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March 3, 2009 | Filed under: 30 seconds and under, big easy, misadventures

SO, I just got back from New Orleans and I have mountains of footage on three different cameras (long story) and between the different cameras and all my compresion/codec/whatnot settings on my OLD computer that I totally forgot to write down before I left NY to put on my new computer and iMovie ‘09 which I TOTALLY dislike and have NO idea how to use and the fact that one of the cameras is a spiffy Xacti HD100 that changes everything ENTIRELY there’s been a delay in editing and posting. The jury is still out of the HD100.

You’ll likely be enjoying Mardi Gras footage for Easter.

There are some snippets shot with my photo camera I exported with the default (read “suck”) Quicktime settings that are worth posting, though, so I’ll put those up for now.

I miss New Orleans. I want a catfish po’boy like NOW.

ps: Lee’s brother was AT the second hardware store and wanted to note that it was, in fact, a yellow dress.

January 31, 2009 | Filed under: wedding bells, technology, misadventures

I’m always eyeballing folks’ Relationship Status on Facebook. Always checking out those little red hearts. It always seems like such a personal thing to be sending to a public feed. Getting ‘In A Relationship’, becoming ‘Engaged’, suddenly ‘No Longer In A Relationship’…and then there’s room for comments; I never know what to say. Congratulations! Oh, I’m really sorry. WTF?

I never worried about this myself because Brian never had a Facebook account. Under pressure from his friends at work, he asked me to help him out (translate: “do it for him”). We both thought this would be a fun Saturday afternoon activity. What is was, in fact, was a pain in the patootie.

Turns out he already had an account under a false name that he’d forgotten about but it was tied to his primary email address so we couldn’t change his name (John Sinclair of Utica, NY…yeah. I don’t know what that’s about). Then we tried creating a secondary email address under a moniker he’s always been known by but it turns out he had already created THAT address, too, and did not remember the password nor THAT email’s secondary email address to retrieve it.

Two email accounts later we set about getting Facebook Engaged.

This took over an hour because we have one computer to work from and had to sign in and out of our respective Gmail and FB accounts repeatedly.

NOW we’re a “real couple”!

November 8, 2008 | Filed under: VloMo08, misadventures

WEEKEND REWIND!!!

Why? Because

a) I’m exhausted and
2) It’s fun to look back at old posts.

This video was taken during The Great House Hunt of ‘06. It was a stressful time: the idea of relocating was scary, searching for the right house/right town/right price was daunting. Major commitment loomed…

…maybe not the best time to stop smoking weed.

August 19, 2008 | Filed under: travel, technology, misadventures

Life’s funny. I responded to an email from Nokia about testing a music phone (forget that I’m not sure whether I would use a music phone, who says no to free use of a gadget? I love gadgets!) and got the phone promptly enough, but unfortunately for this little AT&T customer the phone was locked to T-Mobile. I sent a request for a code or a SIM card and got an invitation to enjoy some cell phone video fun in Los Angeles…

…that’s where you come in…

July 8, 2008 | Filed under: get meta with me!, la famiglia, misadventures

I’ve been sitting on this footage long enough.

When we were on vacation in Istanbul last Winter the majority of our evenings were spent in our cute little hotel room shooting the breeze and enjoying a light (second) dinner of cheese, wine and halvah. Me, my Mom and her BFF Sally together on a grand international adventure (a good deal of which was spent in our cute hotel room enjoying wine, cheese etc).

I’ve shot and posted family fun before, but sometime between then and now my Mom decided she didn’t want to be featured on the blog any more. She never really explained why no matter how many times I asked. I guess it’s just too strange to her– too personal.

For me, it’s different. The more personal the better. We didn’t take family movies when I was young, so to me capturing these moments is like a special gift. I get to keep them forever, living them again and again as I choose. Granted, I don’t re-watch 85% of the videos that I post.

But this one? This one falls into that remaining 15%. I’ve watched it ten times in the last hour already. It’s special to me, and it’s mine.

Sorry, Mom. I had to do it. I couldn’t help it. I think it’s just too dear to keep to myself.