Moose Musings

7:42pm: So it's been a while since I've updated, because life has been slow, however I do have some very cool news to report.

Yesterday I was part of an archery round that had handicaps, there were different distances people could shoot and a handicap would be added to an archer's overall score to even everything out. Or at least that's what I assume they did. Being a newbie, I of course opted for the shortest distance because the day before I was on a target that started at 30m away and boy did I ever suck at it XD.

However! I had much better luck with 20m, 15m and 10m, even when the target faces got smaller - in fact I seemed to shoot better the smaller the target (we started with a 122cm one for 20 and 15m, then an 80cm one for the 10m and hen a 40cm). Go me!

Still, I definitely did not expect that at the end of the round I would be declared the overall winner!! :OD The prize I got was this golf umbrella with a target printed on it. It's really cool! I saw someone with one last week and wondered where the person got it and was told that it was a prize, so I figured if I wanted one I'd have to fork over actual money. Not so!

How neat is that? I'm quite proud of myself, obviously a 10m target is pretty dang close - I think that might be the distance people shoot darts at - but considering the first time I tried shooting a bow at Year Six I actually shot the bow instead of the arrow this is a huge improvement!

Although I do need an arm guard after all, not sure what's changed, but the string hit the inside of my elbow a couple of times before I borrowed one and there's a bruise there now. I got a second hand one at onsite shop which will hopefully work, otherwise I'll have to drop some dough to get a new one.

I also need to get some sun sleeves, because the weather is warming up and wearing a long sleeve shirt leads to a lot of sweating. Sun sleeves just cover your arms to prevent sunburn, although they only seem to be available online, so I guess I'll have to purchase them that way.

So yeah, that's my exciting news :OP Otherwise life continues as normal, although I need to make a start on my Christmas cards, they're mostly going to overseas people on the figure skating forum I'm a member of so I need to send them sooner rather than later, otherwise they won't arrive in time. But then I'm also playing Sims 4 a lot, they're got another sale going on so I'm thinking of getting a few more expansions - I probably shouldn't be encouraging EA, but it's fun! Sometimes the game does act a bit weird, but nothing too game breaking - fingers crossed!

On that note though I shall wrap this up so I can get to work on some of that stuff, but I shall do

The Friday Five

22/11/24

These questions were written by allude on LJ.

1. What is your favorite childhood memory? My family's three month trip around the world when I was nine almost ten. It was seriously awesome! We went to both Disneyland and Euro-Disney, went to school in England for a bit, travelled all around Wales, England and Scotland and on the way back we stopped for New Year's Eve in Hong Kong. So many memories...

2. If you could be reincarnated as anything besides human, who would you want to be? I always wanted to be a dolphin! I'd have to steer clear of nets and killer whales though!

3. If you had to start your life all over, what are three things you would change? Hmm...that's a hard one, I guess first I'd get rid of the IBS because screw that, nix the anxiety issues as well and...that's all that comes to mind, I don't want to change too much, otherwise I might end up not being me!

4. If you had to forget everything in your life, except one thing, what would it be? Geeze...that sounds terrible! I guess...does my family count as one thing? It better because that's what I'd want to remember.

5. Do you have a lucky charm? Nah, not really. I do have a little Chef Pusheen stuffie that I wear on my backpack that I wear to work, so maybe that? Or my Pusheen wristlet where I keep my bus pass.

Righto, ta ta for now!

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9:30pm: Yes! I finally got the game to open and reconnect with Trevor, Hetty, Thor, Sass, Pete, Isaac, Alberta and Flower, as Isaac would say "Huzzah!"

I also went to my Hill Valley save to see if that would load up, which it did, hooray! Although, Biff's grandma (currently a teen) manage to set the kitchen on fire... and because her family lives in a tiny apartment in Chicago the fireperson took their sweet time getting up there and then just stood around for most of the Sim day. Fortunately Gertrude's father managed to put out the fire himself. LOL, just crazy Sims 3 stuff.

In real life news, today was the last Beginner's Archery lesson! I started off pretty well, despite the wind (which because of how close we were to the target didn't actually affect the arrow, but it did make it harder to aim with the bow!), but I still can't quite figure out the damn sight thing, is it too low? Is it too high? Too much to the left? Or the right? Who even knows :OP

However, I along with the rest of the class passed and we each get a certificate that says we know enough about archery now to be safely admitted to any archery field in Australia and the world. Wow nice! And next Sunday I'll be heading down again to hopefully join the Adbow class (which I've belated realised stands for Adult Bow, as Kid Bow is obviously for kids, don't know how I missed that one).

I also found out what sized bow I should have, which unsurprisingly is a shorter one than what I had... although the poundage of the draw-back (if that's the right term) tends to be heavier, which is a bit of a worry for me since I'm a weakling. Also if I do buy my own bow, unlike the ones we've been practicing with are metal rather than wood and heavier. Man... shakes head. Still it would be pretty neat to have my own bow with a green riser (the part that you hold), although that might be a bit much, the cheapest bow you can get (that's not second hand or whatever) is like $250. Might be a bit much, since I did buy my own ice skates, which i haven't used in ages, grumbles at self.

Anyway! After archery I went straight to my Aunt and Uncle's place for the family brunch, and thankfully it was literally just around the corner, because Mum told me to come at 11, but it was more like 11:30. I didn't miss the brunch though, which was great because it was delicious! Also I'm relieved to announce that my blueberry muffins tasted great! I was honestly a bit concerned about them yesterday when they seemed kind of...over cooked. However, my aunt put them in the microwave for like 40 seconds before serving them and they were nice and soft. Huzzah! Also despite my concern there was a nice amount of dollop cream left over, which as agreed I got to take home as well as a few leftover muffins. Hmmm...I wonder if I should take them into the office, maybe not as there's only 3.

I dropped Dad home on my way back to my place, where I got my Sims game going and continued to watch James Turner's Bigwallet marathon, which is set to end around 10pm tomorrow night. Which is probably for the best because it makes for very addictive watching LOL.

Also distracting! It's a quarter past 10 now, so I better haul, before I go though...

The Friday Five

13/9/24

These questions were written by Dreamwidth user zenigotchas.

1. What's the strangest, unexplainable incident you have experienced or have heard of? Hmm...well the Bermuda Triangle stuff used to sound pretty creepy, but there seems to be logical explanations for all of that. I guess...they time I had this dream at camp and the very next day it came true! O.o Unfortunately, it wasn't a very fun dream. Creepy!

2. Which mythical creatures or cryptids do you think are most likely to exist or have existed? Hmmm...I dunno... maybe Big Foot? Although it'd pretty cool if there used to be unicorns.

3. If you became a mythical figure how do you think you'd be portrayed? Hmm... I honestly haven't got a clue, depends what sort of mythical figure I became! If it was a Greek Goddess I'd probably be a really beee-eetch.

4. What animal do others find creepy that you find cute? *Scratches head* I'm not sure I can think of one to be honest. Charlotte, from Charlotte's web is pretty cute for a spider, but then that was probably the point of the animation. LOL.

5. What is your favorite lost civilization? Well, you can't really go past Atlantis can you? That would indeed be a sight to see!

And now it's past 10:30, so I better wrap this up and head off.

Goodnight all!

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11:14pm: Which I put on quite late because I totally forgot about doing it while I was busy making cupcakes for the Old Folk's Get-Together at Mum and Dad's retirement village tomorrow morning. Fortunately, my washing machine has a quick, but efficient cycle.

However, I figured I better give a quick update before it gets way too late... Interesting day at work - so to speak - only me and one other colleague were in today! My direct supervisor doesn't work Thursdays and Fridays and the other three all took the day off. However, I feel like the two of there got quite a bit done with the quality checking the books from the delivery we got on Wednesday. The number of boxes are much more reasonable now, I think I mentioned before, but because of the end of financial year we don't order for like two months, so when July rolls around suddenly there's a surge! But yeah we've got a reasonable amount now.

Of weirder work news, two birds somehow got into the library today - I've worked there for like 6 years now and this has never happened before! Fortunately, they were small birds, but unfortunately they kept flying around and because of the big windows in the library and the height of the ceilings there didn't seem to be any way to get them out! When my colleague and I left the library manager and another one of the branch staff were still trying to get them out through the fire door. Hopefully they managed it! I wonder if I should have stayed behind, it would have meant getting the bus home, but it seemed a bit mean to leave them in the lurch!

Anyway, the cupcakes are frosted and in their cupcake carrier ready to go tomorrow morning, I also got a book that my mother requested I reserve for her so I have to make sure I take that along too tomorrow morning, although apparently Mum won't be at the Get-Together, I think she might be doing Chair Yoga or something.

Before I go though...

Friday Five

6/9/24

These questions were written by Dreamwidth user got_quiet.

1. What is the last shower thought you had (aka random thought in the shower or during downtime) I was just thinking - while watching the pairs free program at the JGP of figure skating how weird the concept of a throw jump is. Who came up with that? And how did they get their partner to agree to such a crazy proposition?!

2. What is the last thing you changed your mind about? Hmm...I have to say I'm rather stubborn and not apt to change my mind, LOL. Nothing comes to my mind right now!

3. What was the last low-stakes argument you were in about? Hmmm...probably something at work about my tendency to ask "What if..?" It's a rather irritating issue I have! It was all good-natured though.

4. What is an idea you have that you know would probably never work, but it would be cool if it did? An equal providing of food to the world, we do actually produce enough food to feed everyone, but it's not equally available which is a real bummer :O( Unfortunately, capitalism makes this idea impossible. Boo-urns.

5. Who is someone who has ideas you like, or take inspiration from?

Hmm...well, one of my co-workers always has good ideas for how to do work more efficiently and what not, which is much appreciated! Also Mum, she always has ideas about how to do things.

On that note, I shall be off, that laundry won't hang itself unfortunately!

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10:17pm: For archery tomorrow. I wasn't going to, because the internet seemed to be of the opinion that top archers don't shut one eye when shooting, but firstly I ain't a top archer and secondly, the para-archers who are currently competing close one eye though. Not sure how to account for the difference... they are using compound bows so I guess that might make a difference, but whatever. I did have a bit of scare when I could locate said eyepatch after trying it out, turns out it had fallen into my shopping bag. I really do need to clean up my house, especially since Mum, Dad and (possibly) the little bro are coming over on Thursday to celebrate Mum's birthday. It's actually the day before, but she's already got plans. So yeah, gotta fix that.

I also have to make a card for Dad for Father's Day, which means I gotta wrap this entry up quickly because I won't have time to make it tomorrow and it's not like I can stay up until stupid o'clock, archery starts at 9am tomorrow.

Also my digestive system has been somewhat annoyed today, I've taken some Buscopan for it, but I'm thinking a good night's sleep will be helpful for it.

Also I think I may have sat down too much today catching up on figure skating because my knee is deciding to be a butt again. Very rude.

Before I head off though...

Friday Five

9/11/23

1. What is on your bucket list that you want to do in the next ten years? Visit my big bro and his family in Japan, although that's locked in for next year, I've already paid a deposit and stuff for a tour my mother and I will be doing over there. So I should probably have another bucket list item...um...visit the US and the BTTF filming sites.

2. What bucket list items have you completed and enjoyed? I haven't really thought about a bucket list prior to that first question there, so I'm not really sure, LOL. Maybe get decent at archery?

3. What bucket list items did you accomplish but they weren't as great as you hoped or expected? See above. I'm trying to think of something now, LOL... Ummm... I got nothing.

4. What short term goal(s) are you currently working on? Cleaning up my apartment and keeping it tidy.

5. What middle term goal(s) do you have, and are you working on them? Get better at archery - I'm currently doing Beginner Classes which I have three more to do. Not sure what'll happen after that, I might have to redo the course depending on how I go.

Right, it's getting towards 11pm, and like I said I've got to do that card, wish me luck!

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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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10:05pm: So usually I spend Wednesday nights at my parents house because my Lite N Easy weekly order comes to their house on Thursday morning. Except...as I made my way over there today - on the bus because my mother had to borrow my car because one of theirs is at the panel beaters after Dad came off second best with a parking lot pillar (which I didn't remember until I went downstairs to get my car and it wasn't there LOL) Mum let me know that no money came out of her account for the order. Damnit, I must have forgotten to press the last "OK" button when I was doing the order on Monday. At least...I'm pretty sure I did it on Monday...now I seriously can't remember...

Anyway, Mum and Dad had already made me dinner so I continued on my way and had that, Mum and I also watched two of our shows before she dropped me back off at my apartment, since she'll need my car for a bit longer, possibly until next Tuesday. I'll have to take it back Saturday evening though so I can drive to Archery on Sunday - and if their car is still being fixed I'll bring it back afterwards.

In other news, my legs have stopped hurting - yay! But my QL muscle and my thumb are still sore, although a lot less than yesterday thankfully! :O) Really need to do something about the QL muscle though...guess I should be doing my core exercises more, which is obvious, but yeeeah.

Oh yeah, we had our (fortnightly) Collections meeting and the Library Manager who's also our supervisor's supervisor was there to talk about the results of this Council survey we do every two years - although I think I might have forgot to put my answers in, LOL. The results were alright, but it also came up is that our Collections team will need to come in early one day every five weeks to do opening - ie start at 8:30 rather than 9. Gotta say I'm not looking forward to this because I struggle to get there at 9am! Which I really have no excuse for...but I often find the earlier I try to get somewhere, the later I am! I do need to work on that though, so...

Anyway, it's past 10:30 and I'm trying to get to bed at a decent hour so I better wrap this up...but I will do a...

Friday Five

27/10/23

1. Which website do you go to more often than any other? Hmm...these days maybe Reddit, or perhaps Wikipedia... or maybe even the Sydney Morning Herald, it's hard to know with apps these days LOL.

2. Which website have you stopped going to, that you used to go to a lot? Definitely LifeJournal which is really sad, that place used to be where all the action was. Damn trends....

3. What is the weirdest or most unusual website you have bookmarked? For some reason I have an online "DollMaker" bookmarked, I think maybe I used it to make the cartoony version of myself in my default icon. Not sure if it even still works though! (PS. It doesn't...I probably need to clear out my bookmarks...)

4. If you shop online, which online store do you buy from most often? eBay because that's the only one where you've got a chance at decent postage! I don't know what happened with the cost of postage from overseas, but it's ridiculous these days.

5. Which online store do you browse but almost never buy from? Pusheen Shop, she's so cute! But alas, the price of postage makes it pretty much unaffordable, which truly sucks.

And now it's closer to quarter to eleven, so time to haul!

Goodnight!

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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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10:04pm: To the Olympics in Paris! The Paralympics is happening in a couple of weeks though, so that's cool. In other news, Japan pipped us at the post for third place in the Olympics - which isn't an official thing, but you know how it is :OP

Anyway, I'm watching a replay of the Closing Ceremony at the moment, although I'll probably change channel once the parade of Nations end and the Marathon Women get their medals. I have to say the North Korean delegation looked very excited, man, now they have to head back to North Korea! People have pointed out on the internet that North Korean athletes probably have much better circumstances than the average North Korean, but it must suck to be so isolated.

In other news, I finally decided to see my actual GP about the itchiness because it was really kicking my ass (I was doing my best not to scratch, so instead I just had this burning, prickling sensation) and there happened to be at 4:30pm appointment available, although I didn't actually get in to see the Doc until nearly 5pm - but hey he bulk bills so I'm not complaining.

The Doc did recommend taking an anti-histamine, which I'll do and hope it doesn't dry out my eyeballs as well as this cream, which I put on and also told me to keep up the moisturising. Sure hope it works and I don't have scabies or something (apparently if it had started while I was in Fiji that could have been a possiblity!).

But yes, keep your fingers crossed for me, because it's very distracting being itchy, I did at least get another McFly July prompt done, concentrating is hard.

On that note...I shall Meme and run!

The Friday Five

29/12/23

1. What are you hoping for in 2024? Once again I'm kinda doing this super late, but whatever... 2024 has been a good time, for the rest of the year I'm hoping to make sure I see my in real life friends more!

2. What was your low point of 2023? Um...hmmm...ponders, well M died :O( She was very unwell though, so I'm not sure if that was a low point exactly...well not for her. Definitely for me though, I miss her and our Canasta games.

3. And your high point of 2023? Well, going on the cruise down to Melbourne for the Australian Open was pretty boss.

4. Do you make New Year’s resolutions or are they just a waste of time? Depends if they motivate you or not, if they don't waste of time I'd say.

5. Do you have any traditions for celebrating New Year’s Eve? Well, for the last couple of years my brother and his family have visited from Japan for the Christmas/New Year period, so on New Year's Eve we go down to the nearby park for the 9:30pm fireworks. If nothing else Sydney knows how to put on a kickass fireworks display, so this is a very enjoyable tradition indeed!

Goodnight!

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11:25pm: To lodge an unsuccessful inquiry at the gymnastics? I'm pretty sure it does, but maybe it doesn't at the Olympics or maybe everyone feels more inclined to spend money because they're having them left, right and centre here at the Rhythmic Gymnastics All-Around Final.

In other news, the psychiatrist appointment went well, although I probably shouldn't have followed my Navman's GPS, because I think it lead me astray and ended up being a bit late, booo! Although my doctor was cool about it, I swear I've been scarred for life by one of my old boss's who was SRS BSNS about arriving even five minutes late to work. Although I am chronically late, so I really should do something about that.

Anyway, I was able to tell my doctor about the flying success to Fiji and we discussed the Metro - which I still haven't gone on because of the incident a few months back when the system glitched out and a number of people were stuck in the tunnels for two hours! As the Doc pointed out they've probably put extra precautions in place now so it's probably safe to go on it now.

I also asked him about the itchiness, he agreed with my colleague that it could well be winter related (it has been a particularly cold winter), on the other hand, I was itchy in Fiji too, so I dunno. :O/ In fact I'm itchy right now, it really sucks. I'm trying not to scratch because of the whole scratch-itch cycle, but it's really hard. Still wondering if I should go down to the bulk billing medical centre tomorrow. Or maybe just find some SRS BSNS moisturiser... I think the one I have might be like 10 years old and maybe doesn't work as well as it should.

These rhythmic gymnasts also like throwing their towels down before heading out to compete, which is rather funny, I wonder when that started? Does it really help them perform better or is it just an excuse to make their coach pick it up? Gymnastics coaches are known for being hard asses so I can see they might be tempted.

Anywho, haven't done any writing on fan fic today, I should look at the prompts again and get some ideas...

Before I head off though...

The Friday Five

9/8/24

1. Are you and your birth family close? Indeed I am, for which I am most grateful for :O)

2. How far away do you live from your various family members? My parents and little brother are just a couple suburbs away (the former to the north, the latter to the south), Grandpa lives just up the hill, my Uncle Sam and his family are just a suburb away as well. My big brother and his family live in Japan though!

3. When was the last time you visited with relatives? Well, I was just over at my parents' place on Wednesday, we had steak for dinner, which was most delicious and then Mum and I watched our shows. It was a good time!

4. Do your relatives travel to visit you? Not often aside from my mother, which is a good thing because I'm a messy person and yeah I don't want visitors to judge me :OP

5. How do you stay in touch with family: phone calls, email, snail mail, texts, other? Phone calls, texts and email, mostly the first two since most of my family is local.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot, one of the ways to get to my psychiatrist involves driving past my parents old house, I decided to pop by and take a look and they're doing some serious renovations to the place! Although they've already changed it a lot, it's a duplex of two houses, my parents owned both of them for a few years. They were brick, but now the one we originally lived in has concrete over the brick and a tin roof, although interestingly enough the roof on the other side still has tiles. It's an odd look!

On that note I better head off! Goodnight!

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11:15pm: At the 10m Platform!

Although one of the Chinese divers did just get perfect 10s for a seriously stunning dive. But one of Aussie's just did a really nice one with very little splash and only got 6.0s for her trouble? So, search me? Maybe they didn't like how she got into her handstand.

Mexico's doing pretty well at the diving program, so that's pretty cool, then 3m Synchronised Men's team gave the Chinese pair a scare, LOL.

They've also got some stats, apparently some of the divers hit the water at more than 50km an hour, dang no wonder they wear those wrist guards.

In other news, I remain woefully behind on my McFly July 2024 prompts, but work is kind of kicking my ass at the moment and by the time I settle down to get into it it's late! At this rate I'll be finishing on 15th August, which is the day BTTF I was released in Australia so that's apt :OP

Watching the diving reminds me of how I was too scared to jump off the 1m at the pool, so I have no idea how 10m divers get the nerve! I guess they're not afraid of heights for one thing, LOL.

Anywho, I regret that I won't be able to watch the whole competition because it doesn't end until like 1:30am, dang time zones :OP

Speaking of, I better wrap up this entry and do my Duolingo, I'm past 1500 days now!

Before I go though...

The Friday Five

26/1/24

Now You're Cooking

These questions were written by Dreamwidth user 0152062874.

1. Do you cook regularly or does someone else cook for you? I live by myself, so in general if I don't cook, no-one does. Although I do get Lite n Easy on a weekly basis, only for lunches, but that cut downs on the need for cooking.

2. Which are you better at making: sweet or savory foods? I do love my cupcakes, so I'm gonna say...sweet foods.

3. If you had to work as a chef in a restaurant of your choice, which restaurant would best complement your current culinary skills? Haha, oh man, that would be a pretty desperate restaurant! I guess I'll have to go with a diner, nothing too fancy you know.

4. What is a cooking tip that you know, but other people generally aren’t aware of? Ummm, I got nothing...I recently learned that baking soda goes off and loses it's rising ability, so if you didn't know that there's a tip.

5. Do you have a recipe you would like to share? I would, but it'd take too long to type out and I'm too lazy so... No :OP

Right, off I go! I've also got a load of laundry on, which will hopefully finish really soon so I get my butt to bed.

Goodnight!

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