Thinking About You

In late 1999, I left my full-time job and started a company called Muiscal Greetings. I was at a point in life where I was entering my internship for Marriage and Family Therapy, and I worried I wouldn't be able to do a social services job full-time while also doing 20 hours per week in an internship. So, I took a risk, joined with my father, and created this company.

I had been writing songs since my mid teens, but I knew nothing about how to digitally record them, design websites or deliver products electronically. We had what I thought was a cool idea. My dad and I would write and record the songs, which would be centered on common holidays and special events. As individuals placed orders, we would re-record the song with the recipient's name inserted into a key place in the song, resulting in the recipient receiving an e-card that had a song written just for them.

It was a lot of fun and worked out OK. We wrote about 60 different songs and sold about 100 orders within a period of 4-6 months. But that didn't bring in enough money to pay the bills, so I went back to work at my full-time job and the musical greeting business has sat dormant ever since.

In addition to learning a lot about myself during that time, I learned a lot about running a business. And I developed a collection of recorded songs that have become a memory of a place in time for my family. My dad wrote and performed the music for about half of the songs, while I wrote and performed the music for the other half. I wrote the lyrics for all of the songs, and vocals were performed by my wife (Kathy), her sister (Laurie) and myself (scary!).

This is the first song we made for Musical Greetings. I wrote the music and lyrics. Laurie, did the singing. I hope I've successfully figured out this Blogger video posting thing. Due to file size restrictions with Blogger, the audio quality is affected. (And, by the way, the picture is just a placeholder for the video--on the website where we delivered the songs, we paired them with an occasion-appropriate picture and message from the sender).



Title: Thinking About You
Music: Tim Penrod
Lyrics: Tim Penrod
Vocals: Laurie Webb Hansen
Copyright (c) 2000. Tim Penrod. All rights reserved.