Moose Musings

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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11:41pm: Yeah, I've been doing that a bit lately, but that was because yesterday was rather crappy in so far as I managed to forget that I had a shift at the library!!

What makes it even worse is that I had put the detail in my phone, but I had put the wrong times, so when the alert popped up on my phone I thought I must have made a mistake. I did look in my emails, but there was nothing there saying I had a shift either so I figured I'd made a mistake. At least until I got a phone call at 9:45 asking where the Hell I was!

What makes this worse is the fact that the library has been closed since Friday because of Easter, so the amount of items in the after-hours return chute was totally overwhealming! And I was supposed to be there to help get through it so we could keep on top of it all.

I leapt out of bed, had a banana, showered and rushed to the library, but I was still half an hour late and one of the people who normal work in the back room had had to come up to render assistance.

So I stayed half an hour later to make up for my error, but still how humilating! Plus this is like the third time it's happened! I'm getting worried that I'll no longer be considered a reliably employee and this could mean bad things for my future career (such as it is). Ugh! Seriously me, can't I go fail somewhere else?!

After I finished work at the library I went to Dee Why to return the cruise ship book, I was going to try and finish it but...guide books aren't really meant to be read like regular books so I decided nah, I'd just return it. I took a bit of a walk around Dee Why before going to the library, including the new park which opened a few weeks ago. It was a nice sunny day so I figured, what the Hell. :O)

I did neglect to go to the gym though...which I remedied today after work with Mrs S - which reminds me I need to pick up my game there, I keep being five or more minutes late, which doesn't sound all that bad but honestly I literally live around the corner and surely I can do better!

Anyway, apart from that not much to report- tomorrow though is the ice skating show at Macquarie Centre! Yay! I hope Mum feels all right, she's had a cold and last I spoke to her she was sounding rather croaky, but then it often happens that you sound worse, but feel better. I also have to make sure my phone is all nice and charged so I (or Mum) can take video, I've also realised maybe if I can work up the courage I could get a photo with our figure skating Olympian - Brendan Kerry! LOL, there'd be some people on the figure skating board who'd be most jealous. :OP

But there's other stuff to do tomorrow - I want to go to the gym again - because I won't be able to go on Friday because I have a shift at the library - and there's volunteering at Dee Why before I go to Mum and Dad's place to head for the skating show. That being the case I better wrap this entry up and head for bed! I didn't even get 7 hours of zzzzs last night! Not cool, me.

Right, hope you're all well, but for me, for now, goodnight!

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11:06pm: Not my epic recounting of the cruise (I'm afraid with the late start to this entry there'll still be a few more days to go with that!), but the fiction book about Russia I've been reading since - I kid you not - mid-November last year! It had 1006 pages in it! Plus as the distractable person that I am, I felt the need to read other books around it, so it all added up there. Anyway, it was a pretty good read!

( But without further ado...Dad's Birthday Dinner! )

And that's how Dad's birthday went! And now, midnight is closing in so I shall wrap this up here. I hope you're enjoying the cruise journal as much I am in reliving it. :O)

Goodnight!

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11:32pm: So after work today I popped over to the Petsmart to ask about it, but I didn't have a very good picture of it on my phone so the sales person wasn't really able to help me much, for example is the whole thing supposed to be submerged in the water? Or is the little motor part with the propeller in it suppose to stick out? She seemed to think it should be full submerged so when I got home I attempted to do that, but the filter is too long and when I sort of nudged it down at an angle poor Plushenko almost got sucked into the propeller! So I lifted it back out again. Fortunately Plushenko was uninjured, I hope...he seems OK. Also of a worry when I put the filter all the way in the water some weird...stuff...came out, like dirt from the gravel, I hope that hasn't done anything bad to the water in the aquarium.

So the upshot of all this...it's still making pretty much the same amount of noise! Damn! And I can't take it out of the tank really because I'm quite sure it's working and I don't want to risk Plushenko's health and I can't seem to figure out exactly what type of filter it is so looking it up on the net hasn't helped. Most irritating.

Anywho, moving right along, I'm sorry to report I didn't go ice skating today, primarily because I have a blister on one of my right toes from the shoes I wore to the interview yesterday. I usually wear the shoes with stockings, but it was a bit hot to do that yesterday, and my right foot is bigger than my left so...blister. :O( And my ice skates are quite tight so I didn't want to end up limping, which I probably would have seeing as I'm a wuss. Also it's been rainy today and I don't really like to drive long distances in the rain.

So instead I came home and sat on my butt :OP but I caught up on my reading so that was cool. Although I haven't caught up on my memes, which is not cool.

Oh, wait I did do some shopping before heading home because I was out of cheese, and I also got myself a pair of watches from K-Mart, they're cheap but I've had watches from there before that are still working so...

Right, I better be off, it's almost midnight. LOL, the guy's name on this House Hunters International is Barkley, seriously? People these days. :OP

And now, I say goodnight!

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11:44pm: And by that I mean the eighth Harry Potter book, which I got as an e-book from the library and just couldn't put down once I got into Act Two. Now it was admittedly rather odd to read Harry Potter in play format, but all in all a totally awesome read. I should write a review on Goodreads, but instead I'm typing up this entry.

And that's because I'm unexpectantly staying here at the parental units's and thus have access to the internet! Having said that, I spent most of the evening reading my book, which I didn't need the net to do and thus I've kind of wasted my time here...Although I did manage to catch up on Tumblr so that's a plus, and I do have time tomorrow morning to do some more surfing.

So with midnight swiftly approaching I don't have a lot to say, except that getting the internet at the Granny Flat is proving to be an epic tale of despair then hope and then despair once more. First there was the news that Spintel could find no evidence a separate phone line ever going to my Granny Flat, then Telstra saying the had information for a Unit 1 at the same address as the main house, but no information on if it was active or not and then finally the realisation, that it is indeed an inactive line and to get it going again would cost $300.

Sucks, man.

Anyway, I should get to bed so as to wake up at a decent hour tomorrow as I really should use this internet time to do some job hunting. I'm also trying to do my Russian right now, not sure if I'll make it, but might as well give it a shot, I think I'm getting better. :O)

Oh wait no...I won't, time flies when you're concentrating on two things at once. At least I can freeze my streak so I don't have to go back to Day 1.

Right, this entry is making less sense by the minute, so I'm off!

Goodnight all!

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9:23pm: I don't actually see how the latter is possible, because this afternoon when I finished work I went to the old Granny Flat to clean and there was absolutely nothing left in there of mine.

So...where's my personalised Nutella label?! I'm super concerned that I threw it out :O( That would be...well not a tragedy, or devastating, but it sure would suck. Like I said they don't have the promotion going on anymore, the closest I could get would be to print one off on my printer, but it wouldn't be waterproof or anything.

Also, some of my smiley hooks are missing...it's a bit odd. Perhaps they're in the car somewhere? But I'm not sure how I could have missed them, I thought I checked really carefully, but maybe not?

Anyway, moving on, it's past 10pm and I've written three paragraphs on this entry, but I uploaded some more photos! First up the entry area, or as I like to call it, the Foy-yay. I don't know where the chest of drawers came from, I could have sworn it wasn't there when Mum and I inspected the place, but they're fabulous! And the bookcase is slim as anything but look at all the books I managed to fit on it! Although admittedly the bottom two shelves are doubled, but I can deal.

Speaking of books, with a fair amount of rearranging and doubling up of books in the middle section of the buffet cabinet I fit almost all my books in! Can we have a Hell yeah! ;OD

I still need to get another crate because the one that the rest of the books are in won't fit in the crate holder - I don't know how that happened. Although I'm not sure when because the places where the crates are available are a bit out of my way.

But I guess I don't need a short shelf or cabinet to put under the bench of the kitchen since I've managed to sort this book issue out, which is a good thing because I'll probably need to store my paper recycling bin and garbage bin under there, as well as my cupcake maker. Although I dunno...I feel like a cabinet would look better but who knows.

The next picture is of my pantry, which Mum and her friend so kindly put together for me (with the help of the guy who put the bench in I would think) and though narrow I managed to get pretty much everything in there. Go me!

And lastly, here's the controls for the stove/oven. Now is it just me or does it look like each knob turns on two of the three stove tops at a time? Since when has an uncoloured circle equalled on?

It's a weird little unit though, what with the three stove tops and also the fact that it's called an Estelle Email though I'm quite sure predates email as we know it. :OP

What else to report? Well, it was windy as all Hell today and when I got home I discovered that all the paper I'd put in the recycling bin and left outside due to lack of room with the drying rack up had strewn themselves all over the yard! I managed to gather them all up and put the paper bin inside.

I also got a bin for the kitchen, a cute one in green! It's like a smaller version a wheelie bin, I think it looks pretty sharp, although I'm sure my mother will diss it. :OP

There was something else I was gonna write, but now I've forgotten what it was! Oh, well the heater my father bought over does have a problem...in that two of the four heating elements don't actually work, so it's on at the moment but not really heating as well as it could. Hmmm, I need to find time to go to M and Grandpa's to search for my heater...and play Canasta with M too! I'll have to see what a good day will be.

( And let's catch up on the Memes a Bit! )

Man, once again this entry has totally got away from me...better wrap this up and head to bed, still gotta catch up on zzzs. Tomorrow is going to be busy again, I have to go back to the old granny flat for the outgoing inspection because it was still wet this afternoon since the last thing I did was mop the floor. Hopefully, I've done a good job and will get my entire deposit back! I owe my other some money!

For now, goodnight!

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11:17pm: Which sound bizarre, but it's true! On the one hand I want to know what's going to happen next, but on the other the author is taking so bloody long to have anything actually occur that's it's getting quite tedious. Grumble, grumble.

Moving onto the Purple Shirt Project, well it turned out only one button was crooked, so I only needed to fix that one, yay! However, I still haven't done the button holes, there's a way to do it by hand of course, but I'm still not sure if that's a good idea. I also had to redo the hem, so it's no longer rolled, because otherwise the dang thing is just too short, as I discovered when I put it on and lifted my arms. Hopefully it'll be OK now...although I'm worried the fabric might fray and unravel. Fingers crossed. I also need to finish with the sleeves, I'm still hoping to be able to wear it on Saturday.

In other news, it was Library Volunteer Day today and while I was there the Home Library Service Co-ordinator came over to tell me that the home library patrons have been very positive about the book choices over the past few weeks. Whoo! This is very good news, obviously I didn't choose them all, but I would have done some and since I sometimes wonder if I'm any good at picking out good items this puts my mind at ease. I didn't get a chance to ask about the Librarian job, mostly because the person who looks after the staff doesn't seem to be there when I am. Maybe she's at one of the other libraries, or has a day off, or perhaps I just didn't notice her. :OP

And now, I'm gonna wrap this up, despite the shortness of the entry because I'm super sleepy, I think I got some dust in my face at Mrs S's, because my eyeballs are feeling seriously heavy and dry. Or maybe I'm just sleepy and it is pass my bed time after all!

Off I go now, goodnight all!

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11:08pm: Well, the weather has decided to make up for lost time in regards to the rain and it's being bucketing down for most of the day. Added to that the temperature has gone low enough that I've put on my new penguin flannel pjs, not to mention put my doona back inside my doona cover. Hopefully, I won't wake wake up too hot some time during the night.

Moving on, I'm sure you all want to know how the Canasta went...well, I was going quite well, in fact I was in the lead! However, M managed to stage an amazing come from behind victory! I'm not gonna lie I was a bit disappointed in myself, but hey, what are you gonna do? :OP

Then it was off to work, which was interesting as aside from me everyone else was a casual employee! I wonder where the other part-timers were? I guess that will always remain a mystery LOL.

I had been planning to go to my parents' church after work, but with rain I decided I was better off going to the church in Mona Vale, especially since Mum had gone to church up in Newcastle - where she was visiting a friend. Once again though the mass went way longer than I'm used to. Although admittedly Palm/Passion Sunday is usually a long one, but it was starting to get dark when I came home and daylight savings hasn't ended yet! I'm so not looking forward to when it does, which I've all ready mentioned, but I think it bears repeating.

In other news, I finished the book I was reading this week, which ostensibly was about the world of figure skating - the cataloguing suggestions on the copyright page even says so! However, I should have paid more attention the blurb, which was much clearer about what the story would become i.e. one of those sad tragic stories about death. Oh...yay. I don't like reading sad stuff...

Anyway, enough about that, I should really try and catch up on meme or two...

( It's Gonna Take An Age To Catch Up... )

Bugger, it's almost midnight and I haven't done my Russian...oh well, too late now!

Goodnight all!

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11:07pm: Or that other thing...a ratchet? Whichever one gets tightly screwed on things off, because I thought I'd need an adapter in order to connect my dishwasher to the tap, but when I went to Bunnings after work today the man I showed the photo to said that the tap has an aerator on it that can be taken off. But alas it seems to be pretty firmly screwed in there because I certainly can't get it off. So...now I have to go back to Bunnings it would seem. Good thing I'm working tomorrow at the library I guess. :OP

Moving on, I've moved more things over to the new flat and I'm slightly concerned the place is starting to look messy! This won't do at all! My mother is planning to come over every Wednesday to make sure everything is in order.

However! The shell is now up around the crates - the man came at 7am this morning as Mum said he would - he also put up the hooks and hung the mirror in the wardrobe. Good man. :O) So it all looks really good in there, I just have to make sure the rest of the place looks right. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this big box of kitchen stuff, it's got way more stuff in it then I could ever use.

Speaking of kitchenware, there's been some very unfortunate breakages while I was moving stuff from the old flat to my car - first my cupcake holder! Fuck! Although, they seem to have become quite popular in recent years so I suppose I won't have that much trouble replacing it. But I've only seen gray ones...I want a colourful one!

The same can't be said for the water tank on my water cooler, which fell out of the car when I opened the door. :O( I tried to look up replacements on the net, but no luck, I could only find filter replacements, that's no use to me. Sigh... Although, that cooler was a bit of an ass, it worked on gravity so was slow as anything when it came to actually getting water out of it!

Hmm, there was something else I had to say, but I've forgotten what it was! Oh well, it'll probably come back to me. Or maybe it was another apology for not getting around to the memes again tonight. :OP Sorry about that.

On that note I'm off to bed!

Oh wait! I remember what it was! Today was Library Lovers Day! And as part of it the library had "A Blind Date With A Book", so I decided to take part, picking a book described as having 'magic, parallel universes, multiple Londons and adventure'. I hope it's good, I took a look at the blurb and it mentions George III!! What are the chances! :OP Although he probably doesn't show up in any major way.

Goodnight all!

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11:02pm: Yeah that's me! I came home right after work at Mrs S today with the intent to do some cleaning because Mum was supposed to be coming over. However, she didn't which was good because I didn't do that much cleaning anyway.

But is this change of plans reflected in my NaNo word count, unfortunately it's not. In fact I haven't even reached 1,000 words today! OMG, come on me!

Although, it's not like I wasn't doing anything! I finally finished reading that biography of Nijinsky I borrowed from Pittwater Library an age ago. I was inspired by Plushy to do so, it proved to be a really interesting read, truth is stranger than fiction indeed! You'd never think someone would go through all that, but there you go. It was also sad though, all that talent and mental illness brought him down so young. I wonder what he could have done if he'd been able to keep dancing and choreography-ing.

Oh and also finished watching the fifth season of Bergerac so that's a plus too.

But my NaNo is not going to write itself! Which means I better wrap this entry up and get back to typing, I hope I can at least get to a thousand words before I need to turn in for the night, but I'm not entirely confident...

Here's my decidedly sad word count as of now:

11442 / 50000 words. 23% done!

Only a 1% advance, eek!

Oh before I go, one annoying thing, that little black dress I got from Aldi yesterday, I have to take it back because although the package it came in said size 12, the dress itself is actually a 14 and way too big as a result. Damn! I'm not sure there were even any 12s left. Hmpf, annoying. I wonder if I can return to the Mona Vale Aldi - they might have a size 12 there or if I have to return it to same place I got it from. I guess we'll see tomorrow.

Off I go now, goodnight all!

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