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2010-11-24

Live Everyday Like It Is PlasmaCar Race Day

My son Z-Man turns 7 today. SEVEN! Time moves so quickly with little ones. One of my goals in life is to stay as present as possible, to absorb each moment of life as it happens’ especially when it comes to familyâ€¦ especially when it comes to my guys.Z-Man is such a great inspiration for living in the moment. He still lives in a world where magic happens’ where Santa is real. He is just now sorting out that Scooby-Doo is imagined and MythBusters is true.

Z-Man lives his life fully present and in the NOW. Things that are sad saturate him’ and then in 10 minutes’ something that’s funny tickles him to his funny bone. He lives with excitement for almost everything (the only thing that deflates his sails is putting away clean clothes.) He races to get the mail, zooms to brush teeth, zips out the door to go ride his bike. Everything is adventure’ everything is worth getting exciting about.

We have a Thanksgiving Day Tradition here at the Schipul Office. We munch, we mingle, we visit with family, and thenâ€¦ we race. We race PlasmaCars in the parking garageâ€¦ younger and olderâ€¦ we race. And Z-Man, bless him, he believes we race every day. He has asked me at dinner, ‘Did you race the cars today?â€ He gets super excited when he comes to visit me at work and asks me every time, ‘Where are the racing cars?â€ As many times as I tell him we only race on Thanksgiving’ he has believed we race all the time.

Todayâ€¦ today is the dayâ€¦ today we race! And Z-Man has finally gotten it down that we don’t race every day. So today, he thinks we are racing just for his birthday! He popped his head into our dark room this morning before 5AM and quietly snuck back to his bed only to happily emerge at 6:23 exclaiming, ‘Today is my BIRTHDAY!â€

And I am inspiredâ€¦ what would it be like to live my life with that much excitement- to cherish each moment and the magic in it.

Z-Man teaches to me to live each day like its PlasmaCar Race Day.

Happy Birthday Sonâ€¦ you are blessing and a treasure and a joy.
My life is richer because you are in it.

2010-04-16

End of an era for a Schipulite!

So today is my last day at Schipul. After almost 6 years, leaving is NOT easy. Some of you will be asking why? I don’t have a good answer but mostly to have a little time with my baby girl and to see what’s next. I am not on a quest to find happiness. Happiness is having a my health, being married to a rock solid MAN, seeing a smile on my girl’s face, and spending the last 69 months of my life with a group of amazing people that have lifted me through a few dark times and escalated the happiest times.

Dear Schipulites’ I am so grateful for all the knowledge you talented, moving people have sent my way. You had made my 20’s unforgettable. For so long, this has been my safe haven where I was not afraid to leap because I know you always had my back. I have worked some of the best clients any company could ever have. Each and every person has touched my life in unimaginable ways.

I will never forget many deep conversations with @longstation, sharing an office with @deneyterrio (WOW, lol), and my Friday afternoon heart to heart chats with a STRONG and FEARLESS CEO. Ed’ your efforts are amazing and I am honored to call Schipul my second family.

Enough already! You all know how amazing Schipulites are. I am excited about the future for you guys! I won’t be far.

Thank you 157,456,000 times for everything you have taught me.

Much love!

–@inkoluv

These have been the best days!

2009-11-24

Thirty Days of Thanks – Resilience

He-Man & She-Ra It’s almost the end of the day and a combination of code just finished owning me in the worst way. It’s one of those days where you hope you’re not losing brain cells and you remember being much smarter in college.

I spent the majority of the day working on one of those projects that could best be referred to as “cake.” Yes, I said cake; no you’re not hungry, now focus.

Or at least that’s what you referred to it as in your head while you non-nonchalantly strut to the so-called challenge.

You walk up to this “cake” and realize it’s a not as nice as it looked from far away. Before you know it, you’re close enough to realize you bit off more than you can chew and the only thing you have left to do is to continue chewing until the pieces are small enough to swallow.

I have a few of these a month. Then of course I come back the next day with a new way of thinking and a fresh coat of deodorant and tackle what once seemed impossible. It’s at these times that I am happy I went through the whole ordeal only because I feel that much smarter/stronger/what-have-you.

I am thankful for so many things but if I had to point out one thing I’m thankful for at this very moment it would be resilience. It’s the thing that every child has an over-abundance of, it’s the thing that keeps us going, it’s the thing makes us all look like He-man or She-ra.

So, thank you resilience for reminding me that everyday is a new day and a chance to make things right.

Take us out Will.i.am.

2008-11-07

Schipulite Brian LeBlanc

This post is about our good friend Brian LeBlanc. He’s an awesome developer that came to us in hopes of learning more about web development/marketing.

I’m not going to highlight all the niceties of Brian LeBlanc, this post is merely to tell him and the rest of the world that we appreciate his time here and are more than proud of his direction and future endeavors.

To learn more about the great LeBlanc, give him a visit.
http://www.brian-leblanc.com/