wednesday post 109

good afternoon! firstly, em's been hard @ work plodding 4015 steps today (although just over 1800 of those steps were done last night!); secondly, TWFT topic's "are you a 'phillip'"? and thirdly, i'm still owed FORTY-TWO MINUTES online after carol leaves tonight!!! righteo, let's start with yesterday's events first!
~annette arrived just before 4pm and Forced me to walk to the bathroom for my nice hot shower - i washed my hair today, but thanks to annette who rinsed it out for me, thus freeing era to hold my stupid right eye tightly shut.
-i had one tinkle before i turned the hot water off, then mostly dried, creamed and rekitted myself. annette just helped with the drying and creaming of era and elf's AFO straps.
-annette Forced me to walk to the kitchen benchtop to get my yummy sushi for afternoon tea, then Forced me to walk to the gobbling :P table.
-i enjoyed my sushi with one mug of tea, white sweetened with one spoonful of honey (annette lemme do the squirting; i just stop when she says "that's enough"), my mug for the day to hold 'incorrectly'.
-afterwards, annette massaged ela for about fifteen minutes, painting her light blue with white spots today. "origin's over for this year," she laughed. "so i get to choose whatever colours i want." XD
-time to leave, PIG mum gleefully FORCED :( me to walk to annette's car, but she helped me with my seatbelt! lol, i'll keep saying how i find it simply hilarious that she'll always leave me to struggle with buckling it when it's just the two of us, but whenever there's someone around to see her do it, she'll always help me with it. XD
-annette tootled me off to toastmasters, listening to some 101FM. she told me that she's left mac and cheese with soup for her family for dinner tonight.
-when we arrived @ the urban hotel, there was slight confusion coz annette didn't know where to park, but we eventually found our way.
-we found several members all milling ahuge thanks to adrian and robert who lugged sparkless up the stairs for me.
-once upstairs, annette took me once to the loo. the basins for handwashing are super-cool; they have a soup dispenser one side and a moisturiser on the other!
-back with everyone else, annette retired to just outside the room while i socialised with everyone before the night officially commenced. an asian waiter was taking drink orders and i got an orange juice from him, although i quickly learnt that was a bad idea coz the cup was honestly FREEZING YET WE WEREN'T SEATED @ THE TABLE YET, MEANING ALL I COULD - sorry, shrieking! >< do was scull the glass down as quickly as possible! XD
-when we were all called to order, someone kindly slotted me into an empty space.
-first, sam asked all the outgoing executive members to give a lil speech, just saying what they've achieved over this last financial year.
-then, our area governor did the changeover ceremony! he asked each new member to please hold the gavel to show their sincerity.
-after that, some guy called con did his icebreaker! con talked about his life in the UK before coming over here.
-after his icebreaker, thanks to sharon who pushed with me outside to find annette, coz the orange juice i'd consumed had rushed straight down and nature was calling!
-when i rejoined everyone, we'd all broken up into small groups and were telling real-life short stories! amy talked about the first time she tried to ride her bike without training wheels, chi talked about her trip to japan as part of her uni degree, and i shared about my 21st birthday experience.
-while we were all telling stories, the food arrived! i happily pigged out on chips, mini quiches, mini sausage rolls, one slice of pizza and some deep-fried vegetarian stuff; i think one of the pieces i tried was deep-fried BEETROOT!
-after that sharon led an extended table topics with props! just like our christmas party, i wasn't chosen, but everyone got to speak for thirty seconds on what their 'immediate plans' for the future was. i got some laughs when i said "really immediate plan? just to finish my mini-sausage roll that i'm chomping right now!" XD
-before we ended, i had the chance for a brief yak with our area governor, the guy who told me i should try the humorous speech contest last time. his daughter's @ uni now, studying french, spanish and some management thing.
-when the night finished, annette took me once more to the loo. then, mr. strong guy area governor (his name's sth like greg scott) took sparkless downstairs all by himself, while glenn kindly lent me his shoulder to descend the stairs.
-hey, carol should arrive in just under ten minutes, so fingers crossed i can bbl tonight, else i've just got acupuncture toms late morning, PIG mum's said i can get a yummy pork salad roll in the arvo, and annette's coming to watch me shower in the arvo.
cheers,
em. ^^