Hey everyone! Sorry I have not posted in ages. Things have picked up around here and there has been little time! The event is a week from tomorrow, and as hard as we try to work ahead, things always pile up. Here's the update:
Last Wednesday was a POP party! I worked on printing and copiling POPs for most of the day.
Thursday and Friday were snow days. :-)
This week we hit the ground running. Monday was full of POPs again. Many of them had to be printed, and I spent a couple of hours making needed corrections, reprinting and compiling everything. By the end of the day, I had 31 beautiful POPs in front of me.
Tuesday was exciting and LLLLOOOONNNNNGGGGG......... I started my day at 4:45am and had an interview in Brown County, Indiana for a possible job post-graduation. I won't give too many details because I have not heard back yet, but more details will follow depending on what I hear. Altogether, it was a great interview. I rolled into the office at 11:30 and hit the ground running. There were fires to put out as miscommunication between unnamed sponsors had caused a flood of wine distributors insisting upon tables. While this might seem like a small issue, it was a logistical nightmare. Every winery or distributor at the event has to turn in insurance information, excise forms, and wine lists. The wine lists are headed to the printer on Friday so this left very little time for all of the necessary parties to get their information in. The completed Wine List was now an atrocious mess and hours were spent cleaning it up. While Meredith focused on the wine list, I worked through the minutia of Sign Design with our design manager. Hours of tweaking and moving and rotating and font changes later, we were able to prepare all of the pdfs to be sent to the printer. Yay!
Wednesday was a little bit of a breather, but not by much. There were a couple more signs requested and changes to be made. Then, I headed to the event closet to count things like sign holders to see what we had and what needed ordered. I spent some time contacting all of my wineries about raffle entries, and at the end of the day a table tent design was requested. I spent the remainder of my day working on it and headed out at 5.
Not much to say yet about today as I have only been here a couple of hours, but look for another post soon! Tonight is my last night at my surrogate fam's. We are all sad about this. Luckily, I will be in and out next week. My classes and this internship overlap by one week so there will be a lot of back and forth happening between Greencastle and Indy. I cannot believe I have been here for almost 4 weeks. Time truly does fly when you are doing something you love. Thank you all for reading and I'll write again very very soon!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Days 11 and 12 (Monday and Tuesday)
Hello Friends!! I hope you all had a great weekend! I apologize for not having posted in a few days. Monday was slow and there was little to say, then yesterday was so busy there was no time to post. Oh, the irony. Anyways, on to what I have been up to.
Monday was a slow day indeed. We had a massive copy and compile project that needed done, but the main printer is down and I couldn't justify using the only other one in our wing for a few hours and therefore blocking everyone else's color copy capabilities, so that had to wait. I did some follow-up with wineries and continued to get their forms in and filed appropriately. I did work on compiling a POP from an event last year, but years of putting together mailers for my mom have made me such an efficient binder buider this project was quickly completed as well. I spent much of the afternoon researching center piece ideas and catching up on emails.
Tuesday was a much fuller day indeed. The day began with a trip to the Events Closet. This is possibly the most fun room I have ever been in. It is full of all the things used to put on a WFYI event. This includes, but is not limited to, gift bags, wine glasses coloring books, bubbles, signs, crayons, keychains, giant mascot costumes, polaroid cameras, noise makers, and caulderons, just to name a few. This trip was to look and see what signage from last year could still be used and what needs ordered. I spent the next few hours checking what we had against what we needed and making another trip to the closet to check sizes. This took all morning and then it was lunch time. Over lunch, I did some decor research for my sister's quickly approaching wedding. Come afternoon time, we (Meredith, Karen and myself) made a trip to the Roof to check on a few things. We spent about an hour checking out and creating centerpiece options. We also met with the company that will be running all of the lights, sound and video the evening of the event. We made decisions about what to light where and discussed the logistics of flipping one space into something else half way through the night. We returned to the office and I had a slew of email awaiting. Once this was dealt with it was time to head out!
On the home front, Hillary has returned to college. :-( Amanda, Kent, Morgan and I have been hanging out and last night Morgan and I spent an hour yelling at the TV screen as we watched Million Dollar Drop. We also used the Turbo Cooker to make mini chocolate cakes, and I started a new puzzle. All-in-all, life is great! I'm having a blast and can't believe I am half way done with this internship. Crazy! As always, thank you for the prayers and well wishes! Oh, and Happy Belated Birthday to my aunt Connie!
Monday was a slow day indeed. We had a massive copy and compile project that needed done, but the main printer is down and I couldn't justify using the only other one in our wing for a few hours and therefore blocking everyone else's color copy capabilities, so that had to wait. I did some follow-up with wineries and continued to get their forms in and filed appropriately. I did work on compiling a POP from an event last year, but years of putting together mailers for my mom have made me such an efficient binder buider this project was quickly completed as well. I spent much of the afternoon researching center piece ideas and catching up on emails.
Tuesday was a much fuller day indeed. The day began with a trip to the Events Closet. This is possibly the most fun room I have ever been in. It is full of all the things used to put on a WFYI event. This includes, but is not limited to, gift bags, wine glasses coloring books, bubbles, signs, crayons, keychains, giant mascot costumes, polaroid cameras, noise makers, and caulderons, just to name a few. This trip was to look and see what signage from last year could still be used and what needs ordered. I spent the next few hours checking what we had against what we needed and making another trip to the closet to check sizes. This took all morning and then it was lunch time. Over lunch, I did some decor research for my sister's quickly approaching wedding. Come afternoon time, we (Meredith, Karen and myself) made a trip to the Roof to check on a few things. We spent about an hour checking out and creating centerpiece options. We also met with the company that will be running all of the lights, sound and video the evening of the event. We made decisions about what to light where and discussed the logistics of flipping one space into something else half way through the night. We returned to the office and I had a slew of email awaiting. Once this was dealt with it was time to head out!
On the home front, Hillary has returned to college. :-( Amanda, Kent, Morgan and I have been hanging out and last night Morgan and I spent an hour yelling at the TV screen as we watched Million Dollar Drop. We also used the Turbo Cooker to make mini chocolate cakes, and I started a new puzzle. All-in-all, life is great! I'm having a blast and can't believe I am half way done with this internship. Crazy! As always, thank you for the prayers and well wishes! Oh, and Happy Belated Birthday to my aunt Connie!
Friday, January 14, 2011
Days 9 & 10 (Thursday and Friday)
Hey all! Thursday was a POP party! POP stands for Proof of Performance. We worked on putting them together for the Women's Health Event as well as getting materials together for Wine Fest. POPs include everything from logs of TV and radio spots, to E-blasts, to copies of magazine ads, memos, the event webiste, programs and tickets. After much copying and printing, the massive assembly process began. My legs and back got a work out as these were all in piles on the floor. This pretty much concluded the day.
Friday was packed full of fun stuff! The morning began with Mere and I running all over town doing some poster delivery. We then returned to the office and worked on a marketing pitch packet for another WFYI event. This included some painstaking "one centimeter this way, one centimeter that" work on the computer, but we had to leave this project unfinished for a fun field trip. We did a sight visit to the Roof Ballroom and it was AMAZING! The main circle of the ballroom is designed to make you feel like you are in a Tuscan village, complete with balconies, windows, and sky with twinkling stars. It has a huge, gorgeous bar and everything is draped in curtains. There is not a detail left untouched with even the carpeting and ceiling ornately decorated. It is such a cool space and really got me excited about the event to see where it is all going to take place. There was some clarification made to how many people are allowed in the space, and pictures were taken to plan where different booths and vendors will be set up. Then the 5 of us (Me, Meredith, Rena, Karen and Jenny Jones) went to Panera for lunch. We returned from lunch and Mere and I dug in on finishing the pitch packet, and sent it printed and bound to the higher-ups to be checked for mass production on Monday. We finished the day with a few more poster deliveries on Mass Ave. and some last minute mailing before heading into the weekend. All-in-all it was a very productive and rewarding day! We had a blast, accomplished a lot, and got some great ideas on the table. Mere and I are also in charge of designing centerpieces for the cocktail tables at Wine Fest. So fun! Well, that is it for now! Thank you for all of the prayers and well wishes. I love hearing that you all are actually reading this thing, lol. Talk to you all soon!
Friday was packed full of fun stuff! The morning began with Mere and I running all over town doing some poster delivery. We then returned to the office and worked on a marketing pitch packet for another WFYI event. This included some painstaking "one centimeter this way, one centimeter that" work on the computer, but we had to leave this project unfinished for a fun field trip. We did a sight visit to the Roof Ballroom and it was AMAZING! The main circle of the ballroom is designed to make you feel like you are in a Tuscan village, complete with balconies, windows, and sky with twinkling stars. It has a huge, gorgeous bar and everything is draped in curtains. There is not a detail left untouched with even the carpeting and ceiling ornately decorated. It is such a cool space and really got me excited about the event to see where it is all going to take place. There was some clarification made to how many people are allowed in the space, and pictures were taken to plan where different booths and vendors will be set up. Then the 5 of us (Me, Meredith, Rena, Karen and Jenny Jones) went to Panera for lunch. We returned from lunch and Mere and I dug in on finishing the pitch packet, and sent it printed and bound to the higher-ups to be checked for mass production on Monday. We finished the day with a few more poster deliveries on Mass Ave. and some last minute mailing before heading into the weekend. All-in-all it was a very productive and rewarding day! We had a blast, accomplished a lot, and got some great ideas on the table. Mere and I are also in charge of designing centerpieces for the cocktail tables at Wine Fest. So fun! Well, that is it for now! Thank you for all of the prayers and well wishes. I love hearing that you all are actually reading this thing, lol. Talk to you all soon!
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Day 8 (Wednesday)
Hey all! So, not much to say about Wednesday, it was, what you might call, a slow day at the office. I spent about an hour and a half rounding up forms sent in by my wineries and getting them copied, saved and filed as needed. I also learned how to put together a POP, it is a binder we send out to sponsors to give them an overview of what their money went toward. This included a short office scanning lesson. Excel and I are getting along better and better as I continue to learn all of the wonderful features it has to offer. On the adoptive home front, Amanda returned home, my biological sisters met my adoptive sisters via skype, and I called it an early night. Sorry this is such a short update! Thursday has a much fuller to-do list so hopefully it will be a tad more interesting. ;-)
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Days 5,6, and 7
Hello all! Sorry I have not posted in a while. My laptop has decided it will not allow me to enter new posts on my blog, so I had to wait until I had a few free minutes at my work computer to do so. Well, here is the update:
Day 5 (Friday) Friday was a rather low key day. It included some intern paper work, some office memos, recontacting unreachable wineries and my first office meeting. It was a tying up loose ends kind of day and I headed into the weekend feeling great about what I had been able to accomplish in the first week.
Friday night I returned to the Fort for the weekend, and I finished my John Grisham book. Friday night I hung out with my oldest friend Corynn and we caught up and flipped through wedding magazines, getting ideas for her July 2012 wedding. Saturday was spent at home, but it was great! I slept in and spent the day boxing up and reorganizing Christmas ornaments, as well as enjoying a few hours of being an only child with Emma and Christine both at a debate meet. The 'rents and I ordered Chinese food and watched the devestating Colts loss. Luckily, Sunday was enough fun to help me quickly get over the Colts defeat. Church in the morning, followed by a Bridal Show. Mom, Aunt Chrissy, Tino and myself perused and sampled and had a great time picking and planning for Tino's big day. At 2 o'clock was the fashion show that Corynn was in. Immediately following I walked around with Corynn, her grandmother and mother to help pick and plan for her wedding. A few of the vendors looked at me quizically, and one even mentioned having seen me with a different bride hours earlier. This vendor was a party supply rental company, and I told her I am a professional Maid of Honor, and if she would like to hire me and rent me out to needy, friendless brides I would be more than interested. ;-) The day concluded with a trip back to Indy and a Greenbay Packers win!!!!! Go Pack!!
Day 6 (Monday) I was excited to get back to work! The morning started with emails and phone calls, printing and filing the winery forms and information that had been sent in over the weekend, as well as recalling all of my assigned wineries to update them on the information needed for their wine list. From 10:30-2 my boss, Karen, and I ran around downtown Indy distributing posters and fliers. This was fun, and there was a even one hotel where a very nice doorman opened my cardoor for me. :-) Karen and I grabbed lunch after speaking with a very nice man at Easley Winery and finding out that he had once taught in Fort Wayne. The world is a very small place sometimes. ;-) Returning to the office I finished up phone calls and left 30 minutes early to distribute some posters in the Carmel area.
Day 7 (Tuesday) SNOW DAY!!!!! woot woot! It was snowing cats and dogs and Mere and I were so caught up on our work that Karen instructed us not to risk the weather and just stay in. Well, my body clock would not allow me to sleep in, but I enjoyed a day of relaxing, catching up on Brothers and Sisters episodes, working on some Underground Printing stuff, and looking over finances. It was a nice break day.
Well, that is it for now! I will try to update more frequently now that I know where I need to do it from. As far as my surrogate home life goes, I 'm still loving it. Hill, Morgan and I continue to nerdily dive into puzzles every night as we laugh at the people on the TV show Baggage. Yes people, I know it is a trashy show, but that is why it is so darn funny. :-) Thanks for all the love, prayers, and positive thoughts sent my way. I'm learning what it is to copletely love what you are doing, and be generally excited about what each day has to hold. I know that what I am working on is a career and not a job, I truly could not be more excited about what my future has in store. Talk to you soon!
Day 5 (Friday) Friday was a rather low key day. It included some intern paper work, some office memos, recontacting unreachable wineries and my first office meeting. It was a tying up loose ends kind of day and I headed into the weekend feeling great about what I had been able to accomplish in the first week.
Friday night I returned to the Fort for the weekend, and I finished my John Grisham book. Friday night I hung out with my oldest friend Corynn and we caught up and flipped through wedding magazines, getting ideas for her July 2012 wedding. Saturday was spent at home, but it was great! I slept in and spent the day boxing up and reorganizing Christmas ornaments, as well as enjoying a few hours of being an only child with Emma and Christine both at a debate meet. The 'rents and I ordered Chinese food and watched the devestating Colts loss. Luckily, Sunday was enough fun to help me quickly get over the Colts defeat. Church in the morning, followed by a Bridal Show. Mom, Aunt Chrissy, Tino and myself perused and sampled and had a great time picking and planning for Tino's big day. At 2 o'clock was the fashion show that Corynn was in. Immediately following I walked around with Corynn, her grandmother and mother to help pick and plan for her wedding. A few of the vendors looked at me quizically, and one even mentioned having seen me with a different bride hours earlier. This vendor was a party supply rental company, and I told her I am a professional Maid of Honor, and if she would like to hire me and rent me out to needy, friendless brides I would be more than interested. ;-) The day concluded with a trip back to Indy and a Greenbay Packers win!!!!! Go Pack!!
Day 6 (Monday) I was excited to get back to work! The morning started with emails and phone calls, printing and filing the winery forms and information that had been sent in over the weekend, as well as recalling all of my assigned wineries to update them on the information needed for their wine list. From 10:30-2 my boss, Karen, and I ran around downtown Indy distributing posters and fliers. This was fun, and there was a even one hotel where a very nice doorman opened my cardoor for me. :-) Karen and I grabbed lunch after speaking with a very nice man at Easley Winery and finding out that he had once taught in Fort Wayne. The world is a very small place sometimes. ;-) Returning to the office I finished up phone calls and left 30 minutes early to distribute some posters in the Carmel area.
Day 7 (Tuesday) SNOW DAY!!!!! woot woot! It was snowing cats and dogs and Mere and I were so caught up on our work that Karen instructed us not to risk the weather and just stay in. Well, my body clock would not allow me to sleep in, but I enjoyed a day of relaxing, catching up on Brothers and Sisters episodes, working on some Underground Printing stuff, and looking over finances. It was a nice break day.
Well, that is it for now! I will try to update more frequently now that I know where I need to do it from. As far as my surrogate home life goes, I 'm still loving it. Hill, Morgan and I continue to nerdily dive into puzzles every night as we laugh at the people on the TV show Baggage. Yes people, I know it is a trashy show, but that is why it is so darn funny. :-) Thanks for all the love, prayers, and positive thoughts sent my way. I'm learning what it is to copletely love what you are doing, and be generally excited about what each day has to hold. I know that what I am working on is a career and not a job, I truly could not be more excited about what my future has in store. Talk to you soon!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Day 4
Today was fun. :-) I got to call the wineries that are my responsibility. Some were to remind them of upcoming deadlines, and others were just to introduce myself as their go-to contact person at WFYI. Other than that, there was a lot of spread sheet updating and online calendar entry. I got to leave early. :-)
On a side note, I have been enjoying reading Jon Grisham's Ford County Short Stories on my lunch break and I LOVE it! A great read U would suggest to anyone!
Sorry guys, not much to report today. Things will pick up here in near future. Thanks for being checking in! If you have any specific questions about this event/my involvement/my interests in even planning, just shoot me a message. Ttyl!!
On a side note, I have been enjoying reading Jon Grisham's Ford County Short Stories on my lunch break and I LOVE it! A great read U would suggest to anyone!
Sorry guys, not much to report today. Things will pick up here in near future. Thanks for being checking in! If you have any specific questions about this event/my involvement/my interests in even planning, just shoot me a message. Ttyl!!
Happy Birthday Macy! Day 3
Today is Macy's birthday! Macy is the little adorable dog that belongs to the wonderful family I am staying with. Today was filled with some fun office firsts, here is the run down:
-First time making a phone call from my desk phone
-First time making a copy at the office
-First time eating out with coworkers
-First time drafting an office memorandum
-First office party
Some of these sound silly, but they were still firsts and deserve to be noted! Much of today was spent bundling marketing materials. There were 150+ bags that had to be filled according to what each business requested, stuffed with thank you letters and a map. These were all then divided by region and labeled as such. This took most of the day. Small tasks included labeling folders, cleaning up spread sheets, and filing papers. Lunch was a blast with Mere, my boss Karen, and her boss Rena. The office party was Starbucks themed, so there was coffee and snacks all around! It was a great day!
Tonight, Morgan (My surrogate 17 year old sister) and I worked on a puzzle and Hill (my surrogate 19 year old sister) jumped in too. We ate dinner and talked, and then Amanda (Mom), Kent (Dad), Morgan and I went to Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt. This place was AWESOME! It's self serve machines and toppings and then you just pay by weight. It was super stinkin cool! There are some definite perks to living in Carmel, IN. :-) All around it was a fantastic day! Keep the prayers and positive thoughts coming. I miss you all!!
-First time making a phone call from my desk phone
-First time making a copy at the office
-First time eating out with coworkers
-First time drafting an office memorandum
-First office party
Some of these sound silly, but they were still firsts and deserve to be noted! Much of today was spent bundling marketing materials. There were 150+ bags that had to be filled according to what each business requested, stuffed with thank you letters and a map. These were all then divided by region and labeled as such. This took most of the day. Small tasks included labeling folders, cleaning up spread sheets, and filing papers. Lunch was a blast with Mere, my boss Karen, and her boss Rena. The office party was Starbucks themed, so there was coffee and snacks all around! It was a great day!
Tonight, Morgan (My surrogate 17 year old sister) and I worked on a puzzle and Hill (my surrogate 19 year old sister) jumped in too. We ate dinner and talked, and then Amanda (Mom), Kent (Dad), Morgan and I went to Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt. This place was AWESOME! It's self serve machines and toppings and then you just pay by weight. It was super stinkin cool! There are some definite perks to living in Carmel, IN. :-) All around it was a fantastic day! Keep the prayers and positive thoughts coming. I miss you all!!
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