Moose Musings

11:42pm: Which is why I didn't bother updating yesterday, and I don't really have much to report about today either.

I did go to church as Mum and Dad need me to do the Powerpoint, but aside from that I lay around all day and felt bummed because I won't be able to go to archery tomorrow. :O( Apart from anything else, I think it's raining, and as previously discussed, even without the cold I'm not sure how I'd do archery in the rain.

It was a good thing I went to church though because it meant that I finally got my package of Pusheen clothes! They're adorable! Although I have a slight problem with the dress, which looks fabulous, except the way it's cut kind of means I can't wear a bra or at least not the usual kind of bra I'd wear, maybe a strapless one would work? I kinda need to wear a bra because I'm not lacking in the boob department. I also might need to have it altered a bit, because the armholes gap a bit. The top fits great though! And I can't wait to do stuff with the scarf :O) I kinda wish I bought other stuff, since everything was half price, but I don't think there was much more I could have purchased. The swim suit was sadly a bikini, which I don't wear because of ample boobage. There was a skirt though...

Anywho, it's getting late and even though I'm not going to archery, considering the fact I'm unwell I should get all the sleep I can, especially since I need to clean my apartment tomorrow because Mum will drop by on Monday to drop off my serve of the roast dinner she, Dad and my little bro are having tomorrow. Hopefully, I'll be able to go to work on Monday, my sore throat has at least subsided, although now I have a cough, which sucks.

On that note though, I shall be off, send me healthy thoughts!

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11:06pm: Eek it's after 11pm and I haven't done my McFly July fanfic prompt for today, I've started it, but not finished it yet.

Anyway, to sum up the subject heading, this morning I was late for the bus, which was my own fault and at the stop just across from my apartment building two buses were at the stop - one that went Manly and behind it was the one to the Mall, which obviously couldn't see me, so fair enough. I got on the Manly bus and then at the next stop when we were behind the Warringah Mall bus I jumped off, waving my hand frantically and a guy who'd just got off the bus told the driver to hold on.

And then the fucker shut the doors before I could get to the bus and drove off!! What an asshole! I hope the minute he saved leaving me in the dust was worth his while. Jerkass.

The only good thing was at least the Manly bus driver waited for me so I was able to get back on that bus, but of course it takes longer to get from the bus stop near the Mall to the library than the bus that goes directly into the Mall. I was so mad, I started to write up a complaint to send to the bus company - because fuck that guy - and some guy in a car who was pulling into the Mall parking lot decided to be an asshat too even though I was walking across the zebra crossing he kept on driving towards me and then pretended to be all shocked that I looked up at him with a "WTF are you doing?" face.

Bah!!

In the end I didn't send the complaint in, on the advice of a co-worker, even though I don't think the bus driver had an excuse, I was literally a second away from stepping onto the bus when he drove off. He did it on purpose! I have had a bus driver do that to me years ago and I complained in that case, because the guy stared me right in the face before shutting the doors and that was just rude!

And to top it all off, I hurt my foot running to catch the bus and it hurt for half the day, which just pissed me off more, plus I think I've got PMS, so...

Although, I'm hoping that time o' the month shows up soon, it was meant to start yesterday, but no sign yet. If it doesn't show up soon, it's going to be annoying, especially because the second and third day are the heaviest and I sure as Hell don't want to be on a plane for five hours plus in that situation. I think it might be coming though.

Anywho, once again I think I'll have to skip the meme, because I need to get to bed because I'm at the parental abode and have to drive home from here tomorrow morning with my Lite n Easy and carry on suitcase for the Fiji trip to pack.

I also need to clean my apartment, because my mother is going to come over tomorrow evening and the place is a mess!

On a final note, I finished the Pusheen decoration on the beret, hopefully it doesn't look too shitty, I'll put up a photo of it later.

For now though, Moose out!

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7:26pm: Yes, I went back to the gym this evening although I only did the recumbent bike and my stretches, just to ease back into it :OP I'm feeling much better though, hooray! Although my nose is still snifflely, I think that might just be from the cold weather. I tell you, it's chillier than normal this year. I'm watching the news right now - the weather is on - and apparently it was warmer than usual today, but then I didn't go out during lunch because it's school holidays at the moment and that always makes the Mall a bit of a madhouse. I'm also trying to finish the Terry Pratchett book I've been reading, I was going quite well, but unfortunately, I forgot to bring the book home last Monday, and then I didn't go to work for the rest of the week... then I forgot it again yesterday! But I have it now and I'm getting to the end so I should get to reading that.

I do need to hang up my masks though, I just washed them - yeah I still wear masks, I've kind of got used to it, and despite having just had a cold I think it's been helpful in reducing general illness. Knock on wood I think this is the first cold I've had this year? But yeah fingers and toes crossed I haven't jinxed it :OP

Apart from this not much else to report - a familiar lament of mine, however, I must make sure to contact my friends to see if anyone wants to go see Inside Out 2 - did I mention this before? LOL I can't remember and I'm too lazy to go look now. I'm not sure what to do if no-one wants to come, I guess I could ask Mum? Although that's kind of lame, LOL. One of her friends - the one I went up to Cairns with did offer to come, but I dunno.

Hmmm...did I have something else to say? Nah, I should probably try and do some McFly July fics, since the more time I wait the more I have to catch up on! Although I do want to play Cities Skylines, I restarted my Hill Valley, for no particular reason, except maybe to make it look a bit better, the one I was working on before now has sprawled out and has rather tall buildings and just generally not looking quite right.

I'm also making quite a lot of progress with my Pusheen ice skating cross stitch, I'm still trying to decide if I should cross stitch in the snow, I suppose I should, but it kinda seems like a waste because it's not like you can see the white thread unless you're looking really closely. But...we shall see!

I suppose I should stop writing about this stuff and start doing it, LOL.

Before that - catching up on the...

Friday Five

30/5/24

1. What are three things you refuse to live without?

1. Cheese (I tried to give it up once...nothing doin'!)
2. Reading
3. Hmm, my first thought was the internet, but I dunno...was life that bad without it? :OP Instead I'll say writing!

2. What are your three favorite items of clothing?

1. My emerald green coat - the lining which is polka dot fabric is fraying alas - but I still love wearing it :O)
2. My Pusheen yellow jumper (sweater), it has a sort of...embossed image of Pusheen baking on it, it's super cute!
3. This nice flower print dress I have, hmm maybe I should take that along to Fiji along with my white dress.

3. What are your three favorite books?

Ooo tough one this...the first three that come to mind:

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend (I have to pick a specific one from the series)
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne (Yeah, it's a romance, wanna fight about it :OP)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

4. What are three things you'd grab if you had to evacuate your house quickly?

My glasses (I need them to see!)
My laptop
Whatever Pusheen merch I could get my hands on (alas I no longer have a pet fish, so I don't have to worry about that)

5. What are your three favorite songs or musical works?

Grease the movie
Summer Sunshine by the Corrs
Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush

Oh yeah, I just remembered what I was going to write about, I had to go on the desk for three hours today! Fortunately, not in a row, as a Collections Assistant this is quite unusual, although I was away all last week and a lot of fellow staff are on leave. I did survive though! Partly because a colleague offered to switch a shift so I didn't have to stand for two hours straight. Also the person who does the roster was kind enough to take me off the shift I had tomorrow, which is also Inter Library Loan day, so huzzah!

Ta-ta for now!

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11:07pm: Man, it's been forever since I updated! Almost two months! I've let myself down, I've let my journal down and...maybe let you my loyal readers down, but probably not :OP

Anyway! Since my last update I've settled into my new role as Collections Librarian and it's been going awesomely! Not long into the job my supervisor said I was doing so well that it's pretty likely my contract will get extended! I sure hope so, because the apartment building is set to be completed in December this year and with an actual (nearly) full-time job I can probably afford to live in it.

Of course, there's also the chance that I'll actually interview to get the job permanently, which worries me purely because according the the law they can only judge an applicant based on how they interview (even if said applicant is int he position already) and I'm known for not been the best at interviews. Although I have been told that my interviewing skills are getting better so perhaps there's no need to worry. Fingers crossed!

So yes, the job has been going really well! I've caught up on the backlog and I'm learning new stuff - soon I'll be getting to know about cataloguing, which will be good because at present there's only one person there who can catalogue stuff from scratch so as you can imagine she's super busy! Plus new skills are always a bonus.

Suffice to say, I'm really happy with how life is going, I've got an awesome job, awesome co-workers and awesome peeks into the new books that are coming out. :O)

About the only downside is...it's not quite full-time as I mentioned, however I usually get an extra shift on the weekend which brings me up to 32 hours, which still isn't quite full-time, but seeing as I'm being paid as a librarian now certainly gives me way more money than I had before. Although I need to be careful in that respect, I went on a bit of a spending spree with Pusheen goods (ha ha no-one's surprised at that I bet!) as well as some Yuri on Ice related stuff so I don't have quite as much as hoped.

However! I did - for the first time in I don't know how many years - get a refund from my tax return! Which I meant to pay towards my HECs debt, I say meant because I managed to send it to the wrong account at the Tax Office. Which reminds me that I was meant to call them and find out where it is this week (I did it last Friday), but now it's the weekend again and I can't. Oh fail. I hope it hasn't disappeared...I need that it's like $1,500!

Lastly, I have had trouble making sure I get enough zzzs, I set up my FitBit to tell me when it's time for me to head off to bed, but then like a dumbass I ignore it and next thing I know I'm only getting 7 hours. Which doesn't sound too bad, but after a couple of days of this I end up with a headache and that's just not good.

Fortunately, I should be able to catch up on my zzzs tonight - for the first time in a while I won't be working either day on the weekend because I've only got half an hour left out of the total hours I can work (the maximum is 35, my part-time work is 28 hours, so that leaves me only 7 hours that I can do). I am heading over to M and Grandpa's tomorrow to play Canasta with M, but I don't need to get there until 11am.

Anywho, I'm gonna wrap this up now - perhaps next entry I can tell you about the saga of my 2-in-1 laptop LOL!

Goodnight all!

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10:35pm: Yes indeed, although that's not really why I haven't been updating - that's due to the fact I don't actually have anything interesting to say, LOL fail.

But it has been a very busy week! Not sure if I've mentioned it in a previous entry - since they're so far apart now a days - but I was asked by the Home Library Service Co-ordinator over at Dee Why to help with selections, which I do as a volunteer, but this time I get paid whoo! The reason for this is that the new HLS Officer is on holidays at the moment, plus the new library management system is being loaded up so assistance is needed.

That means for this week and next week, I've got a four hour shift on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Although I'd originally planned to in the afternoons, I've had to change that for Fridays, because I kind of forgot about them and agreed to do afternoon shifts at Mona Vale instead. Which means tomorrow I'll be working - for the first time in aaages - an actual full day. But it'll be two different locations that makes it a bit different. Plus I'll be using public transport because it's next to impossible to get a parking spot in either place these days, in fact I managed to get myself a parking ticket (ugh yes I know another one! I got one just last month at Mona Vale!) on Wednesday, so yeah. This means I'll have an hour in between shifts to get from one place to another, wish me luck!

In other news, Mrs S is back, but my hours have been cut right back, I now do only one day a week, which isn't so bad with all the extra shifts at the library - which with any luck will continue because there's so many people coming and going. Plus there's always the chance one of the jobs I went for will pan out, last week I went to one for a Librarian, which is was a bit nerve wracking, although it included a position that's full-time so...

What else to report, well, I bought more Pusheen goods because I'm weak and have a problem. :OP But that cat is just too cute! But I've probably got enough now...I've got a large Pusheen plush coming my way - not the jumbo sized one, but it's still pretty good! I shall post pics of all my goodies once she arrives. I also got a Pusheen cross-stitch kit, not sure when that'll show up.

Lastly, but far from least there's been a lot of hazard reduction burning in the area lately (where they burn parts of bushland so if there's a fire in the summertime it won't be so bad - hopefully) which has lead to a lot of nose issues. I keep worrying I'm getting a cold, but knock on wood, it seems it's mostly allergies. Still bloody annoying.

Anywho, I better wrap this up since I need to head to bed so I'll be bright and refreshed for tomorrow.

Goodnight all!

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11:05pm: And it sucked! Obviously I turned up my water tap too much when I attached the dishwasher hose so I could put it on. I have no idea what happened! I should have gone and checked it when the dishwasher beeped, but it was still making noises like the cycle was still going. But when it stopped and I went into the kitchen to unpack it I found water was practically spurting from the tap and water was all over the floor, sink and table! Even worse, all my daily positive affirmations which I've been forgetting to do since...oh June (gotta get back onto them though) but have kept in my broken penguin cookie jar had been soaked through! D: Thankfully, I was able to put the pieces of paper out on the floor and they've now dried. However in trying to mop up all the water I knocked my penguin jar over and the head was smashed to bits. My poor jar!

However, it's not all terrible news, I decided to look up the new Pusheen cookie jar on E-bay, and had the great luck to find a place that will send it free! It cost me $45, but that's a bargain, especially since it's apparently never going to be sold here. It'll take a while to get here though, but I'm really looking forward to it! :O)

Moving on, today after scripture class, my mother came over and was pleased to see how I've been keeping my house clean, yay! :O) We also discussed dinners - since I don't have much of a repitoire, Mum is of the opinion I need to add more vegetables to whatever it is I cook, she's proabably right, I'm pretty sure I'm not getting all my serves in.

Apart from that, not much else to report, I got to bed early yesterday though (a miracle!) and got to Mrs S's an hour earlier as planned, which meant I finished an hour earlier and got to the gym, so I've done my two of that for this week. :O)

However, it's now late, so I must be off since tomorrow I've got volunteering and a library shift, so I better be ready for it!

For now, goodnight!

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11:37pm: Yep! It's that time of year once more. A time for church, Easter eggs and a roast dinner with the maternal side of the family. It was greeeat! :OD

The only not so great thing was I didn't get nearly enough sleep last night because I woke up in the middle of the night to my poor father hacking up a lung. He's had this cough for some weeks now, although he's been to the doctor about and apparently it's not whooping cough or anything, but still it's weird. Although according to him I was also coughing and woke him up!

I can only hope it was from the doona Mum gave me to sleep under, I think it was a bit dusty rather than a sign I'm getting a cold (knock on wood, I so don't need that shit), my nose is certainly still itchy. Most irritating.

Anyway, I'm not sure what to do because there's this amazing fanfic I've been reading and the author is going to post the next chapter soon, but soon is still midnight for me and even though I get to start an hour later than usual tomorrow morning because it's a public holiday this is gonna be a loooong chapter so I probably shouldn't start reading it...

Oh and I almost forgot! I've got the photo of my Pusheen swag uploaded! Feast your eyes on the adorableness! It's beautiful I tell you. Comments are welcome - of course I won't wear all of it together at the same time, that'd be a bit much, LOL.

Right, once again I've let the side down Meme wise, but there was a lot to distract me this evening, like the new series of Doctor Who and the fact that I finally finished this book I've been reading, that sure took a while, which is weird because it was a good book. Figure that one out.

But yes I gotta head off now.

Goodnight all!

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11:11pm: Man, it's been a while since I've had this problem...at least to such an obvious extent - my right ovary be painful. Ouch. Most irritating.

Anyway, it's past 11 and as it turns out I've got a shift at the library tomorrow (yay! But I'm gonna be very very careful avoid speeding or parking tickets here!) which means I need to get up at a proper hour tomorrow.

But, today was a successful day! I managed to get up at 6:40am and got to work at Mrs S's on time - whoo! And Mrs S was ready in time to catch her bus to her appointment so good news!

Plus as I came in early I went home early and was able to do some of my cleaning - although my bedroom area wasn't quite up to my mother's standards, but not too bad and with her assistance (i.e her lying on my bed and directing me :OP) I've got the place looking really nice now. :O)

OH! And before I wrap up this entry I have super exciting news, my Pusheen goodies arrived today! :OD Awesoooome!

First up...Baker Pusheen! She's very small as she's a backpack clip, but still super adorable! Look at her little chef's hat. :OD

Second is the pencil with the 3D Pusheen Topper. Look at her perched on the top there, so cute! :OD

And lastly the sticky notes! The adorableness it kills me.

So, now I have official Pusheen stuff, so exciting!

However, the bank card still hasn't arrived, Mum has lent me 50 bucks, but I really hope the card arrives soon, I need to buy my ticket for the Reunion!

Right, like I said I have to be up at a decent hour so I shall be off now.

Wish me luck at work tomorrow!

Goodnight all!

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11:00pm: So I was gonna to type up a whole rant about what's happened in the USA, but I don't want to think about it and frankly I have no idea when I'm going to be able to watch the news or even The Project again. I was saying to Mrs S today that someone needs to come up with Trump-Free News where you can find out the important stuff going on in the world without having to be subjected to that thing.

So...I dunno, I've really got no idea what to write, I feel creatively drained right now.

However, I did remember I forgot to upload this! It's the first page of the Pusheen colouring book that I coloured. Super cute huh! I feel like I'll be using this book a lot over the next few weeks! :OP

But yes, I feeling pretty slack right now, so excuse the super short entry.

Now, I'm going to have ice cream.

Goodnight all.

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11:08pm: Well, obviously he got real like 20 years ago when the show was on, but I've been watching it since finding the DVDs at the library and I've got up to Season 4 now and there's been some serious issues cropping up here. I guess these are the "Special Episodes" they mentioned on IMDB, although they seem a lot less cloying then the ones that showed up on Quincy M.E - man some of those had no subtly whatsoever in those.

But yeah, interesting episodes.

Anyway, I did mean to start working on this entry an hour ago, but I got distracted by MacGyver, so this entry isn't going to be very interesting and also because I'm working on a new Pusheen plushy - because as it turned out you don't cut holes to put the legs and arms in, which was a fact I only discovered after doing it, son of a bitch. Oh well, I'm hoping second time around the plush will look better, they usually do!

Before I head off, I am cautiously hopeful that Nedshenko V will make it through, I purchased him today after getting the water from my tank checked. The guys at Petstock said it was perfect. However, they didn't have any Betta fish there so I got one from Pet Barn instead, because well...he was there and looking so nice and green. I've got the new food, so I guess I'll feed him tomorrow and I'm also keeping the tap feature thing in the tank because I'm pretty sure it's too strong - Bettas don't like strong currents. And finally I'm keeping the light off for a few days.

Right I gotta do my Russian and then hit the hay so let's wrap this up...I'll get back to you on the Memes...hopefully.

Goodnight all!

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