Mileage Check

I'll be celebrating 26 years in less than a month. I'll be the first to admit that I had forgotten about the list. Let's take a look to see what I still have to do!

25 Things Before 26

1. Travel yep!
2. brush up on my Spanish
3. design something cool yep!
4. learn to cook one meal
5. wear my glasses more yep!
6. continue to do less yep!
7. exercise heck yeah!
8. take a bookbinding class
9. save money yep!
10. take more pictures yep!
11. use my large format camera
12. finish sewing my portfolio
13. make glass beads
14. do more night photography yep!
15. sew something pretty
16. enter in a photo contest
17. simplify yep!
18. read yep!
19. give up soda sorta (cut back drastically)
20. go to the beach more often heck yeah!
21. get a website up with my portfolio
22. find a great gelataria on the peninsula yep!
23. be more carefree heck yeah!
24. eat lots of fruit yep!
25. buy a used car yep!

I still have about 35% of my list to blow through in the next 2.5 weeks. I think I can do it! Mostly ;) Have a great night.

Senator Barbara Boxer visits SolarCity!

Monday was a very exciting day for us at SolarCity. Senator Barbara Boxer visited our Foster City warehouse. I was asked to help take photos and I was thrilled! Here is a photo before the Senator arrived:

There was a demonstration of an installation of a photovoltaic panel:

Senator Boxer spoke about energy efficiency in California and growing job opportunities that clean energy companies have created (SolarCity included).

I was really excited for my co-workers/friends got to share the stage with her. There was a lot of energy in the warehouse!

The best part was getting a group photo after the campaign speech. This was the main photo that was requested and I got it! I had so much fun taking photos at work.

 Check out a brief article here.

Computer problems

I'm still here but I'm battling a dying graphics card. I will be back to my regular blogging schedule once I have the computer problems worked out. Hope you are enjoying this beautiful month of June!

Weekend recap

Last weekend was pretty spontaneous. Here's what I did:

• Grabbed cupcakes from Safeway for a quick surprise birthday celebration.
• Hung out with co-workers/new friends.
• Got my credit approved.
• Bought a car.

• Learned some funny things that my cousin and I have in common.
• Went to a bar in Alameda
• Had the most impromptu photo booth fun.

• Took photos in a bathroom that had colorful graffiti.

 

• Enjoyed burgers at Jeffrey's diner for lunch.

• Met Eric in Palo Alto for dinner.

 I have come out from under my research rock now that I have purchased my car. YAY! Hope your weekend was wonderful!

Sarah & Dave at The Carneros Inn

Shooting at The Carneros Inn in Napa was such a treat. Working with Sarah & Dave was so special. I am always touched when people welcome me into their special day. I was Terra Tabbytosavit's second shooter and learned a lot from this talented photographer!

I spent the afternoon photographing the groomsmen as they prepared for the wedding. Here is a photo of the groom Dave, with his future nephew:

 

Putting on the cuff links:

 

Grandma and all her adorable grandchildren.

A special moment between group photos:

 

The bride & groom before the ceremony:

 

I'm excited to be shooting another wedding with Terra today. :D

Going Green

I've gone green. I started working for SolarCity on Monday, and I'm excited to be learning about making decisions to make our environment a better place. Or as some might say, I'm becoming a hippie. ;) Sorry for the lack of photos right now. Internet has been really touchy tonight. I'll be back later in the week.

Happy Easter!

Hope you are having a great time if you are celebrating Easter. I'm enjoying my chocolate bunny while I share some eggs that we dyed yesterday. I have so much fun playing with Hambly silk screen rub ons. We used the mustaches & frames this time. Don't you just love super vibrant colored eggs? 

 

I'll leave you with these cute cupcakes that were at the party yesterday. Hoppy Easter!