Am I really staying up late telling everyone how geeky I am...I guess so.
25 Reasons my family can be considered "geeky"
1: We amused ourselves for endless hours during our childhood in the fully functioning city of Legoland that occupied an entire room...sometimes more.
2: I learned about politics/court system from Legoland
3: My brother first introduced me to this new thing called the World Wide Web when I was in middle school and the first thing we looked up was the Dr. Pepper site.
4: We made home videos of the adventures of lego people as well as a regular sitcom involving my stuffed animals
5: I still remember the theme song I wrote for the sitcom "Oh we're the Andersons..."
6: We all played 7 yrs in an orchestra or band or both.
7: My siblings and I listened to "learn Japanese on tape" on our roadtrip to Oregon
8: Sunday nights always included an episode of Star Trek, next generation
9: We have been known to IM or text one another while in the room
10: I have actually text-raced with my brother-he totally won...
11: I bought an iphone the very next week.
12: 4 people in my family already own an iphone
13: I Gchat with at least one family member a day...sometimes concurrently with several since we are all frequently by a computers during the day.
14: My boss at the grocery store once called me to her office to fix her computer...because I was a "Cannon" so I must know how...
15: We can have hour-long conversations consisting only of movie quotes
16: We will all randomly burst out into the same song while playing cards...usually on the same note
17: We actually talk about binary over dinner.
18: A grades were expected and our parents were surprised if we
didn't actually get an A
19: We play games like "Set" for fun.
20: I am known as one of the most tech-savvy people at work, yet would be considered one of the least savvy at home.
21: My family would actually get together and sit in a room with their own computers to play warcraft together
22: We all contribute to an annual Limerick contest without any prize but bragging rights.
23: We can all sing along with the entire score of Carmina Burana,
24: We have been known to hear a band song and start singing our respective instrumental parts
25: We actually don't care that people think we are geeky :)
I finally got some new glasses! I still had the same old ones that I got in high sch
ool, 12 years ago, which I haven't worn in public for many years. It was time! I am quite fond of the red, sass
y glasses I picked out with a lot of help from Michele and 2 nice sales ladies. It took a long time to find something that didn't look completely ridiculous on my face. My favorite quote of the night was when the sales lady sat down to order them and said "you want the special, thin lightweight lenses, of course" after she saw my prescription strength. lol. My colleagues at work say I need to wear them when I want people to listen to me more 'cause they make me look smart. My brain took a while to get used to the crazy way everything moves when you wear glasses but I made it through a whole day without a headache!
