Moose Musings

11:15pm: Yes, indeed, after watching so much of the Bigwallet Marathon and seeing that it's only 6 Aussie dollars a month I decided to subscribe to James Turner's YouTube channel. It does give me access to all these nifty members-only videos, so that's fun! I'm not sure how long I'll stay subscribed, probably not forever though.

Moving on from that, not much else to report, although it's that time o' the month, which is never fun...especially on the second and third day... I'm not sure if I should go to the gym tomorrow especially since I'm working this weekend which means I can go to the gym after work on that day. Having said that though I really need to keep up with my strengthening exercises, especially having gone to see the physio this morning. She gave me some different exercises to do, although I haven't actually done them today, whoops. However, when she went to do the muscle massage thing, I had the worst pain in my glutes, apparently, the whole muscle is super tight, I think my posture is shitty... But yeah gotta work on that because seriously, when she poked that area I almost cried!

I got to work around 10am, so the day passed rather quickly, including the last hour of the day when I was on the desk, since the courier dropped off all the reserves from the other big libraries in our group and man were there a lot of reservations! I barely got through them all before needing to finish up.

Oh yeah...and despite telling myself not to, I managed to forget my apartment keys this morning, but fortunately, Mum was able to drop off the spare set to me after work, better remember to take them back on Wednesday.

And...I've stayed up way to late again, shit, so I gotta go now.

Goodnight!

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10:06pm: Well sort of...it's more the Council, but alas my contract as Collections Librarian ended on Thursday. The good news is, I have the Collections Assistant position and thus I still have a job.

The bad news is, it's less money and hours, so I'll have to be careful budget wise and hope for lots of extra desk shifts.

Meanwhile, I'll hopefully be able to enrol in a Basic Cataloguing course which will help when the Collections Librarian job is actually advertised, since that's something I should be able to do in that job (I have had some practice doing copy-cataloguing though.

Anywho, just wanted to let you all know I'm still alive and give a quick update. With any luck I'll actually do some more updating, but... Who knows :OP

For now though, goodnight!

10:46pm: The badge a good friend of mine gave me as a present many years ago, it has "Librarian" on it and this week I've finally been able to put it on...

Because I've been seconded to a 3 month position as a Collections Librarian! Yes, I've sadly neglected to mention it on here, but the woman who used to be my direct boss at Mona Vale Library recommended me (apparently they hadn't had much luck filling the role?) and I was accepted for the position! How awesome is that! The lady said she has great faith in me, so perhaps with luck this might turn into a more permanent role. I sure hope that can happen! It's not quite full-time, but I do get to keep 1 of my shifts at Mona Vale so it's nearly full time, which is great news for my apartment. I'll have enough to live there if that happens.

So yes, I wore the badge (and the nice new business like dress I got at Vinnies for a steal) for my first day on Monday. Although, I actually thought I was starting the Monday before last, so that was a bit awkward, however it turned out for the best because I ended up with a cold last week, so I would have had to call in sick to my first week! It ended up been pretty embarrassing actually, because before I realised I was unwell I got a shift at Mona Vale, replacing a co-worker (because I'd cancelled them in preparation for the job), but ended up having to go home sick from it. :Oo I was at least able to go in on Friday though.

So yes! I'm a Librarian now, I haven't actually had to tell anyone what to do yet, not sure if I will? Maybe when I do a desk shift? Although that in itself is weird because rather than having it at the Mall Library where I'm based I have to go to Manly Library for those. Luckily it's easy to take a bus there since parking is pretty much impossible. I'm actually taking the bus to the Mall Library because that's easier as well, which gives me time to read on the way.

However, I also thought I might have time to write on my new 2 in 1 laptop as well...so I took it with me to work, but never did actually use it. However, I stayed over at my parents place last night and I was planning to use it to watch the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating, but when I opened it...

The screen was cracked! It still turned on and everything, but the touch screen was all sorts of messed up and I couldn't use it! D: I've barely owned that computer for a month!

I took it to the Computer Repair Place in Dee Why this morning, to see about getting it fixed. I hoped maybe the warranty would cover it, but no...and touch screens are notoriously difficult to fix.

To make a long story short...it basically costs as much as the laptop cost me to repair it! D:

I wasn't going to do it at first...but then I remembered another Computer repair place and decided to see what they had to say. They weren't entirely sure, but by that point I'd realised if I bought a new 2 in 1 it would be more expensive then getting my current one fixed, because it was on special. The only other 2 in 1s I've seen have been at least $500 or even $600, so when you factor it in...

Also when I left it at the second place the guy there thought it might be about $225 to fix...but it's gonna be about $300, which is what I paid for the laptop. But like I said, still cheaper than throwing it away and buying a whole new 2 in 1.

Annoying as Hell however! What shitty luck and I feel like a real idiot, especially since as I said I didn't even use it on the bus!

The lesson here is...I need a padded back to carry my laptop in once I get it back.

Anywho, the JGP Ladies are on now, so I must be off. This entry can best be summed up as...you win some, you lose some.

Ta ta for now!

Hunger Comfort Hygiene Energy Fun Social Bladder Room Librarian-ness

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10:17pm: Well, I've finally heard back from the Office of State Revenue regarding the ticket I got for driving unregistered and they basically told me "Tough shit, pay up".

Fuck me...$650 down the drain. That's basically the cost of flying to Japan, seeing Plushy at a show (in a good seat no less!) and the flight back!

Not to mention like three weeks worth of savings for the apartment stamp duty and two and a half weeks rent. So yeah this is money I can totally spare.

They really need to put this shit on a sliding scale, because this a HUGE amount of money for me, whereas for someone else it'd be a bit of an inconvenience...I get that it's supposed to be a fine and everything, but they could be reasonable. :O/

The one saving grace of this whole mess is that at least the cop was nice enough not to give me a fine for being uninsured as well, otherwise I'd be looking at having to pay over $1000!!!

Fucking sucks.

In other news I'm feeling a bit glum because I've just discovered that one of my Tumblr friends now hates Yuri on Ice aka the figure skating anime. And now I'm a bit uncomfortable because I still love it and repost lots of fan-art of it on my Tumblr...I kind of want to say something to her over Twitter about it, but I have no idea what to say. I mean...I hope she doesn't look down on me for still liking it, but I don't even know? Plus she seems to have like valid reasons for not liking it...so now I'm questioning my own taste? But I don't know.

Well, we both still like birds and Plushy so I should stop being so dramatic, perhaps. :OP

And then there's been a huge blow-out in the real life figure skating fandom, which has caused a mass exodus of fans of a particular skater from the forum I visit every day. Man, I've never been involved in a fandom breakdown before. Not a pretty sight, let me tell you. It didn't involve Plushy though! (Although...I am reminded how I find out ages after the fact how the original Plushy fandom kind of imploded way back in 2006 when some of his original fans decided to be jerkasses and ended up hating the very person they once idolised! It was total BS...and way worse since you know, they were is actual "fans" rather than haters).

That was an unnecessary ramble there...

On the upside, I got my flu shot today! My arm is a bit sore, but the doctor was very nice and when I told him I was a disability worker arranged for me to get the shot for free! Also, I got my new script for my anti-depressant, except...they always give you five repeats...so I'm not going to need one when I go and see my psychiatrist later, which will no doubt cause all sorts of confusion.

Anyway, I better be off now, since I got up earlier than usual today. Poor Mrs S though, the bathroom issue at her house has caused a lot of trouble, the original builders of the place seem to not want to take responsibilty for screwing up with construction of the bathroom.

I sure hope that sort of shit doesn't happen in my apartment when (if?) it finally happens?

So yes, on that note, goodnight!

Hunger Comfort Hygiene Energy Fun Social Bladder Room Phone

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10:15pm: Well, at least I'm getting a good pun in, but in all seriousness this is so fucked up.

As you all know my memory sucks...and this time it's truly ruined my wallet.

I decided after watching the ice skating highlights on SBS that it was time to head to Macquarie Centre and get my skates on. So I'm driving when suddenly police car lights flash in my rearview mirror! I was surprised but thankfully had the presence of mind to pull over rather than keep driving like some of the idiots you see on RBT/ I thought maybe I was getting a random breath test, but after handing my licence over I discovered it was worse...much worse.

I had completely forgotten to register my car!

It expired last Saturday so for almost a week I've been driving around unregistered and uninsured! FUCK! How could this happen?! Why didn't I get a renewal notice?! Didn't I pay for it? (No that was my comprehensive insurance, which is a totally different thing).

The cop was very nice, but that didn't stop him from giving me a ticket for driving unregistered (although, he at least didn't give me one for being uninsured too).

A ticket for $650.

I'll type that out again for you in the back row.

SIX

HUNDRED

AND

FIFTY

DOLLARS!!!

That's more than I earn in a week! That's nearly three weeks worth of savings towards the stamp duty for my apartment. Two and half weeks worth of rent.

It's an absolutely ENORMOUS amount of money! On top of the actual cost of registration and the CTP Greenslip (which is $900). Add to that the parking fine from a few weeks ago...and the speeding fine...my car is swallowing money like a monster. :'O(

I don't understand why this is happening! I've always been such a good driver! Now I'm speeding, illegally parking, scraping and driving unregistered like a complete loser.

What really kills me though is that for some reason, despite the fact I changed my address for my licence, Service NSW (which includes the Road Department) had my OLD address on file. How can that be?! Although as it turned out it doesn't look like the renewal slip came to my old place because I went there on my way home (I couldn't continue on to the ice rink :O( which was the cherry on top of a completely sucky cake) and the old landlord said he hadn't seen it.

So, the damn fuckers didn't even send it!! What the fuck?! The nice cop said I could ask for a review of the fine and see if they'd waive it, but I don't hold out hope...if they wouldn't take pity on me for speeding 7 minutes before I would have been going 20kms under the speed limit, I don't see why they would for driving unregistered and uninsured.

If the review fails you can take it to court, but like that'll happen! If I end up been found guilty I'd need to pay even MORE, and no way could I stand up in court and defend myself.

And here I was thinking the day was looking good because despite having forgotten to take my lunch with me to work I found my nurse's watch! It was on the shelf in the Returns Room of the library where I put my stuff, it must have fallen out. I was so glad to see it again!

However...that watch cost $7, so...it all pales in comparison.

And to top it all off? Because my car is more than five years old, it needs a safety check before I can register it. And absolutely no mechanic in the area is open on Sunday, there's no way I can register my car until Monday. I have no idea how I'm going to achieve it...I've got a shift at the library on Monday afternoon, so I'm not sure if catching a bus to Mrs S's and then back to the house to get the car and taking the car to my mechanic for the check will work because I'll only have 1.5 hours between Mrs S and the library. Although when I type it out like that....

On the other hand I feel like I need to get this looked at as soon as possible, apparently the check can take 15 minutes, but it all depends, it could end up been 40 minutes. If that happened in the 1.5 hours I'd be stuffed because the shift doesn't end until 6pm when the mechanic would be closed, so how would I even get my car?

So I guess on Monday morning I'll get to the mechanic's at 7:30 - Google says he opens at 8am, but who knows maybe he'll open early.

The thing is, I don't want to tell my parents about this...there's nothing they can do about it and even if they lent me money I'd have to pay it back so it's not like I'd save any money. However...Sunday night is when I usually go over there, but obviously I can't do that, even worse I can't go to church with Dad (either in the morning or the evening) because there's no way to get there by public transport (or at least not without catching two buses). But I'm a creature of habit so what am I meant to say? Although it's just occurred to me I could simply tell Dad (Mum will be away at a hotel) that my car's out of rego so I can't drive it without mentioning the supreme fuck-up that was the fine. I guess that'll have to do.

The other big disappoint is that I was supposed to see my grandparents' and little bro tomorrow morning (to thank the former for the money to go on the cruise and to finally give the latter that huge Ferrero Roche I got just after Christmas and which goes off at the end of this month), but obviously I can't drive there either. I rang the little bro to tell him my woes (he's had fines himself so he was most sympathetic) and he did offer to come and pick me up and even drive me to work, although we hadn't actually asked M and Grandpa if they were available for tomorrow so he called them up to ask, but they haven't got back to us yet, so who knows what will happen there.

Oh...and lastly, my activity tracker is still MIA, I called the library, but it wasn't in lost property, but then again...it's hard to describe, also the shelves are magnetic so maybe it's stuck to one of them. As for the Medical Centre, they didn't answer the phone so I have no idea if it could be there. I was planning to go there tomorrow to look, but...can't do that.

Okay then...let's wrap it up here, I still have my Russian to do.

Goodnight.

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11:49pm: t-shirt when I saw it in K-Mart this evening! Because, how could I not! Especially since I seem to recall seeing the same shirts last year, but not getting one only to find them all sold out when I went back!

Anyway, it's a men's extra-small, because apparently K-Mart doesn't have BTTF shirts for ladies, which seems quite the rip-off, they have plenty of Star Wars themed t-shirts in the women's section, so why not BTTF. But it fits pretty damn well, so yaaay.

Moving on, my busy day when very well! Although for some reason that may or may not be related my right thumb hurts when I bend it, I have no idea what I could have done to it. I guess I could have picked up some heavy books at work today...Man, I need to figure out some exercises for it, I've been working on my other fingers at the gym with weights, but I have no idea how to get the thumb involved.

Anywho, as you can no doubt see I left it quite a bit late to do this entry so I don't have time to say much more, but my bank card still hasn't arrived! It better come tomorrow otherwise I'm going to have to ring my mother up so she can pay for my hair to be done over the phone (although I've just realised, she's doing so relief teaching tomorrow so she may not be available, shiiit) Plus I haven't actually paid for the reunion! So you know, that'll be kind of awkward.

But, there's still tomorrow! So fingers crossed it arrives! And that my cupcakes turn out well, I got the green food colouring today, must remember not to put too much of it in, last time I used red food colouring it was a bit overkill, LOL!

And now, I bid you all goodnight!

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11:43pm: It seems like you need to spend it!

My latest annoyance is my phone, which is about two years old now and was out of date when I bought it. Now, far be it for me to need the newest phone out there, but I'm having trouble with my current one. First off it never seems to have enough memory even though I've inserted an SD card in there and set it to function like extra storage. I keep having to clear the cache and shit, plus every so often it grinds to a halt and I have to restart it. The second problem might not actually have anything to do with the phone...that is I often find myself unable to receive photos SMSed from people. And sometimes I don't even get their regular SMSes that don't have any photos! It happened yesterday actually! Mrs S sent me a photo of the kettle she needs me to purchase along with a separate SMS telling me that the Christmas Party start time had been moved to 6:30 rather than 7pm.

Neither of these got to me, despite the fact that nothing showed up on Mrs S's phone to say they hadn't got through (as far as I know my phone will say "Message unsuccessful" if it doesn't go), which meant I was late to the party - although they hadn't ordered yet so I wasn't late late. Now as I said, this could well be some sort of issue with my carrier because I'm quite sure my old mobile had trouble getting SMSes too. Either way very annoying.

I briefly considered getting the Motorola Moto G3 from Aldi when I was out shopping this afternoon, which is the next level up from my phone (still out of date, though, LOL), but it was $250 and that's a fair chunk of change. So, I didn't, apart from anything else I should really investigate if it's Spintel's fault I'm not getting photos and SMSes before doing that. They used to be contactable 7 days a week, but I'm not sure if that's true anymore.

Anywho, moving on, since it's getting late an I need to go to sleep ASAP, I've done some of my Secret Santa shopping, but I've only spent $30 so far and the maximum is $50 and I'm pretty sure other people will probably spend the maximum so it seems wrong not to do so myself. However one of the things my Secret Santa wants is something that I can't really buy until the end of next week - because it's a pot of flowers that are ready to bloom and if I was to buy it too soon it will have bloomed before I give it! Or I could go for the CD option, although I'm not sure I want to return that 70s CD set I got, because the songs on it look really good, plus I'm not sure where I've put the receipt. But what was I saying about saving money? :OP

Anywho, I'll have to ponder on that later because tomorrow I have quite a few things to do aside from going to work - decide what I'm going to wear for the big party on Sunday, have my hair done, wax and all that jazz. And with deciding what to wear I need to put that outfit together before leaving for work tomorrow morning since I won't have time afterwards!

So I bid you all, goodnight!

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10:47pm: It's really messed up to be honest...the person who's passed away isn't famous or someone I personally know, but one of the administrators of the Official Plushenko Forum, where I get my daily news on Plushy related sheninigans. It's very sad, and came out of left field! I think she must have had an illness of some sort.

So the Plushy fandom is quite sad about this, Plushy himself even posted condolences. So, it's a big thing.

Makes one feel a bit grim.

I was still feeling off in the abdominal area today, but thankfully it seems to have settled down, fingers crossed this continues because tomorrow evening there's a work function that I RSVPed for and it'd be a shame if I didn't get a chance to go.

Also the latest episode of the figure skating anime was on today! There's only five episodes left now - or is it four? So things are coming to a head. I wonder what's going to happen? I am a bit bummed that I can't afford to buy these really cute pillows of the show's three main characters. They're so cute! But aside from being too expensive they're also way too big so alas...

In other news, I took my car in for its service today and bizarrely enough the mechanic said I need to get my back tyres changed, but no mention of the front ones - even the one with the little chunk missing. How weird! But it sounds rather serious - one of them is balding a bit and could be contributing to a strange noise the car is making. So there's a cost for me, not sure how I'm going to cover that...I wonder if I should ask for a gift certificate to a tyre shop for my Kris Kringle gift!

And lastly because it's getting late, I'm most disappointed that I didn't realise my lack of cheese slices, because I didn't have enough to make lasagna! I hope the mince will be all right for lunch tomorrow. I'm sure it will be.

And now, I must be off! (Oh! I did of course go to the library for my volunteering today, the two co-ordinators were giving a talk at an old folk's home, but they left instructions for me and there were cupcakes in the kitchen so that all worked out very well!)

Goodnight all!

Hunger Comfort Hygiene Energy Fun Social Bladder Room Lasagna

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11:02pm: And it sure sucks for those who get diagnosed with his syndrome too!

I speak of Dr Hans Asperger, sadly pronounced "ASS-berger" instead of "As-pergers" like you think it would. Honestly, been on the autism spectrum is hard enough without having to put up with those shenanigans m

Although I guess you can't blame a person for how their name is pronounced.

Anywho, I'm updating this on my phone so I can keep a tight rein on my data usage. Because I got last month's mobile bill and man, it's ugly, were talking about $20 more than usual, ugh!

To further my distraction from the net I've been playing The Sims 3, whoo! I'm playing Doc's father and he's just arrived at university, exciting times. I should start updating my Sims journal...or maybe get a Tumblr for it. Hmmm, what say you?

Right, I still have to do my Russian so I better haul.

Goodnight all!

10:59pm: Yep, here I am in the new place, which as predicted by Mum doesn't smell so weird now I'm in here.

On the upside, I can now watch the TV from bed, on the downside, I haven't moved any of my books that are in the pantry at the old Granny Flat, but my new one is pretty much full...so where am I supposed to put them?! D:

Anyway it was a seriously full-on day today, what with the moving men, it seemed to take aaages for them to get my furniture and some of the crates out of the old Granny Flat, and it did get a bit dicey when time came to move the crate holder thingie, dismantling it would have taken way too long, but it's not exactly sturdy - the top and sides of the metal rails are screwed into the shell, but the three separate rail sections are only held together by these metal clips - some of which have all ready broken off and that's without moving it. But the guys managed it, yay!

While they were doing this I was filling up my car with stuff to take over, having dropped off the rest of my clothes after finishing at Mrs S's place. So by the time the men had finished packing their truck I was ready to head down to the new place too. So down we went - although it took a bit longer than usual because a tree had fallen onto one of the roads so the SES were there to clean it up and as a result one side of the road was closed and lollypop men were there to either tell us to 'go slow' or 'stop'.

Anyway, the unloading of the truck went great! Although I missed out on thanking the men for their help because Mum sent me back up to the old place to pick up more stuff since technically I'm paid up to Friday although the landlords' are happy for me to have a few extra days. By the time I got back from loading the men were gone, which was for the best really since it'd taken them two hours so that cost me $220!

Also the whitegoods arrived before the men and I got too the new place, which was a big relief because I was worried that the two trucks would show up at the same time and it'd be difficult to move stuff in - seeing as the landlord's car is in the carport.

I really have to thank Mum, who did a lot of the unpacking and putting away of things, like all the crates in the crate holder and things into the wardrobe and picking up the new pantry that's going to be put up by the guy who built the shell of the crate holder. He's also going to put up a bench in the kitchen area, which reminds me...maybe we can put a little shelf under it and I can put some of my books in there as well in the narrow bookcase and the pantry. But I dunno, I might need that space for my plates and stuff.

Anyway, time is moving on, so I should wrap this up, although at least I don't have to go to the petrol station tomorrow morning because I went there this evening as it's just up the road now :O) But I skipped my Russian yesterday and I want to do it tonight before I turn in.

I'll have some pics of the new place to show tomorrow!

In the meantime good night all!

Hunger Comfort Hygiene Energy Fun Social Bladder Room Moving

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