Moose Musings

11:53pm: As is evidenced by the time here, 7 minutes to midnight and I have to get my ass to bed ASAP!

I just wanted to mention my archery lesson today, because it was the last week of the Kidbow/Adbow thing we had competition. We shot 90 arrows in all at various sized targets from 10m, ironically I think I did better with the smaller targets than the larger ones :OP Although in all honesty I did pretty shit all together, LOL. I came 4th out of 4 adults and let it be know that there was quiiiiite a gap between me and the bronze winner.

I also didn't get a chance to test out the bow that they ordered in, so I wonder if I can show up next week or if I have to become a member first. I guess joining would be fine, I've been enjoying myself after all and it gets me out of the house :OP

In the meantime I'm reminded of the school colleague who offered me some of her father's old archery equipment. Although as previously mentioned unless he's really short I'm not sure his equipment will be of any use to me LOL. Still it would save me quite a bit, a bow can cost like $300!

OK, it's almost midnight now, so Moose out!

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10:14pm: Yes, it's Leap Forward Time Down Under! Which I'm very pleased about because I love it when the sun is up in the late afternoon and evening. The downside, of course, is that at the start of the process an hour is lost...so it's actually more like 11:14pm right now, in which case I better make this quick because I'm off to Archery tomorrow morning and it'll start at what feels like 8am rather than 9am!

Not much to report, although I'm working on a new cross stitch having finished Pusheen on a tropical beach (although I might add one more detail), it's Pusheen doing Archery (of course!) :O) However since this requires a bit more deviation from the patterns that came in the Pusheen cross stitch kits I've just had to unpick half of it because of a mistake, whoops.

After a week and a half I finally got back to the gym today, yay, so I'm feeling good about that.

I've also noticed that more Friday Fives are available, but I might have skip those for now because I really should get my butt in bed! It seems that short entries are my life right now :OP I blame Sims, I'm still playing Sims 4 and Lady, who's doing really well, I've actually had her start doing cross stitch as well XD

There's also skating, which is another downside, I suppose, of daylight saving in that everything is now an hour (soon to be two) hour later than it was before. This means it's a lot harder for me to catch competitions that take place in Europe live because they start at like 11pm or midnight.

Anyway, wish me luck tomorrow!

Goodnight!

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11:31pm: Case in point it's 11:30pm right now and I'm only just starting this entry, whoops!

Anyway, let's keep it quick, work today went pretty well, although a colleague and me got stuck on the desk longer than planned because the rest of the library staff were in this meeting to discuss the future of libraries in general. Luckily it was pretty quiet in the library so it wasn't like we were run off our feet or anything.

However, we did get another box delivery, fortunately it wasn't too big, but we still haven't actually opened Friday's delivery yet, so yeah... better keep on top of that!

After work I went to the gym, which went well, although I'm still struggling a bit with some of the exercises my physio gave me, but I guess that's the point. It does seem to working though, so yay!

Then once home, rather than writing McFly July prompts I got sucked into Sims 4 again (Sims 3 well be disappointed with me :OP), but exciting things are afoot! Lady and her long lost gardener Shea got married! :OD I'm going through this rather more quickly than James did in the original, probably should have waited until Lady was actually rich before she got married, but shrug. :OP

OK, so I better be off, I've been dillydallying waaaay too much in the morning's and it's resulted in me missing the last bus before 9am, which means I get to work almost half an hour late O.o that won't do at all!

(Aw crap, I just realised I forgot to wish a Facebook friend a Happy Birthday, whoops... and also to respond to my mother about the Japan trip...)

Anyway, goodnight!

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11:34pm: Because it takes bloody forever to do and next thing you know it's past 11:30pm and I've only just started updating this thing! Also it's hard on one's fingers... or maybe that's just me :OP

Right, OK, I've put aside the cross-stitch so I'll make this quick, I spent the evening playing Sims 4 with my bootleg Lady Bigwallet, who I realised is missing the mole just above the lip that the actual Lady Bigwallet, LOL, I'm not sure how to fix that or if I should, since this is meant to be an alternate universe, so maybe that's the difference, LOL.

Oops, picked up the cross stitch again...

OK, back on track, today at work my colleague showed me how to quality check the catalogue records of graphic novels, which are a bit more prone to having errors in them than regular fiction books, but this will hopefully make things a bit quicker with the QC-ing, because we do get quite a few graphic novels and when only one person can do them, they tend to build up quite a bit.

Apart from that not much to report, except the Lite n Easy hadn't been delivered when I woke up this morning at the parental abode. At first I thought I'd forgotten to click all the necessary buttons to actually put the order through, but no it turned out that they were just late with it. Fortunately, Mum was around the area this evening so she was able to drop it off to me and in exchange I gave her the spring cake tin, so hopefully her upside down cake will go well.

On that note, I better haul! Hopefully, I'll start tomorrow's entry a bit sooner :OP

Goodnight!

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11:16pm: Yeah, it totally does, I meant to write I better entry for today, but there goes that idea...

I remembered I forgot to mention something from yesterday - one of the staff is leaving at the end of this week for a new job so yesterday we had an afternoon tea to wish her well (her last day is actually Thursday though) and a couple of other co-workers decided to get her a little present, which turned out to be a tiny version of one of those wacky inflatable flailing arm tube guy LMAO. I totally need to get one of those for myself.

I was also going to do a McFly July prompt I even started on one, but then I went and got distracted by cross stitch and a book I'm reading, so yeah, didn't manage that one.

But it's now 11:30pm so I have go get outta here...short entry strikes again! :OP

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11:41pm: Especially when you're watching a replay of the para-archery.

It's like 19 minutes to midnight and I really don't have time to actually type anything up! Not that I've got much to report, except I went to the gym this evening after work and also rather unfortunately haven't done shit regarding the cleaning of the apartment. I always do this, and I'm gonna be in big trouble if it's not ready for the parentals and the little bro on Thursday. I don't know how I keep getting myself in these situations well actually I do, I was reading a book which I did finish at least, but in retrospect probably not the best idea.

I'm trying to keep in the habit of updating, which is the only reason I'm writing this entry... sorry about that :OP

But yeah, the archery continues to be fascinating, especially since there's a number of competitors who don't have arms and therefore fire the bow with their feet! It's pretty impressive, especially when they're shooting bullseyes like bosses.

But yes, I can't really afford to go on because I need to get my butt to bed, hopefully I'll be able to update more fully tomorrow.

Goodnight!

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10:51pm: Yes, it was Trivia Night tonight and our team won! :OD This is somewhat unusual! Although only one or maybe two teams that we usually go up against, which might have had something to do with it. We also had a person who doesn't often come, who knew about music (our weakness!) there, who also picked up three bonus points for us. :OD

The prize for first place is a $75 food/drink voucher for the pub, so next time we have trivia dinner will be free. Hooray! :OD

So yeah, a great night!

What else to report? Not much, we did have the meeting with the big boss of the library today, I was a bit concerned that it was gonna be one of those super long, boring meetings, but fortunately no, although it was a bit light on details. On the plus side it looks like the library is doing really well, so yay!

It's 11pm now, so I better head off, short entry syndrome strikes again, but hey short and sweet ;O)

I also put a load of washing which has finished so I better get that out as well.

Goodnight!

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11:08pm: Usually going to bed at a decent hour wouldn't be necessary on a Friday, but tomorrow is the "Come and Try Archery" session, and I need to be there at 8:30, so yeah I better get my butt to bed.

I'm a bit worried that the weather might suck though, like what am I supposed to do if it's raining? Apparently, the class will still go ahead, but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to see if that's the case. If take my glasses off I probably won't be able to see the target! Where as if I keep them on...well I won't be able to see all that well either. I guess I need to take a cap just in case (I sure wish one of my Pusheen hats would reappear :O( )

Not much else to report, although I really need to be careful when I'm sitting on the couch on my laptop, my back is a bit sore, which is one I totally don't need. Also, do my exercises to strengthen that area!

Right now, though, my knee hurts, very annoying, I thought maybe that time o' the month was due, but according to my app it's still four days away, so...hopefully not.

So yes, I gotta run but here have a Friday Five

Friday Five

21/12/24

These questions were written by your moderator anais_pf, who has been posting questions in this space consistently for more than ten years, on a completely volunteer basis.

1. Are you easily offended or upset by things other people post online? Depends what it is...I have to say whenever JK Rowling posts stuff I find myself getting pissed, man has she gone off the rails. Also Donald Trump stuff riles me up and when it was happening COVID deniers really gave me the shits.

2. How much does the order in which the Friday Five questions are presented here matter to you? Nah, I'm cool with whatever order the question setter wants to do.

3. Have you ever made an effort to be inclusive, only to have someone complain that you were not being inclusive enough? I don't think so? Wipes brow in relief.

4. Are you having a happy holiday season? Well, it's not the holiday season now, but yes I did! My bro and his family came for their yearly visit and I spent lots of quality time with my niece and nephew. Good times.

5. Which holidays do you observe or celebrate? The Christian ones, mostly - Christmas, Easter and the popular ones New Year's Eve, ANZAC Day, Australia Day etc.

Right, better get going I have to put my anti-itch ointment on and brush my teeth.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow a lot and I'm hoping I'll have good news to report! As it turns out if I do decide to do the 4 week Beginner's Course I won't need to take a Saturday off, because they actually happen on Sundays, LOL.

Anywho, goodnight all!

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11:36pm: I'm watching an expose on Channel 7 (one of our free-to-air channels) about the toxic workplace culture there, it's pretty bad. But what's seriously weird is that at least three people went to tender their resignations but they weren't accepted. How does that work? Like how can a company not accept your resignation? I would hope you're not a slave at this place? How can they not let you resign? I wonder what happens if you don't show up? Does that mean you can't get unemployment or something? It raises many questions...

In other news, I've left this entry waaaay too late, I've been going to bed after midnight this week and yeah I shouldn't be doing that. Although it's not like I have much to report, just a typical day at work. Although the boxes keep on coming! As do the Inter Library Loans, so busy busy.

So why update, well I want to keep in the habit! Although it doesn't make for too much interest, sorry about that.

Hopefully, I'll have a better entry tomorrow.

Tata for now!

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11:37pm: I think half my enteries have that heading, LOL, so much fail...But I can't think of another one! :OP I really need to work on that, my creativity is starting to die.

Although at least I'm getting a lot of reading done! Right now I'm reading a guide book about Malta, which is proving to be very interesting indeed, since my paternal line or at least one half of it, I wonder why Dad's grandpa - or great grandpa I can't remember - came here, because it wasn't during the aftermath of WWII, I should ask Dad next time I see him.

What else to report? Well not much at all, aside from the Olympics which will be starting at the end of this week! Although Channel 7 continues to play coy with it's schedule, so I'm not even sure how much skating I'm going to have a chance to see. There's supposed to be an app, but it's proving to be not very handy right now.

Also, the weather seems to have finally cleared up, although it was rainy on and off in the morning, and the moon decided to rub it all in by showing up in the sky as Dad and I drove to church. Damnit, moon why couldn't you have shown up like that on Wednesday night?! Boo.

Right, OK, so it's almost midnight now so I have to wrap this up and get to bed!

So goodnight all!

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