I have an event tonight that’s shaping up to be a stresser. There’s a guy who was supposed to take the reigns on a few things that just kind of dissapeared when all the planning was getting done, so I’m a little worried that his bits aren’t in place.

In the end though… I just have to remember that all these events are going to go off wether I get involved or not. Since they are Disney events the client is usually quite happy and all is well. I just get a little bugged when my parts are planned well and others aren’t. (take a breathe rustin… and shut up)

Ok so.. in other news I’ve been picking up a fair ammount of web work. Several sites from a few different sources. I know it’s a lot of extra time to spend… but I enjoy doing it. I hope Janey isn’t hating it too bad. I do spend quite a bit of time on the computer these days. Most of it is just reading about what others have done so I can borrow ideas. In fact there is some really great articles about that very thing by Cameron Moll. He’s a really talented designer who actually lives in Springville from what I can tell. (if your one of my out-of-utah friends thats a town a ways south of Salt Lake near BYU.

Alright. Now that you’ve got some things to read… I will let you go. I’m sure I will be posting about this event tonight.

Tonight I’m just sitting around watching the polls. I’ve got the FOX, CNN, CBS, ABC, and Google News sites up in windows on three monitors. I know that even if I didin’t own a TV or computer that I would get the same news in the morning… but I am totally addicted. I just love to hear the news as it’s coming in. It kind of reminds me of working in the news room at KSL in Salt Lake. It was super stress but quite fun.

And… if I wasn’t watching I never would have seen Shepard Smith belch mid sentance by accident. My diet coke came out my nose.

Viva GW!

Till next time (when we’ll know who the president will be)

R.

So in addition to the research I did on the history of Halloween, tonight was a night for creative decoration. It was all inspired by my wonderful girlfriend. She had the idea to carve pumpkins and make sure the kids in the apartment complex knew we had candy to share.

As you can see we started out with a blank canvas just like the rest of the world, and we were going t make some magic.

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So I’m looking at the calendar, and it’s been over a week since I last post. I know there are so many people just hanging on my every word… how can I dissappoint you *cough bull bough*

Well at least I know a few members of my family read. I also found out today another person at work ‘happened’ across my little bit of the web. So welcome. I’m happy to have all read.

A whole bunch of stuff has been going on in the world of me lately. In addition to what is now my normal swing of events and planning of said events I’ve picked up some random web work. It seems to come in waves. I will go without hearing from anyone in my geek life for months at a time, then all of the sudden 5 different people email me with needs for a new site or help with a plan for a new project. I like it. It’s fun to hash out new projects with people and come up with fun new interesting things to let loose on the world. Right now the most complete of my little projecst is PrimoSpas. My good friend Ron called me with some ideas and a client, so I ran with it. As of this post date the site is only about 4 days old. It will come together… I would love to hear anyones feedback on what they think of this new site. Dont forget theres a little link a the bottom of each post to send comments my way! 🙂 It’s even fun to get comments from people that don’t like me. We had a little friend come visit the site who apparently didn’t like me much as you can see here. Maybe next time they will tell me who they were.

So.. I will just sit back and wait for those comments to come rolling in!

I’m going to run some errands in a few min. but I will be back online a little later. It’s feeling like a two post day.

Until next time
R.

So I’m around the computer this late for two reasons

1. there comes a point that if you go to sleep there is not a chance you will wake up on time
2. Janey was hogging the computer all night in her cranky pants (Janey if you’re reading this I meant to say your happy happy sweet pants, and what you just read was a typo)

So with those two variables added up I’ve made the super smart decision to stay up till I have to go to work. Maybe an hour or so nap… but nothing longer or I will never wake up. Tonight will just be my geek night.

I’ve been putting off a whole bunch of web updates I wanted to get done, so now those are finally done. I also had a giant stack of email that needed to be returned so I did that… hmm what else. … OH yes.. the most exciting part of the evening was signing up for Netflix. It’s a flat fee per month for all the movies you could dream of. And since I’ve been spending money on buying a new DVD about every other weekend… this will work out much better. check it out.. it’s very cool.

alright. I’m drooping pretty bad now. I better get a little nap.

until next time,

R.

It’s Monday, and I’m still breathing. I just finished my first two events and both went off without a hitch. Well…. Mostly. There was some quick decisions to be made thanks to the rain, and some moves and extra plans, but overall they were an absolute success.

I had fun, the clients were extremely happy… and I have some fun stories to tell around the campfire.

As I mentioned before we did have to deal with mother nature a bit. On sat it didn’t rain until right after the band finished playing. It’s like it was waiting for us. And last night it didn’t rain till we were all done.

I don’t have a ton of time right now.. But I will post more soon. I’m loving this event gig..

Till next time,
R.

I’m at work today for an event and I have just a bit of free time, so lets chat.

I’ve spend most of this week just kind of settling into my new gig. There is a lot of stuff that you just can’t get from a training manual. Tribal knowledge type stuff that just has to be passed from one person to the next, or it just won’t happen right. So I’ve been doing a lot of watching and listening to those folks who have been here a long time. As you can imagine things here don’t run the same as they might in the outside world. Disney kind of has their own way of doing everything, and special events are no different. Or… they are different, that’s what makes them Disney events! Getting from point A to point B around here is sometimes a challenge. Lots of red tape and paperwork, forms and logs and calls and confirmations. I guess that builds up in any company this size… but it is kind of annoying. I get so used to just making decisions and running with them, that having to run them by 7 different people for feasibility and legalities gets old fast.

You know… on a quick re-read of that last paragraph it’s obvious that a person might think I don’t like what I am doing. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I know I’ve said it over and over since I moved to CA, but I AM having the time of my life. Since the beginning of my Disney life I have done things I’ve dreamed about since as far back as I can remember. It’s hard to explain how it feels to sit right in the place that only 2 years ago was a dream pushed to the back of my head by logic. I convinced myself after moving out of the arts into the geek world, there was just no way to make my way back. I was too far gone… But here I am. Amazing isn’t it. That right this second I’m looking out my office window onto the majestic peak of Matterhorn Mountain. Gives me chills… OK, OK, OK Enough touchy feely… lets talk about what’s going on.

I’m at work today because I have my first Disney event. It’s over in DCA and I’m in the office to do a little prep work. To be honest I had a whole lot less prep work then I thought I did, that’s why I have the extra time to post this update. 🙂 I’m getting just a bit nervous right now as I look up to the sky. It’s cloudy… like the kind of dark grey clouds that tell you rain is on the way. The forecast last night was “a good chance of late evening showers”. You have to understand how terrible the timing of this is. We just spent a solid 6 months here in Southern CA with not a drop coming from the sky. Hell… There wasn’t so much as a wispy cloud. Down here it is blue sunny skies year round. Of course the evening of my first event… that’s my first outdoor event… we should see late evening showers.

I’ve got my rain tents on standby. I’ve got several hours till the event actually begins, so I’m not going to make the call just yet. I’ll be going over to the venue in a hour or so… I’ll decide then. I guess we will see what happens.

I won’t write too any more today. I’m going to go double check all my plans and make sure tonight goes off well. I know it’s mostly my family reading this, so thank you guys for everything. Jackie… Rest and get better soon. I miss you, and I hate that you’re in pain. Keep you’re chin up and a smile on your face, it’ll all be O.K.!

There is a bitter-sweet calm in my apartment tonight. Lady Jane, my little beagle, has a new home. I met with some great folks this afternoon who are going to show her a lot of love and take good care of her. They have 3 kids and a big yard. She’ll be much happier with them.

So things here are pretty quiet. After I vacuumed and mopped, I just sat. Turned on some music and just sat listening.

Thats really I have to update tonight. There is a ton of cool stuff going on, but for now lets just stick to that.

until next time,

R.

So I suppose some clarification is in order. It was brought to my attention today that I used some verbiage in another update that wasn’t quite correct.

My new position is actually called Entertainment Events Specialist. See… Mother Mouse has to be very careful about titles, since salaries and status is loosely based on several of them. So my duties entail all things that would be in the court of an event producer… while being called a Specialist.

Whew… ok now I’m all good.

Until next time,

R.