Because We're Geeks

I know there are people who look forward to doing the whole gift registry thing, but I find shopping an exhausting exercise that takes far more time than it should, and setting up a gift registry for myself is no exception. It's especially irksome to find myself trudging through a store when I could be lounging in the middle of a lake or getting in a nice walk with my dogs or bike ride with Wonderful Husband.

I had been doing really well last week - worked out three days in a row before I got hit with a nagging multi-day migraine that wiped me out into the weekend, so I was being cautious about jumping back into exercise in the 90+ degree heat.

And since I'm physically incapable of sitting still (even lying on the couch with the flu I'll find something to do, like clipping recipes or organizing photos), I figured if I wasn't going to work out it was a good time to get the registry chore out of the way.

Got the practical, primary one at Target done on Sunday and figured I'd tackle the 'Target didn't have it' Babies R Us one next weekend. As fate would have it, my MIL needed a ride to a specialist yesterday, and his office happened to be 5 minutes from the Babies R Us (about an hour from here). So that one's done too, plus I got to make the MIL happy by including her on a big baby thing AND now I'll have my Sunday free to maybe go for a lake swim. YAY!!

But like I said, except for the few minutes when Wonderful Husband discovered he could register for tiny little Bears and Cubs jerseys, we generally regarded the whole thing as a chore. (Although, I might have had to restrain myself from buying teeny tiny little swim goggles.)

The one bright spot was finding this baby-sized MythBusters shirt that, I'm sorry, screw the registry, WE HAD TO BUY IT RIGHT THAT SECOND.



This fabulously geeky find reminded us of some other baby geek things we'd spotted in our jaunts around the interweb. Which, of course, we had to devote some quality Sunday night lounging time to tracking down. Cause shopping online while sitting on eating pizza and watching the latest Tivo'd MythBusters? THAT'S fun!

So, lest anyone ever doubt our Geek cred, I give you what The Geek Collection, soon to be found in a nursery near you...

Wonderful Husband loves this one in particular. He even made it an icon for blog posts about baby stuff.


I'm not a gamer but WH played his fair share back in the day.


If this one ever comes back in stock so we can actually buy it we're hoping to make it the 'coming home from the hospital' outfit.


Matches the sticker on my van!


And for my personal edification (which I'm hoping I can get printed on a onesie).