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What Kind of Nerdfighter Are You?

Food/Books Nerdfighter

About Me:

I'm one of the "aging" Nerdfighters at the ripe old age of 34. I'm a proud SAHM mom to two boys. I love children (what kid isn't made of awesome?), books of all sorts, baking, and cooking. I like Tolkien way too much to ever be considered cool outside of Nerdfighteria, with Harry Potter coming in a close second. I get really immersed in the things I'm into, whether that be planning a Harry Potter theme week to celebrate the Deathly Hallows release, replete with homemade chocolate frogs and an advanced potion making class, or getting so excited about my living breathing sourdough bread starter that I could barely talk about anything else for weeks (I felt like a mad scientist! *cue evil laugh and thunderclap*). We have a lot of fun at my house. We play and laugh and pretend a lot. Life is fascinating and full and rich when you can get excited about all the little things...like a book or a tree or a perfect tomato.

Favorite Books, Movies, Music, and more

Of Human Bondage, Lord of the Rings, The Simarillion, Harry Potter, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Catcher in the Rye, Slaughterhouse 5, The Book Thief
-anything by PG Wodehouse, EM Forster, Oscar Wilde, or Walt Whitman
-anything with beautiful, glossy pictures of food and/or unusual or antiquated recipes

If you could do your happy dance with anyone who would it be with?

my husband and children, of course

Website:

http://amillionuniverses.blogspot.com/

When did you start watching B20

July, 2008

What I'm Reading...

Currently reading...
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Look Me In the Eye by John Elder Robison

Recent reads...
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (great characters, if you can stomach the deeply racist POV. Interesting to read consecutively with Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher for comparison and contrast)
The Giver by Lois Lowry

Currently reading or have recently read to the little Nerdfighters...
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

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Hangin' With Ignatius

I don't tend to just read a book. I devour it. I luxuriate in it. I get deeply… Continue

Posted on February 6, 2009 at 9:04am — 37 Comments

Books of Joy

Ages ago, Suzi Blu made a video where she sanded and gessoed a child's board book and made it into a book of her own. I thought this was a brilliant idea. So much scope for the imagination!

As most of you know, both of my sons were diagnosed last year with general anxiety disorder, along with Aspergers and ADHD. Life is tough for them sometimes, and fears and stresses loom large every day. I thought that maybe we could use Suzi's board bo… Continue

Posted on January 29, 2009 at 9:00am — 5 Comments

Google Verb Meme Bandwagon

Since my IRL name is both a regular noun and a verb, I got some interesting answers. (still using E as an abbreviation to protect my secret identity)

Q: E needs a Lead Acoustic Guitarist

Q: E looks like a great place to start your career after college.

Q: E says No - Please help!

Q: E wants to reach the largest number of people possible with these important messages.

Q: E does not get highlighted

Q: E hates me as much as i hate you

Q: E Asks about Buddha

Q: E likes carrots, apples, and g… Continue

Posted on January 22, 2009 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

It's -50C Here This Morning

...with the windchill. I just wanted to say it...-50C. Now that's cold...bitter, crushing, merciless cold. It makes each breath catch painfully in your lungs. It makes your eyelashes freeze together. It makes your bones ache and your toes and fingers numb within minutes, no matter how warmly you are bundled up. All of the children will be kept inside at recess and at lunch, because it is just too dangerous to play outside. Heaven forbid a scarf should slip down or a mitt get lost, at these tempe… Continue

Posted on January 14, 2009 at 8:18am — 11 Comments

Mmmmmm, Christmas!

It's that time of year again, and my thoughts are turning to all the smells and tastes of the season...cinnamon and ginger, butter and vanilla, nuts, chocolate, turkey-roasting, cookies-baking...house elves bustling merrily around the kitchen...or if you're short on house elves, yourself in there, up to the elbows in chocolate truffles and gingerbread dough, humming "God Rest Ye Merry Hippogriffs" as you whip up a little batch of comfort and joy. Yay Christmas!

Yesterday was chilly, and felt ev… Continue

Posted on December 6, 2008 at 11:30am — 34 Comments

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At 2:32am on October 30, 2009, serenity said…: aww thankies. i think you are very awesome too!!!!

yes the reno is going to be a rather protracted source of stress for me. the sawing off of the balcony part promises to be especially nerve wracking, although it vies with the 2 weeks of workmen in my tiny bachelor replacing the windows. they want me to give them 3 feet from the window in a space that windows run the length of and at my double bed is only 7 feet wide. that so should be fun O.o

i figure the universe must have some sort of master plan for me, and this is somehow part of it. *shakes fist at universe* seriously??? SERIOUSLY??? silly universe

At 7:11pm on October 23, 2009, thefirstofmany said…: I don't know how I forgot about that poem. Thank you for reminding me!

At 9:52pm on October 22, 2009, thefirstofmany said…: I love the "start wearing purple" song. Has anyone seen "everything is illuminated"? I love that movie. I do have a confession, I think the "start wearing purple" song maybe the inspiration for the Red Hat Ladies or whatever they call themselves.

At 7:12pm on October 22, 2009, LAly said…: What did I come here for again? Hmmm....

At 7:11pm on October 22, 2009, LAly said…: What is this unbusy revolution? I'm so lost in my own world these days.

You'll probably hate this but who can resist Eastern European gypsy music, right? ;)

At 8:44am on October 22, 2009, Deb S said…: Whoooo, purple! Had to check to make sure I was in the right place! The purple is perty - goes with the perty face! I have to go jump in the shower and get outta here but starting tomorrow I'm on vacation for 10 days!! Yaaaayyyy!!! So I can catch up, make some art, read, go for walkies woooHOOOOO! I'll check back in later. Gotto go ss&s and go to work.

At 11:34pm on October 19, 2009, Me said…: I am still loving your blog. I swear your art is just blooming and I am so glade that you are still sharing it with everyone. I will have to join the unbusy revolution(is it sad that I am trying to figure out just when I can fit this in? Yep, I really need to unbusy.)

At 9:27am on October 15, 2009, thefirstofmany said…: Banner Idea!
http://nerdfighters.ning.com/profiles/blogs/banner-1
I'm picturing your "unbusyness" and "bees" in this sort of banner style. These were gifts, but I believe they retail for US$27. Your thoughts on "unbusy" is a revolution whose time has come! viva la revolution!

At 4:48pm on October 13, 2009, LAly said…: Mel would be a pretty awesome stalker, eh? ;)

E, I just wanted to say that I heart your new profile picture. Definitely made-of-awesome.

At 1:59pm on October 11, 2009, serenity said…: thanks for the info! i never have tried that but will look into it. i mean i heard of it, but no one i knew had used it so i didn't know if it worked, and it is kinda pricey i think. ya insomnia is kinda doing my head in...