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This week, the GeekMoms are busy being on panels, visiting geeky toy paradises, traveling to Los Angeles, talking Downton Abbey, looking forward to the end of snow days, running marathons, and writing books!
Cathe will be joining GeekDad writers on the GeekDad/GeekMom panel at the Portland Comic Con this weekend. Otherwise, Cathe is working on a couple of really geeky scarf projects and getting ready for a magical Harry Potter party.
Kris spent a couple of hours with her son in Geek paradise. That is, a warehouse full of vintage toys assembled and organized by an avid collector. Star Wars and Star Trek action figures from the 1970s; large scale comic book heroes; tin toys; train sets; and vintage Lego. Ultraman, Ironman, Hot Wheels, Barbie, Godzilla. My favorite? The box of tissue-wrapped "sales models" of Lego pieces that sales representatives carried to stores in the early days of Lego – when people didn't exactly understand the concept of a toy that came in pieces.
Ruth will be spending the weekend in LA starting with a trip to the FIDM Art of Motion Picture Costume Design exhibit, but really for the Southern California Linux Expo, including giving a talk about Raspberry Pi. If she doesn't make it to the talk, it's because she was slaughtered in the Weakest Geek game.
Amy is nearly caught up from Toy Fair, and she is giving away the Toy Fair-exclusive Skylander, Chop Chop, on her blog. Stop by to win!
Rachel has enjoyed spending an extended vacation with her son, but two weeks off from school in the middle of February is just too much. Even he's looking forward to going back next week. Unfortunately, those plans may be thwarted by yet another New England storm. Yikes!
Ariane bought her tickets to San Diego Comic-Con! That's one positive thing in a week otherwise filled with viruses and endless stacks of tissues. See you soon, San Diego!
Melissa spent her week discussing Downton Abbey and decorating the walls of her house with poems.
This weekend Patricia and her family are once again heading down to Walt Disney World for the 5th Annual Disney Princess Half Marathon! Her husband has just been cleared to run again after nearly a year of medical restrictions, so the family is looking forward to running the Royal Family 5K together, their first race all together! They also look forward to seeing their friends from the east coast of Florida, fellow Star Wars fans who first introduced her to the GeekMom blog 2 1/2 years ago. In other news, baseball has started for her sons, so she must now be a taxi – a red clay dirt-filled taxi – for 5-6 days a week to the local ball fields. It was nice knowing you.
Laura is finishing a book proposal, tending a spouse who's recovering from surgery, and mulling over a pink hair decision. But her main focus is getting tickets to Book of Mormon which is heading her way this summer.
Corrina has been working on her next fiction book, entertaining the youngest daughter who is on winter break from school, and busy promoting her first published novel, Dinah of Seneca, as the ebook price just dropped to $2.99. Next up: birthday cake baking for the husband.
Natania isn't 100% sure what month, day, year, or week it is. Things have been that hectic. First she got stuck in New York during Nemo. Add to that a puppy (who's adorable, but a handful–or three), a sick baby, a husband who threw out his back (picking up said puppy), an impending move, and job transitions... she's doing quite the balancing act. But she did find time to "reward" the GeekMoms this week with a serenade on the ukulele. Y'know. Priorities. Oh, and she's hitting the home stretch on her novel. So there is that, too!
