Wednesday Post 373b

Heylo again, good evening and potentially one final greeting for tonight! Firstly, Em's potential final, final plodding total for Wednesday now stands @ 2452 (pretty confident I'll have cracked 2.5 grand before the night's out XD); secondly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'Debt Eater' and thirdly, Joni's devotional topic's 'Higher Ground' but fourthly and way most importantly, I'm really still owed  FORTY-NINE MINUTES online after dinner tonight!! Righteo, just briefly, continuing last night's events?

• After singing Lead Me To the Cross we did a Bible study from Acts chapter nine.
• Best of all, we had supper @ Maccas before Enoch dropped me home. PIG mum hit me with the eyegoo and went immediately to bed. Yay - I could sit to pour my nightly mouthful of milk, Ela didn't haveta hold the milk carton, pour the milk nor open the fridge door afterwards; nor did she haveta hold the toothbrush and Elf got to wear her sock last night. Score! XD
• Now @ 7:24pm I've played one more game of Bejeweled lasting 6:04. That's today's quotas satisfied, and now I promise to willingly hit the sack tonight. XD
• Today: yay, 2nd consecutive awesome sleep last night! Nature didn't call until 7:05am~
• Turned alarm on, saw Vincent the bloody physio for my weekly torture session. Physio today: stood entire session, bent to ground eleven times for Ela to move object, weightshifting, timed reaching for both hands, falling forward eight times and successfully left first attempt, woot!
• Went to Sunnybank Hills Woolies to buy bread and milk (elbow bumped Caitlin!) then headed upstairs and enjoyed delicious eggy pancake with pork floss for lunch!
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Friday Post 289d

Good evening and probably one final greeting for tonight! Em’s probable final, final plodding total for Friday now stands @ 2067. Ha, I’m just over two grand. XD Righteo, just briefly, final, final events for tonight/

• Oh, the potential final, final spam count for the week’s now thirty-seven.
• Menisha gave me a session of rehab therapy for 1.25 hours. I’m like three years older than her and she’s already gota daughter who’s eight!
• Did a stinky unspeakable after she left.
• MDE MYSELF A TOASTED SALMON WITH TOMATO AND ONION WITH A SLICE OF CHEESE FOR LUNCH; CUT THAT INTO TWO RECTANGLES AND DRANKONE MUG OF GINGER LEMON/HONEY INFUSION. Sorry, shrieking! >< XD
• Turned the alarm, got into the backseat of the 4WD and PIG mum tootled us off to Sunnybank Hills Shoppingtown to buy groceries from Coles.
• After buying groceries from Coles, we were walking towards the life to catch it back down to the level where our car was parked. Walking in our direction was a mum and her little boy who could've only been two @ the most. Suddenly the lil boy bolts forward to face the lift, does sth, says "Here you go!" before racing back to his mum. It's only several seconds later, when I reach the lift, do I realise that he's pressed the button for me! I turn around and go, "Hey, kid!" When the kid looks up at me, I flash him a thumbs up and grin, telling him, "Thank-you very much for pressing the button for me. You're a champ." The little boy grins back then skips away with his mum. Doubt he'll remember his random act of kindness when he grows up considering his tender age, but I suppose he just saw how slowly I walked and decided to do me a favour to lessen the amount of time I'd haveta wait for the lift to arrive. Bet that lil kid will be a real gentleman in like two decades time~
• Saw Ray for some acupuncture and massage. PIG mum was obviously in her element, yapping ceaselessly @ him; my grateful thanks to Ray who always replied, thus keeping a conversation flowing.
• Kim minded me from 4pm till 6pm. Read book afterwards for one hour, reaching pg. 200 @ 5:40pm.
• Watching the Broncos play the Bunnies tonight!
• Toms: expect a super-pissy plodding total from me coz I’m not going out. Besta’s coming to mind me from 10am till 2pm; will shower @ 12:30pm coz Kim’s not doing the 4pm till 6pm shift. Looking forward to my three white teas with two sugars, and fingers crossed I’ll get to read fr a blessed three hours toms!
  Cheers,
• Em. ^^

P.S. Now @ 7:09pm I’ve finished another game of Bejeweled lasting 6:47. That’s today’s quotas finished, and I now promise to willingly hit the sack tonight. XD Actually, I further promise not to play again until toms, coz tonight I’ve actually played two more memorable games, one lasting 7:11 and the other 9:54!

Thursday Post 292

Good afternoon! Firstly, my final, final plodding total for Wednesday’s actually 2420; secondly, today I’ve been hard @ work plodding 1479 steps (and I’m certain I’ll have passed 1.5 grand before the night’s out XD) and thirdly, TWFT topic’s ‘Raising Them Right’. Anyways, let’s start off with yesterday’s events first!

• When Carol leaves I return happily online for awhile, then @ 5:25pm use the loo once more for two tinkles then sit in the garage awaiting Cathy’s and her mum’s arrival!
• Turns out Cathy’s mum’s called Barb; last night, she was our driver!
• At 4:44pm I’ve finished one game of Bejeweled lasting 5:19. Now, lemme play one more lasting in between six and seven minutes, and I promise to willingly hit the sack tonight. XD
• Turns out all the undercover parking below the cinemas has become valet parking! Barb rolled down her window and called out “Excuse me!” the valet walked over, I held up my disability parking sticker and asked the suited man, “Sir, in the past with my disability parking sticker we could park here, but now all the disabled parking spots have become your valet parking spots! Where can we park then?” The guy was like, well it’s not busy tonight, how about you park in one of our spots and I’ll tell everyone to leave you alone. After getting his verbal promise that we’d not return tonight and find our car towed away, Barb parked there then we all walked upstairs into the piazza for dinner! Thanks to Cathy who linked arms with me to walk together~
• Lucky Cathy saw Sushi Edo behind us! The place wasn’t busy and we found a seat right @ the entrance~
• There was mild panic for me when I couldn’t find my mobile; had I left it on the tabletop and had someone swiped it while I wasn’t looking?? O_o Cathy asked Barb to please check the car and lent me her mobile to ring PIG mum; when she answered I immediately squeaked “PIG mum help; I’ve misplaced my phone!” At exactly the same time, “You left your mobile @ home” Oh, phew. XD
• For dinner, I ordered one small bowl of rice and some chicken katsu that came with yummy sauce; Cathy and Barb also ordered rice, plus one plate of sushi and a deep fried tofu! When our meals arrived; we shared some chicken and tofu around; we also shared a popper of milk tea and ordered a can of lychee tea, which we didn’t end up drinking and Cathy said I could drink over the movie.
• After using the loo myself once, we entered the cinemas. Dunno why the entire middle of the ground level doesn’t have any seats? I was rather dreading having to hike upstairs, but then Barb/Cath saw some seats to the side and we just squeezed in there, sweet~
• Great movie! Think I’ll haveta pause the Lumosity brain game playing for PIG mum to catchup on my special blog posts! I’m still checking my Ten Years 2 post, have nearly finished my Crazy Rich Asians review and now I’ll haveta write one for Mary, Queen Of Scots, too!
• Movie over, I use the loo once more then we head back to Cathy’s car. Barb gets behind the wheel then announces, “I’m hungry. Where are we going next?” I cheer “Maccas for soft serves!” And that’s where we go! After pulling up to the order station, Barb goes, “Oh, two or three ice creams, please,” but then the guy goes, “Sorry, our ice cream machine isn’t working tonight.” I’m like WTF (inside silently, of course!) and Barb decides since we can’t end the night without ice cream, she tootles us off to the Maccas @ Sunnybank Plaza instead! Thankfully their machine’s working. XD Only by then, neither Barb nor Cathy want one and only I munch one! But can you believe it: they’re SEVENTY cents now! I suppose I didn’t want PIG mum to found out I’d had an ice cream coz I wolfed it all down and was finished by the time Barb turned down into McCullough rd.; Cath mentioned she’d never seen anyone eat that fast before! XD
• Back home, I used the loo for one tinkle, noted down my final, final plodding total then hit the sack.’Twas like 10pm already and PIG mum originally said leave ice cream till toms but I BEGGED her for ice cream tonight and she relented! Score, I’ve never enjoyed ice cream TWICE in one day before, I don’t think!:D
• Today: yay, 3^rd consecutive awesome sleep last night! Nature didn’t call until 6:25am, and after one pot :P trip I spend the ten minutes until 6:35am 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*
• Now @ 6:12on, I’ve finished another game of Bejeweled lasting 6:12. That’s today’s quotas satisfied, and I promise to willingly hit the sack tonight. XD Actually, I further promise not to play again until toms, coz I’ve also played two more memorable games, one lasting 7:07 and the other 7:35!
• The teddies and I cuddle and snore for about another hour, me waking to use the pot :P once more and kiss dearest dad bye when he went off … somewhere. XD

More snoring from the teddies and I; PIG mum a-THUMPING around upstairs being my wakeup call to use the pot :P again. Soon, she’s let herself into my room to hit me with the eye goo; before Kim arrives, I also spend 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*

• Kim actually arrives five minutes early, but @ PIG mum’s prompting she sticks her head into my room and says good morning before leaving me for fifteen more minutes.
• When she comes back, we get me kitted, then I head over to brush teeth. Ela enjoys a break~
• Teeth brushed, I sit over the loo for two tinkles, also leaning fully against the side rail and minutes 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 walk myself out to the gobbling table, Him push me over. rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting
• Breakfast is two plain (no honey) Weet-Bix, all my usual drugs :P and the largest mug of water we’ve got. Thanks to Kim who turned Sunrise for my viewing pleasure while I munched breakfast~
• Come 9pm, Kim tootled me off to GCCW! I used the loo for one tinkle on arrival~
• Fourteen people attended today; I had fun showing SuperMi to everyone!
• Morning tea was fancy: two lamingtons with strawberry jam inside and one Tim Tam!
• Next time, must remember to ask Aunty Erica would she be free for lunch together @ 12:30pm and not midday; @   11:52am she Facebook messaged me and lemme know they’d arrived then when Kim was driving me to Ho Lin Wah we got stuck in traffic and didn’t arrive till like 12:35!
• Luckily Aunty Erica had pre-ordered for me and my meal was waiting on arrival. The A meal was yucky, some black bean thing; instead I enjoyed the B meal, Vietnamese pork chop with rice. I also ate two spring rolls; Aunty Erica had ordered a plate (four) so one each but Ela suddenly said she was full and didn’t want hers! I offered some of my lunch in return but she said no thanks.
• After they left, I was waiting for Kim to return only who should appear but PIG mum! She ordered herself some red bean drink and kept me company till Kim arrived and drove me home.
• Back inside, a nice hot shower for me – I washed and rinsed my own hair today. I also softly, slowly but most hatefully sang 22% of my shorter second-favourite song out aloud, opening both eyes for all the important numbers.
• I had one tinkle before I flipped the nice warm water off, mostly dried myself (thanks to Kim who kindly helped me dry my back, both legs and Era), mostly creamed myself (again, thankls to Kim who kindly helped me cream my back, both legs and Era) then mostly rekitted myself (thanks to Kim who kindly helped me with Erf’s sock, Elf’s AFO and both laces). Then I used the loo for one tinkle, dried inside both ears, washed and dried Era then walked myself slowly and safely back out to the gobbling :P table, again rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not lettinghim push me over.
• Arvo tea’s one yummy pear and one mug of green tea. Kim cleans the bathroom then sits to very gently and very sporadically massage Ela for about twenty minutes before leaving. She’s back toms 4pm till 6pm coz she’s not coming Saturday.
• Fingers crossed dad will take us out for dinner tonight! Although there’s not much hope, coz I can hear the stove going …
• Toms: perhaps expect a pissy plodding total from me? I’m only seeing Ray for some massage and acupuncture in the early arvo.
• Then Kim’s coming to mind me from 4pm till 6pm.
• Anyways, hopefully bbl, else hope everyone has a smashing end to their week toms!

Cheers,

Em. ^^

thursday post 141

good afternoon! firstly, em's been hard @ work plodding 2760 steps today (digi proudly reports that 2760 steps also equals 930m or 41.7kcal XD); secondly, TWFT topic's 'E-V-A-L-U-A-T-E' but thirdly and most importantly, i'm still owed ONE HOUR and TWENTY-EIGHT MINUTES online after i tget back from garbo tonight!!! >< *sigh* the list grows longer everytime i head out ... anyways, just briefly, coz annette's arriving soon, events for today?
-we had writers group this morning, for the first time in one month! last fortnight was ANZAC day, see!
-and OMG, i won runner-up for the writing competition!!! i received this silver vintage one dollar coin; gabby told me that harry had it rated and was told 'twas worth like thirty bucks!
-afterwards, PIG mum tootled me straight off for pincushion practice ... ow. but i won't haveta suffer it for one month, coz we're having guests come over!
-PIG mum tootled us back to the warrigal square maccas for a small meal. no chips, of course, just cheeseburgers, but PIG mum got me a banaberry frappe to celebrate my runner-up prize @ the writing comp!
-alas, once i got home, i first had to endure an excruciating standing calf stretch, before PIG mum gleefully FORCED:( me to plod twenty-five minutes on the bloody treadmill for her.
-but am finally online now, and greatly looking forward to going out with annette to go mother's day present shopping tonight, book club, dinner @ garbo and hopefully time for dick smiths!
-toms: my last physio session with kevin. fingers crossed i can see naz for some fish and chips afterwards! aunty lucia's coming to help me with a shower @ 4pm, then @ night, i'm off to FX! righteo, hope everyone has a smashing end to their week toms!
cheers,
em. ^^
P.S. and bless auto-save ... while i was writing this post, the power suddenly jumped! luckily, my post was still waiting for me, phew. :o)

decade reflections

yikes, i've got only fifteen minutes to type out my reflections for this decade! GO!
~2000: started grade eight @ canterbury college.
~2001: grade nine, and i also started being mr. hall's cover girl, making me the most hated student by teachers for the next three years to come. :P
~2002: grade ten brought my best academic year; while i managed to perform in the top 10% of students academically each year, for year ten, i achieved DUX! :D
~2003: i went to japan! best experience of my life thus far! :D
~2004: year twelve, and OMG, i graduated with an OP1! :D
~2005: first year bachelor arts/law @ UQ, arts majoring in international relations and ... sth which i later changed to chinese, much to the ire of mr. jennings. :P
~2006: second year @ uni. i landed my first real job: checkout chic @ woolies!
~2007: god decided that he HATED me and smote me down with a brain tumour. >< most defining event of the decade for me.
~2008: after lotsa threatening :P, the hospital lemme home to celebrate my 21st bday! :D
~2009: i spent some time in the hospital in the early part of the year. just physio everyday bar sunday, nothing special.
~2010: my first trip back to hong kong post-brain injury! 'twas such a joy to see all my friends and family! too bad, little mickey pig could say 'yee ma', 'cheung cheung' but to him, i was 'um'! ><" :P sadly, we returned again in june, when my dearest grandma passed away with lung cancer. but in those four months, mickey had learnt to call me 'emily'! squeee!!! :D
who knows what this new decade coming will bring? whatever it does, i hope it'll be good! well, if it's all about attitude, i'm gonna believe that life WILL get easier for me! :D definitely, i don't plan to fall to my death any time soon! personally, i'm grateful that PIG mum no longer believes that i'll die before i'm thirty; that frees me up to achieving my dream age of reaching one century! :D
see you next decade!
cheers,
em. ^^

new year's eve post 3

*beep* i've just lost my entire year's worth of reflections! well, i've got about thirty minutes to quickly type it all out again:
~uni-wise: *sigh* me still not studying. >< the chances of me completing my bachelor's degree by the time i'm twenty-five are zero, maybe by the time i'm thirty, then. :)
~sporting-wise: thankfully, the parents have (for now) given up on gleefully forcing me to go play baddy with them; also thanks to PIG mum who bought me wii sports resort for my bday! i love the swordfighting and the hundred-pin bowling. :)
~politically wise: well, this year, julia gillard ousted kevin rudd for the top job! for those who want a laugh, check out www.julializard.com. :P
~spiritually wise: *sigh* 'twas going so well, too ... i'd started singing 'you are my god' instead of 'i HATE you god'; i'd also started praying and singing praise songs to god again, when suddenly god MURDERED my most beloved grandmother with lung cancer. :( she was only seventy-nine, and had originally presented with pneumonia! >< guess i'm only chatting to percy every night, and totally refusing to sing any hymns of praise to an unfaithful god. :( but the day my grandma passed away, father PINKY-PROMISED ME that i'd see grandma in heaven again someday! meaning if god wants to dump me into hell when i die, he'll @ least haveta let me see my most beloved grandmother once first. :) i don't understand, really; god's promised that there's no unhappiness in heaven, but if god boots me to hell, how will my parents be anything but happy?
~work wise: i said when i returned to brisbane in august that i'd try my hardest to find a paid job, earn enough money to buy myself a plane ticket back to hong kong, browse the new year's markets and buy myself a rabbit head hat, but sadly, employment for the disabled doesn't come easy. :( i'm still unemployed, but luckily, uncle dick dick has promised that he can buy me a rabbit head hat. :)
~everything else-wise: phew, me head's still dandruffless. think i can leave that phrase in the history books. :P sadly, the treadmill's still alive, but hey *sigh* i'll survive... nothing much else to report, i don't think ... oh! hilary, win and florence jie jie's are all coming over to brisbane to visit me next year! :D
-well, that ends my yearly reflections; i've got about twenty minutes now topost my reflections for this DECADE! see you guys next year!
cheers,
em. ^^