I am not a big fan of winter. If I had a nemesis, it would be Cold. The worst part of winter, besides the cold itself, is the freaking snow. Today is the first of three storms we are supposed to be getting this week. The snow started at about 4AM and, as of 1PM, it is still falling pretty hard. We're up to approximately 7 inches of the stuff so far. And the new reports are saying there is still another 2 - 4 hours to go. Another storm is supposed to come sometime tomorrow, which will be dropping ice on us. As a result, our satellite dish has been out of commission all day. Luckily, we have a ChromeCast that allows us to stream YouTube videos (and other videos that can run in Chrome) to our television. We may have to change over to Netflix soon. I think I'm actually running out of YouTube videos to watch. Any recommendations?
A Few Things About Me...
Welcome to the new Geek Within. To start this off right, I will tell you a bit about myself: Right now, I am 37 years old, which makes me feel absolutely ancient. I have been married to my wonderful husband for 12 years and together we have an 11 year old daughter. The three of us adore animals. We have three dogs, one cat, two chinchillas, a bird, and quite a few fish - both saltwater and freshwater. It can get quite crazy at times!
I love crafting. My newest obsession is jewelry made out of toys. I enjoy science fiction and fantasy stuff. Some of my favorite shows are Haven, The Originals (I'm kinda falling out of love with The Vampire Diaries but I really loved the books), Supernatural, both Elementary and Sherlock, and Psych. I watch way too many shows on YouTube. And I am way too busy for someone so lazy.
That is me in a nutshell. Want to know more? Feel free to ask!
Hello Again
It's been a very long time since I've really blogged here. So I'm going to start over. Sorta. Some things have changed around here. I decided to stop doing paid blog posts. Not only were the assignments very repetitive, they were also very boring. I'm glad I got the opportunity to do it and I was able to make some decent pocket change to allow me to do some other things in my personal life but now it is time to move on.
I've also printed out some prompts to get the writing juices going again. Since tomorrow is the start of a new month, tomorrow will also be the official start of the new Geek Within.
Let me know if there is anything you'd like me to bring back. TV reviews, Favorite Friday, whatever. Tell me what you want to read in the comments and I'll do my best.
Happy New Year!
It's 2014! 2014 will be a great year. My sister will be getting married in September. (I don't think she'll be using wedding DJ Joe Bunn. I think she's having live music.) My daughter is halfway through the sixth grade. My husband is pretty happy with his professional life. And my pets are as lazy as ever. 2014 is starting off as a good year. I know I have been slacking a bit on the blog here. So my New Year's goal is to just post more. It may not be particularly "geeky" in nature but I want to get back on track. I think I might be joining the 30 Days of Lists thing to try to get some more ideas on subject matter. I need to get my Geek back!
Noooooooo
It has been so cold in the morning that I am actually thinking of buying heated motorcycle gloves even though I don't own a motorcycle. My steering wheel is freezing when I leave for work. I don't tolerate the cold very well, unfortunately. My mom gives me hand warmers to put inside my gloves but they only work for so long. GO AWAY WINTER.
Take the ego down a notch.
During the day, I work at a company that does continuing education for accountants. A lot of accountants like to think they are super important people. One of my jobs is answering the phone and customers will frequently introduce themselves as "CE Thorn CPA." I would love to tell them "Yes, most of our customers are CPAs. That is who our products are geared towards." Adding a few letters to the end of your name doesn't make you special. Most of the time, it doesn't even mean you are SMART. (Many people fail our tests, which are pretty easy.) So, yeah, keep on with your bad self. The rest of us will just keep laughing.
Excited!
I don't normally get excited about going to amusement parks. My daughter doesn't really like regular rides so it seems like a waste of money most of the time. This time.... Over on Facebook, I am a member of a bunch of yard sale groups. Most of the time people are offering junk. Yesterday, a local woman was offering some tickets to Hershey Park for only $20 each. It turns out that they are Return Visit Vouchers - tickets you get when your visit to the park is rained out. She couldn't use them so I bought them!
Even if my daughter hates most of the rides, it's not a bad deal considering these three tickets cost almost the same as one regular price ticket. I can't wait!
Cleaning a-hoy!
I generally don't pay a lot of attention to the cleaners I use in my house. There's never a huge cleaning project that makes me worry about odors or anything. My father's house, however, may be a different story. He has lived in that house for almost 40 years. And in that time, he has smoked like a chimney. As a result, everything is covered in a film of nicotine. I'm hoping to get some good green cleaning products to really scrub down his house to make it more liveable. It is habitable right now; it's just really gross. And I think it will take a long time to make it better.
Summer is for laziness
I must be the busiest lazy person ever. Even though I don't ever feel like doing anything, I find myself doing all sorts of things. My family participated in the annual Road Rally in Pottstown. (That is like a scavenger hunt in your car. So fun!) I've also been making a ton of necklaces. I have some chalkboards waiting to be painted but the weather hasn't been cooperating. And I keep traveling back to my hometown to help my father with some personal things. It feels like I don't ever have time to just kick back and relax. School starts in a little over a month! Everything is crazy! I hope you are having an awesomely busy summer as well.
Just a staycation for me
Every summer I wish we could afford to go away for vacation. Two summers ago, we did go to Williamsburg, Virginia. Last year, we stayed at home and hit up some local amusement parks. That is, once again, the plan for this year. While all of us really go enjoy going to Camelbeach, it would be nice to get away from home for a few days. It doesn't have to be a particularly difficult to plan trip either. There are some awesome waterparks in the United States that I'm sure my daughter would love. (My daughter prefers waterparks to amusement parks. For some reason, she just doesn't enjoy most rides.) Typhoon Lagoon in Florida is one of the parks on our water bucket list. There's also a park in Santa Claus, Indiana that I would like to visit. (After all, how can you miss a city called Santa Claus?!) My daughter would be perfectly happy just hanging out at waterparks all summer.
I'd also like to visit some other countries. I hear that London is an inexpensive trip. I'm sure we could find some good hotels in London that wouldn't break the bank. And since my daughter has recently gotten into watching BBC shows like Doctor Who and Sherlock, she might love seeing some of the locales from the series. Unfortunately, the flight itself might be a little too costly for us. (It's too expensive for us to fly to Florida for a week. I can't imagine what London would cost.)
Maybe one day we'll be able to afford a really nice vacation to someplace different. Until then, we'll be visiting all of the waterparks in Pennsylvania that we can.