Moose Musings

11:36pm: So I've got this solitaire app on my phone that has a daily game, which often takes me a while to solve, I have to do a lot retries, but the one from yesterday is currently being the biggest pain in the ass. Seriously, I can't figure it out! And I even watched the "This is how you win this hand" thing. Very annoying.

So the rain has finally decided to show up, which is a problem because it's sheet washing time, but I can't hang them on the line and I've got no place to hang them here in the granny flat so I'm not sure what to do. I guess I'll just have to wait until the sun returns but in the meantime leave them in the laundry basket.

What else to report? Not a lot! I Although the landlord did come by this afternoon to tell me that he's arrange to have the concrete in front of my granny flat replaced - I didn't think it was looking too bad but it does have cracks in it. He thought perhaps it'd be happening this weekend, but the weather being as it is I have a feeling that won't be going down! He also seems to be thinking about getting an awning put it, which if that actually happens I'll definitely need to pay more rent! I also need to spend the night over at the parental units when the concrete is poured because obviously you can't step on it when it's drying.

Anywho! I better be off, as always work calls tomorrow and I certainly don't want to stay up too late, depending on the weather I might go skating tomorrow but if it's pouring I'll probably forego it 'cause the roads I need to take look like they'd have a tendency to flood.

So on that note, goodnight!

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11:54pm: So when I got back to the Granny Flat today before heading off for my shift at the library I went to have a shower and discovered...

My bathroom window had a hole in it! And shards of glass had fallen out and ended up on the floor, I did my best to vacuum it up, but managed to miss a bit and step on it, ow! I had to put a band-aid on it and everything. I have no idea how it broke? It almost looks like someone threw a ball, but the weather has been rather wild so perhaps something got blown into it...

So now, I've got this hole in the window, just as the weather is starting to cool down! Plus I've totally slacked on cleaning the place so I wasn't able to notify the landlord because I didn't want him coming in and seeing the mess. I'll have to get a move on with that, though, because I really must get it fixed and perhaps my dripping taps while I'm at it.

So, that was my excitement for the day! :OP Beyond that my shift at the library went well, except of course it's getting dark by the time I finish work now, booo. Didn't help that the weather remains crappy with rain on and off. Man, if these clouds don't clear up Professor Brian Cox isn't going to see shit in the sky.

Right, it's almost midnight and I have to clean up the place tomorrow and whatnot so I better get my butt to bed now.

Goodnight all!

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11:35pm: Well this is weird, usually I get a sore knee before that time o' the month...but not this time. Man, it's quite sore and I have no idea where my knee brace has got to.

Moving along, today was the interview and I'm not entirely sure how well it went...I think I spoke way too quickly to be honest, I was a lot more nervous than I thought I would be. Man, I borrowed that book on being assertive, but I hadn't actually looked at it which you know...was not a good idea I suppose.

Also, I'm a bit concerned that if I do get the job I'll have to leave Mrs S, because it looks like they'll want me to come in on Monday mornings, and I don't think Mrs S would go for another change in days and times, especially not if she's going with this new agency. That wouldn't be so bad I suppose, except it would mean I'll just end up with the same hours I all ready have instead of more! But maybe they'll be flexible? I mean it's five hours three times a week, which I can do even if I do work in the mornings, because I finish by 12:30 and the library closes at 6pm, so if I get there at 1pm...

Oh well, they're hoping to get back to people in the next week, which is a bit bad for me because I won't be here! On the other hand, it is Council, so who knows how long they'll take. :OP

Anywho, it's late now and I have work tomorrow so I must be off! I will say one thing, the weather has turned around completely! It rained heavily for most of the day...although it did at least let up on my way to the interview.

However, I did manage to break the bottom of my umbrella! I think I've managed to fix it, but damnit, this happened to the last one. I really hope this one keeps it together. I don't wanna buy another one, they're expensive. :O(

And now, I'm off, goodnight all!

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10:44pm: I've got the photo of my dress that I wore on Sunday! Not through Photobucket that's still acting-up, but here's the link, which will hopefully work! What do you think of the shoes? Like I said 10 bucks from K-Mart.

Moving along, guess who popped in today to pick up something...Mum! Ha, figures. Although, I've been keeping the place pretty tidy so I was able to make it look pretty decent by the time she arrived. I even got to show her my new folding style, it is indeed looking mighty fine. :O)

Anywho as this morning I headed off to the Mall to do some Christmas shopping. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any 60s cocktail music, dang. I tried looking up the flower bloom thing on my mobile, but its battery was running out again plus there's no nursery in the Mall so I wouldn't have been able to get it anyway.

I did get Mrs S's coffee machine, although for some reason they only had red colour ones left, which is weird because the one Mrs S took a photo of was silver, but even when the cashier looked it up in other shops...only red. I still bought even though Mrs S really wanted it in silver, but it's very fancy and looks like it'll be easy to use so....

I did buy my little bro's gift and after some hunting about managed to find a picture book about Australian animals for my niece, but I still need to get something for the big bro, Eri, Mum and Dad. Which has made me realise I have no idea what Eri would even like! I'll have to ask the big bro about that.

After getting home I did some laundry before heading off to the gym and I planned to wash my car, except someone had parked in the spot right outside the house so I couldn't because the hose will only stretch so far. However, as Mum was leaving we found that the car had left so the washing was on!

And of course...not too long after I finished up there was a thunderstorm, grumble, grumble. I have found that generally if you wash your car before it rains the rain doesn't leave spots all over.

After the storm things took a different turn when Mum called to remind me about the contracts for the Newtown parking spot and the studio apartment. I was meant to sign them - one in front of a witness so she can take them to the solicitor some time and that time is tomorrow! So, I ended up going over there for that, the big bro had one of his friends over and she was nice enough to be the witness. I also got to see the niece, she seemed very intrigued by my stripey green shirt and green watch, LOL, perhaps she'll love green too! :O)

Still haven't picked her up, but I did giver her hug and even read The Hungry Caterpillar to her, but I don't think she was all that interested LOL. I love the Caterpillar though. :O)

Ah bugger I'm recording Cold Case but the storms have come back and interfering with the antenna. Damn, hope I have this episode, but I guess it'll come back on.

Right, I better wrap this up, work is on tomorrow so I better not stay up too late.

Goodnight all!

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11:08pm: So somehow I ended up looking at the very early entries of my journal...waaaay back in 2004 - more than 12 years ago now! And man, I used to drive a lot and also see my friends a lot more often...

Which, I think might be the crux of my issues these past couple of days...I've been all isolated! All by myself! When I first started my journal I had many friends reading it and I got quite a few comments, and when that wasn't happening I was on AIM chatting away. And of course, I actually saw my local friends too.

No wonder I've felt so lonely, lately :O/ I haven't seen a friend since...late April - well not including the few minutes I spoke to one at Target, she was at work though so not much could be said. Now admittedly two of them are in far flung places now, but there's the others. Shakes head. Terrible effort on my behalf. I should make some calls tomorrow...perhaps I can have a house warming party when I get into my next Granny Flat.

I'm feeling rather better now, today I went to my parents' house with plans of having lunch with my father. That didn't end up happening, because he'd gone out and forgotten to take his mobile phone so I wasn't even able to call him and tell him I was there! However, Mum called so I got to talk to her, which was nice, I guess I do speak to Mum a lot so having not done so in a few days obviously bummed me out too.

And of course, Dad eventually arrived back home and although we didn't eat lunch together - I wasn't hungry and he'd had a late breakfast - we hung out for a while, so that was nice. :O)

Anyway, not much else to report and I need to get myself to bed, because as I've been saying these past few days I haven't been getting the proper amount of zzzs! This can't be helping my mental state and whatnot.

Before I go, I'm rather relieved to hear that apparently the weather is supposed to clear up on the weekend, fingers crossed it does because I didn't actually do my washing today because it's been raining on and off so I need to get that done tomorrow!

Anyway, off I go now.

Goodnight all!

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10:30pm: Gee, it hasn't rained for some weeks and now the weather has gone absolutely nuts! Not just rain, but wind, it was bad enough that when I woke up this morning there was no power! I didn't actually realise this until I looked at my mobile phone and saw an SMS from the landlords telling me about it at which point I noticed my DVD player and vacuum cleaner had no lights on them. Fortunately, this didn't mean I couldn't have a hot shower, it did prevent me from having breakfast though. I ran out of milk last night and had figured I'd just have toast, but obviously I couldn't do that.

I also couldn't go ice skating, the wind and rain were so nasty I was sure that at some point along the road there'd be an accident or a flood or a tree down. But without any power and the place rather dark from the clouds staying at the house wasn't really feasible either, so I decided to leave really early and do some shopping that the Warriewood Square and perhaps have breakfast. I did the former, but not the latter because I couldn't see a single place to get a crossiant! I did discover that the new section of the Square - with the Aldi is set to open on the 23rd. How exciting!

I'm still bummed about the ice skating though..

Eventually I headed to Mona Vale and the library because I didn't want to be caught out with parking again, but there were no crossiants to be found there either, so I had a hot chocolate before entering the library building early and reading my book until it was time to start.

Despite the management system and catalogue being off-line for the day everything turned out pretty well, although I was quite hungry after a while since I didn't have a proper breakfast. Good thing I bought a good lunch then!

However, things went rather pearshaped on leaving, all day my co-workers had worried about how they'd get home, I thought I'd be fine, but since the morning nearly all of the roads that lead up to where I live at the top of the hill had been flooded and there was no way to get through! Which I didn't realise until I got to each of them one by one - I looked on the Live Traffic NSW website, but no mention was made of those particular streets at all! Thanks for nothing website! I started getting rather anxious and called the parental units who were able to calm me down...even as I went to the three roads I use to get up the hill and found each one closed.

Finally, the only way to get home was via Mona Vale Road, the one road I'd avoided because it's quite narrow at the point I need to drive and there's hardly any light up there, but there looked like no other alternative, I could have tried to get to my parents place perhaps, but I didn't have any clothes to wear to Mrs S's tomorrow.

So, with Mum's encouragement up the narrow road I went and I was finally able to get home! And much to my relief the power was back, phew! I would have been really screwed otherwise.

In non-transport related news, I wore the purple shirt today! Alas, I'm either going to have to extend its length by sewing extra pieces around it so it'll have a seam in the middle of it or make a whole new shirt. I do have a shirt that has a seam across it's middle, although the lower parts has a stitching design of sorts that I don't think I could do because I find it hard to sew straight. Although it would be the cheaper option...

In the meantime I solved the too-short problem by buying a purple tank top to wear under it, although it still looks kinda weird. My co-workers at the library thought I looked pretty sharp though, so there's that!

Anyway! It's past 11pm now, so I better Meme and wrap this entry up since I need to get to bed.

I am slightly worried that the roads might still be inaccessible tomorrow, in which case getting to Mrs S's place is going to be hard. Fingers crossed that the rain, that's still being coming down on and off will be mostly off!

( Bring 'em on! )

Now, it's bedtime! Goodnight all!

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11:14pm: Fortunately this is not due to illness (knock on wood), but on the fact that I while drinking some water I sort of hiccuped and as a result inhaled half a gulp o water down the wrong pipe. It's settled down thankfully because I thought I was going to choke for a minute there! A bit scary when one lives alone.

Moving on, the rain has indeed set in for the weekend, somehow I managed to get everything hanging up in my flat, even the sheets so at least I don't have to be concerned about that. However, I am rather concerned about what this will mean for my ice skating. I always get a bit worried about driving in the rain, with any luck though perhaps it'll be calmer.

In other news I got an email today from the IT person at the library, apparently on Sunday the wi-fi network will be down! Fortunately it looks like there'll be an off-line library management system available so we won't have to do everything by hand, but considering how many people come for the computers it's going to be weird day.

I was also disappointed when I went to the Mona Vale Aldi to find the sausage dog shaped draft stoppers were sold out there too. Dang, they were the cutest little things, should have known they'd sell out quick. :O( Having said that there doesn't seem to be a draft in here, especially after Mum removed the outlet hose for the air-conditioner from the window in the bedroom. Which I really should have done myself, fail me.

However! I did have the great luck to purchase a very nice striped green business like shirt at Salvos, yay! I washed it so hopefully it'll be ready to wear on Sunday. As for Project Purple shirt, I re-sewed the collar on because it wasn't sitting right, which was really quite a pain in the butt. I also finished up the sleeves. The only thing that's left is those damn button holes...I've tried everything but I just can't get the sewing machine to do the automatic buttonhole making. Boooo. I think I might be able to manually make the outlines of the buttonholes using the machine, which hopefully won't end up biting me in the ass.

And I can only hope that it's still not too short after redoing the hem...

Anyway, time flies when you're sewing so I shall forego the memes for tonight and instead get ready to hit the hay. Zzzzs are needed! :OP

And now I say goodnight!

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11:08pm: Well, the weather has decided to make up for lost time in regards to the rain and it's being bucketing down for most of the day. Added to that the temperature has gone low enough that I've put on my new penguin flannel pjs, not to mention put my doona back inside my doona cover. Hopefully, I won't wake wake up too hot some time during the night.

Moving on, I'm sure you all want to know how the Canasta went...well, I was going quite well, in fact I was in the lead! However, M managed to stage an amazing come from behind victory! I'm not gonna lie I was a bit disappointed in myself, but hey, what are you gonna do? :OP

Then it was off to work, which was interesting as aside from me everyone else was a casual employee! I wonder where the other part-timers were? I guess that will always remain a mystery LOL.

I had been planning to go to my parents' church after work, but with rain I decided I was better off going to the church in Mona Vale, especially since Mum had gone to church up in Newcastle - where she was visiting a friend. Once again though the mass went way longer than I'm used to. Although admittedly Palm/Passion Sunday is usually a long one, but it was starting to get dark when I came home and daylight savings hasn't ended yet! I'm so not looking forward to when it does, which I've all ready mentioned, but I think it bears repeating.

In other news, I finished the book I was reading this week, which ostensibly was about the world of figure skating - the cataloguing suggestions on the copyright page even says so! However, I should have paid more attention the blurb, which was much clearer about what the story would become i.e. one of those sad tragic stories about death. Oh...yay. I don't like reading sad stuff...

Anyway, enough about that, I should really try and catch up on meme or two...

( It's Gonna Take An Age To Catch Up... )

Bugger, it's almost midnight and I haven't done my Russian...oh well, too late now!

Goodnight all!

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11:14pm: Yep, it's still going on out there, although it's supposed to clear up a bit tomorrow, I hope so! Today was miserable and one of my bags almost ended up absolutely saturated when it almost fell out of my car when I opened the door. Man, that was a close one, the bag had a book and DVD set belonging to the library I shudder to think how much it would have cost to replace those.

Speaking of the library...I got an unpleasant surprise when I received a call from Mona Vale at about 2:30pm today...it turns out I was meant to have a shift there this afternoon! But it wasn't in my phone and I don't recall getting an email about it either. I just checked my Gmail and there's no sign of one either...which makes me wonder. I was apparently meant to work this Sunday too and I felt bad about not going in today so I agreed to work, but I dunno...I wonder if there's been a mix up because there's also a Monique who works there, perhaps they mixed us up? I'd kinda prefer not to work on my birthday although the party is happening the day before so maybe I should? I think I should call tomorrow and double check because that's really weird.

Anyway, I did a number of things today, including buying fabric, buttons and thread in the hope of making my shirt, getting the new rechargable battery for my Santa lights (more expensive than the lights themselves!), going to my parents house - where I was supposed to get some baking paper and a tray, but managed to forget to do that in the excitement of catching up with the parentals (and Mrs Lampe) and their trip, whoops! - then to Dee Why to look for the gumboots. I found two shops, but one didn't have my size and the other only had a small selection and they were 50 bucks. So I'm stuck with the short boots for now. And I got a one week extension on my book and the DVD set so that was cool!

I've just had I thought...I wonder if I should take a different route to work tomorrow because this morning the low road that runs by the lagoon had a a huge patch of water flooded over. It was a bit intimidating to drive through it, especially since I have such a small car! But then maybe I'm just being a big wuss.

Finally, I think I've got the dress almost done! How exciting! :OD Although sometimes the machine makes a strange noise when I'm using it, I hope it's not wearing out, that'd be uncool.

This also means next on the agenda will be the shirt, which is going to be quite difficult, I got the pattern from the book I borrowed from the library, but printing it out was a Hell of a thing, the pattern is on 30 pages which I have to stick together! Yikes...

On that note, I have to skip the Memes once again and head off to bed.

For now goodnight!

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11:11pm: Or on Christmas for that matter! I think I've mentioned this before but it seems to be a general rule here in Sydney, Australia that it rains on and around Christmas. It's a damn shame because it means you can't go outside during Christmas dinner, plus this year - if the weather report is right - it's going to be hot too...so humidity will show up too, ew. I wonder how my hair will go with this.

Moving right along, a busy day once again with Mrs S's in the morning and Dee Why Library in the afternoon. This is rather unfortunate because I haven't done any cleaning again, my poor flat it looks so sad! Why am I so messy?

What else to report? Not much although my abdomen seems to have settled down, which is good news! Of course, I made lasagna tonight so it's probably very happy to have good food. :O) I also made frosting for the cupcakes to take to Mrs S tomorrow, although I realised that I managed to leave my medium sized white plastic bowl at Aunt Weed's fiance's place - do'h! Although, having SMS'ed her it seems the bowl is in the possession of M so I should be able to get it back sooner rather than later. The small bowl did OK this time around though.

Anyway, I was going to do some Memes, but I can't actually remember what one's I've done and it's late, so I'll have to leave that for later.

Oh...and I did have a bit of a scare with my car this morning, when I managed to side swipe a parked ute and the passenger side wing mirror popped out of its casing a bit! O.o I was most distressed until I found I could pop it back in, which is a big relief, although now there's a scratch on it, boo. I drove back the way I came after finishing work to see if the ute was OK, it was fine as I swiped the metal tray part. Still...drive more carefully me!

And now, I'm off! Goodnight all!

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