Wednesday Post 567

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding only 764 steps (since I've not left the house yet); secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's "God's Will Is That You Draw Near'; thirdly, TWFT topic's 'Three Steps To Overcoming Depression' and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'The Bone Wars' but fifthly and way most importantly, I'm  really still owed ONE HOUR and SEVENTEEN MINUTES online after I get home with Jane!! Anyways, events for today?

• Woo hoo, 7th consecutive awesome sleep last night! That's the best possible start to 2026: one straight week of consecutive awesome sleeps! :D Nature didn't nudge me awake around 1:15am saying "go pee" but I asked her please sleep again and call once the Sun's risen; that's very early now!
• After  one pot :P trip  @ 7:45am 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 again for the pot :P around one hour later when dearest dad comes to kiss me bye and retuck me back into bed, saying he's going to church for work now but will come home and eat lunch with me.
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Tuesday Post 566c

 Good evening again  and one final greeting for tonight! Em's final, final plodding total for Tuesday now stands @ 3012. Ha, I'm just over three grand. XD But nearly  outta time so just super-briefly, final, final events for tonight?

• Get home for a nice warm shower - hairwash today. Also thanks to Peggy who helps me rinse out my hair, thus freeing Era to hold my stupid right eye tightly shut.
• Dried, creamed and rekitted, lunch was that braised pork  bahn mi (delicious) plus one huge mug of yummy white tea, though pity Peggy couldn't find where the parents hid the sweetener.  *sigh*
• Went to APO and got recast for a new AFO!
• Had arvo  tea @ Lucky Cafe (bumped into Kwany, Mel Mel  and the kids!) before coming home.
• Watched the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's) for the 6th time. All the things I like recording are in today's first post.
• Used loo for one tinkle, had the usual dinner, drank soup, took bowl to sink, returned online and visited loo for one more tinkle @ 9pm.
• Toms: Jane's minding me from 1:30pm till 6:30pm and since table tennis hasn't restarted yet, PIG mum says we can see a movie together!  I'm hoping Avatar: Fire and Ash? There's a session @ 2:15pm!
• Think dad also said there's table tennis @ church toms night? Only I've gotta complete Bible readings for toms and write GCCW homework ...
• Anyways, hope everyone has a smashing day toms!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Tuesday Post 566b

 Heylo again and good evening! Firstly, Em's new plodding total for Tuesday now stands @ 2901 (so will hopefully have reached three grand before tonight ends XD) and secondly, Joni's devotional topic's 'The Greatest Love' but thirdly and way most importantly, I'm really still owed FIVE MINUTES online after I use the loo once more @ 9pm!! Righteo, continuing today's events?

• At Pinelands Plaza, Peggy drives around to see that the Pinelands Bakehouse's still closed since their gate's down. Before grabbing a trolley for us (I tell her I'll be right to walk and buy groceries @ Coles but will she please lemme use Sparkless3 @ Calamvale Central? Phew, Peggy immediately agrees!
•  PIG mum's only after one packet of coconut water @ Coles; I tell Peggy grab whatever groceries you're after too.
• Our other stop's Calamvale Central; Peggy parks underground then pulls out Sparkless3 for me.
• At Woolies we first check out behind the end and find a Vietnamese restaurant that sells bahn mi slightly cheaper than the Pinelands Bakehouse! I choose a roast pork belly one and ask will they please add crunchy/crackling pork to their menu?
• Then we buy groceries from Woolies; @ the self-serve checkout, Adelfa's back! I ask how was your cruise and when she replied great protested, but you did not come back any fatter! Adelpha roars with laughter and said I did; while we catch the plane back here, I wear facemask but none of the other passengers did only n*I* got sick! >< XD Most hilarious thing: originally Peggy just pushed us straight out of the self-serve checkouts; Coles already has gates preventing unpaying customers from leaving but Woolies doesn't; when we went back too pay, I screeched to Adelpha "Arrest Peggy; she tried to leave without paying but I made her come back!" Both Peggy and Adelpha both just burst into laughter. XD
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Tuesday Post 566

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 2735 steps; secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'Our Toothless Enemy'; thirdly, TWFT topic's 'The Great Exchange' and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'Seeking The Christ Child' but fifthly and way most importantly, I'm really still owed ONE HOUR and FORTY MINUTES online after I  watch the 6pm  news bulletin (Nine's)  for the 6th  time!! Anyways, events for today?

• Yay, 6th consecutive awesome sleep last night! Nature didn't call until 6:35am 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, shortly before PIG mum began 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 a very brief rub, since she'd totally ignored my poor foot last night. That's alright; Era rubbed her for fifteen minutes last night and let her wear her sock to sleep but obviously peeled the sock off first thing this morning before PIG mum could find out! XD
• Since Peggy's usually very punctual/sometimes even a minute/two early, because she was slightly late PIG mum immediately gave me fifteen more minutes. I obeyed and immediately started counting down from 900, reminding her please to ring CODA should Peggy not have arrived by 9:40am.
• Phew Peggy arrives when I'm around 740 seconds left and I'm given 900 seconds all over again! :D
• When she comes back, I use the pot :P for one more tinkle and ask Peggy was she late coz of bad traffic? Lol, Peggy's touchy today, saying I'm ALWAYS early and today I was prompt! Lol, no biggie~ XD
• We get me kitted and I head over to the bathroom and brush teeth. Thanks to Peggy who's already squirted some toothpaste for me~
• Teeth brushed, I sit over the loo for one tinkle, wash and dry Era then walk out to the gobbling :P table with Peggy, who told me that she had her two usual fried eggs for breakfast this morning.
• Breakfast for me: one bowl of healthy cereal, 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*
• After breakfast, Peggy slathers my face and both arms with sunscreen then accompanies me back to the bathroom before returning to the kitchen and washing the breakfast dishes up. 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 passenger sea of Auto (pronounced Alto) and Peggy tootles us off to Pineland Coles. Thanks to her who kindly helped me with the seatbelt all day.
• At  Pinelands,  Peggy drives around  to see that the Pinelands Bakehouse's still closed since their gate's down. Before grabbing a trolley for us (I tell her I'll be right to  walk and buy groceries @ Col -  bbl!
  
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^
  P.S. All the interesting surnames I saw while watching the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's, read by Ashelin Krukelis) for the 6th time: Maduro, Butler, Bondi, Florez (heard), Norieigo (heard), Gefen (first name), Britton, Twomey, Tomasi, Sussan (first name), Ley, Amalee (first name), Saunders, Passarelli, Van Lunteren, D'Alessandro, Gollschewski, Albanese, Rodriguez (heard), Khawaja, Bradman (heard), Duckett (heard),   Johnson,Neser, Macron, Williams, Elliott, Burkitt. Miller, Lomax, Head (heard), Labuschagne (heard), Renshaw (heard), Farnworth, Herbie (first name), Sabalenka, Sewlwyn (first name, heard), Cobbo (heard), Foley, Baxter, Masters, McGrath (heard), Wilson, Head, Theodossi, Powell, Shannon, Griffin, Tatjana (first name), Emerson (heard), Joint, Kessler, Keys (heard), Dunn, Myrteza, Kyrgios, Jakob (first name, heard), Funk (heard) Carter, Balme, Djodan, Webster (heard), Sinclair, Mclellan, Boswell and Youngberry. Brett McLeod read the finance report (1AUD =67.31USc), Bronte Gildea read the sports report and Garry Youngberry read the weather report from Main Beach. Brisbane today: 20-31. Mt. Gravatt toms: 20-30

Monday Post 566d

 Good evening again and one final greeting for Monday! Em's final, final plodding total for tonight now stands @ 3189. Righteo, final, final events for tonight?

• At 5:55pm I sit over the loo for one more tinkle before signing Lorraine off with my thanks and byes. She's back same time next Monday.
• Happily watched the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's) for the 5th time. All the things I like recording are in today's first post. 
• When PIG mum summoned me over for dinner, 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: the yucky rice, lotsa dearest dad's home-grown melon, lotsa soup potato, lotsa soup tomato, lotsa soup carrot, one thin slice of yummy chicken and like one teaspoonful of eggy meat brisket.
• 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.
• 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:  Peggy's minding me from 9: 30am till 2pm; apart from buying groceries from Coles Pinelands Plaza and buying a crunchy pork bah mi (hopefully they've reopened for 2026?) the rest of the day should be free since Toastmasters isn't resuming until next Tuesday.
• No, almost forgot! Seeing Peter @ APO and getting cast for a new boot! Will try for a white boot with the love hearts~
• May skip reading for one hour since I'm hoping to watch the 6pm news bulletin for the 6th time~
• Righteo, hope everyone has a smashing day toms!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Monday Post 566c

 Good evening! Em's new plodding total for Monday now stands @ 3081. Ha, I'm just over three grand. XD Anyways, continuing today's events?

• After using the loo for one tinkle I lie down and get some massage and acupuncture from Ray.  Today one needle he stuck into Elf must've hit a reflex point coz she suddenly jerked straight up! Luckily Ray wasn't in danger of being kicked in the face, like Dr. O'Sullivan! XD
• Before leaving, I used the loo for one more tinkle. Glad I got the chance to thank Ray for helping me back to PIG mum's car after the AFO broke last Monday; hope I didn't hurt him?  Ray immediately replied no, all good! Wonder why PIG mum had such a GRIPE afterwards, then? Doesn't matter~
• PIG mum tootles us back to the Warrigal  Square Woolies and we buy groceries before coming home for lunch with dearest dad.
• Dad only gave me two *tiny* slices of oven-baked pizza but PIG mum gave me this chunk of really crunchy (crusty?) bread and even smeared some avocado onto it!
• Lunch was washed down with one huge mug of delicious Chinese tea; after taking the bowl to the sink I used the loo for one tinkle 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.
• Thanks to PIG mum who opened the door for Lorraine when she announced her arrival two minutes late; I immediately got offline and headed into the bathroom myself, grousing @ her couldn't she have arrived PROMPTLY for the first shift of 2026?! Lorraine protests she arrived @ 4pm but needed to sign in; I laughed and told her next time sign in AFTER you've banged on the door else I'll think you're late! XD
• So a nice warm shower for me - hairwash  today. Also thanks to Lorraine who helped me rinse out my hair, thus freeing Era to hold my stupid right eye tightly shut.
• Dried, creamed and rekitted arvo  tea was one yummy banana, one plain cracker and one small mug of green tea. Unsure why PIG mum persists in putting the green tea tea bag into the white tea with sweetener mug but I just get the carer to change cups.
• While Lorraine very gently massaged Ela for one hour, I happily read Ghost Boy for one hour, reaching pg. 175 @ 4:31. Then I had twenty-five minutes to happily play Royal Match and Squishmallows Bejeweled, not that I passed anymore levels. XD
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Monday Post 566b

 Heylo again, good evening and potentially one final greeting for tonight! Firstly, Em's potential final, final plodding total for Monday now stands @ 2894 and secondly, Joni's devotional topic's 'Declare The  Truth'. Righteo, potential final, final events for tonight?

• For breakfast, PIG mum saves me the last garlic and cheese bun! I also pop all my usual drugs :P and drain one tall cup of water. Vaguely recall drinking one small mug of sugarless milk tea too? 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 loo, 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 me off to see Ray   for some massage and acupuncture.   We also listen to her Chinese Spotify playlist all day, too.
• Lol, we arrive so early @ Ray's MacGregor place that his front gate isn't even unlocked yet! PIG mum wonders maybe he's coming from his Stretton place?
• Nope, turns out he's already there; after PIG mum notices that the gate has been unlocked, we head inside and I bid Ray a Happy 2026!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^