Moose Musings

11:24pm: So the sore throat came back with avengeance earlier today, which absolutely sucks because it made it nearly impossible to sleep for any period of time.

I took the day off work, but I did end up going out to buy some food at the supermarket, because Mum who was going to drop off a serving of roast to me didn't end up doing that because Grandpa joined them at lunch yesterday so there wasn't anything left.

As for the subject here, well my nose is super stuffed now and it hurts which sucks and is something that always happens with a cold, but every time I'm taken aback by the discomfort. Grumble, grumble, stupid viruses being assholes.

Anyway, I mostly updated here so I wouldn't fall too much out of the habit of updating. However, I really need to get my butt to bed now, I'm supposed to be recovering! Not sure if I'll be going to work tomorrow though :O( I guess it depends on how I feel. On the plus side I at least have lots of sick leave, so I don't need to worry about that.

So yeah, I'm out, good night!

Hunger Comfort Hygiene Energy Fun Social Bladder Room Nose

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11:32pm: Because there's too much of a dust build-up and get an awful blocked, itchy and seriously uncomfortable nose for my troubles. I've all ready used six tissues! And it would seem that I do breathe through my nose after all...because it feels rather hard to breathe.

On the plus side, the crazy folding method in the book I'm ready really works! My drawers have gone from being overfull to having space to spare, yay!

Oh! I've just remembered I've got that nose clear stuff - since taking anti-histamine tablets just gives me super dry eyes and a headache. I've just used it so hopefully it'll help clear my nasal passages since I do have to go to bed soon and it's hard to go to sleep when you can't breath clearly!

Right, I had a good time at the Volunteer Christmas Party today and got a certificate and a present, which I'm going to wait until Christmas to open (because I do love opening presents on Christmas morning), although I can safely say it's not another plant, which is quite a shame.

So...yeah, my nose sucks and keeps distracting me so I'm gonna wrap this entry up, but great news my new Christmas lights work! Hooray! Not sure if they'll last the whole night since it was still cloudy today, yay.

Right goodnight all!

Hunger Comfort Hygiene Energy Fun Social Bladder Room Clothes Folding

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11:07pm: Operation Move is underway! Well...not exactly, it was more like Operation Buy Some Good 2nd Hand Furniture and Pay the Bond today. After finishing work at Belrose Library I headed down to the Brookvale Vinnies where I met up with Mum and we went hunting for good deals.

And we found them! There was a rocking chair almost exactly like the one that's in the flat all ready except it has white cushions and white footstool - although that's missing some screws that need to be replaced.

Then we found an entertainment unit, well it's actually a buffet bar, there were quite a few entertainment units but none of them were quite right. This one though fit all the necessary specifications except the doors were a bit wonky, it turned out the problem was whoever put them on screwed the hinges too tightly, but one of the nice men working there fixed them up.

We also found a cabinet with a glass door which can act as a display cabinet, which is cool because I've got stuff I want to put on display!

But the real surprise find was the half-wardrobe half-dresser complete with mirror. Cool! And handy since there's all ready a small wardrobe in the granny flat already.

Finally, there's the blanket chest, it's pretty retro and has a nice green cushioned top, although I felt a bit bad because just as we were going over to put the sold sticker on it another couple was looking at it rather excitedly. But alas...

We moved the chair, the cabinet and the chest over to the granny flat after that - Mum had brought Dad's SUV along so she could take the chair and chest and I managed to get the cabinet into my little Mazda.

I used the Sat Nav to get me there and it sent me a rather bizarre way, I think I'll select the easiest route next time because it took me through some very twisty roads.

Anyway, we got the stuff into the flat, but there's still the question of my bed which is too long to fit in Dad's SUV, Mum suggested calling the man who is going to deliver the wardrobe and entertainment unit and asking if he can swing by Cromer to get it (providing we bring it down all the stairs), I'm not sure how likely that is to work, I still thought we should try and hire a van, but Mum thinks that'll be way too expensive. I dunno though. Also, the landlords have left one of their cars in the driveway in a rather inconvienent spot to get a bed past, but Mum is sure a professional can do it. I've texted the moving guy but he hasn't got back to me yet. Not sure what we'll do if he doesn't...Dad doesn't want to borrow the ute from school and my brother doesn't want to ask his friend for his ute either.

I'll keep you updated.

In the meantime I've made a start on my clothes, I've put the winter ones in a tub to be taken to M and Grandpa's garage and I've put everything that's not a skirt, dress, suit, jacket, business shirt or costume in baskets in preparation to put them in the drawers. I think I've gotten dust up my nose though because now I'm sniffling, damn.

And in tennis news a big surprise tonight, Serena Williams was beaten in 3 sets by the German Angelique Kerber! It was a pretty thrilling match, Kerber has some mad court coverage, she can get from one end to the other in a flash. Undoubtedly it's what got her through. She's now moved up from 7 to number 2 in the world. Nice.

( Before I go I better do a meme or two: )

Right now I'll be off. More work tomorrow and packing...and undoing the bed probably, wish me luck.

Oh yeah and I just remembered...I forgot my lunchbox and mobile phone charger at work! Mum is going to collect them tomorrow hopefully, but seriously me...major fail.

Goodnight all!

Hunger Comfort Hygiene Energy Fun Social Bladder Room Furniture

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11:07pm: I sure hope I don't have a cold...but I don't think so because the sneezing and runny-ness came on quite suddenly indeed. It was so bad I gave in and took an anti-histamine, but it didn't kick in until after church so for the whole drive there and during the mass I was sniffling and blowing my nose on tissues. Now it's stopped running so much, but I feel all blocked up! It's very uncomfortable and unpleasant. And makes it hard to concentrate or do memes! :O(

I did at least manage to get things done today, like my laundry and I got to church, but I haven't done any cleaning really, which I hoped doesn't have anything to do with my poor allergies, but could well do. Daaang. Although I should get a mask if that's the case because I'll have a lot of trouble cleaning up if my nose is going to attack me!

In other news, there's a fly in my house...how annoying, unfortunately, I'm no good at swatting them and I don't want to break out the fly spray this late at night, it always stinks up the place.

I was hoping to go ice skating tomorrow, but that will all depend on how I feel I guess...fingers crossed!

Anyway, sorry for the short entry, but yeah it's too hard to think in this condition!

Goodnight all!

Hunger Comfort Hygiene Energy Fun Social Bladder Room Entry Shortness

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11:02pm: Flight that is, the movie a couple of years back about an aircrash, or at least that's what the ad indicated, but to be honest except for the bulk of the movie between the start and the end where it was mostly BS about drug taking and boozing. What sort of operation is the airline involved in the film if drug taking boozing pilots are allowed to fly? Sure are a lot of lying liars who lie in this film too, although I suppose the truth comes out in the end. But really its hard to get over that one glaring inaccuracy about a drunk drugged-up pilot. At least one hopes it's a glaring inaccuracy!

In other news, speaking of fly...that fly from yesterday is still in here and there's another one, God damn! I've tried spraying them with insect spray as I've said, but the damn things won't die! So irritating, that stuff worked fine on ants, but I guess flies are more resistant. Plus I'm rather leery of spraying too much of that stuff around in case it ends up all over my plates and whatnot. But damn they're so irritating, go way you little bastards!

Anyway! I had an interesting evening, about an hour before setting off for church, my friend Ben sent me a message on Facebook wanting to know if I was doing anything and since I wasn't aside from church I went over to his place for dinner and to watch the Flight movie, although we gave up on it, so there's like 30 minutes I didn't even see! :OP Good times!

Although the rain continues and I ended up taking the car, it proved to be rather nerve wracking at a few points especially when driving to Ben's house, it started pouring at a few points and I was going about 45km an hour. But I got there - and back here to the flat - in the end so it isn't all bad.

Ben also looked over my Statement Against the Selection Criteria for the library job, he says it's good, but I should probably make a few of the sentences because they're convoluted. So I guess I'll do that tomorrow before sending it off. I hope the fact that I sent it on Sunday rather than Friday as I said I would over the phone won't be a mark against me!

( Anyway, I'll do some memes before I wrap this up )

11:30pm: For the ice skating show next Thursday, which I'm very much looking forward to!

Today has been an action packed day though, not only did I go to the psychiatrist and then to the Macquarie Shopping Centre, I also went to a skate shop in a suburb some distance away because as it happened I took the car, since I hurried down the driveway of the house just as the E78 drove by.

I'm glad I went to the skate shop because my poor skates needed sharpening like whoa, I went to the lunch time session, which was probably a bad idea because the place was packed. Crowded or not that was not the reason I had such trouble skating, my poor blades were dull which made it difficult to glide.

Going to the skating shop had another benefit, I got skate guards! They were $19 and no prizes for guessing what what colour I picked! ;O) And to think the online shop said green wasn't available. Rude. I had a bit of difficulty getting them to fit because at one point while putting those springs on I ended up putting one the wrong way around and it required a lot of pulling to twist it back around in the right direction. Then I discovered that I needed to cut one side because they were a little too big for my blades, so I battled with a knife for a while then went down to the main house to ask if they had scateurs, they did and they did the job easily.

So yay, now I can put my skates on in the foyer of the ice rink and keep the blades nicely protected when I'm not using them. Yay! :O)

But it did require a lot of driving, I'm sure my parents would be proud of me. Although I did get a bit of a surprise when I noticed this warning light for the tyre kept coming on, considering what happened last week when I took a corner too sharply I thought it must have slowly gone flat. So I went to the petrol station where I found nope all the tyres were fine. I checked the manual and it turns out the warning light was just to say that the puncture warning system isn't working. Whoops. I guess that'll need to be fixed next service.

And my nose is itchy...again, maybe I should buy that Horseradish and Garlic stuff my mother swears by, because it's irritating as Hell. Just as long as I'm not getting a cold though, knock on wood!

I shall leave the Memes 'til tomorrow because I need to be up at a decent hour tomorrow morning because I'm going to the grandparentals, shall I succeed in Canasta against M? Tune in tomorrow and find out! :O)

Goodnight all!

Hunger Comfort Hygiene Energy Fun Social Bladder Room Skate Equipment

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10:37pm: So I've sent the assignment in...God willing I will at least pull a 50% and thus receive my Masters in Information Studies. Not sure what that will lead to, but you know...hopefully something! Still, I do hope it's semi-decent, I did try.

In other news, I have concerns regarding my nasal passages, I'm wandering into TMI territory here, but some very strange things have been happening and painful areas and whatnot, I may need to see a doctor about it, which is rather annoying since I just saw one on Saturday, do'h! Fail! Don't you love it how you go to the doctor and nothing much seems wrong and then the very next day the shit hits the fan? Rude!

As for Port-o-Moose, my external hard drive, well I still couldn't get anything from it this morning so I dropped into the computer shop near the newsagency where the guy told me it'd cost $45 to take a look at it and see if data recovery was possible - if it was then I'd either pay or get refunded the difference to get it. If not, the $45 would be forefited. That being the case I decided I best double check that I'd actually deleted the stuff from my old laptop when I moved it over, I couldn't remember if I did or not. However, on getting back to the apartment I confirmed yes it had been deleted, so I shall call first time tomorrow morning to tell them to go ahead. Fingers and toes crossed people that they can get me my data back! Oh man, I put my BTTF stories on there...which I think I might have on the internet, but still!

With any luck they'll be able to recover it and in short order because I need to go back over to that side tomorrow for the laser hair removal treatment on my face, so it'd be nice if I could get it then. But who knows...at least it isn't urgent I guess. Like I wrote last night, good thing I rescued my assignment!

Although I just realised...I saved some articles to use in my assignment and...I didn't. Damn, well I was getting close to going over the word count, I guess I'll just have to cut my losses there.

Finally I'm recording something for the second in charge at the newsagency, some ghost show on Foxtel, I don't actually buy into these shows, but I said I'd record it for him since he doesn't get Foxtel. And hey, never hurts to suck up a bit, LOL.

( Oh and of course, Memes! )

Right, I was up a bit late last night fiddling with my external hard drive and I am now most sleepy. Tomorrow has some things to attend to, such as apartment cleaning so I better get myself to bed!

Goodnight all!

Aw crap my tape just stopped, now I have to re-record. Sigh, good thing it's repeating tomorrow. Still, rude!

Hunger Comfort Hygiene Energy Fun Social Bladder Room Assignment Submittance

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9:44pm: It's most irritated, I have no idea what's wrong with it this time, it's probably all the dust from cleaning. Man, I hate it when this happens, it takes forever to clear up and in the meantime it's just as irritating as Hell.

In other news I had my interview with the Library Job-Finding people today and the news is not good, apparently due to my lack of experience the only way I'll get into permanent library work is to start with contracts, which means that my job security will be pretty much nil. Since I have a mortgage this is no good at all, so maybe I'll have to turn to office work, which is rather lame, but what can you do? Plus I can keep my eye out, maybe I'll get lucky.

However! I do need to redo and rejig my resume, to make it stand out better. I was going to to do that tonight, but LOL I was feeling lazy, hopefully I get onto that tomorrow, especially since I don't need to help out my mother tomorrow evening. At first it looked like I was, especially when she SMS'ed me while I was at the gym.

And not much else to report...except my Simpsons: Tapped Out isn't working, in fact nobody's is, the server is down! Bah, this always online thing is annoying as Hell. Which reminds me, I need to check on my Sim City 5, I wonder if anything's happened to it in my absence.

And that's all I have to say...I shall be off now.

Goodnight!

Hunger Comfort Hygiene Energy Fun Social Bladder Room Library Hopes

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10:27pm: Sadly yes, my nose has been most annoyed these past few days, but alas, my nose cream is back at the apartment and I'm here at my parents' house. I hope it settles down soon.

So I'm watching this Q and A show on the ABC, they usually have politicians and other type people, but tonight we have writers because the Sydney Writer's Festival so they have lots of interesting things to say, porn! Israel! Books! Fun for the whole family.

It also meant that we didn't need to hear about stupid Tony Abbott for an hour, that guy makes me want to punch people.

Anyway! I'm working on this stupid assignment, but I'm worried about not doing the right thing, plus I've got those forum posts to do too. Once again I'm reminded of the perils of procrastination.

Saturday 9

:Rain:

1. It's Spring, grilling begins! If you plan a picnic, do you bow out if it rains? It's autumn here alas! But yes, if it rains I'd cancel the picnic for an inside meal, because where's the fun in getting soaked through?

2. Do you prefer food grilled on a charcoal or gas grill?

Um...an electric one? I'm not sure. Not really big on the charcoal taste so I'd avoid that one.

3. We're at the first grilling picnic. What's your meat order? Beef sausages, please! Yum!

4. What side dishes do you want? Salad...Corn...and that's basically it.

5. Now, where do prefer to eat: at the picnic table or inside? If it's a nice day, outside.

6. You were asked to bring a dish. What do you bring? Cupcakes! Yum!

7. Does it bother you to have citronella candles burning if you are eating or cooking outside? Eh, I've got nothing against them, although my nose sucks right now so I can't smell stuff anyway.

8. What fellow bloggers do you want to meet at the picnic? All my LJ and RPG friends. :O)

9. Does there need to be a pool at the picnic, your choice? Some swimming will be great!

The Saturday Six

1. What do you enjoy most about the summer? Everything! Especially daylight savings. Aaaah sunshine.

2. If you could spend a two-week summer vacation anywhere, what location would you choose? Hmmm, some tropical island would be fun I think.

3. Take the quiz: What is Your Summer Sense?

Your Summer Sense is Sight

You are very visually oriented. It's likely you're an artist - or at least a good photographer. You are good at taking in a lot of visual stimuli at once ... the more the better. Your eyes love the bustling scenes of summer. You could spend hours at a crowded beach people watching. You are equally moved by the sights of nature. You can be endlessly entertained on a quiet hike.

Hmmm...cool.

4. Where’s the best place near you to take a summer drive? Eh, I don't really drive. I'd rather be in a park of something somewhere.

5. What kind of music would you most likely be listening to if you could take a nice, long relaxing summer drive in a convertible?

The Beach Boys, of course, whoo!

6. After spending the day out in the summer sun, what’s your favorite hot weather treat? Ice cream! Yum!

The Sunday Seven

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:

Name seven things you’d want to do if you knew you had just seven days to live.

1. Go to New York!
2. See the RP and LJ friends
3. ???

Man, I suck at planning stuff, even when I knw I'm going to die, LOL!

Unconcious Mutterings

I say ... and you think ... ?

1.International :: Festival (is there even one?)

2.Witnesses :: Crime

3.Rising :: Sun

4.Two years ago :: I dunno?

5.Sausage :: Sandwich, yum!

6.Physically :: Challenged

7.Approached :: the Scene

8.Mole :: Adrian

9.Collar :: White

10.Encased :: Granite

Monday Movie Meme

Author! Author!

The movies like to pay tribute to writers. After all, without them we'd be hard up for a good flick. Share on your blog movies that feature writers, authors, poets and scribes.

Bridget's Jones's Diary - Well, hey she's a diarist right :O)
That Jane Austen movie, which I don't remember the name of.

And that's the only two I know of.

And now I better wrap up and get a bit more assignment-ing in.

Goodnight!

10:19pm: So I'm over here at my parents house and they've bought some new furniture and rearranged stuff to fit it in and I think they must have stirred up dust doing so because my nose is most displeased.

But my brain seems to be working again, which is great! But damn, talk about being knocked on your ass. I'm thinking next time I'm extremely tired withu a proper reason (I mean I did get pretty much enough sleep) I'll take some pre-empive Pandol, because I totally don't need that shit again.

( Anyway, in the interests of keeping up with the Memes - here they be. )

Anywho, that's all the memes for today and I shall be off!

I hope my nose clears up soon.

Goodnight all!