I entered 2 competitions this week, usually I am the type of person who will see a comp, tell myself to join, then weeks later realise I forgot and it’s too late.

I really wanted to enter the first one because it was for YouthWeek and I remember last year I missed out. First prize is an Apple Mac 24inch G4, and a 4GB iPod. Second prize is a digital video recorder so that would be awesome too.

The second competition was for Thats Life! Magazine where you had to illustrate a picture for a story they provide. First prize wins $500 and your illustration printed in the mag.

I will post my entries here after the competition is over, I don’t want to risk being disqualified if it pops up somewhere else.

Wish me luck.

I swear this insomnia is getting to me. I am cranky, moody and just plain tired, yet I can’t sleep.

Two nights ago I told Carl to take away the modem at night and hide it so I am not tempted to stay up. Yet without the internet I still stay up. I was tired, seriously my eyes were droopy and my head was spinning. But I lay down for 2 hours and can’t get a minutes sleep. I tried everything from taking a bath, turning off all lights and sound, holding my breath. Everything. Yet I was still wide awake.

At 2am I got up and went on the computer, opened Photoshop and tried making something creative. Got frustrated, closed Photoshop and then opened Illustrator. My brain was swimming with thoughts and ideas yet I couldn’t produce them. It was like i was in some type of “zombie” state. After an hour on the laptop I made myself some Vegemite on toast. Then for the next 2 hours I watched boring infomercials. OMG I have seen those bloody things a million times yet I sat there for 3 hours straight and watched them. I learnt about ProActive, Principals Secret, Tony Robinson and those sharp knives “that can even fillet a fillet!”

After I watched that I went back to the laptop, and made a ton of smilies and another font. Then I went back to bed and watched a movie. Then finally I drift off to sleep, I feel so relaxed, I start dreaming. Then BEEP! It’s time to get up and go to work.

Last night I couldnt sleep at all, so what did I do?

I filled the Visitor Content section with some icons, bullets, 2 fonts and a tutorial. I’m working on more to add, but I don’t want the generic stuff you see on just about every website.

Everything on offer including the fonts are 100% created by me.

I also added useless facts about my name and about my cat on the about page.