imagination
I love it when I have a brief flash of a game or something I used to do as a child. I was just hanging out my washing, and as I shook out the fitted sheet and hung it on the line, with the fabric billowing around the elastic in the breeze, I remembered how I used to love playing amongst the hanging laundry with my dolls. I would put them in the puffed out pocket of the fitted sheets and pretend they lived in the clouds.
Another game I had, when we lived in Papua New Guinea, was to imagine living on the ceiling. We had a coffee table with a mirror inlaid into it, and I would look into this mirror of an upside down world, where the lights all stood up from the ground like plants on straight stalks, and everything was white and minimalist. I would try to catch a glimpse of people who lived in this ceiling world, who were just out of the sightline of my mirror portal.
I love hearing stories of my friends’ children and the games and fictions they spin. It’s so delightful seeing the world through the eyes of a four year old, where bears hanging around outside your house is a perfectly plausible prospect, where you can be a magician if you decide to be, where the most ordinary objects hold some kind of immense untapped power.
I’d like to get back a bit of that imagination somehow. I know it’s still there in me, just need to crack through the sugar shell and release the creamy goodness inside (can you tell I want a creme brulee?).
weasel words
Part of the reason for being all up in the air at the moment is that I am both looking for a job and a place to live (Dad is helping me and my brother buy property, which is awesome, but having a decently paying job is kind of an important part of this equation. Anyway, I digress…). As a result I’ve been spending a lot of time on real estate and employment websites and am growing increasingly jaded by the emptiness of the copy that advertises houses and jobs. Some examples:
“fast paced global facing digital environment”
“sought-after location”
“Be part of an industry leading, highly dynamic and empowered team”
“Enjoy the lifestyle on offer”
“Are you passionate about the digital space”
“priced to sell” (which goes well with “Vendor says sell!”)
“Join a widely renowned and formally recognised agency within a global network”
“contemporary living”
“Funcky Office ” (?!)
“This modern apartment is in the heart of marrickville with enviable to everywhere and everything are just at a fingertips includes shopping, restaurants, café, train” um…
Though there was a moment of humour amongst the dross – job ad for publisher of “entertaining fiction for women”(let the reader understand), applications were to be sent to “Belinda Lusty”. It’s nominative determinism gone mad, I tell you!
in the meantime
So I’m still unemployed. But I am feeling much more calm about it than I was at the time of the last post.
I have actually had an interview, and will be having the second round of interviews for that job later this week! So that’s exciting. And I’ve applied for a couple of things.
In the meantime, I’m trying to keep moving forward, even if it’s only a tiny step at a time.
Tupperware stuff is actually going pretty well. [book me for a party] I mean, I’m not smashing amazing targets or anything (yet?), but I’ve had a steady number of demos to do [book me for a party] and even if this doesn’t turn out to be something I’m going to do long-term, [book me for a party] I’m amassing a pretty cool collection of Tupperware I’ll get to keep at the end. It’s actually really fun, to be honest, and I hope I can make a good go of it.
No, there were no subliminal messages in that last paragraph. But if you’d like to book me for a party, you can email me at sales [at] rebeccajee.com.
I’ve also started up another blog to show off things I’ve made! I was looking at my bags and crocheted bits and pieces and thinking that I do achieve things, even if they’re not big, flashy things. Making a bag is fantastic! Crocheting an animal is satisfying! Creating something out of disparate bits is such a cool ability I’ve been blessed with, so I thought it was time to celebrate it.
That blog is called TalulaMei. Please pay me a visit there!