Tuesday Post 330

 Good evening! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 4696 steps (ha, I'm over  4.5 grand XD); secondly, John Piper's daily  devotional  topic from last night's 'Models For Combating Discouragement'; thirdly, TWFT topic's "Don't Allow Yourself 2B Distracted; fourthly, Our Daily  Bread's devotional topic's 'Walking Like Jesus' and fifthly, Joni's devotional  topic's "We Can't Escape" but fifthly  and way most importantly I'll really still be owed FIFTY-FIVE MINUTES online should  PIG mum order me  off to  bed @ 9:45pm!! >< *sigh* Anyways, just briefly, events for today?

• Yay, awesome sleep last night! Nature didn't call until  6:40am~
• Peggy minded me from 9:30am till 4pm.
• Bought groceries from Pinelands Coles plus my once-weekly crackling  pork bahn mi from the Pinelands Bakehouse then came home for lunch.
• Two hours NAB physio  with Vincente, a twenty-four year old who was born in the Philippines but grew up in Canada and already has a kinesiology degree!
• Physio today: Thumb abduction for Ela bending down twenty times to floor to pickup a ball, left weight shift and toss ball into basket, thirty sit-to-stands with left and forward weight shift and ten laps long hallway walking.
• Came home, showered, ate arvo  tea and read the Isobelle  Carmody  book for one hour (finished pg.300 @ exactly 4:25pm,  finished arvo tea @ 4:41pm and finished pg. 325 @ 5:09pm.
• Popped online, read the day's Bible passages, watched the 6pm  news bulletin (Nine's) for the 165TH time.
• All the interesting surnames I saw while watching  the 6pm  news bulletin (Nine’s, read by Melissa Downes and Joel   Dry) for the 165^TH time: Barnaby (first  name), Zahos (heard), Pullar, Tinker, Barrowcliffe, Laver (heard), McGoverne, Hanson  (heard), Rinehart (heard), Ayres, Karapani, Josiah (first name), Heagney, D’Alessandro, Camm (heard), Crisafulli, Rutherford, Ferrett, Sinclair, Burnham (heard), Keir (first  name), Starmer, Albanese, Bailey, Starc (heard), Hazelwood (heard), Lyon (heard),Mortimer, Makenna  (first name), Baily ,Volodomyr (first name, heard), Bavas, Zelenskyy (heard), Trump, Greer, Campbell, Fox, Gonzales, Feehan, Ryan, Millward, Seymour (heard), Boyd, Piakura (heard), Clifford (heard), Harvey, Zahos (heard),Raffoul, Dearden (heard), Sami (heard), Young (heard),Raoult, Dunkley (heard), McClucagge, Jakob (first  name),  Funk, Kroehn  *(heard), Chambers, Santomartino, Ward and Kohler. Chris Kohler read the finance report (1AUD = 70.10USc), Aislin Kriukelis read the sports report and Garry Youngberry read the weather report from Kangaroo Point. Brisbane was 15-22 today. Brisbane toms: 14-23. Mt.  Gravatt toms: 12-22. Sunrise: 6:34am Sunset 5:15pm
• Started  homework, used  loo, ate dinner, drank soup, took bowl to sink,  returned online, completed  homework, used loo  for another tinkle then plopped online for myself.
• Toms: hope PIG mum   helps me  up not too late and takes me grocery shopping somewhere before  Lana takes me to    table  tennis.  Why I'm   excited: there's gonna be CAKE for Justin's birthday! He's turning forty-seven/forty-eight~
• Most excitingly, I get to attend GG toms night; Jenny's giving me a lift~
• Anyways, hope everyone has a smashing day toms!
  Cheers,
  Em.  ^^

Monday Post 330c

 One final good evening and greeting for tonight! Em's final, final plodding total for Monday now stands @ 5125. Anyways, final, final  events for tonight?

• After washing and drying Era, I climb into  the backseat of PIG mum's car and buckle my own seatbelt. PIG mum tootles me off to see Ray for some massage and acupuncture, just parking on the driveway. Pity dad couldn't drive me today; he'd park by the gate. *sigh*
• At Ray's, I use the loo for one  tinkle then lie  down for some acupuncture and massage. PIG mum's in her element yapping ceaselessly  @ Ray; her record today's repeating five syllables before continuing. XD My grateful thanks to Ray who always replies and keeps a conversation flowing.
• After one more tinkle, PIG mum tootles us home for lunch, where dad has oven-baked pizza and brunchy  garlic bread for us; PIG mum even gives me seconds, score! Just pity that the portions are so *tiny* ><" XD
• After washing lunch down with one mug of  fruit tea I take the cup back to the sink and walk myself slowly  and safely back online,  always rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over. At 1:55pm I sit over the loo once more for two tinkles.
• The new carer's forty-one, already  has two kids and she's from  the Philippines! I shared with her the two Filipino phrases I knew; she nodded approvingly @  the  thank you then roared with laughter  when I sheepishly told her you are fat. XD
• Breathe physio today: 1.515km 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 extensions for Erf,, forty leg extensions for Elf,, forty leg curls for Elf, forty leg curls for Erf, tennis ball throwing and catching for Era and boxing !
• After I used the loo for one more tinkle the carer tootled us off to Sunny Park to buy one box of three-pack facial tissues from Woolies, grabbing a trolley for us on arrival.
• Score the cashier snuck me a $30 card  pack  after the first  wouldn't! :D Will open it toms with Peggy~
• Got home and took a nice hot shower - hairwash today. Also thanks to  the carer 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 cup  of milk tea sweetened with one spoonful of honey after I told the carer I didn't want herbal tea! Happiness was reading the Isobelle Carmody book for one hour; today I reached  pg. 275 @ 5:16pm.
• Less than  fifteen minutes left, so  just super-briefly: watched the 6pm news (Nine's) for the 164TH time, used loo for one tinkle, ate dinner (leftovers from last night plus lotsa boiled vegetables), drank soup, took bowl to  sink, returned online and used loo  for one more tinkle @ 9pm.
• Toms: Peggy's minding me from 9:30am till like 4pm. She'll help me up, take me to  Pinelands Plaza for grocery shopping and bahn mi buying for  lunch; after coming home for lunch she'll drive me to the NAB for two hours' physio then see me home and showered before leaving  @ 4pm.
• Can't  remember: did PIG mum say I could read my    daily Bible passages first/did she want me to complete GCCW homework for her first?
• Looking forward to  reading the Isobelle Carmody book for one hour  and watching the 6pm news for  the  165TH time!
• Anyways,  hope  everyone has a smashing day toms!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Monday Post 330b

 Good  evening again! Em's new plodding total  for tonight's exactly 5000. Ha, I'm half a normal person  today. XD Anyways, events for today?

• Grr, I was one night from starting an awesome sleep  streak but nature denied me!! >< Never mind, 'twas a sound sleep   aside from that~ *sigh*
• After the first daylight 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*
• Daddy Bear and  I happily cuddle and snore, nature calling again once more around 9am. Shortly afterwards, PIG mum  begins  her noisy daily   a-THUMPING around upstairs and soon, she's let herself into  my room  to hit me with  the eye goo  and help  exceedingly  slightly with absolutely nothing bar the bra strap and laying the  tops out before leaving me   to  get myself mostly independently kitted, which I comply with after immediately struggling into the tops  then giving myself fifteen more minutes first.
• PIG mum  returns to finish with absolutely nothing bar Elf's AFO straps and both laces before I let her gleefully  FORCE :( me to  walk over too the bathroom and brush teeth. Unsure why she waited so late before waking me; I had to bang the wall after I'd mostly independently kitted myself and ask her to please quickly finish with Elf's AFO straps and both laces but she meandered away and I didn't exit the bedroom until just after  9:50am! You know I  feel like I've wasted the entire day should I be back in bed for another night's sleep should I enter the bedroom again before twelve hours passed since I exited it! >< Never mind, plan of attack: brush teeth slowly and sit over loo for a good long while; hopefully twelve hours will have passed when I re-enter the room. *sigh*
• After brushing  teeth, 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.
• For breakfast this morning, PIG mum saved me one more of the sausage buns I'd made with her recently! The silly sausage was so  terrified of being eaten he tried to leap from the bread as  he was heading for my mouth but since I remember to  LEAN FORWARD while I eat he only landed on his original saucer and met a very glorious death inside my hungry tummy. XD I also pop all  my usual drugs :P and drain 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 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! 
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Monday Post 330

 Good evening! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 4829 steps (ooh, I'm over 4.5 grand; that's  even more  uncommon than four  grand! XD); secondly,  John Piper's daily  devotional topic from last night's "His Timing's Perfect"; thirdly, TWFT topic's "Blessings Beyond Your Imagination'; fourthly, Our Daily  Bread's devotional topic's 'Pass It On' and fifthly, Joni's devotional topic's 'The School  Of  Suffering' but fifthly and way most importantly, I'm  really still owed FIFTY-EIGHT MINUTES online after dinner!! Bbl!

Cheers,

Em. ^^

Sunday Post 330c

 Good evening again and one final greeting for tonight! Em's final, final plodding total for Sunday now stands @ 3787. Anyways, final, final events for  tonight?

• After I flipped the nice hot water  off and PIG mum dried my back for me, I did everything else and she didn't feature again until my bra strap  needed doing up, Elf's AFO straps needed sticking and both laces needed tying.
• After I dried the loo seat, I sat for  one tinkle, stamped both  feet dry, dried inside both ears, washed  and dried Era then walked myself slowly and safely  back online, rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.
• Did my weekly file backup  then happily watched the 6pm  news for  the 164TH time. All the things I like recording  are @ the bottom  of today's first post.
• Used the loo for one tinkle  then had our once-weekly family dinner  out @ Ho Lin Wah. Ate almost (but not  quite) one bowl of rice, a small half  bowl of thin   soupy ho  fan, a big half bowl of  fried Hokkien noodles while drinking one cup of  Chinese tea, half a cup of unsweewtened soya bean milk  and just over one mouthful of  the hot  HK-style milk tea.
• Back home 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: PIG mum'll help  me  up, since I've got a late morning appointment  to se3 Ray for some acupuncture and massage. Bet she's simply DYING to yap unceasingly   @ him.
• Over breakfast toms morning I'll check    my email and see has Michelle filled in the TBA for tomorrow's 2-6pm shift; if she hasn't, I'll haveta ring.
• Got    Breathe physio @ 2:30pm toms. Presuming we'll buy groceries afterwards before coming home for personal care.
• Fingers crossed I can read the Isobelle Carmody  book for one hour and watch  the 6pm news bulletin for the 165TH time toms night!
• Anyways, wishing everyone a smashing week  ahead!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^

Sunday Post 330b

 Heylo again and good evening! Firstly, Em's new  plodding  total  for Sunday now stands @ 3565 (ha, I'm just over 3.5 grand XD) and secondly,  Joni's devotional topic's 'The Royal Official'.  Righteo, continuing today's events?

• Once the most important two hours of the day were  up, I used the  loo  for one tinkle, washed and dried Era then sat @ the gobbling :P peeled a banana for arvo tea, munched one plain  cracker, drank one huge mug of arvo  tea then finished sharing my Facebook memories then reading the Isobelle Carmody book for forty-seven minutes before  PIG mum ordered me off to  shower.
• So a nice hot shower for me  - I washed and rinsed my own hair today. I  also  softly, slowly  but most hatefully sang 20% of  shorter second-favourite song out aloud, opening both eyes for all the important numbers. Actually, I was already done after only 9%, but happily leaned fully   against the right side rail and watered myself  for  another tinkle before calling PIG mum  back.
  Cheers,
  Em.  ^^

Sunday Post 330

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 3571 steps (ha, I'm just over 2.5 grand XD); secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's "God's Grace In Spiritual Gifts'; thirdly, TWFT topic's 'Be Steadfast' and fourthly, Our Daily  Bread's devotional topic's  'The God Who Saves'. Anyways, events for today?

• Yay, 3rd consecutive awesome sleep last night! Actually, initially sleep wouldn't come and I   already used the pot :P once @ 11:35pm before I finally fell asleep but then I snored soundly until  PIG mum's daily noisy a-THUMPING around upstairs woke me! Only I  was still too asleep to fully wake and use the pot :P I   stayed barely awake until PIG mum let herself into my room to hit me with the eye goo @ 7am before using the pot :P for one tinkle.
• After PIG mum hits me with the eye goo, helps me exceedingly slightly with the bra strap and  laying out both  my   tee and jumper she leaves me to get myself mostly independently kitted, which I  comply with  after immediately struggling into the tops and then giving myself fifteen more minutes first.
• PIG mum returns to finish 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  sat 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 was one of the delicious sausage buns that I made with PIG mum yesterday! I  also popped all my usual drugs :P  and drank 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, 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. 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 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 haul. I hike up  the ramp, use the disabled  loo for one tinkle myself (yay that the lid's up and seat's down  today), wash and dry Era then grab my usual spot for service on the most left. PIG mum leaves for the Canto service with fourteen minutes to spare.
• Yay I get to stay seated for  worship today~ I sing everything, plus the harmony for four songs but like every other week, meant absolutely NOTHING. >< *sigh*
• Speaker today was Peter Pie with another sermon from his series How People Change. David interviewed Rosanna afterwards; eep, she shared how once she rang the police after her  dad pulled a knife on her mum! o_O That's prolly  why service ended six minutes early  today~
• After service, the disabled loo lid  was down and horrid PIG mum  wouldn't lift it for me, meaning I queued in the normal female bathroom until my  turn arrived.  Wonder why PIG mum lifted the lid for me for that one?
• After washing and drying Era I hiked round the back and sat to munch my packet of Arnott's bikkies plus one little mug of milk tea without sugar. Uncle Simon came over and told me he didn't know who won the England and France World Cup grand final qualifier since he had to leave for church!
• Today, the rest of ESS enjoyed Vietnamese food for lunch while PIG mum enjoyed her weekly gossip and coffee session with her aunty friends and dragged me back to Hungry Jack's for lunch with him. I  had the smallest chicken burger (chicken royale) twelve chips and half the orange juice.
• Dad tootled us home, I used the loo for one more tinkle, washed and dried Era  then walked myself slowly  and safely back online, always rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.
• Read the  day's Bible passages, used the loo for one more tinkle then   walked myself slowly and safely  back online,  rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.
• PIG mum's already left me some arvo tea and gone upstairs to hit the sack. Once I've used up the two most important hours of my day I'll use the loo for one tinkle,  sit @ the gobbling :P  and finish sharing my Facebook memories before munching arvo tea and reading  for one hour.
• Toms: presuming PIG mum'll help me up and take me to see Ray for some massage and acupuncture before coming home for lunch  with dearest dad.
• Presume it's Jacinta taking me to Breathe physio toms arvo; also presume we're buying groceries before coming home for personal care.
• Looking forward to watching the 6pm news for the 165TH time, provided I can  watch it for the 164TH time tonight!
• Anyways, hopefully bbl else wishing everyone a smashing week ahead!
  Cheers,
  Em.  ^^
  P.S. All the interesting surnames I saw while watching  the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's, read by Wendy Kingston) for the 164TH time: Sinclair, Hanson (heard), Albanese, Bragg, Hume, Tomasi, Mbappe, Godfrey, Donovan, Fentiman, D'Alessandro, Crisafulli (heard), Camm (heard), Meares, Johnson,  Balme,Burnham, Todhunter, Chapman, McGoverne, Di Loretto, Codina, Tate, Bavas, Norris (heard), Antonelli (heard), Verstappen (heard), Piastri, Hull,  Olyslagers, Herbert, McIlroy, deChambeau, Zorko (heard), Fagan, Schmidt, Poate, Upton, Bostock, Tamika (first name, Yam, Griffin, Sabatino, heard),n  Hannay, Hamiso (first name), Williams, Wilson, Kiss (heard), Jakob (first  name, heard), Funk (heard), Bennell-Pegg, Schrinner, Arbib, Campbell, Charlton and Youngberry. Effie Zahos read the finance report (1AUD = ), Dominique  Loudon read the sports report and Garry  Youngberry  read the weather  report from Surfers Paradise. Brisbane was 16-24. Brisbane toms:  17-23. Mt. Gravatt toms: 14-23. Sunrise: 6:35am Sunset 5:14pm