Moose Musings

11:43pm: Indeed, although I had to spend most of it inside the library, boo :OP Bit of a shame really because it was still nice when I finished but by then it was only an hour to sunset, so I couldn't really enjoy it. And it's gone now, with a big storm having rolled through complete with lightning!

Anyway! I don't have a lot to say, I've been reading this evening because one of the books I borrowed from the library was due back yesterday and I can't renew it because there's a hold on it! Which means I really must finish and return it ASAP! As a staff member I don't actually get library fines, but it's hardly fair to whoever's waiting to get the book is it.

Lucky for me it's a kids book so I should be able to finish it in good time...although not tonight because I really need to get my butt to bed.

Before I do...drumroll please...

Sunday Stealing

:The Sassy Questions:

1. If you could say anything you wanted to say to Donald Trump, what would you say? "Fuck you." (Seriously I can't even imagine speaking to that man, I think I'd just stand their spluttering in pure indignation and impotent rage)

2. If you had to be the mother of Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan, who would you choose and why? I have no idea. I mean, both of them have had their problems but I think they're doing OK now? In which case I can't really see one being better than another.

3. You get to be Queen for a day. The kids are all taken care of, and you can spend as much money as you want. What do you do all day? Do I get to pick the day? And since I don't have kids can I have more than one day? ;O) If so, I'd buy rinkside tickets for Fantasy on Ice in Japan where Plushy will be performing! It'd be awesooome.

4. Is there a song that brings tears to your eyes every time you hear it? If so, which one? Hmmm, not really. I don't like crying, it hurts my eyeballs too much!0

5. A fairy taps you on the shoulder and tells you that you can either have a perfect face or a perfect body for the rest of your life. Which do you choose? Well I like my face as is, but I could probably do with a stronger core (my posture sucks) so perfect body it is! :OP

6. If you could live any place in the world and money was no object, where would you live and why? I quite like Sydney and my family and friends are here so I'd probably just stay here like a boring person, LOL. I'd have a far nicer place then the Granny Flat I'm currently in though! Although...I'd probably want to get a holiday house in New York, just for the experience.

7. What is your biggest regret in life? Uh...I dunno? Not following Plushy when he was competing? (That's a lame one, but I've been a bit sad about it so...)

8. If you could go back and visit one person in your life who is now dead, and ask one question, what would that question be and why would you ask it? I'd like to see Grandma (Dad's mother) again and ask her to tell me her life story, because I never did and that's sad.

9. If you had the choice to age forward (like we are now) or aging backwards (think Benjamin Buttons) which would you choose and why? Ooo that's a pickle...On the one hand it seems great to think of becoming younger and healthier (as a general rule) as the years go by, but would you also unlearn stuff as you got younger? Would you end up losing your skills and abilities as you slowly approach birth? I guess that kind of happens anyway...but not necessarily! There's plenty of people who lived their whole lives without losing their faculties, so I guess...I'd stick with what we got now. Though it would be nice for those who die to "come back to life"...

10. What will the epitaph on your headstone say? "Here Lies Moose, She Planned to Write Something Witty, but...Procrastination..."

Okedoke, hope you all enjoyed that, but now for me it's bed time!

Goodnight all!

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11:57pm: I just need to paint my nails! Except I can't do that until after I update this because I can't type with wet nail polish on can I? Not that I have a lot to type or a lot of time in which to do it.

I will say that after a hot day, the weather has decided to turn, it's raining and windy out there and all I can say is I hope my new Christmas tree shaped lights stay up out there, I've only got them stuck on the side of the house with super-strength sticky tape. I'd hate for them to get broken, I even bought another set this evening when I went to K-Mart after church to get some white shoes for tomorrow, so that I'd have enough to reach along the whole of the side of the Granny Flat.

I'm also relieved on behalf of all the families who went to the Carols at the nearby lake that this storm didn't come in until after the fireworks and the show wrapped up, otherwise it would have been a miserable night!

What else to report? Well, now that school's out the library was very quiet indeed, I wonder how it'll go tomorrow, I guess I'll have to find out next week since I'll be at the party!

I wonder if the big bro and family will come, there's a possiblity they won't depending on whether my niece is seriously jet-lagged. Although, I sure as Hell hope the weather calms down, otherwise the plane might not be able to land! But fingers crossed.

Right, it's actually after midnight now, but...I'll just put this entry at 11:59 and like I said, I better be off.

Wish me luck painting my fingernails, I let you know how the party goes!

Goodnight all!

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10:14pm: I'm trying to upload the videos I took of that epic Christmas lights house that I went to see on Saturday night and promised to show you all, but it's taking a whole damn hour to upload a one minute video to YouTube! Seriously, what the Hell? It's the beginning of the month so I can't have run out of bandwidth and as a general rule the internet is fast enough here, I mean I can watch live TV (although it's not of the best quality).

The only other thing I can think of is the fact I'm downloading from my external hard drive, although it's USB 3.0 which I've been led to understand is quite speedy when it comes to transferring stuff. I guess the only way to find out if that's true is to load the second of the videos onto my actual laptop and upload it from there. but I'll have to wait and see if that can be done...the current video still has 16 minutes to go!

Anywho, what else to report? Well, it was damn hot today! Which was why when Mum said she was going swimming late this afternoon I left my house to go back to the parental place to do so. And before that I've had my air-con running, which I'm relieved to say has been working at keeping me cool. I also went shopping after working at Mrs S's today, incidentally I was surprised they didn't have their air-con on, I actually considered asking them if they could! But it might have just been the nature of the work I do - stuff with the sliding sheet, making the bed etc.

I wonder what it will be like tomorrow? We ended up having quite the thunderstorm as I was driving home from Mum and Dad's bolts of lightning was arcing across the sky. I'm not a big fan of lightning so I was a little but worried, but thankfully I didn't get rained on, although apparently there was quite a storm in these parts, I got an email saying that Mona Vale Library had lost all power! Yikes. Actually, I think it might be raining right now...

I've just checked my phone and apparently it's only going to be 24 degrees tomorrow, which is hardly short weather (although I might do so anyway, since the weather is weird this time of year) and also cloudy, which is not good news for me because I bought some new solar lights, sadly they're not like my Santa lights, which don't seem to exist anymore, but they're super cute! They're called silhoelette lights and as you can see there is a Santa included. However, I can't see if they look like that because there wasn't enough sun today to power the solar battery, bummer.

Anyway, I have to head off soon as Mrs S needs me to come in tomorrow morning and a bit earlier than usual as well and you know what that means, I gotta go to bed earlier.

( But before I head off, let's have a Meme or two )

Okedoke, it's past 11 now so off to bed!

Tomorrow I'll hopefully have those videos and I'll link to some of the pages I've coloured from the Pusheen colouring book.

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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11:18pm: OK, that's melodramatic, but indeed today daylight savings ends for six months, and now we can all look forward to it being dark at 6pm, ugh. Not looking forward to it at all. Although the weather remains summer-like, for example it got up to like 29 degrees C! I was in the library for most of the day so I don't know if it got to that, but it was quite warm when I finished at 2pm.

I was rather looking forward to going swimming once I psyched myself up for it, only to discover...that it doesn't start until 4pm on Saturday! Shit, how could I forget that? Either way, I really couldn't be bothered to hang around for an hour - I hadn't brought socks with me, so I didn't want to actually work out at the gym, plus work was a madhouse today, I was practically run off my feet! - so back home I went.

I stopped by the parental home, although Mum was out, so I hung out with Dad for a bit - he wanted to show me this extra USB slot thing he bought and plugged into his tablet so he can use a mouse with it, LOL! He also mentioned something of mine was his car, so before I left we went out to take a look and it was my kangaroo! Mum had left it in the car! How rude! :OP Well at least I got to show it to Dad and he took inside to make sure Mum takes it along in their luggage. They're leaving on Monday after all!

Also, while I was doing all this driving around I saw a five door green Mazda 2, I went to take a closer look at it, just because and found it was an auto and priced at $7,700 that's like $1,000 less than my one! Once again, life is rude! Although this one had done almost double the kms, so I guess it's all even outs in the end. Or at least it will once I get that poor dent fixed. It's really bringing down the aesthetic as I say.

I was also reminded by the km reading of the Mazda to check my own, it's up to 50,000! I need to get that service done, but I haven't heard back from the garage I called. They were the ones who did the pre-sale inspection so I felt I should go to them, but if they're not gonna bother returning my call...

Moving along...the net is acting weird, although I'm not sure if it's my computer or what. Some things are working and some aren't. The internet here is unlimited though...

Anyway, here's the Other Friday Memes

The (Other) Friday Five

19/2/16

These come from feodora on LJ

1. Do you live a house, a condo, or some kind of apartment? A Granny Flat which would be some other kind of apartment. Unlike the previous one I was in, it's attached to the actual main house. It's bigger and nicer though.

2. Do you rent or own? Rent.

3. What’s one thing that you would change about it if you could? I guess it'd be handy to have my own washing machine since I have to use the landlords one, they're nice about it, but it's still a bit of a pain.

11:03pm: Actually, it came during the night and when I woke up this morning it was coming down quite hard and since it had been warm last night before I went to bed I'd left my doors open so it was a bit chilly. This resulted in me dilly-dallying when it came to getting up and I didn't leave my place until after quarter past eight, which meant I got to work late. Do'h! I'd been doing well in the punctuality department this week, bit of a fail there.

It all turned out OK in the end, though and by the time I was finished the rain had stopped enough that I didn't end up getting soaked when I went to the Aldi, then the Coles at Mona Vale. I think I might have been imagining the matching aqua coloured toilet brushes. Dang. I did take a look at Bed, Bath and... whatever the last word is, and while the did have some toilet brushes they were super expensive. Gee, I'm gonna use the brush in the toilet I'm not spending 50 bucks on it. :OP

Anyway, I got the $300 along with some other stuff - although not the zip I thought I could get from the Mona Vale Fabric Shop, or rather you can't just get a replacement zip bit, you have to replace the whole thing which means I need to measure how long it is and all that. But right now the vest is way down in the box I put my winter clothes in, so that'll have to wait.

The fact the rain stopped for a bit also meant I was able to put stuff in the car and go over to meet Mum who bought the crate rack things this morning. Although she needs to exchange a few because when you put them on top of each other they're way too high. Also somewhat unfortunately, I discovered that the top drawers of the buffet are too short to fit DVDs in them, whoops. Not entirely sure what I'll put in them instead...I guess some books? I need to rearrange my books actually, perhaps give some away and put ones that I'm not going to read so much in the crates.

Lastly, my analogue to digital adaptor thing is now in transit, but apparently it's not estimated to arrive until Monday, booo.

And, I've just realised...I forgot to call my friend about dinner tomorrow, crap, I hope I can get hold of her tomorrow I need to know what I'm going to do with myself.

Although I do know I'll be going to the gym tomorrow, yay! And also pick up Mrs S's manual wheelchair and maybe pop by the mall to see if I can find a reasonably priced toilet brush there.

But for now I have to go to bed!

Goodnight all!

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10:43pm: Who's the Bag? Macros Baghdatis! Man, I haven't seen him in years, but he's still alive and kicking. Although he's dropped way down the rankings to 85 so I'm not sure his chances are all that good and I probably won't get the chance to see it because I have to go to bed ASAP, tomorrow I need to start work at 8am and I want to be well-rested.

I made myself worry a bit the morning when I miscounted and thought I'd been only getting about 6 hours and 45 minutes worth of sleep instead of about 7 hours and 45 minutes. Fortunately that was just my terrible maths skills, but all the same I'm not actually getting those 7 hours and 45 minutes because I keep going to bed too late.

Anyway, today was the usual type of day, work at Mrs S's then work at the library. The weather was very nice today so it was a bit of a shame that I wasn't able to go out and enjoy it, although I'm not sure what I would have actually done...

I also almost went and saw one of the Granny Flats that I saw advertised yesterday, because it's a pretty good deal with bills included and everything, however I spoke to Mum who pointed out that my financial prospects will be much better when I finish paying the car off in early May. I did the sums and that's quite true, so perhaps I will wait until then and just pull my thumb out and keep the place clean. Although I'm still dragging my feet on that, I really need to get on that.

But as I said, not tonight! Instead I'll be crossing my fingers for the Bag and hoping I can do my Russian revision quickly!

For now good night!

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10:38pm: I say this because my poor Misfit is missing! D: I last saw it at the swimming pool change room and I rushed back there this evening when I realised it was gone, but it wasn't there! I asked the people who were giving swimming lessons about lost property but it wasn't there either. Which is most worrying of all! Does that mean it's gone forever? Did one of the regulars pick it up and plan to give it back to me? Or maybe took it upstairs to the gym, I didn't think of that last one.

I'll have to call tomorrow, but daaaamnit. I remember looking at it there in the locker as I got changed after my swim and thinking that I better not forget it and what do I do? That's a great piece of fail on my behalf.

I'm further worried that I did take it with me and then it fell off later on, in which case it's truly gone forever.

Why does this happen? That cost me $55!

Bah! Moving on from this unpleasantness I spent this evening putting together all the sheets of printer paper together to make the shirt pattern before cutting out the pieces. I'm still not sure if I should go ahead using that though or search for an actual pattern, or maybe I should make a test shirt? Although the spare fabric I have would be most unpleasant for a shirt, LOL.

What else to report? Well, I still haven't heard back from five of my friends! Two of them (who go out) are in the Blue Mountains together which I guess would explain it, but what about the other three? Don't people check their phones these days? I was going to ring them, but I managed to forget, which is my own fault I suppose. I hope it won't be too late to do so tomorrow.

Anyway, I better do a meme so I don't end up too far behind!

( Bring it On! )

In closing, the weather as promised finally decided to clear up, so hopefully Saturday will happen as forecast and finally it's Plushy's youngest son's birthday - or it was so Happy Birthday to him.

And now off I go to bed!

Goodnight all!

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10:47pm: Yes...due to unforeseen circumstances I have had to put my gym membership on hold for two weeks - I only wanted to do it for one week, but two was the minimum. This means I haven't gone since last Friday! In fact, I haven't done exercise at all because of this problem, and it's a real bummer. :O( I've been getting into shape lately, having got back in the healthy BMI zone and having good muscle tone and whatnot, but two weeks of no exercise probably won't go over well. The reason I'm concerned is more to do with my costume, which I've taken in a bit to make it fit better, and if I put weight on it won't fit right anymore. Although...I think I mostly gain weight in my butt so I probably should be OK.

In other news, I remembered what I was going to say yesterday, on Tuesday night the cool change came through and blasted away the hot weather we'd being having with really huge winds. I woke up in the early morning to the sounds of it blowing past the front door which I'd left open to keep things cool. I wasn't all that bothered by that I went back to sleep again. However, while the position of my flat meant the wind didn't blow through it, the gate down the side of the house wasn't so lucky, the wind hit it so much that it was bent all out of shape. A fact I didn't know until I was hurrying to get to work and found I couldn't open it! It was totally jammed! For a few seconds I thought I was screwed and would have to call Mrs S and tell her I wouldn't be able to make it. Fortunately, I remembered there's another gate on the other side of the main house so I hurried over there and thankfully it wasn't damaged. It's a bit iffy going out that way since the people next door excavated a whole lot of soil, the walkway is quite narrow now, so I was a little worried I could trip and end up with a sprained ankle or something.

Suffice to say, I was OK! The gate was later fixed by N, so it really pays to have a handyman around.

As for today, not much has happened, aside from working on my costume, taking it in as I said and working on the tulle underskirt. I haven't done anymore work on the petticoat, although I might have to - horror of horrors - unpick it because of the uneven distribution of the netting. I shall keep you posted!

Not much else to say, except I better get to bed because I didn't get nearly enough sleep last night and I'm quite tired now.

Also I left one of my kitchen cabinets open and it's really annoying me, LOL.

Goodnight all!

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11:34pm: Indeed so! The winds last night must have blown all the clouds away, but alas...I didn't end up going ice skating because my abdominal area is being a jerk...I don't know if it's middle of the month stuff - because some of the pain is like little cramps. Rude.

Anyway! I at least got to do my laundry without too much trouble today, although it was still wet so I've left it up on the line. I sure hope it doesn't rain tonight...although taking a look at the sky out there it doesn't seem likely.

Although, I didn't check the washing machine during the first load and it did that stupid stopping in the middle of the cycle thing, so I ended up having to take the car to church because I'd get there too late if I took the bus. The normal organist chap is away for some weeks so we've got the other guy, although sadly the hymns remain lame. Man, tonight for example we could have had some really uplifting ones, but nope.

Anyway, not much else to report, must remember to go to Aldi and Bunnings tomorrow as well as the gym. Although the ice rink does call to me...but we'll see I guess.

And before I go, the memes!

Saturday 9

:Battle Hymn of the Republic:

(From the archives)

1) This recording was made live at St. Patrick's Cathedral, during Sen. Robert Kennedy's funeral. (Hear it here.) While both of Bobby's older brothers were decorated war heroes, he served too -- enlisting in the Navy in 1943. Are you a veteran? Are there veterans in your family? (We are grateful and want to hear about it.) Me, no. But both my grandfathers were in the military, my paternal grandfather was in the army and went to Papua New Guinea during WWII, unfortunately he saw some bad things and it effected him greatly afterwards. He died quite young before I was born, so I never met him. As for my maternal grandfather he was fortunate that he didn't see much action, but apparently one of my maternal grandmother's uncles went to and survived Gallipoli! Which I just found out about last week, very interesting! I think he ended up on the Western Front afterwards, yikes, but he survived that too!

2) Memorial Day also kicks off the summer season. What's your favorite picnic food? Well it's not summer here in the Southern Hemisphere :OP But to answer your question...watermelon, nothing like watermelon on a picnic!

3) Name a scent that reminds you of someone special in your life. Hmmm,well my sense of smell is decidedly crappy, so I don't really know to be honest. I'm more likely to remember a picture or image...

4) When was the last time you had your hair cut or trimmed? It's been quite a while...I wonder if I should look into that, though my hair seems pretty OK at present.

5) Crazy Sam runs on Dunkin'. Are you loyal to a particular brand of coffee? Nope, don't like coffee.

6) If money was no object, what home improvement would you like to make this summer? Get a dishwasher...somehow...washing up by hand pisses me off no end!

7) What was the last thing you bought purely for your own enjoyment? Some nice winter green pjs from Coles. They sell all sorts of things there these days...

8) When was the last time you rode a bike? Damn...not in ages, I've toyed with buying a bike on and off, but...yeah not sure.

9) Sam worries that many of her song selections reflect her decidedly Baby Boomer sensibilities. Is there a song or a performer that you'd like to see featured in a Saturday 9 this summer? Um...The Corrs, although to be honest, since I don't link to my answers the blog owner will never know this! :OP

Righto, it's almost midnight so better wrap this up!

Goodnight all!

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