Saturday Post 566

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 4409 steps (sweet I'm over four grand; that doesn't happen too often!); secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'How To Contemplate Calamity'; thirdly, TWFT topic's 'Are You   Confused About Your Calling (1)' and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'Our Loving  Rescuer' but  fifthly and way most importantly,  I'm  really still owed ONE HOUR and THREE MINUTES online after I watch the 6pm  news bulletin for  the 243RD time!! Anyways, events for today?

• Yay, 7th consecutive awesome sleep last night; that's the 24TH time this year that I've achieved one straight week of awesome sleeps and pity that the year ends before I've got chance to try for   a 25th! XD
• Nature didn't call until 4:55am  (my  favourite thing  about Summer's prolly how early the Sun rises!) 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*
• After nature called again around 7:45am (the time dearest dad used to leave for work) 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*
• Mini Pearl   and I    happily  cuddle  and snore,  me waking once more for the pot :P  around 9:15am, shortly  before PIG  mum  begins her daily noisy  a-THUMPING around  upstairs.  Soon,  she's let herself into  -bbl!
  
  Cheers,
  Em.   ^^
  P.S.  All the interesting  surnames I saw while watching  the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's, read by Lily Greer) for  the  243RD time: Dametto,  Shannon  (heard), Venz, Jiselle (first name), Manning, Makenna (first name), Baily, Ha-teya (first name),  Gripske, Djodan, Boland, Head, Duckett, Ollie (first name), Haig, Crawley,  Khawaja (heard), Head, Ceawley,  Labuschagne (heard), Brook, Kenzie, Boyd, Minns, Lanyon, Amalee (first name), Saunders, Thistlethwaite, Haig, Beck, Hsrdy, Rawlings, Dimitrov, Wharington, Cunneen, Butler, Volodomyr  (first name, heard), Zelenskyy (heard), Radford, Zverev, Rafter  (heard), Trump  (heard), Djodan, Chester (first name),  Ngan, Bamonte, Mimi  (first   name), Becker and  Kirkegaard. Bronte Gildea read the sports report. Brisbane  was 19-26 today. Brisbane toms: 19-28. Mt.  Gravatt toms:  17-27. Sunrise:  4:53am   Sunset 6:46pm