Posted in Ruthie, Startup Mom on Aug 20th, 2010 3 Comments »
This is what I do for work – I produce animated videos like this one. In fact, this animation for Circle Street was my first solo project, back in February. I work from home – mostly in our basement office, sometimes at the dining table, occasionally in my thinking chair. I work part time while [...]
Posted in Everyday, Startup Mom on Aug 18th, 2010 No Comments »
I came home the other day to this freshly painted line on the street in front of our house, and I cried. For seven years we’ve laughed about this line. The city comes every few months to repaint it all the way down our street, but because our car is always parked out front they [...]
Posted in Other Places to Find Me, Startup Mom on Jul 20th, 2010 1 Comment »
A couple weeks ago I gave a short presentation on Lilipip at Tech Cafe (formerly Lunch 2.0), and I brought Ruthie along to the happy hour event because I wanted her to see see me in action. After seeing my name tag, which said @jenzug above @lilipip, Ruthie wanted to alter her name tag to [...]
Posted in Everyday, Startup Mom on Jul 16th, 2010 3 Comments »
Yesterday I made myself take a break. I’d worked the amount of hours I’d set aside to work, and there were no pressing issues that couldn’t wait until the next time I clocked in. I cleaned the kitchen, pitched some clutter, and managed to keep five kids happy and entertained. At 4:30 I finished a [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Startup Mom on Jun 15th, 2010 No Comments »
My assistant affectionately calls me the Boss Lady, which I find endearing. “Hey boss lady,” she’ll write in an email. “Here’s the weekly financial update. Did you send out the checks?” Yeah, she may call me Boss Lady, but she’s always telling me what to do. I find that I really like being the boss [...]
Posted in Startup Mom on Apr 26th, 2010 No Comments »
I’ve always had a tendency to quit things when they get hard. Or at least WANT to quit. I definitely WHINE a lot. Since I can’t really quit parenting, I do a lot of whining about that. A LOT of Whining. There is much whining. Imagine my surprise (oh!) when I felt like quitting my [...]
Posted in Books, Getting Things Done, Startup Mom on Apr 1st, 2010 No Comments »
Occasionally I work long hours after the kids go to bed, and Monday was one of those nights. I was a little manic, and despite being tired I couldn’t shut my brain off. As I tried to tear myself away from the laptop and just Leave It All Undone, I remembered how I gazed longingly [...]
Posted in Everyday, Startup Mom on Mar 21st, 2010 1 Comment »
A couple months ago when I started working with Bryan at Lilipip, I was really excited about the creative part of my job – all the writing and aspects of putting together a great animation. But I felt very overwhelmed by the operations tasks I was taking on – namely the multiple bank accounts and [...]
Posted in Other Places to Find Me, Seen, Heard, Said, Startup Mom on Jan 24th, 2010 No Comments »
Yesterday was a little… well… not what I’m used to. At several points during the day I found myself surrounded by the media, like when Beau Bridges and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar arrived for a panel to discuss the role of social media in promoting their new movie, On the Shoulders of Giants. I was sitting on [...]
Posted in Other Places to Find Me, Seen, Heard, Said, Soundrack, Startup Mom on Jan 21st, 2010 5 Comments »
We flew into Salt Lake City tonight for the Sundance Film Festival where we’ll be live streaming and producing video at the Tweet House. While standing in the baggage claim Bryan goes, “Hey, there’s Ted from How I Met Your Mother.” FIVE FEET AWAY. I watched a few people ask for his autograph, smile at [...]
Posted in Everyday, Startup Mom, Until Death Do Us Part (and to the Death it will be) on Jan 16th, 2010 1 Comment »
I’ve been working about 25 hours a week at Lilipip since the New Year, helping out with various project management and operations tasks. It’s been seven years since I last did this – wore something different every day, put on make-up, left the house before nine… you know, the USUAL. It’s been a hard couple [...]
Posted in On Writing, Other Places to Find Me, Startup Mom on Oct 26th, 2009 2 Comments »
I bet you’re wondering what I’ve been up to, lately, amiright? You may recall I did an Ignite talk in April called The Sanity Hacks of a Stay at Home Mom. I love public speaking, and aside from a breakdown or two in the preparatory stage, I had a total blast doing it. Who knew [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday, Startup Mom on Sep 16th, 2009 2 Comments »
God, your God, has blessed you in everything you have done. He has guarded you in your travels through this immense wilderness. For forty years now, God, your God, has been right here with you. You haven’t lacked one thing (Deuteronomy 2:7, The Message). I think the tricky part to the Daily Grind is not [...]
Posted in Startup Mom, Until Death Do Us Part (and to the Death it will be) on Sep 14th, 2009 1 Comment »
Bryan is working from home today – one of the many benefits of our new flexible lifestyle. We all walked together to Ruthie’s bus stop this morning, and he played tag with the kids while I chatted with another mom. I can’t think of a better way to start the day, except maybe with room [...]
Posted in Everyday, Getting Things Done, Startup Mom on Sep 4th, 2009 2 Comments »
Last night I escaped to my garden for a few minutes right before starting the kids’ bedtime routine. The sun was going down, the air was cool, and as soon as I reached for a tomato off my plants the anxiousness of our Days slipped away from me. As I continued picking my Sun Golds [...]
Be warned: what you see here is not my best work. It is what Anne Lamott describes in Bird By Bird as a series of “shitty first drafts.” Blogging dragged me kicking and screaming out of creative constipation by getting me to actually write. So I do that. A lot. Without worrying about every word choice or comma placement.
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