My company is moving back to its permanent headquarters late this week.
This was my office late yesterday. The situation hasn’t improved any since then.
I hate packing.
And Way I Know I’m Out of Shape Number 724? I am sore from the minimal lifting and toting I’ve done over the last couple of days.
Not. Good.
The “Yes. Good” news is that I’m actually starting to look forward to going back to the gym. (Small blessings ARE being counted in all this.)
…so go leave them one (or six) here.
AND KEEP PRAYING!
As done by many, most recently by Cardiogirl, I did a Wordle of my blog yesterday.
Is there any question about the BIG thing I’ve been blogging about recently?
I think I’m going to do this every so often. How often is yet to be determined. It may amuse only me, but… ;)
Irish Coffeehouse is hosting this week’s Fun Monday.
The topic is a GREAT one: careers — then and now: what we wanted to be when we grew up and what we’d do NOW if we had our druthers.
What I Wanted to Be When I Grew Up (the childhood version)
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a number of things. The two I can best remember are teacher and news anchor.
The first I still think I’d be good at. The second? Not so much. (WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?)
I went to college to study media communications. I was still following — at least vaguely — the news anchor dream. This didn’t last long. By the spring of my freshman year, I decided to focus on production aspects, particularly producing. I still had t.v. news in mind. (WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?)
My sophomore year, while working on a story for the campus newspaper, I realized what I REALLY should be doing was studying journalism. I called the person who would end up being my adviser and told him I thought I needed to add journalism as a major. His response? “I think that would be a good idea.”
My first clue that journalism was a better fit than media communications should have been the fact that I didn’t have a CLUE why people in my media communications major (primarily older than I was) were so freaked out by a class called Writing and Reporting the News. The professor (the previously mentioned future adviser) was known to be tough, and he made people have a lot of sources for the stories we wrote. (The HORROR!) In high school, I had to have answers to 50 questions for any newspaper story I wrote. What was the problem with having to have lots of sources?
I took my journalism classes and media communications classes and graduated with a double major. At the end of my second internship at a t.v. station about 25 miles from my college, I ended up deciding that t.v. news was not for me. I knew that if I produced t.v. news I’d end up like Miles from Murphy Brown, swilling Maalox constantly. This realization came RIGHT before graduation. Good timing, no?
After college I worked for three years at a sports news network in the video tape library. That particular job was far from Maalox worthy, but it still wasn’t for me. For almost 8 years since then I’ve been working for the magazine of a professional society. The second job is a MUCH better fit. :)
That said, I still don’t know if journalism/publishing is what I want to be “when I grow up.” I say I’m only 33, so I have at least 20 years to decide.
This leads me to…
What I Would Like to Be When I Grow Up (the adult version)
If I could do anything “when I grow up,” I’d do something in the baby business: be a midwife, a doula, a lactation consultant. I’m not sure which of the three, exactly, but I have a lot of fun dreaming. :)
Go here for more Fun Monday posts and to sign up yourself.
The last two weekends, Ed and I (and yesterday Toby) made our annual trip to visit friends at Camp. I am learning that I’m better at photographing inanimate objects than, say, children who move constantly. :) But I’m getting better at it (not many opportunities to practice when you don’t have kids of your own), and I think I got a representative sample of life with my friends. Also as is traditional, I got many more photos (good, bad, or otherwise) of the younger children.
Before the camp photos, two pictures I took last weekend at a butterfly release where Ed and I visited my photo.
Shy smile for Daddy.
Sun flower.
I was having a bit of trouble with my camera (noise filter that was “off” not “on,” etc.), but I LOVE the expression on Youngest Daughter’s face. :)
Buzzzzzz.
Fun self-portrait
Camp flower.
Roof of the youth tabernacle, but it reminds me of a horse farm’s roof.
Kool-Aid cups. (By the end of the week, all the adults were fairly SICK of grape Kool-Aid.)
Music maker
A l(otter) fun on the way home from Camp late Monday.
Ahhh…
The middle two children. (No, I didn’t ask them to pose identically, but I think it’s FUN that they did.)
Second-born and last-born.
Youngest, second-oldest and oldest.
Mirror photo.
It was a fun two weekends. Our friends are heading home today or tomorrow. We probably won’t see them until next year at Camp. I’m already looking forward to our next visit, whenever that may be.
For the rest of my favorites from the week, click here. My Flickr page is here. For more Weekly Winners goodness, visit Sarcastic Mom. :)
First, Project Black “subjects” (and the answer to “What IS that?” from today’s other post). Second, the print my blogoversary giveaway winner chose.
Project Black subjects
A few folks have guessed about some of my Project Black subjects.
Some of the guesses were right. Some were wrong. :)
So here is a list of all the Project Black subjects, including today’s, which also incorporated today’s PhotoHunt theme (What IS that?)
Take 1: a skateboarder in the 4th of July parade a couple of weeks ago.
Take 2: an antique car in the same 4th of July parade
Take 3: a stack of burnable CDs on a spindle
Take 4: a waffle iron’s “wafflers,” as one commenter posted
Take 5: Ed and me at a movie
Take 6: a guitar
Take 7: an otter I photographed at Dauset Trails Nature Center
Take 8: smiley face stickers on a craft project
Take 9: a button maker
Take 10: a guitar case
(Photos for Takes 6-10 taken on a trip last weekend to visit my best friend from college and her family.)
Blogoversary giveaway winner’s choice
Kam A decided on this photo.
I just LOVE this photograph, and I’m glad she does, too. :)
The answer to the question of this week’s PhotoHunt theme (What IS that?) is here, along with the subjects of my other Project Black posts.
Join the PhotoHunt!
(Summaries of my Project Black entries on which you can click to see the photo are here.)
As many of you no doubt know, BlogHer is going on rightthisminute.
There are WAY more people in the blogosphere NOT going to the conference than going. So some folks decided to have an alternative to BlogHer, which they’re calling “BlogHop ‘08.”
I don’t like REAL LIFE parties (one reason I decided not to go to BlogHer — too many people), but I love virtual ones. :)
I participated in the Ultimate Blog Party in March. I threw a little giveaway in April (and another one is coming the last week of this month). I’ve hosted three different blog carnivals and participated in a few myself… some big, some small.
So yes. I like reading blogs and “meeting” new people. Blog carnivals, no matter the context, are GREAT ways to do this.
So I’m IN. What about you? For more information, go visit Robin. The party starts at 10 p.m. eastern on Friday, July 18. How long it lasts is pretty much up to us. :)
Last September, on the third Friday we were in our temporary office space, I blogged about people leaving the faucets dripping in our ladies room.
Today is the last Friday we’ll be here before moving back to our headquarters building.
Some things never change.
Different faucet, same bathroom, but still dripping. All of us do stuff like this from time to time (and it may not be employees of my company who leave dripping faucets). But it struck me, so here I am.
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