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Two weeks ago I got an email from a lady who saw a design work that I did for a company and she liked it. She told me about her project abd she wanted a new logo and business folder. I analized the info and replied to her with some options and prices. I started to work with the logo while she collects the info to make the folder so yesterday I sent to her 3 different logos. As usual after send a design to a customer I got in panic, thinking that she wont like any of those logos, that I would have hard time trying to represent the concept in a logo and I'll need forever to get it. The concept that she wants to represent isn't easy and it's something abstract and of course she had not any idea or suggestion of how she wanted the logo to be.

This afternoon she replied to me. Fortunately she liked the first logo I draw, and we will try a variation on it. She also liked the other concepts that I tried to express with the logo. It's a win, I'm happy :)

Current Mood: creative

Last 2 days where very productives. Yesterday I did my first weekly spread for the journal. It was a little frustrating not to have good markers to do it, plus the notebook that I'm using is low quality but there is nothing I can do until I go to USA and buy good and nice stuff. I already started to buy some things from Amazon and sent them to Michael's house. (Note for myself: I need to make a list with all the things that I sent to Michael, like all the makeup, markers, korean cosmetic, etc).

After playing around with the journal I spent a couple of hours designing a logo for new customer. They doesn't have idea what kind of logo they want so I did 4 logos and I mailed to them to see what they think about. I won't continue designing until they give me some feedback. After that I did bike, squats and other excercises then I took a shower and I had dinner.

I wanted to read the book that Mike and me are reading, The woman in the cabin 10, but Michael is still behind me for 5 chapters so I decided to work a little more in my journal and I did the cover for April, then I went to sleep.
Today I woke up at 11 am and I got up because I could not fall asleep again. It's ok anyways, this is the second day that I get some sleep. I spent all day long working on my journal.... damn! if coffee is my first addiction, journaling seems is the second!!! I did some spreads for April: mood tracker, workout tracker, and the first week spread. I spend hours trying to decide what template will works better for me, and looking other journals on Instagram to get new ideas. A couple of hours took me to draw and write. All the markers I have bleed and that is pretty annoying because the pages don't look good but since this is my first journal and I still need to learn lettering, calligraphy, to draw, and also I need to try different spreads to see which works better for me I don't care if the design is not perfect. I really enjoy with this new addiction, is relaxing and very creative and also a way to organize myself.

Now I'll start to set an online store for one of my customers. Before sleep not sure if I'll watch series, practise calligraphy, study English or do journal. I never get bored with myself!

Current Mood: happy

I got home 2 hours ago and I'm not going back to work until Tuesday, hurra! Yesterday was very stressful day. I spent the whole day at work fixing the brochures to print them. When I finished it and send them to the printer store, the girl called me to tell me there was a problem with the black color and I had to fix it again. Grrrr.

When I got home I had to design a flyer for someone who needed it for yesterday. that stressed me more. The photos, logo, etc that he sent me were very ugly. I did my best but I was not sure if I liked the design. I showed it to Mike and to Flor and they liked it. I was still not sure so I showed it to Martu and she told me "I like it very much. If your customer thinks the design is ugly then tell to him : ugly designs come from ugly logos!" That made me laugh and I realized that I was indecisive because tireedness. I sent the design to my customer and he liked it. I worried without a reason.

Another thing that is stressing me is the trip to San Juan for the trade show. For you guys who just started reading my journal, there is a coworker who I usually call him here like "fat ass" who makes me feel uncomfortable always he's around me. He has overweight, he doesn't shower often so he smells, he smokes, he's always making gross jokes because he thinks he's funny, and he's always trying to get everybody attention. I feel sorry for him because I believe all those annoying things are because he lack of self-steem and I've tried to help him but I don't like that he's always staring at me, making comments about my clothes, makeup, nailpolish, eyelash, etc. I also caught him once taking photos of me stealthily and piss me off SO MUCH that he puts me in this uncomfortable situation when I don't flirt nor make friendship with anyone. He's going with me and with another seller to the trade show so we will do the trip together. We will drive for 14 hours then get an hotel and attend to the trade show. All this trip will take 6 days and it will be very hard for me to be in the same car than him while he smells and he smokes. If he smells I'm going to say to him. Good thing is that I can use my cellphone chip in my tablet to have internet and while he drives I'll watch series on Netflix, read books or write my journal. Maybe if he doesn't make a nightmare of this trip, I can visit some places that I've never been.

I'll do bike, squats, stretching, journaling, maybe calligraphy then go to bed.

Current Mood: stressed

It was a stressful day. I got to work at 7.30 am and when I went into the building I could see smoke... too much smoke. The place was warm and smelt weird, but it was not like fire. I was sure it was the machine for washing tools. I walked to it and looked where the switch was, I could not see it. I didn't want to unplug it so what to do? First of all I opened the metal curtain to dissipate the smoke then I called my coworker who operate the washing but he didn't answer. I called my other coworker and he told me how to stop it. My office smelt awful the next hour.

I worker hard to finish designing of all the brochures we need to print and bring to the trade show in 2 weeks. I couldn't finish today, one more brochure to design. I'm running out of time and that stress me so much. So far we are missing many things for the trade show and I feel nobody else can understand how bad this can be if we don't get everything done on time. Sales manager is not doing well with the organization of this event so my boss is calling me to re organize things. This is what always happens to me in my work... she will keep taking other people to manage the company but making me fix their mistakes.

After writing my last entry today, I got a new project to do and they need the design for tomorrow or after tomorrow. I took it, it's simple design and easy money. This people are also interested on my hosting service. I need to organize my business asap, it's growing so fast.

To add stress to my day workers next to my building are working again at night... oh thanks for that mtf!

Current Mood: stressed

Today I got two new projects to work on, I'm so excited! The projects are another website, and one brochure for two different customers. This means this month I'm working with 4 customers, hurra! I think it's time to print some commercial cards with my info :)

Ok I need go back to work

I worked all the weekend to finish the website for the new company. Although they sent me few photos and almost no content to fill every section I did my best and they are happy. We agreed they need to send me more info but for now I can't do anything else. When the guy saw the website he told me "this is exactly what I had in mind". It's a win.

There are more designs that I have to do for them: business cards, paper, folders, etc, but those work is easier. Tomorrow I'll start to design the logo for another customer then her website with catalogue. I will work too in the catalogue for another website that I did 1 year ago.

I have another business in mind that I want to think and organize, I should write it down in my bullet journal :P

I spent the weekend mostly sitting working in the computer and I had few breaks to drink coffee, eat snacks and do squats. My neck and back hurt and I'm very tired, but it worths.

Current Mood: happy

I did some modifications to the logo that my client wanted to try and I sent it to him. We are agree that the original logo is which works better.

I got super hyper stressed and anxious because designing the whole weekend means drinking tons of coffee (and because the time of the month) so after getting the logo done, I felt bad. I was shaking, not sure if this was because muscle tension, caffeine overdose or lack of food, maybe all those together. I took a shower, I had dinner and I took pills for muscles but I don't feel better.

Since I did progress this weekend with design, I decided to take a break and start my bullet journal. It was not a great idea handwriting while I shake but I finish the Index of my journal anyway. This is how it looks:

This week I'll try to do more pages :)

Current Mood: creative

The wait did not last long. My customer messaged me saying I'm genius (of course he's overacting lol) and said they chose one of the logos. Then he showed me which it was and he sent me in whatsapp an audio file. It was his partner talking about the logo that they liked, super excited saying the colors and the font are perfect, very serious and very technical, and this is what they needed for their new company.

I can relax a little now but I need to start to work on the website. I should think seriously to learn more about design tools to work on this because what I could see about all the customers I worked for is that they always says I got the idea of what they wanted express, so improving my skills on design will help me to draw those ideas in a better way.

Maybe I can do the future log in my bullet journal now?

Current Mood: artistic

Yesterday after work I went to the supermarket to buy some metallic markers which was 50% off but they were out of stock.... annoying!!! I got upset then I went to the bakery and I bought pastries to comfort myself with a dose of sugar, ha!

After eat them and drink coffee I sat my ass in the chair and I draw logos for 8 hours, doing a break just to eat pizza and drink more coffee. At midnight I had 6 model of logotypes that can work. I showed them to Michael and he liked 3 of those. I have 2 which are my favorites. I was so tired and my body was hurting because the stress that I went to the bed and I fell asleep around 2 am. Nerdy Saturday for me!

Now I just sent an email to my customer with a sketch of the logos and I feel anxious and nervous waiting for him reply. This is a new company that he is starting and I had to think logos almost without information. There where not a list of values or vision, concepts that he wants to transmit or even any info about what kind of logo he would like so I had to guess. I don't like he pushed me to do the work fast but he's a good customer and he's always happy with my work so I don't want to lose this customer. This take at least 1 week to make a good logo but I have not that time, he wants everything ready for the end of this month (logo, website, corporate identity, brochures, etc). This is why I feel unsure about the work I did... should I draw new logos while waiting his feedback? arrrrrrrrrg so stressed!!!!!

I want to start my bullet journal this weekend but I'm not sure if I will have time for it today :(

Current Mood: anxious

I'm obsessive organizer in a lot of things: work, study, papers (sadly not with computer files) and a fan of to-do lists. I do list for everything. As you can guess this bullet journal project is feeding my obsession with organization and planning. Also it's the perfect excuse to buy and to use notebooks, pencils, pens, tapes, stickers and all kind of decorative stuff which I love. I want to buy ALL even if I'm not sure if I need it.

I decided that I want to try the Bullet Journal system 3 days ago. I bought a notebook yesterday but I still didn't write nor draw anything yet, I'm still getting ready and enjoying the process. I'm not sure about the style that I want to give to my journal so I buy things because perhaps they will be useful. I should not do it, I know!

I spent 2 days designing some stickers which tomorrow I'm going to print. I also got some decorative tapes and other stuff today. I wonder how many days I'll keep getting stuff to be ready before to draw a point or to write a single letter in the notebook...

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I have not done workout for two weeks because lack of time and energy, I was doing just bike. Today I did exercises early since I woke up at 8 am and it's hot. 1 hour of legs, abs, arms then I did 30 minutes of stretching.

After workout I had lunch then I decided to take a nap because I feel tired. I slept for 2 hours.

When I woke up I tried to work on the websites but I fucked around for 2 hours reading about virtual coins. I decided that for now the best way I have to earn money is to continue working hard as I do so I started to update the website

I worked for 4 hours on that, taking short breaks for dinner and to reply emails. The update is almost done, I just have a gallery image left to do and to add some images to a slider. Probably sales manager will want to make a lot of changes after I finish it, but I'll just ignore him

It's hot outside and also inside the house. Right now it's 79º . The report said it was going to rain today but that didn't happen. For tomorrow it will be 92F.

Tomorrow after work I'm going to pick my new furniture

. Today I washed the curtains of the living room and tomorrow I'll do the same with the curtains of my bedroom. This month I'll see what things I can throw in the trash like I did 1 year ago before to move here. I don't wanna to accumulate too many things.

I didn't set up the Christmas tree yet nor decorate the house with ligths. I want to bring the furniture first to avoid the whole house be a mess the same weekend.

Current Mood: okay
Crossposts: https://nattalie-m.livejournal.com/169895.html

Yesterday Flor messaged me asking if can I borrow her my credit card to suscribe to Spotify. She said there is a family account for 6usd that allows you to have premium service up to 5 people, so we suscribe to this service. I don't use so much spotify because I can never decide what kind of music I want to listen to

but actually I am happy I won't hear anymore the girl from spotify who promote the premium service, I really hate her voice

Since I was at work trying to ignore my coworker while I designed an advertising, I open the application and listen to Sia music since it was the first that come around when I was looking the songs and artists list. I still had to deal with the phone rining nonstop but I got the design done, boss and conworkers liked it

Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Sia - The greatest
Crossposts: https://nattalie-m.livejournal.com/169239.html

One of my clients, to who I did a catalogue last week, realized that he forgot to include the main activity of his company on it

Tonight he messaged me asking if I can add it to the design because tomorrow he has a meeting with his costumer and he needs the catalogue. So intead of being in my bed reading Sherlock Holmes I'll stay up late working on this change

Current Mood: annoyed
Crossposts: https://nattalie-m.livejournal.com/168485.html

I wonder if I am the only person who has to write in her To Do list things to have some fun, otherwise I'll just work lol

Although I did not work yesterday, I could not stay in the bed so long, someone was hammering the wall and the sound woke me up. I had breakfast and I read DW then I decided to spend money doing shopping. I went to the beauty store (yes, again) but all that I wanted was not good for my skin so the shop assistant (who already know me) told me this time I better don't buy anything

On my way back home I stopped in other store and I bought some steel bracelets which won't hurt my skin.. Stupid skin I have!!!!

So there is the shopping of this week

I came back home, I had lunch and Michael asked me to help him with the list of things he needs to buy to start the diet. I'm not sure how far away he will go with this but I made a list for him, he seems excited to try it but we agree it is better for him to start after Thanksgiving day because his mother will cook some food he knows he will wants.

After lunch I felt sleepy and I was about to nap but I forced my ass to do 1 hour workout, then to sit in the chair until finish the catalogue I was designing. I did it and this means I can get the money from this work this month

While I was making dinner Michael woke up and went to the market. He sent me some pics and asked me if he should get those things for the diet, everything were on pouch or canned and with other shits added

We tried to get those without any spicy nor added on them.
I could see in one pic they have Dragon fruit!!!!! I want to try it next time I go there but I did not see they had that fruit on Walmart, maybe it is a winter fruit?

I watched one episode of Stranger Things 2 while eating dinner then I moved to the bed and I got stucked watching the whole season until 4.30 am. Loved it

Crossposts: https://nattalie-m.livejournal.com/159461.html

Last 2 days I worked 16 hours or more every day. Neck and back hurt as fuck but the website is almost done. Yesterday Flor wanted to eat pizza with me but I told her I should work, so she came to home and we have dinner together. She gave me some massages but it was not enough... I won't get ride of this pain until I stop using the computer few days, something that won't happens. And the stress... always messing with me.

Michael had a car accident yesterday. Some woman who was talking by phone while driving hit Mike's car. He was on rage and very frustrated because fixing the car will cost like 1000 bucks. Here if the drivers have insurance they pay the service to fix the car but Michael told me there insurance won't pay 100% of that

Today I got home from work then I continued working in the website. I did a pause to drink coffee and look Instagram very fast, and of course I ended up stucked on cats pic for at least 20 min

At 9pm I was done with the website and very tired but anyways I forced myself to do 1 hour workout and stretching. My back feels better but I can't relax my neck so prolly I'll take pills tonight. There isn't desire to cook, I'll get a soup then lay on bed and watch Prison Break until fall asleep.

Current Mood: exhausted
Crossposts: http://nattalie-m.livejournal.com/119206.html

Do it with passion! Happy day

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The client answered my mail. He says I'm doing very well and he's happy to see I understand what he wants. He see I take care of many details that he hasn't even think. He likes the website and soon he will send me the info that I asked to end the work. He said: excelent work!

I'm so happy!!!

Current Mood: happy
Crossposts: http://nattalie-m.livejournal.com/112388.html

Yesterday I worked all day long with the website. I fixed a lot of things. When Michael woke up from his nap, at 10pm, he wanted to play together. I tried, but I left 30 min later. I really don't want spend time on games when I can use that time to relax or earn money. He needs pay bills to get ride of some person but he use all his free time to nap and play games. I understand perfectly that his work makes him tired, it really squeeze his brain. But it's time he stop feeling sorry for himself and fix his issues. He needs to leave his comfort zone. I'm moving on with him or without.

I worked again all day long in the website. I did all that the customer asked me to do. Now I need he send me the rest of the information to finish it. I hate that customers are so slow to send all the information, they pretend I write about their business when I don't know what they do, and anyway my work is about DESIGN, unless they hire me to be their SEO, SEM, community manager or something else. I can't understand how people start a company and can't explain what they do, how they work, what services they offer, why someone has to choose they instead the competition, etc in a professional way.

I should open an adviser's business and start earning money of something that for now I do free.

I will cook pizza then watch series or movies. I'm a little pissed, this weekend I decided to look for something to watch on Netflix after weeks that I watch nothing, then I watched 2 movies that I had already watched before: Da Vince Code, and Angels and Demons.

Maybe I will write down all the movies I watch to avoid waste the few free time I have.

Current Mood: bored
Crossposts: http://nattalie-m.livejournal.com/111799.html

The first newsletter is done, but of course I would have to do many changes before we start this campaing. I can't understand how people want I do their newsletters without give me the info that they want it contain. It's is for a course but they didn't tell me when the course starts, if they want I add the topics or not, etc etc. I included random info to show them the design.

Current Mood: artistic
Crossposts: http://nattalie-m.livejournal.com/97726.html

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