Moose Musings

11:01pm: Yes indeed! I went ice skating today in person. Hooray for me! :O) It was fun as always, although I was a bit later than usual because I stopped at the Discount Homey-Ped shop on my way there - I got some closed in shoes this time, I think the ones I have now are getting a bit worn out, I did get them like six months ago and I wear them a lot.

Speaking of shoes, I wore those closed-toe sandals to work yesterday, but alas I'm not sure if they work with my orthodics, my right heel kept slipping a bit, which may or may not explain my right foot pain today. I'm a bit worried it's that plantar fasciitis thing again. I don't need that shit, man. I have some anti-inflammatory tablets that I got for it, but I dunno if I want to take those. Maybe I'll just use the anti-inflammatory gel and see if that helps.

Grumble grumble.

Anyway, daylight savings starts tomorrow, which means it's actually an hour later than it is (although it doesn't officially begin until 2pm)! And since I have to get up tomorrow morning I really should get a move on.

Aside from shoes I also bought a new pretty green toaster from E-Bay, because my current one is broken, it's supposed to arrive on Friday! I'm looking forward to it - I've selected to pick it up at a nearby Woolworths, hopefully that'll go smoothly.

And that's all I have to say for now, goodnight all!

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11:49pm: I ended up having to use LJ's updating page, which is just terrible now...but here's the text of said entry:

I'm updating from LJ for once...what the shit have they done to the update page here? It took me a good minute to figure out why my text wasn't showing up - it was but it happened to be hiding behind the options bar, why the Hell is this option bar in the way? Heads should roll... :OP

Anyway, the exciting news today is me going ice skating! Good times, good times! And I'm very relieved that I haven't lost it! Skating is a bit like riding a bike in that you don't forget how to do it, but it takes a while to pick it up again as evidenced by when I returned to the rink earlier this year where I could hardly skate at all!

I was hoping to take a picture, but without a selfie-stick it turned out to be impossible to get one with my skates in the photo. I tried to take some video of me skating, but my video taking skills are decidedly poor.

In other news, I realised while driving to Macquarie that I have work at the Mona Vale Library tomorrow! It had totally slipped my mind, although even if I hadn't remembered just then, I would have when I checked my phone since I set up a reminder in my calendar, knew that was a good idea. Note to self, must remember to bring my pass along, otherwise I won't be able to get inside.

After ice skating and a bit of shopping (I didn't get anything exciting) it was off to church, where I found out that another one of our priests are getting reassigned to some other parish. This is the third guy they've moved in like a year. What's the deal with that? Do they not like the Northern Beaches. :OP Although our Deacon is getting ordained at the end of the month so I guess he'll be the new priest.

And of course, since it's now daylight savings the sun was still out when church finished and I hung out my second load of washing and since then I've been lying around here on the couch. :O)

Right, this update page hurts my eyes so I'm gonna wrap this up here. I hope DW will back up tomorrow!

Goodnight all!

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10:35pm: To make a start on (yes, a dreaded) this assignment about conversations, primarily because it's just occurred to me I really don't have a lot of conversations...at least not verbally. This is kind of awkward, because now I'm gonna have to make some shit up. But really in order not to make crap up you really would have to take notes while conversing or just after you finished so you don't forget things which kind of makes it a bit unnatural.

So yeah, I tried to make a start on that tonight, but...er...I failed. :OP Gotta do something tomorrow though, I was thinking of going to the library until I remembered that it'll be closed tomorrow because it's a public holiday. Damn. Gotta discipline myself!

Anyway, in other news, M won the Canasta game this morning! Even though she was a bit dizzy from this new medication (well, she's going to taper off on taking it because it's not working very well), she still managed to take me down! We started another game, but that remains unfinished and inducement to go back - not that I need one, but you know.

Also Grandpa got me in for lunch, which was a roast pork dinner and a chocolate pudding thing, ooo so delicious! :OD However I somehow managed to miss my bus back to the flat despite the fact it was more than 15 mins late! I got complacent and left too late, arriving within eyeshot of the bus stop just in time to see the bus whizz past. It would be almost another hour before the next one came, so I decided fuck it and walked home. Which didn't take long, but it was bloody hot today (up to 30 degrees C!) so that might not have been the wisest idea. I don't appear to be sunburned or anything so I guess I'll live.

Although after that I couldn't be bothered to go out to do some food shopping or go to the gym, hmpf, come on me get it together! On the plus side, the pool reopens on Tuesday so I'll be able to go swimming!

Annnd to wrap this up, Meme time!

Follow Friday Four Fill-Ins

The statements:

1. During thunder storms, I get a little frightened!

2. While I like walking, I wouldn’t want to be in a marathon!

3. Reading while walking, is probably not the best idea, but I did it today with no tripping over!

4. Why would anyone work at a cigarette company? I pray I'd never be that desperate! D:

Friday5

Rebel, Rebel

1. In what ways have you rebelled against your upbringing? Uhh...I guess not having a significant other or even any dates. Mum used to encourage me to go on some, but I'm not interested in those sheninigans and she gave up on that. LOL.

2. In what ways have you rebelled against your schooling? I got nothin' I'm a good student! Unless you'd count half-assing some assignments, but who hasn't done that?

3. In what ways have you rebelled against American culture? Well, I'm Australian so...

4. Is it possible to rebel against yourself? Well, I have tried to stand up to my anxiety and push myself outside my comfort zone, so maybe that counts? Or anxiety itself is trying to rebel against me, but I ain't havin' it!

5. What’s your favorite song about rebellion? Well I do like that song that goes "With a rebel yell, she goes more, more, more! In the midnight hour she yells more, more, more." Or something like that.

Saturday 9

:Rubber Ducky (1970):

1) This song is sung by Muppet Ernie. Who's your favorite Muppet? Well I do like Ernie a lot, but I've also really liked Grover for some reason. And the Count, ha ha ha ha!

2) Ernie became famous on PBS's Sesame Street. What public television shows do you watch? Well, we've got quite a few public television shows on the ABC, including Sesame Street. Although we also get a lot of US and British shows. My favourite Aussie made shows are Million Dollar Minute and Mad As Hell. Unless you mean like totally public access shows, because I don't watch that channel, it's just too hokey, LOL.

3) When you were a little kid, what was your favorite TV show? I was a huge fan of Inspector Gadget, good times, good times.

4) On Sesame Street, Ernie frequently teases his best friend Bert by stealing his nose. Do you enjoy practical jokes? LOL, Bert...And no not a fan of practical jokes, I prefer puns and the like.

5) Sesame Street creators developed carefree Ernie and serious Bert to show children that different types of people can be good friends. Think about your closest friend. Tell us how you two differ. Awww, that's sweet! As for me and my closest friends, well they're all quite a bit less silly than me. :OP

6) Bert and Ernie share a basement apartment on Sesame Street. Tell us about the basement of the building you're in right now. Really? I never knew that. And there's no basement where I am, the one at the apartment is the underground garage for parking, as a rule Australian houses don't have basements.

7) Ernie and Bert were created by Jim Henson. In addition to being an accomplished puppeteer, Mr. Henson was also a talented cartoonist. Can you draw? I can! I'm not super-talented or anything, I certainly suck when it comes to trying to shade stuff, sigh. But I enjoy it!

8) Jim Henson made his first puppets himself using felt, foam rubber, string and rods -- all items that can be purchased at an arts and crafts store. When is the last time you shopped in an arts and crafts store? A few months ago when I got some stuff for my Plushy plushy. Cuddles said plushy!

9) When is the last time you took a bath (as opposed to a shower)? Uh...wow, probably six months or something, I don't have a bath at either the Granny flat or apartment and now that my parents have moved there's no bath at their house either. Guess bathtime is over for me!

Saturday Six

1. Who was your favorite teacher from elementary through high school and why? Man, that's a tough one because there were quite a few of them, especially in high school with all the different subjects. But I'll always have a soft spot for Miss Jones my Year Five teacher who encouraged me in my writing. Thanks, Miss Jones!

2. Overall, did you tend to get along well with teachers, not get along, or somewhere in the middle.? Ha ha, I'm such a teacher's pet, I was like the only person who got on with English teacher in Year 11 and 12. Everyone seemed to think she was a huge bitch, but I thought she was great!

3. Think of the various subjects you studied and the teachers who taught those subjects: overall, which subject (or department) do you think had the most teachers who knew their subject matter well enough to teach it effectively? Uh, well I went to a private school which could afford to hire very good teachers, I don't recall any that couldn't teach their subject, except for perhaps one particular teacher, it wasn't her lack of knowledge it was her ability to keep the classroom in order. It was pretty sad really eventually she left and we ended up with a substitute for the rest of the year!

4. Which subject or department had the fewest teachers who you felt knew the subject matter well enough to teach it effectively? Oh...well, see above. Although the PE Department had the most unsympathetic teachers, who had us swimming in the freezing outdoor pool while they were wearing padded coats and telling us "Oh it's not so cold."

5. How many teachers have you kept in touch with since you graduated from high school? None alas, which is a shame, but Facebook wasn't that big back then so yeah. They probably wouldn't want to keep in contact with students anyway, LOL!

6. How many teachers have you not kept in touch with but would like to speak to again? Ooo quite a few, as I said I liked most of my teachers and would like to know what they're up to... The only one I saw with any regularity funnily enough was an old science teacher who worked out at the same gym I used to. He must have been younger than I thought because he'd be like 80 now if I'd been correct in my assumption!

Sunday Stealing

Random 20

1. Have you had an argument with anyone recently? If so, do you still have issues with that person? Nah, my last argument was with my parents and we forgave each other a while back. :OP

2. Are you talking to anyone while filling this in? How about texting/chatting on Facebook? Nope, I am watching Homes Under the Hammer though.

3. Have you done something recently that helped someone else, in any way? Well, I did some ironing for my granparents today, and hung out some clothes for Mum's friend in the main house.

4. Who was the last person to pay you a compliment? Uh...M probably.

5. Is there anything that’s happened in the past month, that you wish you could go back in time and change? Well, I sure wish I had got an interview for the library job, give me a chance you bastards!

6. What colour is your purse/wallet? Black.

7. What’s the closest item to you that’s black? The remote controls for the TV and Foxtel or even my laptop.

8. Think about what you looked like 5 years ago. How did you look different, compared to the way you look now? Haha no, I look exactly the same. Exactly.

9. Before Facebook became popular, did you use any other social networking site, like Bebo or Myspace? I used LJ, good times, good times, not as busy there these days though, boo.

10. Has someone of the opposite sex ever sung to you? If so, how did you respond to it? LOL whut? No. And I guess it'd depend if they were any good or not.

11. When did you last hug someone of the opposite sex? Not including relatives, my friend Ben a few weeks ago.

12. Have you ever seen the film “Casablanca”? Did you like it? Nope, not really my bag.

13. Do you have a relative whose name begins with ‘L’? Tell me about him/her. Well there's my father's older sister, Lorraine. I don't see her much, but she's quite nice and after Grandma died she seemed to have inherited the collection of birthday cards with eeriely accurate pictures of the recipient on the front of them. Because my father married at a much later age, her children were a lot older than me and my brothers so we didn't see them much.

14. Are you a secretive person? Nope, I'm pretty much an open book.

15. When did you last eat? Uh, I had some Eton crackers twenty minutes ago or something.

16. If you were going to buy a present for a special person, what would you generally choose? I suck at picking out gifts, I'd probably get 'em a gift card. I would make them a nice card though!

17. If I’m going to buy you a box of chocolates, which kind should I definitely NOT get? Mint ones...or ones with nuts in them, I don't like either.

18. Is there something you generally always ask for help with? Uh...pretty much everything :OP But in all seriousness, probably big life decisions, I suck at making those.

19. If you had to give up your phone or your computer, which would it be? See ya later phone!

20. Has anyone called you gorgeous/beautiful today? Aside from myself Nope.

Unconcious Mutterings

I say ... and you think ... ?

1. Candle light :: Dinner

2. Kevin :: '07 (His slogan when he was first trying to become Prime Minister)

3. Fireplace :: Logs

4. Pots :: and pans

5. Scarf :: Russia (I've been watching the anime Hetalia LOL)

6. Colossal :: X-Men (although it is Colossus, close enough)

7. Golf :: Ball

8. Construction :: Site

9. Reason :: Give me a... (It's a Corrs song)

10. Washington :: Monument

Phew! Can't believe I managed to get all those done! Now I must wrap up and get ready for bed, Daylight Savings kicked in so I got up "earlier" than usual and I shouldn't stay up too late!

And now I say, goodnight!

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11:18pm: I have no idea if I've actually proved whatever the Hell I was proposing at the start of the essay but I've run out of time here and I'm sleepy. Also my right elbow hurts for some reason, like I've strained it, surely not from Friday's session at the gym, because I'd have thought it would have shown up earlier if that were the case.

Anyway, getting to bed on time sure worked wonders for my headache, it was gone this morning and I felt pretty good so today I didn't even feel jet lagged, yay!

And here's short entry syndrome par excellence because off I go! Wish me luck with the assignment!

Gooodnight!

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10:54pm: Can we all say 'eeeeeee!' Well I will, often and vocally! :O)

However, in amongst this good news is some very bad news :O( I seem to have left my bus tickets in their little purple sleeve on the bus! $20 or more worth! I don't rate my chances of ever seeing them again and I won't even get a change to find out until Tuesday because Monday is a public holiday and the Lost Property department isn't open on weekends. :O( Bah!

Today is also the start of daylight savings, or rather tomorrow morning at 2 is, I'm quite looking forward to it because, yay! Daylight! We do still loose an hour, but what can you do I guess?

This evening I went over to my friend's apartment and another friend joined us so we could watch Doctor Who, it's the second last episode of the series and it was a good watch. Then we attempted to watch the Doctor Who movie, because my other friend hadn't seen it, but Daylight Saving day always makes one feel like it's later than it is, and said friend kept falling asleep so we called it a night..

And, I didn't do much of my assignment at all...whoops. I have to get onto that, damnit.

Right, meme time!

Saturday 9

:Sleeping to Dream:

1. Do you ever go to sleep to simply dream? No, because unless I'm sick, I can't nap without feeling like a pile of crap and if I am sick I'm not in a very creative mood so it's moot.

2. When you’re having trouble staying awake, what are some things you do to make sure you don’t drift off to sleep? Usually I just sort of slap my own cheeks or eat a chocolate or something. A surprisingly good way to stay awake is do that almost fall asleep thing and then jerk awake again. Wakes you right up again, at least for a while.

3. What’s most likely to cause you a prolonged period of not enough sleep? Reading stuff online, damn you fanfiction! Shakes fist. :OP Or a good TV show.

4. When you’re going through a prolonged period of not enough sleep, what parts of your daily routine are likely to change, and how? Well, basically my brain will go to shit, so my lack of sleep doesn't last for all that long because I simply can't function. They'll be a complete lack of proper thinking going on.

5. In what ways does your personality change when you go through a prolonged period of not enough sleep? See above, basically I become a zombie and even more distractiable than I all ready am!

6. Who in your life seems regularly to have not enough sleep? Well, my father often seems to be lacking in sleep, although since he's had his back op he's doing way better so that's good know. Otherwise, some of my poor internet friends. Off to bed with you all at a reasonable hour. :OP

7. When your sleeping, do your closer friends tend to be male or female? Why do you think that is? Huh, I don't understand the question. Do you mean when I'm dreaming or something? 'Cause I don't know, never really thought about it.

8. If you could wake up tomorrow with a new talent, what would it be? Ooo, I would love to be able to speak Japanese, that'd be all sorts of cool!

9. In a dream, is your past something that you can go back to? Sometimes, I can't make it happen, but sometimes it does.

Well the other Meme isn't up yet, so I guess I'll wrap it up here. I've just realised it's technically 12am so I better turn in! I don't want to oversleep tomorrow for a variety of reasons! :O)

Goodnight all!

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10:40pm: That's my catch cry, not that it seems to do much good. Sigh! Come on self, do uni stuff!

Anyway...not much to report today, except I suppose Daylight Savings needs to end because when I woke up this morning just before 7am it was so dark outside I thought it was about 4am instead! Plus I have to get myself up early tomorrow so I can get to the library.

That being the case, I best get myself to bed soon, but first Memes!

Monday Movie Meme

This week's movie topic is all about Sex Scenes...

Sex sells. That's why you see it - on one level or another - everywhere. It can either be alluded to or explicit. In the world of movies, sometimes a sex scene is more effective if the actions are just implied. Other times, full on images of the process make the best impact. Tasteful or tactless, romantic or disturbing, scenes of a sexual nature always get a reaction. Here are some examples that caught our attention. Share on your blog movie scenes involving sex that raised your eyebrows or made you roll your eyes.

Well, I can tell you that this show my mother was watching last night was a shock! Goddamn every second scene was a sex scene, boobs in your face and people making noise like they were been choked to death. It was quite hilarious after a while. But yeah...that was a mini-series rather than a movie...

I don't really watch movies that have sex scenes in them...at least not ones that come out of nowhere and make you go - say what?! Although I seem to recall there were some in Love Actually, two porn stars, yikes...

The Sunday Seven

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:

Name the seven paid holidays you’d offer to your employees if you were limited to giving them only seven.

1. New Year's Day
2. Australia Day
3. ANZAC Day
4. Queen's Birthday
5. Labour Day (in October)
6. Christmas Day
7. Boxing Day

And in closing, I'd like to congratulate President Obama for bringing in Universal Healthcare! I remain utterly confused by those protesting it - it's like "OMFG, health care that doesn't cost an arm and a leg! Bad news!" Do they live in reality?

And on that contraversial note, I'm off!

Goodnight all!

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8:20pm: So Daylight Saving is starting in 11 days, which by my calculations means we also get the Labour Day holiday to recover from the change in time! Great decision, whoever it is who makes these decisions, people are never in the swing of things by Monday so this'll be cool. :O)

Anywho, this is of interest - I swiped it from foxywriter's LJ:



Do they mean the National Football League as in actual players? I suppose it wouldn't be the strangest thing ti ever have a fandom, crossing it with Doug though is totally bizarre.

I refreshed it a couple of times trying to get a BTTF one, but screw that...I got this highly amusing one though:



"I don't think Gandalf meant for us to come this way, Frodo!" Well it looks as if Gandalf has been overthrown by a Senate majority, so feel free to express yourselves little Hobbits!

In other news, I was woken up this morning by my parents who were fussing over the skylight...or rather the lack of skylight. At some point during the night the skylight at the very top of the parental's house broke or blew away or something and rain came in and got all over my father's laptop! Cripes, I hope he didn't lose any important data, the laptop is covered by insurance, but you can't get data back when its gone.

Man, when is 20 to 1 on? I ask you, since when did starting times for programs become a relative term on commercial TV? They never used to pull this shit before and it certainly makes timer record harder to do.

Oh nuts, and I just realised it's not 20 to 1 time yet, it's 2 and a Half Men (you can see the dead look in Charlie Sheen's eyes!), whatever.

So I'm here at the parentals, but I only just got here a half hour ago, I had to come back to the apartment first to pick up my mobile phone charger also to collect mail etc. So I didn't have to bother my parents' for dinner which I'm sure they're all happy about.

Hmmm...I thought I had some chocolate, but it seems to have disappeared, how rude! Although I did find a Cherry Ripe in my bag today, I forgot I brought it last week, LOL, nice surprise there. :O)

In other news, I got my Tax File Number, but I still think the ATO is telling me I owe Tax, I am most disappointed! I've never had to pay extra tax before, well I suppose since I was on Unemployment for a while I can't complain, but as the Angry Video Game Nerd would say: "Son of an ass!"

Not much more to say, except tomorrow's gonna be busy as all Hell at work, everyone's going to be in because my co-worker is leaving to have her baby, so she has to go over everything before she does. Pray for Moose! (I better take notes!)

( Anywho...Memes please. )

Man, I think I may have to buy eyedrops or start taking Clartyne or something because my eyes are seriously having a spazz.

Anywho, now 20 to 1 really is going to start soon and I've finally got the TV reception to work in here so I don't have to record it on the TV in my parents' room after all. Noice.

And that's all I have to say for now.

Goodnight to ye all!

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