Saturday Morning, 4 A.M.

For some reason the last two days at work have been so incredibly boring.

Which is kind of a nice change but it makes for long days.

Long, incredibly boring days.

Boredom led to tiredness and I gave up the ghost last night earlier than I normally do on a Friday. I had a busy Saturday planned and extra sleep wasn’t a bad idea.

Until my dog lost his mind at four in the morning.

One of our dogs is a giant, loud, scary-looking German Shepard. He saw something or heard something (not sure which is more terrifying) which woke my wife and I up and I’ve never felt more awake in my life.

More than likely it was a deer or a coyote but it was probably a sasquatch. My wife swears she saw a bear in our yard last year but it was also likely a sasquatch.

On a related note, there is an old and beautiful cemetery in our neighborhood where I usually walk our dogs. It’s always a little unnerving when they both freeze, stare into the distance, and will not budge. Sometimes they whimper, or growl, or turn around and walk away.

I am left wondering what are they seeing? What do they see or sense that I can’t?

I’ve no idea if I believe in ghosts but I do enjoy a good ghost story.

As I type this it’s too early to start my day properly beyond coffee and thrilling you with these pointless thoughts. As I mentioned, I have a busy day planned. Shannonlee and I are filming the first video of the Help Me, Hannah! series of the year and then I am meeting up with the rest of the MN T-Girls early this afternoon.

We shot the first video almost a year ago to the day and I’m glad we kept at it. Like most things in life, they improved in quality with practice and it’s been thinking of new projects that the medium can provide.

The challenge is that videos take a lot of time to edit and to work the technical magic that I am not familiar with. I know it’s a skill I could teach myself and there are countless resources online that would help but sometimes I feel if I took on anything else in my life I would lose my mind. I am overly committed as it is.

Thankfully I love collaborating. I love working with other passionate and creative and talented people. I connected with a girl on Twitter not too long ago about doing video edits for short clips. She has a few ideas and they all sound so fun. I hope to squeeze in a photo shoot in March and film some clips to send her but until then Shawna has put two different photo sets to music. The first of these videos was posted earlier this month using pictures from a photo shoot with Malone Portraits.

This new video is from a photo set I posted in January from a shoot Shannonlee and I did last fall. I thought it would be fun to do a tiny montage of photos that in a way told a story. A very short story, lol.

I love how this turned out and I can’t wait to see what Shawna creates next.

I hope you enjoy!

Love, Hannah