My Pokemon Cards

     Finally, after I don't know how long, it is here now. Not a whole lot to say on this due to the fact the picture kind of speaks for itself. I have been collecting Pokemon cards since I was around six or seven. I didn't actually buy most of these from the stores, many of the cards were found at yard sells. I'm a bit of a cheapskate, even when it comes to things I like.

     I have roughly eight thousand cards now, it would be nice to have a lot more, but you can only find so many good deals. Believe it or not, I will go into more detail about this when I do my Collection post, but collecting/hording is a part of OCD, which a few weeks ago I knew I had some degree of it, but here lately I'v been wondering how bad it actually may be.

     To those who don't know much about Pokemon cards, these are actually sorted by the printed sets, and even sorted from oldest to newest prints. The larger stacks hold all my duplicates, while the many small ones are the sets. I didn't believe how close I was to completing sets until I sorted them out. I'm only missing five cards to a set that is worth a pretty penny. and ten in two other sets that are worth just about the same.

     One thing many don't realize is if you were to buy these in big lots or new from the store, you are more than likely to make, not much, but enough to at least cover the cost of what you bought them for. Depending on the cards even a profit. Sometimes the profit will be wide, sometimes it will be just a few pennies. Honestly it is like that with about any kind of card game, but I don't know anything out of the Pokemon world.

     I was hoping to put them in binders before this post, however I started feeling fairly claustrophobic. Mainly because I was setting on the floor for hours on end trying to sort the cards out by number. I ended where there is a missing set. I started from the top of the picture and the stacks only get larger from there on out.

     Buying new cards from the store, I'm unsure how long they have been doing this because I only recently got back into collecting, but within a pack of new cards, comes a online code for online cards. I have a little over a hundred codes meaning if I wanted to I could say I have closer to nine thousand cards, but that doesn't seem very legit. Also again I feel claustrophobic using/looking at my online cards, because I am limited to how I can sort them,    

Busy With World of Warcraft

     As I mentioned in my last post,  My Morning Friend, it's been a while since I have actually played World of Warcraft. I just got tired of it, and all the friends I played with stopped playing, so that just left me to farm items all the time. I don't enjoy meeting new people in the game, meaning I wont just do things like play versus player with a random person.

     I had also mentioned in my post Blogoholic what I had recently been doing in World of Warcraft. Basically I've been going around finding new gold making methods, which I haven't really spent a decent amount of time in any given location. More so just testing to see if loot is valuable, is so than how fast do the mobs spawn and so on.

     I only have enough screenshots for a little over sixty posts, which is good. If I ever get around to typing them up then I should be able to set the posts up to publish automatically. I'm hoping all is well for that so I can practically manage two blogs at once. Typically Once I start a new blog the others are just left to rot, and I will only update them every so often. I'm thinking of doing a post a day, mainly because I'm thinking of trying that with this blog as well.

     I'm getting enough ideas for posts that I should be able to just set down one day and type up a few weeks worth of posts, however, I'm sure there will be posts I delay to type one out for that day. I can't predict what the future holds for me. I'm sure there will be events happening along the way I would rather post than what was planned for that day.

     Anyways I enjoy making guides for World of Warcraft so much that I will probably be spending most of my day on the silly game. Not only are they guides, but they are guides no one else has covered, which is really nice. For me to find that many locations in the game as fast as I did, it's pretty inspiring for me nonetheless.

     The main reason I wanted to go over this post was because I look at things differently than other people, that is how I was able to find that many locations as fast as I did. I believe it has something to do with my anxiety of course. I can take a single item that can be crafted into several different things, and I will take my time, with a lot of patients and see is there is any profit to be had.

     Aside from being caught up in my game, I also got my cards all sorted, it took me a while, but I finally got them done, well... mostly anyways. They still need to bet put in binders, but that shouldn't take to long. I expect to have my Pokemon card collection post out tomorrow hopefully. As the second part to my senior year, I'm unsure at the moment. The thought of having a post over the same thing every week on the same day seems like a cool idea to me, and the only topic I can think of to do something like that is a weekly update.

     The bird from My Morning Friend ended up returning again this morning. It kept trying to get in my window since eight in the morning to I'd say around five this afternoon. I set my camera up to record it, though it seems to be a bit camera shy. Hopefully I got a small clip of the bird running into my window, but I haven't looked to see yet. 

A Big Thanks!

     I know I said I would be doing a post over my Pokemon collection, but it turns out I bit off more than I could chew. I have been sorting all my cards out by sets, there are 68 sets, so sorting through roughly seven thousand, eight thousand cards, that alone took me around ten hours to separate. A few hours ago I recently was able to sort the sets out by when they came out, that didn't take but ten to fifteen minutes, but I started with the first set. I looked and set aside any duplicates, than sorted the cards out by the order they go in for the set. So far each set has taken me about thirty minutes to sort and put into binders. Anyways, I will go more into this whenever I get it done...

      With this blog being started about two weeks ago, I had a blog similar to this one a few years ago. It was something I did while I was going through everything my senior year, though I didn't really mention anything that was going on. All the content dealt mostly with writing exercises, and a few hundred word short stories I wrote to keep me busy, and hope to help with my book "Akio"

      It was last year or maybe the year before, school years are a little confusing because that was how I use to base what happened during that year. That blog started running really slow for some reason, at first, being a new blogger, I though it had something to do with how many posts I had. I think it was around three hundred, so I deleted a lot of them. The blog was still sluggish, so overall I gave up on it, Moved my short stories to Lorekeepers Inn. I never really shared any of my posts on facebook either, I was still new and didn't quite like other people reading what I wrote. At least people I knew.

     Still it is hard for me to share this kind of stuff on facebook, though ironically facebook seems to be a good source of traffic. People may just be a bit noisy or they could actually care about whats going on, and find some of this stuff quite entertaining, or even helpful. I know I haven't really gone over a whole lot of helpful stuff, but I always felt better knowing that I wasn't alone.

     Rounding the one thousand view mark I believe I will hit it either this Sunday or Monday, which is a big deal! I couldn't have done it with out my loyal readers. They put up with my poorly conducted sentence structure, and still come bad for more! I want to thank each and everyone of you. I know who a few of the readers are, but the mystery of the others is very suspenseful. I often hit the refresh button a few times, when I see a view from facebook I check to see who is on, and try to guess who may be reading my posts. Anyways again thank you everyone for the support, it really helps!   

Again With the Snow

     As much as people think I like snow, I really don't. I'm the type of person after it accumulates once I'm ready for the 70 plus degree weather. Sunny day or not I don't really care. I just like the warm weather, and a lot of that has to do with my claustrophobia. During the winter I typically stay in more, and I don't very much like it, not one bit.

     I was looking at the weather the other day though and it appears the warmth is creeping it's way back. As windy as it has been though, I'm also not a big fan of wind. A lot of that has to do with just about everything I enjoy doing outside requires little to no wind. Some things can still be done while it's windy though not as enjoyable, like fishing on a boat. It's not fun finding a school of fish than a second later your boat is on the other side of the lake, especially if you a fishing a small tournament.

    I do however like telling people who I know hate the snow when there is snow in the forecast. Their reactions are funny, and it's also fun to tease. Watch though half way through summer and there will be people who are ready for winter because it's to hot. Something that I found interesting, my dad was over in Malaysia during their cold season. Well their cold season was just beginning anyways. It was roughly 80 degrees out while the people there were starting to wear coats. I'm not sure if the coats were winter wear as my dad stated or not, but I wasn't there.

     One thing to look forward to after winter this year, it's only a thought as of now, but this year is believed to be a long time coming, one of the best years for moral mushrooms. I know it's a bit of a lost art nowadays, but I am one that enjoys going out and looking for the stealth fungus. Even if I don't eat them, it is still fun. I like the outdoors and if I lived in an area where there were more orchards, vineyards, and berry patches, I would probably spend my whole day outside.

     I will probably be covering my Pokemon collection tomorrow, as it has been one of the biggest things that has helped me. I will be doing a post over how collection in general helps with anxiety, or at least how it helps mine. I spent most of my day today looking for more farming places on World of Warcraft, and sorting out my Pokemon cards once again. I was scheduled to work, but I'm guessing with the weather people didn't want to get out, so we were pretty dead today. I have the whole day off tomorrow as of right now, and I plan on hopefully getting the rest of my cards sorted... I have over seven thousand cards, probably a bit close to eight thousand now. It's a collection started from my childhood.      

Blogoholic!

     Not only am I workoholic but it turns out I'm a bit of a blogholoic too. I guess I just love keeping myself. If I'm not working I normally either think of new blogs I can make, or I try to find content for the blogs I already have. Some blogs it's harder to find interesting post worthy content others not so much. I currently got done with gathering screen shots for one of my guide blogs. Turns out I have enough screenshots to cover well over 60 posts, which is nice and all I just need to find the time to add wording in with the pictures than I'm good to go.

     I currently have 10 blogs only 6 of which I manage, and that still isn't enough! There is so much more I would love to blog about and with as organized of a person as I am, a few blogs simply wont do. Plus it is always nice to keep different groups separate. I don't want a Terraria fan based community interfering with my World of Warcraft fan based community, it allows other people to feel a bit more comfortable and welcomed.

     Anyways not only do I have 10 blogs to my name, I also have few ideas for other blogs... just a few -.-. I have written down because only God would remember them if I don't write them down. I have thought about doing a movie review channel. I'm not sure if I will be doing one or not because the only thing I really ever watch is Family Guy, every now and then American Dad or Futurama. My idea behind the blog was I can't seem to watch a movie all the way through without criticizing it at some point. I would have gone over the parts that I enjoyed and gave input in what I thought would have made parts I didn't like better. A writing exercise for me nonetheless.

     A steam game review once crossed my mind as I don't really like playing games because they are games, I am fairly picky with what I choose to stare at, I like a lot of creativity in the games I play. A good story more than anything. There are a decent amount of games within the steam library that are under five dollars and I figured "Why not review these games to help others find games they may enjoy" Rather or not it will happen I'm not sure. To be honest I'm not much of a gamer.

     This one I'm still pondering over. It is something I would really like to do and my brother has opt to help me with some of the content, though it isn't something I would like to just through together and call it good. I'm very much so into EDM, electronic dance music, I found a demo version of the studio many of the well known DJ's and artists use. Though limited to a various amount of sounds, it is still enough I should be able to come up with my own music which would be cool to be known as DJ Opachii, but that is only a dream as of today.

     Now I have mentioned before that I own a nature photography blog, Opachii's Photography. Though one thing that crossed my mind one day while seeing an adult coloring book on my grandmothers table. Why not turn some of my photo's into coloring pages? This is something I do plan on doing though I have only found one way of turning my photo's into coloring pages and I'm not to fond of the way they turn out. I may draw them and try to get a bit more of a cartoon style, but as of now I just need to find a better way to transform them.

     Okay so I think a bit to much sometimes... all the time perhaps. Since I haven't been writing, why let my ideas go to waste? I would definitally have to be careful about this and not give to much detail, but I would simply turn some of the ideas I'v jotted down into prompts. I don't really have enough written down, key word written. I can be a bit forgetful sometimes, but I don't have enough content to start a blog at the moment though it would really take a day of brain storming and I could have a few hundred prompts.

     This will be one I would do in the future more so when my blogs become a bit more popular due to the fact it would be nothing to the people I help if they aren't getting any views off it. A promotion blog is something I feel a bit compelled to do. Mostly because I know how hard promoting can be. It would be a few promotion site of course, and I'm undecided how I want to find my content for this blog. I could just do it to be nice and help a small youtube channel, or I could take application type things and promote one person a week. Either way I feel it would be fun to do something like this.

     If you struggle with synonyms as much as I do than this might just be a blog you would want to check out. I have a pretty small vocabulary, probably because I don't enjoy reading... a writer who doesn't read, how odd. I have been gathering synonyms I use in my stories to create a word of the day blog. I often find myself with an open tab saying "synonym for" just in case I feel like I should spice up the sentence structure. I normally do it for my blogs too, but this one I feel like I should try to work on it on my own instead of using the interwebz.

     These will end up being separate blogs because of course both communities don't get along all the time, but I plan on doing a card opening blog for not only Pokemon (Yes I still collect Pokemon cards) and Magic to Gathering. Often you will find videos over people opening card pack, how this is entertaining? *Shrug*. I was recently looking up to see if any one else has a blog over such a thing and I didn't find any. I thought that since I don't like talking taking pictures would be a good way to go about doing this.

     As you are aware I'm doing a bit better today, hence the tasteful humor. I'm sure there will be many other blogs I dream to start, I know there was one that I guess I didn't write down. :O I remembered something... I enjoy baking oddly enough so I thought about blogging recipes I make. I would take a picture of the finished product and probably rate how easy or hard it was to make for people just starting off. Hopefully everyone had as wonderful of a day as I did!        

My Artistic Phase

     I had always been a fan of anime ever since I got into Pokemon, I had to of been around six or seven. The art style just seemed very intriguing, so I started collecting Pokemon cards... well my older brother gave me his collection, so then I started collecting the cards. Once I found out there was a TV show, I just had to watch it.

     The older I got the more distant I became from the TV show, but I still collecting the cards and had to be sure to catch every Pokemon in the games. Each critter had a unique shape, it was different from regular cartoon characters, I just say a bit more creativity. After a while I just became distant from Pokemon all together, though still buying the new games in which I would complete the final task but I could care less about collecting the Pokemon.

     Around ninth or tenth grade, I made a new friend. He was BIG into anime and expressed it fairly clearly. Normally I become who I'm around, so I began to like anime. It was all my choice, I know a lot of people will tell me I shouldn't mold my personality, but if I didn't do that then I wouldn't have the experience and knowledge I do today. I don't change my personality to become accepted, I do it for the experience, so I can place myself in another's shoes. I also love learning about new things, and try new things. Anyways I began to draw around the tenth or eleventh grade, anime of course, but it also was the start to my headaches, when I started getting into anime.

     Watching anime all day long, from the time I got home from school till the time I went to bed, it was all I really did anymore. I would spend about two to three hours drawing an anime character I was currently into at the time, mostly protagonists at the time. Then drawing became so much more than just the characters I knew, I would look up anime and search for a picture I thought looked cool, and so I drew it. That was when I really became involved in drawing. I got special pencils, and everything just so I can hopefully get close to the image I was looking at.

      My headaches continued to get worse at that point. Not realizing it then but, I'm creative. Overly creative for that matter. I think of many different possibilities and outcomes for... everything. This can happen or that can happen and my mind would just race and go through several different scenarios, over something that could be as simple as a rock. I still get headaches, still really bad ones, worse even than a while ago, but I look at them as a sign of me putting my creativity to work.

Here are a some of the drawings I did! Some are unfinished and they aren't dated or in any specific order  so I can't tell you which one was my first, but I do know it didn't have color to it. There are more drawings I will add in the future, just need to get them on my computer.