Sunday Post 214

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 1331 steps; secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's "The Great King's Wine"; thirdly, TWFT topic's 'True Repentance Brings Restoration' and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'Slow Anger'. Anyways, events for today?

• Yay, for the first time in three days, awesome sleep last night! Nature didn't call am and after one pot :P trip I immediately try falling back asleep before PIG mum starts STOMPING around upstairs very soon!
• Instead, fifty-odd breaths in, noisy PIG mum goes a-THUMP, and I realise I'll not fall back asleep this morning. Instead, 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 lets herself into my room to hit me with the eye goo and help exceedingly slightly with   absolutely nothing bar the bra strap and laying out the tee before leaving me to get myself mostly independently kitted, which I comply with after giving myself fifteen more minutes first.
• PIG mum returns and finishes 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 out to the gobbling :P table, rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.
• Breakfast's 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 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 and parks outside the service hall. I hike up the ramp, use the disabled loo myself for one tinkle, wash and dry Era then grab my usual spot on the most left.
• Less than thirty minutes left, so just briefly:
• Stayed seated for worship; sang everything plus the harmony for four songs but like every other week, meant absolutely NOTHING. >< *sigh*
• Speaker today was Ezekiel; his sermon today was Psalm 73: When The Grass Is Greener On The World's Side."
• Used loo for another tinkle, had morning tea behind church then had lunch with dad @ Hungry Jack's (a chicken royale burger, ten chips and a small orange juice) while everyone else from ESS enjoyed Korean food together. *sigh*
• Got home, used loo for one tinkle, washed and dried Era, did the daily Bible readings then plopped online for myself.
• Wonder where dad will take us for dinner tonight? Yay that he says I can watch the 6pm news first~
• Toms: provided Ray's back from holidays, PIG mum'll help me up and I'll see him for some acupuncture and massage. Bet she's DYING to yap unceasingly @ him; me, I'm just hoping Ray remembered to bring back a souvenir for me! XD
• Unsure does PIG mum wanna grocery shop before coming home for lunch with dearest dad.
• Jacinta's minding me from 2pm till 6pm toms and taking me to Breathe for physio. Maybe we'll grocery shop afterwards before coming home for a shower?
• May not get the time to read the book club novel for one hour but looking forward to watching the 6pm news!
• Anyways, hopefully bbl, else wishing everyone a smashing week ahead!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Saturday Post 214c

 Good evening again and one final greeting for tonight! Em's final, final plodding total for Saturday now stands @ 2724. Anyways, final, final events for tonight?

• When nature randomly called @ 8:40pm, I walked myself once 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.
• I continued reading and sharing my Facebook memories then @ 9pm walked myself slowly and safely once more to the loo for one more tinkle and back, again and 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.  Would love lunch out with other ESS peoples but will only get like a pissy little cheeseburger, around ten chips and an orange juice with   dad @ the Rochedale Hungry Jacks. *sigh* 
• Also expecting a stressful  arvo  @ the hands of   PIG mum. >< *another sigh* But hoping to read for one hour and watch the 6pm news for the 66TH time!
• Righteo, looking forward to seeing everyone @ church toms!
  Cheers,
  Em.   ^^

Saturday Post 214b

 Heylo again and good evening! Firstly, Em's new plodding total for Saturday now stands @ 2609 and secondly, Joni's devotional topic's 'The Essence Of Gratitude.' Righteo,  continuing today's events?

• Back home I take a nice hot shower - hairwash today. Also thanks to Jane who helps me rinse out my hair, thus freeing Era to hold my stupid right eye tightly shut.
• Dried, creamed and rekitted, lunch was one bowl of rice leftovers (Jane couldn't find the oyster sauce so added some teriyaki sauce instead!)  and two more big mugs of white tea sweetened with one spoonful of honey. I happily continued reading, reaching pg. 200 @ 12:06pm. Lunch finished, I again asked Jane to please massage Ela again, since she was just tapping @ her smartphone.
• Before leaving I sit over the loo once more for two tinkles but @ church I ask Jane to please take me again to the bathroom for one more tinkle since we arrived heaps early.
• Lol, we arrive early enough that dad gets Jane to play table tennis with me for a while; she's a natural!
• At 1pm I sign her off with my thanks and byes; tonight her partner's taking her to see some cabaret! She's back next Friday~
• Dad and I had great fun playing; he not only lemme win in straight sets; he even lemme win the set he wanted to win to save face! XD But he hit me with the ball ELEVEN times, meaning I came home full of holes.  >< XD
• Coming back home; dad lemme ask Cherry to open the sunroof! The piece under it's the shade, BTW.
• Back home, I used the loo for one more tinkle then sat and read for a good long while, since it's only Saturday then I can spend a blessed three hours reading~ This arvo, I finished pg.  222 @ 2:48pm, reached pg. 225 @ exactly 2:50, finished pg.  250 @ 3:29pm and reached pg. 275 @ 4:04pm.
• Did another stinky unspeakable before plopping online and reading my daily Bible verses.
• Skipped watching the 6pm news in order to have dinner with dearest dad; got PIG mum to bok   him for hitting me lotsa times with the Ping pong ball today! >< She half-heartedly swatted him over the shoulder once. XD
• Drank  soup, took   bowl to  counter then returned online.
• Righteo,  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 Sunday,   else looking  forward  to seeing everyone @ church toms!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Saturday Post 214

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 2512 steps (ha, I'm just over 2.5 grand XD); secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's "What's Well-Placed Shame?"; thirdly, TWFT topic's "Fight For Your Marriage"; fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'A Portrait Of Dependence' and fifthly, Em's final, final plodding total for Friday's 3519 (ha,  I'm just over 3.5 grand XD But the poor Broncos lost to  the Cowboys! ><) but sixthly and way most importantly, I'm   really still owed TWENTY-SEVEN MINUTES online after dinner tonight!!  Anyways, events for today?

• Nature called once around 12:45am; after the first morning pot :P trip around  6:35am 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*
• When nature calls again one hour later, after another 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*
• Afterwards, Daddy Bear and I happily cuddle and snore, me not waking again for the pot :P until awoken by PIG mum's daily noisy a-THUMPING around upstairs. Soon, she's let herself into my room to hit me with the eye goo and give poor Elf's ankle a very brief rub, since she'd totally ignored my poor foot last night. That's alright; Era rubbed her for fifteen minutes and let her wear her sock to sleep last night but obviously peeled the sock off first thing this morning! XD
• When PIG mum lets Jane inside @ 9:30am, Jane knocks, pushes open the door, calls out "Good morning, Em; fifteen more minutes" then closes the door immediately after Daddy Bear flops his paw once @ her; he's not even got the time to wave his paw 'shoo'! XD
• Once I've counted down 900 seconds, I announce "Jane, I'm hungry!" then swing myself over to the pot :P for one more tinkle. Jane immediately comes, we get me kitted and then I head over to  the bathroom   and brush teeth. After drinking one full cup of water 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 head out to the gobbling :P table with Jane, who tells me that she had her usual breakfast smoothie for her morning meal.
• Me, I get my once-weekly fried egg on dry (unbuttered) toast, another full mug of water, all my usual drugs :P and one delicious mug of earl grey tea sweetened with one spoonful of honey. Over and after breakfast, I happily read the book club novel for thirty minutes. Jane tidies my   bedroom then sits @ the gobbling :P table to play with her mobile, hence why I ask her please massage Ela, which she does after putting the dishes into the sink.
• After reading for thirty minutes, I ask Jane to please gimme some sunscreen before I use the loo for one more tinkle while she shuts and locks windows.
• After washing and drying Era, I climb into the passenger seat of Sarah. Jane's planning to get rid of her @ the end of this year! 
• Jane tootles us off to Underwood MarketPlace and parks underground before getting a trolley.
• First  we buy a jug  of   lite milk  from   Woolies and then I just lean against  the benchtop while Jane   gets me  a honey chicken   sushi roll  from  Sushi  Creators.
  Cheers,
  Em.  ^^

Friday Post 214

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 3193 steps (ha, I'm over three grand XD); secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'Talk To God, Not Just About Him'; thirdly, TWFT topic's  "How To 'Renew' Your Mind" and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's "Safe In God's Hands". Anyways, events for today?

• Grr, nature spoiled my five-night awesome sleep streak when she called @ 12:45am! >< Never mind, 'twas still a sound sleep nevertheless; I was prolly  just too   excited after attending book club~ *sigh*
• After another pot :P  trip falling  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*
• Daddy Bear and I happily cuddle and snore, nature calling once more around 9am, shortly 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 and give poor Elf's ankle a very brief rub, since she'd totally ignored my poor foot last night. That's alright; Era rubbed Elf for fifteen minutes last night and let her wear her sock to sleep last night although obviously tugged the sock off first thing this morning! XD
• When the home phone starts ringing, I yell "Phone!"  and mother hurries into my room and answers it, saying "Oh, it's prolly the NAB ringing to cancel your appointment."
• She's correct: physio has been cancelled since the student's ill! Usually, I must endure sessions of blasted physio weekly from the very first week of the year until the week of Christmas before I get two weeks of annual leave but since Monday past was Easter Monday and I didn't haveta have Breathe physio, it should mean I've not had to endure any physio this week! :D
• Once PIG mum lets Jane inside, Jane knocks, opens the door and says, "Good morning, Em, fifteen more minutes."  Daddy Bear nods his head @ her and Jane immediately closes the door and leaves, not giving him the chance to imperiously wave his paw 'shoo' @ her!" XD
• When she comes back and taps me up, I use the pot :P for three more tinkles and happily tell her that since NAB physio got cancelled, mother has decided that we can hike Underwood Lake today!
• We get me kitted; I head over to the bathroom and brush teeth then sit over the loo for one tinkle. After sitting over the loo for one tinkle, I wash and dry Era before heading out to the gobbling :P table with Jane, who tells me that she had her usual breakfast smoothie for her morning meal today.
• Since NAB physio was cancelled, I'd thought PIG mum would immediately reduce my dry (no honey) Weet-Bix from three to two and neither gimme a slice of dry (unbuttered) toast lightly spread with avocado and lightly sprinkled with salt, but she didn't, score!  I also pop all my usual drugs :P and drink 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 finishing breakfast, I call Jane back and ask her to please gimme some sunscreen (face and both arms/hands). That done, she accompanies me back to the loo before returning to the kitchen and washing the breakfast dishes 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, I climb into the backseat of Sarah and Jane tootles me off to Underwood Park for another hike; the first was three days ago (Tuesday!) Thanks to her who kindly helps me buckle my seatbelt all day~
• We get the disabled park; Jane takes a photo for me @ the map board and then we hike around the lake! I take a lie-down on one of the sunlounges and cheerfully greet whoever walks past. There's one couple with a beautiful long-haired German Shepherd who comes over and even lets me hold her leash for a while, saying her name's Celeste!
• After the 400m hike, our other stop's Underwood MarketPlace to buy a 2L carton of milk from   Woolies. Jane parks out the front and grabs a trolley for us. Why I like grocery shopping with the carers more than with the parents:  they lemme sit on the self-serve checkout machine. XD
  Cheers,
  Em. 
  P.S.  All the interesting surnames I saw while watching the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's, read by Melissa Downes) for the 65TH time: Sullivan, Gylenhall (heard), Costner (heard), Ha-teya (first name), Gripske, Mason (heard), Weir, Croucher, Albanese, Marles, Canavan, Sinclair, Netanyahu (heard), Cooper, Trump, Healey, D'Alessandro,  Lovell (heard), McGoverne, Anderson, Greer, Melania (first name), Trump, Epstein (heard), Maxwell (heard),  Ghislaine (first name, heard), Cavallaro, Day (heard), Reed, Burns, Fleetwood, Jakob (first name), Funk (heard), MacClean, Debenham, Radley (heard), Dufficy (heard), Keppie, Meninga, Bennett (heard), Duffy (heard), DSrinkwater (heard), Reid (first name), Butler, Costner (heard), Makenna )first  name), Baily, Sraper (heard), 😅😂oiss (heard), Picklum (heard), Stirling (first name), Lockyer,  Lambe, Shannon and Kohler. Chris Kohler read the finance report (1AUD =  70.68USc), Adam Jackson read the sports report and Luke Bradnam read the weather report from Southport. Brisbane was 20-30 today. Brisbane toms: 18-32.

Thursday Post 214c

 Good evening again and one final greeting for tonight! Em's final, final plodding total for Thursday now stands @ 2226.  Aww, how come I   couldn't have plodded four steps fewer?? 2222 would've   been a cooler number!! XD Anyways, final, final events for tonight?

• Twelve attended tonight; Mr.  Lindsay came back and Second Mum was here!  Only she   ran outta time to make chocolate brownies and won't attend next month since she's attending some Lions AFL match. Coolest thing tonight: instead of tea/coffee, there was hot chocolate!
• Book club actually ended ten minutes early, but Erika and Lorraine were having a lovely chat and didn't make a move on until some library announced the thirty minutes before closing announcement!
• How cool: for the first time tonight, I used my digital library card! I still remember all the way back during primary school, my very first library card was light blue and started with 15/!
• Back home, dinner was rice, lotsa yummy cauliflower,  lotsa some green flat Asian vegetable, some tofu and a few slices of pork.
• Dinner was spooned down with one bowl of soup; after taking the bowl over to the sink I walked myself sand safely back online, rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.
• At 9pm, I walked myself once more slowly and safely to the loo for one more tinkle and back, again and always rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.
• Toms: Jane's minding me am till 2pm and taking me for 2hrs of physio @ the NAB. I missed; last Friday coz 'twas the Good Friday holiday meaning I'll have four weeks this rotation.
• After Jane sees me home, showered, fed with lunch and leaves @ 2pm; Ari's coming and giving   Ela one hour of unfunctional exercises.
• Will  skip starting  to  read the new book  club novel for one hour  since I've gotta  read the day's Bible passages and enjoy my most    important  two hours of the day online and watch the  6pm news for the 65TH  time,  wolf down  dinner then be seated on  the sofa and watching the    Broncos play   the  Cowboys! Will  be happy whoever wins. XD
• Anyways, hope everyone has a smashing end to their week toms!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Thursday Post 214b

 Heylo again and good evening! Firstly, Em's new plodding total for Thursday now stands @ 2160 (ha, I'm over two grand XD) and secondly, Joni's devotional topic's 'Distracted By Service'. Righteo,  continuing  events for today?

• Once I'd used up the most important two hours of my day, I used the loo for one tinkle then sat @ the gobbling :P table to munch arvo tea (one juice pear, one plain cracker and one huge mug of green tea) and read Feist's newest novel for the forty minutes until 5:25pm.
• At 5:25pm I sat over the loo for two more tinkles, coming   out when dad called "Em, Lorraine's here" and demanded "Come out now!"
  
• Clambered into Lorraine's slightly bigger car (there's a step, I can manage it without the block dad made me for Hannah's car) and she tootled me off to the Logan Noeth Library for book club!
• After using the loo for one tinkle I was again the first to arrive, but Erika arrived right after and gave me a lovely handmade birthday card and perfume bottle!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^