Famous on the internet

Tim and I were featured today on one of my favorite wedding blogs. Check it out!

http://offbeatbride.com/2007/11/sharons-diy-sf-wedding

We're actually probably one of the more conventional weddings that get featured on the site, in that neither of us are rockstars, we did not arrive in coffins, and R2D2 was not a member of our wedding party. Oh well, at least I have tattoos.

While I'm bragging, I don't think I've mentioned on here that we're also going to be featured in the April/May 2008 issue of VegNews magazine. They do an annual wedding feature and we were chosen to be included next year! We're in good company - two years ago they featured Dennis Kucinich's wedding.

It also occurs to me that I can't recall if I've ever linked to the blog I currently write for:
http://ethicalweddings.com/blog/

In my last post I mention the recent Green Festival I attended for my new job, which is awesome, by the way. Looking back I'm fairly sure that I wouldn't have gotten this job without the blogging I do. Leave it to me to parlay my wedding into a career. The Green Options Editor asked if I'd be interested in blogging on green weddings for their site. Well of course I would! So I may soon be a professional blogger as well. And here I am, giving out my words for free...

We work hard for the money...

Well, the biggest news lately is that both Tim and I have recently taken on new jobs. Today Tim finished up his first week at Atlassian where he's working as a Developer for plugins for Jira and Confluence (two tools you probably wouldn't know unless you work for a tech company, yourself). Their offices are walking distance to our place, and he's working with our friend Stewart, who you may remember as an Usher at our wedding. So far the culture seems to be a much better fit for him. Their headquarters are in Sydney, Australia so there may be some Koalas and Kangaroos in our future.

And today I started training for my new job with GreenOptions.com. It's a big career change for me, being my first non-nonprofit job, a "green" company, and a tech start-up. I'm working as their Office Manager and one of my first tasks is finding them offices to manage. Right now we've got about a dozen employees working from home, only half of whom are local to the Bay Area. I've got a bit of a learning curve when it comes to tools for online collaboration, but luckily I married someone who's pretty well-versed on the subject.

I'm working part-time as an independent contractor through the end of the year, and then hopefully going full-time in January. It's nice because it works out perfectly with the schedule I've committed to at my other job as an Admissions Interviewer at The Urban School which ties me up four afternoons a week through mid-December.

I guess you could say it's been a big year in our household. Now, if only we could get the cat off his lazy butt to start earning his keep.