Thursday Post 471

 Good afternoon! Firstly, my final, final plodding total for Wednesday's actually 6600 (my second-best for the year thus far, woot!); secondly, I'm unsure how many steps I've been hard @ work plodding since Wally won't turn on; thirdly, john Piper's devotional topic from last night's 'The Gain Of Serving God'; fourthly, TWFT topic's 'What Can I Do?' and fifthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's "In God's Hands" but sixthly and way most importantly, I'm really owed TWENTY-EIGHT MINUTES online should I get to watch the 6pm bulletin for the 88TH time!! Righteo, let's start off with last night's events first!

• PIG mum microwaved me rice leftovers for dinner @ 6pm; @ 6:45pm I used the loo for one tinkle and then dad tootled me off to Peter Pie's place for the Origin opener! Unsurprisingly, IU was the first there but that meant I picked the choice sofa spot with the extended leg rest. XD
• About thirteen people came last night; thanks to Yu Lam who walked behind me once  to the loo before I returned to the sofa and stood for the national anthem. I instructed everyone to stand also, but Dr. Lee was like, nah, you stand for us. Kalos was sitting beside me, I whacked him gently on the shoulder and commanded him, "Stand for the national anthem!" Aww, what a good boy: Kalos stood immediately. XD
• Come halftime, QLD led! Yu Lam helped me once to the loo again and I returned to the couch for the second half.
• QUEENSLAND WON!!  Even though we were down a man we still scored and continuously defended our tryline desperately.
• I rang for pickup, dad tootled me home, I used the loo for one more tinkle, noted down my final, final ploodding and then repeat the usually nightly events. Zzz~
• Today: yay, 3rd consecutive awesome sleep last night! Nature didn't call until 6:20pm and after one pot :P trip I fell right back asleep immediately since I knew PIG mum would get very noisy one hour later!
• Like clockwork, PIG mum's noisy a-THUMPING around upstairs wakes me for another pot :P trip @ 7:20am, 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*
• After PIG mum hits me with the eye goo, Karina arrives @ 7:30am and gives me fifteen more minutes before helping me up.
• I brush teeth, eat breakfast, do a stinky unspeakable and then head out to Sunnybank Hills Shoppingtown for my fortnightly shopping trip.
• We buy groceries from Woolies and Coles before Karina decides I may read in the library for thirteen minutes. Entering the library, I see and grab some Phillipa Gregory historical fiction novel to read. I encountered the title on page twelve and read seventeen pages before Karina says lunchtime.
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^
  P.S. All the interesting surnames I saw while watching the 6pm bulletin (Seven's, read by Sharyn Ghidella and Max Futcher) for the 88TH time): Besanko, Reason, Cotter, Fittler, Dry, Geof (first name), Parry, Slattery, Busson, Balme, Bland, Balin (first name), Farrell, Albanese, Bissell, Tully, Hart, Palasczuk, Robson,  Spergel, Bissell, Nerida (first name), Conisbee, Heathwood (heard), Abbott, Ford, Cobbo, Taualagi, Munster, Kroehn, Algar, Marinelli Scanlon (heard), Morecroft, Renzo (first name), Zalvetti, Jordan (female first name?), Scullon Holland, Wightman, Opie, Logarzo, Kerr (heard), Kokinakkos, Niall (first name)Kyrgios (heard), Cross, Casselden, Stone and Beaumont.  1AUD = 65USc. Ben Davis read the sports report and Tony Auden read the weather report from Shorncliffe. Brisbane was 9-25 today. Mt. Gravatt toms: 8-25Brisbane toms: 11-25.
  P.P.S. I reached pg. 225 @ 6:36pm (Harrigan)