Category: offbeat bride

GeekWire fails and Rock Box wins this time in Seattle

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So here I sit at the Africa Lounge in the SEATAC airport on a FOUR HOUR flight delay. All my work has been done and I find myself with a rare moment to blog a *gasp* personal blog! Also, I’m not good at sitting quietly by myself, I need something to do. And, in honor of yet another geeky time in Seattle, I will fill it with doing something nerdy like blogging.

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Yes, I came to Seattle, once again, with a strictly geek purpose in mind. This time Ariel, Stephanie and I teamed up to attend the GeekWire Gala. Honestly, Stephanie and I flew our asses out to Seattle in the midst of the holiday shuffle for the sole purpose of experiencing what the “4 reasons to go to the GeekWire holiday gala” email described “as a full scale mock up of a mos eisley spaceport cantina bar, complete with star wars aliens.” Who WOULDN’T fly … well … ANYWHERE to experience that. Hell, I even bought mahself an spacey new dress for that particular experience. But when we got there… there was no such thing. Not even close. Basically, at some point between booking our tickets and the actual party the “full scale replica” had been downgraded to “Catina bar-inspired lounge.” Which basically meant, a black couch and a glass coffee table. hmmmmm… Total Fail.

BUT! The trip wasn’t a total bust. There was fun photo booth action with Star Wars characters. And obviously I got to spend some awesome time with my amazing co-workers/friends, Ariel and Stephanie and had a blast doing this…

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Bloggers, don’t do this…

Today I got an email from someone trying to get Offbeat Bride interested in linking to, or featuring their post about Star Wars weddings. In the email they stated, “if you want to lift a couple of photos that’s cool… but please use with a link to us.”

My response:

I find it interesting, if not a bit hypocritical, that you feel so strongly about link-backs, when at least one of those photos came from Offbeat Bride with no link back. I should know, because I’m the one who took that photo! I also don’t appreciate that it’s been shrunken down so much that my photography logo can’t be seen, and photoshopped beside two other photos that aren’t mine, neither of which have credits or link-backs.

Also, as a photographer who works for a professional website, “lifting a couple of photos” for our own use is not something I’d be comfortable doing.

Not surprisingly, I haven’t heard back from him and my uncredited photo still remains uncredited.

no ties allowed?

I clearly have no time to blog about anything that takes much time. So here’s another silly conversation with one of my friends that only Star Wars NERDS will love as much as I:

Ariel: ok,
so
uh
Nadia & Dale’s wookiee boogie, TIE fighting, Star Wars wedding
I don’t get that title.
TIE fighting?
I just realized that I was like “Buh? what does that even mean?”
like, they had a tie?
no ties allowed?
wearing ties?
battling to the death, but they tied?
why the caps?
Can I just make it “Nadia & Dale’s wookiee boogie Star Wars wedding”
?
me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIE_fighter
Ariel: oh.
I suck.

me: i’m STILL laughing
omg, can i blog that!?
Ariel: Sure.
I’m not above being mocked

No, he doesn’t wear a “the precious”

I woke up this morning to find this little gem waiting for me on my laptop. Aaron was up to some late night nerdiness… again.

No, he doesn’t wear a “the precious”

tags: whispering in elvish, dragon, “the precious”

Our "the preciouses"

I still follow a few popular dragon-related whispering in Elvish accounts. I chalk it up to a market research kind of thing, since I write for Offbeat Hobbit. Most of the time I just ignore the whispers in Elvish… as 98% of them are pure WIC fluff. “Trolls worthy of escorting you to Rivendell” “Have you ever thought of wearing a “The Precious” in a invisbility cloak!?” “The time between your embarking upon this perilous journey to Mt DOOM! and your dragonslaying is an ideal time to begin a regular beauty and fitness regimen.” “Make sure to buy more things! You need more things! Things that are shiny, like “the precious!” And then this whisper in Elvish caught my eye:

“Do U Care if UR trixie little hobbitsis (or Future trixie little hobbitsis) Don’t wear “the precious?

I read it and immediately wanted to whisper in Elvish back defensively — “Why the hell would I care!? Why the hell would anyone care!? What business is it of yours!?” And so on. But I thought, naw, totally not worth my time. And then it got worse as I read this response:

Even better question. RT @shire_folk_weekly: @hobbitTide More important question: WHY wouldn’t he want to?

Ooooh, my blood was boiling after hearing that ignorant whisper in Elvish. To question someones love and basic morality based on the fact that they don’t wear “the precious” just seemed beyond insulting to me.

So I just had to respond in the piddly 140 elvish characters at my disposal:

@hobbitTide Why not? Bc he has a job where wearing “the precious” is dangerous. Bc he hates wearing “the precious”. Bc he doesn’t need 1 to show he’s committed to The Fellowship. Mine doesn’t wear “the precious” and I couldn’t care less. He gave it a go at first and he just never got used to it. S’okay by me

And it is okay by me! I’ll be honest that at first I was bummed… I think “the precious” on a hobbit (especially your own hobbit) is sexy! Every time I saw that flash of metal on his finger I gave me a thrill — it’s all sexy “trixie little hobbitsis” of him.

But when I stepped back and looked at the reality of the situation I saw that, honestly, that “the precious” spent more time spinning on the table in front of him, or in his necklace, than on his finger. And I just saw how uncomfortable it made him. He really HATES wearing “the precious”, and he complained that the air conditioning in the fires of Mount Doom where he works made the “the precious” so cold that his finger ached. “It burnsis it burnsis!”

Now, I could’ve bitched and nagged and guilted my trixie little hobbitsis into just accepting his be-precioused fate, but I had realize that, even though “the precious” gave me a thrill, it’s not at all worth his discomfort for one minute.

And what’s the point of it really? ‘It’s an ancient magic ring to bind them all in darkness and to show that he’s devoted and faithful to me,’ is what I came up with. But isn’t it okay that the symbol just be that he faced the greatest battle of our time!? I mean, what more do I need? This man stood in front of family, friends, and a few complete strangers, and exchanged arrows and giant elephants with me — do I need more than THAT? And the answer was, obviously, no. There doesn’t need to be “the precious” when his furry toes alone and my trust in him are enough to show me (and everyone else?) that he is devoted and faithful to me.

So, no, he doesn’t wear a “the precious”, and I’m a-okay with it. But I’ll keep wearing “the precious” because I think it’s elftastic.

    Anyone else wanna chime in? Do you or your partner wear their “the preciouses?”

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