Our Merry Finleyquistmas
01 Jan 2012 3 Comments
in holidays Tags: aaron, christmas, coco, star wars
Here’s a quicky about the my first Christmas without ANY family. The Finleys spent it with our best friend Coco Rosenquist — hence the “Finleyquistmas” name.
We spent Christmas eve with Oliver and Marianne:
Coco rocked her reindeer slippers.
The next morning, aka Christmas, I got up before everyone else, turned on our fireplace, and spent the morning with my fur babies…
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Check out what I just impulse bought
24 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in nerd stuff, shopping Tags: christmas, clothes, star wars
R2-D2 beanie by Etsy seller BabbidgePatch.
Merry Christmas to me! 
Wanna see some of the other things I bought for myself for Christmas?
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GeekWire fails and Rock Box wins this time in Seattle
09 Dec 2011 8 Comments
in offbeat bride, travel Tags: ariel, seattle, star wars
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.
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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Have yourself a geeky little Christmas
28 Nov 2011 Leave a Comment
in holidays, nerd stuff, shopping Tags: christmas, star trek, star wars
Since it’s Cyber Monday, I thought I’d get all superficial on your asses over these awesome geeky holiday finds. This departure from “serious blogging blogger” is brought to you by this Yoda Christmas tree star and a lot of other adorakable products:
Y’all know that I really want this, right? Like, BEST TREE STAR EVAR!
From the best tree star to the best holiday wreath…
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Getting excited for my Nerdy Thirty
03 Aug 2011 6 Comments
in me Tags: birthdays, star wars
Over a week ago Coco reminded me that my “dirty thirty” was coming up soon. To which Aaron interjected, “With Megan, it’s more like her nerdy thirty.” And thus, a theme was born! I have since sent out evites and invited a few of my closest buddies to my “nerdy thirty” birthday party…
Since then I have had a week to make it all to come into fruition. A couple days ago I did some birthday preparatory shopping and it just got me even MORE excited. Aaron and I were shopping for toys and we were BEYOND giddy about all the cool things we found, running up the aisle and exclaiming “oh cool!” “whoa check this out!” and “is $150 too much for a Lego Millenium Flacon?” (Yes, we decided it was, but not without much back and forth.) But mostly we were in the market for Nerf guns. I was inspired by a wedding I shot recently where Nerf gun fights were erupting everywhere and it was SO MUCH FUN!
The best part of being an adult is that you get to buy all the toys you want!
Here are a few more things that I’m excited about:
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Bloggers, don’t do this…
26 May 2011 5 Comments
in angry megan, offbeat bride Tags: star wars
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?
24 May 2011 4 Comments
in offbeat bride Tags: ariel, conversations-with-friends, star wars
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
The Funk holiday gift guide 2010: The $20 and under edition
06 Dec 2010 1 Comment
in holidays, shopping Tags: christmas, gifts, star wars
A few years ago Aaron and I were going through an extremely bad year, financially, so I had to cut back on my Christmas gift spending. I managed to pull off ALL the family gifts for under $20 and it was one of my favorite gift-giving years! This year we are in that very same boat. So I’m working my butt off trying to find awesome gifts for everyone under $20.
I got a lot of gifts for people from Fiji where everything was super affordable, but I also am managing to find a few other things on the internets here and there. So, here, if you are interested, is my 2010 holiday gift round-up.
[Spoiler alert: If you are family member, you may not want to read if you want to be surprised at Christmas time!]
Dude! Lego pens! They’re 100% functional and made from Lego so they’re totally customizable and they’re $13.95 from Etsy seller derekseiple. Nerdy and convenient. Love.
Genius! I’m super stoked about the Page Keeper. I bought a few of them (one for mahself) because I’m pretty sure that these are perfect for almost everyone who likes to read and they’re freaking $8 each, but the more you buy the more you save!
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Star Wars pie cutter > Star Trek pizza cutter
01 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
in nerd stuff Tags: star trek, star wars
So, I just saw the Star Trek pizza cutter featured on Boing Boing…
PSSH, WHATEVER! It’s all about Luke and Suzanne‘s custom made Lightsaber pie cutter…
Photo by Megan Finley Photography... that's ME!
So yeah… I TOTALLY have a “type” (and apparently some free time)
25 Sep 2010 3 Comments
in silly Tags: aaron, pavement, star wars
I don’t know what possessed me to do this. But this morning I was laughing at myself because I realized how much of a “type” I have after watching three shows back-to-back with guys that I think are cute. So, you know, I decided to indulge myself and put together a collage of some of my favorite boy crushes over the years and, yup…
Chris O’dowd, Jim Carey, Kurt Cobain, Matt Smith (as the Doctor)
Jake Weber, Aaron Finley (my husband), Alan Rickman, Beck
Thurston Moore, Stephen Malkmus, Harrison Ford (as Han Solo), John Cusack
It’s pretty obvious that I like guys with shaggy hair, squinty eyes, deep lines around their mouths and interesting noses that look really silly but extremely cute at the same time. Oh and they’re either musicians or actors that make me laugh. And of course they all look, someway or another, a lot like my husband (pictured center). (So far I think Alan Rickman looks the most like Aaron.)
This, by the way, was a HUGE waste of time, but I got a big kick out of it.
Aloha there, I'm Megan Finley. I'm a 30-something girl, living in Los Angeles with that guy I married and our rescued pets. I work online (a LOT) for the 
