Moose Musings

11:11pm: Wait almost 2 hours? Because that's what I did, LOL. Although I had my book with me so it wasn't like I was totally bored and fortunately, the weather isn't so cold now because that would have suuucked.

I obviously wasn't planning to get free pizza having being to the gym, but I was out of toilet paper so had to go and buy some on my way home, and walking to the supermarket I happened to pass by the newly opened pizza shop, where they were offering the free pizzas. I wasn't actually going to go there, because the line was already quite long and a there was a crowd hanging around - I later realised that these were people who were waiting for their order. But y'know, free food is hard to walk past, so after running into an old work colleague, chatting for a bit and getting a free cannoli I got in the line. As it turned out I was among the last - the free pizza stopped at 7pm and it was about 6:45 when I got to the front counter. My order number was 396! And they were only at 160 or something... So yeah long wait - when they said it would be about an hour I almost decided not to stick around. Still for all that I'm glad I did because it was a very yummy pizza indeed, even if there was no Hawaiian option :OP

Of course, it did mean I got home quite late, which means I'm updating this pretty late too! Before I rush off though, I have to say I'm a bit concerned about my side muscles which have been oddly sore since yesterday, I hope the physio didnt do something weird to them, but I don't think she'd actually touched that area so I must have sat oddly or slept weirdly. I hope I don't have to go back, it does cost like $90 a go.

Right, I totally got distracted by Duolingo and now it's nearly a quarter to midnight, which is no good because I haven't been getting enough zzzs lately and that just won't do.

That being the case, I better dash, see you later!

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11:15pm: As you may be able to guess from my subject heading, my fears from yesterday about getting totally blasted by my boss did not come to fruition.

Phew!

And also a fine demonstration of my ability to catastrophise. This as you can imagine is a bit of a problem for me because it usually results in me thinking the absolutely worst and worrying needlessly about what's going to happen and how bad it's going to be, when in the end it all turns out fine.

Shakes head, I'm a silly duffer.

I'm also in a bit of a rush because today is gym day and there was also a going away get together for a person leaving the library service and since it was at the pub across the road from my house I decided to pop in since the person is question is one of the selectors. Then when I got home I planned to write for the McFly July prompt I'm up to, but then I got inspired to finally try and create my own Pusheen beret.

Some years ago, I lost my beloved Pusheen beret on the bus and never found it. This was very upsetting because the beret is no longer available to buy and attempts to secure a second hand one have failed - which is not surprising because it's like the cutest thing ever.

So a couple of years ago, my mother bought me a beret that was a similar colour from the French market thing that happens every year in a nearby suburb. My hope was that I could get it professionally embroided with Pusheen's face, but alas they're not able to, I guess the face is embroided on before the beret is actually shaped to become a beret.

My only hope is to embroider it myself, which I've dilly-dallied on doing until tonight, but when the inspiration strikes... it's kinda lopsided though and only half done.

Of course, having done that I've found a website where the beret seems to be available to buy? I'm not sure I should trust this...because the hat was sold like eight years ago now, would an internet shop that's not eBay really have some just sitting around? And if so, why have I never stumbled across it before?

And now, my internet is done so I can't even check, that's not irritating or anything...

I guess that's my cue to exit, no meme today, but I've almost finished the little ficlet so at least I won't fall any further behind on McFly July 2024.

Ta ta for now!

ETA: Research shows that the website is fake, hmpf! If I want to a knockoff Pusheen product, I'll make it myself :OP

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7:26pm: Yes, I went back to the gym this evening although I only did the recumbent bike and my stretches, just to ease back into it :OP I'm feeling much better though, hooray! Although my nose is still snifflely, I think that might just be from the cold weather. I tell you, it's chillier than normal this year. I'm watching the news right now - the weather is on - and apparently it was warmer than usual today, but then I didn't go out during lunch because it's school holidays at the moment and that always makes the Mall a bit of a madhouse. I'm also trying to finish the Terry Pratchett book I've been reading, I was going quite well, but unfortunately, I forgot to bring the book home last Monday, and then I didn't go to work for the rest of the week... then I forgot it again yesterday! But I have it now and I'm getting to the end so I should get to reading that.

I do need to hang up my masks though, I just washed them - yeah I still wear masks, I've kind of got used to it, and despite having just had a cold I think it's been helpful in reducing general illness. Knock on wood I think this is the first cold I've had this year? But yeah fingers and toes crossed I haven't jinxed it :OP

Apart from this not much else to report - a familiar lament of mine, however, I must make sure to contact my friends to see if anyone wants to go see Inside Out 2 - did I mention this before? LOL I can't remember and I'm too lazy to go look now. I'm not sure what to do if no-one wants to come, I guess I could ask Mum? Although that's kind of lame, LOL. One of her friends - the one I went up to Cairns with did offer to come, but I dunno.

Hmmm...did I have something else to say? Nah, I should probably try and do some McFly July fics, since the more time I wait the more I have to catch up on! Although I do want to play Cities Skylines, I restarted my Hill Valley, for no particular reason, except maybe to make it look a bit better, the one I was working on before now has sprawled out and has rather tall buildings and just generally not looking quite right.

I'm also making quite a lot of progress with my Pusheen ice skating cross stitch, I'm still trying to decide if I should cross stitch in the snow, I suppose I should, but it kinda seems like a waste because it's not like you can see the white thread unless you're looking really closely. But...we shall see!

I suppose I should stop writing about this stuff and start doing it, LOL.

Before that - catching up on the...

Friday Five

30/5/24

1. What are three things you refuse to live without?

1. Cheese (I tried to give it up once...nothing doin'!)
2. Reading
3. Hmm, my first thought was the internet, but I dunno...was life that bad without it? :OP Instead I'll say writing!

2. What are your three favorite items of clothing?

1. My emerald green coat - the lining which is polka dot fabric is fraying alas - but I still love wearing it :O)
2. My Pusheen yellow jumper (sweater), it has a sort of...embossed image of Pusheen baking on it, it's super cute!
3. This nice flower print dress I have, hmm maybe I should take that along to Fiji along with my white dress.

3. What are your three favorite books?

Ooo tough one this...the first three that come to mind:

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend (I have to pick a specific one from the series)
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne (Yeah, it's a romance, wanna fight about it :OP)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

4. What are three things you'd grab if you had to evacuate your house quickly?

My glasses (I need them to see!)
My laptop
Whatever Pusheen merch I could get my hands on (alas I no longer have a pet fish, so I don't have to worry about that)

5. What are your three favorite songs or musical works?

Grease the movie
Summer Sunshine by the Corrs
Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush

Oh yeah, I just remembered what I was going to write about, I had to go on the desk for three hours today! Fortunately, not in a row, as a Collections Assistant this is quite unusual, although I was away all last week and a lot of fellow staff are on leave. I did survive though! Partly because a colleague offered to switch a shift so I didn't have to stand for two hours straight. Also the person who does the roster was kind enough to take me off the shift I had tomorrow, which is also Inter Library Loan day, so huzzah!

Ta-ta for now!

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11:39pm: I even have the sign for it! The lightbox I bought from Aldi. ;O)

So yes! Mum made the dinner (lasagna and salad - I provided the carrot and cucumber for that), I provided the venue and Dad as well as the little bro attended, success! It's been ages since we've seen the little bro, but he's doing well at his new job and even took a quick weekend trip with his flatmade/friend.

Before that, it was a busy day! I didn't go to Spotlight, which turned out to be for the best because unfortunately there was a bad accident on the road I would have taken to get there and traffic was backed up for pretty much the whole day as a result! Thankfully, no-one was killed (I hope) and to top it off a crane broke down as well, so yeah it was a real mess.

I also ended up being a bit late to the SRE meeting and later on to the SRE class itself, and I didn't even end up been able to put into a proper workout on the gym. Booo. Ah well, I'll go again tomorrow for my last hurrah. Then I have to decide if I'm joining the gym just around the corner or if that might be a bad idea if I end up having to move somewhere else (knock on wood).

Anyway, I better make this short - sorry! - because it's getting late.

Oh! And Dad helped me with the spring on the green chair, so I'm back in it again, hopefully it'll hold up, but maybe I'll buy a zigzag spring just in case, although I have no idea how I'd put it in.

Right, I'm also a bit sleepy which is another reason to wrap this up, LOL.

Before I go, I have to also note that I managed to clean my flat up, whoo! I did have to do a bit more tidying after the parentals arrived but it's all good. :O)

Goodnight all!

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11:15pm: At the very least the net has been working pretty well today...knock on wood!

In other news no call about the laptop, I did think about popping into the shop after my volunteering at the library today, but I decided it was probably too soon and I didn't want to be a bother.

Although I'm suddenly reminded that I meant to call the Library Manager at Mosman Library (who's the same person as when I walked there) to remind her of that fact and letting her know how enthusiastic I am and all that. Do'h! Must do so tomorrow!

Also I realised last night - after the net went down and I couldn't save my entry after writing most of it up! - that I think I messed up the hill start which is why it didn't work. You're supposed to gun the engine before pulling the hand break up aren't you? I forgot that pulling the break up probably releases it even if you don't let go of it entirely. Fail! Lucky I didn't run into that Mercedes! I would have been pretty expensive!

So, what else to report, not much, the library went well as usual, lots of inter-library loans processed and returned! Always happy about a job well done. I stayed a little longer than usual and only just made the bus home - so good timing.

The rash meanwhile looks a little better but it's itch today which really sucks, plus the cortisol cream has gone missing, wtf? Very annoying. Anyway, depending on what it's like tomorrow I'll go to the doctor, plus I should go to the gym too. I'll decide tomorrow.

For now, I'm off to hit the hay! Goodnight all!

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10:45pm: Haha, I sincerely doubt it, but Project Plushy - the Babushka dolls have attracted some attention from other Plushy fans, how fun! :O)

Sadly for me, Australia doesn't have a Babushka-making industry, so there goes that as a career option...damn, kind of makes me wish I'd been born in an earlier time when such artisan trades were still viable career options.

On the other hand, there was no internet back then...the trade is probably not worth it. :OP

Hmmm, I'm watching TV right now and there's an add for an animal circus...I thought they banned those things in Australia? Although some years ago an animal circus came to the park across the street and my family went over to see the elephant. The elephant seemed to be OK, but really, they belong in their natural habitat, or at the very least a spacious zoo!

In other news, work today and happily my IBS got the memo and didn't bother me today, yay :O) So all the magazines were priced and put out and there was also stationery that needed pricing too, so yeah, good times. Man...I get joy from such weird things, don't I?

But I've got my introductory appointment with the Life coach person next Tuesday, so here's hoping she can help me put my best foot forward in the job hunt. Fingers crossed people!

What else to report? Not much, I was going to go to the gym after work, but the weather turned to shit and I couldn't be bothered, but yeah I'll have to go tomorrow otherwise I'm just donating money to the gym rather than actually using it LOL!

Hmmm and with nothing else to report, I guess I'll Meme and run:

Booking Through Thursday

Plot or Characters?

Which is more important when you read — the actual story or the characters? I’ve read books with great plots, but two-dimensional characters, and I’ve read multi-layered characters stuck in clunky stories, and I’m sure you have, too. So which would you rather focus on, if you couldn’t have both?

Well, as a reader of such trashy books at the Sweet Valley series, it's possible neither is important to me :OP But I think that characters are most important to me. I've read many a book with a crummy plot, but interesting characters which was enough to keep me hooked although the crappy plots would leave me rolling my eyes more than once. But yeah, I tend to get attached to characters.

Air Crash Confidential is on at the moment, they're looking at accidents caused by bad weather, including that flight over the Amazon that broke up leaving a lone survivor who fell some 30,000 feet into the forest and miraclously survived. We saw a movie about it at school once, it was a Hell of a story! But yeah, I can't even imagine getting through such a situation, surviving a plane crash and being stuck in the jungle for 11 days with an infected wound. o.O

Aaand that's pretty much all I have to say for now - although The Simpsons: Tapped Out has been going a lot better for me lately! Not so much crashing and I've been getting random premium currency and other stuff. Heh, probably all part of sucking me in.

And now, I bid you all goodnight!

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10:51pm: Yes, yes they can be, damnit. Not only did I miss the bus to the gym after work, I also caught the wrong one at Neutral Bay Junction, which terminated like a kilometre from where I wanted to go! But luckily the bus driver was running late and drove me up where I wanted to go anyway which was very nice indeed.

No such luck after the gym though, I forgot what time the bus left and missed it, so I had to walk up to Neutral Bay via my parents house. Although that wasn't too bad, because I found my mother's swimmmers and towels in the locker room of the gym (she must have left them behind on Sunday or something) so I was able to return them to her and also have some dinner. But then, when I went up to catch the bus that takes me directly to the stop just a block away from my apartment I missed it! D: Considering the fact this particularly bus stops running about that time, I felt that I was in a fine pickle. I was at least able to get into the city, but it looked like it was going to be a whole lot of bus hopping from there, at least until I discovered that the bus I missed must have been running late or my phone was wrong, because another one showed up and I got home relatively easily after that.

However, it was after 9pm by the time I got home! So any thought I had of catching up with Memes or even tagging has fallen by the wayside. Lame. And I haven't been getting to bed at a decent hour lately so I definitely have to turn in now.

Bah, not enough hours in the day I tell you.

For now goodnight!

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10:44pm: OK, that's a terrible, terrible pun, but I'm sure my friend Spy will enjoy it :OD I've downloaded the bubble wrap app and mahjong and the word puzzle I enjoy playing on the tablet. I hope the screen isn't too tiny for my eyeballs.

In other news, Mum has just come home from work (late to go in, late to come back I guess!) and is making toast which is making me hungry! Looking at my calorie intake today I should be fine to have a piece of toast, but I still wonder about that fat content.

Not much else to report today, I went to the gym, played with my new phone :OD and surfed around on the net. Oh! I did some RPing which I've been slacking on for the last few weeks, it's time to get back in the swing of things!

Although there'll be quite a to-do list tomorrow, first of all some people are coming to inspect the house for possible purchase so I need to clean my room, I also need to call the library and ask if I can come in on Friday and I need to investigate what subjects I need to take to get my Masters degree. I don't want to pick the wrong ones, since as I've mentioned before it costs like $800 per subject.

Man, that toast smell is really getting me hungry...I'm going to get some eats.

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

Goodnight all!

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