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Winter is coming.

Having passed the last few minutes squeaking like a little (fan)girl, I have managed to settle down for enough time to write a post about this.

HBO has given the green light for the A Game of Thrones series. Ten episodes have been confirmed, and the series is expected to start airing in Spring 2011. It’s a very long time from now, but if they managed to do the series right, and considering the quality of the base material (George R. R. Martin’s A song of Ice and Fire novels), it will be worth the wait.

Anyway, read more about t, oh, all over the web. (and I wish they’d released more photos of the pilot so I wouldn’t be copycating ever single site :p )

Now excuse me while I go do a happy panda dance. :3

I decided, partly inspired by the latest posts at Cherry Rambles, that I’d eventually make a list of all the unread novels I have laying around the house. I thought they amounted to the gazillions, but I can only remember these, some of the names and authors are a blur. I’m trying to stick to reading these instead of getting new ones, as much as I can, but being a bookaholic(?), I have problems resisting.

As I mentioned before, I don’t make a huge deal of Valentine’s day, preferring to celebrate our own anniversaries and relationship events, more than a general event for people who happen to be romantically involved. Even so, on one of my previous posts I complained about the stupid differences between the technology (and other) lists of gifts for Valentine’s there were, between gifts ‘for him’, and gifts ‘for her’, because, well, they are pretty idiotic.

It wasn’t just intended as criticism, but also as an attempt to clarify that a lot of these lists are very retarded, and far away from the truth for a lot of women. This is, however, written in my point of view, so obviously what I mention here may vary from person to person, because we’re not all the same.

As such, and before I start making the list(s), I will clarify, that I believe most women would be happy if you would cook them a yummy dinner, made a nice dessert, got her a flower or two, and surprised her with a romantic candlelight dinner at home. In my view, that shows that you care a lot more than hundreds of euros worth of gifts, or going to an amazingly expensive restaurant does. (Note that this does not apply if you’re dating Miss Shallow, in which case you will have to sell your internal organs to be able to afford to buy her everything she wants. :p) Though I’ve tried keeping in mind more affordable gifts, this list has gifts with a wide range of prices.

So, let’s move on to this geek girl’s guide to Valentine’s gifts for geeky girls. Read the rest of the post after the break.

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