Thursday Post 443

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 4172 steps (mice, I'm over four grand; that doesn't happen too often!); secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'Making It Real For His Prople'; thirdly, TWFT topic's 'Flee, Fight/Forgive' and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'Friends For Life' but fifthly and way most importantly, I'm really still owed FIFTY-EIGHT MINUTES online after I watch the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's) for the 201ST time!! Anyways, events for today?

• Yay, 3rd consecutive awesome sleep last night! Like the past two days, nature didn't call until 6:10am when dearest dad silently and very thoughtfully walked silently along the hallway and unpopped the lock leading into the garage door; after one pot :P trip I immediately fell back asleep since I knew with certainty that PIG mum would get very noisy one hour later!
• Like clockwork, noisy PIG mum going a-THUMPING around upstairs @ 7:10am was my wakeup call to use the pot :P again, after which 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* 
• PIG mum let herself into my room and hit me with the eye goo before waiting for Karina's arrival @ 7:30am. After PIG mum left her in, Karina knocked, pushed open the door, bid Pearl and me good morning, said hitting the snooze button for fifteen minutes and wisely left when I nodded Pearl @ her, even though he's anatomically incompatible with giving the Bear Bum. XD
• When Karina returned, I used the pot :P for three more tinkles, we caught up with each other about what's been happening in the week we last saw each other, we got me kitted and then I headed over to the bathroom to brush teeth, before I used the loo for one tinkle, washed and dried Era and headed out to the gobbling :P table, rousing @ Karina for not having breakfast.
• Thanks to Karina who turned Sunrise on for my viewing pleasure; for breakfast I munched two Weet-Bix drizzled with a little honey. Unsure why PIG mum didn't leave me any drugs :P today? 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 sit once more over the loo. 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 passenger seat of Karina's car and she tootles me off to Sunnybank Hills Shoppingtown for my fortnightly (well, weekly now that GCCW has ended) trip! Thanks to her who kindly helped with my seatbelt all day~
• Karina found the last side park along level two, I used the loo for one tinkle, grabbed  Traci Harding's 'The Black Madonna and happily read another fifty pages, finishing pg. seventy-five @ 10:07am but forgetting when I finished/reached pg. 100. XD
• After posting a quick update onto Facebook, I visited the loo once before we caught the lift up into level four, grabbed a trolley and bought groceries @ Coles. @ the self-serve checkout, I waved over the staffperson manning them and informed her that my checkout had gone mute? Like, after scanning the item, it'd appear on the screen but there wasn't an accompanying doot? The girl laughed, swiped her staff card, pressed some buttons and said I've turned up the volume. XD
• By then 'twas already time to head off to the CODA Christmas client lunch! We arrived somewhat late since Karina needed to refuel her car. XD
• When we arrived I grabbed a seat to the most left; there was another client seated opposite me. Louise immediately handed me a picture Christmas bingo card and I started playing! Didn't win any round this year though, nor the lucky door prize. XD When I arrived, Minjum immediately returned my jacket I'd left in her car last Tuesday!
• And I saw Annette! She told me that her daughter's moved interstate to work, Luke's still @ home and she's become the sole breadwinner for their family because Mr. Matt needed to take leave from being a hospital wardie. I introduced her to Karina and then bagged them both out for being sm - bbl!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^
  P.S. All the interesting surnames I saw while watching the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's) for the 201ST time: Heinke, Leavers, Kirk (heard), Dare (heard), Millward, Kelsey (first name), Albanese, Dutton, Arvier, Yvette (first name), D'Ath, Fentiman, Crisafulli, Palaszczuk, Croucher, Dutton, Tyrrell, Chalmers, Bandt, Sydes, Geran, Treymain (first name), Spry, Greenbank, Rishi (first name), Sunak (heard), Starmer (heard), Wahl, Bavas, Pisasale (heard), Harding, Prator, Piortrowski (heard), DeGeneres, Khawaja (heard), Labuschagme (heard), Maketa, Rasheed (first name, heard), Giaan (first name), Rooney, Chalmers (heard), Popovich (heard), Moon (heard), Van (first name), Kruse (heard), Rice, Liersch, Constantine (first name) and Rawlings. 68.28USc=1AUD. Garry Youngberry read the weather report from Broadbeach. Brisbane was 19-29 today. Mt. Gravatt toms: 17-25. Sunrise 4:47am Sunset 6:40pm