Moose Musings

11:41pm: Just a quick update to wish myself a Happy 41st Birthday;

Considering it's 20 minutes to midnight I can safely say I have indeed had a most happy birthday complete with cupcakes I made myself!

Work is finally settling down after the start-of-year-closed-for-a-fortnight rush - wipes brow. Although I do have my weekend shift tomorrow so I really need to get to bed at a reasonable hour.

Although I remain in the grasp of the addiction that is The Sims 4. Seriously, Maxis/EA created digital crack here.

Anyway I gotta run, but yeah whoo, Happy Birthday to me!

7:42pm: So it's been a while since I've updated, because life has been slow, however I do have some very cool news to report.

Yesterday I was part of an archery round that had handicaps, there were different distances people could shoot and a handicap would be added to an archer's overall score to even everything out. Or at least that's what I assume they did. Being a newbie, I of course opted for the shortest distance because the day before I was on a target that started at 30m away and boy did I ever suck at it XD.

However! I had much better luck with 20m, 15m and 10m, even when the target faces got smaller - in fact I seemed to shoot better the smaller the target (we started with a 122cm one for 20 and 15m, then an 80cm one for the 10m and hen a 40cm). Go me!

Still, I definitely did not expect that at the end of the round I would be declared the overall winner!! :OD The prize I got was this golf umbrella with a target printed on it. It's really cool! I saw someone with one last week and wondered where the person got it and was told that it was a prize, so I figured if I wanted one I'd have to fork over actual money. Not so!

How neat is that? I'm quite proud of myself, obviously a 10m target is pretty dang close - I think that might be the distance people shoot darts at - but considering the first time I tried shooting a bow at Year Six I actually shot the bow instead of the arrow this is a huge improvement!

Although I do need an arm guard after all, not sure what's changed, but the string hit the inside of my elbow a couple of times before I borrowed one and there's a bruise there now. I got a second hand one at onsite shop which will hopefully work, otherwise I'll have to drop some dough to get a new one.

I also need to get some sun sleeves, because the weather is warming up and wearing a long sleeve shirt leads to a lot of sweating. Sun sleeves just cover your arms to prevent sunburn, although they only seem to be available online, so I guess I'll have to purchase them that way.

So yeah, that's my exciting news :OP Otherwise life continues as normal, although I need to make a start on my Christmas cards, they're mostly going to overseas people on the figure skating forum I'm a member of so I need to send them sooner rather than later, otherwise they won't arrive in time. But then I'm also playing Sims 4 a lot, they're got another sale going on so I'm thinking of getting a few more expansions - I probably shouldn't be encouraging EA, but it's fun! Sometimes the game does act a bit weird, but nothing too game breaking - fingers crossed!

On that note though I shall wrap this up so I can get to work on some of that stuff, but I shall do

The Friday Five

22/11/24

These questions were written by allude on LJ.

1. What is your favorite childhood memory? My family's three month trip around the world when I was nine almost ten. It was seriously awesome! We went to both Disneyland and Euro-Disney, went to school in England for a bit, travelled all around Wales, England and Scotland and on the way back we stopped for New Year's Eve in Hong Kong. So many memories...

2. If you could be reincarnated as anything besides human, who would you want to be? I always wanted to be a dolphin! I'd have to steer clear of nets and killer whales though!

3. If you had to start your life all over, what are three things you would change? Hmm...that's a hard one, I guess first I'd get rid of the IBS because screw that, nix the anxiety issues as well and...that's all that comes to mind, I don't want to change too much, otherwise I might end up not being me!

4. If you had to forget everything in your life, except one thing, what would it be? Geeze...that sounds terrible! I guess...does my family count as one thing? It better because that's what I'd want to remember.

5. Do you have a lucky charm? Nah, not really. I do have a little Chef Pusheen stuffie that I wear on my backpack that I wear to work, so maybe that? Or my Pusheen wristlet where I keep my bus pass.

Righto, ta ta for now!

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10:27pm: Yes! Well, technically it's already happening as it's the 5th of November over there in the US, but it's pretty early in the day for California, so you know.

I've been slacking off with the updating, since I haven't actually had much to report, although the archery's going really well! I've got my own bow, my own arrows and even a quiver now! Still no chest guard yet, but I've been wearing one of my sports bras and it seems to be working out. I even competed - so to speak - in the Club wide competition on Sunday. As a beginner I was allowed to go on the closest target which is usually reserved for the under 16s. Even so, the 30m starting target was still a lot further away then I've ever tried! Suffice to say there was a lot of arrows that missed XD. Still it's not how well you do against others, but how you do against yourself and since that's the first time I've shot at a 30 m target I've got a new personal best :OP

What else to report, ah yes, that time o' the month is currently underway, I think it's a week late for some reason because my app has been telling me it should be starting for days so... Although looking at it right now I see I forgot to add my last period for September, which is a bit of a problem for the prediction side of things. Having said that, I think it's pretty much every 28 days, so not hard to figure out :OP

Anyway, time is getting on and I should go to bed earlier, especially seeing as it's a work night! Before I go, let us cheer because the Time & Motion study we've been doing at work is finally over \o/ man that thing was messing with my brain a bit.

There's probably Friday Fives I can do, but I'm sleepy so, I'll just wrap it up here.

Goodnight and to the USA...don't fuck this up.

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11:28pm: Yep, this morning I woke up at 8:22am and was rather confused because I was pretty sure it couldn't be the weekend yet and of course it wasn't, it's only Wednesday! So yeah, there was a mad dash as I hurried to have my shower, get dressed, eat breakfast and get to work. Breakfast in particular was a problem because I somehow managed to miss the loaf of bread that was sitting right in front of me and instead made do with cereal and a tiny bit of milk that didn't cover even a third of it, so it was pretty dry.

Anywho, I managed to make it into work no later than usual and in fact earlier than I did on Tuesday, LOL, which was still 10 minutes late which I was a little worried about because we're doing that Time and Motion study - I think I mentioned it - where we keep track of everything we do all day. Technically I'm on a flexible time schedule so it should be OK, but I dunno.

Anyway, I did some good work today! Most of the team were at the training I went to a few weeks back for most of the afternoon, so I didn't have any interruptions, so that was handy :OP

So...I've been meaning to do the Friday Fives, problem is I keep starting these entries too late, so even though they are up, I don't actually have time to do them because yeah, you gotta sleep! I blame The Sims 4 for this.

Oh well, you can only do your best...

I still can't believe I missed that loaf of bread though, LOL.

Goodnight!

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11:59pm: OK, so I've slacked this week with the whole updating thing and though I'm starting this update before midnight I'm not gonna finish it before the day ticks over!

And I'm still behind on The Friday Five, but tomorrow is the morning tea at Mum and Dad's retirement village and I have to deliver my cupcakes by 9:30am (or possibly 9am!) so I no time to stay up late.

The weather has totally been all over the place this week, chilly outside, but my apartment is well insulated so I'm quite hot and need to turn the fan on so I can sleep. It's rather weird.

In other news it's the last Junior Grand Prix event and the menfolk are skating now, it's happening in China so I had hopes that the time zones would work out better for me, I did manage to see the whole Ladies SP, but I'll have to turn in before the menfolk finish so I won't know who'll wins until tomorrow. Ah well.

Apart from that not much else to report, except I've been playing Sims 4 all week, Alternate Lady Bigwallet has almost reached the top of her aspiration! Once she does, she and Shea the gardener can get married and have kiddies for the next generation. For all my attempts with Hill Valley in Sims games I've never actually had a full generation before, so this will be interesting. I am kind of missing playing my Woodstone Sims in Sims 3, I'm pretty sure season 4 of Ghosts premiered today, but just taking a quick look, it's actually next week. Phew! :OP

Also it's been busy at work, next week we need to do a Time and Motion Study because the Big Manager wants to know if we're working efficiently or something like that. I'm not sure what to think about that... Changes may be afoot, but our jobs are safe or at least that's what my supervisor says. Fingers crossed I guess!

Right, I gotta get moving. Goodnight!

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10:14pm: Yes, it's Leap Forward Time Down Under! Which I'm very pleased about because I love it when the sun is up in the late afternoon and evening. The downside, of course, is that at the start of the process an hour is lost...so it's actually more like 11:14pm right now, in which case I better make this quick because I'm off to Archery tomorrow morning and it'll start at what feels like 8am rather than 9am!

Not much to report, although I'm working on a new cross stitch having finished Pusheen on a tropical beach (although I might add one more detail), it's Pusheen doing Archery (of course!) :O) However since this requires a bit more deviation from the patterns that came in the Pusheen cross stitch kits I've just had to unpick half of it because of a mistake, whoops.

After a week and a half I finally got back to the gym today, yay, so I'm feeling good about that.

I've also noticed that more Friday Fives are available, but I might have skip those for now because I really should get my butt in bed! It seems that short entries are my life right now :OP I blame Sims, I'm still playing Sims 4 and Lady, who's doing really well, I've actually had her start doing cross stitch as well XD

There's also skating, which is another downside, I suppose, of daylight saving in that everything is now an hour (soon to be two) hour later than it was before. This means it's a lot harder for me to catch competitions that take place in Europe live because they start at like 11pm or midnight.

Anyway, wish me luck tomorrow!

Goodnight!

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11:24pm: So the sore throat came back with avengeance earlier today, which absolutely sucks because it made it nearly impossible to sleep for any period of time.

I took the day off work, but I did end up going out to buy some food at the supermarket, because Mum who was going to drop off a serving of roast to me didn't end up doing that because Grandpa joined them at lunch yesterday so there wasn't anything left.

As for the subject here, well my nose is super stuffed now and it hurts which sucks and is something that always happens with a cold, but every time I'm taken aback by the discomfort. Grumble, grumble, stupid viruses being assholes.

Anyway, I mostly updated here so I wouldn't fall too much out of the habit of updating. However, I really need to get my butt to bed now, I'm supposed to be recovering! Not sure if I'll be going to work tomorrow though :O( I guess it depends on how I feel. On the plus side I at least have lots of sick leave, so I don't need to worry about that.

So yeah, I'm out, good night!

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10:17pm: The good news, I survived the training

Bad news, I have a sore throat and I'm not sure if it's the suddenly cold weather (it was more than 10 degrees C colder today than yesterday!), or from swallowing food in a kind of weird way or if (knock on wood) I'm getting a cold or something. I sure as Hell hope it isn't the latter, because I'd hate to miss work tomorrow, there's still so many boxes to open and books to quality check!

In other news, I'm a bit worried about the left side hinge of my laptop again...a few months ago, it was all loose and I ended up taking it to the computer shop across the road where it turned out that most of the screws of the back panel had fallen out. Once the guy at shop replaced them the left hinge was no longer loose.

But now it is again, except checking the bottom panel of the laptop reveals that the screws are still there, so I have no idea what's causing it...actually no I do, the left side back of the laptop seems to be gaping - not so much that you can see what's inside or anything, but if I press it the hinge goes back into it's normal position. As I said though, I'm not sure why it's gaping because all the screws are in. I wonder if I should take it back to the shop...I suppose I have to, although it does cost 50 buck to get it looked at.

I just took a quick look at the bottom of the laptop again and I'm wondering if maybe one of the screw holes has had it's thread stripped...not sure how that can be fixed though. Maybe I'll just have to put some paper in between the bottom of the laptop screen to hold it up like a chock.

Dang, I say.

Anywho, in light of possibly having a virus, I should get my butt to bed so I can have a proper amount of sleep. Fingers and toes crossed that my throat will be OK tomorrow.

Good night!

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11:31pm: Case in point it's 11:30pm right now and I'm only just starting this entry, whoops!

Anyway, let's keep it quick, work today went pretty well, although a colleague and me got stuck on the desk longer than planned because the rest of the library staff were in this meeting to discuss the future of libraries in general. Luckily it was pretty quiet in the library so it wasn't like we were run off our feet or anything.

However, we did get another box delivery, fortunately it wasn't too big, but we still haven't actually opened Friday's delivery yet, so yeah... better keep on top of that!

After work I went to the gym, which went well, although I'm still struggling a bit with some of the exercises my physio gave me, but I guess that's the point. It does seem to working though, so yay!

Then once home, rather than writing McFly July prompts I got sucked into Sims 4 again (Sims 3 well be disappointed with me :OP), but exciting things are afoot! Lady and her long lost gardener Shea got married! :OD I'm going through this rather more quickly than James did in the original, probably should have waited until Lady was actually rich before she got married, but shrug. :OP

OK, so I better be off, I've been dillydallying waaaay too much in the morning's and it's resulted in me missing the last bus before 9am, which means I get to work almost half an hour late O.o that won't do at all!

(Aw crap, I just realised I forgot to wish a Facebook friend a Happy Birthday, whoops... and also to respond to my mother about the Japan trip...)

Anyway, goodnight!

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10:32pm: So today was my first Kidbow Adbow class at the archery range! Unfortunately, yesterday there was a hazard reduction burn that got out of control and as a result there's smoke around and having spent two hours outside my eyeballs are now dry and rather sore. I ended up with a headache and as often occurs with me I kinda forgot to take anything for it for like two hours. But I finally got around with it and I'm good now.

Anyway, the archery went well...until the end where we had a game which was quite fun except that when my team ended up on the 25m target and even though we were closer to it than that, I missed the target soooo many times (although I've since realised it was probably because I didn't adjust the sight on the bow to compensate for the change in length from the target.

However! I did succeed in qualifying on the 15m target, which means next week I can go to do the 20 metre one, hooray!

That reminds me, I've totally forgotten to update Facebook on my progress, whoops...I think I mentioned that an old school friend of mine said they could see if their father (who was an Olympic archer) had any old equipment I could use. Which would be quite a saving, although I did find out last week that I need a rather short riser (that's the part of the bow you hold and place the arrow on) because I'm a shortie, so unless her father is also quite short, I'm not sure his equipment would work for me. Also how would I get it?

Right, it's 11pm now so I better haul butt and get a decent amount of sleep, which also might be why my eyes are dry.

Goodnight!

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