I don’t like feeling stumped. I’m working on setting up a template for a client and there’s only so much I can do to avoid having the template look so – generic – I hate that feeling. I like to try to make things look different or unique but when you’re lacking creativity – it’s pretty hard to do that.

I’ve been surfing around the internet for template ideas, I’m also going through a few books to maybe come up with something different as well. I own a few ‘how-to scrapbook’ – ‘how-to design’ kind of books. It’s not all internet based, it’s more hobby kind of books but they house some very bold colors and interesting page layouts. I’m trying to think ‘out of the box’ and considering a majority of the templates online are squared, I just want to come up with something kind of different. Even with bold round layouts that’s kind of generic these days.

Maybe if I keep looking I’ll finally come up with something, who knows.

I’m feeling a little overwhelmed with work at the moment. I brought it all on myself, in the end, but that doesn’t make it any less stressful. A few days ago I went on a bidding spree with a few freelance sites and I’m not quite sure how it happened but I’ve managed to win 12 out of 15 of the bids. Each user wants me to start immediately. : deep breath :

A lot of it is blog templates, some of which I already have created I just need to change some things around graphically, this should take no time at all but when you’re dealing with people who are set on a schedule and you’re factoring in that all of these accounts need to be done before the end of next week it can really put a damper on my weekend plans.

I have a blog template to knock out tonight before I go to bed. I’m going to have another four to work on sometime over the course of the next two days. I have to email back someone who needs a quote on a PHP script and someone emailed me asking about advertising space so I need to come up with a quote for that too. While I fully admit that my blog is for more monetary than personal reasons, I’m not sure if I’m willing to place large 100-200 word ads on the sidebar. I’ll have to really think about it, then come up with a quote and go from there.

In the end, however, even if I don’t do that advertising my monthly income will be double what it’s been in the past and this can only mean something bad is going to pop up sometime in the very near future because I’ll obviously need the money to take care of it. It’s typically how the universe balances itself out.

I guess I should get my ass in gear. I think I’m going to have to steal my dry erase board from baby so I can keep track of everything. Heh.