Tuesday Post 397

 Good afternoon! (I love Winter coz the Sun stays longer; come Winter @ 5pm I'd already be saying good evening!) Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 3189 steps (ha, I'm over three grand XD); secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'The Smallest Faith' and thirdly, TWFT topic's 'How To Be Fruitful (3)' but fourthly and way most importantly, I'm really still owed FIFTY-THREE MINUTES online after I watch the 6pm bulletin for the first time this year!! Anyways, events for today?

• Yay, 4th consecutive awesome sleep last night! Nature didn't call until 6:20am and after one pot :P trip 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* 
• Usually, nature calls every hour after that initial pot :P trip but happiness today was snoring soundly until dearest dad very considerately walked along the hallway and unpopped the lock into the garage before waking to use the pot :P again.
• After dearest dad kisses me bye, retucks me back into bed and leaves for his hard day's work, Uber and I happily cuddle and snore for another hour, me waking once more for the pot :P around one hour later, shortly before PIG mum lets herself into my room to hit me with the eye goo, before going back outside and awaiting Kim's arrival @ 9:15am.
• When she arrived, she pushed open the door and said good morning. Uber nodded greetings @ her, Kim said fifteen minutes and withdrew. 
• She empties the pot :P before fifteen minutes are up; when she comes back and taps me, I sit upright, say good morning and immediately squeal THANKS! for the AMAZING Christmas present she got me! Kim said she bought it when she took another client shopping in one of those temporary side stalls.
• After we get me kitted, I head over to the bathroom and brush teeth (Ela enjoys her first break this week from having to hold the toothbrush) and Kim readies breakfast for me. Teeth brushed, I sit over the loo for one tinkle, coming out when I realise I feel like doing a stinky unspeakable.
• Breakfast is one bowl of bird food (what Dr. Ku calls All-Bran XD) with one slice of dry (unbuttered) toast covered with sliced avocado (Kim arranged the slices very prettily!), all my usual drugs :P and one full mug of water. Over breakfast, I spent another ten minutes 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 breakfast, I walk myself slowly and safely to the loo,  rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over. There, I do a stinky unspeakable, also leaning fully 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!

• After washing and drying Era, I climb into the frontseat of Kim's car and she tootles me off to Underwood MarketPlace for walkies and grocery shopping. Without my parking permit, she parked all the way around @ the very back but hallelujah, turns out my parking permit was inside Nisha's car! Only she's self-isolating for one foernight because she was a COVID close contact somewhere ...
• We grabbed a trolley, bought a box of tissues and than sat outside and poked @ our mobiles for nearly 1.5 hours, woot! My time was spent very productively: I passed two more Candy Crush levels and two more Candy Crush Jelly Saga levels. XD
• After Kim tootled me home, I took a nice warm shower - I washed and rinsed my own hair today. I also sang 17% of my shorter second-favourite song softly, slowly but most hatefully out aloud, opening both eyes for all the important numbers.
• I had one tinkle before I flipped the nice warm water off, mostly dried myself (thanks to Kim who kindly helped me dry my back and Era), mostly creamed myself (again, thanks to Kim who kindly helped me cream my back, both calves and Era) and then mostly rekitted myself (thanks to Kim who kindly helped with Erf's sock, Elf's AFO straps and both laces). Then I used the loo for one tinkle, dried inside both ears, washed and dried Era and walked myself slowly and safely back outside, again rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.   

• Lunch was one can of cream of chicken soup with lots added vegetables and one tiny slice of beef plus one slice of dry (unbuttered) toast and  one cup of green/Chinese tea.
• At 2:30pm I signed Kim off with my thanks and byes; she's not back again till near the end of the month!
• I climbed into PIG mum's 4WD and she tootled me off to see Aunty Ann for a comfy massage. Of course, she gleefully forced me to buckle my own seatbelt both ways and we also listened to her YouTube mix both ways too. Era helped Ela stretch for thirty minutes before Ela opened and closed her palm 150 times, holding each for a count of five. Era also rubbed Ela's fingers for two/three minutes.
• At Aunty Ann's, I used the loo for one tinkle and then lay down for a comfy massage. PIG mum was in her element, yapping ceaselessly @ her; my thanks to Aunty Ann who always replied and kept the conversation flowing.
• After visiting the loo again and drinking some water, I said my thanks and byes and PIG mum tootled me home.
• For arvo tea, PIG mum fed me some delicious mango and one mug of yummy chai.
• I reached pg. 333 @ 6:19!
• I used the loo for one tinkle before popping online.
• Waiting for dinner now~
• Toms: seeing Ray for acupuncture toms morning coz I resume physio for 2022 in the arvo. *sigh*
• Nisha's minding me from 4pm till 6pm.
• Hoping I can watch the 6pm bulletin again!
• Anyways, hopefully bbl else wishing everyone a smashing Wednesday ahead!
  
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^
  P.S. All the interesting surnames I saw while watching the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's) for the first time this year: Gerrard, Crisafulli, Fegan, Cavallaro, Yvette (first name), D'Ath, Atkins, Gollschewski, Tunstall (heard), Booy, Moy, Birmingham, Albanese, Maynard, Wall, Epstein (heard), Giuffre, Ghislaine (first name, heard), Genovese  (heard), Greenbank, Baldwin (heard), Demasi, Murdoch (heard), Simmons, Biden, Putin (heard), Summers, Cox, Lipshut, Popovici, Cummins (heard), Hazelwood (heard), Djodan, Broad (heard), Ingram, Saville, KJvitova, Greer, Christoldolou, Barrow, Duckworth, Gottlieb, Starcevich, Dobson, Cadee, Kyrgios (heard) and Bolland.  Chris Kohler read the weather report; 1AUD = 72.14USc.Luke Bradnam read the weather report from Surfers Paradise. Brisbane was 23-31 today. Mt. Gravatt toms: 21-29. Sunrise 4:58am Sunrise 6:48pm