Greetings, friends. Today for 3weeks4dreamwidth I bring you not a Kingdom of Knuffel avatar, but a Wild Knuffel. Wild Knuffel are adoptables made by users, for users! Anyone who wants to try their hand at art and use the Knuffel base to draw on can create one, and submit them for release. Once released, other users can adopt them.

Here's one made by user HanafuruLove. When I told her that I'd adopted him, she saw that I'd named him 'Too Cool for Skool' and she found that hilarious



It's possible to click on the preview box above if you're curious about seeing him in his full glory (all the details HanafuruLove added to him!) or if you want to try feeding and playing with him. I love his tattoos, piercings and of course, his skateboard. The expression on his face speaks volumes

My family returned to the house yesterday, and today I was surprised by the enormity of the rage and resentment I feel towards them. They hired a cleaning service, and the cleaner emptied the mopping water in the utility area which is where the dishes are (I like the dishes to be kept and washed in the sink, but my family prefers the dishes out in the utility area). The dishes were on the floor near the drain, and the mopping water was emptied on the floor near the drain.

I was telling my grandma that either the dishes have to be kept in the sink or the mopping water has to be emptied somewhere else, and it was a whole stretched-out conversation because my grandma talks over people and I was having to say things over and over to get her to listen. In the midst of this my aunt told me to quieten because they were booking tickets, but I wouldn't have to louden in the first place if they didn't loudly talk over people.

The dishes were washed later, but just the fact that water which is 1) dirty and 2) has floor cleaner in it had swilled around them, is enough to make me anxious about eating.

Oh, and my grandpa asked me whether I'm searching for jobs. I said yes just to fob him off. But it started me raging in my head about how if they want me to do a job so bad they should have supported me when I was offered one.

I recently went to an in-person job interview for a gallery assistant position. They asked me what I was 'expecting' to be paid. I said I had come here with an open mind and asked them what their pay range was; they ignored me. They asked me what my previous salary had been. I told them, and again I asked them what they were paying. Apparently they thought they didn't need to answer any of my questions while expecting me to answer all of theirs. They told me to come for a second in-person interview, and I emailed them saying that I was withdrawing my application because they were refusing to answer any of my questions. They emailed me back saying they were rejecting my application (even though I'd already withdrawn it! lol) because my salary expectations were higher than the budget for the position. The audacity to email me that after refusing to tell me what the budget for the position was! Bald-faced liars, the lot of them. It is amusing that they said 'no we are rejecting your application, you're not withdrawing' because it reminds me of guys who get rejected and then insist that they are rejecting you actually, and they didn't want you anyway.

All of which to say that I've been silently fuming, so here I am verbally fuming instead. Which is an improvement.

I've got an upset tummy and have had to cancel tomorrow's plans, which involved having Nikki over to hang out (our last chance to have the house to ourselves before my grandparents return this weekend).

Also, I found out today that my K-pop darlings, CIX, are disbanding. I have deliberately paced myself so that I still have lots of their old videos and past media to savour, but I'll eventually have watched everything... and, well. I knew their contracts were up but this is the first time I'm experiencing this. I've been a k-pop fan for a decade and seen disbandments, but this is the first time it's happening with my faves. My other faves are ATEEZ who have all renewed after their first contract's duration was up, and KaiBaek from EXO who aren't in the same group anymore but are both active and so successful that they'll likely continue to be.

My day could've gone better, ha. The silver lining is that I'm getting to rest.