Monday, February 28, 2011

Bake or Bake Not; There Is No Try


So, I spent half my day covered in flour and smelling of vanilla. It was worth it, though, because in the end I produced three dozen cookies for Otto's Physics Club bake sale. They're trying to save up money for materials to built a hovercraft. Little do his classmates know that Otto built one last summer out of his bicycle; the Physics Club will use a lawn mower engine.

Otto and I helped run the bake sale booth this afternoon with a few of the other moms. Everyone else made the usual chocolate chip cookies, lemon bars, and "cupcakes" that are more frosting than cake. I thought mint green Dagoba Yodas and dark chocolate Darth Vaders were more appropriate. But the kids played with the Yoda and Darth cookies more than they ate them. It looked like Alderan exploded on the floor by the time it was over. Everyone nearby felt a great disturbance in the Force while I swept up all the crumbs.

As I expected, most of my cookies sold out before the boring baked goods did, but at the end of the day, all of the coconut pistachio Ewoks were left. I should have known better. Next time, Spock Ears!
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Zombies! And Robots! And Laundry! Oh My!

Welcome to my spiffy new home for geek-tastic blogginess!

I wanted to come up with a really awesome opening post to engage everyone. You know, maybe write an epic essay comparing motherhood to Battlestar Galactica. Unfortunately, the day didn't quite cooperate with me.


As I was finishing up a project for a client, my genius son, Otto, had his latest robot experiment go haywire and destroy half the house.
Then
John, my husband, appeared through the rubble and shuffled about the kitchen zombie-like begging for dinner. He swears he was saying "Foood! Foood!" but all I heard was "Braaains! Braaains!"

And I certainly can't begin to discuss the poker game that our pet frog was hosting in our basement.

Needless to say, it's almost midnight and I am left with three choices:
A) Start writing that epic blog post about the parallels between family life and the battle against the Cylon empire
B) Watch an episode of Dr. Who on the DVR
C) Do laundry

Sorry people, but I think the Doctor wins. And as much as I love my family, wearing dirty socks tomorrow won't kill them.