Moose Musings

10:39pm: OK, I don't actually have a good subject heading for this post, my mother and I have just finished watching our shows, which means I should be getting ready for bed, but I figured I'd post a little update before heading off.

Not much to report, although apparently after a few days of been mostly warm, it's going to be cold and rainy tomorrow and into the weekend, which kinda sucks. I hope it isn't raining on Sunday for archery, as mentioned they apparently only cancel if there's lightning, but I can't really imagine been able to shoot a bow with any accuracy whatsoever with rain pouring on my glasses.

In other news, we've got training tomorrow morning, which sucks, firstly because, training is always a drag, often you get told shit you already know and then you have to roleplay situations an it's all awkward. Secondly, that's 3.5 hours away from my actual work tasks, such as the Inter Library Loans and QC-ing the new items. We're falling behind on the latter again and this training won't help. On the plus side it is only down the road from my apartment, so at least I don't have to go far.

Finally, I did do a Sims 4 session, but ended up not saving because poor Gardner Shea is not having the best honeymoon, I sent him and Lady to the jungle, but he keeps getting attacked by various creatures. When I left the game he was on fire! o.O I hope the game's not trying to kill him off, because seriously, the audacity.

On that note, I better be off, hopefully I might have a more interesting update tomorrow. Good night!

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8:00pm: The last part has rather put a dampener on the end of the weekend, especially seeing as it's also accompanied by stomach pain - although that at least seems to have eased up, although my digestive system decided to freak out on me like an hour ago which sucked a lot. I'm also super tired... I don't think I've been getting enough sleep seeing as I got up early yesterday morning as well as today for archery.

Actually, my digestive system was being most impolite this morning and I was a bit worried, fortunately, it calmed down so I was able to get to the class and shoot the arrows. I'm happy to report I am indeed getting better and actually hitting the target, but I haven't the best aim still. On the plus side it did mean that I was first out in the end of class shoot off which meant I was able to get to church. It was quite packed since as I mentioned it was the only mass for that weekend.

After mass - and some speeches about how the church got its start 50 years ago, there was the anniversary lumch, fortunately my stomach problems had gone dormant at that time so I was able to enjoy that, there was a buffet with quite a lot of options, I ended up with chicken wrap and a party pie and party sized sausage roll (which happened to be have been brought by Mum XD) and then a chocolate muffin, a mini cupcake with chocolate icing and a scone. Which I'm hoping isn't want brought on the digestive freak out later on. But who even knows?

Dad didn't go to the lunch so I had to drive Mum back to the retirement village before I came back here and finished reading the book that's been requested as an Inter Library Loan. As it turned out I couldn't actually finish it at work because it's actually super sad and I didn't want to start crying at work. So instead I read it this afternoon and cried here, which I guess could explain the headache, because crying sucks.

I wonder if I should take some Buscopan, hmmm...

Anyway, I was planning on replying to Vic's messages, but yeah, not feeling up to it right now, but do not fear I haven't forgotten!

On that note though, I'm out, I sure hope I feel better tomorrow after a good night's sleep.

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10:05pm: I'm not sure what's going on, but they're really rather sore...it was windy this afternoon so perhaps some dust or something got kicked up...

Speaking of the weather, it was 27 degrees today, like WTF? It's not even Spring yet, this doesn't bode well for Summer let me tell you!

In other news, I remembered something exciting from Trivia last night, one of the bonus round involved an anagram round, the clue was a "movie", for some reason just looking at it I was like "LOL, imagine if it was Back to the Future" and it totally was!! What are the chances?!

Not much else to report, although today Mum and Dad's car - which had to go to the smash repairers to be fixed - was ready to be picked up and because of where the smash repair place Mum decided it would be best to drive over to the Mall in my car, have me drive her to said smash repair place and drop her off and then drive my car back to the Mall. Which we did!

I did plan to park in the staff parking lot, however since I haven't used my staff pass in ages, it had been blocked. I'm pretty sure I'd have to go all the way to the car park office to get it unblocked, and that's all the way across the Mall, so nuts to that. Instead I parked in the public area, where in order to avoid having to pay you need to leave the parking lot and come back in before three hours is up. This is actually somewhat annoying when other colleagues do it through it the day (it costs $6 a day to park in the staff lot, which seems rather reasonable), but yeah.

Anyway, it's possible my eyeballs are sore because of a lack of sleep, so I'm gonna turn in now.

Goodnight!

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10:24pm: As an Aussie to actually "go back in time" when flying back from an overseas destination, but as Fiji is 2 hours ahead of Australia it happened!

So now it feels like 12:30am, but I can't head off to bed yet because I'm just finishing up making cupcakes for the Get Together at Mum and Dad's retirement village tomorrow, the last batch is just about ready to take out of the oven. And I should maybe make the frosting tonight, so I can frost them tomorrow, or maybe just wait for tomorrow, hmmm...

I do remain confounded over the flatness of my cupcakes...I put the baking powder and self-raising flour in, but they hardly rise at all. I wonder what I'm doing wrong? Hopefully, Mum won't be too disappointed by their appearance, and I only got 18 out of this batch as well so I'm not sure I can even taste-test one.

But I digress, this morning I was in Fiji! It's really amazing what planes allow us to do...I mean it seems like ages ago, but yeah it only took four and a half hours to travel 3,000km or so!

It has to be said, the difference in the weather is a bit of blow, it was a lovely 24 or 25 degrees C in Fiji, but now back here in Sydney it's 12 degrees! Brrrr.

Although, I did have a bit of a bad time this morning, when my IBS decided to wig out a bit...I ended up not having much breakfast - which wasn't helped by the fact the toast at the hotel this morning wasn't very tasty. The fruit platter was good though!

Now we didn't need to get to the airport until 1:35pm, but last night Mum came up with a plan to visit a very fancy hotel on the way to the airport, it's one of those places that have overwater bungalows, so we checked out at 11am to head that way. We ended up running a bit behind schedule and the taxi driver drove at quite a rate of knots! Not gonna lie I did briefly wonder if we were throwing caution too much to the wind and might end up having an accident, however, as you can tell by the fact I'm writing this we did not.

As it was though, we only had about twenty minutes or so at the hotel, we didn't venture very far into it, but we did go to the restaurant and had a drink (coffee for Mum and her friend, and what was meant to be an iced chocolate for me, but I think was a regular milkshake). The restaurant overlooks this beach which might be man made, that has the overwater huts and there's also beachside bungalows, so all in all a very fancy hotel indeed! I might need to save up my pennies to go there, although it probably wouldn't be for the whole time since that place is like $500 a night! o.O

It was a bit of a concern when our taxi driver, who was supposed to come and get us at 12:45pm didn't show up at first! I'm not sure where he got to, but it seems everyone knows everyone in Fiji and the hotel clerk was able to call him and let him know we were waiting.

We needed have worried too much though, because we got to the airport in good time - although I hoped to spot this goat we saw on our way to the hotel when we first arrived, Mum's friend actually spotted him first, he was hanging out in an old broken down car that had become overgrown with plants. You'd think this wouldn't be a hard thing to spot, but as I said we didn't manage to spot him.

Now the idea was that I would split off from Mum and her friend and do the whole checking in process and getting to the plane and all that by myself like I'm going to need to do when I come home from Japan next year. It didn't quite go that way though, firstly, I'd forgotten to download my boarding pass after Mum checked us all in, so we went to the check in counter together to get them printed off. Then I went off to change clothes and go through security and x-ray by myself, which was a bit an ass because as always I have way too many bags :OP I managed to get through in the end without losing anything.

The Nadi Airport is quite small compared to Sydney and I spotted Mum and her friend pretty quickly on the other side of security, but I decided to sit separately from them, at least until I went to fill up my water bottle, then I went and sat with them.

Then the plane was delayed, not for super long fortunately, but during this time I found out what the security people meant when they told me not to put the large rubber band back on my carry-on bag (it's a bag that has a lid that pops open and it's a bit iffy so the rubber band helps stop it from suddenly popping open at inopportune moments), apparently due to Aussie quarantine rules, they check your bag again before you can get on the plane. Also after filling my bottle with water I ended up having to pour it out. Shame.

Then, I was supposed to be sitting on the other side of the plane and a row back from Mum and her friend, but when we went to the check-in counter, the chap who printed off our boarding passes reassigned my seat so we were all seating together. In the end though this turned out to be a win, because firstly, the person who I would have been sitting next to was rather tall and wide so I would have been squished and secondly the tray table of my original seat didn't work! So thanks check-in counter chap!

On the good news side, even though the estimated time for the flight back from Fiji without the tailwind was five hours, that must have been a worse case scenario because as I wrote earlier it was four and a half hours. On the bad news side, the wi-fi wasn't working on the plane so even though I downloaded the Qantas entertainment app I couldn't watch Ghosts liked I'd hope, so instead I did one of the giant crosswords in the book Mum's friend purchased, I didn't actually finish it LOL.

Also while there wasn't 42 kids on this flight, there were two in close proximity to us and they cried like practically the whole flight! I mean, daaamn I get it during take off and landing, but the rest of the time... On the plus side there was a third baby who slept the whole ride so it might have been worse LOL.

Right, so it's coming up to midnight now, which is like 2am, so I'm gonna wrap this up here and head for bed even thought the archery is on at the Olympics which I enjoy watching. Ah well, I'll have to catch up I guess.

Goodnight all!

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10:57pm: Rather lazy day today, we didn't go into town or anything like that, although we did go to the fancy hotel down the road in the afternoon. I was considering having an iced chocolate there while Mum and her friend had some cocktails, but I decided not to since I was having a burger for dinner and since I'm not allowed to order from the kids menu (booo) I figured I better leave room for it.

For a lot of the day Mum and I hung out at the small pool here at our hotel, although we did move our sun lounges into the shade because even if it's technically winter here the sun is still very hot and bright. We did briefly get in the pool, which was a bit chilly when one first got in but it wasn't so bad after a while, not that we stayed in for long. Then to dry off we headed over to the strip of grass across the small road that's in front of the beach and is exclusive to hotel guests - although I'm not sure how they enforce that. It has a super nice view of the coral reef and the sea beyond.

I did do quite a bit of reading and them embroidering of my Pusheen on the beach, but alas no McFly July fanficcing, which is a bit awkward seeing as this is the last day of July and even if I use the excuse of not needing to finish it until tomorrow I'd need to do like...nineteen in one day. But I said I wouldn't worry too much about it, since it's just for fun.

Since it was such a lazy day I don't have much to report although the itchiness has returned, which is bloody annoying, I should book a doctor's appointment when I get back. I hope it's nothing too serious!

Anywho, I was writing on McFly July prompt, before doing this entry - since I thought I'd have more to say, but I didn't LOL.

Although Mum, her friend and I have been having fun trying to do a crossword from a book said friend bought from the airport. It's proving to be very difficult indeed! But hilarious, they've got some very odd answers to clues.

Right on that note, I should be off!

Goodnight.

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11:10pm: In Fiji! This is the first time I've been here and although our hotel was like an hour's drive from the airport, it is on the beach, which we can see sliver of from the hotel room.

I have to admit, I was pretty nervous as we made our way to plane, my leg kept shaking whenever we had to pause on the air bridge. Fortunately, I calmed down once I was in my seat and I had my Panic Assistance Audio, which helped a lot.

It was quite an interesting flight, I must say, it was a 737 and 42 of the passengers aboard were kids! That's like a third of the flight! Since it's not the school holidays, they were quite young children including a number of babies who cried a lot on take off and landing, which I guess is fair enough because of the ear popping. I know mine were popping up a storm!

We also got breakfast on the plane, I took the fruit option because the other choice involved scrambled eggs, which I'm opposed to :OP. But it also came with a nice yoghurt and museli, so yum! There was also a brownie later on, which was most delicious indeed.

The ride from the airport to the hotel, was as I said, long, but it did give us an opportunity to see a lot of the island on the way. There were quite a few horses near the edge of the road, eating the grass. There was also a lot of churches! I'd been a bit worried about the roads after talking to my work colleague on Saturday, but fortunately we must have gone a different way or they've improved the roads since she was here because it was a normal width. At least until you got close to the the hotel, then it was a rather bumpy - though still paved one lane road.

Fiji is two hours ahead, so we had a rather busy afternoon, going up to the fancy hotel just down the road... we didn't swim, but we did hang out near the pool and had coffee (Mum and her friend), ice chocolate (me!) and a little basket of hot chips. As we were leaving a fire dancing guy ran out and lit torches around the pool area as the sun was setting. He was a nice fellow and showed us the way to the beach so we could walk back here to our hotel where we had dinner. I have to confess I didn't have anything too adventurous, just chicken wings and a salad, it was good eating though.

Now, I have been working on a McFly July fic, but I'm not going to be able to finish it in time to post tonight since Mum, her friend and I are all sharing a room and they're about to go to bed.

But I think I can sneak in...

The Friday Five

26/7/24

1. Are you watching, or did you watch, the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics today?

Actually, I did! I had to get up at a decent hour because I had work, so Mum rang me to let me know the torch was about to be lit and later on I watch the "catch up" to see the Parade of Nations, I quite liked the boat idea!

2. Which team has the coolest uniforms?

The island countries usually have colourful and cool outfits! I think maybe Bermuda had some particularly loud party-type shirts this time around, which was much appreciated.

3. Which team showed the best team spirit during the ceremony?

My memory is failing me...but I seem to recall the US team was really going off...maybe Spain too LOL.

4. What do you think of the Olympic Committee having decided to offer more plant-based food to the athletes, only to have them complain of not enough lean protein?

Huh, I hadn't heard about this...but that's a bit awkward...

5. Have you ever attended an Olympic event in person, or even a try-out?

Yes! I went and saw the trampolining with my mother during Sydney 2000, aaaaah that was so much fun! I wish I still had my diaries from that year so I could re-read that.

And now I better be off, most pleasing, the weather is lovely and we can wear 3/4 length pants and t-shirts, whoo!


Goodnight!

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11:06pm: Oops, it's also past 11pm, but yes, after a snafu with our library supplier getting the new payment details from out library there was a delivery of boxes today! :OD Somewhat unfortunately, only two titles out of the six or seven were able to be put out because we still haven't got the receipt files. With any luck they'll be uploaded overnight so I can get the rest through. There might be another delivery tomorrow too, so things will be getting back into the usual swing of things, although I'll be heading off with Mum and her friend to Fiji on Monday, which is exciting!

Speaking of that, Mum came over this evening to drop of my carry-on so I could pack it. I did my best to tidy up a bit, but yeah, it was a bit of a fail, but not as bad as it has been, since I got it mostly tidied pretty quickly, although the wintergarden is still looking a bit of bomb-hit, but we don't talk about that LOL.

Finally before I head off, I got Day 8 of McFly July done, but I'm not entirely sure what to write for Day 9 so I'm still behind, dang. Hopefully something will come to mind!

And now I will Meme and run:

The Friday Five

9/2/24

These questions were written by buggybestie on LJ.

1. At what age did you discover you had a favorite color? Well, my favourite colour is green, I'm not entirely sure it's been that way my whole life, but it must have been pretty early because when I was around 5 we moved into our house in Dubbo and my room was a lovely shade of green. Although I don't know if that was how it was painted when we moved in I assume so, because my brother's rooms were painted white. Anyway to make a long story short, I'm pretty sure I've loved green my whole life :O)

2. What type (genre) of film do you prefer to see in a theater versus one you'd watch at home? Well, I enjoy comedies and animated films and I don't mind if it's at home or the cinema - especially since the latter is so expensive these days! It was pretty cool seeing Inside Out 2 in the cinema though, since we had fancy reclining seats ;O)

3. What's your oldest object or item since childhood? Well, I think I still have the cradle my toy doll went in when I was a kid - although that's at my parents place these days. For something in my possession it would be this folder of things from when I was in kindergarten, like my report cards and some class awards. That stuff would be 35 years old now (eek!)

4. In what book would you insert yourself as a side character or friend to the protagonist? That's a tough one...I mean it'd be kind of cool to be in Sweet Valley as long as I'm not kidnapped or something LOL.

5. What's your favorite shape or type of cloud? Well that's a random question...I guess I like fluffy clouds, so whatever those are - cumulus? I used to know when I did geography, but that was over 20 years ago so I've forgotten.

OK, Moose out!

P.S That time o' the month did indeed come, so with any luck it should be pretty much over by the time I head off to Fiji, wipes brow.

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9:45pm: So I always forget that when I have a cold I feel shitty in the mornings, so I'm super glad I have those Doctor's Certificates! No way would I have wanted to go to work this morning. I'm also taking tomorrow off as well to make sure I'm good to go for Monday, which will be a half day, so I'll be easing back into it.

Making sure my hands were clean I made the cupcakes for my parent's retirement village's get-together tomorrow. Vanilla ones, which is not my usual MO, but Mum asked if I could make them and I said I would, it went pretty well until it came to add the milk. The last few times I've made cupcakes I've made a double batch which means one cup of milk...this time I was doing my usual batch which only needs a half. You can see where this is going...

Queue the cake batter practically turning into a liquid and me going O.O, then adding a whole lot of flour to make it become solid again, before realising that might be a bad decision and looking up the internet to see what if anything I could do to rescue the situation (I didn't want to have to throw the batter out). The first suggest I saw luckily said to add extra flour, but it also recommended adding an extra egg, which made sense... I once got a recipe from M for a one egg cake, which didn't work when I tried it...I guess egg helps bind all the ingredients together, because when I baked the cake it wasn't properly solid and just fell into a puddle.

Long story short, I managed to get the batter looking right again and got to baking the first batch of six. They looked pretty good when I took them out, but I decided I better taste test one at which point I realised that cupcake was rather...flat. Also, because of the cold my sense of taste is kinda off right now, so I wasn't even 100% sure they did in fact taste OK.

I decided to call Mum at this point for advice, thankfully she had some which was while adding the flour and egg was a good idea, I needed more baking soda to help it rise. Duh. The net did say to just double the recipe and I did add extra vanilla as well, but totally blanked on the baking soda.

Unfortunately, I'd put the second batch of six in, whoops, so in the end half the batch had the appropriate amount of baking soda and the other half didn't LOL.

After all 23 were ready to go I packed them up and headed over to Mum and Dad's so Mum could decorate them - she had dollop cream and wanted to butterfly them and add a little decoration on top. Unfortunately, I'd kind of forgotten what the roads can be like at 3pm on school day...took twice as long as usual to drive to my parents place, lucky for me it usually only takes ten minutes so it wasn't THAT bad.

I hung around while Mum decorated the cupcakes, they look really good! With any luck if there's any left over I'll get to enjoy some! In the end there were 22, because Mum had to test one as well which met with her approval. Wipes brow, lucky me!

In a blast from the past look what's still around on LJ...

The Friday Five

28th June 2024

1. Have you gotten everything done that you had hoped to do during the first half of 2024?

Hmm, sort of? Once again I've been failing at the keeping up with IRL friends, but I have managed to take four short flights on an airplane (having not flown for more than 20 years), and otherwise facing some of my anxiety issues, so go me.

2. Did anything exciting or unexpected happen to you during the first half of 2024?

Well, I visited Cairns u in Queensland Australia for the first time, that was pretty exciting! Considering how cold the weather has been this winter, having a short four day visit to the tropics was much appreciated :O) Plus, the flight up and down went quite well for me, so that was a relief.

3. What big plans do you have for the second half of 2024?

Well, in about three weeks I'll be heading to Fiji with Mum and her friend - this will be about a five hour flight. I'm pretty hopeful that I'll be good for it, plus more tropical weather and a place I haven't been to before, huzzah!

4. Have you taken, or are you planning, a vacation this year?

Heh, see above. Mum's a bad influence on me :OP I've already gone to Cairns this year and soon Fiji!

5. Have you ever wanted to be one of the people writing and posting these questions?

I feel like this might be a request for questions to be sent in...and maybe? Depends if I've got any inspiration, which I currently don't. I probably should send in some questions one day though...

Well, it's almost 10:30 so I should probably haul. Le Tour de France is on tonight, but alas it's the time trial and that's not nearly as fun as having a peloton to watch.

Goodnight!

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10:24pm: Well, it's been aaaages since I've updated (again), but I feel a bit of a need to do it because of something that happened today.

For the past few months I've been going to this Arts and Crafts Circle which was set up by a lady in the area (Mum found it when she was on a quest to help me find IRL people to hang with), they've been monthly meeting and I've been doing my Pusheen cross stitch during it. The lady run it was hoping to get more interest, but no luck there.

Anyway, we were supposed to meet last weekend, but she asked if we could postpone it to today, which I was fine with - I felt a bit icky last Saturday anyway, so that was actually good. But alas when I messaged to confirm today, she said it wasn't a good time, but she'd call me later (I was at work until 1:30pm today).

Sooo...as it turns out, apparently, she's decided not to continue the group because I'm not as interested in design and that's what she was hoping for when she started the group. Fair enough, though I probably would have called it "Arts and Design Circle" in that case.

I'm kind of bummed about this...admittedly, there was quite an age gap between us, so it's not like we had a heap in common or whatever, but it still feels awkward, like did I just get dumped? LOL. I suppose I should use this as an opportunity to try and reconnect with my old friends, especially since I've been working on the train-ing and should be able to visit them.

Actually, I've been facing a lot of my discomforts lately, in just one week I'll be flying up to Cairns to meet up with my mother who is stopping there on her way back from Japan (where she's been visiting my big bro and his family). I'll be going with my mother's friend on the way up, but then...I'll be taking the return flight home on my own. At the start of last month I took my first flight since 2001, a short one hour one with Mum to Ballina where we stayed for one night after meeting up with another friend of hers.

Now having not been on a plane for more than 20 years (damn), and then only ever having taking overseas flights I was rather shocked at the complete lack of space. Like you get more room in a bus! (Although on the way back home I did in fact get more room because I sat apart from Mum in the Economy X section. But yeah, they really pack you in now a days.

So yes, next week it's up to Cairns and at the end of July I'll be going with Mum and her friend (the one who met up with is in Ballina) to Fiji.

All this is to prepare for going to Japan next year, Mum wants to go on this tour before going to stay with my big bro and family. I'll be seeing them too, but whereas she stays for three weeks, I'll only be there for a week or so - my big bro's house is way too small to feet us all in. Which means that while Mum and I will be on the nearly 10 hour flight TO Japan, I will need to fly back on my own.

So far my exposure therapy thing has been going pretty well, so fingers crossed! Although I did have a bit of a panic attack driving to my psychiatrist appointment on Friday (the irony), but I managed to get through it and get to my appointment, so yeah. Also, I purchased a Pusheen travel pillow in the hope it'll give me joy while flying XD. It has a built in eye-mask, so no doubt I'll look ridiculous with it on, but hey whatever works. I did plan on getting a Pusheen neck pillow, but they're only available from overseas and the cost of postage is ridiculous. This has proven to be quite the bummer because I somehow lost my Pusheen caps and I can't justify spending like 50 bucks in postage to get replacements.

I still can't figure out what happened to my caps...I know I definitely lost one, but I don't remember taking the other one out of my apartment, so what's that all about? I've cleaned the place since the disappearance and it's definitely not here. Bah.

Although speaking of cleaning, I really do need to tidy up the place, sigh, whenever I clean up - usually under the direction of Mum, I swear I'll keep the place nice, but invariably it goes to Hell. It's quite annoying to me, I mean I don't set out to mess up my place, buuuut...I think my main problem is, that while I do see the mess, it doesn't bother me enough to pick up right away, so I get home and sit down and before I know it's bed time and I haven't cleaned a damn thing. But I better get to work on it tomorrow because I want to be clean before leaving on the Cairns trip.

Not much else to report since my last update way back in January, as I often lament I'm not sure what to update with these days... on the other hand when I look at the entries from when I DID update every day it's not like I was doing exciting and interesting stuff then either. There was more in terms of memes (or question lists, I'm not sure why they were called memes, but whatever) and for a long time I didn't have a full-time job so I could write about job hunting or whatever. Or maybe I was just more inclined to type about whatever.

It's just occurred to me though...we're half way through the year, right? Already?! Crap, time passes alarmingly fast these days...I should do more mindfulness to take advantage of every moment.

Speaking of time, it's now past 11pm and I don't want to stay up too late so I shall wrap this up here.

Until we meet again (don't know where, don't know when...)

Ta ta for now!

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6:43pm: At least that's what I'm supposed to be doing, but I've been meaning to update this thing and I've kept on forgetting so I figured I'd do it now while it's on my mind.

Of course, now I'm here I'm not sure what if anything I wanted to write about! Pft major fail.

Well, the reason behind my title up there is my mother and her friend are planning to come over tomorrow to see my apartment and as so typical of me the place is an utter disaster zone. So I really shouldn't be writing this but cleaning up my floor, which as Mum always says "Isn't a storage area!"

Sigh, I swear I don't know how the place gets this messy, it's not like I throw things on the floor...at least that's my claim. But then again, when stuff falls off the couch here I don't bust a gut picking it up. Yeah that probably explains a lot.

Seriously though, I thought I had something to say, sigh.

Oh yeah, the figure skating has started up for the Junior skaters and while none of my favourite Russian kids will be there (for reasons we all know), there's lots of other skaters to enjoy and the men er boys will be skating their free programs in just half an hour! I totally missed the girls though and there was an Australian girl! I should try and watch that.

I'm also hungry, it's dinner time and I've got sausages to cook up.

Wish me luck with my cleaning!

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