Rebooting this again then :p
I'm currently setting up the collab layout to get ready to export to Procreate for background stuff :D
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Rebooting this again then :p
I'm currently setting up the collab layout to get ready to export to Procreate for background stuff :D
I'm at my parents, they're off to a funeral, and when they get back, we're going to Holland to do some shopping for things I'll take back to the UK.
This poor collab, lol.
I'm at work r.n. because I'm a model employee messing around on my phone :p
Although they do somewhat owe me, I have barely started my Christmas shopping because I have been working 6 days a week for the last 2 weeks on a year-end project. Nothing like being overworked for the holidays!
Don't remind me :headache:Quote:
Originally Posted by cleargreenwater
I'm taking a break from commission work to play some horse game, then start prepping for Big Laundry Day tomorrow. Then go back to the commission :P So much to do, such little tiiime. I was so stressed out today I cancelled an event with my theatre people, even though I promised myself I'd make the effort to go. Hnngh. Rather be not stressed for Christmas I guess, but it still feels like a failure.
Being on hold with Eurostar. Because of the lovely French people, once again, our Eurostar to go home next week has been cancelled.
No response via mail, twitter or phone to change it.
Should be a free change or trains, but the app is telling me to pay 144 € extra, so they haven't updated any of their systems.
And I ain't waiting until next week Saturday itself to get it changed at the station, by then every single train leaving that day will be full.
Hope you're able to secure a ticket in advance, next weekend is going to be a zoo for travelling D:Quote:
Originally Posted by nathalie
I am about to go wrap gifts.
Yeah, it took them about 4 hours to have their systems updated so we could change it for free via app/website.
They really shouldn't put that online at 9am which trains are cancelled, and then tell everyone on twitter and FB "change it now for free", while it took almost 4 hours to actually be able to do that.
And once we did change it, suddenly everyone is responding on twitter & fb, and getting text and mails saying the train's cancelled.
Jeeshhhhhh ......
Sorted now, the Eurostar an hour earlier -is- going, so we took that one.
Watching some Neighbours (duh).
Adam ordered a new phone yesterday, went to the next town to pick it up and had a stroll (pokemon walk).
Now, going to get chicken, as New Year's Eve dinner, hehe, watch some movies, and a little before midnight, walk to the bridge nearby as you can see all the fireworks perfectly from up there.
Happy New Year everyone!
Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays! :munch:
I'm finally back home after two weeks away. I would have liked to have stayed at my parents' for longer, but I needed to get back to keep up the job search and set up a theatre show :cringe: At the moment I'm taking care of some e-mails and other fun administration. Eating a Curlywurly to keep my spirits up :P
I did enjoy my holiday, even though I'm working though.
Right now I just woke up thinking what game to play. ;)
Happy New Year! Hope you all had a great time!:)
I've been down with flu since Christmas so it hasn't been much fun. But it could be worse I suppose. Slowly recovering, at last.:zzz:
Now time to read a bit before sleeping.
I am currently thinking about food.
What was it that you guys said was good at Panda Express? That whole part of the thread got wiped out and things at work are finally calming down enough that I can take lunches again, time to make plans! X)
Panda Express is soooo good!Quote:
Originally Posted by cleargreenwater
It's so yummy and cheap!
(I got food for like, 8 $, and ate the next day from it too! In Belgium/NL/UK I pay like, 25 $ and usually eat it all in one evening, lol)
mmmmm orange chicken ...
Mentally preparing to tackle some values for a research paper, that's certainly going to give me a headache.:p
But yeah, has to happen.
Cooling down after a long evening at the theatre. The company is prepping for opening night which is in just five daaaays ahhhhhhh! The show is coming together bit by bit... I'm still a bit worn out from the 14-hour rehearsal yesterday, so this is one of the rare times I'm happy to be otherwise out of work, hahaha~
Long hours, that sounds rough!:\
It must really give you an interesting view of the theatre though? Any interesting plays?:smile3:
These two rehearsal weeks before opening night are definitely the most gruelling. We're just an amateur bunch, but it's still a company of over 70 people and lots of things need doing in the weeks we have access to our stage before we actually open :cringe: I run and program our 20+ stage lights, so I definitely get the most interesting view, hehe :D We rent the theatre for about 1½ months, and it's just us during that time, but our musical/comedy/spex/whatchamacallit is definitely the most interesting thing that happens there every year ;D
Today is my first day off from the theatre in over a week, so today/tonight I'm taking care of such fun stuff as laundry, dishes and cleaning.
Setting up an account at a catsitting website.
Since finding an actual job is just as big of a joke as when I lived in Belgium, maybe this can help me get a few £ once in a while.
And I've started to watch very old Neighbours episodes, and hadn't watched any for a while, so watching a few right now/today.
All my stuff is in storage.
The price they were asking was an absolute joke. No decent service from their end, put up the price twice within 10 months, so we had enough.
One opened last month, in town, instead of 30 minute ride where the stuff was now, and, 90 £ per month cheaper :o Reason enough to move the stuff out.
So we done that today.
Was at it since 9am, were done at about 5pm, then went to go and eat something, and treat the helpers, and just got back (8pm now).
And I'm sooooooo feeling it.
Anxiety is massive. Had to leave half my dinner (thank God for doggy bags thoug), as I just got so sick.
Glad it's over. And hopefully never ever need to do this again, unless we find an actual appartment to move into.
Sounds like a tough day! Well done for getting through it :)
I've applied for 10 jobs today, bringing my total up to 40 in the past few months. I get roughly one interview a month, and everyone says the same thing: "You did great! We really liked meeting you, buut... we picked someone else for the position. Sorry! Good luck!"
So sick of it :pumbaasick: Makes me feel like I'm good, just never good enough~
I hear you.
Went to a job agency on Tuesday, for a receptionist job, a very good job, loads of different tasks.
Full time, in town, 5 minute walk.
Instead I'm walking out (almost), with a temp job for a month "copy typing".
Next town, 50 minute travel, and by train.
Are you kidding me? Over the phone all great and all, but once they see me "eww no, can't put that at reception".
So, first I'm great, got the skills, the experience, but then you take 1 look at me, the way I look, or dress, and that automatically makes me a dumbass in your eyes?
As that's kind of what it comes down to.
I felt so humiliated :(
Especially, since the girl who was contacting me over the phone and e-mail, couldn't even change certain things in the standard mail they sent out to people, and her phrases were build very wrong, and full of typo's.
Like: girl, I SHOULD BE DOING YOUR JOB!!!
She asked me on Monday over the phone to go to their website to fill out all kinds of info.
Personal stuff, work stuff, etc ...
I get there on Tuesday "please fill this out": all the same things I had done the day before online, they wanted it written too now.
= THE EXACT SAME THINGS THAT ARE ON MY CV = WHICH SHE HAD IN HER HAND!!
I'm barerely out the door, and she mails me ?? "can you please go online again and fill out more things".
I mail back that I done everything it asked from me "no, address and date of birth".
Oh, you mean: WHAT I JUST WROTE DOWN ON THE PAPERS YOU GAVE ME ???
An absolute joke.
Sorry, I really needed to vent and get this out, I've been so upset since I got back home from that "appointment".
I've never felt this bad coming from a job agency. 36 years old, feeling so humiliated, by knowing I'm good enough, but they take one look at you, and all they can offer is the crap jobs.
Wow, Nathalie that sounds absolutely disgusting...I’m sorry you had to deal with such awful and unprofessional folk.:\
I wish best of luck to both you and Kanu on the job searching. It can be so challenging and nerve wrecking, but don’t let them get to you.:hugs:
I should get on the job searching soon as well. There are a few setbacks at the moment. In general, the last 2 months have been very trying and there’s been a lot to deal with on different levels. Somedays I feel like I can’t even process it all anymore. And it’s not going to get better until after June it seems.
One positive thing is, that if all goes well, in about a month we’re going to move to a place of our own. :D I definately won’t miss our 20 square meter studio.
I've been in the "job hunt business" ever since 2003 (I've only managed to have a job for about 5 years in total since then), so I am used to being treated not so well by the girls working in these job offices. (the guys are usually a lot nicer to work with, the girls usually just look down on you anyways).
But this time now, it completely threw me off for days, I was so upset.
I did have a job interview 5 min away, 2 weeks ago, but, off course, no call back.
Story of my life.
Hopefully things will get better for you before June! We've only just entered March.
Just came back from fhe supermarket. Pasta and rice shelf: empty. Toilet paper shelf: empty. In general, half empty supermarket. It's really like there's war or something with the coronavirus frenzy.:blah:
For a price, I'll come and slap sense into people :lol:
Seeing that here as well. The pasta shelf was picked clean, beans and lentils were almost gone and eggs too. Also meatballs were scarce, who would have thought :lol: There's lots of gluten free pasta still though because it's stocked in a different part of the shop, so I'm all good, hahaha~
I'm doing another theatre gig this weekend and so far we're doing good. The audience is much more scarce than usual though, for obvious reasons, which is a shame because the group we're helping only puts up their show every other year. Right now I'm "cooling down" before going to bed, so I can get up and do the show again tomorrow :zzz:
And in this "time of need", people still, don't want Soya milk or Soya pudding :lol:
(the pudding ain't that bad really, since it's flavoured)
Hey, I didn't know you were gluten free, me too! Only as of this summer. I'm not super strict with it because for me it's a choice not an allergy, but I have psoriasis and mild psoriatic arthritis and boy do I notice a difference in both the rash and the tendonitis. Its annoying as hell but that's a good incentive so I try to stick with it as much as possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by KanuTGL
I feel really bad for so many small community groups. These fundraisers mean so much, I know historical society events have been dropping like flies here, too :-/ And when school groups visit museums they make a donation to the museum, so with schools being closed they're losing out on that too. I hope this isn't the final nail in the coffin for some of these small places.
Right now I just came back from the grocery store. Apparently Jello is one of those things you have to stock up on because all I could find was strawberry flavor. I'm going for oral surgery on Tuesday and wont be able to eat normally for a week or two, it figures I have to buy this stuff now :rolleyes:
Oh! Welcome to the gluten free club :lol: I have a fairly mild case of Coeliac disease and it was only confirmed a few years ago. It's enough to give me issues if I eat the stuff regularly, but I can cheat sometimes without feeling anything if I reeally want the something with gluten in it :timonredface:Quote:
Originally Posted by cleargreenwater
Yeah, that's a really depressing aspect of this whole thing. I really hope those smaller groups are able to recover somehow after the worst is over :/Quote:
Originally Posted by cleargreenwater
Good luck with the surgery too! Hope it goes well o:
Hope nothing to bad CGW.
So over people wining 'my kids are devastated we aren't going to Disney' and 'oh no, Broadway is closed, how will I survive without going to a show'
It's not what anyone wanted, obviously, but there's just nothing we can do about it.
And if this is what needs to be done, then so be it.
It is what it is.
We just have to make do now.
I've been up since 5. It's almost 8 now.
Might as well go to the grocery store early today, see if that changes anything in getting the stuff we need.
Since everything is gone daily, I have had to go back daily to check *sigh*.
Naw nothing big, still with the stupid tooth abscess. They couldn't do a regular root canal on it because the tooth was dead for so long it the canal filled back in with calcium. I was supposed to get the oral surgery last week but they cancelled it from all this virus craziness, so I'll have to do it some other time. The tooth doesn't hurt a bit, I only need it for the abscess anyway. I feel like I dodged the executioner LOL.
Right now I am getting ready to work from home tomorrow for the first time ever. I just got the laptop & printer set up, now I have to find a place for all my crap on a plastic folding table!
I am staring day 2 of working from home.
This s--- is weird. But the dog is a nice perk!
It takes so much self discipline to work from home, which I don't have, haha. Since I already have 0 attention span, even when being in an office is extremely difficult for me.
I used to work from home once in a while back in the day, and it was tough.
Good luck!
I've been to the store the last time today for hopefully at least 7-9 days now.
We were struggling so much to get enough food, I had to back every day to check.
I've gotten a real scare too now, so my anxiety is sky high and I've been feeling very bad (not sick, but like, anxious and all that) since yesterday.
Because no one cared over here, and all the nutcases taken all the food, I've put myself in danger, because we needed food.
Only today things were different! Tape in the store where to stand, not many in store either, stacked shelves! I hadn't seen toilet paper in that store for 14 days!
I cannot believe it actually took a speech from the prime minister for people to listen how bad this is.
Like, they didn't notice this before that there's a crisis going on? Breathing down your neck even more when standing at the till. INSANE!
Sadly, for me, this feels just like any other day, of sitting at home, not being able to do much :(
Chances of me finding a job now are completely gone for the rest of the year.
Yeah, the self-isolation thing isn't really out of the ordinary from how my past year has been anyway :licks: Just normal routine, ha. I went shopping yesterday though and I too managed to find toilet paper in the store :lol: The stockpiling here has been really specific, so except for a few items - like toilet paper and pasta - the shelves have been stocked as normal. That feels comforting somehow. The situation feels pretty calm in Sweden overall still, even though the amount of confirmed cases is rising steadily. Our government is still handling this pretty differently from a lot of other countries, and so far so good I suppose.
Our prime minister addressed the nation on Sunday, which hasn't happened since the election of 2008, and didn't announce any lockdowns, like I was sure he would. Instead he told everyone that we are all personally responsible for the days to come... "Once in a generation there will be a time when you have to make sacrifices for not only yourself, but for the people around you and for our nation. That time is now. That day has come." I hope it resonated with people, because everyone outside of the capital are furious at the self-entitled Stockholmian brats who are still going on their skiing holidays in the north, despite Stockholm being the Swedish epicentre of the outbreak -_-
And same about job applications. No one is recruiting actively at the moment, for obvious reasons, so who knows how that will go come June, when I run out of unemployment insurance funds :rolleyes:
Currently I'm otherwise procrastinating a bunch of house chores I've planned today... (I just don't understand how the kitchen becomes such a mess so quickly... :stick: )
I haven't had benefits since February last year. So this, is going to make us struggle.
The "good thing" is, that we were supposed to go to the beach now, we can't, so we can't spend any money there, mainly on food that we would eat locally (pizzaria, things like that).
Who cooks when on holidays? lol
Disney could get cancelled. It was our last trip before our passes would expire, including The Lion King festival. Even if it would be safe to open again, the festival wouldn't happen.
But, if Disney gets cancelled, then that's a good chunck of money we'll get refunded also.
And, again a week to the beach in June.
We also wanted to surprise my parents, and go to Belgium for a few days end of August, who knows, that could maybe work, but if not, again, money saved from that.
I love Adam, but for the next forseeable future, being stuck in this room, don't hate me, when I end up killing him :lol: j/k off course :p
Haha, now be nice! :lol:
The situation took a turn for the worse here this evening with a lot of new cases and deaths and now I honestly want the government to put Stockholm on lockdown - almost 50% of our total cases are over there and we know they'll just keep spreading it to the rest of us even faster if we allow them to leave for the goddamned Easter holidays because their attitudes are awful -_- Sigh.
Listening to some music and thinking about doodling a bit before bed... I have to leave the house again for a meeting tomorrow and I don't waaanna.
Having some coffee, still waking up.:zzz:
I've been trying to avoid most social media lately and reading the news, because it only makes me depressed and paranoid. Lea feels safe and different in that aspect. I hope every one of you is doing fine.
Also, there seems to be an unusual number of visitors lately, I wonder if it's bots.:\
What am I doing right now? just pissed off that I'm one of the bread zombies looking for a bread for my sick mother. There's literally no bread in my area and hey.... look a snack :lol::lol::lol::lol:
Hugs for all of you :hugs: I definitely agree we should spend more time here.
I'm listening through the first audio mixes of the recorded songs from our shows back in February <3 It's such a boost tonight to hear them again, and they sound really good too, haha!
Guntur, I hope your mother will be fine! Be strong everyone.:hugs:
Preparing to work on a commission here, after playing some Vermintide with some friends. Those game sessions are usually a lot of fun, so many silly jokes.:lol: