Thursday Post 605

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been   hard @ work plodding 2898 steps; secondly, John Piper's daily   devotional topic from last Suffering That Strengthens Faith'; thirdly, TWFT topic's 'Beware Of Covetousness' and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'Looking Like Christ'. Anyways, events for today?

• Yay, 3rd consecutive awesome sleep last night! Nature didn't call until 8:00am 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*
• When nature calls again one hour later it's actually   PIG mum's daily noisy a-THUMPING around upstairs that awakes me; when the home phone rings, she's downstairs and rushes into my room to answer it, grousing "It'd better not be Karina cancelling again ..."  But it is! o_O 
• Mother gives me fifteen more minutes and when the replacement carer arrives @ 9:45pm I get up immediately. Turns out Nadine's only one year younger than me, and lives in Inala!
• We get me kitted, I head over to the bathroom and brush teeth, sit over the loo for one tinkle and then head out to the gobbling :P table with Nadine.
• Breakfast's one bowl of plain porridge with one slice of dry (unbuttered) toast spread with avocado and sprinkled with salt, 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, while Nadine washes up my breakfast stuff, closes and locks windows, I sit once more over the loo. 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 seat of Nadine's car, she kindly helps me with my seatbelt and then she tootles me off to Calamvale Central for a haircut. Sweet, she parks underground and grabs a trolley for us; Go Cutt's right outside the lift!
• The hairdresser who cut my hair today has done it before! I like going   there   since it's the only time I'm ever instructed to look down; unfortunately, the vacuum cleaner still hasn't been fixed yet! >< The hairdresser's really sweet and super-nice to mother; she tells me that she's got three kids and has her PR here but doesn't  wanna get her citizenship since she doesn't wanna lose her Chinese passport.
• Hair nice and neat, Nadine and I hike all the way to the other end of Calamvale Central and buy a carton of milk from Woolies. Thanks to Nadine who lets me sit on the self-serve checkout machine space where you usually put groceries; unsure why the parents won't lemme? But I chatted with Adelfa the checkout lady manning the self-serve checkouts; she's Filipino and her name means some kinda flower! I told her the two phrases I can   speak; she nodded approvingly when IU said thanks but doubled over roaring with laughter when I very timidly said you're fat? XD
• Back home I take a nice hot shower - hairwash today.  Also thanks to Nadine who helps me rinse my hair out, thus freeing    Era to hold my stupid right eye tightly shut.
• Dried, creamed and  rekitted Nadine microwaves the bowl of rice leftovers mother left me for lunch - with added oyster sauce! :D I enjoy my packet of powdered HK-style milk tea and best of all, since Royal Match randomly gives me one hour of free lives, pass the hard level I've been stuck on!
• Before Nadine leaves, I sit over the loo for two more tinkles. She's from Care Agency    Australia~
• Once I've used up the most important hours of   my day online, I'll use the loo for one tinkle, sit @ the gobbling :P table to read for one hour and wait for PIG mum to gimme some arvo  tea.
• Looking forward to watching the 6pm news (Seven's) for the 164TH time!
• Toms: Peggy's minding me from 9:30am till like 1:30pm and taking me to Breathe for physio.
• After she sees me showered and leaves, Syn's coming to give Ela one hour of unfunctional exercises.
• Will  prolly  skip reading for one hour since I'm planning to watch the 6pm news for the 165TH time, wolf down dinner and be seated on the couch @ 7:30pm ready to watch the Broncos play!! Although I'll   be happy whoever wins:   the Broncos are my home team, but I've always cheered for South Sydney since I'm born in the CNY of the Rabbit!
• Anyways, hopefully bbl else wishing everyone a smashing end to the week toms!
  Cheers,
  Em. ^^
  P.S. All the interesting surnames I saw while watching the 6pm news bulletin (Seven's, read by Max Futcher and Katrina Blowers) for the 164TH time: Whop, Marlina (first name), Prior, Hegan, Bechwati, Crisafulli (heard), Butcher, Jensen, Clayfield, Smithers, Catterson, Richards, Caines, Holland, Mercorella, Barrett, Lonergan, Bland, Ballard, Rafter, Johnstone, Langbroek, Gibson, O'Callaghan, Melani, O'Leary (heard), O'Carrigan, Riley, Clare, Sussan (first name), Ley, Rose, Chesser (heard), Story (heard), Lester, Chalmers, Carney (heard), Abate, Tucker, Brown, Tate, Dale, Ainsley (first name), Koch, Downie, White, Tupou, Fagan, Bitungane, Wighton (heard), Yeoman, Welsh, Maguire (heard), Walsh (heard),Bennett, Osbourne (heard) and Auden. Tony McMillan read the finance report (1AUD =  64.68USc), Steve  read the sports report and Tony Auden/Michael Vejdelek read the weather report. Brisbane was