Moose Musings

10:46pm: At least on my Dreamwidth account...I guess I can change one of the ones I have.

Anyway, the 9th June is Marty McFly's birthday, so Happy 54th Birthday to the World's First Human Time Traveller.

So I continue to have BTTF on the mind, I unearthed my Back to the Future comic books - well actually not much unearthing was necessary because I actually keep them in a magazine holder that I bought a few months back. Rather unfortunately, only bought up to issue #20 and it actually ended with #25, how annoying! Especially since in recent years the price of postage from overseas - which is the only place I can find the issues - has gone insane. I remember when it was like 5 US dollars, and now it's just utterly ridiculous, we're talking US$25 for one comic book.

I wanted to buy a replacement for one of my Pusheen bookmarks that I managed to lose, these are tiny things, like smaller than your hand and the postage works out to Australian $35. It's bloody nuts! Apparently it's an Ebay thing...which is annoying because looking online you can see that to send a letter from the US it's only about two dollars. But according to the person I asked, if you've signed up with Ebay you have to charge the postage they assign, apparently Ebay seems to be under the impression that everything you buy on there weight like 10kgs.

Apart from that rant, I don't have much else to report - although my mother is currently flying to Japan to visit my big bro and his family. She'll be gone for 3 weeks and has been looking forward to this for ages, my brother and his wife had their third child last year and this is the first time Mum will get to meet my new nephew. She's a bit bummed she missed out on all the baby's first whatever things. On the plus side, both my nephews are born in June, so Mum will celebrate their birthdays with them and with any luck, my brother and his family will make their usual end of year visit this year.

So, yeah, I'm hoping to update the old journal a bit more, get back into writing and so on. I'm not sure if I'm just trying to recapture my youth (LOL, I make it sound like I'm 70 years old or something) but it gives me something to do.

On a final note...in an amazing display of not noticing something right under my nose...I thought I'd lost my sunglasses, I couldn't find them anywhere, not in my car, not in my bag, not in my jacket pocket... I could only hope I'd lef them at church and would be able to get them back on Saturday. Tonight though I went over to my DVD player...and there they were sitting on the cabinet...somehow I'd missed them this whole time. I swear...I'd lose my head if it's wasn't securely fastened to my person. XD

Right, it's coming up on 11:30pm and I need to get my butt to bed, I've finally busted out my flannel sheets, so here's hoping for a toasty warm sleep.

Goodnight all!

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9:36pm: Indeed so, despite knowing that I needed to get up early this morning because a handyman was coming over to put up the second hand shelving system Mum and I bought off Gumtree I stayed up too late last night and as a result, got less than 7 hours sleep last night.

I, however, am a person who needs closer to 8 hours to function well, so all day today I've felt very off indeed, in the middle of the day I got a headache and stomachache - right when Mum came to pick me up so we could go shopping for some new stuff for the apartment - and the rest of the time I was having trouble remembering words! Pretty much everything was just a "thingo" or "that over there", man I hope I never get Alzhemeiers, because losing one's words sucks.

Anyway, I survived the shopping trip and picked up a new coverlet and European pillow cases for my bed (so I'll be cycling from Pusheen to "I'm a grown up" now LOL. Apart from the coverlet and pillow cases, which are in a lovely mint green, I also got two new pillows, which...I'm not actually going to use, because they're mostly for show, which seems weird so maybe I will get round to using them eventually.

Anyway, here's the bed in it's "I'm an adult" mode - although I must say Mum picked a bad angle because my butt sure looks big there :OP

But the really exciting thing is not the bed, but shelving unit! It was really awesome when I came across it on Gumtree for only $350, it's an Elfa and buying it new would cost upwards of $1000! Mum and I went out on Thursday after work to pick it up from the other side of the Bridge, which took a while because the owner's daughter got held up. Although, I did get a nice Chinese dinner with Mum, so that was cool.

Then yesterday, our new handyman came over to put them up, but unfortunately, he doesn't have much experience putting up things on walls and he couldn't find metal studs in the wall of the Wintergarden. Not with the stud finder, not even with drilling small exploratory holes in the wall. Which was a huge blow, because Mum and I can hardly put up the shelves ourselves! He suggested I use Airtasker - which I have heard of - to find someone (since the Elfa guy who used to work for Howard's Storage World at the Mall no longer works there) who had more experience putting up these shelving units. Which proved to be a very good idea, although the guy I got couldn't come until today.

Our other handyman did put up my vacuum cleaner - it's one of those cordfree ones you put in a charger when not using, which was good. Later on the electrician came and put up the heater towel rail up in the bathroom, it's looking pretty fab I must say. Plus now I have a warm towel, although I don't really need it in the summertime.

So yes, the AirTasker man came today just after 8:30am, with Mum arriving at the same time and at first he couldn't figure out where the wall studs were either! At that point I was very bummed out and put my head in my hands which concerned the handyman, poor guy! Mum told me to remain calm, and she was sure there would be a way to put it up.

And indeed there was! Seems the gyprock wall is exceptionally thick, but there were studs in there and soon enough the shelving unit was up, the man was paid and I was able to take most of the books out of my storage wardrobes and put them up.

Oh! And I also got a new desk to put out in the Wintergarden (Mum picked it up at Fantastic Furniture) and we put it together - which was pretty neat and now...

My Wintergarden looks like this! Pretty fabulous huh? Although it is subject to change once the proper air con gets put it, plus the blinds in three of the four banks of windows.

But now I can have guests around :O) like my Uncle, Aunt and cousin, as well as Mrs S.

The first one (that isn't Mum) will be Dad, who'll come over after church tomorrow.

And a last photo - my old bed, where Mum has banished my soft toys :OP for now at least - she slept on it on Thursday night and said it wasn't so bad. So if anyone ever stays over here's where you'll sleep.

Anyway, on that note I shall be off since I need to catch up on my zzzs! Hopefully I'll update soon because I didn't mention the interview I had on Thursday for the Collections Assistant role, although it's not that thrilling :OP

For now though, goodnight!

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9:43pm: Man, it's been months and I am shamed that I've neglected DW for so long! My orginal plan was to update on the new year, but er yeah...

However, today is my birthday, so I thought why not update today? Beyond that I was born some time after 9:30pm, so I am now, officially...gulp...thirty-five.

I know I'm as shocked as you are! However, I do at least have a big life event to report, with any luck tomorrow afternoon I will be receiving the keys to the apartment I have purchased (with my parents as 10% owners)!

Yes this Moose will be a home-owner! OMG, indeed!

I think I've described the place before in an earlier entry, but suffice to say I'm quite excited! There's heaps of storage and everything is nice and new. I'll definitely have to take photos to show you.

My parents and I had hoped to get the keys in time for my birthday, but alas it didn't happen and actually things are still a bit up in the air with two last documents to sign! Fingers and toes crossed it can be sorted out tomorrow morning so the keys can be in my possession in the afternoon.

Apart from that life is good, my co-workers got me a cake and a funny card, I got a Christmas Sweater Pusheen ornament for 50% off during lunchtime and I had dinner (with another cake) at a nice club with my parents and little bro this evening.

The only downside of this exciting time is that my job which I'm doing under contract will be advertised soon. With a few changes that is it'll be full-time with a higher pay rate.

Now you might think that's good news, which I guess it is sort of, except it now means that the job is a lot more attractive and competition for it could be quite tough.

The Collections Assistant job is also coming up again, which I'm also planning on going for...but it's less hours and less pay, which is a bit of a worry with the apartment and all.

But, Mum and I are going to work hard at polishing up the resume and my interview presentation. Plus I'm going to keep a record of what I'm doing that fullfills the selection criteria. So more fingers and toes crossed :O)

Ok, better wrap up here since I am sleepy (I woke up an hour too early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep).

Goodnight all!

PS. Oh! I almost forgot, the big bro and his family called me from Japan which was super nice. :O) My neice wished me a happy birthday!

10:22pm: Yes! I went and saw her yesterday morning and as promised by the newspaper article, she was biiiig. Her name is Rosie, LOL.

I was able to get a nice lady to take a photo of me with Rosie since my attempt at a selfie was hampered by my short arms.

You may ask, why the Hell was there a giant pink flamingo in the middle of the mall anyway? Well, I think I might have mentioned in my last entry it's was an advertisement for a company that makes pool floaty toys among other things. Rosie was convienently located next to the big fountain where there was a display of other pink flamingoes both of the personal floating kind and the set your drink on it kind, LOL.

Anywho, it was a good thing I had to go to the mall because I had to get some napkins and number candles for M's birthday brunch as well as some coleslaw sauce for Mum.

M's birthday brunch was both good and bad, good because it was a yummy meal, M was in a good mood and enjoyed her gifts, the little bro was there and there was cake! The bad was Mum and I got into a bit of an argument over something dumb. Bah!

What else to report, well the dress I wore to the brunch and then to work is a nice one except that the arm holes are too small, I discovered that the dress had been taken in a bit when I got home, so I unpicked it, but the armholes are still too small. So I may have to get it altered by a professional becaue I don't know how to do that.

Apart from that, not a lot to say! Although I'm still trying to sort my outdoor Christmas tree shaped light issue, I thought I'd solved it today with some suction cup hanging things, but they don't work on my granny flat's walls (even though they are supposed to work outdoors). I seem to remember I actually bought them last year and had to return them because of the same reason, LOL whoops. On the upside I did see something at Bunnings that should work. Just as long as it's not nails, because as a tenant I can't bang holes into the wall.

I should post photos of my Christmas decos, I'm quite proud of the set-up I have here, but since I'm going to work at Mrs S's tomorrow (I swapped days with the other carer this week) I need to wrap this entry up. Also I don't want to type for too long because I've got a sore index finger from a cut I got today when I knocked over and broke one of Mrs S's glasses. :O( It was all the way from Peru too! Craaaap. She has some others, but still. Also, I stabbed my ring finger cuticle on that same hand (the left) with the seam ripper last night, so ouch. Then finally I scrapped the first knuckle of the same index finger on something at Mrs S's, so yes, my poor hand.

I'm so clumsy, gee.

And lastly, after the schmoozle of last week and leaving my fridge open a bit, I thought I should make it a bit colder since it's summer time, which turned out to be a bad idea, half the stuff in there got frozen! Including the milk, and the lettuce. Dang. I've turned it back down a bit and hopefully it's OK.

Right, must be off, I made spaghetti sauce tonight and made lasagna which has just finished cooking so I gotta put it in the fridge and I'l be having some yummy lunch and dinner for the next few days!

Goodnight all!

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11:35pm: So I'm not sure I mentioned this before, but I bought a car cover for my car from Aldi on Monday and I've been using it for the past couple of days. It's been going quite well, at least until this afternoon when I managed to snap my aerial!

Shiiit, I should have realised it was going to happen, but I didn't and now I'm worried that my radio won't work! Also that it's going to be expensive to fix? I think maybe I just need to unscrew the the bottom bit of the aerial and have a new one put in. Except I couldn't seem to unscrew it when I went out to check. Man, I sure as Hell hope not, since it's bound to be expensive if I have to put a whole new aerial in, there's a cable you have to take out and everything.

Honestly, why do I suck at taking care of my stuff?!

Apart from that, it was a usual Wednesday, excepting that I didn't work this morning, I went to the school for scripture and Mum came over afterwards to check out the Granny Flat, which is looking quite nice if I do say so myself.

I've also been working on my NaNo, although I haven't hit 5,000 words yet. I'm thinking I should hang out at the library or something so I can type at a proper table and whatnot...on the other hand I also need to call my friend to see if she wants to hang out, I meant to do that this afternoon, but I procrastinated and now it's too late. Pft fail.

Speaking of which, here's my word metre so far:

4531 / 50000 words. 9% done!

So not all that bad, almost ten percent there!

However, I probably haven't been getting enough sleep - despite not having to get up early so that's dumb of me.

So yes, on that note I better head off, goodnight!

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11:05pm: And it sucked! Obviously I turned up my water tap too much when I attached the dishwasher hose so I could put it on. I have no idea what happened! I should have gone and checked it when the dishwasher beeped, but it was still making noises like the cycle was still going. But when it stopped and I went into the kitchen to unpack it I found water was practically spurting from the tap and water was all over the floor, sink and table! Even worse, all my daily positive affirmations which I've been forgetting to do since...oh June (gotta get back onto them though) but have kept in my broken penguin cookie jar had been soaked through! D: Thankfully, I was able to put the pieces of paper out on the floor and they've now dried. However in trying to mop up all the water I knocked my penguin jar over and the head was smashed to bits. My poor jar!

However, it's not all terrible news, I decided to look up the new Pusheen cookie jar on E-bay, and had the great luck to find a place that will send it free! It cost me $45, but that's a bargain, especially since it's apparently never going to be sold here. It'll take a while to get here though, but I'm really looking forward to it! :O)

Moving on, today after scripture class, my mother came over and was pleased to see how I've been keeping my house clean, yay! :O) We also discussed dinners - since I don't have much of a repitoire, Mum is of the opinion I need to add more vegetables to whatever it is I cook, she's proabably right, I'm pretty sure I'm not getting all my serves in.

Apart from that, not much else to report, I got to bed early yesterday though (a miracle!) and got to Mrs S's an hour earlier as planned, which meant I finished an hour earlier and got to the gym, so I've done my two of that for this week. :O)

However, it's now late, so I must be off since tomorrow I've got volunteering and a library shift, so I better be ready for it!

For now, goodnight!

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11:22pm: But that's not my fault, I had an update all ready to go last night actually, but when I went to submit it, the internet decided to have a fit and not be connected so it didn't post! Then when I went back the update page nothing had been saved like it usually is and by that point it was nearly midnight and I didn't have enough time.

No need to despair though you didn't miss much, unless you think my tale of driving on a nearly empty fuel tank exciting. :OP It did get super low though! Of course, today as expected petrol prices had fallen, grumble grumble. so rude! Sometimes I feel like I should advertise when I get petrol because I can guarantee the very next day it'll be cheaper.

Anyway, moving on, not much excitement this week, in fact less exciting than usual because alas the time difference between here and Italy - where the last Junior Grand Prix event is been held means I haven't been able to watch any of it yet. Which is a huge shame because one of Plushy's students is there! I found out today that Plushy himself isn't there because he's with another student, but the skater in question, a young man, did totally awesome in the short program and is currently in the first! Apparently, he was thinking of quitting at the end of last season because he wasn't skating well and having problems with his jumps, but I certainly didn't see any evidence of that. How cool for Plushy and his team, you go, man!

So yeah, you know you've got an unexciting life when you have to write about someone else's LOL.

Oh, well, I did decided to make use of my fitness app to see how my eating habits are, since I've been gaining weight recently, unsurprisingly I've been eating too much, do'h! Not a lot, but enough so adds up. Guess I have a choc chip cookie eating problem, LOL. Hopefully I can figure out some healthier snack options, because I do get hungry.

Anywaaay, I better wrap this up because time is moving on and I do feel a bit sleepy, need to get the zzzs!

Hopefully I'll have something more exciting to report this weekend LOL.

But wait I almost forgot! This evening had some excitement so to speak - I was meant to meet Mum and Dad for dinner at the Golf Club for their cheap Friday eats. I ended up going to the parental house first to help Mum with purchasing something from E-bay where I found out poor Dad had gone to the Eye Hospital in the city because he was having vision issues! D:

Mum and I ended up going to the club - although it turned out it wasn't cheap fish and chip night, but we shared a regular priced one, LOL - during this time Mum called Dad and found out that his retinas are OK, although apparently he has to keep an eye (no pun intended!) on any further symptoms. He had to leave his car near the Mall and catch the bus into the city, so I drove Mum over to the car and Dad got the bus back so she could drive him back.

I meanwhile headed home, and who should pull up next to me, but my little bro going...somewhere. LOL this is like the first time I've ever randomly gone past him - and at first I didn't recognise him and thought some weirdo was waving at me from his car. But nope! Pretty neat, I must remember to mention that to the parental units.

Goodnight all!

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11:04pm: Yes, I'm afraid I do use more bandwidth then I thought I would because I've run out of it and now my internet provider has slowed my internet riiiight down to dial-up speeds! I could pay 10 bucks to get buy some more data, but with only four days left in the month I'm not sure if it's the best use of my money.

Although, there's more ice skating coming up this weekend! That being the case I should buy the data block sooner rather than later to get my money's worth. But I dunno...I have quite a bit of data left on my phone, but I'm sure it wouldn't last.

In other news, my bedside lamp's light bulb just decided to burn out and I'm pretty sure I don't have another one - which I was just discussing with Mrs S the other day. Grumble, grumble.

What else? Not much, had a shift at the library today, usually on Tuesday's the Duke of Ed school kids come by to do volunteer work thus meaning we have to leave the shelving to them, but it's school holidays so they're not in. Also there's currently a Where's Wally event going on in the library, which I decided to join in on, LOL. Not that I can actually enter, but I managed to find everything so yaaay.

Right, I better wrap this up because I need to go to bed, although I finally got some writing done, maybe I should leave the internet alone... :OP

But for the time being, I'm off!

Oh and I went swimming today with Mum at the Retirement Village's swimming pool, yaaay, always fun! And also washed my car before the landlord's get back, so I do feel very productive!

Goodnight all!

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10:53pm: So I finally got off my butt and made a dental appointment, which was today at 3pm. Since Sunday my tooth has been feeling better but I was still kind of worried I might have developed a cavity and I was rather nervous when I got the dental office.

There was good news and bad news, the good, despite my lack of check-ups over the past...um probably five years, my teeth are in good condition, they just needed some cleaning and a fluoride treatment.

The bad news? Well, the pain in my teeth is not from a cavity, its from teeth grinding! And unfortunately it seems it must be happening at night since my teeth are showing quite a bit of sign of grounding. Dang, I always thought teeth looked sort of jaggered anyway, but yeah no.

So, the dentist recommended I get a splint, Grandpa has one, although I'm pretty sure his if for snoring more than teeth grinding. It's about four hundred and fifty dollars to get one made, although my private health insurance should cover a fair bit of it. So instead of coming back later to get the moulds done - because why do that? - I returned to chair and had done then and there. Praise the Lord for dental advancement, last time I had a mould taken of my teeth it took like half an hour and it was horrible! It was still unpleasant but only took ten minutes.

Anyway, the upshot is that I have to go back next Tuesday when the splint should be ready and hopefully will be comfortable, I can't even even stand to have a tongue depressor put in my mouth so I'm a bit concerned...but I guess I'll get used to it.

I'll keep you all updated!

Anyway, I better be off, I didn't get quite enough sleep yesterday - shakes head - so I better make sure I catch up on it.

Oh! I almost forgot! Having stayed over at the parentals last night I went swimming in the heated pool with Mum at the Retirement Village - man it's been aaages since I've gone swimming. And before that we went to the weekly morning tea in the common room thing which involved scones, most delicious! :O)

Goodnight all!

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11:50pm: By work I mean write and by conditions I mean my digestive system deciding to be a complete asshole. Why you gotta hurt at such inopportune moments, gut? You suck and I'm offended.

I'm also starting this update way too late, do'h! Not that I have much to report, except...the landlord came in while I was out today (I gave him permission) to fix the tap...problem is...he didn't fix it and he also put the knob thing back weirdly, now it doesn't match the hot water knob, I have to turn them in two different directions! This is really confusing, seriously! But, I'm not sure I can really bring it up with the man, it's awkward. I'm starting to think I should just pay for a plumber to come and fix the dang thing myself. Sure, it's technically the landlord's responsibility but I'm getting a Hell of a good deal on rent here so, you know, maybe it's all fair in the end.

What else to report, well, I did spend quite a bit of time on the phone to Dad this evening, he was at Newtown, getting the place ready for the new tenants is proving to be quite difficult and poor Dad keeps having to do stuff! Also the last tenant or maybe the one before that did something weird to the internet and now he can't seem to connect. I tried to talk him through it over the phone, but no luck. He did talk to Mum later on though and when I called her myself she said that the new tenants who have just moved in seem to be a bit more tech-savvy so fingers crossed they can figure it out. Otherwise I'll have to go over there after skating tomorrow - I have to go to Macquarie Centre tomorrow because my beanie is being held at the shop for me!

Anywho, I should head off to bed because work calls tomorrow and all that jazz. I really hope I'll be able to write tomorrow! Come on me, I can do it, LOL!

For now, goodnight!

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