Moose Musings

11:08pm: Oops, I've been watching James Turner Cities Skylines Let's Plays and it's waaay later than I thought! But yes, today was Archery Day!

I actually ended up being early because I thought I need to get there at 8:30am, but actually it was 8:45, I should aim for that next time so I won't be late.

And I'm planning on going again, I've signed up for the four week Beginner's course which starts next Sunday, I'm very much looking forward to it! I had a lot of fun, well except for the time I hit my boob with the bow string...but I got a chest guard so it was all good. Although, by the end I was also hitting my left arm with the bow string, so I might need an arm guard too? Also, as suspected I'm right eye dominant, which wouldn't be an issue except...I can only close my right eye, I can't independently close my left eye only squint, which made it super hard to look through the little sight thing on the bow. I'm considering getting an eye patch or something XD Then again, there's also a school of thought where you should keep both eyes open, so I dunno, I guess I'll ask the coach next Sunday.

Regarding the subject heading...well, I did get two arrows in the yellow zone! But yeeeeah... there were 12 people in total in the class, so we were in three teams of four, needlessly to say our team (I was with a Dad and his two kids) did not do well in the fun competition at the end. Also, there's now a photo of me on Facebook looking decidedly weird. I have no idea why I'm standing the way I am in it... On the plus side I'm wearing sunglasses so you can't really tell it's me :OP There's also a photo of the whole group where I don't look weird so, yay!

After that excitement, I lazed around the rest of the day until it was time to go to church with Mum and Dad... however, every school term the primary school kids do the Saturday evening Mass. Now, the lady who arranges it, is supposed to tell Mum it's happening, but she forgot... so we show up, the parentals have gone to some trouble putting together the Powerpoint for this week's hymns and discover school kids setting up! Dad was most annoyed, because yeah he works hard picking out the hymns! I figured I'd just go to the vigil mass at the other church, but Mum convinced me to come with her and Dad to the church she and I went to on Wednesday night. It did mean I got some marinated chicken legs from her for dinner, yummy!

Funnily enough it turned out that even though it was a completely different church, I still did my PowerPoint duty because there was a late request for someone who could help since there wasn't someone to do it. The other church also had primary school kids doing the singing, but they were quite good (no offence to the ones at my usual church - these kids are a choir so I think they've been practicing a lot).

So yeah, it turned out to be a rather interesting experience, although the set up of the computer in the other church is weird...the computer faces away from the altar so I needed to sit sideways.

I did have to catch the bus home because the parental house is between it and where I live, so they weren't going my way anyway. Fortunately, the bus service is good in that area so I got home in very good time.

Speaking of which...I haven't done my Duolingo and time is getting away from me so I better wrap this up.

Before I go though...

The Friday Five

16/8/24

These questions were written by Dreamwidth user spacefem.

1) Who are you appreciating in your life right now? Hmm...well I guess Mum, because she always helps me out and has good advice when I need it :O)

2) What's something you've done this year that other people appreciated? Umm...the Powerpoint at church I guess? The lady at the other church was certainly happy I volunteered to help this evening!

3) What's a good way to show gratitude? With a thank you and (depending on the relationship) a nice hug. :O) Maybe something chocolate related, LOL.

4) Do you write thank you notes? Nope, I will send thank you texts, if that counts ;O)

5) What can you use help with these days? Keeping my apartment clean, I cleaned it with Mum's help before heading off to Fiji at the end of last month and it's messy as Hell now. I really need to do something about it, I swear...

Right oh, for now, goodnight!

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11:25pm: Now usually I can't abide destroying a good rhyme, but I'm watching the Olympic Curling with the ever epically panted Norwegian team. Love those pants! But oh dear, it looks like they're going to lose this round, but as I have no idea what the rules of the game are I can offer no reason why. Maybe they can salvage it. Go, the crazy panted ones, go!

In other news, tonight is my last nigh in my beloved studio apartment, at least until June 2nd, sad. Although I'm a beat sweaty because I've been doing the in depth cleaning one does when one is moving out of a place, I emptied the kitchen cupboards and drawers and have cleaned them with spray and all that. Hopefully, I've done an all right job, although I usually fail to meet Mum's expectations.

Oh Norway lost, now it depends on other teams as to whether or not they go to the gold medal round, I think? Like I said the rules of this game escape me! But as long as we see more kick ass pants.

I managed to miss Roy & HG again, do'h! I'm waiting for it to come back on on One, no sign of it yet, though.

There's also the long program for the ice dancing tonight, but I bet it'll be on really late so I'll have to try and watch it tomorrow when it replays.

Anything else to report? Well, I may need to see a new pyschiatrist because my current one is moving his practice up to Newcastle, however, he is hoping to do Skype sessions so I might look into that, otherwise he assures me the guy I'll be referred to is great.

And one final thing, why doesn't the auto correct recognise I'll? Wait, it just did! Bloody annoying!

Anyway, that's all I have to say for today.

Goodnight all!

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11:41pm: Yes! I wasn't able to find my free ticket thing, so in desparation I called the mobile number listed on the antiques fair website and the nice person who answered said that I could give my name at the front desk and I'd be able to get in for free! So, off I went today and oh the sights! So many desks and drawers! I took quite a few photos but I don't have time to load them up tonight, I'll see if I can get around to it tomorrow.

Suffice to say it was good to get out of the house, even though there was a bit of a schmoozle because I was meant to make lasagne for tonight, I ended up making the cheese sauce, but Mum was annoyed that I didn't use all the milk (because I was following the recipe), so it descended into chaos a bit. And then we discovered we didn't have lasagne sheets! Fortunately Mum was going out anyway so she was able to get some more and drop me off at the bus stop while she was at it. However much to my distress when I got home from the gym I discovered she had burnt the top of it. Very unfortunate and a waste of cheese. Once you got passed that though, it was quite yummy.

Hmmm, well time is slipping away from me here, so I don't think I'll have time for the Sunday Memes, here's the Saturday one though.

Saturday Six

1. What is the last business you decided to boycott because a group called for one? The feminine protection company Libra because of a seriously nasty ad they put up against transwomen. In their defense they didn't mean to be complete assholes and pulled the ad so I went back. I heard about it on Tumblr and it wasn't exactly a group, but close enough.

2. What business have you most recently boycotted because of your own experience with the company? Ummm...I got nothing. Fortunately customer service has been good for me! :O)

3. Have you ever patronized a business specifically because others have called for a boycott? Nope.

4. What is the key factor you use in deciding whether you’ll patronize a business whose owners have views other than your own? Well, admittedly I usually have no idea what the views of the owners' of businesses I patronise are. Not my best effort at being socially concious. :OP

5. How much research do you typically do into the charitable contributions or philosophies of the corporate owners of a business before you patronize it? See above, sweet FA...I should maybe get onto that.

6. What single business do you patronize that most closely matches your own world view? Well Oxfam has a very good philosophy indeed! I volunteered there for a while in fact. Helping out developing countries by buying their goods at fair prices, good stuff.

Eek! It's almost midnight, I don't have to go to bed yet, but I better wrap this up here.

Goodnight all!

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10:50pm: The My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic revolution that is! A charming little cartoon that I'm currently enjoying viewing on You Tube. My favourite is Pinkie Pie! I even got an icon :O)

In other news this evening after work I went to the pop up ice skating rink, and was worried for a moment that they weren't going to have the last session because I was the only one who showed up! Fortunately though they let me on and since no-one else showed I had the rink all to myself. Whooo! I think the skates could have used a little sharpening, but hey, what 'chu gonna do? A fun time was had indeed! Good thing the weatherpeople can't predict the weather for shit! It didn't even rain!

Then back home where my little bro came for a visit and I got somewhat bad news, it looks like he might have to stay until September! Boo I say. Good to see him though.

And tomorrow is going to be a rather important day, I'm having my three month review! Mum thinks I should take this opportunity to see if I can't be made permanent in some capacity. I'll have to see how it pans out.

And now I best be off, I keep going to bed too late (damn you Le Tour!) so I should probably try to change that.

Goodnight all!

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10:31pm: Back to the Future! Samoa skips a day! Yes, in Samoa right now it's Thursday, but when they wake up tomorrow it's going to be Saturday! They've decided to cross the the internation dateline to join us eastern hemispherians. Although I have no idea what the deal with Kiribati (pronouced ki-ra-bas for some reason) is, apparently they jumped over in 2000 to be first to ring in the new millenium and just never changed back. How weird is that? You can just rock up to the UN and announce you've changed your timezone no matter how ridiculous that is?

But fun fact! I heard on the news that even though Friday is being skipped, all workers will recieve their Friday pay :OD LOL, how cute.

Speaking of Saturday, it's a work day for me, so I should get myself to bed earlier than later tonight. Although I hope I'm still starting at 10 rather than 9:30am, I guess I will be because tomorrow is a huge Lotto day ($31 million dollar jackpot) so there's going to be people everywhere! Gotta have a clearhead.

( In the meantime, memes! )

Right, not much else to report, except I went to Chatswood to use some Myer gift cards I got in order to buy a new bra. They've gone and changed colours so any beige ones wouldn't match the underpants I all ready have, and there was a complete lack of decent green ones. So! I settled for purple, which I think makes me look pretty sharp LOL.

After that I went to visit my friend and we had to help some people with an old lady who had fallen down. She was OK in the end, which is good!

And that's all I have to say for today!

Goodnight all!

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10:27pm: Yes! My new little netbook! I took a chance of going to the Post Office after work this afternoon (I went back to the apartment to clean up) and enquiring if there was any packages for me and here it was!

It's as lightweight as promised and quite speedy. I'm just setting up some of my programs and whatnot on it now. Including my mobile phone so I can upload some pictures of it for you to see. :O)

I'm also getting used to the keyboard, they've put the ' key down the bottom for some reason, it's a bit of a pain. It also took me a while to find the [ and ] keys too, LOL!

Right, I've got a picture now.

( And I shall call it 'Mini-Moose'! )

Anyway, I should wrap this up, I totally didn't get enough sleep last night and I was paying for it today!

I will say that once again, my idea of clean and my mother's idea of clean do not match up! She almost kicked my ass for the state of my apartment when she came over (ironically the meeting had been cancelled but she hadn't seen the email. Ooops), I thought I was doing rather well, but apparently not. It's almost clean now, though.

Goodnight all!

(Forget to put my 'Sims Thing 'on Mini-Moose! Whoops, will have to rectify that.)

11:08pm: That was the theme at the library today, if you wrote what you like about the library or recommend something in a little heart you'd get a free chocolate. Yummy!

It's been a very educational day! I had a tour of the library, learnt how to work on the circulations desk, and learnt a bit about collection management and acquistions. Tomorrow I'm going to help with the author booktalk they're having.

All in all, great fun!

In other news, I found my missing plastic box, it was in the carport of my parents house. I couldn't find the VCR remote, but at least I know the box is safe. I'll have to wait two weeks until my mother can bring it over though, bummer.

And now Memes!

Sunday Seven

Can't do because it's about least favourite soft drinks, I don't like any fizzy drinks.

Monday Movie Meme

This Weeks Topic is all about...Money

Share on your blog movies that focus on making money, finding money, losing money, stealing money or spending money.

Spaceballs - Long Starr goes after Princess Vespa so he can get money to pay Pizza the Hutt back - hilarity ensues!

Robin Hood: Men in Tights - Robin robs the rich to feed the poor! - hilarity ensues.

Back to the Future Part II - Marty purchases the Grey's Sports Almanac to become rich - fucked upness ensues.

And that's all I can think of right now, I have to head off! I need to finish my washing up then get my butt to bed.

I say goodnight to you all!

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11:23pm: LOL, it that the right mish-mashing of words? Or does it sound more like I went to some fundamentalist camp?

I in fact when with Aunt Chris, Uncle Laurie and Cousin Alex to the museums today! Firstly to the National Portrait Gallery, where there's portraits dating from the 1600s (well, one of Van Demien, the Dutch guy who discovered Tasmania) all the way to today!

Alex and Uncle Laurie actually only came to the Portrait Gallery with us because he had to go and play soccer, but it was great to see him! It has to have been about three years or more since I have. Man, I've gotta come down to Canberra more often!

After we finished with the Portraits, Auntie Chris and I went to Questacon which is this kick-ass science museum! With all these fun exhibits, like an earthquake simulator, games, a Telsa Coil to simulate lightning! I haven't been there in aaages, so we basically went to all the exhibits and it was 4:30 by the time we finished!

I brought something from the gift shop, it's not exactly science-y, it's a deck of mini-playing cards, since my apartment is so small, I really need to downsize, LOL!

We were going to go to the National Library afterwards, but it closes at 5 so not enough time. So instead Auntie Chris and I went walking near Lake Burley-Griffin, which is in fact a Fake Lake.

Since it was Saturday there were quite a few Wedding Parties out and about...we saw four! And I got some photos taken with my phone, I haven't uploaded them yet and it's rather late, so I'll do that tomorrow.

Eventually at about 5:30pm Uncle Laurie and Al came to pick us up, before we drove Al back to where he's living at the moment. I have to agree with the big bro, Canberra is seriously spread out! What's with that?! It took us half an hour to drop him off and an hour to get back to Aunt Chris and Uncle Laurie's house, but then we did stop for take-away pizza. Very yummy! And more of Aunt Chris's chocolate cake for dessert!

Not sure what's on the cards tomorrow, I should book my trip home though...I think I'll leave on Monday.

Anywho, can't really be assed to do memes at the minute...I'll get onto those later.

( But this Quiz is cool and I keep forgetting to post it, until now! )

A goodnight to you all!

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10:16pm: I neglected to update yesterday, my little bro's birthday! I spent most of the day working with my new album stuff, I've got a new update for it actually.

For high resolution screens only, I'm afraid!

I'm dead tired...didn't get enough sleep last night, so I shan't go on about today, except to mention I had to clean up dog waste again! Argh! I ask you who doesn't housetrain their dogs? Honestly?

( Eh, Memes )

You know I've just thought of another phrase that I hate "The battle of/for hearts and minds" shut the fuck up about that...I mean they've done that to the ground.

Oh man, I am so tired I can barely think, I need all my concentration at work, I've had several important things slip my mind so I better get to bed now so I'll be recharged in the mornning.

Good night all!

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