{"id":1466,"date":"2012-04-19T12:18:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T20:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2016-02-02T18:33:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T02:33:44","slug":"shittaneensays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaeminyi.com\/shittaneensays\/","title":{"rendered":"My Latest Video: Shit T Says!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='740' height='417' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JW70aW2fGKg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the past 2 weeks, I&#8217;ve been sneaking behind my girlfriend&#8217;s back.  I&#8217;ve been lying constantly about where I&#8217;ve been and what I&#8217;ve been doing.  I even got her friends and family in on it.<\/p>\n<p>But last Saturday, she finally found out what we&#8217;ve all been up to this entire time&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>And she loved it.  Like, tears-coming-down-her-face loved it (I don&#8217;t usually enjoy making girls cry, but I&#8217;ll make exceptions).<\/p>\n<p>If you know T at all (her blog is seriously one of my favorites), then you know she&#8217;s the absolute PERFECT target for a Shit [Blank] Says video.  This girl is full of such ridiculousness\/awesomeness\/weirdness, it&#8217;s almost too easy!<\/p>\n<p>For a girl who doesn&#8217;t give a shit about fancy dinners and expensive gifts, we all knew that this would be the perfect birthday gift.  And it totally was.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I didn&#8217;t expect though, was how awesome making this video would be for <em>me<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, if you know me, you know I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/jaeminyi.com\/creativity\/\">strained relationship with creativity<\/a>.  And especially with filmmaking.<\/p>\n<p>Once I got the idea to do this video, I could feel my old creative impulses kicking in.  I started to get stressed.  I wanted this thing to be PERFECT!  What if I fail??  What if it isn&#8217;t funny?  Am I running out of time?  I need to start planning!  I need to start writing!  I need to &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>SHUT UP!<\/p>\n<p>I took a deep breath.  And then I kicked those old impulses to the curb.  Remembering my new outlook on creativity, I made a promise to myself right there and then:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the entirety of making this video, you are NOT allowed to stress, get frustrated, or turn this into a burden.  I command you to have FUN with it.  This is not an option.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It helped to remember the whole freakin&#8217; point of this video: to make Taneen happy.  <\/p>\n<p>And if Taneen found out that I stressed about this video for 2 straight weeks, she would not be happy.  She would slap the shit outta me.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s really awesome for me to enjoy this finished video and know that I pulled it off without stressing or being a perfectionist.  When it comes to videos, this is near IMPOSSIBLE for me.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty sweet.<\/p>\n<p>But I got something else out of it too.  Something even cooler\u2026<\/p>\n<p>For 2 straight weeks, I got to hang out and spend one-on-one time with my girlfriend&#8217;s closest friends and family.  The people she frickin&#8217; loves the MOST in her life.<\/p>\n<p>And I got to see firsthand how much they all love her back.<\/p>\n<p>I got to have a cig break with her college roomie, who told me how special Taneen was to her.  I watched her parents try to imitate her and crack up so hard we couldn&#8217;t continue filming.  I sat around with her best law school buddies and just traded our favorite Taneen stories.<\/p>\n<p>See, it&#8217;s funny.  Going into this, I thought that the actual filming would be the most annoying part.  That it was just another obstacle getting in the way of my end goal: having a finished video.<\/p>\n<p>But it actually turns out that this &#8220;annoying&#8221; filming process &#8211; hanging out with her friends and fam, putting on shitty wigs, laughing our asses off &#8211; was what actually mattered all along.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It was a beautiful celebration of Taneen&#8217;s life in and of itself.<\/strong>  And the fact that we got to make a finished video afterwards was just the cherry on top.  <\/p>\n<p>I think there&#8217;s a life lesson in here somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, I finally got to create a video with minimal amounts of stress and a shit ton of fun, all while realizing that <strong>the journey was more important than the destination<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Not too shabby, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday baby.  Thank YOU for that awesome gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past 2 weeks, I&#8217;ve been sneaking behind my girlfriend&#8217;s back. I&#8217;ve been lying constantly about where I&#8217;ve been and what I&#8217;ve been doing. I even got her friends and family in on it. But last Saturday, she finally found out what we&#8217;ve all been up to this entire time&#8230; And she loved it&#8230;. <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jaeminyi.com\/shittaneensays\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79mZF-nE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}