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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