Moose Musings

10:14pm: Indeed, it started this morning as I headed down to the basement to put my overnight bag in my car, there were two guys from the fire inspection place our apartment uses, now I kind of suck when it comes to reading my emails - the Strata company used to put up notices in the lifts when the annual fire inspection was due, but they didn't this time.

After dropping my bag in my car I headed back up the lift to the ground floor - the guys had got off on the level above me, and they must have just been doing something quick because they also got back in the lift. So I asked the guys if they were here for the unit inspections.

The good news was: they were, but they were doing the common areas today and would be doing my block of the building tomorrow.

The bad news was: I go over to the parental units so I can pick up my Lite n Easy delivery in the morning - and I couldn't really cancel that because otherwise there's a whole lot of to-ing and fro-ing to get the food to me. Also my apartment wasn't in the best state, so even though I do head home in the morning, I usually don't get back to my apartment until 8am, but I think they start at like 7:30am...so if they show up before 8 I'll be kind of screwed. Because who knows where they might be in the building at that point? I tried to set up a time via email, but I didn't receive a reply, so shit.

Then, on my way to the bus stop I finally managed to figure out how to track this order of Pusheen related clothing, I ordered not last week but the one before, and it took me that long to figure out how to look up the parcel tracking without having to download an app. At first I didn't see any result, which was rather worrying, then I did manage to get it to show up and... it was even worse! The package had apparently come, but the courier wasn't able to access the building and according to the app the package was now back at the facility it originally came from rather than the post office! Did that mean it was going to be returned to the company I bought it from? Like WTF?! I later realised that if it's a courier and has no access to the building so that's why they didn't leave a slip or anything.

Anyway, I ended up sending an email to the shop and the facility, but I haven't heard back yet, so that's still unresolved.

Finally, after work I decided rather than driving straight to my parent's house when I got home, but clean up the apartment a bit, just in case I only have like two seconds to do it tomorrow morning. Which fortunately because of all the tidying from last week this didn't take too long.

Unfortunately, for me as I left the apartment for my car, I forgot to take my apartment keys along, fuuuck. Fortunately, I had my car keys and my parent's have a spare set so I'll have to use theirs - which means I should probably go and get them so I have them on hand tomorrow since I'm gonna have to hit the road ASAP.

Anywho, I'm updating on my little HP so I can't post as Sims Thing, ah well, I shall say goodnight!

11:07pm: Man, it's been forever since I updated! Almost two months! I've let myself down, I've let my journal down and...maybe let you my loyal readers down, but probably not :OP

Anyway! Since my last update I've settled into my new role as Collections Librarian and it's been going awesomely! Not long into the job my supervisor said I was doing so well that it's pretty likely my contract will get extended! I sure hope so, because the apartment building is set to be completed in December this year and with an actual (nearly) full-time job I can probably afford to live in it.

Of course, there's also the chance that I'll actually interview to get the job permanently, which worries me purely because according the the law they can only judge an applicant based on how they interview (even if said applicant is int he position already) and I'm known for not been the best at interviews. Although I have been told that my interviewing skills are getting better so perhaps there's no need to worry. Fingers crossed!

So yes, the job has been going really well! I've caught up on the backlog and I'm learning new stuff - soon I'll be getting to know about cataloguing, which will be good because at present there's only one person there who can catalogue stuff from scratch so as you can imagine she's super busy! Plus new skills are always a bonus.

Suffice to say, I'm really happy with how life is going, I've got an awesome job, awesome co-workers and awesome peeks into the new books that are coming out. :O)

About the only downside is...it's not quite full-time as I mentioned, however I usually get an extra shift on the weekend which brings me up to 32 hours, which still isn't quite full-time, but seeing as I'm being paid as a librarian now certainly gives me way more money than I had before. Although I need to be careful in that respect, I went on a bit of a spending spree with Pusheen goods (ha ha no-one's surprised at that I bet!) as well as some Yuri on Ice related stuff so I don't have quite as much as hoped.

However! I did - for the first time in I don't know how many years - get a refund from my tax return! Which I meant to pay towards my HECs debt, I say meant because I managed to send it to the wrong account at the Tax Office. Which reminds me that I was meant to call them and find out where it is this week (I did it last Friday), but now it's the weekend again and I can't. Oh fail. I hope it hasn't disappeared...I need that it's like $1,500!

Lastly, I have had trouble making sure I get enough zzzs, I set up my FitBit to tell me when it's time for me to head off to bed, but then like a dumbass I ignore it and next thing I know I'm only getting 7 hours. Which doesn't sound too bad, but after a couple of days of this I end up with a headache and that's just not good.

Fortunately, I should be able to catch up on my zzzs tonight - for the first time in a while I won't be working either day on the weekend because I've only got half an hour left out of the total hours I can work (the maximum is 35, my part-time work is 28 hours, so that leaves me only 7 hours that I can do). I am heading over to M and Grandpa's tomorrow to play Canasta with M, but I don't need to get there until 11am.

Anywho, I'm gonna wrap this up now - perhaps next entry I can tell you about the saga of my 2-in-1 laptop LOL!

Goodnight all!

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11:09pm: Which usually means I have to restart my laptop because I've tried going into the settings when this sort of thing happens, but I haven't been able to figure out what the deal is.

Anyway! I have exciting news! I finally did it! I went to the Aquarium shop in Manly where Dad used to buy his betta fish and got a nice greenish one whom I have called Fishenko. He's swimming around happily in my tank as I type. I am a bit worried that the heater and thermometre I put in there will start floating around, they've got suction cups on them but they don't seem to be suctioning like they're supposed to. Very rude.

Moving along, what else to report? Not much...I did finally remember to call the podiatrist and make an appointment, it's for Thursday at 11:30. Hopefully any issue with my orthodics will be fixed there, since like I said I feel like they might need to be readjusted, although my hips feel better now, yay!

Beyond that...not much going on in Mooseland, tomorrow though I need to apply to some jobs, because Mum's getting on my case about that and if I'm ever going to live in the apartment I'm planning to spend decades paying off I need the dough! I may have left applying for the secretary one a bit too late though...because I suck like that.

Annnd I was meant to do some Memes...but the mouse issue makes that a pain in the ass and it's a bit late to start on any right now, so I'm gonna do the lazy thing and skip it.

Oh and in closing, I'd like to thank the people of France for not fucking themselves over and electing the crazy ass right-winger. Although as I understand the guy who won doesn't actually represent a party...which seems to be quite the oversight when he has to fill 500 positions! How's this gonna work, seriously? France's political system does confuse.

Right, I shall be off now! Goodnight all!

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11:08pm: Yep, I've been making up a batch after last week's mix up when I thought my friend's house warming party was on! Had to eat most of those cupcakes myself, which could well explain why - according to the scale at the gym - my fat content has gone up. However...my actual weight has gone down, WTF? That doesn't even make sense...or maybe it does, fat weighs less than muscle. Still seems weird to me though.

Anyway! I gotta make the frosting before I go to bed, which is soon!

I've just remembered though that I forgot to call my other friend about coming to the house warming party! Fuuuck, it's probably too short of notice to do it now, but I guess I'll send her a text tomorrow and see if she's interested in coming.

Well, there's been some interesting developments re: the apartment situation, it would seem that we are going to buy one in the building we were originally looking at, as they've offered to sell a studio apartment that's in it at the same amount as the one in the 'Highline'. I'm still wondering if this is a good idea...I sure as Hell hope the builders aren't a bunch of shonks, I don't want to have to frig around with leaky bathrooms and whatever like Mrs S is right now (I have to come in early on Monday for this very reason, grumble grumble.) Hopefully it'll work out.

Not much else to say...although I had quite the busy day! I went to the mall after work and finally got around to buying some new gumboots, there was however a complete lack of Easter eggs, damn those things disappear so fast now! Sucks.

I also got to the gym, which I'm quite proud of since I've been slacking, plus there's probably going to be a fair bit of junk food in my weekend. :OP Plus there were still some eggs at the IGA across the road so I got some of those.

And there was also dinner at Mum and Dad's place, which the little bro also attended, Mum, Dad and the little bro had quiche while I had left over lasagna, delish! The parentals and I also watched Family Feud it was pretty hilarious as Dad kept ragging on the carry-over champion family who not only ended up winning the car, but finally getting the $10,000 Final Feud amount, LMAO. I told him I'd tell you all about this, so there you go. :OP

OK, the dishwasher which I put the beater whisks in has finally finished its washing so I gotta haul and get the frosting made! And then bed!

And uh...I'll get back to those Memes one day! :OP

Goodnight all!

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11:15pm: And hopefully being cancelled!

Yes! This morning after doing a practice run to Mrs S's place from the apartment - and arriving with 10 minutes to spare (although it's still school holidays at the moment), I went to Mum and Dad's to discover Mum hadn't got the plastic tubs, because she'd been looking for crates - however, crates hurt like hell to carry once they're full - digging into the side of your fingers and all that. So I had to get the key to M and Grandpa's garage where I found the tubs in question and then it was off to the gym. As I was coming to the end of my work-out I got a call from the little bro saying that the Canadian girl had got back to him, letting him know she had found someone to take over her lease and that she was still interested in the apartment! Holy crap!

Of course, I'm sure you're all thinking "But Moose you gave in the Notice to Vacate yesterday! You're probably going to need to leave your granny flat anyway". That's what I worried about too, but I quickly called the agent who said they hadn't made a start on it yet! However, until I found out from Mum that everything was clear I couldn't outright cancel the notice so I told them I'd call back in the afternoon to let them know for sure.

By coincidence Dad called me up after that, to let me know about the crates in their storage shed, so I told him the news. He decided to stay out of it for now, LOL.

After the gym I headed back home, had some lunch, and a shower before heading off to my shift at the library. I spoke to Mum at home, but she said she needed to speak to the little bro in more depth before anything could be decided.

Just before going down to the library for my shift (I arrived in the area a bit early so did some shopping, there was bargains at Bed Bath and Table, I got some Christmas decos for the end of the year and a new swim/gym bag - it's rainbow!) I got a call from Mum, who said things looked promising with the Canadian, but it wasn't 100% so I would need to ask the agent if I could put the Notice on hold rather than outright cancelling it. She though it best to send an email, but I didn't actually have the agent who oversees my property's email address so I sent it to the original agent with a plan to call during my break to confirm she got it.

As it turned out the original agent wasn't in today so I ended up having to tell them over the phone after all! :OP But! If we're going to keep the same vacate date I'll have to give them a definitive answer tomorrow afternoon. Mum and I had hoped to be able to do it on Thursday, but then I remembered that's the Australia Day Public Holiday, so no dice.

But, I've SMSed the Little Bro since then and he seems pretty positive, so fingers and toes crossed all! Meanwhile, I'll take this opportunity to do some weeding of my posessions and what not. I do have quite a bit of crap that could probably go.

The only downside, I have to go back and get most of my hanging clothes back, as well as my spare TV and cube of fabric. Ah well, I gotta go to Mall at some point anyway so that's not so bad.

Anywho! I better wrap this up, since I do need to get to bed, however I will say this - Apple is a pain in the ass! A lady came into the library around 4pm trying to get advice on how to use some of the apps for e and audio books, but by 5pm she and the librarian on duty were having no luck getting onto the Apple App store because for some reason the lady's tablet was trying to sign up with her old email address. Eventually I came out to see if I could do anything, which thinking about it is kind of weird because I don't even use Apple!

Anyway, eventually I managed to figure it out and the lady was able to get one of the apps, hopefully she'll be able to get the other one's too, but who knows! But hey this will look good on my next review, fingers crossed. :OP

Right, off I go! Goodnight all!

PS: I almost forgot! The Fed-Ex triumphed tonight in his quarter final! Aaah he's such a boss! It's gonna be an all Swiss Semi-Final though, so fingers and toes crossed...

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11:46pm: Whoopee! He's just won his first round match here at the Aussie Open! Frankly I was rather worried for a bit there...the first set was a hard one, and then in the second set he lost to his opponent, but he barreled back in the third and fourth, hooray! :OD

Speaking of Fed-Ex, I'm still waiting with baited breath for my phone to arrive, the Order Tracker still says order received, which does make me a little concerned that it won't arrive before it's off to Canberra with the parental units.

What makes it a bit more awkward is that I might have to give notice before I go. The little bro has had no luck finding a flatmate - the Russian girl didn't show up (WTF is the deal with people doing that? It's bloody rude!). There's one last possibility a Canadian girl who seems super interested, but then people might just say that kind of thing...Burg (aka the little bro) is hoping she can come by tomorrow, but if she doesn't I'll have to prepare to move. Which having driven over there today I realise will rather suck in terms of travel unless I want to hang out at my parents house a lot - which apparently they say I can do, but I dunno.

So yeah that's all up in the air...

Anyway, even though I'm not working tomorrow I need to wrap this up and hit the hay because I need to wash my car, I was going to do it this evening when I got back from Burg's apartment, but I had a headache and it was still hot so I didn't. Although apparently it's meant to be even hotter tomorrow... But I have to do other stuff too so yeah.

At least I got my Russian done today, go me.

But I have some unfortunate news...Plushenko the Fish didn't make it. :O( RIP, you were a good little fishy.

Goodnight all!

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11:43pm: OK, it's not as serious as all that, I needed to clean my house up after all, but she said she'd be coming by just before lunch today, but as you can guess from my title there, she did not.

Which was only an issue because I was waiting for her and was hiding from the hot weather so didn't go out shopping which I really should have done because I was out of cheese and then ran out of toilet paper. Oh dear.

As it happened I ended up heading over to the parentals because the proper documents for the studio apartment finally showed up (they had my parents' address wrong before) and the plan was that we'd have the next door neighbour over to witness us signing it. Also, for dinner - since I don't actually have anything...which isn't a hundred percent true I could have made some Alfredo.

But I was getting worried about the heat, thinking that perhaps my air-con wouldn't be up to it - although by the time I left my granny flat the weather was cooling down anyway - so off I went! We were supposed to be having pies and left over chicken for dinner, but the pies were coming from the retirement village's cafeteria and as it happened they were having that tomorrow not today so Dad and I had hamburgers instead. Good eatin'!

Alas, the papers didn't get signed because as it turns out we need to do it front of a Justice of the Peace which our neighbour isn't. Instead I'll be popping in on Thursday and we'll head down to the local Pharmacy.

Okedoke, gotta haul ass to bed, it's almost midnight. Have to keep my proper sleep up.

With any luck I'll be able to see my friends tomorrow, fingers crossed.

Oh and I also had to got the parental place so I could get a roll of their toilet paper, which I did before returning here, LOL.

Goodnight all!

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11:03pm: So today was the dreaded meeting, which I was late for, because my digestive system decided to be a bit of an ass, so I left rather late...and decided to park in a different place than I usually do.

The one upside of the whole thing was when I got on my third bus, and who should I see on there but one of my friends who was on his way to see his girlfriend. So that was cool, travel time sure flies when you're talking to a friend!

We were going to go our different ways at the QVB, but I guess my friend figured he wouldn't make it to his train, because just as the M30 I was on was about to leave he hopped on.

So, I got to the meeting and didn't notice at first that the old Resident Manager was there, but I sure did soon enough when things of course got awkward because he wanted to bitch about something in the agenda. At least until he was overruled.

I also discovered that it wasn't even worth my coming! Because there were too many votes for the new Executive Committee for them to be counted right then and there (at least not if we wanted to get out of there before 8pm), so w couldn't even do the second part of the meeting. Even worse? I hadn't paid my levies so I wasn't even able to vote for the new committee members anyway! Boooo! I really should ask them to send the levy notice to my flat, although I did pop by the apartment after the meeting to see if I had mail there - which I did...lots of it! Including the levies, so they're paid now.

And the apartment looks quite different what with the large bed in it (the couchbed is gone after all), but it still looks like home to me :OP I noticed that they've put those glow-in-the-dark stars on the upper doors of the wardrobe. Cool.

Interestingly enough I can still become a committee member, which I suppose is going to happen, sigh! I wonder when the next meeting will be...and if Mum and Dad will be back by then. But...who knows?

Then I had to get home, which wasn't that bad until I got to Dee Why and found myself waiting for 20 minutes or more for the bus that would take me to where I'd parked. Why the Hell did I park there anyway? Grumble, grumble, stupid digestive system. I think it might be related to that time o' the month, which is late according to the app on my phone, but I kind of messed up with it, so I don't think it's quite accurate...

Anyway, it's late again and I need to get myself to bed!

Goodnight all!

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11:35pm: Yes! The new hard drive arrived this morning and it is now sitting inside my laptop with the contents of the old hard drive copied over and now no more warning whenever I start up that hard drive failure is imminent! And further to that, Windows now starts up quickly, like it used to. Sweeet.

I took my laptop over to the parentals before I had to head over to Mum's place of work and then we went to the apartment to attend a meeting (man, I hate those things, but what can you do?) which also gave me the chance to get the inflatable Scrabble from my Box Thing. Hopefully, I'll be able to convince some friends to play it with me. And find a way to inflate it without me needing to sacrifice my lungs!

So yes, I took the laptop over with the plan for Dad to help me with the hard drive replacement, but as it turned out I was able to do it pretty much by myself! I did need the help of their screw drivers so good thing I came! :OP Oh and of course I had to borrow one of Dad's external 1TB hard drives to copy the contents of the old drive to the new one.

I also cleaned my flat today, although as it turned out Mum didn't come by to see it when she dropped me off after all - oh well. I think though, the dust has effected my eyes which feel really dry right now. That being the case and the fact that it's 15 minutes to minute means I'm gonna wrap this up.

May all your computers treat you well!

Goodnight all!

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11:13pm: Man, always say that I'm going to get on AIM during the weekend, and then all sorts of things happen and I don't even get a chance! Boo!

Take today for example, Mum and I had to go to the apartment to wait for the moving men and also to give the two sets of keys to the new tenants. And wouldn't you know it? The moving men said they were coming at 12, but when mum called to see where they were when they hadn't arrived by 12:30, she was told they'd been held up until 1:30! Pft!

Then to make matters worse, the tenants were dealing with moving men of their own and wouldn't be able to get to the apartment until 2:30! Well, that was no good either, and as it turned out Mum and I got our wires crossed re: the key giving situation, apparently she wanted me to give them a single set when they came by last week, but since they hadn't paid the bond I thought I wasn't supposed to give them any. Then of course there was the fact we couldn't find the second set (although we have three sets, but we're supposed to keep one obviously). But anyway, Mum and I weren't going to wait, so we or rather Mum arranged for them to come to the parental abode to get them.

We also did some more cleaning because once we moved the couch bed in preparation for the moving men we discovered the carpet under it needed a good vacuum. Also the top of the air-con...

But everything was done and the moving men did at least show up at 1:30 as promised and I at least had my tablet with me to keep me entertained and I set Mum up on my mobile with online TV, although she only got to watch 10 minutes of it, in the end.

There was a bit of an issue on the way home, there was an accident so we got caught in traffic for a while, but once we got past it, it was fine. Plus Mum was nice enough to drop me off at the gym so I had a good work out, yay!

I also made lasagna from the left over mince tonight, most yummy, although Dad must be adding something new to his recipe because there's an interesting taste to it now.

Aaand, looking at the time, it's a bit late for memeing, so I shall skip that, it's all be easier to do on my laptop at home. After I clean my bedroom area when I return. Mum dropped some stuff off there this afternoon and found it unacceptable. Parents, man. :OP

Bit enough complaining I better get myself to bed, I've been under sleeping a bit lately, so I better rectify that! Also it's back to work tomorrow, so wish me luck.

Goodnight!

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