Category Archives: Geek

Food, Geek, Humor, Words

Food Phrases

  • Egg on your face
  • Tossing your cookies
  • Have your cake and eat it too
  • Let them eat cake!
  • The cake is a lie
  • Bring home the bacon
  • Don’t cry over spilled milk
  • Don’t spill the beans
  • Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
  • Easy as pie
  • Pie in the sky
  • Time to make the donuts
  • Butter him up
  • Smooth as butter
  • When life gives you lemons…
  • How corny
  • Two peas in a pod
  • In a pickle
  • Salt of the earth
Events, Geek, Trivia

Trivia Events I’m Running In the First Quarter of This Year

  • January 21 – Hampton Youth Committee Trivia
  • January 21/DIY – FRIENDS trivia by Morrison Department of Fun
  • January 25 – Collins Aerospace corporate team building event
  • February 4/DIY – Youth Hope Trivia
  • February 17 – Davenport Central Feeder Softball Teams Trivia Night
  • February 25 – Tacos & Trivia for Haiti
  • March 24 – Lyons Business & Professional Association
  • March 18 or Aprill 22 – Royal Family Kids Camp
Events, Geek, Trivia

Trivia Categories I have Written (In Recognition of the Upcoming LBPA Trivia Night on March 11)

  • Cool Catchphrases
  • Ripped From the Headlines
  • Hooked on NATO Phonics
  • Skylines
  • Dead or Alive
  • Proverbs or Benjamin Franklin
  • Pokemon or Pharmaceutical
  • What’s My Name
  • Streaming Service & Chill
  • Conspiracy Theories
  • Boy Bands & Girl Groups
  • Animal Instinct
  • Once Upon a Time
  • Start Your Engines
  • Where in the World
  • Casting Call
  • Before They Were Famous
  • Color Code
  • Back in the Day
  • Team Spirit
  • 90s Reboots
  • Sports of all Sorts
  • Midwest Alma Matters
  • In Other Words
  • Fire & Ice
  • Out of this World
  • Board Games
  • Symbolism
  • A River Runs Through It
  • “Olog”ies
  • Technology in the 2000s
  • TV Sets
  • Number Ones
  • Island Living
  • Feasting on Food
  • Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader
  • Fictional Friends
  • First Lines
  • Science Lab
  • Abbreviations & Acronyms
  • America the Beautiful
  • Rhyme Time
  • There’s An App For That
  • Sunday School 201
  • Summer Olympics
  • Time Lines
Books, COVID-19, Events, Family, Favorites, Food, Games, Geek, Health, Links, Memories, Travel, Trivia, Work

Surprising Things I’ve Accomplished This Year (specifically given that it’s been a corona-year)

  • Checked two new states (North Carolina, Mississippi) off my list
  • Missions trip to Haiti
    • Three “airports” in one day
    • Landing & taking off on a dirt runway
    • Attending/walking in a Haitian funeral processional
    • Ate goat for the first time
  • Iguanas in the wild (in Miami… they chased me away from my lunch)
  • Finished unpacking all boxes from moving end of 2019
  • Started packing up to move again
  • Attended nephew’s high school graduation
  • Vacation to San Diego
    • Lodging at the fabulous beachfront Tower23
    • Riding bicycles to Mission Beach
  • Completed “Visual Communications” course through Sophia Learning
  • Put more than 10,000 miles on my car
  • Ran three trivia nights before the world shut down
  • Read 29 books
  • Successfully began intermittent fasting (lost 8 pounds and dropped my A1C from 6.1 to 5.4!)
  • Watched multiple full series on Hulu and Amazon Prime
  • Achieved level 40 and then level 41 on Pokemon Go
  • Applied for 66 jobs
  • Got hired for exciting new position with city of Clinton, Iowa!
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