aprilgem is short for April Garnett E. Martinez. That would be me, a 31-year-old graphic designer who lives in Orange County, California. The domain houses a personal web site that's been online since 1999, and this journal has been a part of it since 2001.

aprilgem's journal is not a diary. Nor is it really a blog. I merely use this journal to share my writing, riddles, tutorials, and artwork with anyone who might enjoy them. Unless otherwise indicated, everything was written or created by me.

First Time Visitors

If you have never been here before, I recommend reading the following entries; they are some of my personal favorites and are representative of what I usually post:

2001
• Fish Dicks and Cat Shit
• London Derriere and the Menstrual Boy
• Poetry In Motion

2002
• V is for Vitch
• Karaoke Kills
• Kodak Moment #1: The Showers
• Girls Don't Sweat. They Glow!
• What's Odd in this Post? I Dare You to Tell Me.
• The Lady, the Tiger, and the Hollywood Ending
• The Feeling Is Nuptial
• Life Lesson #1: What I Learned While Working as an Imaging Specialist at a Pet Magazine...

2003
• Bad [Children's Fantasy] From My Writing Past #4: Gregor the Griffin
• Fauxtography 101
• It Kind of Grows on You
• The Nose Knows
• He Gazed at Me From Across the Room
• Photoshop Tips and Tricks #1: Patterned Cloth
• Scarred For Life #2: The Blackhead Blasting Blockhead
• Fauxtography 102
• Move Along, Folks
• Conditional Love
• A Moonless Starry Sky
• Little Miss Muffet Simply Can't Tough It
• I Am a Life Support System for a Vagina, Hear Me Utter a Full Loud Prolonged Sound

Mentioned regularly in my posts are H.E. and Cat. H.E. is short for Human Encyclopedia, and Cat isn't really short for Catatonic, but it should be.

Support This Site

If you like what you see here and want to support the site, you can do one or more of the following:

• Donate towards my Dreamhost fees
• Send me an Amazon gift
• Buy my Cafepress merchandise
• Commission work from me at my other sites:
  • whimsytoons.com
  • graphicfantastic.com

Contact

If you'd like to contact me about a particular post, you are free to leave a comment; your e-mail address will not be shown. Otherwise, you can write me at mail at aprilgem dot com.

A word on the comments: I've had to start moderating them because of what's called "comment spam". That's when spammers leave bogus comments on people's weblogs to advertise just how tiny spammers' penises really are. So if you leave a comment, it won't show up on the site until I'm able to log in and approve it. Rest assured, if you're not trying to sell me something I don't want or need, I'll definitely approve your comment. It may just take me a while because I'm a busy, busy girl whose weblog is so low on the priority list, the comments can wait.