Hump Day Distractions

Awww!

Let's take a little break from all the birthday talk and hump it out shall we!? 

* This simple pasta dish will be the perfect way to use the basil currently growing in abundance on my terrace.

* Well if this isn't the most adorable friendship I have ever seen (worth the pre-roll, made me tear up!!)

* And while you're watching tear-jerkers, there's this beautiful story from our elephant friends.

* A maxi dress you can just live in on the weekends (and it's on sale!)

* Fellow Potterheads rejoice!

* There's something so charming about this little dude's determination.

* Would you be brave enough to do THIS? I'd like to think I could muster up the courage...

* Bookmarked for next apartment 100%.

* Well aren't you the cutest little guy!?

* Coolest couples ever.

geeking out.

Being a geek means......

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(parent)thetically speaking.

so guys, I think I’m a geek. Nay, I KNOW I’m a geek, but I just kinda wanted to put some stuff out there, and see if maybe we all have a little inner geek? I remember it well, when I realized and embraced my geek-ness. It was middle school, and I was the brunt of some teasing, etc (your classic middle school stuff) because I, like, voluntarily raised my hand to answer the questions the teachers were asking. And I voluntarily stayed home on the weekends to watch Nash Bridges with my dad and go thrifting with my mom and read John Grisham books. So there you had it, I was a geek, I identified it and looked forward to a lifetime of discovering the ways my inner geek would become an outer geek. So I thought I would share with you, through the magic of internet links, the ways in which I tend to geek out. Anyone else relate to this stuff…anyone? Bueller?

Basically the greatest shirt ever.

*My (mandatory) but entirely too enthusiastic participation in History Day  and my completely optional participation in Odyssey of the Mind...or maybe it was my pride in making it to states for both…word.

*my excitement for 7pm when Jeopardy would come on (to this day…though it’s on at 7:30 here, kind of life-altering) 

*My obsession with the notion that our universe has a shape – I just think it’s one of the coolest things to think about! Here’s a quick write-up, but I feel as though I could’ve taken an entire college course on the subject

*I would like to go to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter for my 5^th wedding anniversary, and would like to make it a requirement that my husband read all the books before we go (he’s only seen the movies, ugh, don’t get me started). And I want my own wand. I really really do.

*Aaron Sorkin is a writing genius , and I quote parts of his dialogue daily. (full disclosure, I spent at least a half hour reading quotes before picking one to share)

from The West Wing…

CJ: Duchamp was the father of Dadaism.

Toby: I know.

CJ: The dada of Dada.

Toby: It’s like there’s nothing you can do about this joke. It’s coming and you just have to stand there.

*One of my besties (who totally gets me) got something like this for my son for his first birthday…why, yes, it is indeed a toy lightsaber

So there you have it. And this handy Buzzfeed chart lets me know that I am an offshoot of Geekus Prime. Please tell me you’re on here somewhere too?!