Moose Musings

9:28pm: Have I used that subject heading all ready this week? Possibly, but it's an apt description I tell you. Also I've got a headache...which isn't making things much better...I guess I need to take another Nurofen, I took one about an hour ago, but it really hasn't worked. Note to self: If it says one to two tablets, take the two!

In other news, it seems I wasn't all on my own today at Mrs S's place after all, although the other carer didn't arrive until about an hour in, by which time I'd finished with the showering. I wonder if the same thing will happen tomorrow in which case I'll have to deal with the toilet related duties on my own, Godspeed, me, Godspeed.

Once I finished my work, there was a big rush to get to the city, caused primarily by the twenty minute gap between buses that I needed to catch. But I managed to get there in time, even when there was a change of venue and the fact I had to change my clothes from my carer's apparel to my interview like clothes.

Anyway, it was basically an interview to get to know what my job history and whatnot and what I can apply for. The chap I spoke to thinks I have a good set of skills that would work in Records Management and he's going to send me some templates so I can work on my resume. Although I'm not sure how this is supposed to work around my new job...and as I've mentioned it wouldn't exactly be good form to leave after only three months or something.

On a final note, tomorrow is Mardi Gras, Pancake Day! Which calls for good eatin' and my mother has invited me over tomorrow evening for lasagna and pancakes - not at the same time obviously, which I'm very happy to take her and Dad up on. Although I'm reminded that I have my own pancake mix here, but I'll have to use it some other time. This also means that I can use my parents internet, which won't be slow as shit! But I don't think I'll be able to stay over since it'll take too long to get to work.

Now, my brain is seriously dying so I'm gonna wrap this up here and I'm watching Border Patrol and let me say, those custom people can be rather offensive, "Are you bringing drugs in? Are you here as a prostitute?" Rude. And you just know they wouldn't ask white people the prostitute question.

Also, I wouldn't appreciate the drugs dog's sniffling my butt area when I'm minding my business in the airport. :OP

And that's all I have to say about that.

Goodnight all.

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9:33pm: Damn, they've decided to be an ass to me again with much discomfort and odd sensations...I feel like an eyelash might be in there, but there seems to be nothing. Very irritating...I wonder if there's something in the air because my nose was certainly itchy today and I never did get that horseradish and garlic stuff that my mother swears by. Whoops.

Anyway, as I mentioned yesterday, I had to get up at 7am today to go for my training at my prospective employer's house. Suffice to say I mostly watched how things were done although I did to a few things. Not sure how I feel about it to be honest. On the one hand, the lady is very nice and quite funny, so there's no issues on that front, but yeah...it's one thing to have a buddy for this sort of thing, it's quite another to do it by yourself! I'm worried I might fuck up or do something not right with the personal care and things will become quite a mess, figuratively and literally! But I'm going back for more training tomorrow and on the weekend too so...

I did get an email back from the guy my aunt referred me to, but no meeting has been set up yet and nothing forthcoming from the library (incidentally the council HR department has apparently been downsized so it could take even longer than usual to get a reply!), I think I could turn down this job by Monday, but after that I'm pretty much committed.

Furthermore...I don't even know how one would leave a job like this...I suppose it's the same as any job? Give your two weeks notice, although then I'd probably be expected to train my replacement...ugh, I'm not good at issuing instructions. Although I'm getting ahead of myself here, I should stop catastrophising things.

Oh and I forgot to mention the most interesting thing, the current care worker is called Monica too! She's the first one I've ever met personally in my life I kid you not! There was a Monica at my high school but she was in Year 7 when I was in Year 12 so I never even saw her. So yeah, this quite amusing to me. She's also really nice, so hey, good people.

In other news, I'm not sure about the gym situation, by which I mean taking my gym gear with me so I can go there after work. However, one probably shouldn't bring too much crap to someone's house, my stuff was a bit in the way today actually, and that was rather awkward. I suppose I'll just have to come back here after it and collect it. I guess it wouldn't be such a problem, I do have that bus ticket after all.

Anyway, better wrap this up and head to bed, a lack of sleep could also be behind my eyeballs acting up.

Wish me luck tomorrow! Goodnight all!

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10:43pm: It seems the people in the main house have taken to turning off the modem when they go to bed, leaving me with no internet connection! Son of a... I can understand why we seem to be using bandwidth a lot faster since N got the new wifi booster, but it's immensely irritating to me. I'm considering offering to pay extra so we can get 50gb or something. And now I'm not sure what to do if N forgets to turn it on before he leaves - early - for work. I can't really just go into their house and switch the modem back on. What an ass!

Anyway I was going to update you on all of my shenanigans today, but updating on a mobile makes that too hard so you'll have to wait for tomorrow.

I've got quite a few job leads lately - but managed to miss out on applying for a library job Mum showed me last week, fuuuuck.

But I've got that interview tomorrow morning so fingers and toes crossed.

Also Centrelink is going to put me in the more intensive job getting help steam, so that's nice. But more info on that later.

For now, goodnight.

11:05pm: So, the rain finally stopped, and the sky cleared up last night, however, this didn't make for warm weather, in fact I woke up at like 3am absolutely freezing! I had to get up go into my closet and get my doona out before I could get back to sleep! Very rude. I guess the lack of cloud cover allowed what warmth there was to escape into the atmosphere. It is supposed to warm up over the weekend though, which is good to hear.

In other news, today was the last day of the workshop, where we looked at interview questions and what not, which is actually something I'm deeply interested in because interviews are the bane of my existence I swear. But I've got a lot of good advice, so that's great! I hope I'll be able to use if when the time comes for my next interview.

Alas, we kind of ran out of time so the person running the workshop wasn't able to go over our resumes in much detail, she did look over mine though and sent me a document that describes the jobs I'm going for and may well contain those all important keywords.

However! I did notice, when we were looking over my resume briefly that I hadn't updated the fact I'm no longer at the newsagency, sheeeet. I've got too many resumes to keep straight, dang it. I hope that doesn't come to bite me in the ass. Come on, Council, give me an interview, I can thrill you! :OP

Speaking of which, I'm going to the library tomorrow so I better not stay up too late, luckily Andy Murray managed to win his semi-final in four sets so I can head to bed now.

Goodnight all!

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10:36pm: But alas there is no escape...two more days of the Resume workshop or whatever it's called. Although, I suppose I shouldn't bitch too much, since there is new information - like apparently all the big companies use these algorithms to select applicants now, so if you don't use the keywords, you might not even get your application read! Yet another thing to worry about, shiiiit.

On the plus side, so to speak, it turns out I don't have to get up extra early on Thursday because the person I was supposed to have an appointment with before the workshop isn't going to be there, so the meeting has been moved to 18th February. Well good.

This is especially good because since yesterday the it's being pissing down with rain, we've had a month's worth in two days! And it's supposed to continue all through the week! Originally it was supposed to be gone by Friday, this is especially crappy news because there's meant to be this big book sale going on in Chatswood on Saturday which I wanted to go too,but maybe it'll get washed out. Boo.

In other news, there's no Aussie's left in the singles draw at the Australian Open, which is acceptable only because the last Aussie standing has being an asshat and a bad sport, so really he needs to buy a clue and behave himself in future. Honestly, this latest group of Aussie tennis players are proving unlikeable, we need another Pat Rafter, stat.

I suppose I should get to bed because I think I'm supposed to be asleep by 11:30 lest I not get enough zzzs and end up hardly being able to keep my eyes open.

And for those of you on the US Eastern seaboard, bunker down and good luck!

Goodnight all!

PS: Internet was back on this morning, I think maybe the rain was the reason it stopped working yesterday,fingers crossed it doesn't happen again!

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10:32pm: Yep! The pyschiatrist went well today, except I managed to totally miscalculate how long it would take me to get to the Consulting Rooms and thus woke up much earlier than I needed to. Oh well...I suppose it's better to be early that late, because you just know when you're late the doctor is going to be on time or early and you'll be stuffed.

Anyway, I'm going quite well and he showed me a new technique for using mindfulness to keep calm when my anxiety is threatening to get me. He did though suggest that I face my transport fears on the ferry as well. I dunno about that, the ferry isn't really a necessary transport mode for me, and just the thought of it is enough to make me worry. I suppose I should take that as proof it's a fear I need to face. Boo.

Anyway, after that, I headed to Chatswood where I went to the library and recharged my phone for a bit until it was time to take the bus to Macquarie Centre and ice skating! Yay! :OD Although, I ended up having to run about a bit when I thought I didn't have enough cash to get in - so I had to go to Big W and purchase some Jaffas so I could get cash out. Turns out I actually did have enough, a ten dollar note was lurking in my wallet. Rude!

The rink was in much better condition today, no pools of water this time, although some dumbass did make a rather large hole in the ice, luckily it was rather noticable so I was able to steer clear of it, but I'm not sure everyone else was so lucky! Oh and it was also much less crowded since I went to the lunch time session, although the fact that the school holidays are coming to an end is probably a reason for that too.

I worked on my gliding, but I dunno...it's occurred to me that skaters seem to position their bodies sideways a lot of the time, especially the upper body. When I tried to do that to go backwards though I couldn't see where I was going, damn neck doesn't twist that far, I'm so inflexible, sigh. Interesting fact, I also realised the other week that the blades of my skates have someone's name engraved on them, persumely the original owner's.

Further to that, I picked up the paper while I was in Chatswood and it seems KinCare is looking for people again, so I rang them up to see if they remembered me. Apparently, my name rang a bell, but they couldn't find my resume so I had to email it in again. I wonder what will happen there...and of course next week I have to go into Mission Australia for the resume writing thing, sigh. I did remember to get that form filled in by my doctor so maybe that will help!

And now, I shall wrap this up since the Memes aren't up yet and the Santos Tour Down Under replay is on and I want to watch that :O)

So goodnight all!

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11:27pm: As evident by the fact I'm updating at this late hour! Actually when I woke up this morning I felt a bit sleepy, but I quickly perked up when I rang up the library, I was planning to go tomorrow, but when I found out the Inter-Library Loan Officer had made a cake for my birthday! She had thought I was coming in on Monday, how embarrassing! So I headed off and there was quite a bit for me to do today including shelving. Usually this is taken care of by the front desk people, but this morning there was a display of wild-life, a show and tell type thing for kids with a baby crocodile and everything! Long story short, the shelving built up because the wild-life wrangler took up the whole bottom level of the library.

But yes, always a good time at the library! I really must apply for the job and others...I'm sitting on my ass here, a few of these jobs might all ready be taken, so that's what I need to do tomorrow. I sure wish the internet would stop being so bloody slow, I have to put up with it for another day I'm afraid. I'm wondering about asking Mum's friend for the account details and what not so I can keep an eye on our data usage, but I'm not sure how to bring it up...

In other news, I think my other friend has headed back to America, I meant to send an SMS to her before she left, but...I guess I'll have to use Viber or Skype and see how that works out.

Not much else to report, except after my volunteering I went to the Mall and luck for me, The Simpsons 2015 Desk Calendar was still available at the Calendar Club kiosk! I came from the wrong direction at first and so thought I was out of luck, but nope. And it was 40% so go me! :O)

Right, better wrap this up because I do have to get to bed, tomorrow I need to clean my flat, seriously, because Mum and Dad want to come by for a visit and if it looks like this I"ll never hear the end of it. That and job hunting is on the cards tomorrow!

For now, goodnight!

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11:02pm: So the internet has been throttled, and unless N in the main house can do something I'm stuck on dial-up speed for the next 8 days! Son of a bitch! Isn't it bad enough my laptop is dying and I have to use my old one, which feels weird after all this time and it also runs quite hot, now I've got this.

Also, there's some jobs available at a University library a 12 month internship! It sounds like a fabulous opportunity! The only problem is I have no idea how to write a cover letter that will really sell me. It closes on Thursday, but the ad says to apply ASAP. I was hoping to do so tonight, but like I said I'm blanking on what to say. Damn. I guess I could try calling the person named in the ad to see if I can get some tips. Interestingly enough the contact person is someone at Zenith - which is the library finding recruitment agency, I rang them earlier today actually, but since they didn't even mention this position I wonder how committed they are to finding positions for people!

As well as that I saw an ad for a new job search website called spotjobs, which I also need to check out, it has entry to mid-level jobs which sounds good - other job sites I go to often throw in jobs I can never do like "GP" or "Executive" or something.

Sigh, I'm just really tired of writing Cover Letters...why is it so hard to find a job these days? What happened to society, dang it? Of course, all this is having me think maybe I do need that three day course after all. Although I'd really rather get that internship, it sounds exciting.

Anyway, I can't really be bothered to do the Memes because as I said, the internet is slow as shit and that just irritates me. Also I gotta go to bed soon because I'm going to my Grandparents house tomorrow.

Wish me luck with my Canasta playing!

Goodnight all!

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