Wurkin for tha man

It's nice to have a day job. Working 5 days a week is a great way to pass the time until the weekend, however I'm realising I'll have less time for commissions and ActFur than normal, so have ta keep on top of things better in the coming weeks.

They were nice enough to give me an advance on my pay so that I can do things like...pay rent and buy food. The reason for this is that it doesn't take up-to 28 days for a sole-trader ABN to process, it takes EXACTLY 28 days for a sole-trader ABN to process..wooo.
So since they can't pay me the full amount without it they gave me an advance cheque which will hopefully process by tomorrow, fingers crossed.

Otherwise we have a nice lounge set from my Uncle Russel. We finally got rid of all the left-over card-board boxes which have been there for about 2 weeks. And wouldn't you know it I found a use for them the very next day (making levelled shelving for our cupboards whose shelves are quite tall + deep.

This weekend we're heading on out to the Astor, a heritage theatre to see a re-mastered version of Laurence of Arabia. Apparently it was originally shot on 65mm film and shrunk to 35mm for the cinema back then. So it was easy for some wizz bang remastering techs to bump it up to today's 70mm standard. Spielberg and some other Hollywood buffs have been paying out of their own pockets to have the great epic films remastered, so it'll be good to see.

P.S. Anyone catch the Tropfest film festival?

PHASE TWO sort of!

blagh, Eka and Kraden are talking ( more like excitedly shouting ) at Jenera's web cam, making it tricky to concentrate on typing this whatever thing...but now we have the internet so I've stopped banging rocks together like a caveman and I need get some of the travel log stuff down while it's still fresh.

NIGHT BEFORE LEAVING

We had most of our peeps over to take away all our slightly neat junk and go for food at the new 'Burger Got Soul' in Sandy Bay...which was amazingly average btw. It was really nice to have a solid hang out with everyone since before that Eka and I had barely any time to do anything with all the packing and organising and such.

LAST DAY IN HOBART

Cassandra James insanely whisked over to our former place with funky apron and cleaning products in hand to help us desperately scrub the place down to make my landlord happy, an

d it worked ( a note to peeps...clean behind your oven every year or so...not every six years or so...omg ) our buddeh Nikki also arrived just to say her 'hi's and byes' and also ended up helping us clean the place, I have no idea why, what a pair of nice and slightly crazy individuals.

Leaving Hobart turned me into an emotional basket of total wuss-cakes, as it all came crashing down that I'd be gone pretty much for good and even if I did visit or move back down the place in sandy bay is gone for good, It really was my home for the past six years and it's a super weird feeling to up and leave, Me and

Eka scooted to the top of the state in Devonport and crashed over at my Dad's place who was also nice and crazy enough to stay up until 1am, make us delicious toasted sammiches & pie and give us a super comfortable bed to sleep on. (also used for Tabby to hide behind.)

I'm sort of amazed at how supportive and helpful and genuinely nice everyone as been to us, especially considering I'm not exactly the most pleasant person in the world.

I really should resolve to be less of a pain.

THIS STRAIGHT IS PRETTY BASS

The boat ride to Melbourne was really neat, except for the slightly scary steel cage that we had to stick tabby down in the grimy garage deck, but she had her cat box and a blanket and cowered in the tiniest corner of the box she could fit into for the voyage.

She survived okay though.

We slept for about half of the way in our nifty PORTHOLE cabin, which I would totally recommend doing if you are ever boating...btw all the people we talked to about going on trips via boat said this:

Meh: you ever go on the boat?

Peep 01: Yes I have

Meh: Did you use an ocean recliner or get a cabin?

Peep 01: stupid sea chair, it was 9 hours of total boredom, I hate boats forever!

Meh: you ever go on the boat?

Peep 02: Yes I have

Meh: Did you use an ocean recliner or get a cabin?

Peep 02: CABIN SO AWESOME!

After the nap, which we both really really needed we bought some terrible nik-naks from the gifty shop, did some doodling & snackulated. We managed to miss all three of the major meal times and ended up eating left over muffins and croissants...there was no ham or anything left so I had Jam...I've now submitted my application into the dark collective of jam likers...I never liked it as a Kid, but I was always a fussy brat and now I'm...less of a fussy brat....I even ate broccoli once!

here is a doodle-script of one of our discussions as we land mass started to pile up on the horizon

Packing, Trecking and Photos, ohmy~!

We ((Turm & myself,)) are -officially- on the voyage now!

We are currently stopped over @ Turm's dads house, up here in Devonport, the very tip-most point of Tasmania.. ((before it becomes water ^^; ))

Tabbeh, Turm & myself are all super tired as it iz now a very crispy 12:52AM. ((thankyou Turm Daddy n Anna for being awake and feeding us~! \'3 we love you~!))

I wanna keep this update short, but thought I'd pass on that having no camera myself, Cassubah was awesome enough to take some evidence of the second & last day~! :'D

Check this link out for the entire gallery~! ^^-;


PEACE OUT FOR NOW~!
With our internets cut off just before we embark on the majikal sea-faring adventure this'll be the last online ping before we hit *new* Home Base~~~ \'D wish us luck~!


~Carni

Preparing the pad

I agree Turm, your choice of dead Salmon red is most disturbing.

Kind of a double post today since I've got a lot to cover :)

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POST 1 - pre Stuff arrival
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Melbourne is a fantastic vibrant and creative city. If there is any place you want to go to be some kind of artist, poet, hipster, bug, designer, fashionophile or tram-enthusiest, Melbounre is the place to do it.

One of the things I like most about Melbourne is it's transport network. Taking the car can be quicker sure, but a hell of a lot more stressfull. With their new MyKi system you're able to buy a daily ticket and use it on all busses, trains, trams and elephant rides. With two tram lines just outside the street I was staying at the city was at my 20-30 minute doorstep.

STEP 1: Getting ze pad

We've been wanting to move out for a while. After some poor response from property agencies while we were out of town, Turm and Carnival decided to pack me into a suitcase and send me down to house-hunt.

Finding the place wasn't too hard. I just had to be on the ball. Actually I was on the internet house hunting within half an hour of landing at my Uncle's place (don't worry he was encouraging it I didn't ignore him).

I found the ad for our swanky little flat online, called up to ask about getting the key and was told to hold the line as it was just arriving that day. Cha-ching goes the little light bulb above my head. If they don't have the key yet then no-one else has seen it.
The polite lass on the line informed me that the keys had just come in and if I wanted could pick them up the next day. They opened at 9am. I was there on the dot >:D
Turns out I was the first to see it, and first in line with our application form, so being proactive really helps...that and having an uncle willing to put you up for a week or three while you find a house.

So after signing some papers, organising to meet the agent, preparing bond, getting a form incorrectly filled out in Hobart, making calls to Hobart, finding out neither of them were near the fax machine any more and then having the forms magically turn up anyway despite them sending them to the wrong number...we had a house. A big thank you to our lovely overworked agent Anita, she got a box of chocolates which judging by her figure she probably won't eat, but I hope she enjoys looking at.

STEP 2: Prepping ze pad

Once the water had been turned on my friend TN offered to help me clean the place. Not that much work to do apart form some dusting, wiping etc. But it means we had a basic supply of cleaning doo-dads and a blank canvas to work off.

It had been freshly painted and has a renovated bathroom. Awesome.

It's within 1 km of 3 different shopping streets and 2km of a train station. Also awesome.

Due to the renovations we already had some uh....'tennents'.

WE DO NOT APPROVE OF TINY INSECTS!!!

A new challenger appears. MORETEIN BUG BOMB!!!

It was only a few tiny cockroaches and a few spiders. But I felt a lot better about sweeping and cleaning the cupboards once they had been gassed.

Shame I forgot to open a cupboard and the oven.

DIN DING round 2!

So the house has been cleared of insects. Cleaned and polished. And I even picked up a few bare nessesities AND met the neighbours. (Alex and Maria, nice Italian couple that have been there a few years).

SO.

We've got power, gas and water. A clean pad and I may have even picked up a job.

Along with some sexy furniture that I picked up from a place -just down the road-. BOOYAH

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POST 2 - I have things again!!

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It is with a mixture of joy and befudlement that I started unpacking today. I had the day off work for it and the un-removalists arrived almost smack-bang on the time they said they would. Nice chaps too I gave them a bottle of wine for their troubles.

(I would have had some photos of the house in it's current state, but in the moving of my luggage from Uncle Russel's to the flat I also moved my data cable. Ha durp durp).

The joy came from a christmas time three. I had lots of things to un wrap and find out what they were, even if a lot of them were things I already owned. The befuddlement came from where the heck I was going to PUT it all.

Seriously.

My family and friends went to the ends of the earth to make sure I had everything I needed for my new home. Some of the more notable items were

- Not 1 but 2 medical kits (thanks Mum)

- A full set of high quality dinner glassware (Reds, whites, whisky, pimms, tumblers, brandy, beer, crowne beer). The white wine glasses even SING (joy!)

- A spice rack, spices included

- 2 boxes of linen, spiders included.

- A food dehydrator, processor, blender, sandwich press and cavalry sabre.

- More knives, forks and spoons than I ever remember us owning

- A water filter jug (also Joy!)

- Misc kitchen stuffs like chopsticks, ladels, random stabbey doo-dads and something called a CORER (coming to a kitchen near you this Summer Dun dun DUNN).

- Lots of other things. Big and small. Mostly medium and awkwardly shaped.

- no not that awkwardly shaped, shame on you.

My room is pretty small and I'm suddenly realising how useful a hall linen cupboard is since we -don't have one-. So keeping a lot of my stuff in boxes till we buy cupboards and desks will be fine...since I don't really have a choice.

All in all it's a nice flat. Mayor happies to Logan for the temporary donation of a bar fridge so we can have chilled water\food on the hot days. MAAAJOR happies to Sparky for cleaning off all the labels from my furniture. I think it must be his American charm and he just woo-ed the suckers off the wood because I sure as hell couldn't do it. And lovely Wendy too for all the help and BOX CRUSHING and cleaning, you all rockxorb my proverbial boxorbz.

I got our new sound system up and running and played some Final-Fantasy-X on the ol' PS2, while enjoying some Turkish something from Marc around the corner at 'Meze'. (Btw the Chicken Herb fillets from 'The Kitchen' in the same block are Brillsome). Nothing's blown up yet, so I think we're on a good roll :)

My biggest hurdle at the moment is where I put things. Houses have a funny knack of having things of a type stay where you put the first one. So if I don't spend some time thinking about where and why I'm putting the spare plates in that cupboard then they might stay there and take up space for no applicable reason.

But I'm sure Turm and Carni will think I had a darn-tootin good reason to do so...won't you >:D

Guilt Locomotion

There are a few choice words my art teacher at collage bestowed on the class that keep being true, one is 'you haven't met your best friend yet'. Despite being an antisocial so-and-so I've managed to meet a whole bunch of super rad people in the six years I've been living in Hobatia many of them are easily the coolest people I've ever met...I guess I must not be so bad because the general reaction to the move from the crew down here is

Which is sorta nice in a weird kinda way.

So the occasional pang of guilt syncs up with the sound to box taping but it that's okay, that's what the whole October-Halloween-shin-dig was about right?

Anyhow, with a bit of a sniffle Eka and I have to say buh-bye to our awesome Hobart peeps for a massive change of pace, scenery and hopefully a step in the direction of landing something resembling a dream job. At the same time it's one of those glittering metropolis with a population in the millions...I wonder who we'll meet up there : D

Additionally...I'm still arguing with Eka about this red font, it looks like a dead salmon

Wuv,
-Turm

SO just what -is- this little rant-spot about, anywayz??

Okay, well it's about time we gave you guys some facts to the dear watchers of this humble blog~!

So in a nutshell, we've created this little chronicle in order to document & log our move up ((and across!)) to Melbourne from our current residence; Tasmania & the ACT, in a fun way. *It will also act as good training wheels for us three to get into good regular journaling habits! ^^-;
The real importance for our moving is our combined want & pursuit of Artistic Dream Careers in the big smoke! ((Curse you Kraddies for ALREADY SORTA WINNING~! X'3 ))

For the duration of this account, we'll each be taking a 3-turn posting cycle, with Kraden in Green, Turm in Red & myself in Yellow text~! ^____^
...and now you know! X'3


How things are faring on the Tas-side thus far:
It looks as though Turm, Tabbeh((my cat)) & myself will all be traveling via the Spirit of Tasmania for the drive up~! ONA BOAT, ONA BOAT ONA MOTH-wait.. this izza PG13 blog.. ^^; ((-stay tuned for a shower scene & potential SIDE-boob! 8'D ))
Though I originally wanted to fly Tabbeh over with Turm as escort, the cost and hassle of having to split, re-unite and fudge 'round with more transport just became more than we could reasonably afford~
who'da thought moving was EXPENSIVE?? 8'S ohmy!

GOOD GAWD. THE DUST.
You would think that 'yeah, you live in a place and it gets about fuzzy round the un-seen edges'.... HURRRRRRUKJ!! cAo; I have been coughing up a lung each night ((totally down to my last 3 now)) due to all these 'unseen particle floaters' that have decided FREEDOM is down my throat! =_=;
-Had to actually go out and buy some little masks, which are helping during the day.. but this dust is a mainly a night-predator.. #_#;

Much to the very LARGE generosity of a former house-mate, Grace, I will soon be in the possession of her old digital camera~! :'D It'll be great for happy snaps about the place, thought it'll be all boxes by the time I have it no doubt! ^^-;
She says she doesn't use it much these days, and it can double as a 'moving away' present~ ^^;
Thanx again Grace~! -hart-

In monetary news: It's gonna cost -SOOOOOOOOO- MUCH to have the stuff shifted! 6__9; guess it iz a house-full of junk, but it was far more than I was budgeting for... ahwell! WE PUSH ON THROUGH STORMY AND WALLET-EMPTYING WHEATHER! >|'B

The last of the boxes allllmost packed now! only bits to go...... gaah the bits! #,#; The odd shapes and tiny doohickeys.. they fit no-where~!
We ran a car 'test pack' today, making good room so far, which was a pleasant surprise, but we did not account for linen-stuffz, so we may yet have more Tetris to perfect~

I'll also still be working riiiight up until crunch time! ^^; Last shift will be this-coming Monday I believe, or at least I shall too busy for anymore after that!

And to all those close Tas friends.. WE TOTALLY LOVE AND WILL MISS YOU ALREADY~!!
*Have to apologize for being as 'snobbish' as we have appeared the last week & a bit, while we intended to have some form of 'last final get-together' we just plain can't afford the time or money anymore!

Any drop-in 'goodbyes' are -MORE- than welcome~!
We even have a "we're leaving and cannot take/fit this stuff, some of its good..... no really.. PLEEEEEEEASE take it away before we decided to keep it and LOSE MORE LIFE-SPAN STRESSING ON HOW TO POSSIBLE KEEP & PACK IIIIIIET" box! ^_____^;
-Can take what ever you can carry from it~!

To those in Melbz wanting to catch-up, know exact dates, etc.. WE DUNNO EITHER~! 8'D yaaaaai~! We're aiming to be outta Tas by the 11th, but it may be a day or two later, if the house we're leaving needs some extra cleaning attention~ ^^-;
..But we will no doubt venture from the compound and find some way to harass you once we're in a settled~! ^,*;



Orrighty~! well I think that's all for now, I better pass the proverbial baton on Turm~! ^___*
THANX FOR THE SUPPORT SOFAR~!! <3

~Carni

An airport or two

Turns out that "free" wi-fi they tell you about at airports costs money to use.
So I'm updating you all via my phone 10 minutes before boarding. Believe me there will be stories to tell; wild adventures across the wilds of Melbourne.

As for right now, bragging time.

Before sending myself down to Melbourne my friend Logan regaled me with the difficulties of the Melbourne housing market. Lots of openings but lots of competitions.
I have however successfully found us a house, and myself a freelance job as a finishing artist, and both in 10 days.

Either I can write a mean piece-o-cover letter, or it's not as difficult as they say.

Or heck maybe the fates shined on us this week and it's meant to be.

Either way in around two weeks I'll be living in a new. with with two brilliant people.

Later tonight though: the full story with magical photo action !!

- Kraden

So this is a blog hey? Not to shabby, of course before setting off on this internetafied adventure of journeying chronicles we had to come up with a bloggish name...the conversation went something like this:

Kraden: So 'House Get' is taken, what do you guys think about 'Art House Get'?

Eka: sounds coo'

Turm: Yeeah grrmmmm...no it's too internet-ish how able something else...

Eka: like?

Turm: Hrmmm...how's about 'From nowhere to somewhere'

Eka: Hey! Hobarts not so bad! Don't dis where you come from

Turm: why are we leaving again?

Eka: Shush, too negative...Hrmm

Kraden: hows about 'three artists and a cat'

Turm: we aren't a sit-com...what about something with stairs?

Ekas: Stairs?

Turm: yanno, it's associated with success...or dying

Eka: No

Turms: Ladders then? Like 'Ladder to Melbourne' it's a moving up thing...and Kraden is moving down...you can go down ladders.

Eka: No! This blog is not snakes and ladders and -in- snakes and ladders you can only go down snakes..!

Kraden: …

Turm: How about 'Carnival and some other guys move house'

Eka: I like it!...but no

Turm: Okay how about 'I hate blog naming'

Eka: How about 'a Hooman, a dog and a dwag-dragon'

Turm (scowls)

Eka: haha! The look on your face every time

Turm: (slaps knees) 'ART TRANSPLANT!'

Eka: YEAH!

Kraden: YEAH!, I like it...wait...it's taken

Turm: damnitallwhybotherblog!

Kraden: 'Artist Transplant?'

Turm: nah...

Turm: how about 'Yarte Transplont'

Kraden: no

Eka: no

Turm: It's the best shit ever!

Eka: Worst!

Turm: screw the both of you it'll be my blogs name.

Kraden: How about 'Hue Shift' it's like and art thing and a changing thing

Eka: Hey, I like that

Turm: It's okay......ggrrmmmrmrmr....but it doesn't mean anything

Kraden: does it have to mean something

Turm: grrmmmm...'Hue Change'? Maybe

Kraden: Shift has more of an edge

Turm:...what about 'Pallet Swap'

Kraden: hey..that could work...I like it and it's not taken

Eka: what's a pallet swap

Turm: It's when they change the colour of a baddie or whatever to make more baddies in games

Eka: OMG that has a name? I always just called that 'copy-paste-hue-change-thingie !'

Turm: It's not called that....

Kraden: Guys! Guys! I made the account!

Wuv,

-Turm