced me to walk out to the gobbling :P table. proof that she's really pissed off today - she forgot to force me in making my own arvo tea! so i drank a cup of coloured water 'incorrectly' and had half a toasted sandwhich - one slice of cheese (therefore ENTIRELY too thin) ham and mayo sandwhich in a triangle. then i sat and read my book club novel - eep, will i finish the book by thursday?!
-as always, i asked chrissy please to give ela a massage @ 5:40pm; her excuse today was that she hadn't cleaned the bathroom yet, and didn't start till 5:50.
-she even rocked off a few minutes early!
-i watched some lucky woman win like $14 000 on deal or no deal, then seven's news was read out by rod young and kay mcgrath, sport by shane webcke and weather by john schluter. the most interesting surname i remember was 'spalding'.
-lol, dad was out, so when poor uncle slam rang to ask why no-one was answering his door banging, i said sorry and asked him please to wait until dearest dad arrived home. :P
-when dad did arrive, he delegated the responsibility of forcing me to plod twenty minutes on that bloody treadmill to anna.
-dinner tonight: rice, lotsa little tong vegetable and normal lettuce, and two small but delicious sweet and sour pork slices, courtesy of the slams.
-dinner was washed down with a mug of fruit and vegetable juice, which i got to hold 'incorrectly' coz dad was too busy yakking to the slams to take notice of me.
-dad ordered me to complete two sudoku, as uncle colbert wandered along with two mini sausage rolls for me as an incentive for doing my thumbs up exercises. dad says we can have one each for breakfast toms.
-thanks to anna who watched me use the loo once before i tootled online.
-dunno what's in store for toms. physio @ your :P turn, maybe? think mariana's coming in the arvo, then toastmasters with evelyn toms night! then i'll never see her again ... she's either moving back to zimbabwe (sp?) or heading up to mt. isa and finding herself a man. :P anyways, hope everyone has a great day toms!
cheers,
em. ^^