Thursday Post 480

 Good afternoon! Firstly, sorry about Tuesday night's and yesterday's events (I'll quickly cover them); yesterday there was a huge storm and we lost power from 6pm till 10:40!); secondly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 2070 steps (*ha, I'm just over two grand XD); secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'Do Not Harden Your Heart'; thirdly, TWFT topic's "Quitters Don't Win. Winners Don't Quit" and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'Persist In Praying'. Anyways, just briefly, let's start off with Tuesday night's events first!

• Attended Toastmasters with Nisha and ate an Unhappy Meal with an orange juice for dinner. Excitement: next meeting's the last one on-campus for 2024 and I can FINALLY get a milkshake! I'm usually a chocolate milkshake person but Nisha recommends vanilla ... which should I have?
• Wednesday, just briefly: 
• Yay, 2nd awesome consecutive sleep last night! Like yesterday, nature didn't call until 7:10am~
• Went grocery shopping with PIG mum before Monicah took me to table tennis. Only she won't drive on the highway and we arrived late:  I nearly missed out on CAKE! O_XD
• Came back home for shower but suddenly BANG! Huge thunder strike and the power went! That was around 6pm~
• Had GG over mobile. People originally coming over to my place but storm disrupted plans. Five studied Matthew 7:31 - dependent on the Spirit. Bernard joined from Sunnybank Hills Shoppingtown and I joined via Zoom. Mobile battery already @ 40% and when Peter Pie prayed for us to finish my camera light was shut off to preserve battery; nobody could see me so once it ended, I said good night! XD
• Dinner was almost (but not quite) one cup of milk and just over one plain cracker.
•  Was in bed around 9:30pm but not asleep since too hot! Suddenly @ 10:40pm snap! The power returns, hoorah! Thanks to PIG mum who immediately came downstairs and opened the fan for me~
• Today: when nature called this morning the sun hadn't risen yet but the sky had started lightening. I checked the time: only 3:50am?!
• When nature called again around 6am I used the pot :P before 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 a-THUMPING around upstairs wakes me for another pot :P trip; shortly afterwards, she's let herself into my room to hit me with the eye goo before going back outside and awaiting Karina's arrival.
• After Karina arrived, she knocked, opened the door and bid me good morning, before announcing hitting the snooze button for fifteen more minutes~
• When she came back, I used the pot :P once more for three tinkles, we got me kitted and then I headed over to the bathroom and brushed teeth. Thanks to Karina who squirted some toothpaste for me.
• Teeth brushed, I sit over the loo for one tinkle, wash and dry Era and then head out to the gobbling :P table with Karina, rousing @ her for AGAIN skipping breakfast.
• My breakfast was one bowl of Special K and Just Wrong :P with one slice of (unbuttered) toast lightly spread with avocado and lightly sprinkled with salt, all my usual drugs: P and one full mug of water. Thanks to Karina who turned on Sunrise for my viewing pleasure. 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*

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• After breakfast, Karina walked back with me to the bathroom and I sit over the loo proper. 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. Thanks to her who helps me with my seatbelt both ways and then she tootled me off to the Garbo library for GCCW!

   

•  I use the loo once and then find out the meeting's in Meeting Room Two today.

• Twelve appeared but two were two young boys and they left shortly after Ken started waffling. XD

• Thanks to Tammy who helped meb once to the bathroom @ morning teatime (Stan's still traumatised from the one time he did it and summoned Tammy when he saw me patiently sitting waiting for her XD, thanks to Mary for a small cup of tea with two sugars. Unsure who brought me three bikkies but the little custard cake that I'd bought for the anthology launch was delightful and then Stan even got me another one! :D

• Homework for next meeting's '"Sth I'd like to invent" Christmas party details were also finalised!

• After one more loo trip, Karina tootled me home and I showered my fastest - hairwash today. Also thanks to Karina who helped me rinse my hair out, thus freeing Era to hold my stupid right eye tightly shut.

• Dried, creamed and rekitted I sat outside @ the gobbling :P table wondering why PIG mum hadn't returned to cook us fried rice for lunch ...,

• Karina cleaned the bathroom and then I signed her off with my thanks and byes @ like 12:15. She's going to the hospital to visit her daughter now; visits are for thirty minutes, and you're allowed to order them foods! Karina's back next Thursday fortnight; must remember to check the roster and see who's coming next Thursday.

• PIG mum cooked tasty fried rice for lunch and mixed me one packet of powdered HK-style instant milk tea coffee! Apparently, this morning she had gone Christmas shopping; sure hope she bought me lotsa presents! XD

• After taking my bowl to the sink I used the loo for one tinkle and popped online, visiting the  looo again @ 3pm when nature suddenly called.

• Once I've used up the most important two hours of my day online I'll use the loo for another tinkle and then sit @ the gobbling :P to read for one hour and wait for PIG mum to gimme some arvo tea.

• Bree's taking me to book club @ 5:30pm; I'm just disappointed that we're not going out for our once-yearly dinner together afterwards! XD But I'm looking forward to my ice cream tonight; like  I say every week; a very little's better than none @ all~

• Toms: Peggy's minding me from 9:30am till 2pm. Presume we're grocery shopping since after Peggy leaves Dorrie's coming over and cooking sth with me!

• Looking forward to starting the new book club novel for one hour afterwards, spending my most important hours of the day online and hopefully watching the 6pm news for the 185TH time!

• Anyways, hopefully bbl, else wishing everyuone a smashing end  to the week toms!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^