Moose Musings

10:27pm: Yes! Well, technically it's already happening as it's the 5th of November over there in the US, but it's pretty early in the day for California, so you know.

I've been slacking off with the updating, since I haven't actually had much to report, although the archery's going really well! I've got my own bow, my own arrows and even a quiver now! Still no chest guard yet, but I've been wearing one of my sports bras and it seems to be working out. I even competed - so to speak - in the Club wide competition on Sunday. As a beginner I was allowed to go on the closest target which is usually reserved for the under 16s. Even so, the 30m starting target was still a lot further away then I've ever tried! Suffice to say there was a lot of arrows that missed XD. Still it's not how well you do against others, but how you do against yourself and since that's the first time I've shot at a 30 m target I've got a new personal best :OP

What else to report, ah yes, that time o' the month is currently underway, I think it's a week late for some reason because my app has been telling me it should be starting for days so... Although looking at it right now I see I forgot to add my last period for September, which is a bit of a problem for the prediction side of things. Having said that, I think it's pretty much every 28 days, so not hard to figure out :OP

Anyway, time is getting on and I should go to bed earlier, especially seeing as it's a work night! Before I go, let us cheer because the Time & Motion study we've been doing at work is finally over \o/ man that thing was messing with my brain a bit.

There's probably Friday Fives I can do, but I'm sleepy so, I'll just wrap it up here.

Goodnight and to the USA...don't fuck this up.

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11:01pm: Because I don't have much to report today, I did have a physio appointment, where the physio gave me a few modifications to the exercises I'm doing. I'll have to try them out tomorrow at the gym, hopefully I won't fall on my face, LOL.

My QL muscle remains sore though, I feel like it's probably due to my terrible habit of sitting on my couch while using my laptop, I really ought to use a chair, but...yeah. Lazy Moose is lazy :OP

Meanwhile the Quality checking of books/items continue at the library, it's quite the conveyor belt as I think I've already mentioned. I think we're doing OK there, although we're set for another delivery tomorrow, which hopefully won't be too huge! Fortunately, the Friday's delivery was only 7 boxes so we're doing OK.

What else to report? Not much, still haven't written any BTTF prompt fic today, tsks at self! Come on me, get with it!

It's that time o' the month so that probably explains why I can't use my brain today LOL... apologies for that. I don't think I've been getting enough zzzs which might also explain it.

So with that in mind I'm off to bed now, here's hoping I'll have more to say tomorrow!

Night!

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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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11:01pm: Yes indeed! Not only was this morning the get together for my uncle's birthday (usually it would be for my aunt too as her birthday is actually today, but she's sick so couldn't come), but since I took the day off work I went to my friend's house in the afternoon.

The family get-together was great! I made mini-blueberry muffins and we had breakfast with sausages, toast, eggs and tomatoes (although I didn't eat those :OP) and a good time was had by all.

It was also great seeing my friend again, since I've been slacking on contacting her so it's been like a few months since I've seen her last, despite the fact she lives like only ten minutes away, shame on me! Hopefully, we'll be able to see each other a bit more often, although since I work on the weekends and like to go skating on Saturday afternoons and I've been getting those extra shifts it's harder than you'd think to find a good time.

The only downside of today is hayfever is attacking me like whoa right now...at least I hope it's hayfever, it better not be another cold (knock on wood!) Mrs S will never let me live it down if it is, plus I don't need that shit.

But I think it is, because it all started yesterday when I used the fan rather than the air-conditioner in my car, I think the fan takes in air from outside rather than air that's all ready in the car and I got a face full of pollen because my nose was itchy and runny. Then today it's all stuffy, and my ears are itchy. I've been meaning to use my nose spray, but I can't find it! I'm hesitant to take an actual hayfever tablet because whilst they do work my eyeballs end up so dry I end up with a terrible headache. I may have to give in a take one so I can get some sleep, perhaps it won't be so bothersome if my eyeballs are closed.

Speaking of bed, I have to hit the hay right now because I haven't been getting enough sleep the last few days what with the ice skating and it doesn't take much for a lack of sleep to get to me. :OP Also, it's that time o' the month, grumble grumble.


So on that note I'll be off! But all in all it was a great day, I even got to see the little bro, it's been a while and I was really happy to hear he's given up smoking, yay!

And now I'm off.

Goodnight all!

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In fact I couldn't brain so much that I started this entry yesterday at 11:39pm and then gave up, LOL.

It wasn't much of an entry though...but here's what I wrote:

"Because that time o' the month is bearing down on me and concentration is the first casualty, which truly sucks. :OP Because I've procrastinated like crazy and now there's barely 10 minutes to midnight and I said I was going to update you all further on the play.

Although, it was mostly visual so...it's kind of hard to explain, LOL. Suffice to say Mr Burns is actually quite striking when he's wearing sequins. :OP

I am interested in finding out if the misquotes and whatnot in the play were done on purpose or if the playwright actually didn't know the episode. I was almost tempted to yell out the correct quotes, but it wasn't an audience participation play. :OP"

And let it be said it definitely was that Time o' the month at fault...it came today and knocked me on my ass, I didn't even get outside all day, which to be honest was probably a bad thing...Oh the plus side the period pain medication seems to have worked, which is good because I some bad cramps a couple of hours ago.

Moving along, I've been doing lots of chatting on the Yuri on Ice discord (it's like a message board) which is cool! Although it does mean I've been slacking on my fan fic, which is bad. I gotta get with the program, otherwise I'll never finish and that would be awful. I'm a bit annoyed though because I seem to have lost the second page of the plot outline I actually went to the trouble of writing this time! I feel like it'd be helpful to have. That'll teach me not to put it on the computer, I wrote it out by hand.

Speaking of writing stuff out by hand, I'm still unsure what to do about the days when I forgot to write a positive note of the day and can now no longer remember said days. Damn.

So not much else to report which is to be expected when you sit on your butt pretty much all day and I better head off so I can go to bed as soon as Cold Case finishes because there's work tomorrow!

For now, goodnight!

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11:41pm: Yes, I am trying to keep a schedule of updating every second day, because...uh...I dunno, I'd rather do every day, but you know me, I get distracted so easily.

So I didn't update yesterday, so today is supposed to be the day, but I've got this niggling headache which hasn't gone away even though I took some Neurofen a few hours ago. Rude! I took two tablets and everything! What's the deal? I am wholly disappointed.

Anyway, yesterday I had planned to do some stuff - maybe even ring my friend up and see her, but the weather turned from sunny to rainy half way through the day and then my eyeballs decided to go all dry and I was just in a whole lot of discomfort, grumble grumble.

That time o' the month is due today so I keep expecting it to sneak up on me any second now, but thus far it is elusive. More rudeness!

But, I did at least get some cleaning done, although it was not to Mum-standard, however poor Mum still has her cold so she couldn't be bothered to tell me off too much, LOL. I shouldn't be mean though, because she decided to go over my resume for me so I could email it to a pharmacy - there's an ad in the paper, which is lacking in any detail whatsoever so I've been procrastinating on it. Then, the case I got for my external hard drive decided to break (man, I'm having no luck with those!) and it has all my updated resumes so the whole updating was being a pain...

So I ended up emailing one of my older resumes to Mum and she sent a new one back to me, I'm not entirely sure about it actually...it seems to break all the rules of resume making I was taught during my years of job hunting. On the other hand, Mum has no problems getting work whereas I flail around so who knows. I had to add more info to it of course and Mum wanted to see it so I still haven't emailed it yet. I should check the Manly Daily to see if the ad is still in there...

What else to report? Not much, I went to Warriewood Square hoping to find some cheap Easter eggs, although like I said they don't leave them on the shelf for very long these days and I had no luck, boo! However! I remembered that IGA had eggs for quite some time, being a small independent supermarket, so after I went out to get a new case for my external hard drive (only 20 bucks!) I went via the one near my gym and there was indeed eggs - or rather bunnies to enjoy, yum! (Although the Red Tulip ones don't seem as good as these days, or at least the smaller ones don't, weird).

Righto, it's getting late now and I need my sleepy times so I shall be off!

Goodnight all!

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11:36pm: Well, the southerly change has come through and it's not really that hot anymore, but it was bad enough that even having reconnected my air-con's hose the Granny Flat was still unbearable. The problem was my air-con kept switching itself off giving at warning that it was overheating so I could only use the fan function. And with it being 35 degrees or more that just wasn't good enough - even though I went and bought the mini-desk fan to put on my bedside table (they were on special at Coles) I ended up sweating like Rafa Nadal on a tennis court! (Have I all ready used that analogy? Well, I'm gonna use it again) So I'm back here at the parental abode.

This is probably a good thing though because the interview is tomorrow and I need Mum's help to do my hair (that's a bit sad isn't it, LOL) although I've just remembered that I left my resume folder back at the Granny Flat along with my activity tracker (I took that off before taking my shower after I went to the gym), so I guess I'll have to stop by on my way to Mona Vale tomorrow.

Aside from that I haven't got much more to say, it was just a regular sort of day (that time o' the month has appeared - which means I won't have to worry about it on the cruise which is very good news) except for the heat factor. Man...anyone denying climate change has to be an idiot, which some people clearly are, especially one I had the misfortune of seeing on Four Corners tonight, which my mother watched when she got home. Lucky for me I'd brought over one of my Air Crash Investigation DVDs and was able to watch that instead, because ew.

Right, it's almost midnight and I gotta haul, I still need to finish my Russian!

For now, goodnight!

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11:36pm: The Super Moon that is! The best time to see it was last night, but in typical Aussie style the sky was quite cloudy especially on the horizon so the moon couldn't be seen until it was high up.

I was hoping to get at much better view tonight as the sky has cleared up nicely! According to the news moon-rise was at 8:18pm, but when I went outside to look I couldn't see anything! I went out a bit later, but still nothing. :O( I popped out just now and the moon was there, and quite bright! But it didn't really look any bigger than usual, because once again it was high up in the sky so there was nothing to compare it to.

I am disappoint! However, I have realised, a bit late of course, that there is a hill behind where I live and I'm pretty sure that's blocking the moon. On the other hand...maybe it's just not that big here in Aus? Like the angle might be off or something. Like when we get a lunar eclipse and it never really seems to be as spectacular as hoped. Rude!

Anywho, I didn't update yesterday because there was much discomfort yesterday and I was starting to get rather worried...and then just after midnight that time o' the month finally showed itself. Hmpf, I shouldn't say finally because it's not that late, but I could have done without the headaches. I wonder if I shoulbd investigate this...

Ooo, I just noticed Plushenko the fish was lying on the bottom of his tank, but he was just resting! Phew, I was worried there for a bit because Mum and Dad's goldfish Roger died the other day, which really sucked, because he'd been so healthy last I saw him.

This does remind me that I'm supposed to do the water change...with any luck I'll have time to do that tomorrow before I need to head to the school and then on to M and Grandpa's.

And I can't believe I almost forgot to mention that I went to work today! The Library called me in for a shift yesterday afternoon. However, I didn't make the best impression with it as I ended up being late! Most of it was my own fault, but I wasn't helped by a jerkass behind me who when I spotted a parking spot wouldn't let me back up and then had the nerve to steal it when I moved forward with the plan to turn around. What an asshole! I could have kicked his car when I walked past it from where I ended up parking, far, far FAR down the street, but I'd forgotten what his car looked like by then.

Anyway I was late enough that the librarian on duty actually pointed it out! She said she didn't mind, but it's not a good look.

Aside from that work went pretty well, except for when this old lady showed up and got quite agitated, as it turns out she's a known 'pest' and the Council refuses to deal with her so I shouldn't have given her the council's phone number. Having said that, you'd think she'd have it all ready?

After work I decided - what the Hell - I'd go ice skating and hope the traffic would be OK at 4pm when I'd be heading back (that's generally the start of peak hour) and not wait for the last hour of the session.

It was lots of fun! :OD And there were a lot of good ice skater there for their training sessions, ones that can do the jumps and spins and all that jazz. Inspiring to watch for sure! Also, the rink is nowhere near as busy at that time of day. So maybe I should go during the week instead of Saturday afternoon.

And, yikes I've just seen the time! I better wrap this up and hit the hay!

Goodnight all!

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11:39p: Yes! Bloody disappointing it is too, I've always said that I've rarely if ever encountered fandom wank in any of the fandom's I've been in, but it finally happened to today. :OP Not that it actually involved me, but I had to unfollow their Tumblr because OMG so boring and irritating to watch.

Anyway, moving on from that crap, I picked up Mum today, yay! She got me some stuff from Japan (all the best stuff is from there ;O) but I haven't taken a picture of it...I'll get back to you on that. It was great to see her, although I might have talked her ear off a bit, at least until she went to take a nap and I headed off.

But I gotta say, finding rhinestones for Plushy plush is proving to be very difficult! The closest I could find to them at the Mall were ones that you need to stick on with your own glue one by one. They're like twelve bucks for a pack of twenty! Nuts to that. I tried another discount shop in Narrabeen, I even went all the way to Mona Vale to check the fabric shop, but nope. I either have to order them on the web, go to Chatswood or go to Spotlight. Well, fine, if they're gonna be that way :OP, I'm thinking I might go tomorrow, although I'm a bit worried the traffic will suck since I need to get to church for a meeting of SRE people by 11:30. Last time I headed for Mona Vale Road in the morning, it was slow going. Hmmm, perhaps I should simply wait until I'm heading that way to go ice skating. Decisions will have to be made...and I hate making decisions. :OP

I also need to buy some special glue, Plushy plush's skates are falling off again...I hope this isn't some sort of sign...

In other news, my knees hurt...that time o' the month is approaching, booo. Honestly, I have no idea why I get joint pains in this situation. I blame society :OP

Oh I almost forgot! I didn't find any rhinestones, but I did find something awesome in the Narrabeen Vinnies. Chip and Dale soft toys! OMG, so exciting! I've always loved them, I used to have bigger Chip and Dale soft toys, but I'm not sure what happened to them. Actually, I did lose Dale on a plane, but Mum and Dad got me another one at EuroDisney. But as I said I've got no idea where they are now.

Right! I better head off now, it's almost midnight, lucky for me I remembered to do my Russian so I don't have to worry about losing a day, yay! :O)

Goodnight all!

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11:41pm: And now look at the time!

But once again it was a busy day, what with work, going to the gym, the mall, out to dinner... phew! Just writing it all down makes me tired, LOL. :OP

In other news, that time o' the month finally showed up yesterday just in time to screw up my weekend in regards to swimming, so rude.

Also rude...the disapearance of gum boots from shop shelves! I mean, I guess it makes sense since it's summer, but I need new ones! The only pair I saw today were at a nursery for 90 bucks! Seriously I can't afford that! I wonder though...if the ones at Rivers might not be on special after Christmas, in which case...perhaps I should wait until then. I'm still annoyed over my Just Jeans purchases that came on sale a week later!

Anyway, I have to get up early tomorrow so I can get to Aldi and buy the swimmers, so I'll have to make this a short entry...sorry! Plus my brain is all scattered so I'm not making much sense anyway.

Hopefully, I'll be more coherent tomorrow, although that's gonna be a busy day. Damn, if I get that weekend library job, I'll be working every day! I dunno if that'll be possible, I guess I'll have to think about that...Mum thinks if it happens I should ask Mrs S if I can work less days, although I don't think that'll work.

Right, yes, off to bed now.

Goodnight all!

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