Moose Musings

11:29pm: Oops, I left this entry late, but I'll make it quick. I had a bit of a scare this morning when I went to put my toast on for breakfast, there was a "bzzzt!" sound, followed by a pop! And the bread popped back up. I was most bummed that the toaster had given up the ghost, it's a really nice green one. But then as I went to get the margarine from the fridge figuring that I'd just have a sandwich or whatever the little light didn't come on, it had no power either! Nor did the microwave, although the oven was fine so I worriedly called Mum, who suggested that the a fuse might have popped and to check my circuit board. Which I did, and indeed one of the switches had flipped. Mum said I should make sure everything was turned off, flip the switch back on and then turned everything back on one by one. I couldn't do that with the fridge because the plug can't be reached, but I followed her advice, rather worried about the bzzzt and popping sound. The fridge came back on just fine though, so did the microwave and even the toaster!

So I made one slice of toast, but I'm wondering if some bugs have got into the inside of it - like not the slots where the bread goes, but right into the guts of it (alas there's still some bugs in the house), if so I have no idea how I'd get them out of there.

Anyway, I at least got some breakfast before going to archery, where I did somewhat better, but didn't get a PB. This might have been because I was distracted by something loose on my bow - it turned out to be the button, it's this bit on the bow that has a little button that you can make looser or stiffer and effects how the arrow sits. Waaay back in the beginning when I got my bow, I lost a screw from the button - no idea where it went - and had to get a replacement which wasn't exactly the right one. It's worked fine, but I guess it must have fell out yesterday. Anywho, I could tighten the button thing but that made it too stiff and sent my arrows off kilter. On the plus side the nice man at the archery place found another screw to put in there so it should be OK. I'm actually thinking of going by tomorrow to work on my sight settings because with all the changes I've made they're all messed up now.

In other news, I forgot to mention Sasha P and his skate yesterday! The good news, he did really well! :OD The bad news was apparently the comments on short program had been bad enough that the commentators felt the need to remind everyone that Sasha is like 13 years old and doesn't deserve hate because of who his father is. So hopefully, everyone will be better behaved, but probably not, so the lesson here is, don't read the comments. Although, this morning there was some drama, Plushy had for some reason ended up in a Turkish hospital with something wrong with his foot? I fear Duolingo did not help much in trying to figure out exactly why, nor did Google Translate. I later found out he'd been stung by a wasp and his foot had swelled up severely, which is rather alarming, I wonder if he'll have to carry around an epi-pen now or what since that sounds like quite an allergic reaction.

Right before I leave though...

The Friday Five

18/9/26

1. Do you decorate your home for different seasons and holidays? I do decorate for Christmas but not any of the other holidays or seasons. I'm too lazy for that.

2. Do you switch out your wardrobe for each new season? I used to but that was due to space issues, now I have enough room for both my cold and warm weather clothes, which with the fluxating weather these days is a good thing for me!

3. Are you buying any new clothes for this new season? Probably not, unless I need to replace something, I'm not much a clothes buyer. Unless some really nice Pusheen stuff shows up LOL.

4. What vacation plans do you have for the future? I'm going to the Australian Open Tennis in January with my mother - we're flying down since the cruise isn't on this year - or the next :O( I'm also taking time off at Christmas when the big bro and family come to visit for Christmas.

5. Have you started planning for the upcoming holiday season? Nah, I won't put up my Christmas decos until the start of Advent.

OK, I'm off!

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11:08pm: No seriously, I think I mentioned watching this last year, it looks like there's a team event going on, 8 people vs a 2000 piece puzzle. I wonder if we've got an Aussie team here?

In other news, I've got tomorrow off from work so I can participate in the 2nd Round of the President/Secretary/Treasurer's Competition, which means I should be getting my butt to bed ASAP so I'm good to go. However, I'm in a bit of a state of shock because I've just discovered that Sasha P, Plushy's kid is competing in his first Junior Grand Prix event! I haven't been keeping up with the skating world as much as usual, although I did hear that Sasha is representing Azerbaijan (Russians can only represent as Neutral Athletes at the moment, and spots are limited), but for some reason I thought he probably wouldn't compete until next season, even though he's age eligible.

I originally thought that the Junior Men's Free was on tonight, far too late for me to stay up and watch, but it turns out their event is actually tomorrow in the evening here in Aus. So I'll be able to watch them all. Which is a bit nerve-wracking...especially since he had a not so good short program - admittedly, it seems just about all the lads had a bad time.

But yes, a bit nerve-wracking because as we know, Plushy is not popular and the whole changing countries thing probably looks suss and Sasha didn't have the best SP and was upset about it...so you know, I'm worried he'll crash out, end up being embarrassed and people well be like "Nepotism gets you nowhere". Although, Plushy will probably get most of the criticism, so perhaps I need not worry.

Oh hey, I just saw Australia is here and we game 4th, full credit to us, whoo! And New Zealand just finished the puzzle. Very good.

Right, so there's probably a Friday Five to do, but as I said I gotta get to bed!

Ta-ta!

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11:49pm: Who is now...44 (well shit). Embarrassingly, I only just sent him a birthday message half an hour ago, even though I remembered it was his birthday this morning. Great time keeping me :OP

And my lack of time keeping extends to this entry which I've started way too late...not that I have a lot to report, although I did buy some new bed sheets from T.K Maxx since they often have branded items at a way lower price. Not that the sheets are a brand I recognise, but they're 100% cotton and also green which is the important thing.

Also I have reason to clean my apartment! It's not for a few weeks yet, but there's the Annual Fire Inspection for the building, which means letting people into the apartment, which obviously means make sure the place is fit to be seen.

Right, on that note, I'm off! Hope my bro gets his birthday message!

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11:27pm: I may have previously mentioned that I've always wanted a really large Pusheen - I do have a a kinda big one, but it's not amazingly big. However! Today, I had the honour of picking up that Pusheen I mentioned yesterday - that Mum's friend got on my behalf.

She is beautiful! :OD I think maybe she counts as a Jumbo Pusheen, but either way, she fits nicely on the couch next to me, LOL. I'm thinking I really need to clean my apartment for her benefit - which sounds ridiculous, but hey if it works...?

In other news, I have a mysterious large bruise on my upper right shin, which I only noticed this morning - I have no idea where it came from. I don't remember hitting my shin at any point yesterday. I can only assume it was from bringing in the archery target, although I would have thought it would have hurt when it happened though.

Speaking of archery, I did a shocking job setting up the target today, let it never be forgotten that I can't draw a straight line with a ruler and I managed to set it up incredibly wonkily. I'm not sure if it had a huge impact, but who knows? It was also rather warm for this time of year - although I did wear the linen pants so that was good. Anyway, I managed to beat my PB by 5 points, hooray! Most everyone else didn't seem to have a very good shoot, like I said it's already quite warm in the mornings and its only September. If this keeps up Summer's gonna be kind of a shitshow.

Anywho, not much else to report - although Dreamwidth seems to be down...so I can't update there, rude! However it's is a quarter to midnight, so I better go!

Ta-ta!

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11:37pm: Especially since I have to get to archery half an hour earlier than usual because they're having the annual meeting and because the club has so many members (I swear I've only met like 30 percent of them or maybe even less!) we need quite a few people there to have quorum. And since I live so close I should go since it's easier for me to get there.

That being the case though I should really have my butt in bed rather than typing this up, but you know how I roll.

Not that I have much to report, it was a regular Friday at work - we got through all the newly delivered books so that was cool. I also did my first Young Adult orders (I've been assigned YA fiction and graphic novels), although I did it at the very end of the day which was probably not the best idea because now I have to remember what they are because I've just realised...that for the ones request by patron's I didn't put their membership number in so the reservation won't be added automatically. Well shit.

On the other hand I have at least caught up on my Duolingo and Wordle, so as soon as I finish this entry I can get myself to bed. I've also got back into the Waffle game my Uncle showed me a few years back. I keep running out of moves though, so that hasn't been as successful, which is a bummer.

Anywho, before I head off though...

The Friday Five

11/9/26

1. What is your favorite soup? I don't actually like soup, I'm not sure if it's because I associate it with sickness or because tomato soup used to make my throat hurt instead of relieve it. But I don't do soup.

2. Have you made your favorite soup yourself? N/A

3. What is your favorite dessert? Aww man don't make me choose...I do love cupcakes though, chocolate ones of course :OP

4. Have you made your favorite dessert yourself? Oh yeah all the time! I wonder when the next birthday is at work so I have an excuse to do it, LOL.

5. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream or other frozen treat? Chocolate :OP One would never call me an adventurous eater.

On that note, I must dash, wish me luck tomorrow! It's the Indoor Championships at archery - although we won't actually be doing it indoor, which means the targets will be smaller than usual. So, getting a PB might be harder than usual. But I will endeavour.

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11:05pm: I've been caught up in playing Sims 4 so have only just checked out my phone to do my Duolingo and my mother's friend has sent me a SMS about a Pusheen she saw for sale! It's like 50cm tall and is the sitting up Pusheen. I have to admit when I saw the message I thought it might be absolutely giant couch size Pusheen - I did see one once for sale here in Aus I think? - alas no. But 50cm is still pretty big! And it's only 15 bucks pick up! Mum's friend asked me if I was interested in buying it and at that price I am! Not sure I should have replied to her just now seeing as it's past 11pm, but hopefully she'll have her phone on silent, LOL.

I did just remember that I changed my name on that website to said Mum's friend's name because I was selling something on her behalf...although I just changed it back...I think?

Anywho, I'm tempted to ask Mum's friend to pick it up for me if the offer's accepted because she lives closer to the where the seller is than I am, but I'll see if she offers.

I was going to write something else, but I've forgotten what it was now... Oh wait, I made Oscar the Grouch for my island on Tomodachi Life, I've been thinking about it for a while since I got the garbage bin costume, but I finally got around to it today.

In other news, I think that report I need to do for work is due on Friday...which is a bit yikes, so I better get onto that in case it really is. I did at least do the magazine thing although I haven't heard back from the boss about that yet.

Anywho, I better hit the hay. I'm trying to get into better sleeping habits after all.

So for now I saw ta-ta!

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11:32pm: I was a bit worried this evening when I ran out of room on my Switch Lite (again) and went to move some more screenshots over to my laptop, but at first I couldn't get it to work! What was weird was that the other folders worked so I couldn't figure out what was going on. I tried restarting then turning it off and back on again. I even Googled but describing the issue didn't bring many results.

I finally figured it out, apparently if you've taken enough screenshots that when you try to take another one it says "No room" the transfer won't work. I deleted a few screenshots that I took by mistake, tried again and voila it worked! Glad I worked that out!

Moving on, today was my last iron infusion, which went well and at the end of the month I'll have a blood test to see if my levels are normal, fingers crossed they are, otherwise I guess I'll have to get them monthly or something? I guess I could synch it up with my half day, but that would kind of suck because then it would mean I'd never get to go to archery practice.

After the iron transfer I went up to visit Dad at the hospital and drop some things off to Mum from the party on Saturday. She also had a little present for me, one of those complementary water bottles from the hotel she stayed at on Sunday because her sister/my aunt couldn't come to the party because she was sick. It's a very fancy and most rotund, apparently it's from a New Zealand spring, LOL.

Then I came home where I should have cleaned up, but unsurprisingly, I did not, instead I tried to speed run Sort Them Ducks which I didn't manage to do because I didn't get all the power ups I should have. I did get two other achievements so that was cool. It is indeed fun picking up all them ducks.

Oh! And I got Shane and Ilya married in Tomodachi Life! Although not canon compliantly since Ilya asked :OP and he also doesn't have his dog yet, but whatever. Surprisingly, I managed to do the Proposal Game in one go. Go figure.

Anywho, it's almost midnight so I gotta dash...

Ta-ta!

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11:36pm: Yes this evening was the combined Mum's 70th Birthday (which was yesterday) and Father's Day (which is tomorrow), which involved picking up a whole lot of Chinese takeaway after church and bringing it over to the Rehab hospital. My little bro, my aunt and uncle and Grandpa met us there and Dad joined us in the cafe space.

A good time was had by all, although the Chinese food didn't come in a box this time for some reason, and though Mum and I were careful some of the sauces leaked, so that wasn't too good - although the hot/cold esky we have kept it warmed, so that was good.

The colourful candles I bought yesterday kind of worked - I think you need to turn the lights off to get the full affect which you can't do in a hospital cafe area - which was a relief because unbeknown to me I left them in my tote bag which I left in the car while I was at archery this morning. It was hot today so I was afraid that they might have melted or something, but nope.

Speaking of archery, not only was it hot it was also windy so no PB for me today, but hope springs eternal for tomorrow. Speaking of which, it's getting late and I should get my butt to bed. I feel kind of dumb because for some reason I didn't think to take some ibpruofen last night and my headache kept waking me up. I even got an ice pack out in the hopes that would fix it. Finally in the morning I took them and the headache finally went away. So yeah, duh.

I do have the Friday Five journal open, but alas I will skip it again tonight so I can get my zzzs.

Also, I need to break out the sunscreen, because I think I got a little burnt today and that's no good.

Anyway, ta-ta!

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10:53pm: I am sooo tired... and now it's past 11pm because I took a look at my Tomodachi Life and discovered a pink bubble (the Miis have different coloured bubbles to indicate what they want to ask you - pink unsurprisingly has to do with love) - Shane wants to propose to Ilya, eeeee! (Just like in the book!) However, in order for that to happen you have to play a mini-game which I suck at at the best of times, so now when I'm tired and headache-y... Well I just quit without saving because I blew it LOL. However, the pink bubble doesn't stick around so will probably be gone by tomorrow so I'm not sure what to do.

Anywho, tomorrow I have a half day at work because I have an appointment with my psychiatrist tomorrow so maybe I can sleep in a bit? But probably not.

However, I have been productive today, I washed my car which I haven't done for some months - I had to drive to work today because I juuust missed the bus and the rest of them were cancelled until after 9pm, at which point I noticed my Green Machine was looking a little worse for wear. So yes, after getting home I went down to the car wash bay - where they've fixed the hose so you can actually turn it on - and washed him to a shine. Good stuff.

Right, I better get out of here, I need zzzs!

Ta-ta!

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11:38pm: I'm currently watching a replay of the Original Dance from the Vancouver 2010 Olympics - it ended up on my suggested list after I was watching some waltzes because that's the theme for the Short Dance this figure skating season - however, a lot of them don't actually seem to be waltzes.

Anywho, for the uninitated there used to be three segments of an Ice Dance competition - Compulsory, Original and Free Dance. The Compulsory Dance involved the skating versions of old ballroom dances like the waltz and tango - everyone skated the same steps to allow for a direct comparison, the Free Dance was whatever you want to do (except jumps and backflips) and the Original was one that had a theme - like the Short Dance today. At the 2010 Olympics the theme was Folk Dances. And they're pretty fun to rewatch! Of course, this was the Olympics where a top Russian team decided to do something utterly nuts...do an Australian Indigenous dance as their Original Dance. Being as they were white and also from Russia and having not spoken to any Indigenous elders this went as well as you can imagine. It was so bad that Wikipedia has an article on it.

The Russian dancers were actually favourites to win the medal and ended up 3rd, possibly because of this program, words really can't justify how terrible it was. Shakes head. Apparently the extent of their research for this was looking on the internet. I mean damn, at least hire a consultant.

But yeah this was 16 years ago, and that makes me feel old...although a few of the ice dancers are still competing or at least were up to last season, so yeah you can hang around for a while in ice dance!

In other news, it was Trivia at the pub across the street tonight! Alas only three of us were there and none of us had any music knowledge, which considering the first round was entirely about music put us in a losing position from the start. We came third last in the end, which I guess isn't as bad as it could of been LOL. Although I was reminded once more that a few months ago we won a voucher and I was given it for safe keeping. However, I can't find it...it's probably expired now. How annoying!

On that note though, I must dash, it's past my bedtime!

Ta-ta!

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