After 6.5 years at Yahoo!, I said “see you later” to my Yahoo! family (they will all forever hold a special place in my heart) and am about to embark on a new adventure with a company in Mountain View, Rhythm NewMedia.

My team and I were impacted by some big business decisions to lower costs at Y!, so we worked through 2 months of transitioning business before saying sayonara to the big purple. I feel fortunate in the sense that my team and I had a 2-month head start to look for our next opportunities v.s. receiving walking papers same day like some of our other dear Y! friends (to those friends, I say to you: things will look up for you soon if they haven’t already – less drama for your mama on the outside, I tell ya). I hold nothing personal against the company; it’s business and I get it. I’m beyond ready to move on.

Back to my new exciting adventure. I am officially taking one ginormous step onto a new career/life path as my first day with Rhythm is TOMORROW! The company specializes in Mobile Video advertising. I step in as Ad Operations Manager for a team of Campaign Managers. It will be interesting to jump in as a player-coach in a brand, spanking new environment with brand, spanking new tools, but I am eager to dive in and learn. I love, love, LOVE people managing so I’m hoping to get up to speed as quickly as possible to devote some energy into doing what I think I do best. Working on that 30-60-90 day plan for myself as I type, so wish me lots of luck!

VOILA!

So pretty

Crochet Easter Bunny Peeps – I found the pattern on Ravelry.com (Thanks, Amanda – I forgot I had signed up!)

I dropped these little guys off on a bench inside of the Great Mall in Milpitas near a kid’s play area.

Hope they find a nice home soon!

Hope someone takes this little one home and sends a snapshot of its adoption…

As I was checking out and taking photos of the progress of our home addition in the backyard tonight, I saw this creepy lurker’s hand pulling down a palm frond from our tree outside of our side yard as if he was using it to leverage himself to peek over our fence:

Like an idiot, I shouted, “HELLO?!” and scared him away instead of waiting for my money shot of him popping over my fence since I had my camera pointed right in his direction.  I shouted to Christian and had him look over the fence as the guy ran away and hopped in his car.  I threw my arm with camera in hand over the fence that I couldn’t see over and shot the picture in hope of capturing his ugly mug.  Well, the above was all I got and it was dark.  Thank goodness for  the magic of  Lightroom, but it still isn’t a clear shot of what this creeper looks like.

I don’t know what he was doing for sure or what his motive was for even being by our side yard fence, but whatever it was, it was not for any good purpose because the dude scurried away because he knew he was doing something shady.

See a creepy guy driving an old, white CRV? Slash his tires and get that money shot for me, would ya? Thanks.

Sleeplessly  Yours,

sleepyeve

It was fun and it made me feel good.  Great way to end my weekend

Check out Christian’s video (and my baking adventure), the ART of the CUPCAKE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1cEhymWoqE and enjoy!

When you’re done with that, watch our latest 48 Hour Film project, Polar Opposites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFWsuvX2GCk

And if you feel like doing a little reading, check out the latest posting on Lock It Down TV titled “It’s a Cruel Summer” written by yours truly.

Off to lunch, then a play, then some work for work. Happy Sunday, y’all!

Sock cake made by the fabulous Rosie

Awesome cupcake bouquet sent by my wonderful Christian

Chillin’ on the lawn chomping on some tasty kebabs

Smiles with Jayden & Kat

Baby Lily sporting the coolest cupcake hoodie ever

Just Dancing in the garage to Womanizer

Here’s the rest of the photos for your viewing fun.  Thanks for reading!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sleepyeve/sets/72157624350200743/

(Slideshow) http://www.flickr.com/photos/sleepyeve/sets/72157624350200743/show/

Before I get into the awesomeness that has been my 30th birthday today, I want to share the story of my past 6 months.

30 pounds for my 30th.

At the beginning of this year, Christian and I decided  to get our act together and make some lifestyle changes.  I think we had both hit a point over the holidays when we realized how unhappy we were with how we were feeling and looking.  I was probably at my heaviest  that I’d ever been in my life over the Christmas holiday… and we all know how feasting over holiday meals go…  In mid January, I decided that enough was enough.  I started teaching myself some simple things about calories, nutrition, well-balanced diets, and Christian and I started our lifestyle change.  I decided to join Christian and some of our friends each weekend to ease my way into the world of running.  I’d run some, walk some, run some, walk some more.  We started to eat better meals – homemade, properly portioned,well-rounded meals (home-cooked meals now take about a half hour to an hour longer to prepare because I measure and calculate everything out).  We watched our balance of calories, making sure to keep ourselves accountable for everything we consumed and balanced our days with physical activity.  Some of you are probably thinking, “oh,  so they went on a diet” but no, that’s not really the case.  As I mentioned a few lines earlier, we decided to make a lifestyle change, so this isn’t a temporary fad we put in place to drop pounds; this is a permanent transformation in our way of thinking and behaving to make ourselves healthier, happier people.

Six months later, I’m now officially thirty pounds lighter and ten thousand times happier.  When I lost ten pounds, a good friend of mine suggested that the next  time I go to the grocery store, I pick up two sacks of potatoes to see how that extra ten pounds of weight really felt.  Well, I never remembered to do that, so the next time I remember when I go into a store, I need to pick up 6 sacks of potatoes to account for the thirty pounds.  Ooooh boy.  I’m  happier, I feel loads more confident about myself, and I don’t mind seeing myself in a mirror or in pictures these days.  I don’t really deprive myself of anything I enjoy; I just enjoy it in moderation and/or balance it appropriately with working out.   It’s all about discipline and balance.  And teamwork.  If Christian and I were not in on this together as a team, I’m sure neither of us would have been as successful as we have been.

This lifestyle alteration also has me doing more physical activity than I’ve ever done before in my life.  When I first started running, I’d run two sides of a block before I had to stop for a walk break.  Eventually, the walk breaks shortened and now, I can run for 7 continuous miles on a good day.  No, not training for a marathon or half marathon.  And no, not enjoying running itself either.  I just enjoy the sense of accomplishment that comes after I’m done.  The increased caloric capacity to shove more food into my belly is also a plus   To think, when I was a chubby junior high schoool pre-teen, I struggled through a 14 minute mile a week because I had to do it for a grade.  Now, I’m choosing to do a 10:30 to 11:00 mile for way more than just a mile.  I’m nuts.  At least I’m happily nuts.

One last thought on this life change: eating better and working out allowed for me to drop 4 pant sizes since January.  I’ve spent so much money shopping in the past several months because I kept outgrowing (or whatever the opposite of outgrowing is…) my clothes.  Totally worth it though because shopping and trying on clothes is actually a fun thing for me to do these days

All right, enough of that.  On to something else.

What I Did for My 30th Birthday.

I’ll keep this portion as brief as I can because frankly, I’m sleepy and I wanted to get this blog posted on my birthday but it looks like I’ll be missing that by several minutes… OH WELL.

Christian and I woke up around 7ish and went out for a 7 and an half mile run.  7.6 to be exact.  That’s the most I’ve ever clocked in continuous running miles *pats self on back*

After we got back home and took our respective refreshing and very necessary showers, we picnicked in our backyard under our nice ginormous backyard tree.  I love picnics and so rarely go on them, so this was fun

After lunch, we headed over to the movie theaters and treated ourselves to Toy Story 3.  Lots of kids, but it actually wasn’t as annoying to be in the audience with them as I thought.  Great movie – very emotional, actually.

Once the movie was over, we dashed over to the Tech Museum of Innovation and enjoyed a very educational and interesting exhibit on Genghis Khan.  We walked around some of the other Tech exhibit halls after that was done, but didn’t end up staying for too long because we were both starving.

Dinner consisted of feasting on some yummalicious baby back ribs at Henry’s Hi-Life by the Shark Tank.  MMMMMmmmm… ribs, baked potato with a scoop of butter crack and sour cream, and super-delish garlic bread.  Oh, there was a salad of some sort somewhere in there too, but that was totally forgettable.

Since we were  sort of in the neighborhood, we decided to check out one of our favorite Target stores – the one off of Coleman is pretty nicely kept.  Didn’t buy anything exciting, but I just enjoy walking around that store and looking at stuff.

We got home and had a small Mad Men marathon to close out the evening.  I tuckered poor Christian out with my very long list of birthday activities but he’s a total trooper.  I’m the luckiest girl in the world to  have someone like him love me so much that he’s willing to go through all of the craziness and never-ending list of activities with zero complaint just to make me happy.  Thank you for making me feel so special.

All in all, it’s been a really fabulous 2010 so far and a really fabulous start to my 30′s

Thanks for reading.

Sleepily Yours,

Evelyn

Here’s a video Christian made of the dog (we call her Dottie for now) and Lily:

Lily and Dottie from Christian Pizzirani on Vimeo.

Here are our online postings:
http://www.fidofinder.com/dog.php?id=185476
http://hssv.convio.net/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7667&news_iv_ctrl=1345

Help us spread the word and let us know if anyone would like to care for this cutie!  Otherwise, we’ll be dropping her off at the humane society on Tuesday.