Since this year’s election seems to be clouding everyone’s judgement, vote nerd! My vote is for Whovian. Who are you voting for?

Wes, Jason, Vern, Richard & Brad (my hubby) gaming.

Being a nerdy gamer girl, I tend to have more guy friends then gal friends. This is pretty normal in the realm of NerdLand. There are some awesome benefits to having gamer guy friends:

1. They don’t care if you don’t look perfect. You don’t have to have the latest fashions on, or your makeup just perfect to hang out with your guy friends. They aren’t comparing if you look better in that outfit then they did or etc. Granted, every girl should look her best, but they don’t care if you don’t every once in a while.
2. You can be blatantly honest with them and they won’t read into what you said. There are no “secret” or “hidden” meanings in things when you are honest with them. They don’t try to “read between the lines” like women do.
3. You can finally make all those jokes that you can’t make with girls. Such as joking about the size of your “Deck” of WoW or Magic Cards. All those funny innuendo jokes that you have been saving for years are suddenly cool now! Or you can say things like “he, he, he said hard” and stupid dick and fart style jokes.
4. They have sturdy shoulders. You can cry on their shoulders and they can deal with it. They might try to solve the problem, but most times they just let you cry.
5. They typically don’t sleep much. This is good when you have insomnia and need to talk to someone because you can’t sleep! Because, guess what? They are awake too and mostly gaming, so you can game with someone!
6. Guys are typically, “what you see is what you get”. In a world of trying to be someone else, or poserdom, this is refreshing. I think this is probably the best of all the benefits, because I can just let my guard down and be myself as well, it’s not always that easy with women.
7. If you have kiddos, like I do, gamer guy friends make great “uncles”. The gamer guy friends that I have are all “uncles” to my two girls and will laugh and play with them as well. They don’t treat my kids like a nuisance, and they take the time to game with them as well.
8. Guy friends make you laugh. Let’s face it girls, sometimes you need a good laugh and watching them act like animals or slap boxing each other is funny! Plus, sometimes, they say the funniest things. (or make inappropriate gummy bear scenes)

So, if you have have some great gamer guys in your life, make sure to thank them! So Ryan, Wes, Richard, Tiki, Tim, Dan, Brian, Craig, DJ, Coby, Nate, Alex, Jason, Vern, Brett & Solomon: Thanks for keeping it real and real funny!

If there are benefits that I missed, please let me know and I will add them!

When Once Upon a Time frist came out, I watched the pilot like everyone else. I wasn’t sure what I thought about it, so I stopped watching it. But after a few weeks of hearing the buzz of what a great show it was, I decided to give it another chance. I am SO glad that I did!

What I have come to love about this show is the mesh of what’s happening in our world and what happened in the storybook character’s world. I also like the little twists within the stories, such as Prince Charming being betrothed to King Midas’s daughter before even meeting Snow White. Oh, and Snow White being a bad ass thief is pretty cool too! This is yet another Adam Horowitz hit and let’s face it with his credentials, he’s on a roll!

If you haven’t checked out Once Upon a Time, you can catch up on Amazon!

Knits for Nerds from Amazon.com

A Google + friend, Rilana is a pattern contributor to this awesome book: Knits for Nerds. As a Nerdy Knitter myself, I can’t wait for this book to release!

I mean, look at the cover, it just screams, buy me and knit me!!! (Okay, well at least it does to me!)

I am really excited about this book, because I have been working on a lot of nerdy knitted items for people and I am really glad to see a insurgence of nerdy knitting patterns, because there just aren’t enough out there!

This book releases on February 21, 2012, but knitting nerds like me, that’s going to be hard to wait for! Make sure to preorder your copy and give us nerdy knitters and especially pattern creators like Rilanna some nerd love!

MaryAnn Johnson

Thanks to the wonderful world of Google +, I found this great blog by MaryAnn Johnson called Flick Filosopher, in which MaryAnn does movie reviews and commentary for new movies in theater, DVD and etc.

What I like about MaryAnn versus other movie review sites is that she present the information with humor, but also I love her icons on each of the photos of the movie to be reviewed. (Such as skip it, rent it or see it.) I like this because let’s face it, I don’t always have time to read everything I see on the internet, but I like that I can see the icon (especially if it says Skip It) and read the review later.

So far, I have yet to disagree with MaryAnn’s reviews, so that’s pretty nice too! I hate it when you find a review site that feels differently than you about almost every movie out there! What I also enjoy about her blog is the amount of content! If there is a movie to be seen or reviewed, she’s done it!

So make sure to check out Flick Filopsopher and have some fun before you go to the movies!

So, I decided to try out Squidoo, since I have a lot of friends who like it. After creating my first lens, I really like it too! So check out my first (of many to come) lens and tell me what you think! I decided to showcase some really cool sci-fi hand made products.

Check it out!

A friend posted this interview with Benedict Cumberbatch of Sherlock and I love it! Hope you enjoy it too! There are rumors circulating that Benedict is slated to be in the next Star Trek movie, however his role has yet to be disclosed.

Funny or Die posted this photo on Google + today and when I saw it, I wanted to cry. This picture says it all. How many times have you snapped at your kiddos and said things that you wished you could take back immediately. I know I have.

I am making a challenge to say at least five nice things about my kids to my kids everyday, even on the days that I just want to scream.  I encourage you (if you are a parent) to do the same and lets stop this picture from happening in our kids lives.

Fus Ro Dah and bacon. Need I say more???

Star Trek Catan

I am really excited to announce that Kosmos, creator of Settlers of Catan , have created a Star Trek Catan. It looks really cool and I can’t wait to play it, however I can’t seem to find either a release date or who is selling it.

I also looked on the Catan website and could not find any information regarding this game, so I am hoping that it is not a hoax.

I really like Catan and it’s really fun to play! Besides, how often can you laugh at “Do you have wood for my sheep?” Just curious, watch this great clip from The Big Bang Theory playing Settlers of Catan!