Hurray!
I’ve been working on a new website at work and it’s finally live. Here are some of the before and after pics for www.marketleader.com. It was a beast of a project but I’m proud of the state it ended up. I wrote all the copy, provided site architecture and layout guidance, and had an amazing team of graphic designers to make it come to life!
Before:
And after:
Jake narrated the following story to me on Halloween. He says he is NOT the little boy in the story. Enjoy!
The Dark Fingers
By Jake Grimes
There was a little boy who lived in a small town called Airenbor. He lived with his mom and dad.
He wanted to go on an adventure so he asked him mom if he could go out in the forest. So the boy went out in the forest…until he found an old rusted house. The wind was blowing and the wind was shattering. The house was shooking and cracking.
The little boy opened the door, click crock creek the door cricked. When the door opened, the boy went in and was walking through scary paintings. The boy had a bad feeling. He was walking through the hallway. Clicking clack. Clicking clack. Bing bong. He found something making a strange noise, click clock click clock click clock click. He saw a carriage with a horse that was headless and only had a bone tail. A strange noise was coming out of the carriage and went, whoooowoooo woooowooooooo.
The boy ran, ran, ran and ran until he ran into a wall. He didn’t know where to go; he was trapped! Then, something opened the door with creepy hands. One hand was just bones and the other hand was raw and it only had one eye. It had big giant feet with big spikes on it. The little boy was really surprised, he looked behind him again but there was nothing there. And he looked back again and saw monster witch crossed with big foot. It was two headed and it was ginormous. What he saw was a big foot masterpiece. But the fingers would come back again.
The end.
It’s only taken me 5 years but I definitely have it nailed down to Weezer, Blue for Jake’s record collection.
It represents a joyful time in my life. College, venturing out on my own, animal trainer, NO boyfriend and just completely happy to be me. Going to the beach and listening to the waves by myself at night.
So poetic yet in hindsight I had no idea.
The world is your oyster and you can be or do anything you want in life. That’s how everyone should feel when they are in college. And that was exactly how I should have felt. And that was exactly what I should have been doing. And that is exactly what I felt and what I did. And Weezer is the sound that represents pure freedom for me. Authentic freedom that I didn’t need friends or a boyfriend to validate me. AMEN!
This is what I want for Jake, to always be unique and always know that he is enough and he will always be enough and that he shouldn’t be afraid to be different as long as he stays himself and allows himself to explore and be himself and be completely comfy in his JAKE boots.