ANGELA B. PAN

So glad it’s Friday! I had a busy week of meetings and appointments and currently listening to a lot of hammer banging because we’re getting repairs done to the house. It’s not the funnest thing to listen to while you’re working, but I’m glad our shower is finally getting fixed.

What are your plans for the holiday weekend?

Here are three things that I’m grateful for this week:

1. Theres nothing like seeing your work blown up and center stage in a law office right next to the White House! So exciting to see this in person.

2. Starting to work with interns. I have Nia who’s a film student at Howard U and Jon who’s a freshmen at American U. I’m excited to see what will come out of these two 🙂

3. Booked my trip to San Francisco.

Guess what! Tomorrow is my birthday! August 29th 🙂

I’m one of those people who love celebrating birthdays and I always thought it was really cool that it’s also Michael Jackson’s birthday. Me and the king of pop.

But going through Facebook and things I’ve noticed quite a few of my photo friends also celebrate their birthdays this week. I think that’s so awesome! The way that I think of it, there must be some sort of correlation between creatives and being born around this time of the year. HAHA. Or am I taking this birthday thing a little too far?

Here are 3 things that made me super happy this past week:

1. Early birthday celebrating with the family at Lake Anna this past week. I had a blast just hanging out and soaking in the sun.

2. Wakeboarding! Never in my life had I thought I’d wakeboard but it was super fun. Can’t wait to do it again sometime soon

3. And then THIS!!!

Another week zoomed by and I can’t believe it’s already Friday again! I got kinda sick for one of the days but luckily that only lasted for a day. Other than that it I was busy preparing for a super fun week next week which I’m sure I’ll share more about then 🙂

Here’s what made me smile the past week:

1. Going to Kings Dominon with Andrew and our nephews. It was the first time we had ever taken them to an amusement park so it was super fun to hangout with them for the day. My favorite line was when we were deciding if we were going to get a funnel cake or not and my youngest nephew, Marshall said “I’m a kid, calories don’t count!” Meaning he wanted a funnel cake asap. HAHA

2. Meeting up with Navin and his awesome meetup group for Photo Happy Hour and Sunset shooting. So fun see friends again and meet new ones 🙂 This image was taken last night around sunset. My first ever lightning strike! Also special thanks to David, Jeffrey and Juan from my Arcanum cohort for your special feedback.

3. This video. You have to watch the whole thing.

This past week was a little insane. Not only was I in Philly and DC for Trey’s Photowalks but there was my best friend’s wedding, meetings and catching up with friends.

Here’s what I am most grateful for:

1. My best friend got married! This has been a long time coming and the entire celebration was so perfect.

2. Meeting and walking with so many of my photo friends at the photowalks. The whole thing was such a whirlwind of fun.

3. Planning a weekend getaway to NYC for my birthday sometime soon <3