ita !, Bleeding Cowboy, everyone loves it.

I think.

I have coffee, provided by the lovely amyth, whose birthday it is! Happy birthday!!!

I need to find a 40th birthday outfit. I also need to perform a 40th birthday party full-house dirt exorcism. Ugh.

Arrgh.

My water heater's pilot light has gone out and I am having trouble relighting it. I DO NOT NEED THIS RIGHT NOW UNIVERSE, I AM BUSY!

I should be at the farmer's market right now buying gifts for the tour peoples' spouses, but instead I am here fuming.

I guess I should go ahead and go as fast as I can and then try to relight again when I get home.

Because nothing else is going to be able to be done until it finishes, dishes, shower, whatnot. And honestly, we probably shouldn't host if I can't get it done. ARRGH!

A new Jillifont has been found

Trogloraptor is a pretty badass genus name.

Yeah--the "it's not that cold" and "you need a coat" are mutually exclusive propositions to me, because I know which coats you're not talking about. Googling tells me the temperature is typically between 37 and 44, which is way colder than I signed up for leaving Michigan. That's heavy coat weather, and not the sleeveless mini dress that was top of the list for the next wedding (assuming it fits).

Maybe I'll get a tux...I hope it wouldn't make my mother apoplectic.

Steph, I used Bleeding Cowboy for a Big Bang illustration, and one of the few negative comments I got in the anon meme was "Why did she have to ruin it with that overused font?". I swear I'd never seen it before, and it's distinctive, dammit.

Totally jacked something up at work. We have changes going in this weekend, and I don't have written approvals. Like, my boss has approved it in the Shadow meeting, but my manager has to explicitly send an email with her approval, and the business owner too, and I never collected them. I've tracked down the business, but mot my manager. Jesus. Such an idiot move. I should be able to have this many balls in the air, but at 4:30 a developer in IL emails me to say "Oh, we're bringing this company onto your system by the end of the month, okay?"

WTF? We have three stressful projects going on with that system till the end of September. How can a developer in my team be blindsiding me with this now?

To bring the conversations together, my sister's wedding was in Ohio in January, and the bridesmaid dresses were black velvet, with the hemline higher in the front. And puffed sleeves, because it was that era. But they were warm!

WHOHOO, I did it! I have relit the pilot. I am a domestic goddess!

Okay, so I probably was doing it correctly the whole time, it's just that the internet told me I was looking at the wrong spot to see if it was lit or not. So I kept giving up. But it is lit! Burners are burning. Water is heating.

And I'm only an hour late on my day's plan, so I shall be fine. In fact, it's probably better, because the slider bun dough was rising all this time, so I can now bake the slider buns before I leave and remake the bed, so when I head out the door the house will be, in fact, complete.

I didn't get the last of the studio or office clean-up done, but such is life. If I get back and the boys haven't gotten here yet I'll take care of it then.

Okay, I need design help. I have to do these T-shirts today, and my head hurts and I'm freaking out about work, and I couldn't be less inspired if I were in quicksand.

I have a number of different photographs that I need to add text to similarly, so that there's some design unity to the shirts. And then I need to shrink and collage all those photos for my sister's shirt, because I'm a goddamned idiot.

I know, because I'm on tumblr, that just typing onto a photograph is not good enough. That shit looks low rent as hell when I do it. I need design tips.

What I think I know:

• either bold or a thick font is good
• outline or drop shadow will help clarity
• maybe put the text in a box so I don't have to work out what colour is legible on 7 photos?

How can I make this not suck?

I'm so fucking overwhelmed right now I'm on the brink of tears, honestly.

At least I got the emails I needed for work God, that was stupid...

OOH! That soda fountain dress comes in a lot of different colors [link]

I love the ice and the grape.

All of that sounds right, ita !. All 7 photos, with similar text, are going on one shirt? Or each photo with similar text will be on a different shirt?

Could you greyscale the photos so you didn't have to worry about color consistency?