Heylo again, good evening and one final greeting for tonight! Firstly, Em's final, final plodding total for Saturday now stands @ 2149 and secondly, Joni's devotional topic's "Speaking God's Language." But I penned Dr. Dr. a letter then started watching the news but stopped 1/4 way through when I found out coverage of the Broncos game started @ 7pm! Wolfed dinner down then watched the Broncos get flogged by the Warriors; 40-6! ><' Cringe* Rang Aunty Lai @ 9pm and spoke to her for 6:04 and toms it's just church, definitely nothing special. Resigned too a pissy bit of lunch with dad @ Hungry Jack's and don't wanna watch the news toms night and read how the Broncos lost AGAIN! ><" Righteo, hopefully see everyone @ church toms!
Cheers.
Em. ^^
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Saturday Post 323b
Friday, August 14, 2026
Saturday Post 323
Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 1506 steps (ha, I'm just over 1.5 grand XD); secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'God Forgives, And Is Still Just'; thirdly, TWFT topic's 'Money: How You Get It, And Give It' and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's "Living Out God's Love". Anyways, events for today?
- Yay, what better way to start the weekend then with my second consecutive awesome sleep last night? Nature didn't call until 6:45am 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*
- Daddy Bear and I happily cuddle and snore; the next time nature calls again following another pot :P trip 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*
- More cuddling and snoring from Daddy Bear and me; PIG mum's daily noisy a-THUMPING around upstairs my wakeup call to use the pot :P once more. Soon, she's let herself into my room to hit me with the eye goo and give poor Elf's ankle a very brief rub since she'd 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 but obviously peeled the sock off first thing this morning! XD
- Since Louiza didn't arrive @ 9:45am, PIG mum immediately gave me fifteen more minutes. I immediately comply telling mother I'm sure Louiza's just stuck in traffic so tell her to get me up @ 9:45am after she comes. Sure enough, that's exactly what happens! XD
- Once I've counted down from 900 I announce that I'm hungry to Louiza and swing myself over to the pot :P for one more tinkle. She's inside the bathroom and immediately comes; we get me kitted and yup, she confirms that she was late since she was stuck in traffic along the Ipswich motorway.
- I head over to the bathroom and brush teeth, before drinking one tall cup of water then sitting over the loo proper. 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 head out to the gobbling :P table with Louiza. Breakfast's my once-weekly fried egg on one slice of dry (unbuttered) toast very lightly spread with avocado, another full mug of water, all my usual drugs :P and my first big mug of white tea sweetened with two teaspoonfuls of sugar. Over and after breakfast I happily read A Fortunate Life for thirty minutes first up!
- Reading finished, I ask Louiza please to gimme (face and both hands) some sunscreen then she walks behind me back to the loo before going and washing the breakfast dishes up.
- After sitting over the loo for one tinkle, I climb into the passenger seat of Louiza's car and she tootles us off to Underwood MarketPlace, parking around the side and grabbing a trolley for us.
- First we buy groceries from Woolies. Like I've said, I don't mind shopping with carers since they lemme sit on the self-serve checkout machine. Wonder why the parents won't?
- We're walking towards Sushi Creators when the guy behind the counter looks up, sees me coming and raises a finger in the air? I reply with a thumbs up; by the time we reach the counter he's already packaged my sushi and hands it to Louiza, going "Four dollars." Louiza looks @ me, asking have you ordered yet? I mime our little conversation; she laughs and pays the guy. XD
- Back home, I take a nice hot 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. At 12:25pm I asked Louiza to please massage Ela but she dithered around washing dishes before very gently massaging he for like ten minutes.
- At 12:55pm I sat over the loo once more for two tinkles then signed Louiza off with my thanks and byes. She's back next Thursday 9:30am till 1pm/thereabouts.
- Instead of reading all arvo to reach three hours I'm gonna pen a long letter to Dr. Dr. Tai; she turned FIFTY like eight days ago hence why I bought her a proper '50' card today!
- Have reminded the parents to gimme dinner @ 6pm while I'm watching the news coz the Broncos are playing @ 7!
- Toms: just church, nothing special. Resigned to a bite of lunch with dad @ Hungry Jack's then a stressful arvo @ the hands of PIG mum. *sigh*But should the Broncos win tonight; I'm definitely reading match report after match report toms arvo and basking in their glory! XD
- Anyways, hopefully bbl, else looking forward to seeing everyone @ church toms!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
P.S. All the interesting surnames I saw while watching the 6pm news (Nine's, read by Mia Glover) for the 182ND time: Balme (heard), Ha-teya (first name), Gripske, Anderson (heard), Haig, Mansfield, Amalee (first name), Saunders, Canavan (heard), Bowen, Burke (heard), Hanson (heard), Sinclair, Burnham, Greer, Luigi (first name), Mangione, Tisch, Thomson, Sofia (first name), Murphy Black (heard), Dookwah, Christou - actuaaly Broncos' coverage starts @ 7pm; will watch the news another time!
Friday Post 323d
One final good evening and greeting for tonight! Em's final, final plodding total for Friday now stands @ 4272. Righteo, final, final events for tonight?
- After publishing the previous post I had thirty minutes to happily play the Queen version of Bejeweled~
- 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: Louiza's minding me from 9:30am till 1pm.Going to buy my honeychicken sushi roll for arvo tea with her plus any groceries PIG mum wants but may not get to play table tennis @ church with dad since there's some kinda fundraising thing happening for the Kenya mission trip? Looking forward to my three big mugs of white tea with sweetener and another bowl of the yummy pasta and sausage dish and planning to start reading A Fortunate Life for three hours! Righteo, hope everyone has a lovely weekend ahead~
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Friday Post 323c
Good evening again! Em's new plodding total for Friday now stands @ 4190. Sweet I'm over four grand; that doesn't happen too often! XD Anyways, continuing tonight's events?
- When PIG mum summoned me over for dinner @ 7:15pm I used the loo for one tinkle, washed and dried Era then walked myself slowly and safely to the gobbling :P table, rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.
- Dinner tonight: rice, leftover pasta and chicken from the cooking I did with Ari yesterday, lotsa broccolini, lotsa soup carrot, two/three huge chunks of yucky soup pumpkin, two chunks of soup pork and two tasty leftover slices of dad's delicious duck.
- Dinner was spooned down with one bowlful of soup; after taking the bowl over to the sick 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.
- Anyways, hopefully bbl after one last loo trip @ 9pm with my final, final plodding total for today, the final, final events for tonight plus what's happening toms else wishing everyone a smashing weekend ahead!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Friday Post 323b
Heyloo again, good evening and potentially one final greeting for tonight! Firstly, Em's potential final, final plodding total for Friday now stands @ 3904 (so hoping I'll reach 4000 before tonight ends! XD) and secondly, Joni's devotional topic's 'A Picture Of God's Grace". Righteo, potential final, final events for Friday?
- Once I'd used up the most important two hours of my day, I used the loo for one tinkle then sat down for arvo tea, peeling myself one yummy banana, munching one yummy tasty cracker and drinking one huge mug of herbal tea. Dearest dad came home from his outing and showed me photos of the hike!
- Used the loo for one more tinkle before returning online and watching the 6pm news bulletin (Seven's) for the 181ST time. All the things I like recording are @ the bottom of the previous post.
- Righteo, hopefully bbl after dinner else wishing everyone a smashing weekend ahead!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Friday Post 323
Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 3905 steps (so will hit four grand today; sweet XD); secondly, John Piper's devotional topic from last night's 'Three Examples Of How Faith Fulfils Good Resolves'; thirdly, TWFT topic's "Let's Tell The Whole World About Jesus" and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's 'One Worthy Of Worship'. Anyways, events for today?
- Yay, what better way to end the week then with an awesome sleep last night? Nature didn't call until the noisy garbage truck THUNDERED down our road to tip bins and woke me; after one pot :P trip I immediately did the bed 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 again waking for the pot :P when dearest dad came to kiss me bye and retuck me back into bed before going hiking with other church uncles!
- Daddy Bear and I happily continued cuddling and snoring, nature calling once more around 9am just before noisy 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 to await Rebecca's mum, only to reappear @ 9:01am and gimme fifteen more minutes since Rebecca hadn't arrived yet! I immediately comply and tell PIG mum to ask Rebecca to help me up @ 9:15am after she arrives coz she's prolly stuck in traffic. Sure enough, that's exactly what happens! XD
- After Rebecca taps me up @ 9:15am, I use the pot :P for two more tinkles and discover that she was stuck in traffic along the Ipswich motorway on-ramp. We get me kitted, I head over to the bathroom and brush teeth, then sit over the loo for one tinkle before washing and drying Era then heading out to the gobbling :P table with Rebecca.
- Breakfast is one slice of dry (unbuttered) toast spread with avocado and lightly sprinkled with salt, all my usual drugs :P and one full mug of water. PIG mum kindly turns on Sunrise for my viewing pleasure, and 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*
- Breakfast finished, I summon Rebecca to please gimme some sunscreen then she walks behind me back to the bathroom before returning to the kitchen and washing up the breakfast dishes. 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 backseat of Rebecca's car and she tootles me off to the NAB.
- At UQ, I use the toilet for one tinkle then sit in the waiting room with the other clients nd chat until Amar (sp? Hammer without the 'h') comes for me.
- Physio today: Thirty sit-to-stands with left and forward weight shift for Barefoot Elf sitting with less thigh support, standing reaching for Ela stacking cones with more left and forward weight shift and walked one fast lap around the great court!
- After one more loo trip, Rebecca tootles me not home but first to the Logan North library to pickup the new book club novel.
- Only there aren't any hard copies left! Instead, some male librarian teaches me how to download and use Libby meaning I've got a digital copy of the book!
- Back home, I take a nice hot shower - hairwash today. Also thanks to Rebecca who helped me rinse out my hair, thus freeing Era to hold my stupid right eye tightly shut.
- Dried, creamed and rekitted, lunch was one delicious bowl of the pasta I'd cooked with Ari yesterday plus one unsweetened mug of English breakfast tea with milk. Rebecca cleaned the bathroom then left immediately; she's still got a 4-8pm shift tonight! Mostly I just enjoyed eating with full mouthfuls. XD
- Lunch finished, I took the bowl to the sink, used the loo for one tinkle then walked myself slowly and safely online, rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.
- After noting down what I did for physio today I did my daily Bible readings then plopped online for myself.
- Once I've used up the most important two hours of my day I'll use the loo for one tinkle then sit and munch the arvo tea PIG mum kindly left me before returning online and watching the 6pm news bulletin (Seven's) for the 181ST time.
- Toms: Louiza's minding me 9:30am till 1pm; presuming we're buying my arvo tea sushi plus whatever groceries PIG mum wants from Woolies @ Underwood MarketPlace before coming home for a shower and lunch (hopefully another bowl of that delicious pasta I cooked with Ari yesterday) then I might play table tennis with dad @ church. Then again, maybe not since dad says there's some Kenya mission trip fundraising thing going on! Anyhow, I'm looking forward to my three big mugs of white tea with sweetener and plan to read the new book club novel for three hours!
- Anyways, hopefully bbl, else wishing everyone a smashing weekend ahead!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
P.S. All the interesting surnames I saw while watching the 6pm news bulletin (Seven's, read by Max Futcher and Sarah Greenhalgh) for the 181ST time: Conroy (heard), Baxter, Nooch, Jai (first name), Crisafulli (heard), Slater, Bellamy (heard), Maguire (heard), Albanese, Trump, Lester, Duclos, Gert-Jan (first name),, de Graaf Reeves, Hammond, Wightman, Normie (first name), Webster, Hazlewood, Powell, Kalfon, (sson (first name), Rowe, Rodaty, Bechwati, Miles, MacCullum, Liebelt, Roati, Cushla (first name), Carling, Abate, Osbourne (heard), Holland, Reason, Saunders (heard), Lyon, Wilson, Taulagi, Hannay, Ilias (heard), Nikorima (heard), Brooks, Calapinto (heard), Voight, Kadak, Walter, Minogue (heard), Arena (heard), O'Connor, Costello (heard), Hunt, Harris, Walsh (heard), Mehidy, Cummins, Toohey, Maguire, Gillmeister, Fagan, Dunkley (first name), McCluggage (heard), Richards, Shanto, Lyon, Madigan, Mullen, Daly (first name), Milton and Dymock. Samantha Jolly read the finance report (1AUD = 70.66USc), Rohan Welsh read the sports report and Laura Dymock read the weather report from the animal nursey @ the EKKA. Brisbane was 11-24 today. Brisbane toms: 11-22. Sunrise: 6:20am Sunset: 5:27
Thursday, August 13, 2026
Thursday Post 323
Good evening! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 2264 steps; secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's 'My Soul Thirsts For God'; thirdly, TWFT topic's 'Evaluate Your Expectations'; fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's "Jesus' Witness" and fifthly Joni's devotional topic's "A Heart Of Flesh but sixthly and way most importantly, I've not been online for two hours until 10:01pm; meaning should PIG mum boot me off to bed @ 9:45pm I'm really still owed SIXTEEN MINUTES online!! *sigh* Anyways, events for today?
- Grr, nature ruined the awesome sleep streak I'd just started! >< Never mind, I was prolly too excited about my first proper meal out in one MONTH tonight. *sigh*
- Following 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, me waking again for the pot :P when PIG mum wakes me with 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's ankle a very brief rub since she'd totally ignored my poor foot last night. That's fine; Era rubbed Elf for fifteen minutes and let her wear her sock to sleep last night but obviously peeled the sock off first thing this morning! XD
- When Louiza doesn't arrive @ 8am PIG mum immediately opens the door saying fifteen more minutes; I immediately comply but tell her bet Louiza's just stuck in traffic; just tell her to help me up @ 8:15pm after she arrives. Sure enough, that's exactly what happens! XD
- When Louiza taps me up @ 8:15am, I sit up, say good morning then used the pot :P for three more tinkles. Sure enough; Louiza was delayed in traffic: stuck along the Ipswich motorway, actually!
- We get me kitted, I head over to the bathroom to brush teeth and then sit over the loo for one tinkle. After washing and drying Era, I head out to the gobbling :P table with Louiza, telling her off for not eating breakfast this morning and informing her that she would buy herself some breakfast after she bought groceries for PIG mum while I was attending GCCW. XD
- Breakfast was prolly one slice of dry (unbuttered) toast lightly smeared with avocado and lightly sprinkled with salt, all my usual drugs :P and one full mug of water. Thanks to Louiza who turns Sunrise on for my viewing pleasure and 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, Louiza covers my face and both hands with sunscreen then follows me back to the bathroom before returning to the kitchen and washing the breakfast stuff up. 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 Louiza's car and she tootles me off to GCCW! Thanks to her who kindly helped me with my seatbelt both ways and since we were really stuck along Logan Rd., we didn't arrive till like 9:29am hence why I skipped the arrival toilet trip and just headed straight into Meeting Room One.
- Ten attended: Alison was here! Tammy went with me once to the toilet @ morning tea and Nancy got morning tea for me: there was cake and she not only gave me seconds but left me the last slice! Only the meeting ended ten minutes early, everyone cleared out really fast and then someone switched off the light and I was left in the dark! >< XD
- Less than fifteen minutes left, so super-briefly:
- Got home, showered and had a tuna in tomato and onion with cheese toastie for lunch.
- Rebecca took me to Wong's for our book club dinner! Thirteen attended and I had that set that came with two spring rolls, some sweet and sour pork and some braised chicken with two prawns; I picked that and the celery out. XD I also finished eating last but that was to be expected. XD Next month we're reading A Fortunate Life? Maybe that's by A.B. Facey and about Peekay the boxer?
- Rebecca tootled me home; she's back toms @ 8am till 2pm~
- Yup toms I've got NAB physio for two hours but don't have OT since Ari already cooked with me this arvo! Will eat what we cooked this arvo for lunch toms~
- Looking forward to reading the new book club novel for one hour and watching the 6pm news for the 181ST time.
- Anyways, hope everyone has a smashing end to the week toms!
Cheers,
Em. ^^