Thursday Post 314

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 2760 steps and secondly, TWFT topic's 'Radical Commitment (2)' but thirdly and way most importantly I'm still owed FIFTY-THREE MINUTES online after book club and dinner tonight!! Anyways, events for today?

• Yay, 3rd consecutive awesome sleep last night! Nature didn't call until 6:50am, and after one pot :P trip I fell back asleep right away coz Tina's shift started @ 8am!
• For my first game of Bejeweled ending @ 5:40pm, I lasted 5:10. Now, lemme play one more game lasting in between six and seven minutes, and I'll promise to willingly hit the sack tonight. XD
• One hour later, dearest dad walks silently along the hallway and unlocks the door for Tina's supposed arrival @ 8am; that's my wakeup call to use the pot :P again, before I spend ten minutes beginning a mostly silent chat to Percy the saint/angel, asking him please to help me with the patience, perseverance, strength and endurance I need to get through today with, giving PIG mum all the pleasure, all the satisfaction and just suffering for her whenever she decided that only she can be happy and/or satisfied. It doesn't sound very fair, but she's taught me through her actions, if not through her words, that it's enough she's happy and/or satisfied, and I guess whenever that happens, I've just got to grit my teeth and endure. >< *sigh*
• Today, Tina arrives fifteen minutes late. PIG mum lets her in, she knocks my closed door with her odd rhythm, and singsongs, "Good morning, Em!" Era just waves @ her, and she goes, "Okay," and closes the door. I start counting down fifteen more minutes; she comes back after thirteen minutes and asks me, "Ready to get up yet?" I try telling her then, "Fifteen more minutes," and score, she goes away, meaning I got twenty-eight minutes all up!" :D
• When Tina came back a second time, I gave her step-by-step instructions on how to get me kitted and then I went over to the bathroom to brush teeth. Thanks to Tina who squirted me some toothpaste; Ela enjoys her first break this week~
• Teeth brushed, I sit over the loo for two tinkles, also leaning fully against the side rail and continuing my mostly silent chat to Percy the saint/angel, asking him please to help me get through today okay. I find it's exceedingly important to constantly remind the cruel and unfaithful God that He has no bearing  on  my good day whatsoever, that I am perfectly capable of having a good day without Him, despite Him and apart from Him, because my good day's dependent on my own good attitude. If only God would remember that ... *sigh* He created the phrase 'live and let live', so why the heck can't He lemme live the free, independent life that I deserve? Okay, fair enough, we all only deserve death because of Him, but why can't He just lemme live the life that nearly everyone else gets to live?? *sigh*
• After washing and drying Era, I headed out to the gobbling :P table for breakfast. PIG mum had found the bird food (what Dr. Ku calls All-Bran XD) and Tina gave me one bowl of that, all my usual drugs :P and one full mug of water.
• Happiness was reading Caesar for one hour; today I reached pg. fifty @ 9:55. As for Tina, she *very slowly* made my bed before sitting and massaging Ela for about twenty minutes, painting her white with navy blue spots today. She's odd: other carers turn the television on/play with their phones; Tina just stares into space and gently brushes away! XD
  
• Before heading out shopping, I visit the loo once more and do a stinky unspeakable, also fully leaning against the side rail and finishing my mostly silent chat to Percy the saint/angel. Remember, however the cruel and unfaithful God tries to make my day bad for me, I won't let that affect me because my good day has NOTHING to do with Him; I'm perfectly capable of having a good day without Him, despite Him and apart from Him. See, my good day's dependent on my own good attitude!
• That done, I climbed into Tina's car and waited for her while she got ready to leave, even though I'd asked her to get ready while I used the loo. XD
• But finally, we were off! Tina tootled me off to Sunnybank Hills Shoppingtown, trying and succeeding in a side park outside level two.
• After one loo trip, we caught two escalators up, grabbed a trolley and bought groceries from Coles.
• Catching the lift back down, I sat outside new York Baguette while Tina ducked into the store and bought me one custard bun and a sausage bun.
• Next, we were walking to the Reject Shop coz PIG mum wanted some bikkies when suddenly, we bumped into Caitlin! "Hi!" She says, surprised! I really hate standing with nothing to brace against, but Era clung to the trolley handle and we chatted for nineteen minutes! Tina tried to grab our attention by showing us mobile photos of her nieces and nephews, but we were both like, "Uh huh," glance and back to chatting with each other. XD Turns out Caitlin's dad works for Coca Cola after that company ate his company; he brings back free energy drinks! She's working @ Woolies all day; her shift doesn't end till 4pm.
• After we said bye, we finally headed into The Reject Shop to find the bikkies PIG mum was after. I was tired for standing for more than twenty minutes; I braced against a shelf with the trolley and told Tina to go find the bikkies; I'd walk with her to grab them once she found them. Tina took her time; in the end she asked someone who told her they weren't in stock yet!
• Our final stop before lunch was Woolies. 
• Tina was driving us back to Woka Warrigal to meet Pastors Chris and Grace for lunch; along Logan Road I suddenly receive a message from Pastor Chris saying they've arrived and where they are seated! I reply we're coming along Warrigal Road now; almost there!
• Today for lunch I have my favourite Hokkien fried rice with scallops, Pastor Grace has laksa, Pastor Chris has ho fan with prawns and Tina brings her turkey slices, plain crackers and plan chips. We chat over lunch; suddenly Pastor Grace finds out she won a grant for her thing! Pastor Chris says a celebration's needed and goes to buy cake! XD Pastor Grace leaves herself about ten minutes later (she tells me tomorrow's the last day of Term Three and Naomi will attend vacation care @ RLC); when she goes, I check the time and phew; Pastor Grace left sixty-five minutes after Tina and I'd first arrived; I'm interesting enough for one hour! XD
• After Tina tootled me home, I took a nice hot shower - I washed my own hair today, but thanks to Tina who rinsed it out for me, thus freeing Era to hold my stupid right eye tightly shut.
• I had one tinkle before Tina flipped the nice hot water off, got dried, had another tinkle when Tina went to find me some clothes and then got creamed. When Tina rekitted me, I had one more tinkle when she was helping with Erf's sock and one last one when she was drying my glasses after washing them for me.
• Fingers crossed I can bbl, coz I'm still owed FIFTEEN MINUTES online!!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^