May 5

Today Eric and I ran around the office trying to find globes to take pictures of for a Motion effect we wanted to do for a video. IFL has quite a few globes around, but unfortunately none were big enough for what we were thinking we wanted to do. It was still fun looking, though!

April 15

Tom's birthday was a few weeks ago, so we decorated his desk at work. Unfortunately, he didn't come in until today, but he was definitely a good sport about all the fun stuff we decorated with!

April 13

Today I got up and got dressed for work, not feeling very well, got about halfway there, and decided I really, really wasn't up to going to work today. So I called in sick, headed home, and got into my pajamas for the rest of the day.

April 9

We have this weird wig at work. I'm not really sure where it came from, but it gets passed around and usually ends up in whosever office who has last had a birthday. Today, Todd from web came down and visited and found the wig and put it on. He seemed to enjoy it.

March 18

Today at work, we made tiny pies in jars as one of our "do-something-fun-while-Joel-and-Eric-are-gone-to-Israel" activities. It was a BLAST. And they turned out so cute!!

March 9

Before Joel and Eric left for Israel, they told us we had to find 5 fun things to do while they were gone. Today was "Wii at lunch" day. It was really fun.

March 8

Today I stayed late at work to work on my BikeMS videos. I definitely shouldn't have shot my green-screen video in SD. It made it crazy-difficult to chroma, but at least I learned something for next time.

March 6

Today I spent the whole day directing a video shoot for Team HP's BikeMS recruitment and fund-raising. We had a lot of fun, but it was quite a bit of work.

February 25

Today at work we had teeny-tiny Cub Scout visitors. We gave them a tour and showed them how the studio and the green screen works, and they had a blast making a video.

February 19

Yet another day shooting on location at work.

February 18

Today we had a last-minute on-site video shoot. We had to grab all our gear, tear it down, take it to the location, then set it up again. It was a little stressful, but very fun to get outside our box and do something different.

February 4

Today at work, they had a chili cook off, and we brought chili and did a huge tasting for lunch. The chili I brought (my mom's) won the Best Presentation award!

February 2

Today for lunch, we all went out to our favorite salad place, Salata, to celebrate Joanna's and Brenda's birthdays. We love that place!

January 28

Today was our going away party for Dave, a co-worker who just changed jobs after more than a decade at our company. He will be greatly missed here, but we're happy about his new job.

January 26

This is a terrible cell phone picture, but today at work we went out to lunch together since our conference room was being used. It was a lot of fun. It's really nice to get along with the people I work with so well.

January 14

Sometimes at work, if we're having a slow day or a hectic one from which we need a mental break, we work on a puzzle. It stays out all the time. And when I say "we work on a puzzle," I mean my co-workers work on a puzzle. Because I really, really, really suck at puzzles.

January 7

When my alarm went off this morning, I was really not excited about getting up. I was super-tired, and on my way to the bathroom to brush my teeth, I tweeted "Dear work, Today would be a really good day to let me stay in bed. Kthanks."

On my way out the door, Jack lovingly reminded me to please be careful because there could be patches of ice on the road.


"Yeah, they said something about that at work yesterday," I replied. "I should check my e-mail and see if work is closed." But then I glanced at our dry driveway and decided there was no way they would close it in conditions like these.

But actually, it was closed, since the schools were closed. So I could have slept in after all. After I got there though, I figured I might as well stay and get things finished for my deadlines. As it turns out, I'm much more productive at work when my co-workers aren't there, so it's still a win.

January 3

I was up this morning at 7 to head to the church to film Chuck's first sermon of the year. I'm not really a morning person, but it is always nice to get shooting experience.