Dec. 19th, 2014
Deck the Halls...
Dec. 19th, 2014 07:30 amIt's a good thing that I start work at 6:00 am. I barely had enough time to get the conference room decorated for our giant pot-luck lunch yesterday before people started coming in around 7:00 am to drop stuff off. I'm really happy with how it turned out, given I wasn't asked to do this until the day before. Good thing I have spare decorations in my garage! Everyone loved the decorations. So much so that I was given a Gold Star on our board in the lunchroom!
Here are a few pics:



Here are a few pics:



ASK ME ANYTHING - Day Seventeen
Dec. 19th, 2014 08:00 amASK ME ANYTHING - Day Seventeen -
aerysun5 wants to know who was my most influential teacher and why?
Honestly, that would have to be a three-way tie between Ms. Lee, Mr. Schwartz and Ms. Andresen.
Ms. Lee was my first grade art teacher and Mr. Schwartz was my art teacher all the way through four years of high school. They both saw the creativity inside me and encouraged me and gave me the confidence to believe that I could go into art as a profession. And here I am, working as a graphic designer for the past 20 years!
Ms. Andresen was my sixth and seventh grade English teacher. She's the one that saw in me my gift for storytelling. I'd always loved writing short little things in grade school but I really flourished under her guidance. And now I'm writing professionally! She's also the one who got me started with my love of law enforcement. Her daughter was an FBI agent. I became Ms. Andresen's student assistant and would stay after school to help out with things and she'd tell me stories about cases her daughter had worked on. I was fascinated! And here I am now taking one citizen police and fire academy class after another AND writing about men in uniform. :-)
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Honestly, that would have to be a three-way tie between Ms. Lee, Mr. Schwartz and Ms. Andresen.
Ms. Lee was my first grade art teacher and Mr. Schwartz was my art teacher all the way through four years of high school. They both saw the creativity inside me and encouraged me and gave me the confidence to believe that I could go into art as a profession. And here I am, working as a graphic designer for the past 20 years!
Ms. Andresen was my sixth and seventh grade English teacher. She's the one that saw in me my gift for storytelling. I'd always loved writing short little things in grade school but I really flourished under her guidance. And now I'm writing professionally! She's also the one who got me started with my love of law enforcement. Her daughter was an FBI agent. I became Ms. Andresen's student assistant and would stay after school to help out with things and she'd tell me stories about cases her daughter had worked on. I was fascinated! And here I am now taking one citizen police and fire academy class after another AND writing about men in uniform. :-)
My star shines bright
Dec. 19th, 2014 11:54 amHere's my Gold Star I was given yesterday for all of my decorating efforts around the office and for our pot luck lunch conference room. Really nice gals in our Customer Service department to do that for me. It's actually a contest, who gets the most stars at the end of the month, so I really appreciate it. :-)
