I was E-Bipped!

It was SCARY!

I thught I was going to view game used cards :(

Please don't pee on Chipper Jones.

I'm sure you noticed the in my avatar. The one with the Brave hat. That's Buffy and she is my cat. She is the most anxiety prone, basket case, men fearing, over eating, obssessive bathing cat I have ever owned. Yet I love her.





However, she had one major problem.

She is not a fan of . If she could talk, I'm sure I would hear a constant chant of Larrrrrrrrrry, Larrrrrry, Larrrrry.


I have a in my room. I think I mentioned this in the past.

Ain't it the most glorious thing you have ever seen?



Poor Mister Jones has never fared well at the hands of Buffy though.


Not only has she knocked him over multiple times, but I give you

EXHIBIT A



She has mercifully chewed his legs to pieces.

ANNNNNND!

EXHIBIT BEEEEEEEE!


WHY is Chipper rocking? No, that is not paranormal activity, but BUFFY chewing on his leg.



BUT THAT IS NOT ALL!

She has even peed on my Chipper shirt. You don't pee on Chipper, even if he is in shirt form.


I'm ashamed to admit it, but it looks my cat is a.....

Card shop soon and ticket to stardom.

So it looks like I am going to go a card shop soon. As soon as next week. I can't wait! Just hope it is as great as I'm hoping it will be and that the owners/workers will be friendly. Do they tend to be?

My mom bought me a blaster of Ticket to Stardom. Or I picked it out rather. It was my gift. I dunno why I seem to like the sets that nobody else does, but I do. Maybe I just have bad taste.

On another note, I am donating half the money from my Birthday to the Haiti relief fund. I think evreyone should donate what they can, even if it is just a dollar. That dollar ads up when thousands of others do the same.

I want to see if I can find a way to donate clothes/food as well. I think there was a local place taking donations for such things.

I wish I could do over there and help myself. Since I can't though, I can do this.

Gimme suggestions!

So I likely will be coming into some money as my birthday is Friday and that has been the typical gift for a while.

I will likely spend the money on cards, as well.... I'm an addict. The problem is picking a product or box. Could anyone suggest a set that isn't ultra expensive to complete or else a hobby box under a 100 dollars?

I know I can easily google, but I also want to hear people's opinions on why to get one box over the next.

I don't mine art sets, just nothing as horrid as Chipper Ruth. I don't mind retro sets either and I prefer cards of current MLB players vs prospects or retired players.

Or I could buy an individual cards, likely of the players I have listed as my favorites. Any advice on what would would be good to go after would be appreciated.

D'oh!

D'OH!!!!!!!


I can't believe I did that. >__< Thankfully I ran out of sleeves and only went to cards 290 or else I would have a lot of work to do.




and how did I lose cards 195-235 of Topps 2008? That is chunk of cards. Dunno where they went or how I managed to lose cards from the middle of the stack.

On the bright side, I finally updated my want list.

What is the difference?

Ok, so I am still a newbie when it comes to the card collecting world. I was looking up topps 2007 that I intend to buy when I came across these


Series 1 hobby box

Series 1 36 pack box

I would just like to know why such the vast difference in price. I know one says hobby box, but in the descriptions of the two I can't see any difference. Maybe I'm just missing something obvious.

My Goals of 2010

My Card related goals of 2010.

I'm about 9 days late in this. The reason? I procrastinate like no tomorrow.

1. Get to a card shop. An actual, genuine card shop. I want to go to a place that sells cards. Not cards, underwear, television and anything else under the sun. A place where people know upper deck from a wooden deck

Luckily this take will likely be completed this month, or so I hope.

2. Focus on going after one or two sets and stop buying random packs of cards that aren't part of said sets.

This, I will likely fail. I have a very hard time not buying some sort of pack when I go to a place that sells them. It is like an addiction. Hell, it IS an addiction.

3. Work on better posts for the blog. More informed ones that tell about my opinons on card products and card designs. Start posting actual cards that I get.

4. Trade more. Padded brown envelops make me happy, happy haaaaaaaaaaaaappy. I want to get more involved in this community. Reach out to more bloggers.

5. Set up a work area for my card collecting needs. A better place to store the cards. Have cards in one place, not ten. One that is actually organized and where cards are easily accesable.

That is all I can think of for the time being.