Weekend Plans with Old Friends

May 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment

The Summer break has started in our little home now that the mister’s semester is officially over which has got me thinking about the things I want to do this summer. Of course we will be tending to our little garden which will help me experiment in the kitchen a wee bit. /* As much as my picky eating habits (which I’m trying to break) will allow. */ And hopefully taking a few little outings & road trips. But there’s another little quest from this month that I’m hoping will lead to a path of many more exciting things, which I plan on starting this weekend!

If you don’t know I’m a zombie job employee that has been dreaming of joining the living, which means that I have been dreaming about doing my own thing. Using my crafty skills & creativity to open a little online shop of geeky wares for amazing nerds. Ways for people like us to add a bit of geekery to our every day looks & life.

The other day while I was waiting for the clock to strike the 5:00 pm quitting time, I got an idea for a hat design for that future shop. So this weekend I’m going to spend a little quality time with some stash yarn & see if I can take that sketch from paper to the real deal. You see, I was actually pretty nervous about being able to complete my short list of quests for the month all because of the handcraftery ones. It seems like there is always something to throw a wrench in my crafty plans, as of late. So I couldn’t be happier to spend a little quality time with some dear old friends, crochet hooks & yarn.

And don’t worry, I will be spending some quality time with both Momma Bears this weekend but we are postponing the great festivities until next weekend. You see this baby bear takes after her Momma Bear. While I’m planning on spending a good chunk of the weekend with my hands on some yarn & pencils /* Gotta make notes if I plan on making some of these hats for ya’ll! */, Momma Bear will be enjoying the weekend in her cute little booth at a downtown festival selling her handcraftery.

Who knows? I may even take my project bag along with me & get some sage advice from my crafting guru, dear Momma Bear. One of many creative ladies in my life that formed me into the craftaholic that I am.

So what are your plans this weekend? Don’t forget to add spoiling your mothers to the list. And for all those mothers out there, I wish you the happiest of Mother’s Days!

/* Hopefully I get enough progress done this weekend so that I can share some pictures of the hat & talk about my design process. */

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Exploring Dungeons the Table Top Way

May 8, 2013 by 3 Comments

Ok nerd, let’s get a show of hands!

How many of you are guilty of spending quite a bit of time playing MMOs? I mean seriously playing. Years of your life spent with the same pixelated group of guildmates. Grinding mats. Farming gear. (Hopefully) downing bosses. Yep, my hand is raised. The mister & I have spent quite a few years of our time together playing World of Warcraft together, with me being his pocket healer. Finally, about the time we got married, we called it quits on WoW. All the hours of grinding/farming got old. With each expansion it was different monsters, different colors…but still the same crap, just easier.

I don’t know about you but I like a good challenge & predictable is anything but a challenge. If I wanted to just faceroll through a game I would let my beagle play for me. /* But we’d have to be careful that he didn’t /gquit us like he almost did one raid night. */

For the last year or so I’ve had the urge to find another MMO. I’ve tried a few, but just haven’t found anything that could keep my attention on those late night gaming weekends. Maybe I’m growing up & becoming too old for video games? Nah! I’m just getting a bit tired of the game developers & their lack of creativity.

So what’s a gamer to do?

Well the answer is actually under your plate (or computer, if you play on a fairly large table). Table top games is where it’s at! Every day is a new adventure even if you are playing the same game each time, which is something you really don’t find on your computers or consoles. Just to be clear, I’m not really talking about games like Monopoly or Pictionary. Go way beyond those old favorites & you can find a whole new world of gaming goodness!

Ever since we started building our board game collection, I have to say that there are many nights I would much rather gather with some of my favorite nerdy friends & play a table top game over a video game.

Need a few reasons to justify moving over to the table side? How about:

  • No more PUGs.
  • No more farming.
  • No more grinding for mats.
  • No bots ruining the game.
  • Now you can tease your friends face-to-face when they are being a n00b.
  • No monthly fees (which your bank account will love).
  • Always a new experience!

And for those of you that can’t get a big enough group of friends interested in playing, there is always your local board game store! That’s how we came to know & love our other nerdy table top gamers. And most of those stores have demo games available to try before you buy.

What are some of your favorite board games? Let’s share some of our favorites & maybe introduce a few people to their new favorite game!

/* Be sure to check back for more board game adventures coming to a blog near you! */

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When Two Geeks Wed

May 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment

snuggling geeks

As you’re reading this, I am beginning the first zombie day of the zombie week. Sitting behind my zombie desk, but all I can do is dream about last Tuesday. A special day that allowed me to leave the zombie job behind for a single day & celebrate. It was a very special day for our household, the mister & I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary. I don’t know how “normal” people celebrate but I do know that we rock it out in nerd fashion! But isn’t that natural when you have a video game themed wedding?!

We don’t really have any set traditions yet but we are still young in our marriage. Things seem to be changing each year for us, but the one constant we have had so far is being able to spend the entire day together. You really can’t beat a tradition like that! I’m just hoping that the mister’s course load next year will allow us to do this all over again. 

So I bet you are wondering what on earth we did to celebrate. To some it might not be spectacular, but there are those nerdy few that might understand why we felt it was such a perfect day.

After sleeping in a puppy snuggles, we decided to start our day off by enjoying a lovely lunch at The Pub. It wasn’t the original plan, but maybe we were subconsciously deciding to honor one of our favorite movies (Shaun of the Dead) on that special day. Who knows? Sometimes there is no method to our madness. Others? It’s connected in a strange web only our minds will understand.

Next stop? The craft store! Unfortunately I didn’t find what I was searching for, so there are no fun, crafty treasures to share. But we did mosey on down to a game store, just a few doors down. After hours of browsing their old PS2 games that will be slowly disappearing on shelves, we found a few gems to add to our game collection. I don’t care how beautiful & shiny new console games are nowadays, I will always have a sweet spot for some of the old favorite…where it all began!

After some upside-down beagle snuggles we hopped in the convertible to drive down to a lovely little patio bar & I did something I thought I would never, ever do. /* For those of you that have known me for a long time, you might want to be seated before you read the next sentence. */ I tried sushi! Only one piece, but I ate it & didn’t spit it out! I don’t know how I let him talk me into trying new things when no one else can, but there are many things I actually enjoy now because of him.

Of course there was only one was we could perfectly end this night for us. It was a wee bit too dark to work on some crafty projects out in the garage, so we settled for snuggling up in the bed & grabbing our laptops. To play Smite, of course! And I have to say as always, we made the perfect team.

Do you have any special traditions for your anniversaries? I’d love to hear what fun traditions you have or memories you relive! There’s just something so beautiful about continuing love stories.

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Green Thumb Dreams

May 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment

When you have a grandmother that would nowadays be known as the Plant Whisperer, you would think that maybe some of that green thumb gene would be passed down. But after seeing Momma Bear kill my cactus, I began to question if I would ever have what it takes to make one of my dreams come true. /*I’m talking sucked all the air out, flat as a pancake, here.*/ But you know what? I’ll never know if that gene skips a generation or if I’m doomed with the black thumb until I try! So, let’s go on an adventure…

We are currently renters which means that while the mister & I would love to take a nice big chunk of the backyard & turn it into a huge vegetable garden, we are at the mercy of the landlord. Unfortunately the perfectly prime spot just happens to be the one place we can’t dig, where wires & such are below. So the typical veggie garden is out of the question. Luckily I’ve been putting my reading glasses to use & searching for any tidbit of information I can find on small space gardening & what plants will survive our crazy climate. I don’t know if you are familiar with the madness of Kentucky weather, but if you don’t like it right now just wait 5 minutes because it’s always changing.

After all that reading, I think now is the time to make a list of our options because prime gardening season is here! If you have any other small space gardening ideas that you want to see added to the list, be sure to leave them in the comments below & I will update for all of us tiny garden n00bs.

Ok, we’ve got our list of options but now it’s time to think of the next steps…

  1. Get the approval of the landlord.
  2. Get the neighbor on board! /*Since we are sharing a backyard & the best spot is on his side of the yard, it’s the right thing to do.*/
  3. Start building a raised garden box.
  4. Get to planting all the noms.
  5. Wait. Wait. WAIT!
  6. Enjoy the fruits of our labor.

We’ve got the okay. We’ve got an extra set of hands & mouths. /*Yay for neighbor gardens*/ And luckily we have some spare wood in the mister’s workshop. So now we have to put some hard work in & decide what delicious noms will be planted. I just can’t wait to finally enjoy some fresh, homegrown goodies! Patience when it comes to gardening is not something I’m used to but I’m hoping that instead of waiting the next day to dig things up & see what they are doing I will wait at least 2! /*♥ you, Momma Bear!*/ Haha!

Be sure to check back & see where this gardening adventure takes us!

Have you ever done small space gardening? If so, pretty please share any tips or advice with us in the comments below!

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Quest Log: May 2013

May 1, 2013 by 4 Comments

Quest Log

Hey nerds! What awesome adventures do you have in the works for May?

After months of planning, sketching, coding & other good stuff, I am so very excited to get this month going. Now that all the behind the curtain stuff is mostly done, new goals can finally be made & worked on. And just think of all the awesome adventures we can go on now that Spring is in the air! Cookouts. Gardening. Camping. Long walks…on the beach? It’s time to soak in all the warm weather & sunshine now that it’s finally here. And it’s the perfect time for me to start tackling some of those awesome goals that I’ve been dreaming about for a while now!

Adventures

  • Get Momma Bear’s Etsy shop designed & set up.
  • Make gardening attempt #1.
  • Take the first steps in my own nerd fitness routine (Couch to 5k).

Handcraftery

  • Make a light tent for product photography.
  • Come up with a new hat design for the future shop.

Nerdisms

  • Finish watching Firefly.
  • Get the mister caught up to me in Doctor Who.

I think that’s a pretty awesome list to get started on, don’t you? Well I guess it’s time to get geared up for our quests this month. And if you are the sharing type, I’d love to see what awesome adventures you have planned for May!

Did you blog about them? If so, pretty please share the link so I can send you a little encouragement & be your questing buddy.

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