My Inner "Fangirl" Is Finally Back!!!...

Who'd have ever thought? (!!!)

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My First "Professional" Gig *g*

Ok... so this was fun.

I work for a bank (which shall remain nameless...)

But anyway, we have this BIG celebration... on 5/3 of every year...

This year, the overall goal of the bank has been for each department/area/affiliate to refrain from working in silos and to become "ONE BANK" to meet our customer's needs.

So anyway... our affiliate, being the West Michigan one, (or me... I seriously can't remember)... came up with this silly idea of doing a music video set to Bob Marley's tune of "One Love."

And as silly as it may seem, it really ended up being pretty amazing overall!

Each department in our Operations Center was given exactly ONE day to learn the words to the music and THEN given only a 5 minute (one chance shot) to record it. We did this whole thing in about 2 hours!

Fun stuff! And corny? You betcha! But this all happened somehow seamlessly during our lunch hour. There's something to be said about teamwork!

And then I had the fun challenge of editing it... which was actually pretty easy since there ended up being MORE than enough material to work with!

Wow, It's April Already!

Seriously... I had no intention of neglecting my blog for this long! And I'm sure that all my avid and loyal readers have just been waiting with bated breath...

But this winter went by for me really quickly! Huge projects will tend to do that to you.

Ok, so this is the first thing I've posted since I got my Mac and I have to admit everything feels a little bit weird. Just saving pictures to post has been a major challenge! But I did manage (somehow) to get this screencap which features all the iDVD files that I've been working on ever since the snow began to fly. I think I only have one or two left to do!



My children's entire young lives captured in that one little screencap...

I hope they'll be excited...

Winter Retreat...

I know! I haven't been around HERE for awhile.

But I'm still hanging around...



How many more weeks?

Technology Shmechpology...

I don't even know what to say...

I've been doing this for a while now. I mean, I almost have a degree in it even!!!...

But somehow burning one little project on iDVD has taken me now a little over 96 hours. And STILL the chapter markers don't work!

And those people that answer questions when you "google"??? Well, they only THINK they're helping!!

*calming down now...*

I do realize that someday I will look back on all this and laugh.

Holy Mackerel!...

Ok, so I realize I haven't blogged in a while. But this new MAC is just so darn confusing! I mean, everything I thought I knew about technology and the media has just gone out the window. Bye Bye. And I've been doing that sort of stuff for a while now. But I'm a died in the wool PC girl!

My latest endeavor (not to just jump in head first with the most difficult thing I could imagine doing) has been to get all my 150 VHS tapes of my children's lives to digital. And there's about 6 hours worth of footage on each tape. This is where the math skills come in handy...

And so far so good, as far as converting them, but here's where the fun part starts.

In which format do I use to share them in on this thing? To save them for posterity? I've each of them saved in all of the following formats; wmv, mpg, avi, mov, mp4, m4v, mpeg-2. LOL. And it's like putting one person from every nation into one room and expecting them all to be able to communicate with each other. I have more and more admiration for lingualogists daily.

And I think this is gonna take a while...

Meanwhile... I've been finding lots of other cool things that my Mac can do...



I don't think those are Mackerels...

A "Reindeering"...

Look what I got from Jade for Christmas!



And well, from her Mommy and Daddy and Uncle Neal too...

I just love it!