Nerdiness, FTW!

The Game Cabinet

 I married a math nerd.  There's really no other way to say it.  He's a straight up math nerd -- loves PURE mathematics (real life application?!? THE HORRORS!!), plays D&D, calls himself a Mathemagician, plays a Mathemagician in D&D, worships Euler, paints miniatures, loves sweater vests, and names his pets Euclid and Bernoulli.  Me?  I barely kept awake during roll call in Math class.

One of the greatest things about my nerd is that he loves to game, and I'm not talking about RISK and WoW because those games are clearly for n00bs.  I'm talking about Trailer Park Wars and jigsaw puzzles.  I'm talking about Settlers of Catan and Munchkin.  I'm talking about Pass the Pigs and Bananagrams.  Haven't heard of some of these?  Look them up! 

I mentioned before that our anniversary is coming up and that we had decided to buy awesome things for our apartment.  I picked out an awesome desk, while Matt decided to purchase a cabinet to house all of his games (current and future).  It took us a while to find one that was in our price range, not hideous, and big enough to hold bulky games.  We decided for the easy route -- Ikea.  Build it ourselves.

Since Ikea was easy AND cheap, Matt and I rewarded ourselves by buying more games and jigsaw puzzles.   "Ticket to Ride (Europe)" is a new spin on a well-played game.  "Mr. Jack" is a two person version of clue, which is perfect for a young married couple!  It has the added bonus of being about Jack the Ripper.  We haven't yet played "Galaxy Trucker", but it looks to be a riot.  The cat puzzle was because Matt and I are sucker for cute kitties, and the bone puzzle is for me!  (I have another anatomy puzzle, but I wanted one specific to bones this time. People are always patella'n me I'm a nerd.)

(I know, a thousand nerds are casting "lightning bolt" at me for blaspheming them so. Luckily, I have a the Shield of Ennui which makes me Level Infinity +1.)

I've gnome all along I could succeed!

Sherlock Gnomes deducing my success.

Almost two months ago, I mentioned that Project Picturesque Porch had commenced. Let the official records now show that I am capable of keeping a garden alive for AT LEAST 6 weeks.  As one can clearly note in the picture to the right, my plants are not only surviving, they are thriving!

It helps that I have a little assistant, Sherlock Gnomes (also pictured).  He's been my faithful bookcase companion for these past three years, however I recently realized that I had not been properly utilizing his talents.  Instead of (poorly) guarding my books from the evils of dust, moths and cat paws, he has now been assigned to Oasis Observer out at the Garden Garrison.  

For the record, even though I only pictured one pot, I promise everyone is in good health.  Even Pothos the Plant is superb!  (My mother yelled at me for keeping an inside plant outside, but apparently she does not understand the dangers of a hungry cat.)

Still working on that list ...

My husband and I are getting ready to celebrate our anniversary (July 3rd), so naturally the subject of presents has been foremost in our conversations -- mostly because we love any excuse for presents!  The problem was we couldn't seem to find things we wanted within our price range. Either too cheap or too expensive or too boring or too impractical or too purple.  Finally, a few days ago Matt suggested that we scrap all of our ideas, and buy awesome things for our home.  One of the options was to get me a nice desk (pictured right).  On a tip from a friend, we went the Belfort Furniture and found one to our liking!  Now, it has a new home in our bedroom!

Several weeks ago, I posted a list of Things That I Want To Do Around The House This Summer.  I even posted a few pictures of ones I accomplished (Project Picturesque Porch, key hooks, and even last Saturday's new summer quilt).   Today's accomplishments also touched our kitchen.  Since our apartment is a rental, painting isn't really an option, so we've been trying to pick up pretty and colorful items to hang on our walls.  The four pictures below were found at Home Goods!

Our apartment is in a constant state of change.  If we were in physics class, you would say it's dynamic.  (Luckily we're not in physics class so we can call the apartment whatever we damn well please.)  For example, we have a very heavy (and pretty) chocolate brown comforter on our bed (as shown below).    Thick comforters and chocolate brown do not exactly shout, "Summer."  Soooooo, Matthew and I decided on a new theme for the summer.   One step closer to re-doing our home this summer!

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