the weekend was crazy long!
friday night, anna and i had to do some last minute shopping. we were running around all over town buying various items for the baby shower, that she would be having with her family the following day. we hit up 2 different grocerie stores, best buy, and the dollar store. we had to do all of this in under 2 hours because the in-laws were almost in town and had not eaten anything yet. anna's family is not shy about expecting food from you! lol we hurried up and then stopped at kfc to grab some chicken to feed the family. we were dead tired when we got home. we quickly set up dinner and then the family arrived. i played with my neice and nephew. one is a 4 year old boy and the other is a 1 year old girl and man did they hate each other. lol mad fighting! have you ever seen super nanny? yep!
on saturday i had to go into work for a few hours. it gave me some time to breath. when i got home we quickly prepared all the essentials that we needed for the baby shower and did some more running around. eventually, the entire family arrived at our place and we squeezed them in to our tiny apartment. 5 o'clock eventually came around and we headed out to the shoreview community center. we set up and ate. we were in a hurry cause we only had 2 hours. the ladies did their thing and the guys and kids went swimming. it was a blast! this is the first time i've been in charge of over 13 kids in a swimming pool. it was pretty easy cause the girls in anna's family are very well disciplined and did a great job with helping me. on the other hand, the boys are mad naughty. i had to keep a 1 year old with me at all times and chase down all the boys if they were doing something naughty..like climbing on things they shouldn't be. it was great to practice watching kids since my little guys are coming in just a few months. i've really opened up to children these past few months. i definetly was not a kid person until anna got pregnate. lol
after the shower the family went to my bro-in-law's place to play poker. we were invited but got stuck baby sitting some kids at our place. so were we really invited? just kidding! some of the in-laws wanted to go to myth so we baby-sat their kids. we missed church on sunday because they never came back for them. lol
after waiting around for some of my in-laws to recover from their hang over we were finally able to run to the store to go buy audrey's birthday present. we headed out to grand slam. it was a blast hanging out with everyone and playing some arcades. i haven't been to an arcade in so long. we got audrey some clothes, which came in handy, because she had an accident so our present was used right away. good call by anna!
we got home sunday night around 8:30ish. anna and i spent a good 2 hours on our favorite hobbies. she scrap booked and i jammed on my guitar. went to bed and i talked anna to sleep and annoyed her for a good 30 minutes before knocking out myself. i think it's in the "her" genetics to annoy their spouse. hehe
Monday, March 23, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
magic tourney from my eyes
all in all, it was a good weekend. i'm still kinda thrown off by daylight savings though.
the magic tourney was excellent. i think for the most part we did a pretty good job at hosting the event. i hope illy will provide an awesome tournament next year.
as much as i have been anticipating the event..i'm so glad that it's finally over. i can stop stealing from my babies piggy bank and start using all our money to finally finish the baby area in our apartment. it's time that i start dedicating everything to my two boys.
i think i played a lot better than i expected and a lot better than what most people expected. having probably the least experience of everyone there, i was able to take every match the distance. this is the first time i've ever played competitively so i had lacked tons of experience, but i was really impressed with my draft. heres what i can remember from my deck:
x1 bone splitters
x2 wretched banquet
x1 call to heel
x1 unsummon
x1 cancel
x1 infest
x1 goblin assault
7
x1 bloodpyre elemental
x2 sedraxis specter
x1 rotting rats
x1 bloodhall ooze
x3 brackwater elemental
x1 goblin razerunners
x1 shambling remains
x1 corpse connoisseur
x1 firefield ogre
x1 dreadwing
x1 vithian stinger
14
x17 lands
i think i'm missing 1 or 2 cards. i really liked my draft and i thought i could go far with it, but a few misplays ruined me. the best game i played all day was against isiah during the draft portion. we ran out of time so i thought whoever won the first match would get the entire game so i started to feel pressured and felt i had to win, now. i then started playing really agressive and ended up losing the match in game 3 even though i controlled the board for the majority of the match. that's a rookie mistake by me...not knowing the full rules of the competition. that ones gonna sting for a while. awesome game though! another match that hurt was against vipat. there was one card that ruined me against him. "Cumberstone"! totally destroyed me. it completely slowed me down and eventually i lost to a bunch of flyers. i totally wasn't planning on seeing a cumberstone. for some odd reason i thought cumberstone was a 10th edition card.
i played pretty well for the standard portion. i went 2-2... i had two bad matchups and two good matchups. i played kithkin and won against lhang's elf deck and Geu's UW control/Mill deck. i lost to jimmy's realm razer deck and obe's red deck wins. i could'nt beat blong's RR deck all week so when i found out i had to play jimmy i wasn't looking forward to it. i came close to beating it though. the first game i almost won but jimmy pulled a volcanic fallout on me late game. the second game i was one turn from winning and jimmy pulled a wrath of god and left me with 3 windbrisk heights that could do nothing. i had a path under one, an ajani under one, and a glorious anthem under one. that hurt me bad!!!! against, obe's...i pretty much lost to flame javelon both turns. that card is powerful! he sided in a moonglove extract which surprised me. i should of took blong's advice and sideboarded a lapse of certainty but thought that card was weak. could've saved me..haha
my kithkin deck:
x4 figure of destiny
x4 knight of meadowgrain
x4 wizened cenn
x4 cloudgoat ranger
x2 burrenton-forgetender
x2 ranger of eos
x2 thistledown liege
22
x4 path to exile
x4 spectral procession
x2 oblivion ring
x2 glorious anthem
12
x2 ajani goldmane
x4 rustic clachan
x4 windbrisk heights
x2 mutavaults
x14 plains
sb
x2 burreton-forgetender
x2 stillmoon cavalier
x1 mark of asylum
x2 celestial purge
x1 wrath of god
x2 oblivion ring
x2 moonglove extract
x1 relic of progenitus
x2 ??? i forget
i will consider this the end of my rookie season. after only playing for a year i'm pretty satisfied with how i'm doing in the game right now. i think next year though i will be a tougher and better player.
the magic tourney was excellent. i think for the most part we did a pretty good job at hosting the event. i hope illy will provide an awesome tournament next year.
as much as i have been anticipating the event..i'm so glad that it's finally over. i can stop stealing from my babies piggy bank and start using all our money to finally finish the baby area in our apartment. it's time that i start dedicating everything to my two boys.
i think i played a lot better than i expected and a lot better than what most people expected. having probably the least experience of everyone there, i was able to take every match the distance. this is the first time i've ever played competitively so i had lacked tons of experience, but i was really impressed with my draft. heres what i can remember from my deck:
x1 bone splitters
x2 wretched banquet
x1 call to heel
x1 unsummon
x1 cancel
x1 infest
x1 goblin assault
7
x1 bloodpyre elemental
x2 sedraxis specter
x1 rotting rats
x1 bloodhall ooze
x3 brackwater elemental
x1 goblin razerunners
x1 shambling remains
x1 corpse connoisseur
x1 firefield ogre
x1 dreadwing
x1 vithian stinger
14
x17 lands
i think i'm missing 1 or 2 cards. i really liked my draft and i thought i could go far with it, but a few misplays ruined me. the best game i played all day was against isiah during the draft portion. we ran out of time so i thought whoever won the first match would get the entire game so i started to feel pressured and felt i had to win, now. i then started playing really agressive and ended up losing the match in game 3 even though i controlled the board for the majority of the match. that's a rookie mistake by me...not knowing the full rules of the competition. that ones gonna sting for a while. awesome game though! another match that hurt was against vipat. there was one card that ruined me against him. "Cumberstone"! totally destroyed me. it completely slowed me down and eventually i lost to a bunch of flyers. i totally wasn't planning on seeing a cumberstone. for some odd reason i thought cumberstone was a 10th edition card.
i played pretty well for the standard portion. i went 2-2... i had two bad matchups and two good matchups. i played kithkin and won against lhang's elf deck and Geu's UW control/Mill deck. i lost to jimmy's realm razer deck and obe's red deck wins. i could'nt beat blong's RR deck all week so when i found out i had to play jimmy i wasn't looking forward to it. i came close to beating it though. the first game i almost won but jimmy pulled a volcanic fallout on me late game. the second game i was one turn from winning and jimmy pulled a wrath of god and left me with 3 windbrisk heights that could do nothing. i had a path under one, an ajani under one, and a glorious anthem under one. that hurt me bad!!!! against, obe's...i pretty much lost to flame javelon both turns. that card is powerful! he sided in a moonglove extract which surprised me. i should of took blong's advice and sideboarded a lapse of certainty but thought that card was weak. could've saved me..haha
my kithkin deck:
x4 figure of destiny
x4 knight of meadowgrain
x4 wizened cenn
x4 cloudgoat ranger
x2 burrenton-forgetender
x2 ranger of eos
x2 thistledown liege
22
x4 path to exile
x4 spectral procession
x2 oblivion ring
x2 glorious anthem
12
x2 ajani goldmane
x4 rustic clachan
x4 windbrisk heights
x2 mutavaults
x14 plains
sb
x2 burreton-forgetender
x2 stillmoon cavalier
x1 mark of asylum
x2 celestial purge
x1 wrath of god
x2 oblivion ring
x2 moonglove extract
x1 relic of progenitus
x2 ??? i forget
i will consider this the end of my rookie season. after only playing for a year i'm pretty satisfied with how i'm doing in the game right now. i think next year though i will be a tougher and better player.
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