Thursday Post 302

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 3899 steps (ooh, may crack 4000 before the night's out! XD
); secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'Jesus Will Finish The Mission'; thirdly, TWFT topic's "Acknowledging God's Sovereignty' and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'Preparing A Place For Us'. Anyways, events for today?

• Yay, 2nd consecutive awesome sleep last night! Nature didn't call until 6:00am, 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*

•   One hour later, I'm awakened for another pot :P trip when noisy PIG mum begins her daily a-THUMPING around upstairs. Soon, she's let herself into my room to hit me with the eye goo before going back outside and awaiting Karina's arrival @ 7:30am.
• She greets both Uber and me before saying "hitting the snooze button; be back in fifteen minutes ..." XD
• When she comes back, I use the loo once for several more tinkles, we get me kitted and then I head over to brush teeth. Thanks to Karina who squirts some toothpaste for me. Teeth brushed, I sit over the loo for just 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 smeared with avocado and sprinkled with salt, 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 was gonna sit back over the loo and do a stinky unspeakable before going out with Karina, but she was suddenly like, oh, didn't your mum tell you? She wants you to read @ home today! XD
• After reading for one hour, reaching pg. twenty-five @ 9:01am, I used the loo for one more tinkle and Karina tootled me off to Sunnybank Hills Shoppingtown for my fortnightly shopping trip, finding sideways parking outside level two.
• While I took a seat on the bench just inside the entrance, Karina went to find the day's groceries and I posted an update onto Facebook.
• Karina came back with a trolley and we bought groceries from Woolies first because she saw Caitlin! I told her 'twas my birthday this Sunday; Caitlin said happy birthday and how old will you be? I smirked and replied forever twenty-one. XD
• Next we caught the lift up onto level four and bought groceries from Coles, after which Karina tootled me off to Seoul Bistro to meet Fiona for lunch!
• She shouted me a vanilla malt milkshake for my birthday (beautiful), I ordered boneless fried chicken wings (three flavours) and traded some with Fiona for some delicious chicken katsudon. Over lunch we just all chatted~ Karina ordered the Japa burger with a can of Coke and lemme munch her little chips~
•  Afterwards, Karina tootled me home and I took a nice warm shower - hairwash today. Also thanks to Karina who helped me rinse my hair out, thus freeing Era to hold my stupid right eye tightly shut.
• I had one tinkle before Karina flipped the nice hot water off, got dried, got creamed and had another tinkle. When Karina rekitted me, I had one more tinkle when she was helping with Elf's AFO straps and one more when she was giving Wally back to Ela.
• Back outside, PIG mum redressed Era's thumb while Karina cleaned the bathroom. When she came back, PIG mum said take a seat and have a drink; once she poured herself some water and sat down, PIG mum tapped @ her and wouldn't let her leave until I noticed 'twas already like 4:02 and said I'm going to the loo and doing another number two; mother, you'd better let poor Karina leave now. XD
• Looking forward to watching the 6pm news for the 36TH time!
• Toms: Vicki's minding me from 9am till 1pm; fingers crossed PIG mum'll lemme buy a yummy crispy/crunchy pork salad roll from the local Vietnamese bakery!
• Tiff and Marissa will come give Ela a session of OT around 2pm.
• Hoping PIG mum'll feed me some arvo tea and I'll get to read for one hour before watching the 6pm news for the 37TH time!
• Anyways, hopefully bbl after dinner, else wishing everyone a smashing end to their week toms!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^
  P.S. All the interesting surnames I saw when watching the 6pm news bulletin (Seven's, read by Sharyn Ghidella and Max Futcher) for the 36TH time: Palaszczuk, Crisafulli, Somerille (heard), Whop, Heathwood, Griffin, Putin, Zelensky, Homchuk, Bilai, Reason, Dillon, Birch, Albanese, Acton, Preston, Rynne, Laird,  Crowley, Sutinen, Lopez, Trad, Bilyk, Pearson, Pallister, Furze, Fryer, Rizwan, Lawson, Zorko (heard), Beveridge, Lahiri,  Reynolds, Madsen, Mortensen and Chumbley. 73.08USc = 1AUD; finance report read by Gemma Acton and Gemma read the sports report. Tony Auden read the weather report from Southbank. Brisbane was 19-31 today. Mt. Gravatt toms toms: 19-28