The Adventures of Nagzilla

50 by 50 #6 – Learn How to Play Bagpipes

I have no idea where my fascination with bagpipes started. I’m going to attribute some of it to my family heritage. While I do have a mix of stuff, I really embrace my Scotch-Irish heritage the most. I probably have as much German as I do Scot/Irish, but I tend to play up that side a bit more. I think because it has the best story. Now, how much of it is actually true, I have no idea. And…

Dollar Daze – MMMmmmmm…BBQ hair!

Spoiler alert (in case the title didn’t already give it away): this one does not end well.

We’re lucky in my family that we have awesome hair. Not gonna even try to be modest about it. Hair is one of my best assets.

My hair when it’s straight. Typically when I blow dry it in the winter, I end up looking like first year Hermione Granger. On this particular occasion, it actually worked. So, of…

In Memory of a Friend and Family Member

I debated whether to write this post, but I noticed that I mention her in my About section, and before I crossed her out or deleted her, I wanted to give an update. And for those who have been reading a while, you already know our crazy, spazzy, rock-herding, loving dog Ru. I’ve featured her before in posts, and most recently talked about her cancer diagnosis back in December.

The last picture we…

Dollar Daze – Earbuds

    Having a teenage daughter means having a lot (a LOT) of devices. She has an iPod we gave her for Christmas four years ago,

Nope, she wasn’t excited AT ALL. Note the classy Yule log on the tv in the background. Cuz we are all about the class.

an iPad she saved up six months worth of babysitting and face painting money to purchase (because god knows we couldn’t afford to buy her one),

She was…

50 by 50 #5 – Finish Writing My Book

Now, I don’t know if I should specify which one. I’ve had several stories that have been floating around for a while. There’s two in particular that drive me crazy on a regular basis, so those are the ones I’m primarily concerned about.

I always get a little nervous talking about my book(s) because I’ve had people who are legit authors and editors (think actually published) warn that telling too…

Happy Star Wars and A to Z Recap Day!

So you get another two-fer because YAY! It’s my favorite day of the year, the high holy day in my religion. It is Star Wars Day! May the Fourth Be With You!

Why, yes. I DID wear my Yoda t-shirt and Leia buns to work today. Why do you ask?

  The good Lutheran girl in me always wants to respond to that by saying, “And also with you.”

I originally was going to do my A to Z recapon the first, but…

Well, my Zillas, this is the final A to Z entry. Ok, technically I have a “what I learned” recap tomorrow, but I don’t count that. This is the final nerdgasm post. We survived! This theme was super fun for me, even if I got a little behind here and there.

Z is obviously going to be for zombies. I mean, duh. What’s nerdier than zombies? 

Here’s where I share a confession: I haven’t seen The Walki…

Y is for Yates

  Yates as in Jen Yates, the CakeWrecks lady.

You will never look at cakes the same way again.

Someone else earlier in the challenge did a post about Blogger Crushes, and this is probably the closest thing I have to a blog crush. Hers are the only two blogs I consistently look for, day in and day out for I don’t even know how many years now. I started out as a CakeWrecks fan, and while I still…

X is for Xander Jeanneret

    I am not one to watch much reality tv. Well, truth be told, now that we’ve dropped cable I’m not much for watching tv in general, with the exception of Netflix. But even when we did have cable, I was not going out of my way to watch American Idol, or Biggest Loser, or The Voice, or Survivor(which, true story, I have never seen a single episode of any of these shows) or whatever is the big…

W is for Weird Al

  No good nerd worth their salt would have a list that excluded Weird Al Yankovic. I mean, let’s be honest, this guy is King of the Nerds. Not to be confused with the show of the same name, which (sneak peek) we’ll discuss tomorrow. He plays accordion. He writes parody songs. He has crazy wild hair. Hell, he even had a song called “White and Nerdy” which I think should be my personal anthem.

[you…

U is for Urban Dictionary

I was originally going to do this post about unicorns, because that was the only U word I could think of. But truthfully, I don’t get all worked up over unicorns. That was my mom’s thing. Plus, how stereotypical. So I was trying to come up with something, ANYTHING, that I could use for U (I’m also on the hunt for V as well because I guess I’ve already done vampires…), and I thought “Hmmmm, let’s…

T is for Trivia Crack

  OMG, I love Trivia Crack. The only downside to playing it is that it makes me wish Grandma and mom were still alive, because I would force them to get smart phones so they could play with me.

We used to have EPIC Trivial Pursuit games. Not even kidding. We were ruthless.

This little guy wouldn’t be smiling if he’d been playing with us.

If you don’t have a smart phone, really Trivia Crack is…

S is for Star Trek and Shingeki No Kyojin

  I know. Y’all are shocked my S post isn’t Star Wars. It’s been done.

Just kidding. I always want to talk about Star Wars, but since I already did that with my E entry, I thought I’d talk about the other Star show that everyone gets confused over.

I can’t tell you how often someone will say, “You love Star Trek, right?”

*Sigh*

In fairness, I do like Trek. Not to the extreme that I love Star Wars