I don’t know whether or not I’ll be able to compose a Howdygram post tonight, because I’ve got a bad case of “tremors” in both hands, wrists and arms (also my right leg and both eyelids, but my leg and lids are immaterial). The thing is, whenever I try to pause typing my fingers continue to jerk around until I physically move my hands far away from the keyboard. It feels like my body’s been possessed by an alien!
Jesus. It’s always something.
Notice anything different with our banner? This afternoon without any warning whatsoever I decided to tweak a few things! For instance: 1) the cowpoke is smaller; 2) he’s been moved to the left so one pistol overlaps the square Howdygram logo; and 3) I added horizontal rules above and below our “tagline.”
I think you’ll agree that we’re seriously gorgeous now … until the next time I decide to tweak something else!
Thank you for your support.
Look at all the different scripts! Today’s fabulous free fonts include hand-drawn
signature scripts (“Balig,” “Baysoir”),
brush scripts (“Radio Volna,” “Qamila,”),
calligraphy scripts (“The Lunatique,” “Faradila,” “Saltery,” “Noelia,” “Forestage”) and a
monoline script (“Thistails”). We’ve also got a couple of interesting
display fonts … “Roadkey” and “Montereal.” FYI, five fonts in the left-hand column are part of a terrific bundle.
Download links will appear after the font list in case you want any or all of these for your personal collection. Don’t worry … they’re all guaranteed kosher for Passover!
Yesterday was a goddamn exciting day on
Etsy.com. One of my favorite digital artwork “shops” — Digital Curio — had almost every collection marked down to only 48¢, so I decided to go insane and spend $3.84. (If you don’t want to do the math, that’s eight collections.) I’ll use these digital files as part of my overall design for greeting cards, iPhone cases, throw pillows and all kinds of additional products* for
The Howdygram Store. The first four collections pictured below are Navy Blue Mermaid Foil textures, Emerald Green Mermaid Foil textures, Mint Green and Coral Linen textures, and Bronze and Gold Heraldic Foil textures.
And now, here are
four more … Rose Gold Art Deco Foil textures, Sanguine Stripes Grunge Foil textures, Silver Peacock Foil textures and Vintage Shabby Chic Aquamarine textures. Nearly all of these collections are “seamless” so you can tile the image in any direction to make one gigantic graphic. I can’t wait to start designing!
Woo-hoo!
In addition to huge collections of greeting cards, iPhone cases and throw pillows,
The Howdygram Store also sells mugs, nightlights, light switch covers, playing cards, spiral notebooks, mouse pads, padfolios, wall clocks, luggage tags, passport holders, “bar key” bottle openers and beverage coasters … all personalized or monogrammed!
Now that I have your undivided attention I’d like to discuss what’s been going on here at Howdygram headquarters. Mostly, my health has been up and down again. After three excellent days in a row I started “declining” again today, which includes all of the following:
- Not waking up today until 2 p.m., just like a regular diva!
- Feeling generally like shit.
- Achy.
- Shivering.
- Severe pain in my right knee.
- The tremors that I mentioned back in the first paragraph.
- Not knowing whether or not I felt well enough to bother with my bath and hygiene session today.
- I can’t think of anything else.
Incidentally, with regard to item #7, I was definitely NOT interested in a bath and hygiene session when my C.N.A. showed a few minutes after 2 p.m., but she’s brand new with my hospice organization (I think she said I’m her first patient), so she sat down and chatted with us for a while until my Hydrocodones started to kick in.
I don’t think she’ll last very long in this job. She’s a 52-year-old woman who’s so heavy she can barely move. She limps and hobbles from side-to-side rather than walking forward, and she honestly has the biggest damn rear end I’ve ever seen on a human being. She’s ENORMOUS, and it’s heartbreaking to look at her because I know how miserably uncomfortable she must be. Once we finally got started with my bath I noticed she kept leaning on me to prop herself up, and at least half a dozen times I had to tell her to
STOP IT because she was hurting me. She also had to sit down three or four times, once for
two solid hours to tell us her life story … even though we didn’t ask.
After she left, Sam and I prepared a script so we’ll be able to get rid of her immediately after my bath on Tuesday. We’ll never let her corner us like that again!
And now it’s time to move on. I need to wake Sam to change my wee-wee pads and to refill my glass of iced tea. Around here it’s an endless cycle of drink-and-pish 24 hours a day.
Thank you for reading this. If you insist on remembering the Alamo, I won’t try to stop you.
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