Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Wednesday Post 332

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 1343 steps; secondly, John Piper's devotional topic from last night's "As Secure A God's Faithful"; thirdly, TWFT topic's "You're Not Alone; God's With   You!" and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'Family In God' but fifthly  and way most importantly I'm really still owed ONE HOUR and TEN MINUTES online after I get home from our GG social  tonight!! Anyways, events for today?

  • Yay, 3rd consecutive awesome sleep last night! Like  the past several days, nature didn't call until   7:45am and after one pot :P trip  I did the exercises Winnie taught me to prevent further back pain  then 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   cuddled and snored, me waking once more for  the pot :P 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 a very  brief rub since she 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 though obviously tugged the sock off first   thing this morning! XD
    Cheers,
    Em.  ^^

Tuesday Post 331b

 Good evening again and one final greeting for tonight! Em's final, final plodding total for Tuesday now stands @ 5560. Righteo, just briefly, final, final  events for tonight?

  • Used loo for  one tinkle, washed and dried Era, had the usual  breakfast,  did a stinky unspeakable and then went out to Pinelands Plaza to buy groceries from  Coles and buy my once-weekly crunchy pork bahn mi from  the  Pinelands  Bakehouse. Aunty Nancy told me that she's holidaying overseas (America/Vietnam) for  the next three weeks!
  • Got home, used  loo for one tinkle then enjoyed my crunchy pork bahn mi plus one huge mug of white tea (sadly without any sugar) for lunch.
  • NAB physio for   two  hours with Vicente: Thirty barefoot Elf sit-to-stands with left and forward weight shift, ten more sit-to-stands with forward hip thrust, one thumb war for Ela, stepping for Erf with more left weight shift and three uphill walking loops
  • Got home, showered, read for one hour,   watched the 6pm   news for  the 176TH time.
  • All the interesting surnames I  saw while watching the 6pm news bulletin (Nine’s, read by Melissa Downes and Joel Dry) for the 176TH time: Geran, Schrinner, Millward, Ryan, Wright, Wilson, Basheer (heard), Todhunter, Cameron (heard), Selby (heard), Te Awhitu, Croucher, Bateman, Thorpe, Hanson-Young, Caddell, Butler, Burrows, Ossip, McKenna, Bell, Trump, Temanit, Butler, D’Alessandro,  Bradley, Young, de Jersey, Bowen, Grande, Sinclair, Diggins, Dobbin,  Horsborough (heard),  Barnett (heard),Ellison, Fletcher, Sulston, Neary (first name), Jakob (first  name), Funk, King (heard), Daley (heard),Ty, Volodomyr (first name, heard), Eala, Pegula (heard), Fritz (heard),Cooper, Berry, McClucaggage, Berry (heard),Jayden (heard), Marinos, Neuendorf, Campbell, Elias (heard),Walker (heard), Toia (heard), Slater (heard),Zelenskyy (heard), Pullar, Phipps, Shannon, Hansard, Dyer and MacLeod. Brett MacLeod read the finance report (1UD= 70.15USc), Aislin Kriukelis read the sports report and Luke Bradnam read the weather report from Carrara. Brisbane was 10-24 today.  Brisbane toms: 11-25. Mt. Gravatt  toms: 9-24, Sunrise: 6:26am Sunset 5:22pm


  • Read Bible passages, used loo  for one tinkle, drank soup, took bowl to sink,  returned online and used loo for one more tinkle  @ 9pm.
  • Toms: PIG mum says she'll help me up and go somewhere before some agency carer takes me  to  play table tennis @ 1:30pm.
  • Mostly I'm excited for Nicole's birthday cake and Angie coming  to pick  me up for our GG group  social potluck;   PIG mum's gonna make the air-fryer tofu  for me!
  • Righteo, hope everyone has a smashing day toms!
    Cheers,
    Em. ^^

Tuesday Post 331

 Good evening! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 5486 steps (sweet I'm more than half a normal person;  that's rare! XD); secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'Why You    Have  A Body'; thirdly, TWFT topic's "Learn 2b Led By God's Spirit"; fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'The Help God Provides' and fifthly, Joni's devotional topic's "The Greater Glory" but fifthly and way more importantly,  I'm really still owed FIFTY-FOUR MINUTES online after I use the loo once more @ 9pm!! Anyways, events for today?

  • Yay, second consecutive awesome sleep last night! Like yesterday, nature didn't call until 7:45am and after one pot :P trip I immediately did the bed exercises Winnie taught me to prevent  further back pain before 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,  me waking  once more for the  pot :P   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 before returning outside and awaiting Peggy's arrival @ 9:30am.
  • After PIG mum lets Peggy inside,  Peggy  knocks, opens the door and announces good morning. When I flop  Daddy Bear's paw @ her,   she  next   states, "Fifteen more minutes." Daddy Bear gives another paw nod before imperiously  flicking his paw 'shoo!' @ her; Peggy smirks but wisely does as ordered, thus saving her from the wrath of  the Bear Bum. XD
  • Once I've counted down from 900 I swing myself over to the  pot :P and announce that I'm hungry to Peggy. She comes, we get me kitted and then I head over to the bathroom and  brush teeth. Thanks to Peggy who's squirted some toothpaste for me. 
    Cheers,
    Em. ^^

Monday, August 3, 2026

Monday Post 331d

 One final good evening and greeting for tonight! Em's final, final plodding  total for Monday now stands @ 3784. Righteo, final, final events for tonight?

  • Afterwards, Jacinta tootles us off to Sunny Park, grabs a trolley for us and I buy a jug of 2L milk  from Woolies. Yay that Jacinta lets me sit on the self-serve checkout while she's scanning and paying; yay also that I enjoy a soft serve before getting home! :D
  • Got  home and took a nice hot   shower  - hairwash  today. Also thanks to  Jacinta who  helped me rinse my hair out, thus freeing  Era to hold my stupid  right eye tightly  shut.
  • Whoops already outta time, so super briefly:
  • enjoyed two big mugs of white tea with one spoonful of honey for arvo tea, read for fifty-five minutes, watched the 6pm news (Nine's) for the 175TH time, used loo,  ate dinner, read for five more minutes (since  I  like  reading for one hour @  least every  day  when possible), took cup   to sink, returned online, used looo for another  tinkle @ 8:20pm and once more @ 9pm.
  • Toms:  Peggy's minding me from 9:30am till 4/4:30pm. In the morning we're buying groceries from Pinelands Coles plus my weekly crunchy pork  bahn mi from the Pinelands Bakehouse,  coming home for  lunch,  heading out to   the NAB for  two hours' physio  and coming home for a shower. Hoping  too  read the Matthew Reilly novel  for one hour and watch the 6pm news for the 176TH  time!
  • Righteo, hope everyone has a smashing day  toms!
    Cheers,
    Em. ^^

Monday Post 331c

 Good evening again! Firstly,  Em's new plodding total for Monday now stands @ 3657 but secondly and way more importantly, I'm really  still owed TWENTY MINUTES online after I use the loo for one more tinkle @ 9pm!! Righteo, continuing today's events?

  • Breakfast was one slice of dry (unbuttered) toast very lightly spread with avocado and hopefully  very lightly sprinkled with some salt (but my inferior tastebuds never taste any >< XD), 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. She tootles me off to   see Ray for some massage and acupuncture, parking on the driveway.
  • Inside, I use the loo for one tinkle then lie down for some massage and acupuncture. PIG mum's in  her element, yapping ceaselessly @ Ray; my grateful thanks to Ray who always replied and kept a conversation  flowing. As usual,  PIG mum was way too excited about getting to yap; today  she repeated one syllable four times, another five times and a third six times before continuing. XD
  • After another loo trip, PIG mum tootled us home. I popped online and did my daily Bible readings.  Started job  today~
  • Lunch was one bowl of dinner leftovers from  last night, stacked full with different boiled vegetables and spooned down with one bowl of soup. PIG mum ate a bite then left  for her water class, while dad opened the door for  the cleaner  @ like 1;30pm? Score, I got outta having  to   take my bowl over to  the sink  before returning online since she was already @ the kitchen and immediately replies yes, sure when I asked her could she please take my lunch dishes away! :o)
  • After popping online for a brief while, I sat over the loo once for two tinkles @ 1:50pm before sitting by the door and awaiting Jacinta's arrival @ 2pm.
  • Once she arrives, I climb into the passenger seat of her car, she kindly  helps me buckle  my seatbelt (as she kindly does all afternoon) and then she tootles me off to Breathe foor physio.
  • Physio today: 1.507km bike ride, forty bar-assisted push ups with left weight shift, forty step ups for Erf with more left weight shift, forty step ups for Elf, forty v-bar cable rows for both hands, forty leg curls for Elf, forty leg curls for Elf, forty leg extensions for Elf, forty leg curls for Erf, tennis ball throwing and catching for  Era and boxing!
    Cheers,
    Em. ^^

Monday Post 331b

 Heylo again, good evening and potentially one final greeting for tonight! Firstly, Em's potential final, final  plodding total for Monday now stands @ 3515 (ha, I'm just over 3.5 grand XD)  and secondly, Joni's devotional topic from last night's 'Saturate Yourself  With The Word' but thirdly   and way most importantly, I'm  really  still owed ONE HOUR and TWENTY MINUTES online after dinner  tonight!! Righteo, potential  final, final events for tonight?

  • Still, PIG mum took her time doing things, meaning  I didn't let her gleefully FORCE :( me to walk over to the bathroom and brush teeth till just  after 9:50am! >< That's alright; will sit over the  loo extralong tonight before hitting the sac and twelve hours should've passed~
  • Teeth brushed, 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.
    Cheers,
    Em. ^^

Sunday, August 2, 2026

Monday Post 331

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 2020  steps (ha,  I'm just over two grand XD); secondly, John piper's daily  devotional  topic from last night's 'Afraid Of Death No More'; thirdly, TWFT topic's "What You Have's Good" and fourthly,  Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'Waiting For God' but fifthly and way most importantly, I'm really still owed ONE HOUR and THIRTY-FIVE MINUTES online after I watch  the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's) for the 175TH time!! Anyways, events for today?

  • Yay, what better way to start  the week than with an awesome sleep last night?  Nature didn't call until 7:45am and after one pot :P trip I did  the exercises Winnie  taught me to  prevent further back pain before spending 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, me waking once more shortly  before 9am. Shortly  after that, PIG mum' begins her daily noisy a-THUMPING around upstirs and she's soon let herself  into  my room   to hit me with  the eye goo and give poor Elf a very   brief rub, since she totally ignored her  last night. That's alright; Era rubbed her for fifteen minutes and let her wear her sock  to sleep though obviously peeled it off first thing this morning! XD
  • Daddy  Bear and I happily   cuddle and snore, me waking once more for the pot :P   around  9am. Unsure why   PIG  mum   didn't help me   up  earlier? Meaning I had to skip  my   fifteen more minutes, get myself mostly independently kitted and bang on the wall to   summon    PIG mum  to   finish  with my  footwear since I  didn't    wanna already be back in  bed before twelve hours have passed since I left else I'll feel like I've wasted the entire day! >< *sigh*
    Cheers,Em.  ^^