I feel a rant...

[ellenmillion]

There's a rant in me, begging to get out, but I keep stuffing it back in. My posts have been whiny enough lately (my email's broken! my site isn't ready! I'm busy! I'm tired!), I thought I'd try something a little different and thank some of the people who have gone out of their way to make my life easier. 'Cause oh, man, do I appreciate that!!

You're the people that make me shake myself when I just want to sit down and cry because everything is entirely overwhelming and I can't make deadlines or make ends meet. You keep me going.

Megan - you've been a rock! I couldn't do EMG-Zine without you, and you've been enormously patient with my constant last-minute-ness. You make me look good! Seriously.

Janet - you are a webmastering dream. Seriously, having dealt with several of them now, you get gold stars across the board. Both my site and the EMG-Zine site (both rather complex) were accomplished in half the time I'd (now) expect one of them to get half-finished and you've managed every weirdo hurdle I've thrown at you, enabled my wholesale shopping, fixed lilypad bugs... you are a wonder, and I would be much, much more frustrated than I am without your backup. Plus, your columns! And you always have art for me!

Annie - I think you've gotten art in for every issue of EMG-Zine, almost all of it made especially for it. That right there puts you in my good books. But then you manage to get me a great column every month, and you're always helping out when I need it.

Marina - Every month without nag, a wonderful column! And always a nice comment when I most need it.

Ren - You've been available for scut duty on zero notice, and gotten me content with about the same warning. You're always on the ball with the AB stuff, and your comments are great.

Ursula - I hate you. In the best possible way. You're off being wonderful and getting famous, and you're still meeting Mr. Deadline and supporting Mrs. Little Guy when you've got an agent and could be thinking I'm beyond her, now and be terribly justified in that thought.

Deb - Talk about last-minute-ness... you've always come through for me!! You have the best sense of presentation, and... you're fabulous, that's all! I got your CDs, and still have to send your art because I couldn't log into the lilypad and get your address right then, and since then it's gotten shuffled. Soon! Today!



PS: If you're feeling excluded or the tiniest bit hurt 'cause you aren't here, quit it. I stopped because I have to get back to work or it will drown me, not because I ran out of people to list. There are way, way more of you, and this isn't even the most important or anything, just the first ones that I could write coherently about.

Comments

[jenelycam.livejournal.com]

^__^ You know you don't do too bad for yourself either...LOL You've got to be one of the most admired people I know!! And for good reason!!

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

No, that's okay! Its working now, and I got all the files! Safely in hand. :) Thanks SO much!!

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

*Huuuuugs* Thank you!!

[renatus.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome, Ellen. :D You're one of the most geniunely nice people I know and make Good Stuff, and working for/with you is pretty painless and pleasant even when I'm hauling ass to get something to you last minute. That's why I keep doing it!

[eaglemaina.livejournal.com]

You are more than welcome Ellen! I am so grateful for the fact that you have been including me into so many projects of yours, being so patient with all those mistakes I made in my columns too! I try my best to help out when I can, so please feel free to ask me anything anytime! It is always a pleasure to do work for you!

[celticwren.livejournal.com]

Ellen, I have to say thank you for putting up with ME! And without you the Angry E-mail Squirrels would never have been created..or gone on strike for that matter. :D

If I make a poster for my store's announcement board bragging about your printing products and quality would you mind? Lots of artists go through there, I bet some of them need lots of printing :) I know it isn't much, but I like to send people your way, I owe you for all the pestering I do. ;D Maybe it'll make more work to drown under, BUT if you get enough you could hire an assistant. :)

[cynnalia.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome, Ellen! *hugs* And I'm glad you got the CDs okay! ^_^

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Oh, jeez...I'm not beyond anybody yet, believe me!

Besides, even if one of these one-in-a-million shots pans out, and I'm wildly famous some day, SOMEBODY still has to print the fifty million Bad Egg t-shirts five minutes before the convention, and who else am I ever gonna be able to trust to do that?

[marrael.livejournal.com]

Your busy-ness is always an inspiration.
And my addiction to coding is at your service!

[marina-bonomi.livejournal.com]

Ellen, I don't know what to say,just...thank you (hugs tight).