WARNING! POKEMON NERD FAN JOURNAL!

My dear friend, ~nightdemon808, took my sis *air-bourne and I on a "shop 'til you drop" card and game hunt yesterday (that is, Friday). What a spectacular day!

I've been out of the pokemon fandom and stopped buying pokemon cards when Sinnoh came around (because honestly, it really was/is the worst season/generation of pokemon, in my opinion) and I wasn't intrigued anymore. I would get tempted as I saw the cards sitting on the shelves, but then I'd turn away.

The Unova generation brought me back, and my friend immersed me back into my money-sucking card obsession!
This time around, though, I've learned to get the $5-ish (or less) foil booster packs instead of those massive 60-card packs of mostly filler cards: those used to suck my money even more.

So yesterday, I bought probably 60 cards, 20 or 30 of them hand-picked from nerdy stores -i.e. Noble and Kaboom test lab- and the rest from beautiful foil-covered boosters. The boosters I have currently (from yesterday) are of the Dragon Vault (ALL foil cards, ALL dragon type, ALL amazing and worth it), Dragon...something, Dark Explorers, Black & White (various, incl. in the Dark Explorers), and possibly something else.

From the boosters I had some AWESOME luck, the most incredible being...
-(ALL of these holo) a great Zekrom (hence this journal's theme), a beautiful Kyurem, a Serperior, Zoroark, and Haxorus
-The rest were pretty darn great for the most part, such as the Dragonite and the rest of Haxorus' line (all foil, too, as the Dragon Vault series is), Zebstrika, absolutely adorable Minccinos, Joltik, and other decent cards

I was extremely lucky to find a SECRET RARE pikachu card -the pikachu himself is foil and the rest of the card isn't, his stats are pretty great, and I haven't seen any like him (duh) -even the card description says "This is an extremely rare pikachu card. You are very lucky to have found it!" Those dorks...

From my hand-picked ones, oh boy...I had so much nerd-ing out-ness going on, it was difficult to narrow down my pickings.

Just a few of my fantastic finds:
-Delta Species ELECTRIC TYPE Feraligatr
-Psychic Promo Dusknoir
-A foil, POWERFUL Ampharos
-An awesome Ninetales and Manetric
-Lucario
-Dialga
-Holo Delta Species Swellow
-Japanese Skarmory
-Full Dark Tyranitar

So not only was my heart fluttering with the pokemon card finds, but my sis and I scored pretty big on some games. While at GameStop, I put a hold on Pokemon Y for when it releases (HOMG!!! I've NEVER played a pokemon generation game for myself, all the way, FROM its release date, so this is a huge deal for me) and I bought a used Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time cartridge for only $13.49-ish (w/Power-up savings just taking off a dollar). I've played this PMD before, and I adore it, but I had to give it back to its owner and now I can relive it again and have my sister experience its fantastic story and gameplay. This is the only game series for Sinnoh that I'm willing to play and the only one that redeems Sinnoh for me (with the Luxray line, Lucario line, Dusknoir and Darkrai, of course).

After leaving Noble and GameStop and comparing prices, we bought Ocarina of Time 3D since A. It is only $10 more for a NEW 3DS Ocarina of Time compared to a USED cartridge for N64, which is FREAKIN' RIDICULOUS! B. The price isn't really dropping anytime soon.



My sis and I and my friend are going to buy PMD: Gates to Infinity when we get out of school (which is May 2nd-ish) just kinda as a reward of "Yay! You made it through one year of college!" or something.

This is all what's up. I'm dragging myself through these finals and looking forward to a great summer!

Take care! Have a lovely day and God bless!

~Danica

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