Like a dandelion up through the pavement, I persist

So I heard back from yarn shop #2 on Saturday and I didn't get the job, unfortunately.

I just had my second interview with yarn shop #1 a little while ago. I don't really have a sense of how it went, but I am one of three candidates they are choosing between now. I'll know in the next couple of days.

So good news: the first yarn shop got back in touch with me and wants to interview me again on Monday. I have the interview with the second yarn shop tomorrow morning and I think I have everything done that I need to do to prepare. I'm very hopeful that I will get one of the jobs and, if I'm very lucky, I might get to have my pick between the two of them.

I had my cello lesson again today and my teacher found the notes I had made on my practice log really useful. She also looked at a bassline I had written for Body and Soul, which I am learning in my singing class, with the aim to be able to accompany myself and she's transposing it into A minor for me. There were too many stretches in the original key for my to play at this stage in my studies. She's really so generous with her time and so invested in her students. I feel very lucky to be learning from her.

In other news, in the spirit of Community Thursday (i.e. participate in a community by posting or commenting every Thursday), which was proposed by goodbyebird as a challenge, I commented over on journalsandplanners for day 3 of their snowflake inspired challenge and checked in over at get_knitted. My sock is coming along. I am past the gusset decreases now and on to the straight part of the foot.

In other-other (related) news, I will know tomorrow if I will get another interview for the position at the yarn shop. I'm pretty nervous to be honest. I do think I'm an ideal candidate for the job, but I worry that maybe they won't think I'm a good fit interpersonally or something. But anyway! At least I applied. Nothing ventured and all that.

I've realised that I am two months off having kept up with my bullet journal for a full year now. Granted, there were periods of a few weeks here and there when I didn't pick it up at all, but I have basically been consistently keeping up with it from late April 2021 til now. I'm very impressed with myself! The journal itself is a Star Trek notebook that a friend sent me when I was in hospital and even the fact that I wrote in a notebook for this long is an achievment for me, regardless of the content. I have so many notebooks that have the first ten pages written in and then nothing.

But anyway, it has been a very useful tool, particularly when I talk to my psychiatrist, because I've been keeping track of my mood and habits and I can look back on how well I'm keeping up with my to-do lists which gives me a better insight into how I have been doing than just my own impressions. It's not the most creative or artistic journal, but I am more than okay with that because I think keeping it low maintenance (I use a few markers, fineliners and mild liners for colour and that's it) has been key to its longevity. Also, I'm not keeping it to show Instagram, I'm keeping it to help with my life.

A deck of tarot cards I bought arrived in the post today and I spend some hours colouring the edges with a metallic gold marker.





I got them as a writing tool and I'm looking forward to using them! I shuffled them and drew one card once I got them unwrapped and I drew the two of pentacles, which seems auspicious as one of its secondary meanings relates to writing. Could the time I spent making the cards pretty have been better spent actually writing? Possibly, but consider this: they are prettier now.