#GeekSpeak: The sometimes random misadventures of @Abby_Cake

<editorsnote> Nerds, meet my buddy Abby. I met her in Chicago at the #20SBSummit, and this chick is raaaddddd!! She considers herself more of a nerd than a geek - but I think she's just all shades of random and awesome. Oh and FTR, the TNTML stance on nerds versus geeks are that nerds are products of a genetic predisposition, and geeks are raised. BOOH-YAH!!! I only have one more thing left to say ... HIT IT ABBY!!! </editorsnote>

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @Abby_Cake

The past few months have been really overwhelming for me. I left my job, well I got laid off from the career I had spent three years working on without a second thought (but that's another story). Lacking money, I moved out of my house, sold my car, found a renter for my house (because I want to keep it), moved in with my boyfriend - and so many things have gone wrong in between. My savings account has basically dwindled itself down to near nonexistence, and then a tree fell on my house last weekend, so it has reached absolute zero.

Through all these life changing events, I have learned a lot about myself. I have learned that if you have money, the universe will find a way to take from you the exact amount you have saved up (to the dollar, I shit you not). I have learned that you can't control everything, no matter how badly you want to. I have learned that not having a car is beneficial for the environment, but extremely inconvenient when you have to go grocery shopping. I have learned that being a landlord generally sucks and I am no good at demanding that people follow my rules. 

Arguably, one of the most important things I have learned - I am an ugly crier. I don't know what is considered to be a cute cry. I know there are some girls (probably the same ones who have cute sneezes, I sneeze like a banshee also) that can manage an adorable effusion of tears. Puppy dog style.

But when I start the waterworks, I have a huge, red eyed, blubbery, snot fest.

As a teacher, I have always considered myself more of a Jedi Master - but when I cry, I definitely have Sith eyes. In fact, when I found out a tree had fallen on my house Monday morning, I actually hid under the covers and told Jared not to look at my crazy, blood-shot eyes. I swear, Darth could be <i>my</i> father (he's not, my Dad is a Biology teacher... slash member of the Galactic Alliance) - the resemblance is that uncanny. 

So kudos to all you cute criers, but remember that Sith eyes are people too. :)

xx, @abby_cake

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Want more from Abby?? Check out her blog over yonder - and don't forget to drop her a follow on twitter!!

#GeekSpeak: The sometimes random misadventures of @Abby_Cake

<editorsnote> Nerds, meet my buddy Abby. I met her in Chicago at the #20SBSummit, and this chick is raaaddddd!! She considers herself more of a nerd than a geek - but I think she's just all shades of random and awesome. Oh and FTR, the TNTML stance on nerds versus geeks are that nerds are products of a genetic predisposition, and geeks are raised. BOOH-YAH!!! I only have one more thing left to say ... HIT IT ABBY!!! </editorsnote>

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @Abby_Cake

Hi, I'm Abby and I am a lifecaster, blogger, vlogger, writer, painter, nerd, geek, book obsessed, vegetarian, divorcee, feminist, weirdo, lover, amateur chef, and Pokemon fan. Can you tell I don't like labels? I'm here to throw my life at you, and make you like it. No seriously, hopefully I will win you over with my charm. :)

A brief history of my nerd-dom seems necessary, yes? Well, when I was 11 I decided to build my first website on Tripod about the thing I was obviously an expert on - dragons. I don't remember why exactly I checked the html book out of the public library, but I haven't stopped since. My adolescence was further spent reading fantasy novels, making straight A's and staying up late on AIM (I got my dial-up cord taken away once, I cried). Ultima Online was my first mmorpg, my first LAN party was in high school, my first cosplay was the nurse from Silent Hill. My text message sound is a Chocobo wark - everyone thinks it's a sexy whistle (they are wrong!) I am also a literature nerd, and majored in that while I was in college. I love a well-crafted sentence, and find a man who uses "ergo" or "hence" far more attractive that one who doesn't know those words.

I was an English teacher for three years and was laid off when the cutbacks finally hit Texas. Instead of crying, I quit graduate school and took this opportunity to do something I have wanted to do since I was a pre-teen - move to Asia! (I've never been to Asia, nor can I speak any Asian language, yay!) Most likely in February (when I've saved enough money and gotten a job there) I will be running off to South Korea where I will teach and play glorious amounts of StarCraft. They have the highest rate of mmorpg related deaths, and I feel like I will fit in quite well. Until then, I am living in Texas, playing video games, going on adventures and telling you about all of it! Talk nerdy to me.
 

xx, @abby_cake

#nerdsunite

Want more from Abby?? Check out her blog over yonder - and don't forget to drop her a follow on twitter!!