font game, web savvy friends & freelance
Please prepare for a very linky post.
Thanks to KT for this font game reference. I was proud of myself for scoring 30 out of 34!! It’s interesting to see what you recognize. Some were easy, some trickier and had to be done through process of elimination.
Last night was spent watching some tv, American idol (I thought Mariah Carey was a great mentor), while online with my bloggy friend Tina who was helping me make the dynamic lightbox script work. I couldn’t figure out what i was doing wrong, and after about 5 tries of completely redoing the script, I finally just used Tina’s version, and it started working
There are a few kinks in it, but I’m almost there, and Tina stuck with me for 2.5 hours online!! I seriously don’t know what I would do without my web designing and techy friends to ask for advice sometimes… thanks for being there for me. I’ve learned so much from you and you help me get out of sticky situations a lot, I owe you.
Yesterday was a little hard… my husband was discouraged about his job, and then I had sort of a depressing day for my business; I was scared because I was on hold on so many projects, I literally had nothing to work on. I have invoices out, and about 5 projects in the works… but I don’t know that any of them will be able to be paid in the next month, which means forgoing the small additional salary I give myself monthly out of my business account (I just paid estimated taxes so there isn’t much cushion). But then around 6:00 pm, I got a cold call from a referred client who wants me to help them do a small website in the next 2 weeks. This is such a blessing, and to top it off, it’s a Christian client who wants to promote his evangelism missions! It won’t be much, but it helped boost my confidence that God is providing work for me and to just keep calm, keep working on administrative things and promotion when I am slow, and trust that things will pick up. And the small cash flow will help. I also have two small wedding photography projects coming up that I know of this year, and that is also really fun stuff!!
It’s so funny because at my agency job, things are so crazy, I feel like I could work for weeks and not finish everything. And yet, here I am, blogging.
To work with me!!
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a font game? i must play.
i’m glad things are picking up for you rach. you’re my inspriation in the freelance department you know. one day, one day i will do it too
Comment by Michelle & the City — April 16, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
I love the lightbox script–it makes me wish I had more art and photography that I could show off on my portfolio with it.
I am glad things are turning aruond. Good luck!
Comment by Holly — April 16, 2008 @ 4:08 pm
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I’m glad I was able to help, it’s great having a community to go to for help when you get stuck. I love hearing about your freelancing jobs because it’s so inspirational!
Comment by Tina Vaziri — April 16, 2008 @ 5:33 pm
i dont know anything about your fonts.
well, i got 18/34 so not bad i guess? blah.
i’m so tired. so so busy as well…and here i am commenting you…:)
Comment by Amy — April 16, 2008 @ 7:04 pm
You’re husband isn’t discouraged anymore – I fired him last night! Just kidding – God always provides – the big question is what is God teaching you by pushing you to the edge of yourself…
Comment by Derek — April 16, 2008 @ 9:51 pm
Awesome you’ll be working for a Christian. Too bad it was a cold phone call cause it sounds awesome.
Comment by Kristie — April 16, 2008 @ 10:32 pm
W00000T! Nice job on your font knowledge!
Yeaaa…I’m staying late at work buttttttt I need a break from this Opera program…so I’m wandering around the internets for a few!
Comment by Kt — April 16, 2008 @ 10:46 pm
ooooooooo Derek. That was cold!
Comment by mlmj0210 — April 17, 2008 @ 1:07 pm
I’ve found that every time I get really worried about where I’m going to come up with something I need (usually money) I usually get/find it at the last minute and from a very unexpected place. It always leaves me thinking about God’s looking out for me and wants me to trust Him and be patient.
Comment by Kristin Lynch — April 17, 2008 @ 10:32 pm
I use this for image pop-ups it doesn’t use any script only CSS
http://www.moneytreesystems.com/css/picpopup.html
I tried that font game and I suck. haha
Comment by Elise — April 18, 2008 @ 12:18 am