Merry Christmas!

3123692128_56968073d0_oSo here we sit on Christmas day watching TV or just being lazy. Many of you are watching kids with their toys running around the house. I find myself here at this old comfortable spot, with the TV on in the background, the coffee brewing and the chill air outside, wondering what the next year will bring and looking back at the last. It’s been fun this last year and the next will be completely different. What, you thought I had some profound point? LOL Not likely.  hahahahaha… or should I say hohohohoho….

Merry Christmas!

Posted on Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:41:15 GMT

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Photosynth of Heliotrope Hike

I did a 3D Photosynth of our Heliotrope Hike. It has a 360 degree view of the high spot where we went.

  http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=23cc0b80-6899-44c1-94df-2b4374d24d98

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Posted on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:12:06 GMT

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We won an award!

This year I was on the Festival of Trees team with the Mount Vernon Chamber of Commerce and Skagit Young Professionals. Our team was made up of mostly women, so the theme is decidedly girly. It was Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend from the old Marilyn Monroe movie. Our tree was part of the overall event which is a charity gala for the local cancer foundation where they auction off the trees we made. We gathered about $6000 of stuff donated as part of our tree. On Tuesday there was a Designer Appreciation Night and we were voted Designers’ Choice by all the other tree designers. I’ve uploaded a ton of photos to Flickr, most of which I have to get permission from people before I make public, but I do have some public photos to show.

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There was also a Tiki tree there that I really liked and I took a few photos of it too.

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Posted on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:56:46 GMT

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Observing…

Ya know, sometimes I feel like I’m watching the world flow past me like so much water down the river. In a few days I’ll be 31 and the last few years I’ve been searching for something. Myself. You see, somewhere along the line I lost who I was in so much work and blind ambition to build a business or two that I seldom took the time to step back and actually see where I’ve come from and where I am now.

This time of year, when it gets cold outside and I get a little older, I look around me to see what I let slide past the rest of the year. The fun hikes, the work, work and more work. The dinner out with friends. I started a new business this year as well, became a chamber of commerce ambassador, took lots of photos, and generally got in the way a lot.

It’s been a fun time, but something has been missing, or rather someone. I thought for a minute that I’d found her a few years ago, but alas she slipped through my fingers. Maybe the next year will find her, whoever she turns out to be. Until then I’ll wait and see, there’s always the work, it never leaves.

So, my friends who read my rambling, remember to take a minute to see what’s truly around you or you just might be surprised when it’s gone.

Posted on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:47:01 GMT

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Some new photos

For those of you who don’t follow my flickr feed, I went on a hike a little while ago and took a few photos. They are in reverse order so you see the hike backwards from the end to the top. I don’t usually take photos on the way up. Enjoy…

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Posted on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:40:08 GMT

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Certifiedly Certifiable

Recently, a few of us drove to Redmond to take a certification test. After a cram session and a long wait while the others finished two of us passed. Happily I was one of the two and am now a Microsoft Certified Professional. This also qualified our company for Microsoft Small Business Specialist status.

December 2005

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