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Aerin, Baby, Claire, Cute, Motherhood, Personal

Watching Little Minds Learn

Dec 19. 2012

Watching little minds learn is fascinating. Even when you try your best to stay impartial and unprejudiced, you can't help but notice the vast differences between each and every person. Take Aerin, for instance. Now that she has officially conquered infancy and is starting to really soak in, process, react, and regurgitate what she learns, we have noticed something peculiar about her style of learning: she tends to take her lessons a little too literally. As in, when I was trying to teach her to clap on demand using the word "박수" (bak-soo, or "clap" in Korean), I would say the word, clap, say the word again, then grab her hands to get them to clap. Easy, right? This is the exact technique I had used...

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Art/Design, Entertainment, Geek, Video Games

Arrested Development NES Games

Dec 19. 2012

72pins is a place where “the past and present collide into 8-bit awesomeness.” Using classic NES cartridges as a canvas, various artists contribute to transform today’s popular video games, movies, television, and other pop culture references into 8-bit, NES-style art.

Skyrim? Absolutely. Angry Birds? You betcha. Game of Thrones? They’ve got two!

And, just recently, they’ve released a set of six NEStalgia by Jesse Eisemann which celebrates one of the greatest television shows in history: Arrested Development!

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Each title is cleverly invented with games I would love to play in real life, especially since I used to be a Dr. Mario fiend and can surprisingly put aside my normally spazzy nature when doing DDR (2 mats in expert mode WHUT). Here’s the full list:

As a special bonus, each cartridge includes a QR code, when scanned, reveals an animated version of the designs. And because I know my readers can be as lazy as me when it comes to this stuff, I’ve uploaded the GIFs here for your perusal:

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Blogging, Giveaways, Personal

Celebrate the Holidays With More Choices! [Win One of THREE Amazon Gift Cards!]

Dec 18. 2012

ETA, 12.24.2012:Today's the last day to enter this giveaway! As an extra bonus, you can gain THREE more entries by sharing this post with your Facebook friends! (The easiest way is to click on the Facebook share button a the bottom of the post.) Once you have shared the post, please indicate that you have done so via Rafflecopter (the last option) and enter the permalink to the share (see here to fine out how) so that I can verify the share. Last week, I asked you, my readers, to choose what you would like me to offer for the 2012 Geek in Heels Holiday Giveaway. And in trying to be mysterious (did it work? ;-) ) I only provided clues...

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Personal, Relationships

How Did You Know?

Dec 14. 2012

A friend recently asked me how I knew J was "the one." My answer? I didn't. I don't believe in soulmates. I believe that marriage is damn hard. And I believe we are continually evolving as people so that the person you married 3/5/10/20 years ago may not necessarily be the same person with whom you vowed to spend the rest of your life. But what I did tell my friend was that my relationship with J started out differently than all my past relationships. For one, we were friends first...

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Baby, Funny, Parenting, Personal

Christmas Tree Decorating Guidelines

Dec 13. 2012

What's that you say? There are only a dozen days left before Christmas and we have yet to put up our tree? Please. That's nothing to this family of procrastinators. And just in case there are others out there in the same boat — Bueller? Hello? I know we can't be the only ones! — who may need some guidance on the best way to decorate the tree based on their children's ages, here's an instructional from the ever-so-delightful How to Be a Dad. J and I have talked about dragging our tree out of storage and getting it set up, preferably while both girls are asleep. However, we think that Claire would love being a part of the process this year, so we're willing...

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