Moose Musings

9:11pm: Heh, I'm actually updating this on my mobile phone in the hotel room I'm sharing with my parental units. I do have my tablet with me, but my charger is letting me down, the battery is low and I haven't got a cable long enough to use it. I'll have to look into that before we head off to Fiji.

So tomorrow I'll be heading home on the train, it'll take about an hour and a half to get back to the centre of Sydney and I have another hour and a half to get back to the north side and work.

I've started working on the McFly July prompts, getting one done before my tablet's battery fell into the danger zone. I might try posting that one tomorrow, see how the battery holds up if I leave it plugged in tonight.

In other news, someone actually tried to assassinate Donald Trump today! Yikes... He wasn't seriously hurt, but someone else was killed and two other people at the rally were injured. The shooter was also killed. It's all kinds of bizarre, like I'm not fan of the Orange Man, but actually taking a shot at him? It's a strange place in the US, there were people on the news wondering how someone even had the ability to take a shot at a former president. Well geeze guys, maybe the whole easy access to guns might have something to do with it? Although I suppose the shooter shouldn't have been able to get so close, but he wasn't AT the event so he didn't need to go through metal detectors or anything.

It was a bit alarming that apparently people saw the guy up there and tried to earn the cops on scene, and the cops apparently didn't do anything until shots were fired.

Anyway, the US election looks like it's gonna be a bad time... Not looking forward to the outcome of that.

The curse of "May you live in interesting times" is definitely holding true. Although, as a follow up to mentioning the various elections going down, the French one has turned out to be less of a shitshow than feared. So there's that at least.

Well, Le Tour continues and it's on TV (fortunately Mum watches it), so time to enoy that.

Goodnight!

11:52pm: Right, OK, I have quite a few things to report, but nowhere near enough time to write about it...

First thing's first, I got myself an adorable little two-in-one tablet laptop at JB Hi-Fi yesterday! It was the last one so I got it at a discount, yeeess! However, it asked me to update tonight, which I tried to do only to have the thing throw a complete fit and now I've had to to reset it. Boooo! Not taht I had anything important on it but what a pain in the ass. I think I'll try upgrading it to Windows 10 next time, if possible. Windows 8 is notoriously crap if I remember right.

But OMG, I need to get back into my fic but I keep allowing myself to get distracted! Coe on get with the program me.

On a final note before I have to get my butt to bed and explanation for the subject title...I meant to turn the stove off earlier on, but instead I turned it up or at least not off completely. With it being winter and all I keep the door to the bedroom/living area closed so I didn't realise until my fire alarm went off and opened the kitchen door to find it FILLED with smoke! There wasn't a fire or anything, but my sausages were ruined and I had to open the doors and windows to clear it.

So yeah...massive fail there.

Right so I'm off to bed, at least I can say that I sped-read the latest chapter of the fanfic that's holding the Yuri on Ice fandom in it's thrall. So I can sleep easy. :OP

Now I say goodnight!

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11:33pm: Yep! And that's not just my own opinion, but that of my parental units and the priest who came over for dinner after church tonight. My little bro was supposed to come over, but alas he pulledut at the last minute, what a shame! I really should call him and see how he's going, I don't think I've even told him the exciting news about the apartment.

I also need to call my Uncle Sam and Aunt Jo to find out when I should come over with my Simpsons DVDs and to play Scrabble, they originally suggested this Sunday afternoon, but obviously that didn't go down.

Now, I did promise to have a more substantial entry today, but I forgot that I was going to be here at the parentals and therefore have my tablet, which doesn't have the greatest keyboard and doing he whole meme thing is a huge pain in the butt. I guessing could turn on the Bluetooth keyboard, but I'm a bit too lazy for that.

Oh dear, I just tried to turn it on and I've just discovered I didn't switch it off so it's out of charge, do'h! So there you go, it's not meant to be. :OP

What else to report? Not much although this week marks the beginning of my three and a bit work days with Mrs S! I hope I go all right! And then there's the interview on Friday, I remembered somewhat belatedly that at the moment all council jobs are on twelve month contracts and as my workmates pointed out the future is a bit murky what with all this council amalgamation stuff. Gulp! After speaking to Mum though I've reoncilled myself to this possibility if I get the job...at least I hope so!

OK it's quarter to twelve and I have to keep my zzzs up so I'll finish up here, goodnight all!

10:46pm: Ha ha, this show is so funny you can't help but get involved...although I am confused by this Charleton Heston cook guy who made a gigantic sandwich, but it had the weirdest stuff in it, what's up with that? Still his ideas of making giant food are relevant to my interests. :OP

In other news, I did it, I decided to throw caution to the wind and buy a new phone - although budget conscious as ever, I went for the cheapest one I could find that would be compatiable with the Wrist Band app. Although, as it turned out I ended up spending a bit more than I thought I would, because the phone I originally wanted to get wasn't available at the Dee Why Officeworks - despite the online site saying there was limited stock so I got the 2nd Generation version of it...which was only $268 unlocked (keep in mind the cheapest second hand Samsung s3 unlocked would have cost $179 and I would have had to order it from Ebay.

I didn't actually plan on going to Officeworks, and being a person who likes to stick with one brand I was going to go the Ebay option to get a Samsung, but then I do have a Motorola tablet and it was on the list so that's that.

I couldn't wait to get it out of the box! So shiiiiny, although the screen doesn't look quite so glossy now I've put my fingerprints all over it, LOL.

The only drawback is, it doesn't fit my Samsung case of course, and I just bought that, nuts. Apparently, the seller offers refunds so I've sent a message to them to find out if I can send it back and I've also purchased a green case for the Motorola, apparently it'll arrive on Monday, but I have hope it might show up on Friday.

In now related phone news, not much, today was a gym and swimming day, which went quite well! Except the showers didn't have hot water, WTF? I ended up just washing my hair with conditioner, which M advised me to do rather than use shampoo and conditioner and she should know since she went swimming for years and years.

I hope it has some effect on it, I put some of this sleek hair stuff I have when I got home because the humidity at this time of year just wrecks havoc on it. I swear I can't get it to lay flat! Bloody embarrassing.

Anyway, it's getting late and I need to get myself to bed, before I do though, the one last Meme and then I'm all caught up!

Sunday Stealing

7/3/15

Threes Meme

From Remember the Stars

1. Three things that scare me: Throwing up, ants and loud storms.

2. Three people who make me laugh: Um...the people on Googlebox as I right now, LOL.

3. Three things I love: The colour green! Surfing the internet and going to libraries.

4. Three things I hate: Ticking clocks, mosquitoes, getting wet hems on my pants because it's been pouring.

5. Three things I don't understand: Tony Abbott, getting drunk out of your mind and cults.

6. Three things on my desk: Don't actually have a desk.

7. Three things I'm doing right now: Typing this entry, watching TV and sitting on my ass(?)

8. Three things I want to do before I die: Visit New York City, go to Malta and um...geeze I'm drawing a blank?

9. Three things I can do: Write, draw and make cupcakes!

10. Three things I can't do: The splits, sing and dance

11. Three things you should listen to: Is this music recommendations? Because I don't do well with those. But hey listen to the Bee Gees, The Beatles and Abba. :O)

12. Three things you should never listen to: Once again, this really depends on the person...frankly I'd avoid heavy metal.

13. Three things I'd like to learn: How to understand Russian, be able to do crossovers and good house cleaning skills :OP

14. Three favorite foods: Cheese! Chocolate! Carrots!

15. Three beverages I drink regularly: Water, water, water :OP

16. Three shows I watched as a kid: Inspector Gadget, Rugrats and Captain Planet.

Right, I'm off!

Goodnight all!

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11:17pm: The Strata Meeting that is, for one thing we didn't have that much to discuss, just four motions, I guess because it was an Executive Committee Meeting rather than just a general one anyone who has an apartment in the building can come to, so the result was a meeting that only went for an hour phew! Although, I managed to forget to bring my water bottle along, so I was a bit thirsty and annoyed because I filled it up with cold water especially and then just left it on the table at the parental abode.

Also I went to the doctor and remembered to ask for a referral to the pyschistrist and a script for my Zoloft, as well as the vaccine thing, unfortunately for me, Mum wasn't able to pick me up when TAFE finished (she went and visited the grandparents) so by the time I got the bus to Neutral Bay and got in to see the doctor the blood testing place in the Medical Centre was all ready closed. Boo. It opens at 8am tomorrow so I guess I can go then, I'm a bit leery though because of my history with blood tests, though I've been fine the last few times, so I guess I should suck it up. Or perhaps I can wait until the afternoon or something and go to a different blood test place (one that's still run by the same guys) which is on my way back to the Granny Flat. That might be a better idea, also it means I can get up at my usual time tomorrow.

In other news I managed to miss the 8:17am bus this morning, so I went around the corner to get the other bus and in typical running late style that bus was like 15 minutes late! The end result I was half an hour late to my class, crap! But luckily I hadn't missed too much and was able to catch up. We have a test tomorrow though and I haven't actually gone over the material three times as advised by the teacher, better do that on the bus tomorrow morning!

Any who, I'm here at the parental units place on my tablet, so I shall hold off in the Sunday Memes until tomorrow, plus Air Crash Confidential is on, so I'm going to concentrate in that before turning in for the night.

And now, I bid you all goodnight!

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10:45pm: Haha, I sincerely doubt it, but Project Plushy - the Babushka dolls have attracted some attention from other Plushy fans, how fun! :O)

Sadly for me, Australia doesn't have a Babushka-making industry, so there goes that as a career option...damn, kind of makes me wish I'd been born in an earlier time when such artisan trades were still viable career options.

On the other hand, there was no internet back then...the trade is probably not worth it. :OP

Hmmm, I'm watching TV right now and there's an add for an animal circus...I thought they banned those things in Australia? Although some years ago an animal circus came to the park across the street and my family went over to see the elephant. The elephant seemed to be OK, but really, they belong in their natural habitat, or at the very least a spacious zoo!

In other news, work today and happily my IBS got the memo and didn't bother me today, yay :O) So all the magazines were priced and put out and there was also stationery that needed pricing too, so yeah, good times. Man...I get joy from such weird things, don't I?

But I've got my introductory appointment with the Life coach person next Tuesday, so here's hoping she can help me put my best foot forward in the job hunt. Fingers crossed people!

What else to report? Not much, I was going to go to the gym after work, but the weather turned to shit and I couldn't be bothered, but yeah I'll have to go tomorrow otherwise I'm just donating money to the gym rather than actually using it LOL!

Hmmm and with nothing else to report, I guess I'll Meme and run:

Booking Through Thursday

Plot or Characters?

Which is more important when you read — the actual story or the characters? I’ve read books with great plots, but two-dimensional characters, and I’ve read multi-layered characters stuck in clunky stories, and I’m sure you have, too. So which would you rather focus on, if you couldn’t have both?

Well, as a reader of such trashy books at the Sweet Valley series, it's possible neither is important to me :OP But I think that characters are most important to me. I've read many a book with a crummy plot, but interesting characters which was enough to keep me hooked although the crappy plots would leave me rolling my eyes more than once. But yeah, I tend to get attached to characters.

Air Crash Confidential is on at the moment, they're looking at accidents caused by bad weather, including that flight over the Amazon that broke up leaving a lone survivor who fell some 30,000 feet into the forest and miraclously survived. We saw a movie about it at school once, it was a Hell of a story! But yeah, I can't even imagine getting through such a situation, surviving a plane crash and being stuck in the jungle for 11 days with an infected wound. o.O

Aaand that's pretty much all I have to say for now - although The Simpsons: Tapped Out has been going a lot better for me lately! Not so much crashing and I've been getting random premium currency and other stuff. Heh, probably all part of sucking me in.

And now, I bid you all goodnight!

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10:48pm: It's Grease 2, but good God I heard it sucked, but this is seriously terrible! I pity the fools who paid to see this shit in the cinema. I should change the channel, but I kind of can't be arsed.

In other news, there was an update to the Simpsons: Tapped Out app yesterday, which I eagerly downloaded only to find that it crashes the game...a lot. Most irritating! I hope there isn't something wrong with my tablet, it's battery has been draining really fast lately.

This movie is messing with my mind...it has no coherent storyline whatsoever..

And there sure is a lot of gum chewing going on in this movie...it's distracting me.

Ha ha, right can we all tell I didn't do shit today and thus have nothing to report.

I did go to Holy Thursday Mass which I usually don't do, I think everyone was reading from the wrong mass, because the readings didn't match what was in the Missal at all. Although they still did the feet washing so they weren't completely lost.

Although, I can confirm I still can't abide by the incense, my poor eyeballs were quite itchy. They're fine now though!

Annnd the meme isn't up, and I'm going to see my friend tomorrow so I guess I should wrap this up here.

Goodnight all!

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10:36pm: Right, so as it turns out the wedding my parents are going to tomorrow starts later than I thought, which means while the little bro is happy to drop them off at the reception, he's not all that sure he wants to be available to pick them up. Mum says that she and Dad will probably finish up by 11pm, which incidentally is too late for me, I'm usually in bed by midnight, weekend or not! Plus I'm planning to get up early tomorrow so I can go to the gym tomorrow before I go working for the man, so I'll be more likely than ever to be in bed at a decent hour.

Plus, I think this situation is irritating my bowel, I felt seriously off-colour this morning, I thought I was going to have to get off the bus! Thankfully, I put on my relaxation audio and was able to calm down, but still ick! I suppose I should face my fears and all that crap, but driving over the Bridge at night? You'd think that'd be easier, but... Although I'm confused, Mum said I'd be able to pick them up and still get to church on time? How can that be if I'm not meant to be picking them up until 11. I guess I must have misunderstood.

I did tell Mum this morning when I called and found out it was a nighttime reception not a daytime one that she and Dad should just take a taxi, it'd probably be quicker and they wouldn't need to worry about their driver having a nervous breakdown. Plus I'm sure it'd only cost them 20 bucks! Maybe I'll just offer to pay for them to go myself. In the meantime, when I called this afternoon to see how the situation was going Mum said she was seeing about possibly hitching a lift with Auntie Chris and Uncle Laurie. Fingers crossed something comes up then!

In the meantime, today went pretty well despite the stomach pain, the reception gig is going quite well for me! I'm reminded though that I should ask about possiblities for full time work. Maybe I will have to take a TAFE course on accounting or something.

Anyway, as I said I want to get up at a decent hour, so I better get those Memes done and head off to bed!

Friday5

Toss

1. When (and why) did you last intentionally throw food onto the floor or ground? Intentionally? I don't believe I ever have! Food is important, there's starving people in the world!

2. To whom did you last throw a canned or bottled beverage? Are we still talking intentionally? If not well I often drop the bottles of fizzy drink when bringing them to my parents or getting a new bottle to put in their fridge - I've got butter fingers!

3. When did you last throw a ball? Uh...gee...no idea, not much of a ball thrower, I do throw my clothes at the laundry basket a lot these days, pretty accurately to if I do say so myself!

4. When someone throws you a set of keys, how confident are you while those keys are in midair that you will catch them and be cool doing it? Ha ha, absolutely none whatsoever! Although as I said, I've been getting better lately.

5. What’s something you regret throwing away? Oh man, I know there's something, but damned if I can remember what! This always happens. In all honesty though, I really ought to be throwing more stuff out...

The (Other) Friday Five

Computers!

1. When did you/your family get your first computer? Man, I'm pretty sure we were still in Canberra so like 1988 or 1989. Old school!

2. What type of computer was it? I think it was an Amiga, I'm not sure, I'm pretty sure it was stolen not long after the family moved to Dubbo.

3. What were your favorite things to do on your first computer? Play Frogger and Dig Doug, although the latter used to make me cry when I ran out of lives! It played such sad music!

4. When did you/your family first connect to the Internet? 1996, I believe

5. How did you spend time online when you first connected? Well, in those old days it was Dial-Up and for a while we only had the one phone line, so if someone was on the net no-one would call the house. So my brothers and I were limited to 2 hours each. Not that the little bro got on all that much in the old days. Which was lucky, I guess! Otherwise my time would have been less...

Right! My laundry has finished so time to hang them up and then off to bed.

And I just typed this all up on the new keyboard, aaah yeah! Although it seems slightly small than I'm used to, but I think I'm getting used to it. Good times, good times.

And now I say goodnight all!

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10:11pm: When I got home today and checked the mail box I discovered one of those slips that get left when a courier comes and you're not home. But it was a Fed-Ex one which I've never seen before and much to my surprise it said that my parcel wasn't at the post office - it was with the Fed-Ex people who were going to try and deliver it again. Which considering the fact I'm not home during the week at least not during business hours isn't the least bit helpful. The slip said that you could arrange to have it sent to another address, but there'd be a surcharge, so I decided to call them up about it. Turns out the surcharge is $50! Fuck that, I'm poor! I also don't have neighbours, or at least I don't have ones I know will be home. Fortunately I had a brain wave, the Convenience Store down the road! They could leave the parcel there - there was a bit of a worry that that still might cost money, but the person on the other end of the line checked it out and said no that'd be find. So I had to fill out the slip, go to the Convenience store and check it'd be OK with them (considering I rent a car space to them it was), scan it into my computer, attach it to an email and send it to the Fed-Ex people so they'd know where to go and finally drop the slip back at the Convenience Store. But it should be good and I'll be able to pick my new Bluetooth keyboard tomorrow! Eee exciting!

Oddly enough, when I went to the Convenience Store the second time I met the Owner's daughter who mentioned that I've lost weight, noticibly so! Weird! I could have sworn I wouldn't look that different, I've only lost about 4 kilos all up, must be the toning from the weights. Or maybe 4 kilos makes a difference. Although the lady seemed to think I'd lost 15! Don't know if that was pounds or kilos, but either way... Unless she's mixing me up with my mother, LOL.

In other news, I was useful in the research department at work today! It turns out they haven't forgotten the plan to get some lockable doors on the file shelves for security purposes. My manager asked me to look into how much that would cost if it was possible or failing that how much it'll be to get new shelves with lockable doors. So off to the internet I went. Of course, in the end a co-worker noted that the shelves definitely should be able to have doors put on (the locksmith I called didn't think that would be possible) and I realised I just needed to call the company who made them. Well duh! So I went and did that, turned out I had to take some pictures of the shelves and email them off so they could see what shelves they are (they're probably quite old ones), although they'll probably have to send someone around to take a look. But hey, success!

What else to report? Oh! Yes went to the Writer's Group, got some good words in - although I can't wait to get the bluetooth keyboard!

Oh and I remembered what I was going to say yesterday! My hair was sore! Like a spot on my scalp really hurt whenever my hair moved or I poked it or anything. Thankfully it's better now, I think it needed a wash, which I did last night after working out at the gym (although alas no swimming I ran out of time). I also put that Moroccoan Oil on it in the hope it would make it nice and shiny. Not sure if it did that, but it sure is puffy today! O.o Don't know if that was the oil or just my hair, probably the later. Bah!

Oh! And the moving men were able to bring the furniture to the office today, yay! However, the traffic was still crappy, which meant my bus was late (although I really should have got there for the earlier one) meaning I was late! Man I have to stop doing that.

And on that note I should be off, I have some stuff to do before going to bed and I have to make sure I get my zzzs at a decent hour. Plus my house shows are on!

And now I say goodnight!

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10:59pm: OK, that's a little dramatic, but there was a fuck up this morning when I went to boil an egg and accidentally pressed the wrong button and turned on the wrong hotplate. Unfortunately for me I'd left the plastic banana carrier box I bought last week (to keep my banana from getting all squished and bruised should I take one to work) on that very plate. What really sucks is as I pressed the button I thought to myself that it was the wrong one, but I convinced myself it wasn't.

Then I didn't noticed what had happened until I heard sizzling looked up and saw my poor banana holder starting to melt! Well, suffice to say I got across to the stove top and picked it up quick smart. Sadly though there's a huge hole in the holder now, boo. I've decided not to throw it out thought because it still opens and closed, plus I'm having money issues.

Yes! Despite my extra work days this month, I couldn't afford to pay my levies before the due date, which was yesterday, what a fuck up. I have been spending a bit, but I didn't think it was that much. :O( I did discover part of the issue today when I was going over my budget to see what happened, basically the gas metre people couldn't access my apartment (because they want you to hang around all day to let them in like you don't have a job) so the gas company estimated my usage based on what comparable single person residences use. And I don't know what those people are doing, but their bills are almost twice as high as mine! What a rip off! Now I called the Gas company who will adjust my bill once I submit my metre reading, but still. :O(

I've also discovered that contrary to my belief I don't think I'm actually saving money by keeping my old style Foxtel...looking on the website, it seems that for a one off $75 fee I could upgrade to the Foxtel IQ box. Hmpf when did this happen? I may have to investigate that further once I get my budget situation under control.

And no more big purchases! Although I did wear my new black and white peplum top and a black skirt to work today, I looked most corporate indeed and my co-workers commented on it. Embolded by this I'm going to wear the sailor suit inspired dress - hopefully it won't be too cool, it was warm today, but yeah...

Still, it'll be a relief when the tablet keyboard arrives, it's not impossible to type on the screen, of course, but I don't think I'm getting the best of my Writer's Group that way! Although I think I got about 200 words done tonight, unfortunately for me I didn't plug my tablet in properly to charge it so it ran really low and I had to leave. Also that time o' the month has finally showed up and I was rather uncomfortable, so I wasn't there as long as I usually would have been.

Now, I should be off to bed, because sleep is needed, so in closing, remember to keep your stove top clear of plastic at all times!

Goodnight all!

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