Moose Musings

10:46pm: The badge a good friend of mine gave me as a present many years ago, it has "Librarian" on it and this week I've finally been able to put it on...

Because I've been seconded to a 3 month position as a Collections Librarian! Yes, I've sadly neglected to mention it on here, but the woman who used to be my direct boss at Mona Vale Library recommended me (apparently they hadn't had much luck filling the role?) and I was accepted for the position! How awesome is that! The lady said she has great faith in me, so perhaps with luck this might turn into a more permanent role. I sure hope that can happen! It's not quite full-time, but I do get to keep 1 of my shifts at Mona Vale so it's nearly full time, which is great news for my apartment. I'll have enough to live there if that happens.

So yes, I wore the badge (and the nice new business like dress I got at Vinnies for a steal) for my first day on Monday. Although, I actually thought I was starting the Monday before last, so that was a bit awkward, however it turned out for the best because I ended up with a cold last week, so I would have had to call in sick to my first week! It ended up been pretty embarrassing actually, because before I realised I was unwell I got a shift at Mona Vale, replacing a co-worker (because I'd cancelled them in preparation for the job), but ended up having to go home sick from it. :Oo I was at least able to go in on Friday though.

So yes! I'm a Librarian now, I haven't actually had to tell anyone what to do yet, not sure if I will? Maybe when I do a desk shift? Although that in itself is weird because rather than having it at the Mall Library where I'm based I have to go to Manly Library for those. Luckily it's easy to take a bus there since parking is pretty much impossible. I'm actually taking the bus to the Mall Library because that's easier as well, which gives me time to read on the way.

However, I also thought I might have time to write on my new 2 in 1 laptop as well...so I took it with me to work, but never did actually use it. However, I stayed over at my parents place last night and I was planning to use it to watch the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating, but when I opened it...

The screen was cracked! It still turned on and everything, but the touch screen was all sorts of messed up and I couldn't use it! D: I've barely owned that computer for a month!

I took it to the Computer Repair Place in Dee Why this morning, to see about getting it fixed. I hoped maybe the warranty would cover it, but no...and touch screens are notoriously difficult to fix.

To make a long story short...it basically costs as much as the laptop cost me to repair it! D:

I wasn't going to do it at first...but then I remembered another Computer repair place and decided to see what they had to say. They weren't entirely sure, but by that point I'd realised if I bought a new 2 in 1 it would be more expensive then getting my current one fixed, because it was on special. The only other 2 in 1s I've seen have been at least $500 or even $600, so when you factor it in...

Also when I left it at the second place the guy there thought it might be about $225 to fix...but it's gonna be about $300, which is what I paid for the laptop. But like I said, still cheaper than throwing it away and buying a whole new 2 in 1.

Annoying as Hell however! What shitty luck and I feel like a real idiot, especially since as I said I didn't even use it on the bus!

The lesson here is...I need a padded back to carry my laptop in once I get it back.

Anywho, the JGP Ladies are on now, so I must be off. This entry can best be summed up as...you win some, you lose some.

Ta ta for now!

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11:05pm: And it sucked! Obviously I turned up my water tap too much when I attached the dishwasher hose so I could put it on. I have no idea what happened! I should have gone and checked it when the dishwasher beeped, but it was still making noises like the cycle was still going. But when it stopped and I went into the kitchen to unpack it I found water was practically spurting from the tap and water was all over the floor, sink and table! Even worse, all my daily positive affirmations which I've been forgetting to do since...oh June (gotta get back onto them though) but have kept in my broken penguin cookie jar had been soaked through! D: Thankfully, I was able to put the pieces of paper out on the floor and they've now dried. However in trying to mop up all the water I knocked my penguin jar over and the head was smashed to bits. My poor jar!

However, it's not all terrible news, I decided to look up the new Pusheen cookie jar on E-bay, and had the great luck to find a place that will send it free! It cost me $45, but that's a bargain, especially since it's apparently never going to be sold here. It'll take a while to get here though, but I'm really looking forward to it! :O)

Moving on, today after scripture class, my mother came over and was pleased to see how I've been keeping my house clean, yay! :O) We also discussed dinners - since I don't have much of a repitoire, Mum is of the opinion I need to add more vegetables to whatever it is I cook, she's proabably right, I'm pretty sure I'm not getting all my serves in.

Apart from that, not much else to report, I got to bed early yesterday though (a miracle!) and got to Mrs S's an hour earlier as planned, which meant I finished an hour earlier and got to the gym, so I've done my two of that for this week. :O)

However, it's now late, so I must be off since tomorrow I've got volunteering and a library shift, so I better be ready for it!

For now, goodnight!

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11:25pm: Damnit, despite having cleaned the kitchen sink and whatnot any time I leave something out that's not completely rinsed and cleaned off a hoard of motherfucking ants invades! Now I guess this just means I should clean everything up, but I did rinse it pretty well...and my dishwasher was full so I couldn't put the saucepan in there.

Also, I'm most annoyed by the fact my ant baits don't seem to be working. Although...maybe they've just run out of...er...poison stuff, I think they only last for three months and I've had them for longer than that. Or maybe I should try and get the spray...

Except, I haven't got my card yet, so right now I only have fifteen bucks or so to my name at least until the bank card arrives or I go to the bank to withdraw cash. Except, I don't think I'd be able to get to said bank, it is open on Saturdays' but I'm pretty sure if closes before I finish work.

Anyway, I'm sure you don't really care about ants...but I don't have much more to say...except I made a bit of a mistake today when I was doing the laundry - I forgot about my car key in my pocket so it went through the machine! No wonder there was so much noise! I think the key has survived, the little light on it still goes off when I press the buttons. Also, I have just remembered that unlike my mother's car key I can still use this one like an actual key so even if it is dead or the battery is screwed up I can still get in my car to drive to work tomorrow!

Speaking of which, I've totally stayed up too late this week which is really no good for me, so I should actually get to bed at a reasonable hour tonight! And this time I still have to finish up on my Russian before I turn in! So...

Goodnight all!

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11:57pm: AND going to bed on time fail! Seriously WTF me? I got caught up in the Cracked comment section, I swear that place is as bad as TV Tropes!

And I have to get up early tomorrow because I need to get to Mrs S's at 8am rather than 8:30!

So with much apologising, I'll once again leave you hanging on what went down in the World of Moose today, hope you're not too disappointed.

Spoiler alert, it wasn't anything exciting. ;O)

Goodnight!

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10:39pm: So today was the interview and I have to say...I don't think I did so well. Obviously I didn't prepare enough for it, because they were the same sort of questions I've had at such interviews before, but that didn't stop me from basically "uming" and "uhing" my whole way through. They told me to expect an answer back in about two weeks, but like I said I don't hold out a lot of hope. Damn shame because it's actually a full-time job with weekday hours so I'd be like a proper employed person.

In other news before I headed out to the interview the landlord came by to give me a letter and check that the smoke alarm was working, which it was. I also showed him the dripping tap, but unfortunately it doesn't look like he's all that sure how to get the top of the taps off either. Damn, should have got that plumber in here after all.

Huh, interesting I'm watching a doco called Body Hack and have just found out that you don't even have to be French to get in the French Foreign Legion. Not that I'm going to join, I'd last approximately point one millisecond, meanwhile the guy doing the doco is like "I'm so old compared to these guys..." which he is, but damn doesn't mean he's not fit since he ends up surviving the course and would have made the legion!

Also, Duolingo is being a bit of a pain here, I'm not sure if it's due to my phone running out of space or the storm that's outside. Maybe a bit of both? Very annoying. Especially since I'm still trying to get to bed at 11:18pm as advised by my UP app.

And also, I was going to do some memes, but Friday5 doesn't seem to be working, but I guess I'll just do the other Friday Five.

The (Other) Friday Five

15/7/16

1.How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? Uh...like how old do I feel? I guess like 16? Which is like half my age which is kinda sad.

2.Which is worse, failing or never trying? Never trying I suppose, although failing sucks rather hard :OP

3.If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do? Because you gotta eat, man and most people's dream jobs aren't really profitable.

4.When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done? With how much I talk definitely the former!

5.What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world? The inequality, it sucks that so little of us have so much. :O(

29/7/16

1.Do you believe in reincarnation? Nah.

2.Have you ever felt that you knew someone the first time you met them? Not that I recall.

3.Have you ever visited a foreign country or city for the first time and found that you knew exactly where things were? Pft, I barely know where things are in the place I live in all the damn time, so no.

4.Have you ever looked in the mirror and 'seen' a different face? Nope, although I have looked at photos of my niece and I think she looks a Hell of a lot like my mother's baby photos. Except...I don't remember seeing photos of my mother as a baby. Weird.

5.Is the belief in UFOs, aliens, physic powers, etc, growing because the belief in religion is dying? I dunno if it's actually growing, it's probably about the same it's just more noticible because of the internet.

Right, better be off now otherwise I won't make my bed time, which is more important than ever because I didn't sleep too well last night, I think I was nervous about the job interview, hmpf!

Goodnight!

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11:32pm: You can see where this entry's going I'm sure. :O(

I came home today to discover Nedshenko the V lying listlessly in his tank, discloloured, dull eyed and dead.

Nedshenko whhyy? I thought I'd finally sorted everything out!

So that's a huge bummer, especially sinc I've had such a good day! Work went well and I even went ice skating afterwards! After watching that awesome figure skating anime yesterday I was feeling inspired! Not that I managed to do anything exciting...although someone ran into me but we managed to both stay on our feet, phew! Then I had the rather undignified experience of tripping on my skate when I was off the ice and heading for my stuff on a bench. Lucky for me there's padded tiles on the floor so I didn't hurt myself. But seriously though that's like the first time I've fallen in figure skates and I'm very glad it wasn't on the ice!

Anywho, not much else to report, except I really do have to clean my house (oh dear, that old mantra again) and I watched the reboot pilot episode of MacGyver tonight, I didn't hate it, but let it be known that no-one is as awesome as the original Mac, no matter what the ads say. :OP

And I am aware I'm falling down on the Meme front, but there's not time to catch up now, I had to do my Russian! Now that I've got the net back I can catch up on what Plushy's up to.

Right off I go, goodnight all!

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11:13pm: That Aussie turn of phrase is very appropriate for today, I can tell you! Or at least one event of the day.

After another missed session of ice skating - I left on time, but once again my digestive system decided to act like a real ass with cramping and what not - I ended up down at Warriewood Square in the K-Mart looking at inline skates, or as we called them in my day roller blades. They were ridiculously cheap (30 bucks?!) and I figured..."What the Hell" and bought a pair, I thought perhaps they'd help me learn to skate better - maybe I could finally learn to skate backwards! :OP

Upon testing them out at a local park though I discovered this wasn't going to happen - first of all despite saying they'd fit sizes 5-8 my feet were really cramped in there and secondly ice is nice and smooth while pavement is not. Obviously, you get what you pay for and perhaps more expensive roller blades would work better, but these ones didn't wok very well - or perhaps it was just the pavement. Either way, I was not gliding and my lower shins started to ache almost immediately! After about ten minutes I decided "this sucks" so I wrapped them, put them back in their box and took them back. The wheels looked a bit scratched so I'm not actually sure what will happen to them, they probably can't be sold as new. Maybe they'll put them on the shelf I saw for "slightly damaged items".

After that fiasco I went to the Cookware place in the shopping centre where I bought a sugar bowl, so now I have a milk jug and a sugar bowl, although to be honest I'm not sure how often I'll use those. The sugar bowl was only six bucks though.

Then it was back home for a bit of a sit down before heading to work, which despite my digestive system still being sore was fun. Ah, books, how I love thee, let me count the ways! Although after a busy start things became very, very quiet and we sort of ran out of things to do! However, that did mean we closed on time for once, usually someone decides to come in at literally the last minute to borrow something, it can be very annoying.

After work it was church, which I was able to get to today in contrast with last week! The parental units were singing tonight and Mum's friend Mrs Lampe is staying so she was there too. I was a bit concerned when I saw that a group of kids were having their First Holy Communion, but unlike Baptism or Confirmation this particular sacrament doesn't make the mass super long. Which was good because Mum had invited me to come to dinner, I thought it was going to be at their house, but nope it was at the Chinese Restaurant across the street - I'd never noticed it there before!

Mum also invited the priest too, so that was nice, although there was quite a lot of discussion over what to order, we were going to go with the Banquet option, but the waitress said we'd end up paying too much that way - unless we're all big eaters. So we ordered individual dishes, including honey chicken, YUM!

I sort of ate and ran though because as you know I don't like driving in the dark all that much, but I made it back here without too much trouble. As I'm now typing up this entry!

Right, I better head off, even though I'm starting an hour later because of the public holiday tomorrow I don't want to muck up my sleep schedule too much.

So, no memes tonight! Instead I bid you all goodnight!

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9:52pm: That should really be a spring, because I'm talking about is the spring on the green chair, which as previously mentioned has a broken spring that I've tried to fix with a u-shaped nail, but to no avail. The nail held for a while, but lately the spring has kept getting loose no matter how much try to put it back. Bloody pain in the butt, as I'm sure you can appreciate, so now I've tried gluing it, which I'm not really sure will work, at any rate I'm sitting in the other chair at the moment while the glue dries. I hope it works, otherwise I'm going to have to find some way to get repaired.

In other news, I went to the gym today because as it turned out it was only my last payment last week, so there's still two weeks to go. I also went to the Mall, but alas they only have one shade of grey felt, or at least they did at the art shop I went to. Although! I did have luck in Target where I got new blue towel - because the one I have is tread bare, as well as this utterly adorable quilt set. Everyone say "Awwwww" together.

There was also some not so good luck, when I left to go to the gym I forgot my keys, effectively locking me out of my flat, do'h! I was sure though, that by the time I got home one of the landlords would be at home. However, they weren't! Which I have to say was a surprise to me...I did consider waiting, but I really wanted to get inside because my little skate blades arrived! After looking around I saw that I was able to open one of the kitchen windows. Then I had to get one of the plastic lounge chairs to climb on so I could shimmy through.

I did briefly wonder what would happen if the landlords came home as I was doing this, or that the next door neighbours might think I was breaking in or something! But I got through without drama, yay! Maybe I should get an extra key and hide it outside somewhere...Or I supposed I could have just dropped by Mum and Dad's to get their spare key, but yeah as I said, I figured the landlords would be at home.

Anyway, the skate blades are really awesome! Except for one thing, I couldn't get them to stick on! I've got fabric glue, but I guess I need craft glue? But I don't have any, and super glue didn't work either. So I tried to sew them on, but the way they're made makes that impossible. So finally I glued them onto some material which I'm going to cut out and then sew onto Plushy Plush, hopefully it'll look OK!

What doesn't look right is Pusheen Plush! I'm not entirely sure what's going wrong, I altered the pattern and it looked OK flat, but not once I sewed it together and stuffed it. I'm not sure why, it's very annoying. Oh well, the experiments will continue I guess! Good thing I bought all that material after all! :OP

And now my phone is acting like a bitch, apps keep crashing or freezing up. So I've just had to shut it off, but I've just realised this very second that it was probably a case of having too many apps open, I should have tried clearing the queue thing. I don't know why the apps don't close automatically but apparently that's how it rolls.

Anywho! I better be off, tomorrow is the farewell breakfast for the Library Manager and it starts at 8:30am, so I need to get to bed way earlier than I did last night.

So I bid you all goodnight!

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11:29pm: OK that's a bit dramatic, but it was what happened today when I got to work. When I got there, I saw that a gentleman who often comes was standing n front of the door and I wonder if there was a back entrance, because said gentleman is a bit odd and I didn't want to get into a whole conversation about how the library wasn't opening until 1pm and he can't come into foyer.

But nope, there's no back entrance, at least not one I can get into with my swipe card, so back to the front I went, by the time I got there one of my co-workers was there and there was a problem...the door wasn't working! You'd swipe you card, it'd beep, but the door wouldn't move! One by one my other co-workers arrived - there's four of us on Sunday - and none of our cards could get the door open!

So eventually we had to call one of the higher up Librarians to see if she had any ideas and in the end she had to come and get in via the backdoor - which needs a special key. Although we had to wait for about 20 minutes for her to arrive, with the odd gentleman speculating on various ways to open the door - all of which would probably have set off an alarm and had the cops coming!

In the end we got inside just before the library was due to open, and luckily unlike last weekend there wasn't an avalanche of books so we managed to keep on top of everything. Good times. :O)

After finishing up there I headed off to church where Father Rex was officially installed by the Bishop as our Parish Priest. This meant there was a supper afterwards! Yummy! :OD I didn't stick around there too long because I wanted to watch David Attenborough's Great Barrier Reef doco on the ABC. Also, it was dark out there.

And I've just made a purchase of an umbrella that's small enough to fit into the waterproof bag! It's costing me $36, but it's very adorable, it has raindrops on it, some of them with faces! I'll take a pic when it arrives.

Yawn! It's later than I thought...which means...no memes! Which is kind of embarrassing, :OP I think I'll stop mentioning them and you can all just be surprised when some pop up! ;O)

For now, though, goodnight!

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11:28pm: Look at the time! All right, I'll admit that adjusting to the time change when Daylight Savings finishes is easier than the other way around, but it still completely sucks that it was dark when church finished this evening.

Anyway, work today was hectic, like OMG, so...many...people and books! It was like an avalanche! And I'm sorry to say I did terribly with customer service. We're meant to be changing the old library cards to new ones whenever we get the opportunity. I've done this a number of times with no problems, but never during such a busy period. Suffice there was a major fuck up where I updated the previous customer's details! By the time I realised this it was too late and there was confusion and the lady who's card I was trying to update started getting bitchy and in the end it looked like I was going to have to send some poor person a new card they didn't ask for and would have no idea why it had even been created. I also ended up getting a bit short with one of my co-workers because I was having difficulty explaining what I'd done and they were having difficulty understanding what I'd done.

In the end the crisis was averted, but ugh, way to look like an asshat, me.

Also I forgot to bring the label with me, the one that I'm going to put around the plush kanagroo's neck - I made it up before work while enjoying the skating on SBS. But I didn't actually bring it along, and I was planning to so I'd be able to put contact on it otherwise it'll get all creased and whatnot.

I also forgot to do my timesheet...which means I'll probably have to go to Avalon via there tomorrow otherwise I won't get paid! And I've also arranged to have lunch with my parents before they head off on their trip - I need to give them the label for the kangaroo after all - so it looks like I won't be going to the gym tomorrow. Well, I did just wash my hair his morning.

Right, I am a bit worn out after the hard day at work and it's getting close to midnight so I'm gonna wrap this up now.

Goodnight all.

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