I really hope they don’t build anything next to our office any time soon, because the view from my desk at sunset is breathtaking! That’s my darling Swedish teammate, Sara, hard at work.
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View from my desk
Posted in Amanda, Work on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Time to go back to work
Posted in Amanda, Work on Friday, September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted to share the very good news that I have accepted a position at Ziba Design in Portland. I will be working at the brand new world headquarters in the Pearl District. It’s certainly not a shabby place to hang my hat each day, that’s for sure! The team with whom I’ll be working [...]
Alec climbs his first turbine
Posted in Alec, Work on Thursday, June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was just another day at the office for Alec and some of his coworkers! Vestas turbines are humongous: 3 football fields tall with blades the length of an 18-wheeler. No wonder they wear steel-toe boots, hard hats, safety goggles and harnesses with massive carabiners. Safety first, safety last, safety always. Alec said the experience [...]
Alone again
Posted in Alec, Amanda, Travel, Work on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Alec is off traveling again, this time to Rochester, NY for Vestas business. He’s the new travel moth in our family and it feels okay to let him have some of the work travel fun for a while While he’s off in New York, my plan is to kick this whooping cough that [...]
I have really sweet coworkers
Posted in Amanda, Work on Friday, March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just received beautiful flowers and two really nice bottles of wine from my family at iDL
Before and After – Tillamook County Women’s Resource Center playroom
Posted in Work on Monday, March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check out the before and after photos of the new playroom at the Tillamook County Women’s Resource Center. Toys for Kids provided a much-needed new playroom for the little ones at the Center. If you want to see the fantastic transformation in person, please come to the open house March 31, 2009 between 3pm and 6pm (1902 [...]
There ought to be a rule…
Posted in Work on Monday, March 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I think there should be a rule against bringing unwanted, caloric temptations to the office and making them someone else’s achilles heel by proxy. I have resisted the Girl Scouts thus far, but I fear that the conference table full of thin mints will prove too tempting after lunch. Damn those delicious Samoas!
What I do for a living
Posted in Amanda, Work on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Everyone thinks I’m in marketing. Nope, I’m in merchandising. I get it – both start with an ‘m’. Sometimes it’s hard to describe what I do for a living. I usually say something along the lines of “we design and produce vehicles to sell our client’s products”. Then I usually get a blank stare and a [...]
A change of plans
Posted in Amanda, Travel, Work on Thursday, December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Less than 48 hours before my flight to China, my trip has been put on hold. Patience and my ability to go with the ever-changing flow are virtues that I’m trying to hold near and dear.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
-H.G. Wells
Vestas is here to stay. Thank you Portland!
Posted in Alec, Work on Monday, December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Portland Woos Wind-power Giant Vestas
by Ryan Frank, The Oregonian
Sunday November 30, 2008
Portland city leaders have offered wind-power giant Vestas $12.5 million in cash incentives to add 850 white-collar jobs in Portland and build a $250 million North American headquarters here, Mayor-elect Sam Adams said.
Adams and Gov. Ted Kulongoski have vowed to make Oregon a hub [...]
