Moose Musings

10:32pm: So today was my first Kidbow Adbow class at the archery range! Unfortunately, yesterday there was a hazard reduction burn that got out of control and as a result there's smoke around and having spent two hours outside my eyeballs are now dry and rather sore. I ended up with a headache and as often occurs with me I kinda forgot to take anything for it for like two hours. But I finally got around with it and I'm good now.

Anyway, the archery went well...until the end where we had a game which was quite fun except that when my team ended up on the 25m target and even though we were closer to it than that, I missed the target soooo many times (although I've since realised it was probably because I didn't adjust the sight on the bow to compensate for the change in length from the target.

However! I did succeed in qualifying on the 15m target, which means next week I can go to do the 20 metre one, hooray!

That reminds me, I've totally forgotten to update Facebook on my progress, whoops...I think I mentioned that an old school friend of mine said they could see if their father (who was an Olympic archer) had any old equipment I could use. Which would be quite a saving, although I did find out last week that I need a rather short riser (that's the part of the bow you hold and place the arrow on) because I'm a shortie, so unless her father is also quite short, I'm not sure his equipment would work for me. Also how would I get it?

Right, it's 11pm now so I better haul butt and get a decent amount of sleep, which also might be why my eyes are dry.

Goodnight!

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10:20pm: Well, the Juniors are at least, I didn't realise until I went onto YouTube today and it was on my "For You" watch list. I'd totally forgotten about it! Always a fun watch, although I was hoping to find the para-archery, but I guess they don't show the seeding rounds? Because those are on today, but they weren't streaming, boo-urns.

Anywho, I'm not sure if I should stay up for the last group of ladies because I'm pretty sure I haven't been getting enough sleep this week, which probably explains my sore eyeballs since it wasn't windy today.

As for work, lots of Inter Library Loans were sent out today since the courier drops them off quite late on Wednesdays now. But yeah, I got them all out except for one, sometimes when I put the reserve on, it comes out with a different branch than the one on the actual request, which is weird and rather annoying. I have to ring that patron and ask them which branch they actually want to pick the book up from, but sometimes they don't answer their phone or call me back.Ah well, tomorrow is another day.

Going off the topic, my water sort game I play on my mobile phone has changed and now it sucks, I have no idea why they did that, I might have to uninstall it it's that bad. Bah, if it ain't broke don't fix it. Also there's so many ads on it now with that damn pain in the ass AI voice. Throws up hands.

On that note, I'm gonna head off, because the past few days I've been saying I'll go to bed once I wrap up my journal entry and then neglect to do it! Not this time though.

So goodnight!

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10:07pm: Yep, my eyelids are feeling most heavy right now, and I want to be refreshed for work tomorrow!

Since I worked on Saturday, I had a half day today, which was good because it gave me time to get my eyebrows and legs waxed at a nice place in the Mall, then I headed home and went to the gym where I do my weights and worked out - although I skipped my core exercises, tsks at self. On the way home I went to the pharmacy to get my eyepatch, I was going to buy one of those hard ones, but I thought that might be a bit over the top so I got a soft one instead.

I tried it out when I got home and realised a further issue...my vision out of one eye is not very good even with my glasses on, I have no idea if this is common for people or if it's my astigmatism or something. Either way, it rather sucks. Although...I notice I don't seem to have this problem if I hold my left eye closed with my finger. Which is interesting, but decidedly unhelpful, since you need two hands to fire a bow after all. I mean I suppose I could tape it down? But I'd prefer not to have to keep my eye closed for like two and a half hours while I'm in the class. That would suck. So yeah...might need to work on that.

Not much else to report besides that, I feel like I had a busy day, but I guess it's not very exciting to write about, LOL.

I want to do a Friday Five, although this one is Halloween related, so it might be a lot N/A...

Friday Five

20/10/23

1. Will you buy a pumpkin to carve or just leave it uncarved for decoration? We don't really do the pumpkin thing here in Australia. I assume that you use the innards, otherwise what a waste of delicious pumpkin! :OP

2. When was the last time, if ever, you went trick or treating? I've never been tricking or treating, because it wasn't the done thing when I was a kid.

3. Did you or your folks ever buy into that urban legend about razor blades in candy and screen it before you were allowed to eat anything? Nope, although a seriously fucked up individual did poison a bunch of candy as part of a plot to murder his son for life insurance. The son died :O( although no other kids were harmed and the guy was caught. But what a shit, they caught him obviously.

4. What was the ultimate ‘treat’ to get that night? If I did trick or treat well any chocolate bars would be most appreciated!

5. Be honest, did you ever trick anyone because they didn’t come across? Across what? The street? Or to the door or whatever? No, I haven't. Unrelated to Halloween my car got egged once and it was a giant pain in the ass to get said egg off. So yeah, don't throw eggs, it's annoying and shitty and apparently if you don't wipe them off quickly enough it can ruin the paint!

Right OK, it's coming up to a quarter to eleven, which is when I should be asleep, so I'm off! Goodnight!

PS. I'm getting used to the ABC Australian News going back to their old music, but I remain resistant to the new graphics.

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8:42pm: Well, I didn't get as much sleep as I hoped to last night, somehow time got away from me and it was 12:45am before I turned in, then some asshat rang my apartment buzzer at like...8am or something? I didn't answer it, obviously, but it woke me up. Grumble. This is hopefully why my left eyelid feels like it's twitching, I wouldn't want it to be something serious :Oo

Anyway, I thought I had more to say with this entry, but my mind is kinda blanking...I went out this morning with the aim of finding a darning mushroom (I'd never heard of one, but it's what you need to darn stuff, like the jumper I'm hoping to fix), there's this sewing shop a few blocks down. Alas, they didn't have one, although admittedly I didn't ask the shopkeeper. I'm terrible at not doing that, LOL.

Looking at my jumper though I fear I won't be able to fix it, it's not just a hole in it, the material itself seems to be thinning out :O( So I wondered about maybe tracking down a plain grey jumper and stitching little coloured squares on it like the current jumper, but no luck there either. I even briefly considered learning to knit so I could make a jumper myself, but that sounds a little overzealous LOL. It is a bummer though, because I did actually find a jumper like it on eBay, except it was a size medium, which won't fit me. Hope whoever did buy it will enjoy it, it's a cute jumper!

Anywho, I should wrap this up, tomorrow I'm heading down to Wollongong with my parents, we're meeting with some relatives along the way and then Monday morning I catch the train back, so I should make sure I've got everything packed and ready to go.

Before I go though...

The Friday Five

17/5/24

These questions were written by Dreamwidth user Spacefem.

1) Is summer a break for you, or is it busier? Well, it's not summer here in Australia, but yeah it is a bit, since it's Christmas time and my birthday, my big bro and his family usually come for a visit too so I take like two weeks off work. Good times.

2) What's next for your travel plans? Well, excepting tomorrow, in a few weeks I'm going to Fiji with my mother and her friend. Only for five days, very exciting!

3) What have you spontaneously done lately? I'm a pretty boring soul, so nothing really comes to mind right now. Hmmm, well I did spontaneously buy Cities Skylines last month, which proved to be a good idea.

4) What's your favorite way to unwind after a long day? Sit on my butt on my ouch and watch TV and/or YouTube.

5) What's in your pockets? I'm in my PJs so no pockets.


On that note, ta ta!

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11:15pm: Not much to report, although, I did finally get to the alterations place to get my pants taken in...all up this is going to cost like $60, which you know is like 10% of that one pair of pinstriped pants I saw on the net, LOL. (Seriously, they were Chanel and the only pants that came up on the Google search...I always though pinstripes were timeless!)

I also did my extra volunteering at Dee Why Library since I missed out on doing so last week, which is why I was in Dee Why to drop of my pants in the first place. There seems to be a lack of people working at the Home Library Service right now, so there was a heap of selections to do. Unfortunately, I got caught up with one particular client so I only did about three, boo.

Anyway, I also had success with getting a proper USB plug for my tablet at Officeworks, did I mention that I've been having trouble with that? I can't remember LOL, but I was and now I've got one with enough amps.

The tablet is going well since I installed Windows 10 on it, except the display is so small...I tried making it bigger, but then it get blurry...I guess that's just how it goes. Although it does make me wonder if I can actually change between my regular laptop and it without killing my eyeballs.

This is a very uninteresting entry, although I do have one piece of news, my co-worker has asked me over for dinner tomorrow night, it's going to be a Peruvian dish and I'm very intrigued. I hope it won't be too spicy though!

So, I gotta wrap this up because sleep is needed.

Goodnight all!

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9:43pm: It's really annoying, especially since I feel like washing them in hot water would fix it, but the optometrist told me that would be a bad idea. And thinking on it he's probably right and that probably explains why the polarising coating on my glasses is sometimes a bit messed up. Sometimes they don't go dark in bright light in a uniform manner.

Maybe I'll have to buy those special glasses cleaning things, although I feel like they're not very environmentally friendly.

Moving on, not much to report, although the rain has set in and is expected to last all the way to Monday - bugger. Especially since it's sheet washing this week and that's huge pain in the ass when it's raining, I don't have anywhere to hang the sheets properly inside my Granny Flat. Maybe I should look into buying a larger drying rack.

Ow, my eyeballs hurt, not sure if that's got to do with my glasses or my lack of zzzzs, I still keep getting only 7.5 hours a night, get with the program me!

I keep getting distracted by this DVD I'm watching so almost an hour has past and this entry is depressingly short. Evidentally I don't have any deep and meaningful things to say. :OP

Oh! Very good news, the Fed-Ex did it! He managed to turn the game around from 2 sets down so now he's going into the semi-finals, whoo! Although, he's up against The Sleeve or rather Raonic or perhaps I should go with a friend of mine's nickname for him "Freddo" because he bares a striking resemblance to the Freddo Frog. Go Fed-Ex! :OD

Right, before I head off here's a meme:

Unconscious Mutterings

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

1. Argument :: Won

2.Firing :: Cannon

3.Gesture :: Hands

4. Conventional :: Wisdom

5. Calories :: Yum! (LOL)

6. Glasses :: Annoying!

7. Clients :: Business

8. Reception :: Wedding

9. Shaving :: Cream

10. Catastrophe :: Explode

Right, the eyeballs are really stinging now so I better take that as my cue to exit.

Goodnight all!

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11:17pm: Not sure where that little song comes from, but it's what my mother used to always say when we got home from holidays.

And so here I am back in my humble abode, alas still with the loan car from the smash repairers, I've got a terrible feeling they haven't made a start on my car yet, it's still not ready. Then again...the insurance guy did say it'd take 10 business day to fix, so perhaps he wasn't wrong. I saw ol' George parked on the side of the road today as I did a few days ago. I didn't get a chance to check him out closely, to see if the new door was on, but I guess it isn't. Oh well, I guess I'll get him back when I get him back.

Moving on, I'm sorry to report I didn't end up going ice skating after all that, because my abdominal area was still being an ass. I slept pretty well at my friend's place, despite being on the couch. Good call bringing my own pillow! On the upside, I did get to Lincraft where I bought fabric for my Pusheen plushy. However, I didn't notice the fabric was folded when I asked for it to be cut so I have soooo much of it. Perhaps I can make multiple Pusheens...

I also went to the pool, but sadly...no activity tracker, I'm pretty sure it's gone...so it's a good thing that the Dee Why Aldi had one left! Which I bought, and found to my relief that despite the price tag saying $70 it actually scanned at $50 phew! Better keep a close eye on this one though.

Speaking of the pool...it turns out that my gym membership hasn't actually ended...the last payment was just taken out today and I'm pretty sure that was in advance. I best check on that before applying to join the gym around the corner.

After that I popped by Mum and Dad's to return the TV box (I managed to return the antenna to the Warringah Mall Aldi, even though I didn't have the receipt) and had lunch with Dad. :O) Although he reminded me that's he's supposed to be looking at my place not the otherway around! ;O)

After that I popped home and then headed off to the library for my performance review, which went very well, with any luck I'll be getting a raise in a few months, yay!

And finally the optometrist appointment! I was somewhat surprised to hear that my prescription hasn't changed much, I hope I didn't make a mistake when he was checking my eyes with the machine - you know the "Is this clearer? Number 1? Or Number 2?"

The point is when he put the new script on those temporary glasses and put it on there really wasn't much of a difference...in that case I can't really splash out on new glasses. Plus they didn't have any green ones there. :O( They did say they could get other frames in, but apparently only from other OPSMs in the city. I wonder if they could get in the same brand of glasses I all ready have, I was looking on their website and they've got some good ones. Only problem...I bet they're super expensive!

Oh well, I guess I'll wait until my Medibank Private card arrives before I make any decisions.

And I was going to do some Memes, but it's quite late now and also the eyedrops the optometrist used to measure my eye pressure have left them all dry and shit, so I shall wrap this up here.

Goodnight all!

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11:10pm: From my headache and general malaise, although it took a while - the headache didn't really go away until I took two paracetamol (rather than just one at one point, and a second at another...) after getting up.

It's occurred to me however, that I should get my eyes checked. It's been quite some time and I've been feeling rather squinty lately. The only problem...my private health insurance doesn't cut back in until June... unless I go to Centrelink, wait for who knows how long, to get a letter explaining I'm no longer receiving Newstart and thus can afford such things. I suppose though, nothing's stopping me from going to the optometrist and seeing what they say. Last time I had them checked I didn't actually need a new prescription, if I do I guess I can cross that bridge when I come to it? It's not like I have any work to go to on Monday.

Moving on, despite the amount of sleep I got last night - almost 12 hours, I'm still kind of sleepy today, no doubt I overslept. My brain feels sluggish too, I tried to - finally - take up the curtain that's going in front of my basket storage, but I made some kind of mistake and had to unpick it again! Very annoying.

Ooo! I've just received an email from my parents, I sent them one a few hours ago after which I found out there'd been a big earthquake in Japan. Fortunately, it was in the far south of the country so neither parental unit, brother, sister-in-law or niece have been affected.

Anyway! I need to head to bed because work's on tomorrow so I have to be bright eyed and bushy tailed for that. Plus I need to do my Russian before I go to sleep!

So on that note I shall be off! I'll let you know how the eyeballs go.

Goodnight all!

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10:48pm: Well, they probably didn't because they're surgeons, but I almost did! I'm watching a show called Body Bizzare, which as you can guess is about...bizarre body stuff. Right now they're profiling a poor guy who ended up with a 400 pound tumour in his stomach! Like, what the fuck? The poor guy! He's had most of it removed thankfully, but geeze. The real kicker though was that the guy couldn't get treated for 14 years (that's how it got so big) because he's in the US and didn't have proper medical insurance. Damnit USA, think about your choices!

Moving on from bizarre body stuff, today was my third training session at Mona Vale Library, however I'm feeling popular because I also got a call from the Mall wanting to know if I could do a shift there this afternoon. Sadly I could not, but hey it's great they're calling me. :O) I feel rather popular now.

As for the morning job, I had a bit of a surprise when I arrived to find the air conditioning men all ready there. They weren't supposed to come until 2pm! Since Mrs S in a wheelchair and the air conditioner was being put into the bedroom this was most problematic and we had to be quick with the showering and dressing. It all worked out in the end though, still who just shows up like that? Tradespeople can be have very inconvienent timing.

In other news, my eyeballs are dry and sore, I wonder if it's because of the heating in the library because I certainly haven't been sitting in front of a computer all day. Maybe I should invest in some eye drops or that mist spray stuff. But obviously not right now, now I shall go to bed! Also I haven't been getting quite enough sleep and we all know what happened last week.

So, I wish you all good night!

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10:13pm: My left eyeball has been an ass all day long, it started this morning with eyelashes falling in my eye that made life difficult and uncomfortable.

It stopped doing that in time for me to go to the library - phew! - but then the irritation came back in the form of dry eyes, and everything feels gritty and there's a general feeling of blurriness.

I was hoping to get some reading done tonight, I've almost finished the book on Russia, but the eyeball issue has made that rather difficult and I pretty much just want to head to bed.

It's a big day tomorrow, the interview! I've got my outfit planned out and the two forms that I need to hand over to the interview panel. I probably should consider how I might answer some of the questions they'll ask, I hope I can make a good showing, they were impressed with my resume, so I have to capitalise on that.

Aside from that, there's not much more to report, except that the car is acting odd, when I went out this morning the windows were completely frosted up, but as I discovered not just on the outside...they were inside too. Like I had to wipe the inside of the windshield, and roll down my side window just so I could see where I was going! Quite concerning...the car mats did get wet the other day when the little bro left the windows open, but I'm a bit more worried that the door seals might be going. The driver's side door itself seems to get a bit stuck. I could do without that I can tell you.

Right, better head for bed now, I don't think I got quite enough zzzs last night which might also be causing some issues with my eyes.

On that note, wish me good luck!

Goodnight all!

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