confessions of a nerdly nerd...

you see, the thing is... i'm married to a really smart guy. but he is also so cool. like--- well, really. he likes all the right things, ya know? sports, surfing, sushi, anything-but-a-chick-flick-please, working out, hair slightly dissheveled, baggy jeans (?)... the works. he's just a bundle of coolness.

but he married me. little romantic, spastic, old-soul me.

so here are my confessions so that you may know what a nerdly nerd i really am. you can laugh at me or relate to me. or maybe both--wouldn't that be fun?!


1. i love word games. especially banangrams/take 2/tiles... whatever you call it. love.




2. camping. outdoors. s'mores. hiking. tinfoil dinners. still wear my hair in pigtails.

3. until very recently i didn't know there was a difference between louboutin & vuitton. yep.

4. (a) this is the most seductive move i pulled in college. (b) i completed a bachelor's degree in 3 years in american studies. wanna know what that looked like........

........kinda like this: 

5. speaking of books-- i am pretty sure i have read every mary higgins clark mystery ever written. which would be really cool if i were like 50 years old. but i have to hand it to her, she is one classy lady!

6. i am an old-soul through and through. i still wish we wore corsets & lace & powdered wigs (okay, not powdered wigs). but seriously, you may some day find me on an ad for a renaissance festival... maybe. but until then i will settle for lovely things like this blouse from anthropologie:

7. my love of rocks. and i'm not necessarily talking about diamonds. at one point in my childhood i even attended a rock show, played with a sand-sifter during recess, & used a rock tumbler. yep. my interests now lie in the arrangement of the rocks, but my sand-sifting hands are ready in case any of our future unborn children happen to go through a rock-collecting phase of their own.

yes, i am a nerd. but i enjoy who i am. i enjoy what i like. i love that my hero is anne shirley and that i found my gilbert blythe. that i still pick up pretty rocks wherever i see them. that i can never say no to a good book. that i secretly try to talk clint into being a foreign diplomat with me. that i know you don't add the "de" in front of tocqueville when abbreviating his name. that i would rather get my knees scraped up hiking for 4 hours then shopping for 4 hours. that i can't pronounce the majority of french words. that i wore overalls & bandanas in seventh grade and thought that was really cool. that i thought i could fly off my bunkbed on a magic carpet. that i believe in true love & magic & that every girl is a princess.

i love these things. more power to the nerd in us all!