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10:09pm: Well...not quite, but I figured... what the Hell ;O)

Anywho, I still have to wrap presents for my niece and nephews so I'll have to make this quick!

From not much to report, lots of stuff has been going on as the end of the year approached (sorry for the delay in getting back to you, Vic!), especially as the big bro and family have arrived, hence the need to wrap the present.

Archery continues to go awesomely - although after my last update, there was a change in the handicap rules, namely you need to have a handicap before you compete in one! Which makes sense, I didn't have one, so I think it applied the highest handicap which is how I won! As evidenced by the competition I was just in on Sunday, where everyone contributed $2 and the winners shared the pot. The winners incidentally included me as the lucky loser, which was a bit awkward because the other two people on the last target were little kids. XD I wonder if the rules will change again now!

My mother, niece and I also got up to the Blue Mountains for a couple of nights - we had planned to do it last year, but because of my oldest nephew's fever, they had to postpone leaving for a day so we had to cancel it. But yes, this time we did it and a mostly great time was had be all! Although my niece didn't have a good a time ice skating as I hoped she would. She had taken figure skating lessons, but last year and was most put off by the fact she couldn't remember it all :O( She did end up picking up most of it again, but yeah she didn't enjoy the lesson we had even though the coach was a really nice older lady.

I haven't seen as much of my nephews, but the littlest one - who's only three (I think?) has a lot more words this year which is nice, although he sure likes to run, the little bro, big bro and I took him and my niece to the nearby kids park yesterday, unfortunately while someone was holding open the gate to let their own kid out, the nephew bolted and ended up running across the parking lot! O.o I wasn't fast enough to catch him! Fortunately, the Big Bro (aka his father) was able to catch him before he ended up running onto the beach. I mean daaang.

But I will be seeing them all tomorrow and I definitely need to go and wrap these presents!

So on that note I shall be off and a Merry Christmas to you all!

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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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11:28pm: And I gotta get my butt to bed!

I'm reporting from the Grandparental abode where I was surprised to find that the Christmas Party is actually happening in the Clubhouse here rather than the one at my parents' place. Why was I left uninformed? On the plus side I won't have to go far to get there tomorrow and Mum and Grandpa decorated the room so I don't have to do that either.

However, it's going to be somewhat awkward with the present situation, I've got my Kris Kringle, but I've also got my presents for the immediate family, but I can hardly give them out and neglect everyone else! Or...maybe I can?

I also forgot to bring the Mega-Bon Bon! It's the one from last year that I've been keeping safe! It's inspired by Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer and is super cute! Actually I was a bit sad at the thought that we'd finally be popping it tomorrow so maybe I subconsciously meant to leave it behind. I did send an SMS to Mum offering to go get it tomorrow morning, but she said it was all right.

So as I said I need to be heading off now so I'm not tired tomorrow, it's sure to be a busy day. I'm just glad I got to the War Vets Chapel on time! It was packed! But the music went really well so yay!

I'm disappointed that I can't watch the ladies free program at Russian Nationals because it starts too late, but then again maybe not...my favourite male skater messed up his program and ended up coming 7th :O( and he was going so well! And just now the pairs team I thought were awesome came 2nd in what looked to me like a clear case of biased judging. So perhaps I'd be better not to watch the ladies live...

However! Plushy started his show yesterday and from the pictures I've seen it. is. awesome. Ah Plushy, never leave the ice. :O)

For now, I bid you all a Merry Christmas and to all a goodnight!

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11:43pm: It seems like you need to spend it!

My latest annoyance is my phone, which is about two years old now and was out of date when I bought it. Now, far be it for me to need the newest phone out there, but I'm having trouble with my current one. First off it never seems to have enough memory even though I've inserted an SD card in there and set it to function like extra storage. I keep having to clear the cache and shit, plus every so often it grinds to a halt and I have to restart it. The second problem might not actually have anything to do with the phone...that is I often find myself unable to receive photos SMSed from people. And sometimes I don't even get their regular SMSes that don't have any photos! It happened yesterday actually! Mrs S sent me a photo of the kettle she needs me to purchase along with a separate SMS telling me that the Christmas Party start time had been moved to 6:30 rather than 7pm.

Neither of these got to me, despite the fact that nothing showed up on Mrs S's phone to say they hadn't got through (as far as I know my phone will say "Message unsuccessful" if it doesn't go), which meant I was late to the party - although they hadn't ordered yet so I wasn't late late. Now as I said, this could well be some sort of issue with my carrier because I'm quite sure my old mobile had trouble getting SMSes too. Either way very annoying.

I briefly considered getting the Motorola Moto G3 from Aldi when I was out shopping this afternoon, which is the next level up from my phone (still out of date, though, LOL), but it was $250 and that's a fair chunk of change. So, I didn't, apart from anything else I should really investigate if it's Spintel's fault I'm not getting photos and SMSes before doing that. They used to be contactable 7 days a week, but I'm not sure if that's true anymore.

Anywho, moving on, since it's getting late an I need to go to sleep ASAP, I've done some of my Secret Santa shopping, but I've only spent $30 so far and the maximum is $50 and I'm pretty sure other people will probably spend the maximum so it seems wrong not to do so myself. However one of the things my Secret Santa wants is something that I can't really buy until the end of next week - because it's a pot of flowers that are ready to bloom and if I was to buy it too soon it will have bloomed before I give it! Or I could go for the CD option, although I'm not sure I want to return that 70s CD set I got, because the songs on it look really good, plus I'm not sure where I've put the receipt. But what was I saying about saving money? :OP

Anywho, I'll have to ponder on that later because tomorrow I have quite a few things to do aside from going to work - decide what I'm going to wear for the big party on Sunday, have my hair done, wax and all that jazz. And with deciding what to wear I need to put that outfit together before leaving for work tomorrow morning since I won't have time afterwards!

So I bid you all, goodnight!

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11:28pm: Well, at least in this documentary Death Row Stories where they seem to be sentencing people to death on the flimsinest of evidence. Like, seriously? Although the other week I found out that even if someone admits they lied their ass off on the stand if the trial was "fair" they won't give you a retrial. If this is true, fuck the law, man. Someone just admitted to lying so how was the trial "fair"? Beats me. I sure hope I never end up getting screwed over by some bad cops and over the top prosecutors. I wonder do any of these prosecutors ever wind up in jail themselves for being bullshitters?

Anyway, moving on, my brain is frazzled today and I didn't get nearly enough cleaning, which is no good for me because my mother is coming over tomorrow and I really should have it looking right...it's not like I haven't had enough notice of this.

But I blame biology, it's that time o' the month as well as being damn hot, I'm a bit worried actually as it's supposed to even hotter tomorrow! I've got my air-con, but I'm not sure if it's strong enough to keep me cool tomorrow...On the other hand the big bro and his family arrive this Sunday morning so I'm not supposed to spend time the night over at the parental units's.

Which actually brings me to something that's got me down, with the big bro, his wife and their baby staying with my parents for Christmas there's no room for me to stay over on Christmas Eve as usual! That means waking up Christmas morning with no-one to say Merry Christmas to except Plushenko the fish (sorry Plushenko, but you can't talk back :OP) I mean technically I could stay on my parents' couch, but er...that'd be six people in the house way too crowded. Of course Mum said I can just come over Christmas morning ASAP, but I dunno, I'm considering seeing if M and Grandpa will have me stay over. Tell me, am I lame or not for not wanting to wake up all by myself on Christmas morning?

Right, it's almost midnight so it's time for me to wrap this up and hit the hay!

Goodnight all, wish me luck tomorrow with finishing my cleaning!

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10:51pm: Indeed! Although now I've built them up so much you're bound to be disappointed :OP Actually I hope you can see them all because I got an email regarding one, apparently one of the Christmas carols being played in the background is copyrighted and the email says that some countries may be unable to play it. Bloody rude, if you ask me, it's only a 30 second long video or something and the sound quality isn't the greatest either.

Bah. Well anyway, here's the first part - a diorama the owners have in their garage. :O) Also here's part two which is up on top of the garage, lots of amazing stuff up there too! And the last part which is the view going down the stairs as you can see they really went all out with this! Although you have to wonder what the house next door to it makes of all this, I noticed it was up for sale actually and couldn't help wondering if the display would help or hinder the selling LOL.

And...I've just realised that 9GEM is showing Cold Case again, which I've mentioned previously is not available on DVD because the licencing for all the songs would be astronomical. And I'm pretty sure I haven't taped the one that's on now...having said that, it's only just started, but I need to go to bed soon so I'm not sure how this would even work. Oh well.

I'd like to know what happened to Air Crash Investigation though, it's not on anymore, booo, and I finally freed up enough space on my Blu-Ray player to record it.

Anywho, I better go, time's a-tickin' away!

Oh, I almost forgot, things went OK with Mrs S today although I did end up being ten minutes late, do'h and also managed to lock my keys inside, with no time to go back and get them. Luckily, when I got back home after work the landlords were hopme so I managed to get in with my key.

OK, now I really do have to go!

Goodnight all!

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11:16pm: Learning Russian with Duolingo that is! I've been using the program for a month now and I think it's starting to sink in...I'm sure I'll never be able to speak it, but I wanted to be able to read it a bit, so with any luck that'll happen...sort of...one day. :OP

In other news, I got to ice skating today! Yay! But I had a bit of a panic attack driving there, booo! And that was because I drank some water I left in the car, and it was kind of warm, and thus tasted disgusting which freaked me out a little. Honestly though, I feel silly, but hey at least I was able to get to Macquarie Mall and skate, good times. :O)

While I was there I popped into Target and happily I discovered that there were still Santa Balls in stock...and there were and they were only 10 bucks! Sweeet! I got one, isn't it adorbs?

However...my solar Santa lights have died...I don't know why! I thought it was perhaps the battery, so I took the advice of the net and opened it and put a non-rechargable battery in there, but nothing happened. So somehow the actually electronic bit is broken? That stinks! I wonder if I should take it back...but I don't have the receipt. Hmmm.

And on a final note, because once again I left updating too late, I went and bought the longer zipper for my dress after finishing with Mrs. S and I've been working hard on the bodice tonight, putting the sleeves on has proven a bit difficult...first I sewed one inside out, then I sewed it right side up but didn't do it properly so you could see the threads...finally I got it right! But then I sewed the other one so the threads couldn't be seen, but it was inside out! I'm not too good with the spatial stuff.

And in closing, I don't know what to do tomorrow for New Years Eve! I asked Ben if we were going to meet up as usual, but he hasn't got back to me and I don't want to go aaaalll the way to Milsons Point by myself and then have to come back...So should I just go to the 9:30 Fireworks at Dee Why Beach? I dunno. Once agian decisions, decisions!

And now I'll have to sleep on it, so goodnight!

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10:35pm: It always sneaks up on me, I swear! And I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do tomorrow - the plan is to go over to my parents place, but I'm not sure what time that should be...I suppose the most efficient use of my time would be to go directly from Mrs S's. However, I've still got left-over lasagna to eat! I guess I could bring a piece over to eat...but I also need to bring my Christmas tree, two sets of clothes, my presents, wrapping paper, PJs and some decorations from C that belong to Mum which she needs back.

That's quite a lot of stuff! Not to mention the cupcakes - which I forgot to take again this morning, do'h! This means multiple trips to carry everything, but I generally don't give myself a lot of time in the mornings...

In which case perhaps it'd be better to come back? Ugh, decisions, decisions, I hate making decisions I suck at them!

I shall have to think about this longer...But I have super exciting news... I missed a call from the HR Department at Pittwater Council (why do they always call me before 11:30am? I tell them I'm at work), I called back but got their message bank, so left a message and while I was driving home they called! Worryingly, the lady on the other end couldn't hear me very well over the bluetooth, so I had to pull over and speak on the mobile.

BUT! To make a long story short...I GOT THE WEEKEND JOB AT MONA VALE LIBRARY!!

O...M...G! This makes the gift I received from my friend over in Britain very apt indeed! It's this badge. Heh, so cool huh?

However, I did have a bit of scare with the car, because as I pulled over, I managed to scrape the curb with my very nice sporty tyres! And when I got a closer look there was a small strip off rubber hanging off...there wasn't a hole or anything, but the little strip off rubber didn't look good.

I ended up asking Mum for advice when I called to tell her my news and she suggested that I go to the mechanic, the mechanic suggested I go to a tyre shop. So off I went to Bob Jane T-Mart where luckily I was told the tyre was intact and I didn't have to worry about blowouts or anything. Phew.

This at least got me out of the house and to the gym since I almost skipped going today which would have been a shame, because I do pay to be a member of that place, and should go at least twice a week.

And I better move this along because bed calls!

( But here's a Meme or two )

OK, time to head off! Wish me luck tomorrow!

For now, goodnight!

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10:28pm: Dumb enough to make me want to throw something through a window...oh and pry a gun out of Charlton Heston's hands so I can whack him over the head with it.

Maybe I should stop watching this doco, because it's giving me the shits, honestly, I don't know how any person can be as stupid as members of the NRA, but apparently they are and they're actually taken seriously! Fucking idiots.

Makes me relieved to be an Australian! I certainly don't like John Howard, but I for one will be forever thankful he took a stand and banned guns way back in 1996. He saved lives, and thus unlike Tony Abbott did at least ONE decent thing while running the country.

Anyway, moving on because I'm sure you don't care about my rants, today was the day of the big pre-Christmas Party up at my aunt's fiance's house on the Central Coast. I got to the hairdressers at 10am, but had to wait until 10:15 before things got going. That was OK since it gave me the opportunity to buy a festive headband, although I didn't have any luck finding some breakfast!

As always the thickness of my hair was commented on and the cutting began, by the time the hairdresser was done half my hair was on the floor! Daaaaamn! O.o Of course, this included thinning the hair out a bit, hopefully not too much because it seems quite thinned out now. But it was also blow dried straight, which is also a factor. I also bought some new shampoo, which I certainly hopes will do something, because otherwise I spent 17 extra bucks for nothing.

Anyway, I kind of waited too late to call my bro to come pick me up...and then Mum suggested we meet up in Narrabeen because she ordered all this bread from the Bakers Delight there and then forgot to pick it up! So off I went to park my car in the area - luckily I found a parking lot off the beaten track - got the bread and waited for the little bro. The traffic had started to get heavy though, so he didn't arrive until midday!

As it happened it wasn't a bad thing because the party started closer to 2 rather than 1, so our 'lateness' was not actually all that late in the end!

There were way more people there then I thought! When Aunt Weed mentioned her fiance's family would be there she never mentioned it was a big one - the fiance - nice chap named Pete has four kids - and he invited his sister and her family too so there was about twenty people there. Fortunately, we all fit in the house because it was indeed hot today. There was plenty of food though and lots of dessert so I didn't have to worry about my cupcakes being the only thing, LOL!

And Here's a piccie of me, two of Pete's kids and my little bro. You can see my hair and my fancy headband.

Oh! And the Kris Kringle went great! I got the white bag I wanted, yay! Although I didn't realise I wasn't supposed to reveal myself on the card - the recipient was supposed to guess! Whoops. It took me a while to figure out who my Secret Santa was, it was Aunt Jo!

It was a shame I couldn't go swimming though because the pool was really nice, though small, I at least got to put my feet in. :O)

And, alas...I managed to leave behind the actual beater part of my beaters at the house, whoops...luckily Mum and Dad have stayed up there and are seeing Aunt Weed tomorrow so will get them back. And I have enough cupcakes left over to give one or two to Mrs S, yay! Although alas there's no frosting...I guess the cream will do, although that's not whipped properly either.

( Right! I best wrap this up with a meme or two, otherwise I'll never catch up! )

I have to get to bed because tomorrow is a big one! There's the interview and an afternoon library shift as well as going to Mrs S's!

Wish me luck! For now, goodnight!

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11:36pm: Making cards that is...what isn't in the cards is memes, sorry about that!

But it's been a busy day, what with work at Mrs S, then a drive to the Super Centre in Belrose and then work at Mona Vale Library!

I managed to do it all though, phew! Despite the fact I had to make a detour via Mrs S's house on my way to the library because I thought I'd left my mobile phone there. As it happened...I hadn't left it there, at least not in her house, no...it had fallen out in the bin room. Into the bin itself! I know...ewww...and also embarrassing. How do these things happen? Good thing I checked though! Otherwise I'd be down one phone! O.o

In other news, there's an ad on right now for a perfume...called Black Opium, is it just me, or is naming perfumes after illicit drugs in rather poor taste? I mean do we really want teenagers asking for that? Or associating it with a nice smell? Or is it just because opium isn't a word that's used much these days? I still think it's weird.

So yes, I got the three cards that need to go overseas done only to discover that I don't have their addresses after all! Shit. I've sent a private Plurk, but I'm not sure what will happen if they don't reply tomorrow because I'm quite sure they won't arrive on time anyway...but they certainly won't if I have to wait another day! Gulp!

And...look at the time, it's too late and I better be off, sorry for the short entry syndrome!

So now goodnight all!

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