Sunday Post 409

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 2739 steps; secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'Eleventh-Hour Breakthroughs'; thirdly, TWFT topic's 'Be An Optimist (2) and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'When Love Shows Up'. Anyways, events for today?

• Nature called once @ 1:50am; after another pot :P trip @ 6:50am I immediately tried falling back asleep since I knew PIG mum would get very noisy ten minutes later!
  
• Success; I didn't wake until she opened my bedroom door! After PIG mum hit me with the eye goo and helped exceedingly slightly with absolutely nothing bar the bra strap, she left me to get myself mostly independently kitted, which I comply with after giving myself fifteen more minutes first. Whilst doing so, 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 comes back to finish with absolutely nothing bar Elf's AFO straps and both laces before I let her gleefully FORCE :( me to walk over to the bathroom and brush teeth. That done, I sit over the loo for one tinkle, wash and dry Era then walk myself slowly and safely to the gobbling :P table, rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.

• Breakfast was one of the yummy polo buns I helped PIG mum make yesterday! I also popped all my usual drugs :P and drank one tall cup 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 walk myself slowly   and safely back to the bathroom, again rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.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 PIG mum's car and buckle my own seatbelt (what I do all day). PIG mum tootles us off to church,  I  hike up  the ramp, use the 3rd cubicle of the female toilets (since the disabled and first two cubicles of the female toilets have lids down but horrid PIG mum won't help me left it), wash  and dry both  hands then  grab my usual spot for  service on the most left.
• Yay I get to stay seated for service today~ I sing everything, plus the harmony for four songs but like every other week, meant absolutely NOTHING. >< *sigh*
• Speaker today was Tyvus; his sermon was about the walls of Jericho and service ended twenty minutes early today.
• After PIG mum collected me, I used the toilet for another tinkle and then headed around to the back since morning tea was held behind the service hall today! Unsure why?
• I munched one little pack of Arnott's bikkies, drank one small paper cup of unsweetened tea and had a chat with dear Grammy Wan; is she really ninety-five?!
• My first proper meal out since dad's birthday @ the end of last month: Dr. Lee gave me a lift to Mr. J's, the Japanese restaurant @ the end of Warrigal Square!
• We took three tables; I sat with Dr. Lee, Dr. Esther, David and two others. For lunch I had the cheese pork katsu, yum! Table water for everyone~
• Dr. Lee dropped off two boys off @ the local gym before driving us to lunch and he dropped me home afterwards only nobody was home! I sat on the bench outside the garage and told him I'd be fine only Dr. Lee rang PIG mum to check. XD Unsure why reception wasn't any good?
• Dad arrived home soon after they left and PIG mum was right behind him.
• I used the loo for one tinkle, washed and dried Era then walked myself slowly and safely online, always rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.
• Toms: late morning appointment to see Ray for some acupuncture and massage; can I ask him for a red  acket/pocket yet? It's CNY soon, surely!
• PIG mum says we can buy groceries and walk aisles before coming home for lunch with dearest dad~
• Tomorrow's 4-6pm shift's still TBA; may  haveta ring Michelle toms and ask~
• But looking   forward to reading Leanne's book for one hour and watching the 6pm news bulletin for the 28TH time after I watch today's for the 27TH!
• Anyways, hopefully  bbl, else wishing everyone a smashing week ahead!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Saturday Post 409b

 Heylo again, good evening again and one final greeting for tonight! Em's final, final plodding for Saturday now stands @ 2730. Righteo, final, final events for tonight?

• While I used the loo for two more tinkles Sharon closes and locks windows.
• Sharon tootles me off to church to play table tennis with   dearest dad~ Amazingly, she's lets me use Sparkless3 to head into the playing room! Obviously, dad immediately orders me outta the wheelchair once I arrive. XD
• But we have great fun playing; dad not only lets me win in straight sets; I even get to win the final set he wants to save face!! XD
• Back home, I use the loo for one tinkle then sit @ the gobbling :P table to munch my yummy honey chicken arvo  tea sushi roll and read Leanne's book. I reached pg. 300 @ exactly 3:20pm, reached pg. 222 @ 3:51, finished pg. 225 @ 3:54pm and reached pg. 250 @ exactly 4:40pm.
• After using the loo for one tinkle I popped online, finished my daily Bible readings then happily   watched the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's) for the 26TH time.

• All  the interesting surnames I saw while watching the 6pm news bulletin (Nine’s, read by Mia Glover) for the 26^TH time: Balme (heard), Scwarzenecker, Dunbar, Murray, Scott, Makenna (first name), Baily, Drew, Camm, McKeon, Day, McGoverene, Albanese, Howard, Hardson, Allegra (first name), Spender, Sussan (first name,  heard), Ley (heard),Heinke, Dib,  Cleary (heard), Ahern, Armani (heard), Coventry, Bocelli (heard), da Vinci (heard), Ryan, Tsimpikas (heard),Ferlazzo, Guseli, Trump, Epstein (heard), Guthrie, Epstein (heard), Giuffre (heard), Eugenie (first name), Trump, Obama, Balme, Zoran (first  name), Solano, Gaffney, Brasher,Kobe (first name), Hetherington,Bellamy, Grant  (heard), Munster (heard),Tomasi,  Mariya (first name), Goray, Wylie,StolzThomas, Ryan,Smylie,Von (heard), O’wyer, Marcello (first name) and Sos.  Monkman, Dominique Loudon read the sports report, Alice SWtolz read the auction/property report  and Luke Bradnam  read the weather  report from Main Beach. Brisbane was 20-30 today. Brisbane toms: 22-30. Mt. Gravatt toms: 21-30. Sunrise 5:26am  Sunset  6:38pm

  
  

• When PIG mum summoned me to dinner @ 7:21pm I walked myself once slowly and safely to the loo for one tinkle then to the gobbling :P table, rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.

• Dinner tonight: rice, lotsa yummy   cauliflower,  lotsa soup potato,  lotsa soup tomato, lotsa soup carrot, one piece of fish and three little chunks of beef.

• Dinner was spooned down with one bowl of soup; after taking the bowl over to the sink I walked myself slowly and safely online, again rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.

• At  9pm I walked myself slowly and safely to the loo for one more tinkle and back, always rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.

• Toms: just church, definitely nothing special. Actually, the special thing's I'll FINALLY get to  join EM for lunch!! :D That'll be the first proper meal I've enjooyed out since dad's birthday dinner @ the  end of LAST MONTH; a perfect way  to    start  my pre-birthday   celebrations! :D

• And should dad take us out  for our once-weekly  family  dinner tonight it'll already be the 2nd time this year I've been lucky   enough to  have both lunch  and dinner out!

• Righteo, looking  forward to  seeing everyone @ church toms!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Saturday Post 409

 Good evening! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 2652 steps (ha, I'm over 2.5 grand XD); secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'Reviled Here, Rewarded There'; thirdly, TWFT topic's 'Be Optimistic (1)'; fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'Fountains/Drains?' and fifthly, Joni's devotional topic's 'Fight Of Faith but sixthly and way most importantly, I'm really still owed THIRTY-NINE MINUTES online after I visit the loo once more @ 9pm!! Anyways, events for today?

• Yay, for the first time in three days, awesome sleep last night! Nature didn't call until 6:20am and 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*
• Mini Pearl and I happily cuddle and snore, me waking for the pot :P   again   around 7:45am. After this second pot :P trip, 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*
• Around 9:30am PIG mum lets herself into my room to hit me with the eye goo and say fifteen more minutes since Sharon's not arriving until 9:45am.
• Once Sharon arrives, I use the loo for one more tinkle, we get me kitted and then I head over to the bathroom and brush teeth. That done, I drink one tall cup of water before sitting 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 head out to the gobbling :P table with Sharon.
• Breakfast is my once-weekly fried egg on one slice of dry (unbuttered) toast very lightly smeared with avocado, my first mug of white tea sweetened with two teaspoonfuls of sugar, all my usual drugs :P and another tall mug of water. Over and after breakfast, I happily read Two Can Play That Game for thirty minutes, finishing pg. 150 @ 10:38am.
• After Sharon slathers my face and both arms with sunscreen, I use the loo for one more tinkle while she closes and locks windows.
• After washing and drying Era, I climb into the passenger seat of Sharon's car.  She kindly helps me buckle my seatbelt (as she does all day) and then tootles us off to Underwood MarketPlace, finding parking around the side and grabbing a trolley for us.
• First, we buy milk from Woolies. Hambo's @ the checkouts and he even slips me a free LEGO bricks pack after I explain milk doesn't cost thirty bucks, but will he please round up and pass me one anyway?? XD :D
• Back home, I take a nice warm shower - hairwash  today. Also thanks to Sharon who helps me rinse out my hair, thus freeing Era to hold my stupid right eye tightly shut.
• 'Twas Sharon who explained to me last fortnight after my shower what's the point of showering if after you're dried, creamed and redressed you're exactly as sweaty and sticky   as you were before you started the shower?? Sharon laughed and explained:  new sweat. What you washed off was old sweat. XD
• Lunch was one bowl of rice leftovers (thanks to Sharon who mixed some oyster sauce into it to make it tasty) and two more big mugs of white tea sweetened with   two teaspoonfuls of sugar. I happily read for forty more minutes, reaching pg. 175 @ 12:33pm.
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Friday Post 409d

 Good evening again and one final greeting for tonight! Em's final, final plodding total for Friday now apparently stands @ 5197. Unsure how I plodded that many steps today; Wally was prolly just excited that our new car arrived! XD He'll prolly gimme very few steps toms ... :S Righteo,  final, final events for tonight?

• After publishing the previous post I read and shared the She Reads Truth daily devotional.
• At 9pm I walked myself once more slowly and safely to the loo for one tinkle and back, always rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.
• Toms: Sharon's minding me from 9:45am till 1pm; will remind PIG mum to gimme fifteen more minutes @ 9:30am and I'll get up when Sharon arrives @ 9:45am.
• We'll just buy groceries from Woolies plus my arvo tea honey chicken sushi before coming home for a shower and lunch. Oh, must remember to get Sharon to gimme two more big mugs of white tea with sweetener over lunch.
• Looking forward to playing table tennis with dearest dad @ church toms arvo~
• Also looking forward to reading Leanne's book for three hours; I may have found another two errors!! XD
• Will prolly haveta skip watching the 6pm news for the 26TH time since I've gotta read Saturday's Bible passages; doesn't matter~
• But must confirm with Dr. Lee toms about joining for lunch this Sunday!!
• Righteo, hope everyone has a smashing week ahead!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^
  

   

Friday Post 409c

 Good evening! Firstly, Em's new plodding total for Friday now stands @ 5079 (ha, apparently, I'm just over half a normal person today; that's rare! XD) and secondly, Joni's devotional topic's 'Be Confident'. Anyways, continuing tonight's events?

• Dried, creamed and rekitted, lunch was one bowl of rice leftovers (thanks to Jane who added some oyster sauce to give them taste) and one mug of white tea, sadly without any sweetener.
• At 1:55pm I sat once more over the loo for two tinkles and then @ 2pm I signed Jane off with my thanks and byes; she's back next Wednesday and taking me to table tennis!
• Ela did some unfunctional exercises with Ari the new OT assistant; she's only twenty!
• Munched arvo tea and read Madam Hippo's book for one hour, finishing pg. 100 @ 3:17, reaching pg. 111 @ 3:32pm and reaching pg. 125 @ 3:53pm.
• Used loo for one tinkle, washed and dried Era then plopped online.
• Watched the 6pm news (Nine's) bulletin for the TWENTY-FIFTH time. All the things I like recording are in the previous post.
• When PIG mum summoned me over for dinner @ 7:21pm, I used the loo for one tinkle then walked myself slowly and safely to the gobbling :P table, rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.
• Dinner tonight: not rice, but  yeung cheun noodles! Thankfully PIG mum had given me rice for lunch else I'd be fretting. XD That was with lotsa soup tomato, lotsa soup potato, lotsa soup carrot, lotsa soup onion and like two/three thin slices of chewy beef.
• Dinner was spooned down with one bowl of soup; after taking the bowl over to the sink I walked myself slowly and safely back online, again rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.
• Anyways, hopefully bbl  after one last loo  trip with my final, final plodding total for today, the final, final events for tonight plus what's happening toms, else wishing everyone a smashing weekend ahead!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Friday Post 409b

 Heylo again, goood evening and potentially one final greeting for tonight! Em's potential final, final plodding total for Friday now stands @ 4872. Righteo, potential final, final events for today?

• Physio today: 1.691km bike ride, forty steps for Erf with left weight shift, forty bar-assisted push-ups, forty v-bar cable rows, forty leg extensions for Elf, forty leg curls for Elf, tennis ball catching and throwing for Era and boxing! We arrived early, meaning I had like five minutes to play the newest version of Bejeweled I'm currently playing; when Winnie came for me @ 11am I immediately showed her the AFO photo Peter sent me!
• After one loo trip, (CZ258 unlocks the female toilets but it'd been left unlocked this morning), Jane tootled us off to  Rochedale Coles to buy groceries and grabbed a trolley for us. She's unsure should I sit on the self-serve checkout platform where you put your scanned items, but I tell her I've never had any problem and sit.
• Back home, I take a nice warm shower - hairwash today. Also thanks to Jane who rinses  out my   hair for me,  thus freeing Era to  hold my  stupid right eye tightly shut.
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Friday Post 409

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 4796 steps (sweet I'm even over 4.5 grand; that happens even less frequently than four grand! XD); secondly, John Piper's devotional topic last night's 'The Main Purposes Of Ministry'; thirdly, TWFT topic's "Let's Honour One Another" fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's "Small Beginnings" and fifthly, Joni's devotional topic's "In God's Hands" (seems familiar?) but sixthly and way most importantly, I'm really still owed THIRTY-FOUR MINUTES online after I watch the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's) for the TWENTY-FIFTH time!! Anyways, events for today?

• Hmph, you'd think after enduring an 1.5hr session of physio yesterday I'd score an awesome sleep last night, but idiot nature called @ 12:4tam! Never mind, 'twas still a sound sleep otherwise. *sigh*
• After the first  pot :P trip following the  Sun's rising, 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*
• Mini Pearl and I happily cuddle and snore, me waking once more for the pot :P around 9am, just before noisy   PIG mum begins her daily a-THUMPING around upstairs. Soon, she's let herself into my room to hit me with the eye goo before returning outside and awaiting Jane's arrival @ 9:30am.
• After PIG mum opens the front door for Jane, Jane knocks, pushes open the bedroom door and says "Em? Fifteen more minutes, okay? Oh, good morning." Mini Pearl nods @ her and then flicks his body 'shoo'. Jane smirks and wisely withdraws; phew, since Mini Pearl's anatomically incapable of giving the Bear Bum! XD
• After Jane comes back, I use the pot :P for one more tinkle, we get me kitted and then I head over to the bathroom and brush teeth, before sitting over the loo for one tinkle. After washing and drying Era, I head out to the gobbling :P table with Jane, who said she'd had her usual breakfast smoothie for breakfast.
• For my breakfast I get one/two (hopefully two but it looked like one) dry (no honey) Weet-Bix very lightly sprinkled with some Minus :P, 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 Jane slathered my fac and both hands with sunscreen, she accompanied me back to the bathroom before returning to the kitchen and washing the breakfast stuff up. Over the loo, 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, before climbing into the passenger seat of Jane's car, I brace against it and she kindly takes a photo for me with the old car in the front; see, today the parents were taking it over to Springwood and trading it in! While I never drove this car, I voiced for it frequently, since it suffers from anxiety like me! Whenever PIG mum drives him, he's always beeping and wailing when his motion sensors detect anything approaching! XD
• Jane tootles me off to Breathe for physio; as usual, we're early so I've got like seven minutes to play my newest downloaded version of Bejeweled before heading in.
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^
  P.S. All the interesting surnames I saw while watching the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's, read by Melissa Downes), for the 25TH time: Balme, Walsh, Van Lunteren, Gray, Prior, Hogan, Lamont (heard), Murray, Herb (heard), Fielding, Albanese (heard), Probyn, Bullock (heard), Trump (heard), Hauser, Richardson, D'Alessandro, Gale, Miles, Ryan, Guseli, Valentino (first name), Rugg (heard), McMorris (heard), Tomasi,  Liveris, Ahern, Chudley (heard), Powell, Shannon, Keech, Rogers, Dickson, Irwin (heard), Mylata (heard), Guthrie, Savannah (first name, heard), Fitzpatrick, Gotterup, Woolf, Flegler, Fien, Dobbin (heard), Walsh, Gagai, Cronk, Maguire, Ayres, Heinke, Snook, Greste, Timmings, Tomasi, Smylie (heard), Mokbel, Keir (first name, Horwill, Fort, Draper (heard), Schwarzenecker, heard), Starmer (heard), Parker, Gobbo (heard) and Zahos. Effie Zahos read the finance report (1AUD = 69.44USc), Adam Jackson read the sports report and Luke Bradnam read the weather report from Surfers Paradise. Brisbane was 20-30 today. Brisbane toms: 22-31. Mt. Gravatt toms: 20-30. Sunrise: 5:25am Sunset 6:39pm