I recently turned 39.
This has nothing to do with the birthday postcard that I’m sharing today, other than the fact that a birthday was recently had. I hid my birthdate on Facebook to avoid the influx of notifications and was surprised that I didn’t completely escape (thank you again for your kind wishes, Aunt Peggy & Shona!), but thankful all the same.
I wouldn’t be able to remember birthdays if Facebook didn’t occasionally remind me, either (I’d be wise to start adding them to my phone calendar, I suppose). I wouldn’t say it’s laziness. My brain is full of all sorts of mush and panic at all times, so there’s all sorts of nonsense happening. Other things slip through my grasp. Whoops.
The postcard above makes excellent use of forget-me-nots to make up the word ‘Birthday’, though it does get a little lost in the shuffle. It might have been more effective if ‘Greetings’ was done up the same way! Imagine a typeface in this style. You couldn’t use it on anything that wasn’t a heading or title.
To say I’m not particularly thrilled with hitting 39 is an understatement: I thought I’d be more independent by now, with less debt and more freedoms. Instead, I’m scrabbling to get by and I don’t even have my own place to live. I’m eternally grateful to my parents for housing me, mind you, it just feels… like failure.
I owned a house from 2009 to 2014! Had I known back then what I know now, well. No use dwelling on that. ADHD took a lot from me and now I’m doing what I can to dig myself out of it, which means setting up some services. I’ll be advertising those in the coming weeks.
So, apologies if I’m a little glum. I’ll perk up again in time. In the meantime, now that I’ve switched newsletter service providers, consider signing up for my newsletter and inviting me into your email. I’ll keep it positive, and I’m told I’m a fucking delight. 😀
Ta-ta for now,
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