2nd interview here we go ๐ค
Edit: waited 15 mins but guy didnโt attend the teams meeting. Emailed recruiter so weโll see what happened.
Edit 2: miscommunication all good for tomorrow!
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You still turned up even if it's online so that looks good for you
For sure. He emailed back and apologied and the message from the recruiter was a very strong "yes they definitely want to speak to you".
Solid weekend, bit of grief still hanging around but overall spirits were positive.
Hope everyone is in a good mood today.
YL goes for her drivers licence tomorrow and we are 99% sure she's got it this time. It's exciting times.
Good stuff!!!! P plates? My daughter got her L's last year and has been very slack in driving. Very slack.
Best of luck to YL...
so many hugs
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Hope you feel better soon ๐ซถ๐ซถ
Thanks we're over the shock of it, and just processing slowly now. Little things serve as reminders and our routine is a bit off, but better overall.
Yeah there is no way I am going anywhere today. Still sick and waking up every hour of the night. I shall try to stay awake now so I don't fuck up my sleep schedule but it's been shit.
Her majesty's nest has been restored.
cats be crazy ๐ฅฐ
Thankyou Melba for the post
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Oookay. I found a plastic palette knife that actually was the right shape and had some matte medium to thin some white acrylic. 3 inch, one inch and fan brushes too. So I decided to give the Bob Ross method a try.
It wasnโt bad... I made a passable painting (which does NOT reflect on my skills) but believe me when I say you really do need to use the materials he says to.
spoiler
The wet base wasnโt as much of a problem as expected. I used heaps of medium with a little titanium white and applied it excessively as a base because I knew of the tendency of boards to absorb moisture and acrylic to dry very fast. Thankfully it was enough.
Blending was hard. Very streaky, brushstrokes galore, I had to blend very gently to minimise them. Especially with synthetic brushes. Many hairs and pieces of dirt to pick off with the corner of the brush.
The clouds ended up blobby and smeary cotton balls because the paint was too thin and wet.
Again, the paint was too thin and wet to โbreakโ on the highlights of the mountains and give the desired texture. As you can see I gave up halfway.
I couldnโt get nicely detailed trees or give the highlights on the trees enough definition because it was hard to get the brush dry enough to give thin clumps of bristles with concentrated pigment. I gave up.
There is a reason Bob Ross beats his paintbrushes so viciously. Itโs because of the moisture that is so hard to completely get out and will badly mess with your painting.
Wayward drips removed paint from the sky. And as I tried to paint the ground and then to highlight the ground, instead of applying paint the brush removed the paint beneath it. I blobbed brown on to get the dirt down but had to do the same for the highlights because the alternative was the brush taking off everything beneath it.
I almost didnโt want to post this because of embarrassment but wanted to show what happens when you use inappropriate materials.
I didnโt finish this so much as give up in disgust. I hate the smeary blobby clouds the most. Trust me if I had had thick dry pigment they would have looked very different.
Also MELBCAT STEPPED ON THE PAINT PALETTE
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Thank you for posting Melba ๐
Woolies would like to remind you that Christmas is only 4 months away and it's time to start thinking about spending season.
I think they're just trying to dump stock early. At least I hope so.
Turns out I have income protection insurance through super. That should help a lot.
That's only if you're off due to injury or illness, doesn't protect you from unrelated job loss
You can buy insurance from being made redundant, but it's bloody expensive.
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With this could you take sick leave for mental health or undisclosed reasons to get the insurance and spend that time job searching? Just wondering how it works
In theory yes, but there is generally a 90 day (could be different but this is most common) waiting period before payments kick in - and it's not backdated. So it's really only useful if it's an extended absence, and you have enough to get by for a few months without income
Yeah just looked into it more :(
Time to jump off a bridge I supposeโฆ
Yarrabyte on a bender.
Beach. ๐
Today I found a little mushroom coral. There were lots of happy people at the beach, having picnics or playing games or just chillin and the weather was lovely ๐
Mental struggle street today. Not sure what's going on, but fighting the urge to just run away. Found myself browsing flight prices. You can't run away from yourself though.
Thatโs a mood. But where would I go (and wherever you go thereโs the same issues)
actualleee, going somewhere else is called geographic solution by psychs and it can be quite effective
we won't encounter as many triggers, anyone who was abusive won't be there , the relief from these stressors gives us breathing space, a rest, and that can give us the energy to understand people and events around us
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I intended on having a quiet weekend but instead had to go up and down slides at a play centre then shepherd the kids around the city. I don't feel as sick but I feel like I've had a massive gym session now
View from the kitchen window. Am starting to feel like Tippi Hedrenโฆ
is there a telephone booth nearby?
A friend and I have been asking each other each week what we're looking forward to this week, and I wanted to do it with more people! So, what are you bunch looking forward to this week?
Heading down the beach hopefully Thurs. for a day or two off.
Getting a cheapo metal file to reshape and sharpen an axe and refurbishing the handle.
Chopping wood lol.
Also getting a new fast 'puter and building that but the axe is more exciting.
Watching the new Naked Gun this weekend (day and time undecided)
Trying a new pizza dough recipe for Friday's dinner
Catching up with a former colleague for coffee this week
Putting in 3-4 solid days on the mats in the gym
Itโs basic but just having a regular week where I can move more freely. Going back to social sports after a few weeks off. Last week was awful from my back injury and the constant pain.
Band rehearsal, job applications (oddly lol), maybe a night out on the weekend on the cheap.
Pilates tonight
New shoes that have just been delivered
Crumpets for work lunch in the new toaster. This was previously a toaster-free workplace, so strange.
Roast potatoes
A free weekend.
getting my dairy and bread free diet sorted, I'm nearly there
finishing painting some furniture
doing some reading
designing a vegie garden
going on some more hikes ๐
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Life is really tough. Iโm trying to take it day by day, rest a lot, and think about other things.
Art rambles
Iโm trying to break this art block by drawing small things. Little exercises/doodles. Iโm doing so little and stressing so much. I donโt know how this was so easy and automatic when younger.
The Bob Ross painting method looks fun and easy, much less rigorous than drawing or traditional painting. But when you look into it the actual materials and tools arenโt very accessible.
The palette knife is a particular style and proprietary. It can be bought in Australia but is like $30.
The magic white is proprietary but can be duplicated by diluting titanium white in linseed oil. However I donโt want to work with linseed oil due to the risk of spontaneous combustion of the rags, and donโt want to use turps in the house around Melbcat. Mineral spirits is also something I donโt want in the house.
I donโt know how Iโd go about getting paint that is thick and dry enough without hunting down a particular substitute which could be expensive.
I considered water based oil paints but they are softer/spongier and donโt cure well, are much more expensive than straight up oil paints, and I donโt know what medium is appropriate to thin them.
Wet on wet with acrylic has been tried by others but itโs not suited to the purpose and involves a lot of additives like thinning mediums and drying retardants that would add to the cost.
Thatโs all without getting appropriate canvases. It needs to be stretched rather than a board (which would suck up all the moisture) and not treated with gesso (same result).
Itโs fine, Iโd probably just be too lazy anyway
it doesn't have to be perfect
use daiso paints, really cheap, very good, and it's not a problem if you waste it, the daiso paper is also very good
many op shops have unused art supplies too
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A bit windy out there. Wind + van on the Western Fwy gives an extra challenge to the drive. Seeing all the lights in the city is rather pretty, as is the view off the West Gate Bridge. The flashing lights of the emergency vehicles attending an accident were also rather pretty, although I suspect the drivers of the cars involved didn't really appreciate the effect (looked pretty minor, lots of dents and inconvenience rather than trapped inside mangled wreckage type accident).
Driving down the Fwy at night is always fun, especially in patches where there are no cars in front of you. Something about the lack of reference points starts to give me the feeling that I'm sitting still and everything outside is moving, or like it's a video game.
Toasted lamb & vegie roll for lunch was delicious. The kiwifruit & chili chutney is really good on that sort of thing, adds just a bit of kick with the chili and pulls all the flavours together really well.
Also painting here, just finished the first coat of the chair of the vintage bedroom suite. It was fiddly.
2nd coat done ๐
Well done you. I used to repair and paint salvaged furniture (before all this) and the painting is very fiddly
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