#56 comic con awesomeness

I just got back from my first comic con and it was AWESOME!!  With the majority of help creating my costume by my ridiculously talented friend Laura Farrar, I think I rocked commander Shepard from the mass effect video game trilogy. To make it even awesomer, the hubs put on a femshep shirt and n7 hat and was "my biggest fan on the citadel"

 

As a first timer, I really didn't know what to expect so we decided not to bring the girls for this time around, but really they probably could have came. There was minimal scary costumes and half naked ladies roaming around so it would have been fine... But I'm still glad we went just us! 

Here a few things to know when going to comic con for the first time:

1. It's going to cost you more money than you thought.

Parking garage, admission, if you want to buy anything at the booths, if you want a picture with a special guest or get their autograph, costume, food. 

This sweetness of me and my friend "Amelia pond" cost me $20 and $5 for additional prints...so I took a picture of it!

2. If you are wearing an elaborate costume, make sure to bring extra safety pins, super glue and whatever else you need to fix it when the costume falls apart!

Women woman rocks! I had just permanent glued my hip panel to my body...boom get er done.

3. If dressing up, always say yes if someone wants to take your picture.  

Come on! That's why you dressed up in the first place right? The attention and support of your fandom towards that genre? Well go ahead and let them take that picture they are geeking out too!

This guy spent 200 hrs creating his halo costume and I was totally geeking out... But he was geeking out at my costume! He even let me hold his magnum for the photo op! Eeeeeeee!!!!!!!

Ok that's all I learned ha! All I know is I'm going back again, and I can't wait to figure out what I'm going to go as!! 

Here's the rest of some pics I took!

My friend brad who created that art right there! 

Best river song I have seen!

Cutest baby leia 

My biggest fan

The back of my costume since I got none with me in it!  

Cheers!

#16 take 2 coffee who

So I have to continue a thought process I had in the last post (WHICH WAS SO FUN TO DO BTW!) that was spurred by Mr. Minor (check out his funny blog here).  It's the difference between a GEEK and a NERD and the varying levels of the two.

So since I am still drinking Mr. momentum coffee...meh....(hey I can't be wasting coffee...even $4 MEH coffee! Onion was the only one I DID throw out though),  I will elaborate.

I do have a mug that ties this all in, so I title this one:

NERD LONG AND GEEK ON

The mug i have is my awesome OMEGA BROADCAST COMPANY mug with a VULCAN ear handle!!!! SO COOL!  This is one of the sweetest AV companies in Austin for sure. My Geek is coming out on this one ;) This is the place to be if you need anything related to video production, duplication, or editing (video, photo, you name it) they even have a green screen studio in house....again SO COOL. And the owner David Fry and his wife Pam are the sweetest people, for real.  And YES I do have a gel neck wrap...it's been a morning that DEMANDS coffee...and THERAPY.  Somehow I stayed up till 2 watching my husband play Fall out 3 New Vegas on the PS3....I blacked out between 12 and 2 right after he got radiation suits for his new posse that will break into the fire station to get....something...All I remember is yellow RAD suit, a pip boy, some 40s music and V.A.T.S.  again playing to the geek, side of things.

SO LET'S GET DOWN TO IT! YEEE HAWW!!!!

Via Urban Dictonary (cause the real one isn't as fun)
Nerd - One whose IQ exceeds his weight. A person who gains pleasure from amassing large quantities of knowledge about subjects often too detailed or complicated for most other people to be bothered with.

Geek - A geek does not have to be smart, a Geek is someone who is generally not athletic, and enjoys Video Games; Comic Books; being on the internet, and etc.

After reading these great definitions, I can't help but think I am a bit more on the Geek side of things than Nerd personally, but there are still things bout me that I know isn't LEVEL 1 Geek. So let's do a quick break down.

         

And there you have it people! Of course there are so many more intricacies of each category, but seriously, I have been trying to type this stinking thing all day....I'm DONE!

And what am I Thankful for?

Dorks

All the social awkwardness of geeks and nerds, minus any of the smarts. Hey we have to make fun of someone right? (and yes, I do have a little Dork somewhere in my blood!)

#15 Coffee Who?

WARNING:

If you are not a Dr. Who fan, this post will make NO SENSE to you whatsoever. Please proceed with mental caution as it has been known to make one crazy and awesome all at the same time.

I have a confession to make. It's something I'm a bit obsessed with and I feel like if I just get it out publicly, like on my blog, (which apparently only 5 of you read so it's not too public) a huge weight will be lifted off of me, because I feel like I've been holding this in for a really long time and I'm done hiding.....

I'm
a

HUGE

NERD

Specifically.... I love video games. Mass Effect and Fable series are my current obsessions. I sometimes think I really am Commander Shepard. (did you hear there is a free download on xbox for 2 hrs of play for ME3!?!??!) I LOVE star wars (except for that STUPID STUPID jar jar binks!) I thought glasses were cool before glasses WERE cool. Battlestar Gallactica? I'm still watching (season 5), Star TREK? TREK YEAH BABY!!! Comic books? X-men please with a little Rogue and Gambit on the side with a sprinkling of batman and a dash of wonder woman. LORD OF THE RINGS!??! I believe I dressed up to go to that movie when it came out (yes I'm THAT kind of nerd).  The matrix? I loved ALL 3 of them, not just the first one! Mario Brothers? King Koopa got NOTHING on me! You already know about my Office obsession, BEARS BEETS BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA!!! I actually probably have more in common with Dwight then I would like to admit. 

I could go on and on and on....but there is one little other nerdy thing I love, maybe not MORE, but definitely equal to the others...

Dr. "HOLY MOTHER I LOVE THIS SHOW" WHO!!!!!!!!

So I title this one today as:

My Mantra

So now given a little background on me, you can guess how much I FREAKIN LOVED this mug that my BF Amy and her hubster gave me for my B-day just about a month ago!  Now I know there are those of you out there that will have no idea what I am raving about. So I say to you, DON'T BLINK! BLINK AND YOUR DEAD! :) hahaha....You are like my own husband who amazingly missed every episode when I was watching... I mean it was there right IN THE CORNER OF HIS EYE !!! He's just a BAD WOLF I guess.  But really, it comes down to that there are some things that are BIGGER ON THE INSIDE THAN THE OUTSIDE. I mean, HELLO SWEETIE!!!! How could you miss this amazing show?!?!  What are you? a CYBERMAN of something?! It's so much more than it sounds! I guess it is HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT, just netflix it!  I don't want to reveal any SPOILERS, but the Dr can travel through time and space! It's DALEKtable! Plus this series started waaaaaay back in the 1960s! (It took a break after 1989 and started back up again in 2005) NOTHING for a TIME LORD and his SONIC SCREWDRIVER!!!!   

OH MY GOSH I LOVE IT!!!!!! so what's in the mug you ask? WHO CARES!!!!! MWUAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!  haha... oh geez FINE I guess this technically is a coffee blog and I must talk about the coffee. So saith the BLOGITH OF COFFIES ! (page 58 addendum F...we are very serious about our blogging of the coffies)  

The coffee is so underwhelming that my focus was obviously on the rockin MUG! To be honest I didn't really have high hope for it when I bought it. What we have here is Original Donut Cafe Blend by Momento. It was like $4 at HEB, never heard of it before and I know now why. I mean, I couldn't even find a stock photo on the internet if that tells you anything. PLUS I had the HARDEST time trying to get the stupid thing OPEN! (yes I realize scissors would have solved this issue immediately...but where's the challenge in THAT?!)

It's not like it's horrible coffee or anything. It just wasn't GREAT.  It had almost no aroma...in fact it didn't really smell good! It actually brewed better than it tasted.  I also have a sinking suspicion that if you actually ate donuts with this coffee it would compliment it very well. It just doesn't have a very strong flavor to it.  Like I said before, a little underwhelming.

And the Jess Rating?

A big Dr.Who Meh-ish

And what am I thankful for today?

PHOTOSHOP!!!

you can buy this guy on my ETSY site!!!