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11:17pm: Yes indeed! Today was the long awaited outing with my friends to see Inside Out 2, the only annoying thing was I had trouble getting my car into a parking spot and as a result I got to see the bus I needed to catch to drive passed as I stood at the traffic lights to cross the road.

Which concerned me because the friends and I had agreed to meet up before the movie as my friend Ben had to leave right after it finished and I wondered if I'd miss it. Fortunately, the next bus wasn't long in coming, so I got to Chatswood in good time and we met up at a cafe although I didn't actually order anything, because dang me, stuff's expensive these days!

My friend Tina had bought along her boyfriend, who was actually at the cafe when I got there, but I couldn't remember what he looked like so I didn't realise, whoops.

So the movie session was at 11:45am, but we were about ten minutes later than that and there was still a wait for it to actually begin! Sooo many previews these days.

But yeah, it wasn't quite as epic as the first movie, but that's often how it goes, but it was a pretty good movie and funny :O) in fact I was most bummed to realise that now Disney isn't making DVDs for the Aussie market anymore how I'm supposed to get a hold of it. Boo, hiss.

After the movie ended and Ben had hurried off so he wouldn't have to pay for parking, Tina, her boyfriend and I went for lunch. We went to a Hong Kong Street Food place, which was interesting although I had no idea what to order and I didn't want to spend too much. I ended up getting a rice noodle roll, which I'd never had before and was rather yummy except it also included peanut sauce, I am not a fan of peanuts lemme tell you. It was also super filling so I had to bring half of it home in a takeway container.

We went our separate ways after lunch, I was hoping to find some boots especially since the sale at Myer was about to end, but alas no luck there. Annoying...

Right, so it's coming up to twenty to midnight and I do have work tomorrow, so I better do the meme and hit the hay!

The Friday Five

23/2/2024

These questions were written by amguynes on LJ.

What is the name of...

1. Your favorite book? Ooo, a toughie for sure...If I really have to choose... Adrian Mole from Minor to Major (which actually includes 3 Adrian Mole books, but hey it's published that way :OP)

2. Your favorite movie? There can only be one Back to the Future. :O)

3. Your least favorite adaptation of a book to a movie? My least favourite? Uh...hmm...not sure to be honest. I can't think of a really awful one off the top of my head.

4. Your least favorite adaptation ever of anything to a movie? Hmm...I'm kinda curious as to how they made a movie out of Tetris but I'm gonna assume it was about the development of said game?

5. Your first ever novel/comic book/movie character crush? Hmm...well it's either Jonathan Firth as Prince Albert in Victoria and Albert or Colin Firth as Mr Darcy in Pride & Prejudice or Jamie Bamber as Archie Kennedy in Hornblower. I watched all of those around the same time and I can't remember which came first now!

Goodnight!

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10:24pm: Well, it's been aaaages since I've updated (again), but I feel a bit of a need to do it because of something that happened today.

For the past few months I've been going to this Arts and Crafts Circle which was set up by a lady in the area (Mum found it when she was on a quest to help me find IRL people to hang with), they've been monthly meeting and I've been doing my Pusheen cross stitch during it. The lady run it was hoping to get more interest, but no luck there.

Anyway, we were supposed to meet last weekend, but she asked if we could postpone it to today, which I was fine with - I felt a bit icky last Saturday anyway, so that was actually good. But alas when I messaged to confirm today, she said it wasn't a good time, but she'd call me later (I was at work until 1:30pm today).

Sooo...as it turns out, apparently, she's decided not to continue the group because I'm not as interested in design and that's what she was hoping for when she started the group. Fair enough, though I probably would have called it "Arts and Design Circle" in that case.

I'm kind of bummed about this...admittedly, there was quite an age gap between us, so it's not like we had a heap in common or whatever, but it still feels awkward, like did I just get dumped? LOL. I suppose I should use this as an opportunity to try and reconnect with my old friends, especially since I've been working on the train-ing and should be able to visit them.

Actually, I've been facing a lot of my discomforts lately, in just one week I'll be flying up to Cairns to meet up with my mother who is stopping there on her way back from Japan (where she's been visiting my big bro and his family). I'll be going with my mother's friend on the way up, but then...I'll be taking the return flight home on my own. At the start of last month I took my first flight since 2001, a short one hour one with Mum to Ballina where we stayed for one night after meeting up with another friend of hers.

Now having not been on a plane for more than 20 years (damn), and then only ever having taking overseas flights I was rather shocked at the complete lack of space. Like you get more room in a bus! (Although on the way back home I did in fact get more room because I sat apart from Mum in the Economy X section. But yeah, they really pack you in now a days.

So yes, next week it's up to Cairns and at the end of July I'll be going with Mum and her friend (the one who met up with is in Ballina) to Fiji.

All this is to prepare for going to Japan next year, Mum wants to go on this tour before going to stay with my big bro and family. I'll be seeing them too, but whereas she stays for three weeks, I'll only be there for a week or so - my big bro's house is way too small to feet us all in. Which means that while Mum and I will be on the nearly 10 hour flight TO Japan, I will need to fly back on my own.

So far my exposure therapy thing has been going pretty well, so fingers crossed! Although I did have a bit of a panic attack driving to my psychiatrist appointment on Friday (the irony), but I managed to get through it and get to my appointment, so yeah. Also, I purchased a Pusheen travel pillow in the hope it'll give me joy while flying XD. It has a built in eye-mask, so no doubt I'll look ridiculous with it on, but hey whatever works. I did plan on getting a Pusheen neck pillow, but they're only available from overseas and the cost of postage is ridiculous. This has proven to be quite the bummer because I somehow lost my Pusheen caps and I can't justify spending like 50 bucks in postage to get replacements.

I still can't figure out what happened to my caps...I know I definitely lost one, but I don't remember taking the other one out of my apartment, so what's that all about? I've cleaned the place since the disappearance and it's definitely not here. Bah.

Although speaking of cleaning, I really do need to tidy up the place, sigh, whenever I clean up - usually under the direction of Mum, I swear I'll keep the place nice, but invariably it goes to Hell. It's quite annoying to me, I mean I don't set out to mess up my place, buuuut...I think my main problem is, that while I do see the mess, it doesn't bother me enough to pick up right away, so I get home and sit down and before I know it's bed time and I haven't cleaned a damn thing. But I better get to work on it tomorrow because I want to be clean before leaving on the Cairns trip.

Not much else to report since my last update way back in January, as I often lament I'm not sure what to update with these days... on the other hand when I look at the entries from when I DID update every day it's not like I was doing exciting and interesting stuff then either. There was more in terms of memes (or question lists, I'm not sure why they were called memes, but whatever) and for a long time I didn't have a full-time job so I could write about job hunting or whatever. Or maybe I was just more inclined to type about whatever.

It's just occurred to me though...we're half way through the year, right? Already?! Crap, time passes alarmingly fast these days...I should do more mindfulness to take advantage of every moment.

Speaking of time, it's now past 11pm and I don't want to stay up too late so I shall wrap this up here.

Until we meet again (don't know where, don't know when...)

Ta ta for now!

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11:13pm: Indeed! I'm pretty sure I didn't mention it last entry, but earlier in the month while driving to the new apartment to drop stuff off I heard some startling news on the radio.

Namely the rink that I ice skate at was going to close down next year!

At first I thought I misheard, they only refurbished the place a little over a year ago, fixing up the pipes and redoing the whole ice surface, adding a gym and all that.

They even had the Australian National Figure Skating Championships there in December (which I sadly didn't get to because I had a terrible panic attack while trying to drive there, but let's not relive that :OP)! Plus the whole reason given by the owners of the shopping centre where the rink is made no sense! They claimed that by demolishing the rink they'd be able to provide better access to the bus and train stations, except those stations are less than 100m away. I mean unless they were planning to have the trains and buses go right through the middle of the shopping centre that's just BS.

Anyway, the skating community was outraged! Without this rink, there's nowhere to skate on the northern side of Sydney. All those kids and adults who take lessons would probably have to give up the sport - or travel two hours or more to get to another rink in Sydney (there's only three others and none of them are Olympic size like Macquarie).

Fortunately, there was an outpouring of support for the rink to remain, even politicians got involved (well it is an election year :OP), I signed a couple of petitions and sent emails myself and then the good news came through today!

The Rink is saved! Yaaaay!

This is indeed very happy news! I don't get to the rink as much as I like because of the issues I have with driving some times and the thought of time ticking down where I'd have chance to go skating was pretty disheartening.

Power to the people!

Anywho, on that good note I shall wrap this up - I have to go to bed - it's been a busy day, I've had two separate visitors to the apartment, my godmother Wendy and my old, old landlord (and Mum's friend). They were both very impressed by the place, which I've been taking good care of so far. Keep it clean, me :O)

Right goodnight all!

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11:52pm: It's just been a busy weekend! What with staying over at my friend's house on Friday night (we watched Samantha Bee and Last Week Tonight - is that what it's called?), ice skating and watching the figure skating Grand Prix event while battling a terrible headache and of course doing NaNoWriMo.

Although the headache I mentioned totally kicked my ass last night and I didn't get any of my story written, which sucks because I'm falling quite a lot behind and I'm going to have to pull my finger out if I hope to catch up. Plus Mrs S is returning this week, so I kinda let last week and all the free time then slip through my fingers...which reminds me of my Uni days and how I'd procrastinate the Hell out of assignments. :OP

Anyway, I don't regret watching the skating though, it was very exciting! The Last Old Man Skater standing, Sergei Vonorov from Russia (aged 30, which is prehistoric in figure skater years) won his first Grand Prix Gold! How awesome is that! He put on two excellent programs - I've only seen the free program though and a great Gala performance, which I watched today. :O) Go you old Russian Figure Skating Grandpas! I really hope he makes it to the Olympics!

Anyway, it's almost midnight so I better leave my word count here and head off, gotta make sure I get the proper amount of zzzs!

7581 / 50000 words. 15% done!

Only 15% as you see...do'h! Wish me luck then!

And now goodnight!

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11:44pm: Yes, indeed the first Junior Grand Prix event of the 2017-2018 season is happening up in Brisbane this week! I watched the ladies and mens short programs live yesterday and this afternoon it was the short dance and mens free programs. Interestingly and strangely there's no pairs competition in this event, I always though ice dancing was the least popular of the skating events, the more you know!

So at the end of today the gold, silver and bronze Junior men were crowned. :O) Three Russian born lads, although the gold medalist actually represents USA, so not a clean sweep. :OP But there were three Aussie men and a New Zealander in the mix! One of the Aussie men and the New Zealander were very impressive! There was also a kid from Mexico who kicked some major ass - well maybe not so much scoring wise but still!

Ah figure skating so fun to watch! Although I probably peered at my laptop screen too long because I ended up with a headache thankfully I took some ibproufen and it's good now although yet again I've neglected my fic, honestly me, get with the program!

Speaking of ice skating, I'm pretty sure I won't go tomorrow because I've still got a cough from my cold so it's probably not a good idea. Fortunately, I don't have to worry about my beanie because my friend kindly went and got it for me, yay! Although I feel bad about leaving the beanie with her for too long since I haven't actually given her the money for it yet! Oh well I'll guess I'll figure it out.

Anywho, I better not dilly dally because it's almost midnight and I do have work tomorrow, plus I woke up at like 4am this morning and tossed and turned for a while until I went back to sleep!

Besides I don't actually have anything else to report so I might as well wrap this thing up.

Goodnight all!

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10:46pm: Not sure if I mentioned this but I borrowed a DVD series from the library the other week called The 72 Cutest Animals and of course it's full of cuteness! They've just shown the Elephant Seal, the adults aren't that cute, but the little calfs sure are! Man, I love seals and how they have to wriggle along, LMAO, boing, boing, boing! And so on :OP Looove it.

Anyway moving along, it's been a busy day! First there was work at Mona Vale Library this morning, it started off rather quiet, but ended up being quite busy and then afterwards volunteering at Dee Why Library. I arrived rather later than usual for the latter because I forgot my phone this morning so had to go via the Granny Flat to get it and I also had to pick up my newly altered pinstripe pants! :O) They're looking good although I have tried them on yet.

Speaking of pants though, I did buy a black pair with wider legs at Warriewood yesterday, I got them from Suzanne Grae which is kind of an old lady clothes shop, but it has the benefit of short length pants, which means they actually fit me without needing to be taken up! Praise the Lord! They look very nice, except they do seem to be slightly tight? But I think they'll expand a bit, I hope so! But it's not like I could have got the next size up because then they'd be too big. Seriously, what's up with pants and me? Pisses me off.

Eeee! Break in proceedings to say the panda has just shown up on the DVD and eeee they're so CUTE!!! They look like soccerballs! It cracks me up.

What else to report? Well, my throat seems to be a bit dry today...weird, I hope I'm not getting a cold (knock on wood), maybe I should gargle or something?

Oh! And I almost forgot, dinner with the co-worker last night went really well! On Mrs S's advice I made cupcakes, but I think I mucked up the recipe a little because they didn't come out as nice as they usually do. In fact the first batch was kind of a write-off to be honest. Oh well, at least I got the frosting right this time around!

My co-worker baked chicken and added some Hoysien sauce (I think), which was Chinese inspired, but there was also mashed potato and sliced potato with a Peruvian sauce on it. Which I've tried before at Mrs S's place, it's quite nice! And the second batch of cupcakes turned out OK, so there was that as well. Her boyfriend who lives in the sharehouse too joined us, so that was interesting!

So yeah good time being social, go me.

Anyway, I better wrap this up and head off, I've got to go to bed and do my Russian!

But! I can inform you the panda got to be number 1 in the list, as it should be, LOL.

Sand now, goodnight!

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11:18pm: My person! I must have overdone it at the gym...at least on the leg press machine because my hip area was most sore today especially when crouching down to put books away at the library. And I think it might have had a knock-on effect because my lower back started hurting too. Then my shoulders...and now my neck. Son of an ass. Suffice to say I didn't end up going ice skating this afternoon, boooo!

It could also be my orthodics, I still haven't made an appointment to get 'em checked out, which could be screwing with my muscles too.

So...yeah, with this general discomfort I'm not much in the mood to update, but I felt I should because...er...I dunno. :OP I thought I had something to update you all about but I guess I don't really. :OP Although I'm watching my house shows and OMG this kitchen has a red sink?! What the actual Hell? I didn't even know they made such things! Cripes, it's as ugly as you'd expect it to be too. :OP Oh well, at least the taps aren't red...if they were I'd be really creeped out.

Oh yeah! I did see my friend who lives nearby at the library today! That was rather exciting, she's mentioned that she often comes in, but I seem to be busy most of that time so she doesn't say anything. But I wasn't doing much this time so I was able to say 'hello'. Nice. :O)

Right, so I'm gonna wrap this up...and hopefully my person will feel way better tomorrow, because otherwise owwwww.

Goodnight all!

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10:28pm: Or at least I do. I dunno if it's because it's that time o' the month or what but I've got some terrible abdominal discomfort and a niggling headache that won't go away despite the fact I took some period pain medication. I hate it when pain relief doesn't work because I can't take anything else for like another hour, by which time I need to be asleep because I have to go to work a bit earlier than usual tomorrow. I sure hope I feel better because otherwise this will suuuck.

Anyway, the get-together with the friends last night went super-awesomely! Except my other friend couldn't come, boo I so should have asked her along earlier, although I'm not entirely sure she would have come anyway, it was a long car ride out there.

Ben's new place is very interesting, it's located directly across from the hospital he works out, he can literally just roll out of bed and get over there in five minutes! I suspects he gives himself more time than that though. :OD

So yeah, I did plan on making this an actual entry, but my discomfort makes that impossible, so instead I'll have to short-entry syndrome you all again. Although before I go you'll all be pleased to hear that Plushy did excellently at his show in Italy, he's got the moves, man, he's got the moves. Note to self: Must go seem him somewhere somehow.

Now, I'm off, let's hope my various aches and pains are gone tomorrow, I got shit to do.

Goodnight all!

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11:46pm: And asleep by now because I need to get up a bit earlier than usual to get to Mrs S's place half an hour earlier than usual, but I got caught up in reading this book about the 747 and doing my Russian, so I don't have much time to update.

I had a good day! I went over to see my friend in Bigola Plateau which was fun, we hang out and shot the breeze and all that jazz. Good times, good times.

Aside from that, not much else report, I'm just waiting for Cold Case to end so I can get to bed, I haven't seen this episode before so that was pretty cool.

So, this is gonna be a short entry, so sorry about that, I'm sure you're all devastated. :OP

One last thought...when I watch my house shows a lot of people seem to buy houses furnished...is that a thing in the US? I've never heard of buying a house in Australia that's fully furnished. seems really bizzare.

On that mystery, I'm off!

Goodnight!

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11:18pm: On this house show I watch on Sunday night. It's called Flip This House and it follows different flippers (as they call them), but I tell ya the last few episodes have been full of Angry Guys, like all yelling and swearing at each other. Can't you boys just get along? :OP

In other news, I finally remembered to get the box my mother found in M and Grandpa's garage from the boot of my car, although with all the rain that's been going on it hasn't really been that feasible. But the rain finally let up this afternoon so when I finished work and popped home before heading to church I carried it, my cupcake carrier (which I got from Mum earlier) and my box of the first few seasons of The Simpsons (which I'd lent to my Uncle Sam and his family and also got back earlier) into the granny flat.

Mum said there were clothes in the box, but imagine my surprise when I opened it and started to go through to find all these clothes I really like but hadn't been able to find! I have no idea why the ended up in M and Grandpa's garage, among them were my Garfield satin pjs, a few of my favourite t-shirts, a dress that'd been super good for the beach and stuff like that! I'd been wondering where it had got to for ages!

This why you have to be careful where you put things when moving!

Anyway! Grandpa's birthday party was great! Although I was only able to be there for an hour (boo), but I got to see M, Grandpa, Aunt Weed, her fiance Pete, Uncle Sam, Aunt Jo, cousin Mack and my parental units. Good times, good times. Although it was super humid today so that was a bit uncomfortable, good thing I wore one of my sundresses!

Aunt Jo kindly cooked sausages early so I had something to eat before I headed off for work - although as it happened the traffic was good (of course) so I ended up being early. I went to look around the shopping centre and got a call from my friend, Ben inviting me to go to the beach (although it was still pretty cloudy at that time!) but alas I couldn't go. Boo! As it happened the weather cleared up during the day and judging from the photo he posted on Facebook it turned out to be quite a nice day.

Speaking of Facebook photos, some people uploaded photos they took, including the group shot! I'm sure you can spot me. :O) And see everyone seems so tall! I thought my heels were a decent height.

Right, I better be off! I've got work tomorrow morning and I still have my Russian to do before I turn in. Let's all hope my bank card arrives tomorrow! I owe Mum another fifty bucks and Mrs S a hundred (I may see if I can send her that money by direct debit, guess it depends what she wants).

Oh and I almost forgot, I went to my parental units this evening after church (they and Mrs Lampe came so we all sat together) so I got delicious lasagna and salad for dinner. Alas the little bro was meant to come, he also missed the party this morning, but he wasn't up to it - apparently he partied a little too hearty last night.

For now, though, goodnight!

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