Honey lately, I been weighed down, load on my mind…
Yay cartoon-watching!
So I have this client that I’ve been working with, & we just couldn’t find something that worked for their site. It’s a financial thing, a compare & lower your bills sort of functionality, so it needed to have a LOT of stuff, but not look cluttered, and still be appealing. The basic layout was established, but the skin has been… problematic. To give you an idea, I normally do 3 designs with 3 revisions to each – yesterday I turned in version twenty-three.
There I was, working on it again, and just totally blocked, and I thought, “god, this just isn’t fun.” and it occurred to me that that was the problem. After all, what is the appeal of the internet if not that it makes crap we hate doing fun?
Right then… so what’s inherently fun? Cartoons.
I took the cartoon approach – brightened the colors, puffed things out to look 3-d-ish, and just kind of made everything a bit more whimsical.
They approved the design within two hours, thank god. There are some revisions (there always are), but yes. Freakin’ finally
Plugging along…
meantime, it looks like I should be wrapping up Hotel!Client‘s site this week. So yes, making progress, just v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y.
I just.. need to do more. I need to work more. I get home, & all I want to do is nap. Even today, I rowed, then went grocery shopping with KB, then fell asleep, got up, set up a bunch of my food for the week and probably only did about an hour of paying work for the whole day. And that’s just not good enough. there are things that need to be done, and for some reason I can’t seem to make myself work faster or enough to keep caught up. The universe is providing me with the work, and I can’t find the energy to care enough to do it, which of course is simply not acceptable. :sigh:
Which means that tomorrow will be another day ensconced at Starbucks to keep myself out of my apartment & get things done. I hate that it has to be that way, because I’d like to be able to work from my place, but doing so just isn’t working out.
On a brighter note (literally) – all the new light fixtures are switched in for my apartment. it’s kind of odd because I’d gotten in the habit of not using those switches, and now I have to keep reminding myself that they’re good again — plus I’m not used to this much light after all this time, so I feel a little blind. :blink:blink:
Music: Lately – David Gray
