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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Vitamin and mineral content for cat food doesn't exist, just Crude Ash % (which is the % of vitamins and minerals after incineration). I found a whole metric fuckton of vetmed papers detailing the minimum requirements for cats, but no packaging has a breakdown of what vitamins and minerals they contain.
I don't want to google every bloody ingredient.
Interestingly, Fancy Feast and Purina are much more transparent than Dine or Fussy Cat. Thanks Nestle, I guess lol
I feel like my creativity is really suffering. I’ve tried to do more technical art exercises instead, I have really good references ready to go that will help me practice specific things, I have cheap materials I don’t mind burning through and I’m kind of starting to understand the concepts.
I’m just too sad and stressed out to do the work. Which can be repetitive, rigorous and carry the fear of failure.
It’s this stressful depressing environment. I’m constantly fielding other people’s craziness and bullshit to protect myself and have no energy left over for what I actually want to do.
And now a lot of stuff that used to be more stable is changing in unpredictable ways so it kind of worsens it
there is no failure in art
I got a kids harry potter colouring book and got the very first thing wrong and had to do it over. I give no fucks what anyone thinks about that.
otoh, I think you're doing great. You're very creative and experimental , just keep doing what you're doing and you'll get results.
😘😘😘
The ceebs are incredibly high today. Just done with the year. Donezo
I feel like I'm just limping to the finish line at this point.
That walk was a lot… I crashed and woke up now.
Art rambles/what I bought yesterday
Looking over my purchases.
A $3 bottle of fluoro yellow poster paint.
A 30 tube set of beginner/student acrylic paints with 2 canvas boards included. $9 on sale down from $14.
The cheapest mathomat (for drawing circles to shade and drawing radial lines from a vanishing point). $11.
And a cheap set of kids binoculars to watch the maggies from a distance without alarming them. (I’m especially looking out for the one with a broken beak because I’m worried about its wellbeing.) Like $13.
I really wish that I’d just bought the poster paint from the start because painting that square of cardboard used up both my tiny tubes of yellow Anko paint and it’s still translucent and patchy. I’ll go over it again a few times with the cheap fluoro. Doesn’t matter if it’s ugly. Those whiteflies better be lured into these homemade sticky traps. I’m making a bunch.
I have to say it was fun though. Been a bit paralysed to crack into the paints and even a crappy disposable project has taught me how the paint behaves and how I need to work to reduce the appearance of brushstrokes. It might help if I go on to doing stuff like priming surfaces and toned ground.
I bought another paint set because it had very similar yellows to the ones I used up but also it had magenta. A lot of cheap sets leave it out but it’s considered a primary colour and apparently you can’t mix it yourself - you can try but you risk unwanted muddiness. I’m disappointed that it didn’t have a dark brown though. But I have the brown in the Kmart set.
Bit of a mixed bag. There are a fair few secondary and tertiary colours I probably wouldn’t need, a few colours with the proper standard names!!! but I’m not sure if they match up in colour to the official shade. The pthalo blue and ultramarine look really similar, at least in the tube, and the ‘cyan’ looks suspiciously pastel. I need to go double check what it should look like. I do have a little unnamed Anko tube that might be close enough to cyan though.
Hmm… Yeah. There are particular colours I always look for because I know they’re foundational and would get heavy use but even in a big set it doesn’t have all the basics. It is intended for kids.
But still. It was an alright deal. Maybe if I look carefully and do some experimental mixes I can work out which tubes correspond to the standard colours called for. Maybe I just need more experience.
If I can get off my butt and actually use these up/gain some skill then I can budget for some better quality paints and buy the specific colours I want individually. (Which right now would be quite expensive.)
Edit: I’m still half asleep. It’s not cyan but ‘cerulean’ so I will have to pinch hit.
I wish I’d got some gesso. I know cheap materials are false economy but while learning I think even a bargain bin tub of gesso and leftover cardboard would be cheaper than buying canvases.
Office cleaner went absolutely bananas with the cleaning products this morning. Even with the windows open I'm a bit like this
I'll get to see the 'business' side of work today. I think it will be interesting, especially given you'd only usually go to work under unpleasant circumstances. It will be nice to sit in on proceedings knowing they're not about you
Woolrest and pillows washed. Sheets are just going on. Too bad the machine is too small to fit the doona, that'll have to wait for its 6 monthly wash. Windows all open and the place is being aired out. Bracing for tomorrow.
I can't find the stupid Christmas Elf! For the last week or so my son has been making comments about how much he liked the mischief the Elf got up to.
So today I made an effort to locate it as I'm solo-parenting at the moment & need to be prepared for the 1st Dec. And I can't find it! I know it's here somewhere..
I've managed to score a new Elf (he'll be a relative of some sort) and if the old one shows up we'll tackle it then. New Elf is currently hidden in car.
Ooo yeah, it be heating up outside.
There is an internal opportunity at work, right up my alley. The direct report is someone who I've really struggled to like. I can't fit more work on top of study/family/existing work, but its just for 6 months. I am tempted, because opportunity is fleeting and I might be able to slow down the study bit for that period of time.... arrggh. What do I do?
You go for it! You miss 100% of the shots you dont take.
Lol that phrase was painted in the ECA centre at my school 😂
We also graffitied "gotta risk it for the biscuit" on the fence nearby 😂
Personally, unless the pay was significantly higher, i wouldn't risk it. Working with someone I couldn't like would make it that much easier to burn out
No $ per hour increase, just more hours so a pay rise that way.
Last night toddler was dawdling through dinner. I asked him if he was still going and he nodded. I asked him to show me him eating something then. He looked at me like he didnt understand so I gestured eating something. His face lights up in recognition, picks up his fork and starts chewing on the handle.
I mean.... Close enough I guess.
Trying to power through meetings today so I can mow the lawn and have some celebratory beers.
Looks like I'll be done at the damn peak of temperature, but that's okay. It'll make the shower post mowing so much more satisfying.
Oh so nice outside. Nice cool wind.
I am exhausted. Bank delt with and huge delivery of cat stuff rescued from where idiot deliver driver dropped it. Almost a kilometre away. Grrr!
