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Adulting Love and Marriage Mrs Enginerd Nerd Stuff

The Pink Tax

One of my friends used this phrase recently and I was flabbergasted by its accuracy. The Pink Tax is a term she uses to describe how much more expensive and item was just because it was pink when compared to traditional kinder colors or boy standard toys. Although our family is a firm believer that […]

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Adulting Mrs Enginerd

Supporting Your Friends’ Dreams Shouldn’t Be Optional

I was raised by a flexible old school family that taught me to always patronize home grown products, services and peeps’s wacky business ventures. For example, my mom didn’t necessarily need 20 lbs of laundry detergent but if a friend was starting a career as an Amway sales rep or their own laundry detergent shop […]

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Book Reviews Mrs Enginerd

The Art of Not Giving A F@#$

Sara Knight became my hero. Her words resonated with me in ways I would never imagine especially since I had started to give 0 f’s about things like weddings and other’s good news. This book gives pointers to be able to do this and not come acros as an asshole, which is the key here: […]

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Mrs Enginerd Nerd Stuff

Tips From A Yelp Elite

When I first joined Yelp! I wasn’t expecting to contribute much to the application. Truth be told, yelpers had such a bad reputation because of being smug or expecting preferential treatment that I became weary of posting altogether. Then again I realized that my Trip Advisor posts were gettint attention, so I decided to give […]

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Book Reviews Mrs Enginerd

The Princess Diarist (Book Review)

Carrie Fisher penned this memoir/excerpt of her diary during the filming of Star Wars to make sure fans understood a very important part of her life: her affair with a very married Harrison Ford back in 1976. To ensure that the tale didn’t fall flat, she added pages of the actual scribbles which end up […]

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Mrs Enginerd Poetry

Lean Into the Pain

Lean into the pain. Feel it, embrace it. Let it gently caress your soul and guide the tears down your cheeks, Washing away all that does not serve you anymore, or maybe, just maybe, Washing memories clean so you can purely enjoy their true splendor. Dismay, sigh, walk in the rain and vent. Let your […]

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Comic Books and Super Heroes Mrs Enginerd Nerd Stuff Wonder Woman: 75 Years+ of Awesome

Wonder Woman, The True Amazon by Jill Thompson

I know what you are thinking: Another origin story? Didn’t Earth One Vol 1 give a new spin on the story for the Rebirth launch? Yes, it did. However, because of the 75th anniversary of the Wonder Woman comics, DC tapped veteran Jill Thompson to create storylines and art work in her signature style. The […]

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Mrs Enginerd Poetry

The Night, Eternal – The Dawn, Unyielding

The darkness spreads. All hope is lost in the eyes of men, The streets are full of despair and reckless abandon. Our worst fears have been realized, Now we know we are not unique, Just snowflakes melting in the heat of the passion that comes from mourning the end of an era. Silenced will the […]

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Cirque Goes to the Cinema: Seattle Symphony Pops

The Seattle Symphony hosts a concert series called the Seattle Pops which merges the art and skill of classical music with popular culture. Last year, the blog featured the Sci-Fi at the Pops concert and in a way this shiw is similar because it features movie scores but it adds on the dance, acrobatics and contortionists of Cirque […]

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Mrs Enginerd Project Zach

Zach and the Big C

A few weeks ago Rescue Pup revealed to Zach’s followers that one of his tests came back as inconclusive for malignant mast cell tumor cancer.  This means that a biopsy must be performed to validate if in fact it is MCT and how severe his condition may be. While we all decide how to proceed […]