Friday Post 567d

 One final good evening and greeting for tonight! Em's final, final plodding total for Friday now apparently stands @ 5343; unsure how I've plodded 5000+ steps when I've only had (mostly stationary) physio and grocery shopping today? Righteo,  final, final events for tonight?

• Dried, creamed and rekitted lunch was one bowl of leftover red sauce pasta plus one mug of herbal tea/white tea without any sweetener.
• After the parents returned home @ 1:55pm I used the loo for two more tinkles and said my thanks and byes to Faith. She came this morning straight from a sleepover and heads home to take her son (starting prep this year!) swimming: small wonder she turned down Staffing Options trying to give her yet another shift!
• Dorrie came and gave Ela one hour of unfunctional exercises. Found three yummy recipes for cooking that PIG mum can choose from; hoping she'll pick one and not substitute some other less yummy but healthier recipe she's found! XD
• When she left, I asked PIG mum please for some arvo   tea then sat down and started reading the book club novel for one hour; it's really good and I reached page twenty-five @ 4:18pm!
• Used loo for one tinkle then plopped online and happily watched the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's) for the 7th time. All the things I like recording are in the bottom of today's first post.
• Only twenty minutes left, so just briefly:
• Summoned to dinner @ 7:38, drank yucky seaweed soup, took bowl to sink, returned online and used bathroom for one more tinkle @ 9pm.
• Toms: Sharon's minding me 9:30am till like 1pm; presume we're buying my  arvo tea honey chicken sushi roll and coming home for a shower and lunch before Sharon drops me off @ church to play table tennis with dearest dad!
• Definitely planning to read for three hours; willing to skip watching the 6pm news for the 8th time for that since I've gotta read tomorrow's Bible readings!
• Righteo, hope everyone has a smashing weekend ahead!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Friday Post 567c

 Good evening again! Firstly, Em's new plodding total for Friday now apparently stands @ 5343 and secondly, Joni's devotional topic's 'Think Before You Speak'. Anyways, continuing tonight's events?

• Upon entering Breathe, Connor wanders out saying hello and Shirley immediately returns PIG mum's glass cake tin!
• When Winnie appears, I immediately explain to her how the AFO broke just before the new year and I've been cast for a new one; can we leave off the walking training for the 5km Bridge To Brisbane until I get my new boot? Dad's done running repairs on the current one but I'm unsure will it last should you start training me for long distance walking ... phew, Winnie immediately replies definitely~
• Physio today: 1.867km bike ride, thirty bar-assisted push-ups, thirty steps for Erf with left weight, thirty v-bar cable rows for both arms, thirty leg extensions for Elf, thirty leg curls for Elf, tennis ball catching and throwing for Era and boxing! Lol, Winnie noticed that my punching was far more mellow than my pummelling from the end of last year; I explained I'd had Christmas to relax and get over the stress of another year! XD
• After one loo trip (CZ 258 unlocks the female bathroom and the second cubicle has an ambulant rail), Faith tootles us off to Coles Rochedale to buy groceries and grabs a trolley for us.
• We buy tuna for PIG mum and she gets herself a choccy milk for breakfast though I can't persuade her to buy me one too. >< XD 
• Back home I take a nice warm shower - hairwash  today. Also thanks to Faith who helped me rinse my hair out, thus freeing Era to hold my stupid right eye tightly shut.
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Friday Post 567b

Heylo again, good evening and potentially one final greeting for tonight! Em's potential final, final plodding total for Friday now stands @ 5155. Righteo,  potential  final, final events for tonight?

• Faith and I get me kitted, after which I head over to the bathroom and brush teeth, sit briefly over the loo then before head out to the gobbling :P table with Faith, grousing her for not eating breakfast this morning and telling her she'd better buy herself breakfast when we bought groceries after physio!

• For me, breakfast's two plain (no honey) Weet-bix very lightly sprinkled with some Minus :P, all my usual drugs :P and 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*

• Breakfast finished, Faith slathers my face and arms with sunscreen and accompanies me back to the bathroom before returning to the kitchen and washing up the breakfast stuff. Over the loo proper, 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 Faith's car and she tootles me off to Breathe for my first physio session for 2026. *sigh* But thanks to Faith who kindly helped me buckle my seatbelt all day~
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Friday Post 567

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 5056 steps (apparently, I'm just over half a normal person today! XD); secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'Gain What You Cannot Lose (seems familiar?); thirdly, TWFT topic's 'One Day You Will Understand Fully' and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's "The Future God's Preparing" but fifthly and way most importantly, I'm really still owed ONE HOUR online  after I watch the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's) for the 7th time!!  Anyways, events for today?

• Yay, 9th consecutive awesome sleep last night! Nature didn't call until 6:25am  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*
• Usually, I wake for the pot :P again when dearest dad comes and kisses me bye before going out and doing (whatever) but since dad stayed @ home this morning, I snored all the way happily until   around 9am before nature called again!
• Shortly after the second pot :P trip, PIG mum begins her daily noisy a-THUMPING around upstairs before she lets herself into my room to hit me with the eye goo and give poor Elf a very brief rub (since she'd totally ignored my poor foot last night) before going outside and waiting for Jane's arrival. Once she's gone back outside, 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*

• Only Jane's usually very punctual; around 9:33am she returns and gives me fifteen more minutes, saying I'll ring CODA @ 9:40am should Jane not arrive!
• Phew, Faith arrived when I still had eleven minutes left! After the eleven more minutes, when I was using the pot :P for one more tinkle, I asked her had been late since she'd been stuck in traffic? No, because she was coming straight from a sleepover shift!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^
  P.S. All the interesting surnames I saw while watching the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's, read by Ashelin Kriukelis) for the 7th time: Makenna (first name), Baily, Crisafulli, Stream, Quinlan, Hill, Kearsley, Poytur,  Albanese, Daniels, Pritchett, Schwarzanecker, Robertson, Ha-teya (first name), Lindsay, Young (heard), Trump, Mimi  (first   name), Becker, Lopez (heard), Anderson (heard), Roden, Moore, Moorley, Evans, Gollschewski (heard),  Johnson, Ross (heard), JD (first  name), Peirson,  Labuschagne, Usman (first name), Khawaja, Sussex (heard), Bavas, Markham, Vance, Copp, Swift, Kelce, Kyrgios, Gripske, Hillcrest (heard), Rudd, Ahmed (first name), el Ahmed, Xiberras, Sussan (first name), Nikita (first  name), Tszyu, McReight, Gauff (heard), Piakura, Haas (heard), Willison (heard),Sabalenka, Keys (heard), Ley, Haug, Noye, Norris and Geran. Chris Kohler read the finance report, Bronte Gildea read the sports report and Abbey Geran read the weather report from West End. Brisbane was 20-30 today. Brisbane toms: 22-30. Mt. Gravatt toms: 21-30. Sunrise: 5:02am Sunset 6:48pm

Thursday Post 567c

 Good evening again and one final greeting for tonight! Em's final, final plodding total for Thursday now stands @ 3927. Sorry, not quite 4000; another day, promise!  XD Anyways, final, final events for tonight?

• At 5:25pm I sat once more over the loo for two tinkles and came out after Catherine arrived to say happy 2026!
• She tootled me off to the Logan North library for 2026's first book club! I used the loo for once on arrival and was second to arrive after Paivi~
• Just over twenty minutes left, so just briefly:
• Eight attended tonight and next month's book about a North Korean who escaped into South Korea!
• Came home, ate dinner and returned online.
• Used loo for one tinkle @ 9pm.
• Toms: Jane's minding me from 9:30pm till like 1:30pm. Physio resumes for 2026. *sigh*
• Dorrie's giving Ela one session of unfunctional hand exercises after Jane leaves.
• Looking forward to reading the new book club novel for one hour and hoping to watch the 6pm news for the 7th time!
• Anyways, hope everyone has a smashing end to the week toms!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Thursday Post 567b

 Heylo again and good evening! Firstly, Em's new plodding total for Thursday now stands @ 3823 (so think I'll fall just shy of reaching 4000 steps before tonight ends, sorry XD) and secondly, Joni's devotional topic's 'Bear More Fruit'. Righteo, continuing tonight's events?

• Once I'd used up the most important two hours of the day, I used the loo for one tinkle then sat @ the gobbling :P table and asked PIG mum for some arvo tea please. She passed me one unpeeled banana, one huge mug of green tea and one tasty cracker.
  Cheers,
  Em.  ^^

Thursday Post 567

 Good afternoon!  Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 2579 steps (ha, I'm just over 2.5 grand XD); secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'Grace Denied And Supplied'; thirdly, TWFT topic's "Each Day Of Your Life's A Gift' and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'Small And Mighty'.  Anyways, events for today?

• Yay, 8th consecutive awesome sleep last night! Nature didn't call until 6:10am 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*
• Nature called again about one hour later, just before PIG mum begins her daily noisy a-THUMPING around upstairs. Soon, she's let herself into my room to hit me with the eye goo before going outside and awaiting the carer's arrival @ 8am.
• It's Mia! She identifies herself after knocking, opening the bedroom   door and bidding me good morning before saying fifteen more minutes.
• When Mia comes back, I use the pot :P once more for three tinkles while we catch each other up on what's been happening over Christmas.
• We get me kitted; I head over to the bathroom and brush teeth. That done, I sit over the loo for one tinkle, wash and dry Era then head out to the gobbling :P table with Mia.
• Breakfast is one bowl of healthy cereal (one/two plain - no honey - Weetbix and a very light sprinkling of Plus - with all my usual drugs :P   and one full cup of water. I asked Mia to please turn on Sunrise for me and PIG mum immediately says she'll do it; lol, she only ever does when the carer's around and can see her! I've learnt don't bother asking unless she's present. XD 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, Mia slathers my face and both arms/hands with sunscreen then follows me back to the bathroom before returning to the bathroom and washing up the breakfast dishes. 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 I climb into the passenger seat of Nia's car, and she tootles me off for the first GCCW for 2026! Thanks to her who kindly helped me buckle my seatbelt both ways.
• Upon arrival, I'm still sitting in my seat and am just about to   unbuckle my seatbelt when Rob and Avis walk past Mia's car! Rob enthusiastically waves @ me; I enthusiastically wave back.   XD
• After visiting the loo for one tinkle, I enter Meeting Room One.  Nine attend today, Tammy helps me once to the bathroom for morning tea (called @ 10:43am and finished @ 11:19am) and Ken's so happy talking with Mary today that I'm not given the time to share my homework! XD I thought our next homework subject's 'the takeover'; Googling that phrase I plan to write about Google's takeover of Whatsapp! Also, the meeting next fortnight will end fifteen minutes earlier since someone else has booked the meeting room; I've asked PIG mum can I please grab an early lunch from Ho Lin Wah?
• Less than thirty minutes left, so just super-briefly:
• Came home for shower - hairwash today. Also thanks to Mia who helped me rinse out my hair, thus freeing Era to hold my stupid right eye tightly shut.
• Dried, creamed and rekitted, lunch was a toasted tuna in tomato   and onion toastie with TWO cheese and the HK-style milk tea I redeemed from Lucky Cafe! I've been having a powdered packet once each Thursday but fresh is best!
• Catherine's taking me to book club tonight!
• Toms:  Jane's minding me from 9:30am till 2pm. Alas that holidays end and I resume blasted physio for another year.  *sigh*
• Unsure will the OT come toms arvo?
• Anyways, hopefully bbl tonight else wishing everyone a smashing end  to  the week toms!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^
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