Today is officially the last day of the NFL season. Week 17. Next week starts the crazy roller coaster known as the playoffs. And today for the first time in a long time, the Pittsburgh Steelers are playing a completely meaningless game. They were having a fairly solid season, getting real strong at the right time and then, quarterback Big Ben gets injured (almost killed, really), and they start tanking. They blew a few really close games …
Lego continues to out-cool itself on a regular basis. First Star Wars. Then Batman. Then Avengers. And recently, Hobbit Lego sets. We are truly living in a Lego Paradise. So what’s the latest and greatest theme that Lego is embracing? None other than the entire Back to the Future franchise! Great Scott! Lego has officially approved a Back to the Future licensed set for 2013, featuring Doc Brown, Marty McFly and the only car cooler …
Christmas time means one big thing for me… Christmas Movies! Growing up, I always loved Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. How could you not? That crazy animation. The elf who wanted to become a dentist. The scary (yet lovable) Bumble! Pure timeless awesomeness. And then there’s one of the funniest films of all time, A Christmas Story. There’ve been a lot of great ones over the years. Christmas Vacation. A Charlie Brown …
Today is a really special day celebrating a special birth. Yep, I’m talking about my mom. Who else did you think I was referring to? My folks live upstate in the Albany area, so we spent the weekend there to celebrate a late Hanukkah mixed with mom’s birthday. My sister lives up there with her family, so they hung out with us all weekend too. It was a great weekend filled with a variety of …
UPDATE: Read the Blog Hop here! I haven’t done a blog hop in a while but this one is a bit too tough to pass up. My geeky blogging buddy Natasha from JustaDashofGeek (definitely check out her geektasticly adorable blog) emailed me to tell me about this exciting new blog hop she’s going to be part of and she wanted me to join in on the fun! Called My Favorite Martian Blog Hop, a ton of …
