On Health Matters and the Spread of the Nerd Virus in my Body

Since my last post, I now find myself to be 20 years old, unemployed, still not in school, having moved back to Nevada from California, with a new boyfriend, and have been through a lot more mental, emotional, and physical problems.

I've had a lot of personal issues to deal with that got really extreme, leading to a hospital visit and staying for some time in a psych ward. However, I did meet some interesting people in there, and earned myself my first nickname: French Fry (for being so tall and thin). Sometimes, I also got called Google because I'm smart and knew a lot of things.

On the last day of visiting Josh, my boyfriend, for spring break in Sacramento, I woke up with bad pain right where you'd expect my right kidney to be. Sparing you the nasty details, it turned out I had a kidney infection.

I still currently have a kidney infection, although I'm pleased to say that today I was starting to feel a lot better. Today was also the first day in what seems too long that I had a 100% happy or content day.

I built my first Magic The Gathering deck, and started playtesting it. However, since I'm a bit shaky on the rules still, and my teacher, Josh, still remains in California, where he (and I) belong(s), I may or may not have gotten some things wrong here and there. Luckily, Josh had a lot of free time today and I got to have a long Skype call, that, while mostly just us doing separate things with some chatting in between and smiles slipped in, was quite pleasant. Not to mention, he got to remind me on a couple rules I'd missed out on. Though he was quite impressed on how easily I grasped the mechanics of the various deck colors and how to utilize them well.

My deck is mostly white with a few greens, from what I have tested so far, is good at holding off your opponents from attacking with enchantments and regaining life easily to keep yourself at a good range, even against a point-taking-heavy kind of deck, like a red deck, which is what I was testing with. While your opponent's bigger creatures are being held off, the smaller ones picking at you with their work easily undone with the easy life regaining, eventually the big guns come out to play on your side. Almost entirely flying, vigilant, with a few first strikers in addition to the others, with medium mana costs and high stats make up my aggro team. Then, along the way, the enchantments holding back your opponent's monsters are also considered Aura's, and a couple cards work together to make some already pretty tough monsters almost unstoppable. And that's how my deck works. :D

When I was in Sacramento with Josh, I got to spend some time with his friends a couple times at a comic book shop they frequent on weekends to hang out, eat some fast food, play nerdy games like Dungeons and Dragons, Magic, Dominion, Settlers of Catan, and anything else you can think of, if they have it. It's really fun and his friends were really cool.

Josh's family, his mother, father, and would-be aunt, Robyn, were all lovely and really liked me, which is a first. Normally friends' and especially boyfriends' parents dislike me, despite being polite to them, not being into any drugs, alcohol, and partying. This has gone back to when I was a kid, even. Maybe they can sense the crazy in me. o____O

In updating on nerdy things, I've also seen The Hunger Games movie. I saw it with Josh in Sacramento, of course, because that's where all happy memories I have come from if you look at the past couple months in my life. I might do a separate post on that if I have the energy/willpower/desire/time/care.

I believe that is all for now.

Until next time,
Bekah x