#geekmarriage

[starina23]

Found a collage of our first 9 Dragoncons. So I added the most recent 5 too. @ryanschile #Dragonconners #dragoncon #dontmesswithtradition #cosplaycouple #coupleswhocosplay #costumes #geekmarriage https://www.instagram.com/p/B1XDEsFF1l7nrgTj4PzBhXz_hzEO74duVfoZwc0/?igshid=u4eju8vw3y6t

[vivslyrics]

It was the first film @1svenskpojke ever saw in the theater at age 4. We have a death star disco ball in our home office. Damn straight we were seeing the final chapter opening night! #jeffnviv #ladyandlordsapphirenoir #starwars #starwarsfan #latenitemovie #riseofskywalker #openingnight #twobigasskids #geeksinlove #finalchapter #darkside #maytheforcebewithyou #starwarscouple #geekmarriage (at Woodland Hills AMC Promenade) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6SiDoIgddNs5L3FoBiSFO1oPjc5sJWPrL4e5U0/?igshid=12105p2i6du5n

[seljepw]

They guard the collection. #Batman #WonderWoman #GeekMarriage #Comics

[thespecialsystem-blog]

Challenge # 5: April 1st - April 14th

S: Mr. And Mrs. Pierre will take a minimum of two minutes to make out every day. You’d be surprised just how effective it is, both in retaining intimacy and creating a “mood.”

P: Mr Pierre will complete his tax deduction hunting from the year’s spending, to help our wonderful accountant keep us legitimate. Mrs. Pierre will have a new head shot and resume printed for her upcoming audition with the Orlando Shakes 2015 season. 

E: Mr. and Mrs. Pierre will walk 10 miles around Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. (These challenges can't all be terrible, and we haven’t been to the parks in a few weeks.)

C: Low and slow. 7 new slow cooker recipes in 14 days. Aww, yiss.

I: Mrs. Pierre will read The Terror by Dan Simmons for her book club, Mr. Pierre will read "Eaters of the Dead” by Michael Crichton.

A: Mrs. Pierre will jewel and rhinestone the recently acquired throne for her Orlando Fringe production. Mr. Pierre will complete layout and planting of the herb and vegetable garden.

L: Mr. Pierre will continue his English grammar and sentence structure education and he and Mrs. Pierre will view “Pan's Labyrinth” and “A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.”

[handsandwords]

Spouses that comic book together, geek together. #comics #comicbooks #geek #geeks ##geekmarriage @bszafranski1

[deecater]

Got Vegeta guarding my Dragon*con tix! #geek #geekmarriage #Dcon14 #Dcon

[starina23]

Our hanging out costumes today. #Holodeck #Ghostbuster #geekmarriage

[starina23]

Us geeks at #adlerafterdark #boldlygo last night! #startrek #imadeouroutfits #hemadehisklingonridges #geekmarriage

[starina23]

This year's #ShatnerActionFigures Twisted Shatner and Katy Shatner! #weirdos #dragoncon2016 #geekmarriage

[starina23]

12 years with this human today. My neural pathways have become accustomed to your sensory input patterns. #geekmarriage #datinganniversary #startrek #cosplaycouple #whenwewereyoung

[starina23]

Ryan just held his hand out to show me a rhinestone he found and said, "Look. That's all that's left of Fantasia." I laughed a bunch. #neverendingstory #fantasia #geekmarriage #moviereference

[starina23]

#DollyDeathstar and one of the #ShatnerActionFigures. That's a true #GeekMarriage for ya.

[starina23]

2011 and today: first we were #newlyweds, now we're a #family. It's pretty incredible how things change yet stay the same. #geekmarriage #startrek #lovesofmylife #familyroadtrip

[thespecialsystem-blog]

Challenge #4 Recap

-by Mrs. Pierre

S: Love is blind. 5 sexual encounters while either Mr. Pierre or Mrs. Pierre are blindfolded.

We actually failed this one, but because we were doing something else. Every sex act in this two week period happened while one or both of us was playing video games. And let me tell you, killing mole rats with Moira Brown’s repellent stick is not easy when you’re trying to ride that dick at the same time, lol!

P: Mr. Pierre will complete the website layout for the fetish clothing site. Mrs. Pierre will memorize Act Two of her script for her Orlando Fringe show.

Mr. Pierre actually got work designing a couple other websites, and I’m not sure if he ever got around to working on his own. I haven’t got Act 2 memorized yet, but I’m close. We’ve been working on a lot of choreography lately. It’ll come together.

E: Endurance challenge will be two weeks of no beer, wine, champagne or fruit juice/soda mixers. This is a challenge meant to remove drinkable sugars from the diet, an experiment as much for the waistline as it is for willpower. Vegetable juice is fine though, as is unsweetened tea. (Saint Patrick’s Day is exempt from this, because we don’t want to die. We are very much whiskey drinkers, but on a day like St. Pat’s, a beer will represent self preservation.)

This was difficult. It was successful, for the most part, but it was very difficult. I’d say 75% success on this one.

C: Prepare 7 full meals over an open fire outdoors with cast irons. We need to buy more charcoal. And wood.

100% success! We learned a lot about vegetables, which cook a LOT faster over an open flame. (Those poor carrots....) Will do a lot more fire cooking in the future.

I: Mr. Pierre will read “The Martian” for his book club. Mrs. Pierre will read “Mozart in the Jungle” as well as whatever her book club selects.

Mr. Pierre completed his mission and is currently reading “All the President’s Men“ for his book club. Although he says it’s more gossipy and less technical than he’d like a book about the Secret Service to be. I read his book club’s last selection, “Ready Player One,” which was AWESOME, and I’m halfway through “Mozart in the Jungle.”

A: Mrs. Pierre will assemble her very first circle skirt with help from her awesome lady friends. Mr. Pierre will suicide karaoke 3 songs with the help of his awesome gentleman friends.

I made a beautiful circle skirt, with a gathering stitch and everything! I put about 7 hours total into it, and it looks like I spent good money on it in a fancy pinup store. I love it, and I’m already buying materials for future skirts. Mr. Pierre did not complete this challenge, mostly due to working a lot and being exhausted come karaoke time.

L: Mr. and Mrs. Pierre will complete 2 hours each of Spanish instruction tutorials.

Nah. We failed. I have graduated to speaking Spanish only with the kitchen staff at work, and we have gone to a few Spanish restaurants and ordered only in Spanish. But we failed. Aint nobody got time for no tutorial.

[thespecialsystem-blog]

Challenge # 4: March 15th - March 28th

Happy Pie Day!

Time for the next S.P.E.C.I.A.L. challenge. For those who haven't been following along, S.P.E.C.I.A.L. is a series of two-week long self improvement challenges in the areas of Sexuality, Professional skill, Endurance, Culinary ability, Intelligence, Artistry and Language development, inspired by the design of character attributes in Fallout 3.

Challenge # 4: March 15th - March 28th

S: Love is blind. 5 sexual encounters while either Mr. Pierre or Mrs. Pierre are blindfolded.This should be fun!

P: Mr. Pierre will complete the website layout for the fetish clothing site. Mrs. Pierre will memorize Act Two of her script for her Orlando Fringe show.

E: Endurance challenge will be two weeks of no beer, wine, champagne or fruit juice/soda mixers. This is a challenge meant to remove drinkable sugars from the diet, an experiment as much for the waistline as it is for willpower. Vegetable juice is fine though, as is unsweetened tea. (Saint Patrick’s Day is exempt from this, because we don’t want to die. We are very much whiskey drinkers, but on a day like St. Pat’s, a beer will represent self preservation.)

C: Prepare 7 full meals over an open fire outdoors with cast irons.We need to buy more charcoal. And wood.

I: Mr. Pierre will read “The Martian” for his book club. Mrs. Pierre will read “Mozart in the Jungle” as well as whatever her book club selects.

A: Mrs. Pierre will assemble her very first circle skirt with help from her awesome lady friends. Mr. Pierre will suicide karaoke 3 songs with the help of his awesome gentleman friends.

L: Mr. and Mrs. Pierre will complete 2 hours each of Spanish instruction tutorials.

[thespecialsystem-blog]

Challenge # 3 Recap

S: Mr. and Mrs. Pierre will each write two erotic stories and act them out with each other in a role play scenario.

Fail! Mrs. Pierre, having worked 13 shifts, attended four rehearsals, memorized Act One of her Fringe show and written two songs for her Megacon show, forgot about this one entirely. Mr. Pierre... well... unless he could somehow arrange for Mrs. Pierre to perform fellatio on Death himself or watch as she sodomized a close family member with a wine bottle, his writing style would not result in a very romantic scenario. Not that sex wasn't had, it was just regular ol' bend em over the bathroom sink, multiple vibrators, forced orgasms, rolled up newspapers, bucket of bleach, smell-the-glove sex. For all their adventures, they need to write more stories. Live Lewd Girls is coming.

P: Mr. and Mrs. Pierre will develop a savings plan for a down payment on an investment property in the next 6 years. They will also establish deductions from their normal accounts to a special fund at regular intervals.

Completed! We have actually come up with a savings plan that will accomplish this goal. If we pay off 70% of our existing debt within the year, we can begin reallocating the monthly difference toward the six year plan and accomplish it by 2022.

E: 30 minutes of yoga every other day for a period of 14 days. No repeats on yoga routines.

FAIL! The window for this portion of the challenge in our day is small. Pretty much between 9am and 11am and that time this period just didn't seem to appear free. Mrs. Pierre's job became suddenly very understaffed, leaving her with a mountain of shifts and very little early afternoon time. (However, she's lost 15 pounds since all this began...)  Mr. Pierre had to give over several days to his mother seeing some last minute doctors and being hospitalized for tests rather suddenly.  

C: Cooking 10 Creole or Cajun recipes in 14 days.

Resounding success! All credit to Mr. Pierre, who had dinner prepared every night Mrs. Pierre got home. It's been a marvelously gourmet couple of weeks, and we're pleased to have so many delicious, spicy new things in the repertoire.

I:  We will visit the Orange County History Center to take advantage of their recent promotion. All throughout March and April they are open to the public for free on Sundays. FREE! Mr. Pierre will complete a WordPress tutorial series. (New site client runs wordpress. Need a crash course.)

Completed for Mr. Pierre and supplemented for Mrs. Pierre, who, instead of visiting the museum, went to work! Except for that one magical Monday they made it out to the nude beach and she read “Ravish: The Awakening of Sleeping Beauty” and memorized her songs from her Fringe show while turning her skin tone from corpse to peaches and cream. Four hours of relaxation in a two-week long sea of bullshit? That's pretty fucking intelligent to Mrs. Pierre. No regrets.

A:  Mr. Pierre will build his design for a vinyl covered bench/horizontal cage for the dungeon. Mrs. Pierre will perform the measurements and cuts.

Supplemented! Instead of using the Home Depot funds they had earmarked for this project on wood and other materials, they opted instead to plant an herb and vegetable garden. Mr. Pierre also gutted the front yard, pulled out that unsightly metal cage the people who owned this house before used to hang buckets of plants from (I mean seriously who does that shit? In the FRONT yard? Ugh.), and set the one thing they want to keep from that garish jungle, an oh-so-Florida manatee-shaped birdbath, aside before succumbing to the radioactive amounts of oak pollen on the property. Having spoken to an expert about that enormous tree raining plant sperm and inducing sneezing fits from just about everyone, Mr. and Mrs. Pierre have learned that it is, in fact, a 150 year old Live Oak and they would be in a lot of trouble with the city should they ever decide to cut it back. So here they suffer. Ah. Springtime. (I'd be crushing up Claritin and doing it in lines if I could fucking breathe through my nose. Thanks Obama. - Mrs. Pierre)

(Just kidding Obama, I love you. That tone was purely sarcastic, I know you work very hard for this country and we are lucky to have you and your gem of a VP, Joe Biden, with whom I would very much like to do whiskey shots. - Mrs. Pierre)

L: Mr. and Mrs. Pierre will view four Spanish language films in the 14 day period.

Fail! But a complete and total failure. As a matter of fact, no movies were watched these two weeks at all, unless you could count Mr. Pierre going to see The Kingsman, which he said was great until that “copout of an ending.” A lot of this failure is due to the Pierres' inability to prioritize their time together to included more than sleeping, but it is also due to The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.