Friday Post 617

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 4477 steps today (nice I'm over four grand; that doesn't happen very often!); secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'A Six-Point Summary Of The Gospel'; thirdly, TWFT topic's 'Prevailing Prayer' and fourthly, Our Daily   Bread's devotional topic's 'Beyond The Blues' but fifthly  and way most importantly, I'm really still owed FORTY-FIVE MINUTES online after I  get home from  my  birthday dinner with the parents and Aunty A!! Anyways, events for today?

• Woo hoo, what better way to begin your BIRTHDAY than with your 8th consecutive awesome sleep last night? Nature  didn't  call until  the noisy garbage truck THUNDERED down our road and started tipping bins; 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*
• Can't remember did I wake again for the pot :P around 7:45am/not, but I definitely did just before 9am. Shortly afterwards, PIG mum begins her daily noisy a-THUMPING around upstairs and soon she's let herself into my room to hit me with the eye goo. I feel loved since she wakes me with a happy birthday! ~
• After PIG mum lets Jane inside @ 9:30am, Jane knocks, pushes open the door and calls "Good morning, Em; fifteen more minutes." I nod Daddy Bear @ her and she's closing the door when she suddenly adds "Oh, and happy birthday!"
• When she comes back, I use the pot :P for one more tinkle and Jane immediately confesses that she had a birthday card written out for me but left it sitting on the kitchen benchtop this morning so she'll bring it when I see her next Wednesday for table tennis. XD
• After we get me kitted, I head over to the bathroom to brush teeth and sit over the loo for one tinkle. After washing and drying   Era, I head out to the gobbling :P table with Jane, who tells me that she had her usual breakfast smoothie for her morning meal today.
  Cheers,
  Em.  ^^