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Wow. I hear what I think is a pack of coyotes. They seem to be in some kind of peril or perhaps a rumble. Lots of howling.

Watching Legend of the Seeker.

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Going to sing for old people.

Need to get ready for all the things that are going on today.

Finished watching Smallville and Dollhouse.

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Atheist Group Protests Mother Teresa’s Commemorative U.S. Postal Stamp http://bit.ly/9JdDVY

@treocast I’m assuming you could sync all the apps you own to an iPad as well as your iPhones/iPod touches if it’s the same itunes account

Transparent aluminum! Would that be worth somethin’ to ya, eh? http://bit.ly/BrbLG

Overhyped, Overpriced & Disappointing: iPad? No, iPod in 2001 http://bit.ly/d2oK9H

On our way to a new life group.

@lanbui I use fluid all the time and never thought of that!

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Just discovered “sort by magic” in Google Reader the other day. Trying to “like” more things that I like to help it more.

@Cynthia54940 Hillside cows. Some black and some brown/red. We used to see cows every morning during our drive when I was a kid.

On our way home from taking my friend to the airport. Saw some cows!

Watching the new episode of Psych.

I’m a capitalist. Just thought I’d throw that out.

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@ana_br I really liked Hunger Games and Catching Fire, but haven’t read Mortal Instruments yet.

@lanbui And is that a children’s size shirt?

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Just updated firefox to 3.6

Watching Legend of the Seeker!

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The bank of america website froze my whole computer.

Making achievement icons.

It’s Answer Your Cats’ Questions Day! What do you think your cat would ask?

It’s still rainy raining. I’m wondering when the normal weather will come back.

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Yep, basically a clip show. Oh well. #theoffice

Watching The Office. I’m wondering if this is going to turn out to be a clip show.

Oh no, I hear thunder!

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Many birds are taking shelter from the rain. http://twitpic.com/yzrl1


I don’t like rain.

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It’s raining really hard and I just heard thunder! This weather stuff is seriously overrated.

“I had to decapitate the bear… It was grizzly.” #chuck

Watching #Chuck.

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It\’s been going all night and my files still need another 1.5 hours to finish transferring.

Watching Terminator Salvation on bluray.

At the gospel quartet society singing gospel quartets.

@rainnwilson I think you mean Worf, but I like the forehead theme.

@likeabrokendoll Yes, it\’s like a cheesy LOTR/Star Wars combo. Amazing.

Watching Legend of the Seeker. Use of “Han” repeatedly.

Happy “Appreciate A Dragon Day”!

[Fanvid] Narnia – Be My Escape

This is a video I’ve been wanting to make since, like, before the first movie came out. All from The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. My first HD video!

Find At: YouTube (HD) – BAM
Download: HD – Medium – iPhone/iPod
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia
Song: Be My Escape
Artist: Relient K
Characters/Pairings: It mostly features the Pevensies and Aslan, but there are some other Narnians as well, such as Mr. Tumnus.

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Watching the new Dollhouse.

Adjusting my Windows 7 partition size.

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@giovanni bacon

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Tonight\’s episode of The Big Bang Theory had Winnie Cooper in it!

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Is it just me or are they wearing alot of Old Navy on #Chuck?

It\’s so weird to watch tv in realtime with commercials.

Watching #Chuck with Gramma and Erin.

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Watching G.I. Joe on bluray.

[Fanvid] Chuck/Blair – Little Bit

I made this video for my Gossip Girl Secret Santa. She wanted a video with this song about Chuck and Blair over the first two seasons.

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Watching the new Dollhouse.

Highlights of the Aught Era, Part 2

This is the second part of my reminiscing about “the aughts”. It covers 2006-2008. My 2000-2005 can be found here.

2006

• High School Musical came out.
• Jerrod was fired from Insomniac and was out of work for several months before getting a new job at InXile in Orange County, much closer to me.
• My uncle Eric married a woman named Erika. My family went to the San Diego Zoo.
• Marissa died on The O.C.
• My sister Holly graduated from high school.
• I made my pink supergirl linux box.
• Shawna left to go to school someplace else.
• I started babysitting for a Bible study group every Tuesday night.
• I got my first LCD monitor.
• I started teaching Song and Snack at my church’s MOPS program.
• I went to the podcasting and new media expo and met some great new people.
• I joined twitter.
• I started working for my friend’s step father, Tim.
• A 750gb hard drive came out.

Favorite movies of 2006: Night at the Museum, X-Men: The Last Stand, Marie Antoinette, The Prestige

2007

• I built a new PC with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ processor.
• I worked for Tim for most of the spring.
• Twitter exploded for me and I started getting in touch with alot of the people I met at the new media expo the previous fall.
• I got my 80gb iPod
• The O.C. ended.
• I watched Doctor Who for the first time.
• Gilmore Girls was canceled.
• Jerrod and I went to the Long Beach Aquarium for our dating anniversary.
• I started watching The Office.
• I got my first premium denim – 7 for all mankind and paige denim jeans – for my birthday.
• My sister Amy graduated from high school.
• Finding Nemo submarines opened at Disneyland
• Jerrod lead a workshop at the Christian Game Developers Conference
• I started using Windows Home Server
• I got my MacBook.
• The iPhone came out on my sister’s birthday, but I didn’t get one right away.
• Went to a midnight release for the seventh Harry Potter book.
• Jerrod proposed to me. It was a twitter/real world hybrid and there was a Tiffany ring! This is also when I saw that Jerrod had gotten an iPhone. (September 8, 2007)
• I got my first iPhone.
• Went to Podcamp SoCal and the New Media Expo
• I got my first webkinz.

Favorite movies of 2007: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Transformers, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Bridge to Terabithia, TMNT, Hairspray, Stardust, Enchanted

2008

• I started working as a Social Media Consultant for a travel company.
• Jerrod and I did really well on our premarital test. We got 90% on communication and 100% on Conflict resolution and spiritual beliefs.
• There was a leap year.
• We set our wedding date, September 13.
• I picked out my wedding dress and my mom actually bought it for me, and she doesn’t like expensive clothes.
• My grandparents had their house painted.
• We took engagement pictures.
• I live streamed my wedding makeup trial.
• We cleaned out my grandparents’ garage, no small feat. The dumpster we used took up the whole driveway.
• I planned my wedding.
• We gave my grandparents a new freezer for their anniversary.
• My cousin Chloe was born, May 13, 2008.
• I turned 25 on June 6.
• We celebrated my grandparents’ 50th anniversary with a big party. My grandma’s brother and his wife even came from Minnesota.
• My cat, Alice, went missing when she was let out on accident.
• iPhone 2.0 software came out, bringing us the app store.
• There was a 5.8 earthquake about 4 miles from my house. My mickey mouse TV fell off the dresser and lost an ear. There were a bunch of aftershocks.
• Jerrod got a new job at a game company called Point Of View.
• In August, I went on a little trip with my family(parents, sisters and I). We went to the San Diego Wild Animal Park and then Sea world the next day.
• My best friend from childhood, Erin, came to stay with us.
• I started moving my stuff to the apartment and we got a table, our bed, and desks for the office.
• I got married to Jerrod, September 13, 2008.
• We spent our first day married at Disneyland.
• For our wedding tour, we went to Plymouth, MA. It was my first time going to the East Coast. We stayed at the Governor Bradford Suite of an Inn there.
• We started living in our apartment in Huntington Beach.
• We voted.
• Our first married Christmas. We picked out our Christmas tree at the tree farm and had it delivered! Jerrod gave me my pink stand mixer for Christmas.
• Got a new Windows Home Server.

Favorite movies of 2008: The Dark Knight, Iron Man, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, 27 Dresses, High School Musical 3: Senior Year

I was working on 2009, but I think I’m going to give it it’s own entry.

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Happy International Programmers Day!

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Found the Netflix discs between the pages of a magazine. Probably put them there for safety.

Finally put away the rest of the Christmas stuff but I still can’t find my Netflix DVDs.

A surprising amount of people think that iPods don’t play mp3. I wonder where people get that idea.

@lanakila My grandfather makes crockpot beef stew and it seems like he starts around then. It’s done at like 5pm though.

Went shopping with our gift cards but nothing was grabbing us.

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I love kittens.

@donnanpreston What? is that real?

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@wilw What about “In these trying economic times”?

@frakfraco great looking kitty!

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First “normal” day of 2010.

Highlights of the Aught Era, Part 1

Here’s to reminiscing about the past ten years. I hope I remember things accurately!

2000 – When 2000 started, I was halfway through my junior year in high school. I was awarded the bronze medal for acting distinction in duet acting from exams by LAMDA. My partner and I did Lysistrata, The Miracle Worker, and a third I can’t recall. At the beginning of my senior year in high school I took over the theatre department website. I was the stage manager for the “board play”(the play that was cast by our Thespian troupe’s board), a dinner theatre whodunit called Mayhem in Mayville. Our regular fall play was Tom Jones and I was actually Tom Jones’ mother. I directed the freshmen in their Shakespeare. I did LAMDA exams again for solo acting and was awarded the silver medal for acting distinction. I got the coveted “great use of pause” comment from my judge and he told me the story of why he likes the use of pause so much. I was cast as Bielke in Fiddler on the Roof and we started rehearsals for it. I got my braces over Christmas break.

Favorite movies of 2000: Miss Congeniality, Where the Heart Is, Center Stage, Almost Famous

2001 – It was the second half of my senior year in high school. We did Fiddler on the Roof in the winter. My group and I got first place in the classical drama catagory at the Fullerton College High School Theatre Festival for our version of Hecuba. I was a narrator for our children’s play, Stuart Little. My senior play was a depression-era play called The Diviners. I was Luella, one of the town ladies who kept falling off of her bike. The best thing is that my great grandmother, Grandma Neva, came to visit from Iowa and saw me in the play. She lived in that era, so I was especially excited for her to see my play. I was so excited to introduce her to everyone after the show. When I introduced her to my drama teacher, my teacher said “I’ve heard so much about you.” and Grandma Neva said “I hope they were good things!”. I sang Father’s Eyes solo in our spring choir show. I went to the third annual California Youth in Theatre Day at the state capitol. I was voted “Most Unique” by my class. I got my first cell phone in May. In June I turned 18 and graduated from high school. In the summer I built my first computer and learned to drive. I got my driver’s license less than one week before starting classes at Fullerton College. Shortly after turning 18, one of my good friends from high school who was also going to Fullerton College had to leave her house before her parents could kick her out. She bounced around to a few different friend’s places until one day she called me on my cell phone from a payphone at school and I had just driven by. I turned around and picked her up and she started telling me that she couldn’t stay at the friends’ house she was at anymore because their dad was coming home or something, and she just broke down. I told her she would come home with me and we went right away to pick up her things. Without even asking anyone about it, I took her home. Gramma seemed unsure at first, but I knew she would be staying with us.

Favorite movies of 2001: Ocean’s 11, Legally Blonde, The Princess Diaries, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, A Knight’s Tale, Moulin Rouge!

2002 – My second semester at Fullerton College. I did a touring show of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to high schools around the area. I read Harry Potter for the first time in my Children’s Literature class but I didn’t like it yet. In the summer I was hired in at Disneyland as an Entertainment Host. I saw The Two Towers six times I think.

Favorite movies of 2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, A Walk to Remember, Reign of Fire, Equilibrium, Catch Me If You Can

2003 – I can’t seem to think of what happened at the beginning of 2003. I was probably working at Disneyland for the holiday season(January). I started dating Jerrod in May, just before that year’s E3. At the time he was working at Black Ops Entertainment, a game company that no longer exists. I worked at Disneyland again that summer and I got a kitten and named her Alice. The sequel to The Matrix was terrible and pretty much spoiled The Matrix for me for years. To make up for it, I had to go see Holes again. The TV show The O.C. started, making Orange County more famous.

Favorite movies of 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, X2, What a Girl Wants, Holes, The Italian Job, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, Uptown Girls

2004 – I continued to date Jerrod and he started working at Insomniac Games. I got a beta gmail account in February. It was the first Leap year since junior high for me, since there was no leap year in 2000. I babysat for a morning Bible study group at church. Jerrod and I went to the Final Fantasy concert in LA. I worked at Disneyland on Thanksgiving. I found out that Christian Bale was going to be the new batman. I turned 21 in June and built my second computer, with an AMD Athlon 64 processor. My favorite Chinese food restaurant, Golden Choice, closed. My best friend Erin graduated from college at San Luis Obispo. I got my first iPod, a pink iPod mini. I got my braces off. I tried digital scrapbooking. I read the rest of the Harry Potter books (up to book five at the time), and started shipping Ron/Hermione as sort of a closet fan. It took me a couple more reads to warm up to the book series in general! I was a big fan of Smallville, The O.C., and Veronica Mars this year. A 250gb hard drive was $199.

Favorite movies of 2004: Ella Enchanted, The Prince and Me, 13 Going on 30, Mean Girls, New York Minute, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, The Incredibles, National Treasure

2005 – I was really looking forward to saying “aught five”. I took some classes at Orange Coast College in an attempt to transfer to Biola. In July, Jerrod took me to the Stephen Sondheim 75th Birthday Concert at the Hollywood Bowl. It was amazing! But it was the night before my family reunion, the G. Neva Convention. I went straight from the Hollywood Bowl to LAX  and flew all night to Minnesota, took a cab to where my aunt was staying and we drove to Ledyard, Iowa where my 93 year old great grandmother lived. It was an excellent day, seeing Grandma Neva as well as my second cousins, some of whom I had never met. I stayed for another week with my aunt in Wisconsin before going home. The sixth Harry Potter book came out like the day before I flew home. I bought a copy in the airport to read on the plane, but took off the dust jacket so people couldn’t tell what I was reading. I took a road trip with Erin up to Oregon and stayed with her at her great aunt’s house for a few days. On September 8, 2005 Grandma Neva passed away, almost exactly 3 months after the G. Neva Convention. We flew back to Iowa for the funeral and I made a slideshow which was shown at the service.

Favorite movies of 2005: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman Begins, Sky High

I’ve been at this for hours, and I’m only halfway through, so I think I’ll make this part one and do the rest later!

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Here I am with my new cousin Zachary http://tinyurl.com/yaz5lt6

Just saw my newest little cousin Zachary. I think he likes me!

New Cousin Zachary!

My aunt and uncle had a new baby boy last night.

His name is Zachary Dewain and he was 7lbs and 20 inches long.

I think he likes me already! When I first started holding him, he looked right at me with both eyes open.

Here I am holding him. It’s so exciting to hold a new baby.

Here’s my husband Jerrod holding him. It was his first time holding a newborn baby.

Seeing new little Zachary today, I can’t help but think about how amazing it truly is that God came to earth as something so tiny and fragile.

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Happy New Year!

Made successful crock pot minestrone. Watching Night At The Museum 2.

Just got word that my new cousin was born at 3:55pm. He\’s 7lbs, 20 inches. Gramma is walking around saying “Zachary!”