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Jerrod’s Birthday

Shannon — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:19:12 +0000

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: About to head out with @shannonkay to have lunch and go to Disneyland for a few hours. Space Mountain, here I come!1:36 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

shannonkay: On our way to Disneyland for @jerrodputman‘s birthday2:13 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

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

shannonkay: In line for Space Mountain. #disneyland 3:14 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

jerrodputman: Ah Space Mountain. Always better than I remember it. 4:06 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

Then we got a fast pass for Space Mountain between 10:10 and 11:10pm to use later.

shannonkay: Now in line for star tours. #disneyland 4:09 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

jerrodputman: Heading for Star Tours. #disneyland 4:13 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

We went home after that and my mom made steak.

After dinner we headed back to Disneyland, hoping to catch the fireworks.

shannonkay: On our way back to #disneyland. Hope to catch the fireworks. 9:19 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

We got to the parking structure right as the fireworks were starting. So we just stopped and watched the fireworks from there.

We decided to try recording them with our iPhones.

Once we got back into the park we headed straight for Space Mountain to use the fast passes we’d gotten earlier.

jerrodputman: Fastpass to our second helping of Space Mountain. So awesome. #disneyland 10:35 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

shannonkay: Second space mountain ride today. #disneyland 10:37 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

jerrodputman: Now in line for Astro Blasters. Amusing pictures forthcoming. #disneyland 10:37 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

shannonkay: I still beat @jerrodputman at astro blasters. 11:05 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

shannonkay: In line for the Matterhorn #disneyland 11:07 PM Aug 8th from Tweetie

Somehow, Jerrod had never been on the Matterhorn, so we went on that next.

jerrodputman: Rode Matterhorn fir the first time. #disneyland about 23 hours ago from Tweetie

With only a few minutes left, we hit Pirates of the Caribbean and still managed to get a last minute Dole pineapple whip.

jerrodputman: Managed to get some last minute pineapple whip after riding Pirates. #disneyland day is done.about 23 hours ago from Tweetie

How good is God?

Shannon — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:57:00 +0000

My boyfriend, Jerrod, has been looking for a new job for several months. He’s talented and experienced in his field of game programming and design, but for some reason he hasn’t had many offers lately. Then this company in Newport Beach called him and they did a phone interview and that went really well. It turns out that his interviewer knew one of his references. So they called him in for an in-person interview. I was at VBS that day working in the pre-K class, and at the time of the interview, I almost sat my four year olds down to pray with me. I was praying for him, and for his interviewer, and I know that my grandparents were praying for him too. He finally called me to say that he was done, and it went really well. They took him out to lunch and he got to meet pretty much the whole programming team, and he liked them alot.

The next day I was at VBS again, this time in the Kindergarden room, and at around 11am he texted me to say he had gotten an offer, and they had even offered him a little more than he asked for, which is great. When VBS was over, I went down to the nursery where my grandmother was and told her about the news. I think she was even more excited than I was! I think she would’ve jumped up if she hadn’t been holding a baby.
“Do you know what this means?” She asked me.
“That he’s going to move to Orange County?” I suggested.
“How good is God?” my grandmother prompted.
Yeah, God is good. If I didn’t know that already, I would have learned from this. The past few weeks have certainly been a testament to it.

The Lord is good to all, and His mercies are over all His works.
Psalm 145:9

Not only that, but the lease on Jerrod’s apartment in Burbank isn’t up until March, so he would have had to pay to break his lease. By the grace of God, the company that owns his apartments also owns several others in the area he needs to move to, and he can just transfer his lease! I went with him a few days ago to look at the Huntington Beach apartments, and they’re really nice. There are lots of trees, the floorplan looked really cute, and there was one available on the bottom that had it’s window facing trees and stuff with a nice patio and really shady. An elderly lady lives there and is moving to assisted living, so it’s like, really clean and stuff. I just knew that was the one and I started jumping up and down telling him to get it right then. He put down a deposit, and ended up going back a few days later to sign the papers and make it official. He’ll be moving in the week of August 8th.

If that weren’t enough, the same week he did the phone interview with his new company, I started getting lots of jobs too. A website needed hosting, and I offered them a good deal and help with the setup. Then a friend needed some logos made and his company liked them so much, I ended up doing some more for him. Then my mom’s friend needed some computer lessons, so I went to her house and gave her a session, and now I’m going back again on Saturday.

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
Romans 8:28

Tragedy

Shannon — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:09:38 +0000

We’re supposed to be leaving for our cruise today, but Jerrod can’t find his birth certificate and now we can’t go! Yes, my boyfriend’s company is taking everyone on a cruise leaving today. A weekend cruise to mexico, and we were all set to go, I even have my boarding passes and everything. But if you don’t have a passport you have to bring your birth certificate, and he can’t find his. He was looking all last night and all this morning and now it’s 1pm and we were supposed to start boarding at 1:30.

I am so sad. We’d been looking forward to this since like last May. This was going to be my first cruise and we had an excursion booked to go see where they filmed Titanic, and It’s been raining like crazy here which is not normal, but I checked the weather and it’s not supposed to rain again all weekend. I got new pink luggage, and I’m all dressed in my new outfit, and now we’re not going.

Valentine’s Day

Shannon — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:35:23 +0000

Jerrod and I did our celebrating on Saturday. We went shopping a little at Old Navy, and then went to a movie at the theater that’s across the street. We saw Finding Neverland. It was a really sweet movie and beautifully done, so that it was almost as good as a book. I cried. Of course, I cry whenever I read the Chronicles of Narnia. Jerrod got me a build a bear that’s dressed in a tux with a red bowtie and a cute little bouqet of flowers in it’s paw. Today, I recieved a second surprise when a bouquet of a dozen red roses and a vase were delivered. My bear looks so cute next to it.

Iconic

Shannon — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:31:31 +0000

The other night, Jerrod was trying to make a character for his new mini-boss domain, and I was once again looking for a hack or plugin to use post icons in MT. We were both having little success when I suggested that we switch projects. So as it happened, I pixel painted a cute little flaming boss monster style guy for him, and he whipped up a nice little MT hack for me. Now I can use as many cute little icons as I want. I have never used custom favicons on my sites before. I don’t know why, I just haven’t, but I decided to give it a try. It turned out to be extremely simple and now you should be able to notice an icon of two little pink hearts in your address bar, bookmark list, or tab(if you’re using a browser with tabs of course).

what could it be?

Shannon — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:40:33 +0000

Okay, so as mentioned in a previous post, my boyfriend and I are going to celebrate our 1 year anniversary on Saturday. It is actually the next week, but that is when E3 is. And that is something that Jerrod has to be at for work.
So I have these hints for what my gift might be. I am a really good guesser when it comes to this, but this is a doozy. I even tried googling for answers.
my clues
it is pink
part of it is plastic
it is imported
from japan
it is kind of like a dollhouse

now, what could it be?

We are also going to the aquarium, and to the spaghetti factory for dinner which is where we went on our first date. And we are going to go shopping.

my blog is fixed…

Shannon — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:04:05 +0000

Tuesday Twosome Sleep:

1. Side of the bed: Left or Right? well, I have a twin bed, but the right side of it is against the wall, so I guess you could say the left side.
2. Sleep with or without covers? with
3. Sleep with or without night light? without
4. Deep or light sleeper? I’m not sure
5. More annoying to be awoken by: alarm or phone call? well, it depends whose calling. I don’t mind if it’s my boyfriend; he calls in the morning before he goes to work. but if it’s my dad or something… like he always thinks that at 9am “half the morning is gone.” like he wakes up at the crack of dawn…

okay, so I’m glad that my blog is back to being updated. My uncle is in Japan on business, and I was spending the night with his daughter to take her to school and whatnot, and last night I wanted to blog and totally got errors. Very upsetting. But I fixed them, and now I’m back in… blogness. haha.
I haven’t blogged for the last couple of days, partly because I’ve been learning php. I even wrote my first PHP script; Pretty Comments.
It is my 1 year anniversary with my boyfriend. For his gift, I got him captainjerrod.com for his blogging. Won’t that be cute? He loves pirates.

Fragments

Shannon — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 19:58:26 +0000

lots of things that seem simple are very complicated.
the same person always makes me feel better
this just seems like the best place to be.
fragments

I was thinking about this Jars of Clay song called Hymn.
Oh refuge of my hardened heart,
Oh fast pursuing lover, come
As angels dance around your throne
My life, by captured fare you own.
Not silouette of trodden shame,
nor death shall not my steps beguide.
I’ll pirouette upon my grave,
For in your path I’ll run and hide.

Oh gaze of love, so melt my pride,
That I may in your house but kneel,
And in my brokenness to cry,
Spring worship unto thee.

Jerrod is coming over soon. He was upset because he didn’t have a shirt that he wanted to wear clean, and his mom wanted him to go buy groceries, so I told him to put the shirt in the wash, and go buy groceries. put the shirt in the dryer alone and it should be done soon enough. I think it’s okay now, and he’s going to get groceries.

Chinese

Shannon — Sun, 14 Mar 2004 04:01:00 +0000

Today, Jerrod was supposed to come over, but he had to work. He’s coming over now, but of course it’s not quite the same. But oh well. I went to my favorite Chinese resturaunt today, and I picked up my order and the lady said she should have known it was me because I ordered cream cheese wontons. She asked if I cook and I told her that I make good homemade macaroni and cheese – the from scratch kind. And she seemed pretty surprised, and asked about it, so I actually told her how to make it, generally of course. lol. But tragedy struck later this afternoon when the dogs ate the rest of my fried rice, which was most of it, as I don’t eat that much of it at a time. So now I’m looking forward to Del Taco when Jerrod gets here rather than the leftovers I would be having. Oh, well.
I made some changes to the blog page today. I added a “members” section to the right and I joined a few webrings and such. Should be good. I also added a blinkies page down in the Shannon section. It opens as a popup.
I made a whole lot of Winamp skins last night and today. I made S/S ones, and a beach one out of my photos, an Anne one, and some disney ones, and even a veggietales one. I think I’m going to add a skins section to my fanart site, and put them up there. I also have alot of Narnia skins and a Princess Diaries one that I’ve made.

Fever

Shannon — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 01:19:30 +0000

I haven’t blogged in a while. I’ve had a pretty icky cold, and I’ve been running a fever the past few days. I think my fever’s down now but I’ve been coughing alot since lunch. oh, well. I added some songs to my playlist. I’ve been reading lots of Seth/Summer fanfiction. for some reason it seemed like the most logical thing for sick me to do.

Anyway, apparently this is Insomniac’s tenth anniversary. Jerrod just said that they were going to take everyone on a cruise! and of course I would get to come. I am really excited about it. I’ve never been on a cruise before. I already started thinking of the things I’d need to go shopping for. Jerrod laughed at that. and I told my roommate and I was saying “and of course I’d have to go shopping” and she started laughing. aw, well. Well of course, I’ll need a new bathing suit, and I want one of those board skirts, and I’ll need some new flipflops for the season and other sandals, and sundresses, and a new fancy dress for the dinner.