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.

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!

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.

Christmas 2009

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is also my grandmother’s birthday so every year we go to the Christmas Eve service at my church and then we come home and have Gramma’s birthday dinner. A couple of really great things happened at the service. First of all, we took a cash only offering and the pastor said we were going to give it to someone outside our church family. Later in the service he started to say that he had told his wife that he would take care of Christmas Eve dinner. Then a pizza delivery guy came in and handed him some pizzas he asked his name, the guy says he’s Zach, asks how much it is and the guy says it’s $20. He hands him some money and then the pastor says “We took a little tip earlier, I think there’s about $2300 in there. Merry Christmas.” I was totally not expecting it! I thought it was a really good idea. I prayed that it worked out well for that delivery kid when he got back to the pizza place.

Another thing I’d like to share, is related to my volunteer work at MOPS(Mothers Of Preschoolers). I lead the song and snack time there, the kids are 2-5 and this semester I taught them Away in a Manger which they sang for their moms on the last day. I actually did the first and third verses with them, which most people wouldn’t do. During the Christmas Eve service the worship leader brought all the kids up front, asked them questions, etc and then they sang some songs. They came to Away in a Manger and one of the little boys I teach is doing the hand motions, I look over to the other side, and some of the little girls I teach are over there singing clearly. They move on to the other verses and most of the kids don’t know it. When they get to the third verse, my MOPS kids are doing the best of all! One of the girls is singing strongly and the worship leader gives her the microphone. She sang a good part of the verse. I was so excited and proud of the kids, I teared up a little.

Christmas Day

We needed to get to my uncle’s house before my cousin left for her mom’s house, so we woke up at 8:30 and my husband and I exchanged our gifts to each other. We were low on stocking stuffers this year, all I had for Jerrod was a bag of Starburst Favereds, but he didn’t have anything for me so it was okay.

I gave him a Tanooki Mario shirt. The tanooki suit from Mario 3 is his favorite.

I also crocheted him a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. It’s Donatello which is his favorite. It was really hard to get it finished without him seeing it, but he really liked it.

Then we went over to my uncle’s house. My cousin Sidney opened her present from me first. My present for her was a case for the iPod touch I knew she was getting. When I showed it to my mom she said that my cousin is “Just junior high enough” that she might not know what it’s for and I should put in an iPod cutout. On Christmas Eve Sidney told me that she knows everything. The following is an account of the conversation when I gave it to her.

Sidney opens her box and there’s a brief pause.
Me: Do you know what it’s for?
Sidney: No
My Mom: See, I told you.
Me: It’s an iPod case.
Sidney: Oh!
My Mom: You should have put in an iPod touch cutout.
Me: I was going to, but then yesterday she told me that she knows everything!
My Mom: Bazinga!

My sisters both seemed to like their scarves. Holly said she didn’t have a yellow scarf and wore it for the rest of the day and today when we met for lunch she was wearing it again.

My mom wore her wrist warmers, too!

My aunt Melodee seemed really happy with the Penguin I made her.

Before dinner, I read the Christmas story. I read from Matthew since they read from Luke in church the night before.

iPod Nano Case with Bow

Case for my cousin’s iPod Nano (4th gen).

This is an original project made to fit a 4th gen iPod Nano. It has a decorative bow on the front and a removable wrist strap. It can also be used to affix the case to a belt loop or something.

This case was designed for my 14-year-old cousin as a Christmas present.

iPod touch Cozy/Case with pocket

Cozy/case for almost-13 year old cousin. She is getting an iPod touch for Christmas.

I looked at alot of different patterns for iPod cases, but there was nothing that was what I wanted, so this is an original pattern. I sized it with an iPod touch. My iPhone fits as well.

It has a flap to hold it secure with a hole for the earbuds to plug in as well as a pocket for storing the earbuds. I was considering making a strap also, but once the pocket was on I thought a strap would be too much. Ravelry Project.

I used Lily Sugar’n Cream yarn and a G hook.

New Favorite Purse

I was in Nordstrom the other day, picking up a Christmas present for my dad and I browsed by the purse section. The first thing I noticed was this display of Coach Poppy bags. There was a pink and a purple one, I think two different styles and they looked great to me. I’ve been using the same purse for over a year, it’s from Target and I do like it, but it’s starting to crack and peel and wear and that sort of thing. I lost most of my old purses in an incident where they were attacked by ants and I put them outside and then it rained. So I’d really like a new one. We pretty much have no money right now so there’s no way I can get it, but this is the first time in a while I’ve seen a purse that I instantly loved.

Isn’t it pretty? It’s the Coach Poppy Glam Tote. I’d like it in the pink, please

Crochet Trivet and Holly

If you saw my post about making my first baby booties for my new soon-to-be cousin, you know I started crocheting recently.

I made this holly ornament for our annual ornament exchange and craft party. This is the ornament I will exchange. I finally got the front loop/back loop thing down with this project. Here’s the project on Ravelry.

I’m planning to give this to my grandma for her birthday, which is December 24. It’s a dishcloth pattern but I’m calling it a trivet. Here’s the project on ravelry.

Current Mood:  pleased

First Crochet Booties

I made these booties for my aunt Erika’s baby shower for my new little cousin Zachary. It’s my first pair of booties, and also my first finished crochet project. My mom had shown me a few years ago, but I had never made anything but a misshapen square.Gramma made the pom-poms.

I couldn’t remember how to get started so I followed the beginning tutorials in a book and learned the basic stitches. I looked up a video on youtube if I was unclear from the written instructions. Once I had a a long block of all my test stitches I started on my booty pattern. My first try didn’t come out right. The next morning I showed my grandma and though she’s more of a knitter, she was able to clear some things up in the pattern. The second one came out fine, we sewed it up and put on the pom-pom. My next one came out alot bigger than the first, so I had to do it again and that one matched.

I didn’t tell my mom I had made them until Erika opened them at the shower, and she was really surprised.

I’m hoping to make some Christmas presents by crochet.

Current Mood:  pleased

Wedding Scrapbook

Now that my first anniversary seems to be coming at high speed I’m looking at how very few of my pictures I’ve scrapbooked. I had like three pages finished. To be fair, I had several more partially done pages that had pictures placed but no text or decorations or anything. I’m still not even to the ceremony yet, but here are some more.

Current Mood:  accomplished

Jerrod’s Birthday

Yesterday was Jerrod’s 27th birthday. Since Disneyland is having the free ticket on your birthday promotion and I have an Annual Pass, we went to Disneyland. We had some lunch at Del Taco before Disneyland.

jerrodputman: We’re in. Space Mountain here we come! 3:03 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

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Wedding Lovebar and Animations

We’re coming up on our first anniversary in a little over a month and I’ve suddenly been thinking I’m way behind at doing things with our pictures. So here I’ve made a “lovebar” and a set of animations from our wedding videos.

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Current Mood:  happy

Little Person

Made this “little person” in Cheetah 3D.

Fandoms

I’m getting the urge to involve myself in a new fandom.

I feel like getting into a show that already has an active fanbase. This is probably not good, since I don’t really need a new show to follow. I was starting a new book series which I am enjoying but suddenly I was like “I’m in a TV mood.” And I don’t want to watch something I’ve already seen, I want something new. New to me, at least. Something fun and exciting I can marathon through, like Star Trek or Doctor Who or even Legend of the Seeker.

Current Mood:  restless

Erin’s Birthday at Disneyland

• 09:40 On my way to pick up my bff and go to Disneyland for her birthday. #
• 10:51 On the tram #Disneyland #
• 11:34 Waiting for small world. #Disneyland twitpic.com/208ey #
• 11:50 Pleased with the new small world. #disneyland #
• 12:58 @DavilaDraws have a pass but here to celebrate a friend’s birthday. #
• 15:11 In line for new toy story ride. #Disneyland twitpic.com/20dyb #
• 15:46 Getting on toy story mania. #Disneyland twitpic.com/20eur #
• 16:13 Toy story mania was so fun! Here’s my score #Disneyland twitpic.com/20fjp #
• 16:15 @ijustine no. I usually lock my doors… #
• 16:18 In line for soaring. *heart* that ride! #Disneyland #
• 18:08 Did Indiana jones. Now waiting for star tours. Maybe I’ll get to Endor this time. #Disneyland #
• 18:29 Didn’t make it to Endor. Now going to astro blasters. #Disneyland #
• 19:21 First chicken fusilli in months! #Disneyland #
• 20:25 Waiting for the fireworks. #disneyland #

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Christmas Twitter Updates

• 08:25 Got a webkinz sea otter in my stocking! #
• 08:31 My husband gave me a pink stand mixer! Thanks @miniboss1232. #
• 10:09 On our way to my uncle’s house. #
• 13:47 Showing twitter to my grandfather! #

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Our First Christmas Tree

We picked out our Christmas tree at Peltzer Pine’s tree farm the first day it opened. It was delivered last night. It is a Leylandia Cypress.

• 18:13 Waiting for our tree to arrive. #
• 14:23 We got our Christmas tree flickr.com/photos/prettygeek/sets/72157610803714489/ #

Christmas Music Meme!

? CHRISTMAS MUSIC SHARING MEME ?
‘Tis the season to be jolly, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!

Thanksgiving 2008

In 1621 Governor William Bradford declared that the settlement have a thanksgiving feast to give thanks to God for the harvest. Wanting to invite their Indian friends, they sent an invitation to Chief Massasoit.

The pilgrim men hunted and fished in preparation for the feast. In a day they had plenty of game including wild turkeys. When the Indians arrived the pilgrims were surprised to find that ninety braves had come. Fortunately the Indians were used to celebrating the harvest. They hunted and contributed five deer and more seafood to the feast.

Before eating, the pilgrims prayed praising God and thanking Him for his blessings. The feast lasted for three days and included games that the pilgrims and Indians shared together.

In their first year in the new world the Mayflower passengers survived, but now they were thriving. It was not without hardship, Plymouth had lost fifty percent of their people, but Jamestown in Virginia lost ninety percent.

I am thankful for the wisdom and sacrifices made by our ancestors. In his history, Of Plimoth Plantation, William Bradford said “a great hope and inward zeal they had of laying some good foundation (or at least to make some way therunto) for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world; Yea, though they should be but even as stepping stones, unto others for the performing of so great a work.”

This year I would like to express an extra thanks for my favorite grandfather through whom I am descended from William Bradford and William Brewster. In the example of his forefathers, he trusted God and took his family to a new place where they began our church and have shown Christ to everyone they meet.

Thanksgiving is not only a part of our American heritage, but our Christian heritage as well. We were being instructed to give thanks long before 1621.

“Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Thanksgiving Wallpapers

A couple of Thanksgiving wallpapers.

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Our Wedding in Pictures

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Fall Icons

Most of the pixel art is from Adorable Adornments.

Plymouth Pictures

Here are some pictures of our trip in Plymouth so far.

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Governor Bradford Suite

Here’s a video of where we’re staying in Plymouth.

We’re Going To Disneyland

Just got married, and what are you going to do? Go to Disneyland of course!

Got My Dress!

My dress came in to the shop this week and I went to pick it up and drove it straight to the alterations place to get it fitted. Only 3 weeks to go!

We couldn’t take pictures when I bought it, so these are my first pictures of me in it.

Friends Only so my fiance won’t see it!

New Desk!

Since we have an office in the new apartment, we need some new desks. I finally figured out a configuration that would work for both of us, using Ikea table tops and legs. We got them on Friday and put together Jerrod’s desk. We did his first since I don’t live there yet and he really wanted a place to put his iMac.

They’re VIKA AMON tabletops with VIKA CURRY legs. Jerrod’s is two small tables together, but mine will be one long table.

The wooden cabinet and black shelving were already in the room, so we arranged them a bit.

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Our New Table!

We got our new dining room table! We picked it up at Pottery Barn on wednesday, put it together, AND had dinner on it.

Here it is;

It’s the Metropolitan Dining Table in black from Pottery Barn. It sits six and has a leaf which can expand it to seating eight. The chairs are Ingolf chairs from Ikea in black, with Ritva cushions in white from Ikea. I think it looks and feels great!

Shazam Knows Rainbow Connection, But Not Movin’ Right Along

Today I updated my iPhone to the 2.0 firmware and started trying some of the new free apps available. One of the apps I’ve been playing with is Shazam, a music detection app. You hold it up to a song playing, it records a for a few seconds, then it tells you what it is. Nothing appeared naturally for me to test it so I went about to try some of my own songs.

I first went for my Shuffle playlist. Shazam easily identified Bixby Canyon Bridge by Death Cab For Cutie and Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect by The Decemberists.

But those were pretty easy, so I decided to try something harder. How about Christian music? Of course, I couldn’t try just any Christian music, I wanted to try some older, rarer songs.

It didn’t know Until Your Love Broke Through as performed by Randy Stonehill. Okay, so that was a relatively rare song. I didn’t try the Keith Green recording, but it did recognize Grace By Which I Stand and Make My Life a Prayer To You by Keith Green. I thought I’d get a bit more ambitious, but it didn’t recognize Michele Pillar’s Love Makes All The Difference. Not terribly surprising, as she’s even less mainstream than Randy Stonehill. Shazam didn’t seem to know Sandi Patti either. I tried two songs; Love Will Be Our Home and Purest Praise and it couldn’t identify either.

That’s alright, but what about musicals? Shazam didn’t recognize Marian The Librarian from the Original Broadway Cast Recording of The Music Man. Maybe it would’ve known the movie soundtrack, but I didn’t try it. In an interesting test, Another National Anthem from the Broadway Cast Recording of Assassins was not identified, but it recognized the song from the Original Cast Recording with the information, or at least the album art, from the Broadway Cast Recording. I was pleased when A Little Priest from the Original Broadway Cast of Sweeney Todd was correctly identified.

What else could I test Shazam with? I decided to try movies.

The first one ended up being pretty easy. Shazam identified Bless Yore Beautiful Hide and Goin Co’tin’ from Seven Brides For Seven Brothers right from the video. I was shocked when it didn’t find I Swear I Saw A Dragon or It’s Not Easy from Pete’s Dragon. It knew Rainbow Connection from The Muppet Movie, but not Movin’ Right Along, which I feel is a great oversight, or Can You Picture That. I started up You’ve Got Mail and Shazam told me that the opening credits song was called The Puppy Song. Shazam knows The Age Of Not Believing from Bedknobs and Broomsticks, it must like Angela Lansbury. It cannot however peform a miracle and find the version of I Can’t Give You Anything But Love used in Bringing Up Baby.

As a final test, I tried TV. Shazam successfully recognized a song being played in an episode of Gossip Girl under dialog. The song was called Do You Wanna by The Kooks and it was in the Gossip Girl season finale. I didn’t know what that song was before I tried Shazam on it, and though I hadn’t been pining to know in that case I can see this kind of application being helpful in the future.

Anniversary Party

A bit late, but here are the videos and photos from the Anniversary Party.

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My new cousin

Here’s a picture of me with my new cousin Chloe.

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Makeup Trial – Live

At 2pm PST I will be streaming my wedding makeup trial.

Engagement Pictures

We got our engagement pictures taken this weekend. My sister and her friend took them at Disneyland. You can see the whole set on flickr.

I’ve got my wedding dress!

I found it yesterday. I’m posting it only on LJ friends only so Jerrod won’t see it!

Pronovias Davis in Ivory.

I’m having a bit of post-dress anxiety, especially since it was the first store I went to, but I think I picked the right one. My two sisters and my mom and my sister’s friend all liked it best, and under the lace is dotted tulle so the lace looks dotted. My grandmother’s dress was dotted swiss.

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