Saturday Post 567c

 Good evening again and one final greeting for tonight! Em's final, final plodding total for Saturday now stands @ 2532. Ha, I'm just over 2.5 grand. XD Anyways, final, final events for tonight?

• After publishing the previous post I continued reading and sharing my Facebook memories.
• At 9pm I walked myself once more 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. Would love lunch out with other ESS peoples after service but expecting a pissy little cheeseburger, less than ten chips and a small orange juice with dad @ the Rochedale Hungry Jack's.  *sigh*
• Also expecting a stressful arvo @ the hands of   PIG mum *another sigh* But hoping to read the Korean book for another hour!
• Anyways, looking forward to seeing everyone @ church toms!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Saturday Post 567b

 Heylo again and good evening! Firstly, Em's new plodding total for Saturday now stands @ 2434 (so trust I'll have passed 2.5 grand before the night's out XD) and secondly, Joni's devotional topic's 'Go After The Lions'. Righteo,  continuing today's events?

• Score, Sharon lemme use Sparkless3 @ Underwood MarketPlace after she parked round the side; pity we only bought groceries from Woolies and sushi from Sushi Creators since I got to WINDOWSHOP!! :D
• Back home I took a nice warm shower - hairwash today. Also thanks to Sharon who helped me rinse out my hair, thus freeing Era to hold my stupid right eye tightly shut.
• Dried, creamed and rekitted, lunch wad one yummy tuna in tomato and onion  toastie with TWO cheese, HEAVILY buttered on the inside and two more big mugs of white tea sweetened with two teaspoonfuls of sugar.  Over lunch, I happily read for another twenty-five minutes.
• Before Sharon tootles me off to play table tennis with dearest dad, I sit over the loo for two more tinkles.
• At church I sign her off with my thanks and byes. Unsure when she's back next but if she's not coming next month, I'll ask PIG mum to put her in for March since she's promised to shout me a bubble tea for my birthday!
• Dad and I have great fun playing; he lets me win again today.  XD But he hit me THRICE!! ><  XD
• Back home I use the loo for one tinkle then sit to read for another two hours and five minutes, since it's only Saturdays that I get to spend a blessed three hours reading~ This afternoon, I reached pg.  100 @ 3:42pm, reached pg.  111 @ 4:06pm and finished pg. 125 @ exactly 4:40pm.
• Used the loo for one tinkle then plopped online, read today's Bible readings (finally remembered to print myself a hard copy) then happily watched the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's) for the 8th time. All the things I like recording are in the previous post.
• When PIG mum summoned me over for dinner sometime after 7:30pm, I used the loo for one tinkle then walked myself slowly and safely over 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 wombok, lotsa dearest dad's home-grown melon, one small slice of fish and two tiny pieces of pork.
• Dinner was washed down with another delicious mug of Chinese/green tea with my awesome 'E' mug; 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.
• Toms: just church, nothing special.  Would love lunch out with other ESS peoples afterwards but it's not been two months yet. *sigh*
• Also not looking forward to a stressful arvo @ the hands of PIG mum but hoping to read the Korean book for another hour toms!
• Righteo, hopefully brb after one last tinkle @ 9pm 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 567

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 2268 steps; secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'Only A Little While'; thirdly, TWFT topic's 'Demonstrate Your Faith' and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's "Today's Precious" but  fifthly  and way most importantly, I'm really still  owed ONE HOUR and TWENTY-FOUR MINUTES online after I watch the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's) for the 8th time!! Anyways, events for today?

•  Woo hoo, 10TH consecutive awesome sleep last night! Nature didn't call until 6:30am, 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 around 7:45am and once more around 9am, just before noisy PIG mum begins her daily a-THUMPING around this year. Soon, she's let herself into my room to hit me with the eye goo and gimme fifteen more minutes @ 9:30am, since I've said I'll get up once Sharon arrives @ 9:45am from her first shift. Oh, after the 7:45am 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*
• Once Sharon arrives, I get up, use the pot :P for one more tinkle and we get me kitted before I head over to the bathroom and brush teeth. After drinking one tall cup of water, I sit over the loo proper.vThere, 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 walk out to the gobbling :P   table with Sharon, rousing @ her for not eating breakfast this morning and informing her she'd buy herself some food when we went shopping @ Underwood Marketplace.
• Sharon fries me my once-weekly egg on one piece of unbuttered) toast very lightly   spread with some   avocado. I also drink another tall cup of water, pop all my usual drugs and enjoy my first big mug of white tea sweetened with two teaspoonfuls of sugar. Over and after breakfast I happily   read for thirty minutes first up, reaching page fifty @ 10:58am.
• While Sharon  closes and locks windows, I use the loo  for one more tinkle before climbing into   the passenger seat of her car  after washing  and drying  Era. Thanks to Sharon  who helps me buckle my  seatbelt all day.
  
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^
  P.S. All the interesting surnames I saw while watching the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's, read by Mia Glover) for the 8th time: Geran, Colloppy, Crisafulli, Noble, Dametto, Ha-teya (first name), Jakob (first  name,  heard), Funk (heard), Khawaja (heard), Wilson, Bush Gripske, Rice, Albanese, Minns, Hardman, Gallagher, Johnston, Gorman, Amalee (first name), Saunders, Sussan (first  name), Ley, Van Lunteren, Slater, Tindall (heard), Sinclair, de Minaur, Moretti (heard), Macron (heard), Kearsley, Frey, Vance,  JD (first name), Neurer (more), Maxwell (first name), Simon, Irwin (heard), Makenna (first name), Bailey, Koepka, Graham, Dufficy, Jakara  (first name, heard), Vulkanis, Ball, Todhunter (heard), Bishop,  Kerber (heard), Tiley and Sabalenka . Dominique Loudon read the sports report, Ebony Cavallaro read the weather report. Brisbane today:  22-31. Brisbane toms: 23-31.  Mt. Gravatt   toms: 22-31. Sunrise:  5:03 Sunset 6:48pm

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