the start of magic

Years and years ago, I use to play Magic: the Gathering very casually. We use to play different rules since the actual rules were very complicated to us at the time. I remember being a sophomore in college and going to my friends' dorm and brewing up decks based off the packs that we bought that week. So it wasn't until years later, when I had left the game and came back and then left and came back where I really felt like I wanted to be more competitive with this game. And after starting back up, I came to one ultimate conclusion.

I'm not really that good at this game. Like. Seriously.

That's when I started going from "I hate this game" to "I love this game." Back and forth forever. I eventually decided that it was the format that I wasn't a huge fan of. For some reason, standard really never thrilled me. Just the having to always change your deck cause the meta changes all the time frustrated me beyond belief. I eventually just gave up and was exclusively EDH. I then discovered modern. I fell in love with the format. I didn't care for the price range but I really enjoy that there are so many decks that I could choose from. So I decided to go with my two favorite colors: Green and White.

So my direction went to Green/White Hatebears. I was able to get everything for it and started it out. That's when I came to another conclusion. The deck is not for me. I just became more frustrated with how it played and the lack of consistency/lack of finisher that the deck offered. Ever since then, I have been brewing something in my mind that I finally feel is the direction I want to take this deck. This whole thing will be a work in progress. I feel like I should write on here and give my ideas and directions. See how things go.

GW Maverick

Land (23)
1x Bojuka Bog
2x Forest
1x Gavony Township
4x Ghost Quarter
1x Godless Shrine
3x Horizon Canopy
1x Overgrown Tomb
2x Plains
1x Stirring Wildwood
3x Temple Garden
4x Verdant Catacombs

Creature (25)
2x Eternal Witness
4x Knight of the Reliquary
4x Loxodon Smiter
4x Noble Hierarch
3x Qasali Pridemage
4x Restoration Angel
3x Scavenging Ooze
1x Scryb Ranger

Spells (12)
1x Ajani Steadfast
4x Advent of the Wurm
3x Dismember
4x Path to Exile

Sideboard (15)
3x Abrupt Decay
2x Choke
1x Gaddock Teeg
2x Mark of Asylum
1x Sigarda, Host of Herons
1x Stony Silence
2x Thrun, the Last Troll
1x Worship
2x Zealous Persecution


So we will see as soon as I get all the cards I need for this. Hopefully in 2 weeks. But I'm going to test it out like crazy.

i promised and failed

Back in January, I promised that this year was going to be awesome. And I can tell you that it really has been. It's now July and so much has happened in the last six months. So much. I got engaged to the most amazing person ever in Disney World. I did four half marathons in the last six months and I have 3 more to go this year, one of which is this Saturday. The next three will put me at 10 half marathons since last October, which happens to be my one year anniversary since I started running half marathons.

I've also got a new job where I'm actually treated as someone who is important. That's a huge shock to me. In the last 7 years at my previous employer. I'm seeing a therapist as well. We'll see how that goes.

But none of that are broken promises.

My failure seems to be actually using this blog. I wanted to write in it all the time and actually see if it would help me out. But I never got the nerve to do it. I never could actually sit down and come up with decent thoughts to convey to the hundreds of two followers that I have. Even now I'm having a difficult time coming up with what to write because I continue to lose focus. I honestly don't know what to really talk about. I hope that changes though. I'm going to continue to try and use this blog as a way of me to get my thoughts out there.

We'll see.

Such A Great Start

I'm actually off to bed right now but I figured I could write this.

2014 is going to be awesome.

The Biggest Challenge

I'm sitting here eating Hershey Kisses.

Yes.

I wrote my resolutions (or perhaps it was revolutions) the other day. I've actually started a few of them. Today was day two for my "I want to run 365 days this year." I'm 8 miles in. I'm really excited that I'm going to do 1 mile runs on days that I normally would have nothing. I feel that I need that extra challenge to make this year better.

But that's not my biggest challenge. I want to lose more weight. I don't know if it's the fact that it was the holidays or that I've been gaining lots of leg muscles but I've gained like 10 pounds since the last time I weighed myself, which was back in October. Going from 227 to 239 in 2 months seems upsetting. Like, did I fail somewhere? Did the two days that I skipped in the last 11 weeks of training screw everything up?

I honestly feel that it was the fact that I stopped doing burpees and other things after I ran. I feel that I'm going to be doing that up again after I come back from Florida next week. I need a workout program that I can do that will absolutely help me get rid of everything from my neck to my waist. I need all of that gone and toned. But I'm really having a hard time finding something I can stick with. Or is it that I'm really having a hard time sticking with something? Probably the latter. I just need some sort of plan.

Otherwise these candies are just going to overcome me.