Ooh Shemo "Ooh Shemo" is Hebrew for "That's what it's called." Brett is reading the Bible in Hebrew and has a recording of a man we lovingly refer to as "Quirky Hebrew Man" he listens to in his study. The way he says this particular phrase makes us smile and has become a standard phrase we use for many different things. When we were trying to think of what we should call this website, the idea of calling it, "that's what it's called," made both of us laugh. And thus a website was born. Hebrew has actually been something we've talked about since we met.
Binary
Binary is the basic language of computers. It is a series of ones and zeros and everything can be broken down to it. Every letter and character you type has a binary equivalent.
We are both computer people. And while
we were first getting to know each other
and doing a lot of communicating online,
we would occasionally communicate directly
in binary, or one step up, hexidecimal.
When Lisa's mom found out about that, she
decided that we were perfect for each other,
because very few people would do that with
her.
When you write something for a computer,
you have to include a "null terminator"
at the end of the phrase so that the computer
knows that is the end and it should go
no further. When Lisa uses binary or hex
to write to Brett, she always includes
a null terminator at the end of her message.
Brett likes to give her a bad time about
this. We are using binary throughout our
wedding stuff (see if you can find where),
but there is no null terminator this time.
What we have has no end. There might be
one or two other things that mean eternal
here and there.
Pansies and Snowballs
Lisa's two favorite flowers are not blooming in November, so we are going to improvise a bit. To "tie things together" (and yes, that pun is intended), she's using a lot of ribbon on her dresses and will be making her flowers out of ribbon and fabric. She has loved pansies and snowball flowers since she was a little girl. She remembers the back wall of their yard at one house being covered with snowball bushes and her dad would put them in her hair for Church. They also had pansies blooming at that house. When she went to Brasil she learned that the Portuguese name for the flower is "perfect love" and decided that made them the perfect wedding flower.
The Wedding Dresses
Yes, that is supposed to be plural. Lisa is making both of her wedding dresses, one for the ceremony and one for the reception. Why not have two pretty dresses? There are aspects of both dresses that she's doing for a reason.
Linen
For the ceremony dress she is using linen.
Last year Brett loaned her a book called,
Beloved
Bridegroom: Finding Christ in Ancient Jewish
Marriage and Family Customs by
Donna B. Nielsen because they were talking
about something at the time that made him
think she would be interested in it. He
was right. In fact, she hasn't given the
book back yet, but that's okay because
we are combining libraries shortly anyway.
It talked a lot about many of the symbols
of an ancient Jewish wedding and the depth
you gain in the scriptures by understanding
those symbols. One of those is
the bride being dressed in clean linen.
Because of that deeper meaning behind it,
Lisa really wanted to use as much linen
as she could on her dress.
Ribbon
As we mentioned earlier, our flowers are
going to be made out of ribbon. The same
type of ribbon will be tied around the ceremony
dress and the reception dress. We really
are "tying everything together." We're
also using a similar ribbon, only in color,
to wrap around our cake.
Turtles
If you talk to Brett long enough, you'll hear him say, "I like turtles." Just like "ooh shemo," this is a phrase that Brett heard elsewhere, laughed about, and has now become a regular part of our discourse. The phrase comes from an interview done on a local news station with a young boy at a local fair type thing. You can watch and enjoy the clip here:
You'll have to watch and see if you can spot another animal in a particular place in our wedding stuffs that we also get a kick out of.
