Moose Musings

11:19pm: M died :O( which was extremely sad, although by the end she was very unwell with Parkinsons and was having these terrible seizures. Still...I miss her and our Canasta games.

It's also the anniversary of the terrible events in Israel that has lead to the latest mess in the Middle East, so yeah...

Today was a public holiday though for Labour Day (and also helpful to get over the Daylight Saving change) and I did actually consider going ice skating, but instead I was super lazy and spent basically the whole day watching James Turner's Sims 4 Every Life Stage Challenge. Which was complete chaos and craziness of course XD There's still one video to go, but yeah I've got to get my butt to bed.

In other news, the cross stitch continues on, although I've realised that the Pusheen gray fur colour in the Pusheen Christmas Cross Stitch box is noticibly darker than the gray I was using before. I thought I got the right colour (I actually ran out of the gray since Pusheen is so rotund so I had to buy one, which I thought match the gray colour, but I can't really say. I think the original Pusheen Cross Stitch box had lighter colours anyway. Weird)

Anyway, not much else to report, which is good since it's 20 minutes to midnight and I need to get enough zzzs!

And I still haven't caught up on the Friday Five, or done any fanfic writing - shakes head - on the plus side Ghosts Season 4 is starting in the coming week, eeee! Which hopefully will mean more fan like discussions with my fellow Ghosties.

For now though, goodnight!

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11:03pm: Alas, yes, it's back again, I think it must be my lack of sleep, which means updating this at past 11pm is a poor idea, LOL. Although it is Friday, so at least I don't have to wake up early tomorrow.

So...I thought I had something to say about today, but I honestly can't recall what it could be right now... Oh wait, there was a huge worldwide crash of computers this afternoon (Aussie time). Apparently, and somewhat ironically the software that many computers use for security purposes had a bad update or something and made pretty much every computer that has said software crash. Fortunately, the circulation computers in the library restarted OK, but the public PCs were down for the count, also my computer didn't restart, which was a relief because I had a document on there that I hadn't saved!

Oh yeah, I just remembered what I was gonna bitch about in this entry, apart from the headache, I think I burnt my lip on my hot chocolate this morning...there's like a red spot on it and when I smile it rather hurts. Which certainly sucks...although mouth injuries are known for healing quickly, so I'm hopeful I"ll be good for tomorrow.

And finally before the meme, they finally opened the fruit and vegetable supermarket at the Mall, gotta say I'm surprised! I kid you not, it's been like three years since the old fruit and vegetable supermarket closed down just before COVID. Of interest there's a special donut shop in there! I haven't actually heard of it before it's called L.A Donuts, but it's based in Australia not the US. Anywho, I decided to partake in one today, I got a chocolate iced glazed one, it was quite large and I figured I'd have like half at work and bring the rest home, but nope...ate the whole thing, LOL. To quote the great Homer Simpson "Mmmm...donuts".

Now, the Meme!

The Friday Five

22/03/24

1. What is your native language?> English

2. Do you speak any other languages? Which ones? Nay, I'm trying to pick up a bit of Russian and Japanese via Duolingo, but it's slow going at best.

3. How difficult is it for you to learn or understand new languages? Supremely. This is an Aussie problem, we didn't even start learning a different language until Year 6, i.e age 12, a bit too late. I mean, obviously other Aussies have learnt to speak another language, my mother can speak French and my brother Japanese, but alas I did not.

4. If you were going to study a new foreign language, which would you want to learn? Well, I'm already working on two! But if I had to change another, I suppose Italian.

5. How are you at reading subtitles in foreign films? Quite well! Except for this one time they picked the wrong colour and it was almost impossible to read, LOL.

OK, goodnight!

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11:10pm: Yes indeed, it's been nearly a month since my last update! I've really been letting my Dreamwidth down haven't I? It's not as if nothing's been going on, in fact I've been quite busy with extra shifts from the library and caught up with some old friends. Actually, this weekend I'll be catching up with more old friends Edith and Elva from high school! (It's interesting because I always mixed up their names even though I knew who I was talking to in my brain, my mouth would say the wrong name - the ass) Elva lives overseas now so this is quite an occasion! In fact I'm taking the day off work this Sunday for it. I'm very relieved I can do that actually because apparently the actual rule at work is you need to give 10 days notice to take leave (even if it's just for one day), that seems like BS, I mean not everything gets planned weeks in advance.

Speaking of work, it's getting a bit alarming just how many people have left or been transferred to another library in the system. The staff area down the back is practically empty these days, yet I remain without a permanent job. In fact, one of the staff they hired externally has just gone off on a month long holiday the second they got hired. In what world does that make sense? This person better have a lot of experience - although they're still going to need to learn the new system, which I'd liked to point out I don't need to do. Grumble, grumble.

Moving on, how epic was the rescue of the Thai Boys from the cave?! I can't believe they all made it! When I first heard about it on the news I didn't have much hope at all, but everyone banded together and got them out, a good news story for sure. :O)

Sadly, there's also very distressing news...last Thursday a very popular figure skater Denis Ten from Kazhistan (the first to win a medal at the Olympics - a Bronze back in 2014) was murdered in a robbery. I followed him on Instagram and the whole thing is still a terrible shock, very upsetting and surreal. His last post was only a short time before his death and it was very sad to see it there in the Instagram stories until it disappeared. I wasn't like a huge fan or anything, but the whole thing is just totally messed up (the robbers were trying to steal his car mirrors, who kills someone over that?!) and a total waste. :O(

In happy news, it's now just one week until my parents return! Actually less than one week since they'll be home next Tuesday in the late morning. I'm looking forward to seeing them, it's been like three months an I'm sure they'll have lots of stories and whatnot. Although I have to clean my father's car because it's been parked in their carport this whole time - except for the few times I've taken it out to keep it's battery going - and it's got all dusty and salty.

Right, it's getting late so I should head off - I've been watching Le Tour De France while I'm typing this and a guy just rode off the road and into a ravine! Thankfully he's OK, but geeze that was a shock. Also...this is the same route where 23 years ago a cyclist in the race died, seems a poor choice of route honestly.

OK, I'm going to wrap this up because I do need to get my shut eye.

Goodnight all!

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11:16pm: So the first round of elections has happened in France, which leads me to wonder...why are there more than one round of elections?! Sounds like a tremedous pain in the ass. And voting's not even compulsory over there, so I wonder what the turn out for the polls are like.

Anyway, the moderate guy and the far right lady have got through...France better not fuck this shit up. Sweden managed not to let us down, so I hope they don't either, because there's really enough shit going on right now. Just the other day I heard that North Korea had said they could deploy a missile here to Australia?! WTF?

Moving along, not a lot to report, although that time o' the month is swiftly approaching and my knee is killing me because it's an ass. I've also been super clumsy, so embarrassing. Honestly, why is this still a thing that happens? It's been like 20 years.

(And now I feel old o.O)

What else...I dunno, I had a library shift this afternoon, which I was like five minutes late for because I popped into the pet shop to get a new filter insert thing, unfortunately said pet shop didn't have the filter in stock. Do'h! Oh well, five minutes lateness doesn't seem to be too terrible, but I really need to pick up my game there.

I was also supposed to call the agent about getting a 6 months lease and paying slightly more rent, but I totally forgot and now I can't do it until Wednesday because tomorrow is ANZAC Day and thus a public holiday.

Anyway, my brain sucks right now, so I'm gonna wrap this up here, I hope to be more coherent tomorrow!

For now, goodnight!

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10:48pm: I totally forgot Australia's Got Talent was on tonight! I thought I was missing something, but I couldn't think what. Well that was pretty dumb. I can't even use the app to watch it on my Samsung Blu-Ray because for some reason that app isn't available on it. Rude! So I've installed it on my phone, although I'm not sure it'll work.

Or maybe I won't because it apparently wants you to sign in before you can even use it. Also rude! You don't have to do that with any of the other TV apps.

And you have to do it on the website too! o.O How rude I don't want Channel 9 all up in my business. And to top it off it's not actually up anyway. Maybe I'll just watch the clips on Facebook. To be honest, I'm surprised there hasn't be complaints about this having to sign up sheninigans.

In other news, I was surprised to hear the Nancy Reagan died today! Which answers my musings about whether she's alive or not. Turns out she was.

Moving on, I was going to go to the gym today, but I realised while I was there at Mrs S's that until further notice the pool has only one lane open, so I figured it'd be hard to actually swim, so I decided to put it off until tomorrow. Although I did go to that swim school after work and found out that they do have public swim sessions, but alas it's an 8 dollar flat rate, no special for going to ten sessions or anything. Which means a weeks worth of swimming will cost me $16. So unless I can join a gym for $3 a week I'll be out of pocket. Even if I take into account petrol.

Anyway, once again I've managed to run out of time to do memes, OMG me get with the program! Although at least I did my Russian.

Lastly, the Red Cross keeps trying to call me, no doubt to see about upping my monthly donation, but they keep calling at the worst times - like when I'm driving or at work! (Although in their defense I did stay an hour later than usual today). Beyond that I'm not planning on upping my donation anyway, my budget is tight. I wonder if there's some way to let them know this without having to wait for them to call again.

I guess I'll have to wonder...because now I'm off to bed!

Goodnight all!

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10:54pm: Yes, there's a baby shower for a co-worker tomorrow so what better excuse to make cupcakes! And this is a particularly good batch if I do say so myself :OD Although I'm slightly concerned about the small teaspoon of salt I put in, or rather the type of salt, I didn't realise it was quite so gradulated, I really should be putting fine grains in there, especially since I don't have proper beaters right now. I think it'll be OK though.

In other news, today is Nelson Mandela's 94th birthday! Happy Birthday to a great man! :O)

And Le Tour is back, they're going into the Pyrennes now and I just saw the strangest markings on the road, I swear it was a whole bunch of sperm. Honestly, the French.

Oh and I discovered that Cadel is still holding out hope he can do something to win the race, I hope so! I haven't managed to spot him yet but I can see Bradley Wiggins because he stands out in that yellow jersey. Come on, Cadel!

And I better sign off here because it's 11pm and I do believe I went to bed a little too late last night, don't want a repeat of that.

Goodnight all!

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8:22pm: So the scientists have began their tests with that big machine...thingie, and we're all still here, so no need to worry about the black holes and whatnot. However, it appears according to the experiment, the Big Bang occurred when two particle beams of light hit each other. If this is so, then where the Hell did those beams come from?

So I'm watching this Medical Stories program and there's this dude on it whose broken his leg so bad it's actually facing the wrong way! OMG WTF? How does that even work? Watching stuff like that makes my person hurt!

Before that was the Crash Unit Investigators about a horrible car accident where this learner driver mounted the curb and knocked down a whole group of people. Anywho, the learner driver was charged with neg driving causing death, but the guy who was teaching her set the accident off by grabbing the wheel (apparently he thought she was taking the corner too wide). Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a totally fucked up thing to do? Not to mention illegal? That's weak.

Anywho, I'm gonna go play Sims 2 now, so here's the meme:

Wednesday Weirdness

18/6/08 (Hey, that's teh_ho's birthday)

1. Have you ever ridden in a stolen car? What would you do if, in the middle of going somewhere, found out that the driver had stolen the car you were riding in?

Hell no! And if I found out I was in a stolen car...uh...I'd freak out quite a bit and want to get the Hell out of there. If it was a close friend I'd ask them what the Hell they thought they were doing! Cripes!

2. What is the most amount of money you've spent in a sex shop or porn store at one time? If you've never been to a porn store or sex shop, why?

N/A. I once joked at about applying for a job in an adult store, if for no other reason than to freak out customers - I mean you couldn't find anyone less likely to work in an adult store than me!

3. What is the most annoying thing about one of your closest friends?

Their pacing, it really is pretty dang annoying, it also makes me dizzy.

4. Have you ever taken someone's prescription medication with or without them knowing and used it for recreational purposes?

No, but I have taken medicine not prescribed to me...I don't recommend it, frankly.

5. What is at least one thing you are you insecure about?

My prospects in this job, gulp!

6. What are some things that you prefer to do alone?

Errr...dunno, surf the net, I suppose.

7. How would you react if you found out the anonymous babe who writes all your favorite sexy posts on her blog is really your mother?

Be completely and utterly grossed out, then stop visiting said blog because eww...

OK, right, gotta haul ass otherwise I won't have a chance to play any Sims 2.

Goodnight all.

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11:14pm: And ZOMG! Look at the time, it's a hell of a lot later than I thought, so much for getting enough sleep because I'm at my parents' place...

Well, anyway, I'll make this quick - today I took the afternoon off so I could go into the city and see Pope Benedict's boat-a-cade and them motorcade (complete with Pope Mobile).

I didn't get primo seats for the boat-a-cade, but I got a pretty good view, although I couldn't spot him on the boat. I took a video anyway, once I upload it to my computer I might be able to spot him. :O)

Then I went to view the motorcade, unfortunately I didn't think about how long it might be...I figured about half an hour...As it turned out, it was more like two!

He did come by in the Pope Mobile though, which has a numberplate! (Better not rob a Bank in that one, LOL, easy to spot) However, I'm still not sure how to work the Boss's camera and I decided rather than try and take a picture, I'd film it. I got it to record, but it only did so for 10 seconds, just enough time to catch just about everyone in the motorcade except for the Pope himself, do'h!

I decided all was not lost though, there was still a chance to catch him later on in the motorcade up on Elizabeth St. So off I headed!

I got there in time, but alas, there were so many people there I couldn't get my camera to focus, so once again I saw the Pope pass by, but no pictorial evidence.

Although, one of the pilgrims had a good video camera and took lots of footage of the main event, so hopefully Dad will be able to upload that somewhere...good stuff.

Hopefully the Sydney Morning Hearld will have good photos of the boat-a/motorcade tomorrow, but as for now...bed calls!

I shall Meme tomorrow.

Goodnight to you all.

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10:18pm: You know what hurts like Hell?

This sore throat of mine.

And those lozenges seriously don't work worth a damn once you've finished sucking them and paracetamol didn't really do that well either. Trying to get to sleep last night was horrible, every time I swallowed it felt like razor blades going down, and let me tell you it isn't until something like this that you realise just how much a person does swallow. Totally lame... I'm hoping that I'll do better tonight, especially since I'm going to bed later than usual.

The reason for that is that I had to drive Mum home from the Executive Committee Meeting, which only finished at 9:30.

So, I'm updating this from my parent's house, which does mean I can get up later in the morning, but not too much later, so I shouldn't dilly-dally too much here.

So yeah, this sore throat really made work a pain in the ass, I spent most of the morning clutching my throat because that of all things seemed to make it feel a bit better. Well, that and drinking water.

Finally, the Boss told me to gargle some aspirin, but not swallow it (seeing as aspirin isn't particularly good for one's stomach). Now, I've done that before and the problem with not swallowing said aspirin, is the affect only lasts for about 10 or 20 minutes, and then it only makes it bearable.

But it seems the sore throat is something that you can only get to being bearable status, because I asked around at Pharmacies this afternoon and about the only advice they could offer me was to suck a Strepsil and take paracetamol. Lame.

Yeah, so that's about all I have to say for today, although I went to pay a bill just now and noticed that Amazon has taken out the cost of the book I ordered online, I hope this means the book is on the way! Excitement! :O)

In closing I'd like to say Robert Mugabe is a complete dick and I wouldn't mind kicking him in the crotch.

And it's rather weak that we went into Iraq and Afghanistan and the US is threatening Iran, but no-one will threaten Mugabe's ass. Although, a military solution problem isn't a good idea...sure wish we could do something about the jerk though.

Anywho, the time is late, so I shall be off.

Goodnight to you all.

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6:54pm: Indeed! Which is a bit embarrassing because Alexander Downer (an asshat from the old Government) is one. I don't want to be associated with that guy!

But yeah I don't want Australia to become no freakin' republic. Apart from anything else, it seems like a big waste of time. I mean, it's not like the Queen comes down here and takes our money or anything like that. If we go republic we'll have to change all our money - which will cost a heap! And they might change the flag (and believe you me, when they had a competition to design a new flag back during the Republician debate in 1996 - they were horrifying!)

So yeah this seems to be a case of change for change's sake. Like there's no good reason to do it, but it'll make us feel cool.

Won't make me feel cool though! I'll be really sad if we go republic, all our British ties severed! George III would be so bummed!

It's Queen Elizabeth's birthday today actually, she's the oldest British monarch (actually she passed that milestone a while back), but she still has a few more years to go before surpassing the record set by Queen Vic's reign.

I'm reporting all this from my apartment. It's nice to be back although the antispetic I accidentally spilt on the stove the other day stunk the place out.

And alas I was still rather uncomfortable going over the Bridge or not so much the bridge, but the approach to said Bridge. Don't know what that's all about, but I've borrowed some interesting books from Stanton Library on overcoming panic attacks. I'm hoping they'll give me some tips.

In other news, this carrot taste absolutely gross, which is bad because there's still a pack of them left in the fridge. Cucumber doesn't taste that great either... Hopefully the sausages are all right, how long can you keep those anyway?

And I got rid of the milk, I'm not actually sure if it was off, but it tasted kinda dodgy.

The Pope has been in the US this week, and I've found it rather offensive that all the news stations except SBS and ABC here in Aus is providing him with subtitles. He has an ever accent, but it's not unintelligible.

( Anywho, let's have some Memes )

Opps, I got distracted doing other stuff so that's why this entry has taken so long. But now I have websites to go, stuff to read and so, I will be off.

Ta-ta for now!

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