Thursday Post 612

 Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 2735 steps; secondly, John Piper's daily    devotional topic from last night's "You Are Greatly Loved"; thirdly, TWFT topic's 'Sacrificial Living' and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's "God's Rainbow Answer" but fifthly  and way most importantly, I'm really still owed FIFTY-THREE MINUTES online after I watch  the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's) for the 42ND time!! Anyways, events for today?

• Woo hoo, 7th consecutive last night, that's already the 4th time this year I've enjoyed one straight week of consecutive awesome sleeps! Like yesterday, nature  didn't call until  6:20am 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 calls again about one hour later, shortly before PIG mum comes to hit me with the eye goo before going outside and awaiting Louisa's arrival only to return several minutes later and say "Louisa's late; fifteen more minutes. I immediately begin counting down from 900, saying please ring CODA should she have not arrived by 8:10am but phew, Louisa arrives like two minutes later~
• She says she was stuck in traffic along Logan Rd.   while I sit over the pot :P for two/three tinkles. After we get me kitted, I head over to the bathroom and brush teeth before sitting over the loo for one tinkle. After washing and drying Era, I sit over the loo for one tinkle, wash and dry Era then head out to the gobbling :P table with Louisa.
• Breakfast was one/two dry (no honey) Weet-Bix with 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 ask Louisa to please gimme some sunscreen and then she walks behind me back to the loo before returning to the kitchen and washing up the breakfast stuff. Over the loo 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 Louiza's car and she tootles me off to the Garbo library for GCCW! Thanks to her who helped me buckle my seatbelt both ways~
• At Garbo I use the loo for one tinkle then enter meeting room one. Only since the projector's not working, we're moved to meeting room two!
• Our biggest attendance for 2026: thirteen! Nancy/Merlyn even gave me a big hollow chocolate heart! I wolfed it down immediately; after the first bite I told her that I had a broken heart and she roared with laughter.  XD
• The meeting ended eight minutes early today; Mary tried to KILL me when she tried to offer me the leftover Ferrero Rocher!! >< XD 
• After one more tinkle, Louiza tootled me home and I took a nice warm shower - hairwash today. Also thanks to Louiza who helped me rinse out my hair, thus freeing Era to hold my stupid right eye tightly shut.
• Dried, creamed and rekitted, Louiza made me a tuna in tomato and onion with TWO cheese and even buttered the inside, even though I'd forgotten to ask her for any! XD Since fresh HK-milk   tea wasn't available, I made do with a powdered instant packet.
• I'd reported left heel pain to mother over Messenger after GCCW; the malleolus was fine, but I'd rubbed a blister into the heel! o_O
• At 1:55pm I sat  once more over the loo for two tinkles then signed Louiza off with my thanks and byes @ 2pm. She's back  toms from 9:30am till 2pm.
• Cheers,
  Em.  ^^
  P.S. All the interesting surnames I saw while watching the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's, read by Melissa Downes and Joel Dry) for the 42ND time: Millward, Train, Dare (heard), Arnold (heard), Rackley (heard), Crawford (heard), Crisafulli, Socak, Ha-teya (first name), Gripske, Prior, Greer, Schott, Moon, McBain, Clay (heard), Hill  (heard), Lynn, Hakamia (first name),  Rifi, Albanese, Markle (heard), JD (first   name), Vance Trump  (heard), Butler, Tait, O'Neill, Thorpe (heard), Drinkwater, Mayhew (heard), Rogers, Hadnutt, Klim (heard), Scott, Heinke, Jamal (first name), Jakob (first name), Funk,  Gehamat (first name), Shibisaki, Rifi, Kalyn (first name),  Ponga, Bolt, Hudson, cibberas, Coster, McLachlan, McGoverne, Jaylen (first  name), Cook, Van Lunteren, Loader, Zahos, O'Toole, Probyn, Fullagar, Kerr, Fowler, Wilson, Gordon, Wills, Katoa and Youngberry. Chris Kohler read the finance report (71.30USc = 1AUD), Bronte Gildea read the sports report and Garry Youngberry read the sports report from Ipswich. Brisbane was 22-30 today. Brisbane toms: 22-27. Mt. Gravatt toms:  21-27. Sunrise: 5:39am Sunset 6:22pm