Thursday Post 471

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 3346 steps; secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'We Live By Faith'; thirdly, TWFT topic's 'Are You Flourishing? (2) and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'Strengthened Through Trials' but fifthly and way most importantly, I'm really still owed FORTY-FIVE MINUTES online after I get home from book club tonight!! Anyways, events for today?

• Yay, 4th consecutive awesome sleep last night! Nature didn't call until 6:35am and after one pot :P trip I immediately fell back asleep since I knew Karina would arrive less than one  hour later!
   
• Actually, I'm awoken for another pot :P trip @ 7:20am when dearest dad very considerately walks silently along the hallway and unpops the front door's lock for Karina's impending arrival @ 7:30am. After the second pot :P trip,   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 dad lets Karina inside @ 7:30am, she knocks, pushes open the door and bids both Pearl and me good morning. When I nod Pearl back @ her, she says fifteen more minutes? After another nod from Pearl she wisely removes herself, even though Pearl's anatomically incapable of giving the Bear Bum. XD
• When Karina returns, I use the pot :P for three more tinkles, we get me kitted and I head over to the bathroom to brush teeth. Thanks to Karina who's already squirted some toothpaste for me.
• After sitting over the loo for one tinkle, I head out to the gobbling :P table for breakfast, which is one slice of dry (unbuttered) toast lightly spread with avocado and lightly sprinkled with salt, one bowl of Weet-Bix porridge, 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 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 backseat of Karina's car and she tootles me off to GCCW! Thanks to her who helped me buckle my own seatbelt all day.
  
• At the library, I use the ambulant cubicle of the ladies loo (since the disabled one's occupied) and then head into the meeting room. For the first time ever, we're not in meeting room one nor meeting room two but meeting room three!
• Nine attended today and our next homework topic's 'photo album'. Thanks to Sattya who helped me once to the bathroom for morming tea break (I managed fine by myself) and got me bikkies with a cup of white tea with two sugars for morning tea. Even better, there was popcorn! :D
• Since the meeting ended thirteen minutes early today I rang Karina please for pickup; if there's less than ten minutes till midday then I won't bother.
• After one more tinkle, Karina tootled me somewhere  to get my kebab. She found it: a kebab with chips is called a gyro? Else a HSP (halal snack pack). I wolfed it down while she tootled me off to the NAB.
• Sweet, since we arrived  nice and early I had time to sit over the loo for two tinkles before heading into the gym. Actually, Jinn met me along the hallway and I said bye to Karina there.
• Whoops I didn't realise that today was Jin's last session with me; she's next flying back to Korea for a holiday and I forgot to bring her a chocolate bar and say thanks for helping me out with physio for the past five weeks! ><"
• Physio today: Forty-one sit-to-stands with left and forward weightshift, five laps walking short hallway and bending to retrieve beanbag then walk back and bend to ground again to drop it and five instances of walking forwards and backwards to sit in chair without touching armrests.
• I sat over the loo for another two tinkles before Karina tootled me home.
• Then I took a nice hot 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 last when I was drying inside  my ears with a tissue.
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^