Moose Musings

11:12pm: Yep, I was hoping the weather people had dropped the ball on their predictions (it happened a couple of weeks back) but nope, it looks like it's going to be a very wet weekend. To which I say boo, because I wish to go ice skating and I probably need to get my blades sharpened which means driving and I'm a little leery about driving in the pouring rain. Especially since some of the roads I take are prone to flooding with this sort of weather, I guess I'll just have to cross my fingers.

Also...the weather was deceptively clear when I got home from doing some shopping today (after finishing up at Mrs S's place) and it was sheet washing day so I put them on and headed for the gym. However, a little over halfway through my work out it started absolutely bucketing down! So I had to do some creative sheet hanging because I can't put them on the line. Which is bad news because I don't have any room anything else so no clothes washing today...I really hope I can get everything done and dry by Monday.

What else to report? Well, I did briefly buy a Bamboo Spark which was on special at Aldi - it's been there for a while and it looked interesting. I have a Bamboo One but it's weird to draw on because you can't actually see what you're drawing on the thing itself, it appears on the laptop screen and it's a little disconcerting. When I got the Spark home though I discovered there's an app for tablets and smartphones that lets you draw on the screen and it's free! The Spark is a little weird...in that you actually draw on paper with a special pen which then sends the strokes you made to an app, so there's still a bit of disconnect. Plus it was sixty bucks, and I'm not meant to be spending money on extraneous stuff, so after the gym I returned it.

The only downside to the app is that my phone screen is too small for it to really work properly and my tablet is a bit too old - on the other hand it could just be the stylus I'm using...might need to check into that. So I might just have to stick with the Bamboo One after all that. Pft, fail.

On the fan fic front, I'm most relieved that while working at Mrs S's today I found a way to move the story forward, phew! I was getting bogged down and the headache I had last night wasn't helping at all. Of course, having a story idea while working isn't very helpful because I couldn't write it down, but patience is a virtue, or something. :OP

So, it's getting late and thus I better head off, I only have one other thing to report...the handle decided to break off my regular sized pot, do'h! Now I need to find a new one, but should I splash out and buy a new set of pots? Or just replace that one? Any advice on this matter would be appreciated.

And now I shall be off!

Goodnight all!

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10:45pm: So I'm catching up on my house shows, I've actually seen this one before, but it raises many questions...so this family of five has decided to move into a tiny house, but surely they're not planning to live there for very long, because once their kids become teenagers no way are they gonna share one tiny loft space! Also, not to put too fine a point on it, the parents also have a loft with no door or anything so how exactly is there going to be sexy results? Talk about awkwaaard. But then people are weird I guess. :OP

In other news, I better make this entry quick because I didn't get enough zzzzs last night so you know what that means - a skipping of the Memes, sorry about that.

Also the TV reception has just buggered up, beats me why, but undoubtedly that's my cue to exit!

Not much to report today, although I did pop into K-Mart after work to find a mattress protector for Mrs S, who got a new bed delivered so now she has two spare ones - well three actually if you count the fold-out one. Family likes to come and visit though. I found it quite easily and then went looking for boots, alas K-Mart didn't have the kind I was looking for...they did however have this adorable cushion made to look like the sun with a smiley face and everything! It's so cute and only 10 bucks so I kinda had to get it. :OP I also got a soft black beanie to go with my black gloves and restocked my cheese supplies at the new Aldi, niice I say.

However, after that I was pretty lazy so once again I've failed in reaching my step count! Must do better tomorrow! I also need to find out if the school Mum does her Scripture at is out for the holidays on Wednesday or not, note to self!

Right, better dash, like I said, bed calls!

Goodnight all!

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11:14pm: Fortunately this is not due to illness (knock on wood), but on the fact that I while drinking some water I sort of hiccuped and as a result inhaled half a gulp o water down the wrong pipe. It's settled down thankfully because I thought I was going to choke for a minute there! A bit scary when one lives alone.

Moving on, the rain has indeed set in for the weekend, somehow I managed to get everything hanging up in my flat, even the sheets so at least I don't have to be concerned about that. However, I am rather concerned about what this will mean for my ice skating. I always get a bit worried about driving in the rain, with any luck though perhaps it'll be calmer.

In other news I got an email today from the IT person at the library, apparently on Sunday the wi-fi network will be down! Fortunately it looks like there'll be an off-line library management system available so we won't have to do everything by hand, but considering how many people come for the computers it's going to be weird day.

I was also disappointed when I went to the Mona Vale Aldi to find the sausage dog shaped draft stoppers were sold out there too. Dang, they were the cutest little things, should have known they'd sell out quick. :O( Having said that there doesn't seem to be a draft in here, especially after Mum removed the outlet hose for the air-conditioner from the window in the bedroom. Which I really should have done myself, fail me.

However! I did have the great luck to purchase a very nice striped green business like shirt at Salvos, yay! I washed it so hopefully it'll be ready to wear on Sunday. As for Project Purple shirt, I re-sewed the collar on because it wasn't sitting right, which was really quite a pain in the butt. I also finished up the sleeves. The only thing that's left is those damn button holes...I've tried everything but I just can't get the sewing machine to do the automatic buttonhole making. Boooo. I think I might be able to manually make the outlines of the buttonholes using the machine, which hopefully won't end up biting me in the ass.

And I can only hope that it's still not too short after redoing the hem...

Anyway, time flies when you're sewing so I shall forego the memes for tonight and instead get ready to hit the hay. Zzzzs are needed! :OP

And now I say goodnight!

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11:17pm: Not sure where that little song comes from, but it's what my mother used to always say when we got home from holidays.

And so here I am back in my humble abode, alas still with the loan car from the smash repairers, I've got a terrible feeling they haven't made a start on my car yet, it's still not ready. Then again...the insurance guy did say it'd take 10 business day to fix, so perhaps he wasn't wrong. I saw ol' George parked on the side of the road today as I did a few days ago. I didn't get a chance to check him out closely, to see if the new door was on, but I guess it isn't. Oh well, I guess I'll get him back when I get him back.

Moving on, I'm sorry to report I didn't end up going ice skating after all that, because my abdominal area was still being an ass. I slept pretty well at my friend's place, despite being on the couch. Good call bringing my own pillow! On the upside, I did get to Lincraft where I bought fabric for my Pusheen plushy. However, I didn't notice the fabric was folded when I asked for it to be cut so I have soooo much of it. Perhaps I can make multiple Pusheens...

I also went to the pool, but sadly...no activity tracker, I'm pretty sure it's gone...so it's a good thing that the Dee Why Aldi had one left! Which I bought, and found to my relief that despite the price tag saying $70 it actually scanned at $50 phew! Better keep a close eye on this one though.

Speaking of the pool...it turns out that my gym membership hasn't actually ended...the last payment was just taken out today and I'm pretty sure that was in advance. I best check on that before applying to join the gym around the corner.

After that I popped by Mum and Dad's to return the TV box (I managed to return the antenna to the Warringah Mall Aldi, even though I didn't have the receipt) and had lunch with Dad. :O) Although he reminded me that's he's supposed to be looking at my place not the otherway around! ;O)

After that I popped home and then headed off to the library for my performance review, which went very well, with any luck I'll be getting a raise in a few months, yay!

And finally the optometrist appointment! I was somewhat surprised to hear that my prescription hasn't changed much, I hope I didn't make a mistake when he was checking my eyes with the machine - you know the "Is this clearer? Number 1? Or Number 2?"

The point is when he put the new script on those temporary glasses and put it on there really wasn't much of a difference...in that case I can't really splash out on new glasses. Plus they didn't have any green ones there. :O( They did say they could get other frames in, but apparently only from other OPSMs in the city. I wonder if they could get in the same brand of glasses I all ready have, I was looking on their website and they've got some good ones. Only problem...I bet they're super expensive!

Oh well, I guess I'll wait until my Medibank Private card arrives before I make any decisions.

And I was going to do some Memes, but it's quite late now and also the eyedrops the optometrist used to measure my eye pressure have left them all dry and shit, so I shall wrap this up here.

Goodnight all!

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11:25pm: Not much happened today...or rather quite a bit did happen, but none of it was super interesting. I went to the Mall hoping to find something to put under the sink to hold my washing up gloves and sponges and stuff, but apparently they weren't much options unless one wanted to screw something in - which I can't do because I'm only renting. I did consider buying a shower caddy, but I thought the little hanging bits would be too think thus I'd be unable to close the cupboard door. Maybe I should do something with suction cups...I didn't end up returning that rack to K-Mart so there's a possibility.

Speaking of suction cups, Aldi was selling suction cup shower racks too, so I bought one and what do you know, it took a bit of work but I managed to get it to stick on the wall! That's pretty cool, it seems to be holding really well. Although it's occurred to me that steam might end up causing it to fall off, especially since I enjoy hot showers. Especially when it gets colder and the window will be closed... I guess we'll have to see.

I also considered purchasing one of those bluetooth head sets, but I don't really want to stick something in my ear whenever I go driving. Then I thought maybe I should get one of those ones that has its own speaker and you just press it to answer the call. Only problem with that is that you can't actually make calls from it - because it's got no number pad or speech recognition.

So once again I looked at using voice commands on my phone - its supposed to have it and finally I discovered where it is...it's the Google app, apparently it's not just for searching the web, you can use it to open stuff on your phone too. Quite handy I got it to call Mum this evening, although not while I was driving. I'm not sure if it works when the phone's screen is turned off...I guess if I just plug it in I could keep the screen on at all times. I even dictated a short text message on it, although I didn't actually send it.

I was also trying to find some stuff for Mrs S, but alas no luck! I'm hoping to go ice skating tomorrow and some of the same shops are there so hopefully I can look there and perhaps have some luck. I also have a 7 bucks voucher to spend at Target, they wouldn't give me a refund for my fabric cube without the receipt only the voucher. Perhaps I should put it towards some new gumboots? I dunno...

And once again I've reached the end of the week without doing any memes, I'm somewhat ashamed, but I guess it can't be helped.

I also looked at my health insurance...apparently if I do nothing my Medbibank Private insurance will restart itself on the 19th June, hmmm...But I was considering going with that other company. I should look into that some more, I think.

There was a bit of worry today when I went to the pharmacy to get more medication only to find that pyschiatrist hadn't sent the new script in! Damn, I totally should have called last week! I called from the pharmacy, but my psychiatrist was seeing another patient, so I had to leave it with the receptionists and hope for the best.

Thankfully, I later got a phoncall saying everything was sorted, so I was able to pick up my script, phew, what a relief, especially since it's the one I can't stop taking suddenly! I was worried I'd have to go to the doctor and see if they could write me a stop-gap script.

And lastly...I went to my parents place and later we headed out to the Golf Club for the 10 dollar Friday dinner which this week was fish and chips, yum! Dad wasn't going to come at first because he's had a long week and had a bit of a headache, but Mum got him to come. :OP

So all in all a good day and I even got my washing done! :OD Although I've had to hang it up inside, because it looks like the weather is finally turning, but I'm not actually sure if they'll be any rain...

And I also went to the gym too, so I ticked all the boxes today!

Oh and the DVDs I ordered from Ebay arrived! Sweet! I must leave feedback for that, actually! So off I go!

Lastly...I've decided to upgrade to Windows 10, my laptop keeps telling me to do it...and Google assures me I can roll back to Windows 7 if I don't like it. Here's hoping it won't suck. :OP

Goodnight all!

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11:03pm: Actually, it came during the night and when I woke up this morning it was coming down quite hard and since it had been warm last night before I went to bed I'd left my doors open so it was a bit chilly. This resulted in me dilly-dallying when it came to getting up and I didn't leave my place until after quarter past eight, which meant I got to work late. Do'h! I'd been doing well in the punctuality department this week, bit of a fail there.

It all turned out OK in the end, though and by the time I was finished the rain had stopped enough that I didn't end up getting soaked when I went to the Aldi, then the Coles at Mona Vale. I think I might have been imagining the matching aqua coloured toilet brushes. Dang. I did take a look at Bed, Bath and... whatever the last word is, and while the did have some toilet brushes they were super expensive. Gee, I'm gonna use the brush in the toilet I'm not spending 50 bucks on it. :OP

Anyway, I got the $300 along with some other stuff - although not the zip I thought I could get from the Mona Vale Fabric Shop, or rather you can't just get a replacement zip bit, you have to replace the whole thing which means I need to measure how long it is and all that. But right now the vest is way down in the box I put my winter clothes in, so that'll have to wait.

The fact the rain stopped for a bit also meant I was able to put stuff in the car and go over to meet Mum who bought the crate rack things this morning. Although she needs to exchange a few because when you put them on top of each other they're way too high. Also somewhat unfortunately, I discovered that the top drawers of the buffet are too short to fit DVDs in them, whoops. Not entirely sure what I'll put in them instead...I guess some books? I need to rearrange my books actually, perhaps give some away and put ones that I'm not going to read so much in the crates.

Lastly, my analogue to digital adaptor thing is now in transit, but apparently it's not estimated to arrive until Monday, booo.

And, I've just realised...I forgot to call my friend about dinner tomorrow, crap, I hope I can get hold of her tomorrow I need to know what I'm going to do with myself.

Although I do know I'll be going to the gym tomorrow, yay! And also pick up Mrs S's manual wheelchair and maybe pop by the mall to see if I can find a reasonably priced toilet brush there.

But for now I have to go to bed!

Goodnight all!

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11:20pm: Well, the rain has stopped, but I swear it's had a terrible effect on the internet, it keeps dropping out, slowing down acting completely unreliable. I wonder though, if it's just me, usually when the internet is acting up so much the landlord will SMS me asking if I'm having problems too, but no sign of that.

Right now I'm using my mobile's data just to update this entry, so I'll have to keep this quick! First off, no sign of the Misfit, which is quite sad :O( However, when I went to Mona Vale after work today I found not only a pattern for a shirt at the Salvos for a buck that was cut out to my size, but that there was another sort of smart watch at the Aldi with a smaller dial face, so I decided what the Hell and made a purchase.

It's a pretty awesome watch although it is an analogue and missing the second (third) hand, which is a bit annoying if I want to wear it to the gym when I'm doing weights because it won't help me keep track of how much time has passed between sets. But, it lights up when I get email messages and stuff and I can even use it to make my phone ring if I can't find it! Sweeet!

Also, Mum and Dad were nice enough to give $50 towards the purchase of it as my birthday present - so that means it only cost me 5 bucks in the end, nice.

And I also finally debut my poka-dot dress since I finally hemmed it and everything! :OD It fits! Although it's not quite as well sewn as I thought, because I didn't iron it when Mum saw it she decided that it needed it and she found quite a few parts where I hadn't joined it up properly and so holes were threatening to appear. She endeavoured to fix most of them, and also managed to get the zipper to sit right. Apparently, Mum could sew back in the day and even made a dress herself long ago. :OP

Eventually, it was ironed and Mum, Dad and I headed out to the Long Reef Golf Club to enjoy $10 fish and chips in the nice weather. A good time was had by all!

So yeah, it's still not quite right so...I guess I won't wear it tomorrow to the party, but I guess a dress doesn't really lend itself to mini-golf anyway.

And on that note I better go! I have to get up at 7:30 tomorrow to get to work on time so I'm all ready late in getting to bed!

Wish me luck tomorrow! Goodnight all!

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10:20pm: Yes, it's the men's final tonight, but because time zones are an ass, I'm hardly going to have a chance to watch it, because I need to go to bed very soon because tomorrow is a work day. What a bummer, because it's the Fed-Ex up against the Joker, Fed has been on fire this competition, can he win Wimbledon again or will the Joker make it back to back wins? I know who I'm backing though, go Roger, go Roger, go! Perhaps it's better I don't watch, my guy never seems to win when I watch, LOL.

In other news I'm concerned that my sitting habits could be leading to unpleasantness, just before I went out to the gym today my lower back area the one that's been sore lately started twinging quite badly, like little spasms and stuff. Not good, not good at all. I really must be more careful with my posture, if I hurt my back with the carer's job I've got, I'll be pretty stuffed.

But hey I got to the gym and did my swimming so that was all great and I even headed off to the Aldi up at Forestway hoping that maybe they'd have long sleeve shirts in my size, but no dice. Although, I did notice while looking at them they're made in Bangledesh, which is a bit of a worry since apparently the clothing factories there have the worst working conditions of all - which means they've got to be pretty horrible.

And, dang, I've just seen the match doesn't even start until 11pm, boo, damn you England why you're time zone got to be so out of synch with Australia? Not cool.

Moving on, let's have a meme or two since I'm falling a bit behind here...

Booking Through Thursday

Beautiful

What’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever read?

Hmm, interesting question...and I'm not sure how to answer it! I don't really read "beautiful" lyrical books, I tend to like straight-forward writing. So, I really don't know! My memory is failing me, how embarrassing.

Follow Friday Four Fill-Ins

The statements:

1. I hate going to the dentist because they always seem to put the chair too far back these days and also that fluroide stuff is horrible.

2. I want more hours of sunlight and less bloody freezing in the mornings!

3. I have regifted nothing from anyone that I remember, because that's how I roll. :OP

4. Sitting on my butt is the secret to my boring life. LOL.

Friday5

Hard Time

1. What’s the story of someone you know who has spent time in prison? Who do you think I hang out with? :OP As far as I know I don't know anyone who's been in prison so N/A.

2. What is the most official trouble you’ve ever been in? I got sent to the Principal's Office in Year 6 and also had the Principal come and give me a telling off in person that same year. Damn that was not a good year for me discipline-wise.
Oh wait...I forgot, I once had to go to the police station and give a statement in regards to the time I accidentally backed into a car and then drove off without leaving my information after waiting for half an hour. They also called my father (since the car was in his name) beforehand which gave him quite a shock. Bloody awkward.

3. What’s the last program you binge-watched? Well, I watched the documentary Russia: A Journey with Jonathan Dimberley last week - although there was only five eps so it wasn't exactly a binge watch.

4. What would be good prison nicknames for a few people you know? Uh, I ca't really think of any honestly, I don't actually know what passes for a prison nickname!

5. Of the usual prison jobs (library, electrical shop, laundry, cafeteria, gardener, clerical, etc.), which would you ask to be assigned to? Feel free to be creative! Library! Library! Damn son, I'd almost commit a crime just to do that - no no, I'm kidding. Don't report me. :OP

The (Other) Friday Five

These questions were written by kennycreeper.

1) If you had to eat nothing but CEREAL for a week, what types would you eat? Damn, I do enjoy my Balanced Right but every meal for a week? I'd probably have to bring in some Honey-Nut Crunch, Komplete and what the Hell let's have some Cocoa Pops

2) Have you ever bought candy/cereal/snack JUST for the PRIZE inside? Nope because I don't think we have that here in Australia.

3) What is the earliest you have ever been drunk? N/A

4) Name one thing you have taken apart and could NOT put back together. Hmm, scratches head...I'm not sure to be honest, not much of a take-things-apart person.

5) Three musketeers or three stooges? Never watched either, but I like the sound of the Three Musketeers more.

And on that note, it's time for me to hit the sheets, just as the Roger wins the first game, come on Roger keep it up!

I hope to wake up to good news, for now, goodnight!

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11:20pm: Yes, I finally got to do it today! It's still school holidays so the lunch time session goes for two hours from 12:30 to 2:30, so I was able to get there after seeing the pyschiatrist. Although, I didn't really think too hard about it, but the website mentioned the session would be a Disco Session with a live DJ and everything. As you can imagine it was pretty busy when I got there! In addition to that, the music was very loud, so loud I had to cut the corner of the rink so I wouldn't end up deafened from it. Fortunately, the music was all right, no copious amounts of swearing or anything like that.

Actually, it was a rather close thing, I got to the rink five minutes past the half hour (not that that made any difference to the cost, it was a 20 buck flat rate), because it took me a bit of time to find a parking spot in the Mall. But nearly as long as it could have, I was about to go to one of the lower levels and suddenly...a spot appeared! I felt a little bad about taking it, because I didn't even see it at first! But oh well, I guess the stars aligned for my skating. :OP

After the skating I went to Target where I finally got around to buying some singlets...two in fact - I wonder I should have splashed out and got five? One for each work day, but I dunno...seemed a bit extreme. Although they were only three bucks each.

I also went to the Aldi at Macquarie to see if there were any robot vacuums there, but nope. Hmmm...I wonder, should I buy one while they're still at Dee Why Grand, they are only $125, on the other hand, what if it doesn't work very well? That'd suck. I did however buy two skivvys for $10, a red one and white one, nice.

Actually, I thought my fit counter wasn't working, it ran out of battery last night so I plugged it into one of those USB socket plugs, but it didn't seem to be charging when I went to bed, and this was confirmed when I woke up this morning and it was still flat. Do'h. I tried plugging it into the laptop's USB, but still nothing! It was only when I plugged the USB plug into the outlet then inserted the fit counter into the actual charging thing that it worked. Hmpf, didn't say anything in the manual about that. Oh well, the more you know.

Anyway, everything went well today,except I was almost late to my pyschiatrist appointment, remind me not to go to Chatswood via the Spit Bridge and Mosman, at least not in the holidays, takes ages! Plus I parked a bit too far from where the consulting rooms are located. But the doctor was also running a bit late, so it all worked pretty well! I got to tell him my great news and he gave me good advice about planning stuff so I know what to do in different scenarios to go with the new job. Good plan.

And it's getting close to midnight, so I better wrap this entry up, plus I'm quite sleepy, nothing like skating to use up energy! And I don't want to be too late waking up tomorrow, Mum is coming over to give me a new hat she bought for me and also to see what clothes I can give away.

So, I bid you all goodnight!

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11:03pm: Ow, that was decidedly unpleasant and uncomfortable. Sure hope I'm not getting a cold, gulp! I don't need that.

What I do need to do - which I'm sure is a familiar refrain - because alas, there were multiple issues with work today, firstly I had to go in even earlier than expected, and secondly the catheater change didn't happen because for some reason it wouldn't come out! o.O Some sort of bladder spasm, so long story short a nurse has to come back tomorrow. Which means I also have to go in earlier, although hopefully not as early as today!

After I finished up, I headed down to the mall with the idea of finding a new black watch - because the one I use for every day that isn't my sport's watch has gone to Hell. I didn't find one that I thought was worth buying, although I did end up buying a small Russian-English English-Russian dictionary from Dymocks, it's all ready come in handy! :O)

I did buy a pink watch at Aldi which I'm going to wear tomorrow at the library with my my pink shirt and also this rather nifty invention - a miniature heat pack, you press on a little metal disc inside the hotwater bottle shaped thing and it sets off some reaction that produces heat until the liquid inside turns to crystals. Then you just heat it up again boiling water so that the crystals decrystallise back into liquid again. Handy, huh? I all ready used it and it really works. Quite handy I might keep it on my person in case I get chilly in this weather, which is set to be quite cold tomorrow, brrr! I'm glad I was inside most of today!

And I finally got another glasses cleaning cloth, it's purple, I hope I can keep hold of this one...I don't know how I keep losing them. OK, I do, but it's still bloody annoying.

On a final note, today is my little bro's 30th Birthday! Happy Birthday to him! I rang him this afternoon and asked if he'd like cupcakes for the party we're having on Sunday, he does and with a special request, choc-banana cupcakes. I'll have to look into making those.

Right, better head for bed now, wish me luck tomorrow!

Goodnight all!

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