the postman always brings..bling!
Yeah, I’m still (sort of) here. It’s just that this giving up my job malarkey (one of those new years resolutions I wasn’t going to make) in order to have more time to spent doing the important things in life - like sleeping and painting and writing and reading and oh…I don’t know…actually getting out of the apartment more than once a fortnight - has meant that I’m spending more time than even at the computer. Partly that’s because of the malteser down the side of the shift key fuck up and then the shutting down of illustrator when it was saving an incredibly complicated piece of work that had taken four days to complete to my satisfaction which meant that the damn thing didn’t save and had to be done all over again.
The redrawing of a freehand logo (the original of which I dashed off in twenty minutes without any prior sketches and the memory of which has now taken on genius of a da vinci’esque magnitude) and which I’ve spent the past week trying to duplicate has not met with success either. My new business - which doesn’t officially exist yet because although I have a name I dont have a logo, business cards, website, portfolio (well one that isn’t in corrupted files that I can’t bloody open) - did get its first job. Obviously this has meant that although I’ve spent the past few years blithely applying gradient shading to everything in sight and (and I quote my previous job description) “giving thing the wow factor!” (i.e applying gradient shading to everything in sight) any and all ideas, self-confidence and technical ability vanished like snow in the sun and so I spent a fun week desperately attempting to get something down which didn’t (to my mind anyway) look like total shit. (You’ll be pleased to know - or at least I was pleased to know - that the client, oh that sounds so much like I know what I’m doing - loved the drafts I sent through and has picked one!)
So as you can imagine. Life here has been really fun recently (especially for F who has had to put up with me). I look like one of those Hanna Barbara cartoons, you know the ones where the character gets hit over the head with something heavy and the whites of their eyes are filled with scarlet concentric circles? Admittedly I don’t have the concentric circles, just one line in each eye but the fact that the lines are horizontal stripes of scarlet which sear through both iris and pupil means that they do a sterling job of terrifying any Jehovah’s witnessess who might come calling.
On the plus side and as I always say, when the going gets tough…the tough go shopping. I’ve been doing a lot of shopping recently (thank god retail therapy is now available online) and just as soon as I finish typing this out I’m off up town to do some more (well just as soon as I have a bath and get dressed that is, at the moment I’m still in my pj’s (stripey flannelette).
Anyway, the point of this post was A. to get back to blogging again because you’ve no idea how difficult it is to restart after a break and B. More importantly, to let you all know that my dearest and most wonderful Jgirl has now (finally) started selling her jewellery online. Her shop is called Executive Gothic and every piece is a one-off, never to be repeated, handmade design. Personally I think her prices are way too cheap but as it means I can buy more of I’m not really complaining. It’s amazing stuff - go and check it out!
March 16th, 2007 at 3:55 am
Just reread this post. I think maybe I should cut down on the caffeine.
March 17th, 2007 at 10:38 am
well congrats on getting your first client, and moreso for pleasing first client!!!
such guts, lady!
March 18th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
i hope you had a lovely relaxing weekend hc
March 19th, 2007 at 2:04 am
It’s very good jgirl. V.impressed.
March 19th, 2007 at 2:14 am
Thank you FN! I don’t know about the guts, I’m waking up the middle of the night panicking about what I did but as long as there’s a brown paper bag to hand I’m usually ok after twenty minutes or so!
M. Busy weekend! Off to see the Buena vista social club on Saturday night (yes, us - going out!) and then sunday spent working out the text for the new site and then off to asda and then realised that I’d forgotten Mothers Day (oops!) so a long and apologetic call to mum (Luckily she’d forgotten it too!).
Herebe. You bought me the nine of swords set didn’t you. Thanks! (what do you mean you didn’t). Anyway. Don’t tell me - tell her!
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:40 am
you went out I mean REALLY OUT LIKE OUTSIDE OF THE FLAT???
Are you feeling Well?
I’m concerned….
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:49 am
I don’t know. Does it count as outside the flat if you get a cab to and from the place? Great evening though - band were absolutely brilliant.
March 23rd, 2007 at 8:13 am
i got stuff in the mail too. wireless internet advertisements. then i went shopping. i bought tomatoes. it was cool.
sigh.
March 24th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
>A. to get back to blogging again because you’ve no idea how difficult it is to restart after a break
as it happens, i DO, actually
…
March 24th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
hey, i’m going to be in scotland for a mate’s wedding mid-april. glasgow but tossing up about taking a few extra days and heading over to edinburrow. you up for a beer if i do?
March 25th, 2007 at 7:13 am
FN. It’s precisely because my mail would consist of bills and my shopping always includes tomatoes that I made a conscious decision to ensure that once a week I buy myself a present. Not necessarily a big or expensive present but definitely something which sparkles. Hie thee over to Jgirls shop (she offers free postage to anywhere in the US) and buy yourself a present. Somehow I picture you in the black waters earrings.
Sal. In Scotland in April? Bring cold weather gear. We’re escaping across to France at some point in April (probably in the last two weeks) but if we’re around then definitely up for a beer.
March 27th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
i am en-sheeped, cold-wise. i laugh at snow and sneer (brittly) at frostbite. but if you’re disappearing for the last 2 weeks, we may miss each other — i’m not hitting glasgae until the 13th/14th, IIRC. was thinking about landing in edinwatershipdown on the sunday, 15th, then taking a couple of days wandering around. hopefully blogmeeting peter of nakedblog too.
March 27th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
5pm? where the hell does your blog think it’s sitting?
March 28th, 2007 at 3:25 am
Can’t find executive gothic when I search - any chance of the full web address?
March 29th, 2007 at 5:05 am
hi h my email doesn’t seem to be working so sending you greetings via blog…
what a horrible day returned home to retire to bed before meeting friend off train
hope your morning better
m
March 29th, 2007 at 8:02 am
Oog!! Earrings!!
It’s a good job I’ve no credit card, y’know.
March 29th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Sal. Not sure yet where we’ll be, still trying to arrange stuff round F’s schedule but will let you know ASAP.
Where in hell is my blog sitting? Third from the left second row from the back. It’s the one fidgeting.
Frobisher. Oops sorry. Link is bold in post and also on my sidebar. I can see you in the red diamonte drops!
M. Hi. Blueyonder playing its usual tricks then? Have a good nap! Resisting the urge to crawl back to bed myself.
Babs. She also takes cheques and, as she lives not a stones throw away from you (somewhere called bordentown?) you’ll probably catch her at the local craft shows too. Go to one, tell her H says hello and watch a grown woman turn pale!
April 12th, 2007 at 8:46 am
alright, i know you’ve been busy but you’ve got obligations to your readers too, y’ know. when are we going to read more about india????
btw, thanks for you support over at Herebe’s. It was good of you to get my back while I was gone.
April 12th, 2007 at 9:12 am
No probs. That’s what friends are for. Besides which, I like to see fair play.
Anyway, apologies for not posting for a while, things here have been hectic to say the least.
April 17th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
ok, but now come on. at least post up a couple of sentences. you have time to comment; you have time to blog. do as i say, not as i do.
a watched pot never boils.
two wrongs don’t make a right.
oh for christs’ sake update.
April 18th, 2007 at 2:31 am
Your wish is my command! Sorry FN. It’s been hectic here and to be honest I’ve been spending so long in front of a computer recently that the last thing I want to do when I have some time off is to be anywhere near the damn thing! WIll post over the weekend for sure!
April 22nd, 2007 at 7:08 am
hi h
hope you are out and about enjoying spring…
m
April 23rd, 2007 at 3:32 am
Something about the title of this post has been sticking in my craw for over a month, and i finally figured out what it was. Shouldn’t it read, ‘The Postman always Blings Twice?’
April 24th, 2007 at 9:14 am
*just standing here…whistling a little tune….not saying anything….just whistling…*
April 24th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
ok. we’ve waited long enough.
now, i don’t want to pressure you into writing anything, nothing wrong with a couple month hiatus. But please, please either change the title of this post or post an empty post with a different title, just so the top line of your rss feed has nothing to do with postmen. Thank you.