all made up with nowhere to go

Two entries, in one day, what the heckie??

I thought I'd put the meme stuff separate from everything else, just to make it a bit smoother/less of a massive entry. I had been going to post the meme post earlier in the week, but then real life happened!

There is Some Stuff going on at work that I don't really want to talk about yet, except from my work friend, Katy, is leaving and I am really sad! But she's going to what is literally her dream job, for an actual living wage, and I am very pleased for her.

I had an interview this Friday just gone, for an extremely similar job to the one I'm already doing. It's almost four times as many hours as I'm doing right now, although the pay is the same. But more hours would be good! I don't know that I will get it, but the interview went all right, I thought, and it's all experience for the next one!

I bought a bunch of art supplies that I needed/didn't need which ended up including Too Many Gel Pens, but in my defence, some of them of were dirt cheap! I got seven Zebra gel pens for £1.78! That's a bargain! (this is the type I got, but I got a set of three, and a set of four, not a big multipack. Though I want a big multipack now, drat it).

I also finally got some gesso, for my canvases, and because I discovered a whole bunch of paintings that I don't like any more, so want to paint over. So I'm going to do that. And then paint stuff I do like on top of them! \o/

I have also bought my first Posca pens! Just in a basic black and white, for outlining stuff, or maybe doing monochrome pictures, we'll see. I really want one of the pastel multipacks, but I can't justify the price of them to myself (I know it's because they're imported, but blehhhhh).

I find it absolutely hilarious, in some ways, that Posca pens are the in thing with a lot of artists in the past few years, as I remember seeing them in stationery catalogues when I was younger, but not really knowing what they were for (not art, not back in the mid-nineties). And then when people started posting art with them on the internet, I was like, omg, those are still around???

I have also just bought myself an Animal Crossing jigsaw puzzle, as I saw one the other day while mooching around pre-interview, and I was like, "even though this is in a cheap place, I have already spent a lot of money, and cannot justify it to myself!" And then I went and bought it online this morning, because the chances of me getting back to that shop and it being in stock still are minimal. Anyway, it was this one, primarily because it has Beau on it, and I am a sucker. (Now I look at it again, I see all the animals on there are some of my fave villagers, so YAY).

I've been looking for a nice jigsaw to do since chatting a bit to honigfrosch about them, but most of the ones I've seen either at work or in shops have been downright twee, or just a subject I'm not interested in. Until now!

I think this is a long enough entry for now, and I don't think y'all really need to know about the table I got from work, or the roast chicken I cooked, so I shall end this here! (I did want to talk about Diablo III, but that can wait till later!)