Moose Musings

11:10pm: Which actually isn't all that good...because Mum and Dad will be over tomorrow night for dinner and it has to be in rather better shape... I'm hoping that giving it a vacuum tomorrow will make it look much better. On the upside, the kitchen should at least be clear, I know that's Mum's particular complaint, how can she clean the counter if there's stuff on it.

My winter garden isn't looking the best I have to admit...but I don't think there's much I can do with it, although at least I'll be able to take the clothes horse down tomorrow since I washed my winter sheets and they're drying on it at the moment.

What else to report? Well, I'm watching the archery at the Paralympics which is proving to be great fun to watch, although sometimes it's hard to tell what disability the competitor has, considering the long pants it's probably leg related.

Anyway, as is common during the week, this is a short entry, but I don't have much to report work-wise, although our library supplier did deliver the boxes today - usually they come on Tuesdays, not sure what the delay was, but it did give us an opportunity to finish off Friday's delivery which is always good.

The Inter Library Loan Courier didn't show up during the day though, I assume he must have come by after I left at 5pm, at least I hope so! I'm not sure what happens if for some reason the courier can't make it to all the libraries in his run due to traffic. I guess we'd probably go without a delivery for the week, which would suck, so here's hoping the box is there tomorrow morning!

On that note though better wrap this up, I have to get to bed so I'm well rested for tomorrow!

Wish me luck for tomorrow! Goodnight!

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6:02pm: The entry that includes the quiz thing I retook yesterday:

https://anonymoose-au.livejournal.com/105444.html

Hilariously enough, most of the answers are the same! Pretty much the only difference is I picked "John" (Dad) as a name instead of "Michael" (my big bro).

And the songs were a bit different, although these ones actually seen to fit better, well at least one of them Prince Albert did indeed young.

But the evidence of me being basically the same person, having practically the same answers 17 years after the fact would do it.

I also came across another quiz that still worked!

https://anonymoose-au.livejournal.com/101517.html



Apparently I'm worth a little less these days, but not by much! Not sure

In other news, I wanted to go to the gym after work today and brought in my workout gear and everything, but I've pulled a calf muscle or something, and while I can walk, it hurts and the internet tells me working out as normal would be a poor decision. So I took my stuff all the way home, which sucked. Especially since I developed a headache on my way home on the bus. I've taken ibprufen for it which seems to be working although now my stomach hurts (WTF?) and I've also put ice on my calf as advised by the RICE protocol. Although now it's no longer a cold pack so I've had to put it back in the freezer. Bummer. I sure hope this clears up quickly, I'm on desk for 6 hours at the library on Saturday.

In other news I've been meaning to do more fanfic writing, but instead I've been sucked into the addictiveness that is Sims 3: Create a World, I'm creating Hill Valley and I'm trying to be as accurate as I can with it and it's proving to be quite the project!

But yeah I want to keep up with the writing, because if reading my old journal entries have taught me anything, it's how much I love writing.

And that's all for now, oh I almost forgot! My mother and friend finally came by to see the apartment - they were originally going to do this on Sunday, so the two additional days I had to clean up were much appreciated! I haven't spoken to her yet so I'm not sure how my cleaning attempt was received, but Mum said she'll call back later.

Also, Sammy the Robo-vac still had a flat battery this morning! I hope he's not broken, he's less than 6 months old!

Right better go put my laundry on, because I haven't been able to do that until Mum visited because otherwise I would have had to hang it up which wouldn't have been very attractive.

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

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

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

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

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

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

4531 / 50000 words. 9% done!

So not all that bad, almost ten percent there!

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

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

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11:47pm: Yes! Good news indeed, my friends, after helping Mum out at the school this afternoon I mentioned the window issue to her and by the time I got back to my Granny Flat, Mum was speaking to the landlord (I got stuck behind someone at the a pedestrian crossing) and then we took a look at the window, which was rather awkward because I hadn't finished my cleaning...again. I contend it wasn't that bad though!

Anyway, at first it looked as if I was going to have to wait until tomorrow morning for the window to be fixed, but the landlord found a local glazier who came by this afternoon, took the window pane in question and bought it back an hour late as good as new! Sweeet.

In that time under the direction of Mum I got the place all nicely cleaned up, go me! And she kindly mopped the floor for me after I left to go to Mrs S's so now it's positively sparkly! All right, self, now you just gotta keep it that way!

Anywho, apart from that excitement I don't have much else to report - it's still early afternoon over in Russia so no updates on Plushy and his skating school's official opening, although I'm not sure you're all as excited as me about that. :OP

Also, I though I got enough zzzs last night - I totally slept through my alarm! - but apparently not because I'm yawning a lot and my brain is fizzled out.

So, er yeah, I'm outta here.

Goodnight all!

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8:00pm: I'm watching RBT which reminds me of the segment on the show we have here Have You Been Paying Attention? (man, when's that coming back, I love that show), it's actually hard to tell sometimes who's over or under. Some of them are just really bad at English so are very confused by the instructions, which isn't all that surprising because when you actually listen to them they use some odd language. "Expel your breath through this device..." Like what the...?

Anyway, I'm updating early tonight because I have to go to bed sooner rather than later - no joke this time because I need to get to Mrs S's an hour and fifteen minutes earlier than usual because she has to leave at 9:35am to get to a doctor's appointment.

This mean I need to get up an hour earlier too, which means I need to get to bed at...calculates...10:30 accounting for time taken to get to sleep. So yes, can't let time get away from me too much, as it so often does once 8pm comes around. :OP

What else to report? Well, my bank card still isn't here, which really, really sucks, I'm really hoping it gets here tomorrow, otherwise I'm going to have to go to the Mall and take some money out at the actual branch because I have about 50 cents in my wallet after going food shopping today. And I didn't even get cucumber, boo.

Hmm, these guys on RBT have interesting stories...the guy on right now had to take his goat to the vet! Also...apparently if your roadside test indicates you've breathed over the limit and they take you to the station or the booze bus they put you handcuffs! That seems a bit harsh.

What else...nothing much, except I've just looked at my emails and my Pusheen stuff is on the way! Hooray! I was starting to worry I'd sent money to the wrong account! I wonder how long it'll take to get here? If it arrives before the bank card though...

Although...it's left me thinking if I should get another bank account or something so in this sort of situation I'd have a back-up. Only thing is...another bank account means bank fees and what money would I even put in there? I guess I could check if my ING Direct account has a card. I don't think so though, I'm pretty sure it's just an interest saving account.

What can you do?

Well, I'll tell you want I'm gonna do I'm going to get my dinner! I dilly-dallied in putting it on so it's only just ready now.

Right, I'll be off, wish me luck tomorrow with the early rising! At least I'll have more time to clean up my bedroom!

Goodnight!

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11:03pm: Regarding playing Russian Roulette with the parking lot across from the Library. It's got a one hour limit, but I have at various times - usually the weekend parked there for my shift - which is four hours.

And today I finally got a ticket, fuuuck. It was even more my own fault than usual because I only parked there because I was running late and thus didn't have time to park in the normal place where there's no time limit.

Although, the cost of a parking ticket seems to have gone down since the last time I got one years and years ago, back then it was 80 bucks! This one was $66 but with the 25% discount for paying it right away it went down to $49.50. Still that's like two hours of work. Shit.

Anyway! Now I don't have a cruise to recount any more I'm not sure what else to say! Except did I ever mention that I found my anti-chafing stick thing? Turned out it didn't fall out of my bag in the parking lot near the psychiatrist's office, instead it fell out here in my bedroom! So when I was unpacking two weeks ago, I found it! Hooray!

So, I need to get to bed but I'm caught up in I Shouldn't Be Alive, I really want to know how the guy gets himself out of this, he's trapped under a quad bike and coyotes are coming for him. O.o Luckily, he seems able to scare them away, but he's been out there for like 3 days.

Quad bikes suck.

But not much else to report, I did do some cleaning and ironing today so the place should be ready for Mum's inspection tomorrow afternoon. :OP Meanwhile, I'm still waiting to hear if I'm going to get together with some friends tomorrow evening. I hope so because one of them is going back overseas on Thursday, this will be my last chance to see her for a long time.

And now on that note I must go!

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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10:25pm: The water is still cloudy! Although not as bad as yesterday, so I guess it'll clear up eventually...I'll have to keep you all posted I suppose. It might be part of cycling the tank, which I'm a bit worried about because according to what I've read it can take like 2 months! On the other hand I did put this Quick start stuff in which is supposed to allow you to put fish in right away. But who the Hell knows.

Despite Mum telling me not to I bought a new heater and a little temple ornament to put in there, I'm still divided on whether to get a light for it, but those seem to be expensive so maybe I won't, I'm sure once the water clears up any fish I buy to put in there will be easy to see.

Moving on, I'm still watching MacGyver eps and on the episode I'm watching now there's a character called "Doc" and every time Mac calls him that I get BTTF thoughts. Also...Mac's gone undercover as a homeless person, but it seems kind of weird for him to keep wearing the clothes after his cover is blown, like he goes into the library wearing dirty old clothes, hope they only looked like that and didn't smell really bad.

In other news, the inspection was today, it lasted for a grand total of 5 minutes, pft! Oh well, as I said I thought that'd be the case, but the place is clean and that's important.

Right, I keep getting distracted here..I'm listening to a podcast, which makes it hard to concentrate on this at the same time, LOL. And now I've just remembered I need to do my Russian too! Eek!

So on that note I shall be off...sorry for the less than satisfactory entry here, but them's the breaks!

I bid you all goodnight!

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11:02pm: I do believe I have purchased - with my parents help, of course - an apartment! A studio apartment that won't be built for some time (projected finishing date is mid-2018) so it'll be quite a wait, but when it happens I'll have somewhere to live! OMG! So exciting!

Of course, it's not all set in concrete yet, because Mum wants our solicitor to look over the contract although she has put down the deposit. As it happens though, we might end up getting an apartment the next floor up because Mum's concerned that the slope of the land will result in my view being of a wall and since the apartment faces west there won't be a lot of sun, and that wouldn't be very nice. It's a bit of shame though because the apartment we put the deposit on today was 302, which is the inverse of the Newtown apartment (which is 203), but as I don't believe in numerology or whatever so I won't be deciding my life based on that. Although it would have been fun.

So, yes! Very exciting news! However, I still haven't heard from the library re: the job yet, but I don't think I should worry yet as they did say they'd get back to me in a week to ten days. But just in case, I've sent off another application for a full-time position as a library assistant, so even if something doesn't happen on that front there's a back up!

What else to report? Well, after the Religious class at school Mum came over to look over the Granny Flat, I'd done some more cleaning before I headed out, but the kitchen was still looking a bit sad, so Mum got out the sponge and Gumpton (a strong cleaning product) after having tea and got to scrubbing, especially the stove/oven. It's looking sparkling now, she took the stove tops off, and got me to put them in the dishwasher! I thought that was a bit nuts, but Mum was of the opinion that if my new dishwashing tablets were so amazing (and they are! I used one today before heading to the school - all the cutlery and dishes came out sparkling!), but everything didn't fit quite right in there so when I got home after the meeting with the real estate person it had stopped halfway through the cycle. It took me a while to figure out what was wrong, but I did and now everything looks nice.

Anywho, I better wrap this up because it's getting late and bed calls me, but before I go, there's more good news, I think my wrist is better again, it's certainly stopped twinging in general. We'll have to see when I next do weights at the gym. I'll keep you posted.

For now, goodnight!

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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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