Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

Daniel over at It's like having my own Card Shop held a contest to help out a fellow blogger, Pack War, get 100 followers.  So, I went and followed Pack War to check it out.  Low and behold, I won the contest!  Woo Hoo!  First prize was this:

Nice addition to my player collection!  Plus, it's my first Museum Collection card!  Thanks Daniel!  I'll put it out there one more time, go check out Pack War!  Daniel also sent me some Royals cards, and there were several that I needed for my player collections, as well as some Royals cards I have never seen before.

Super duper small George Brett!  I knew Topps had the small cards as part of Crack Jack set, but I never realized Donruss was part of it as well.

Player collection additions:

Other random Royals:

Jeff Lageman

This card of Jeff Lageman was one of my very first football cards that wasn't a Topps card.  Jeff was a first round draft pick of the Jets in 1989 out of Virginia.  He played with the Jets and Jaguars during his career.

Jeff Lageman
Signed 1/1
Sent c/o Home address
35 days

Danny Hultzen

An AFL return!  Thank goodness!  I was beginning to think I had lost my AFL TTM mojo!  Another great looking autographed 2013 Bowman Platinum card from Mariners rookie Danny Hultzen.

Danny Hultzen

Signed 1/1

Sent c/o Peoria Javelinas

98 days

Finally!!

Last year for Valentine's Day, I got two packs of 2012 Bowman Sterling.  I received this in one of the packs.

I was über excited!  I have never gotten a redemption card before.  I quickly went to the Topps online redemption website and put my code in.  I kept checking it every couple of months, and initially, my card was in my account, waiting to be sent to me.  However, when I last checked before Christmas, it was gone from my account!  I contacted Topps on their Twitter page; they seem to do an excellent job of interacting with fans.  However, not with me.  I finally found an email address for Topps support, so I emailed them.  I quickly got the generic response, "We're happy to get your message.  We'll get back to you shortly."  I never heard from them, until a couple of nights ago when I got home from work and a package from Topps was waiting for me.  Inside was this:

I'm excited to FINALLY get this, but disappointed on how long it took.  I really don't want to get a redemption card from Topps if I have to go to all this trouble to get it.  I have read that others have had quick success with Topps, and others have not.

The River & The Thread

I am a HUGE Rosanne Cash fan.  She was in Kansas City last year, and I got to go and see her and her husband, John Leventhal, perform an acoustic set.  It was great!  At that time, she said she was working on a new album, and it was due out in 2014.  It came out a little over a week ago.  I bought it from her personal website because I wanted the autographed copy.

Here's a trailer on You Tube of her new album:

PWE in the mail!

I completed another trade on Zistle with jkgrice.  He helped me out with a few 2011 Heritage SPs and a Todd Benzinger card to put in my Royals binder.  This trade also helped me start my 2014 goals!

2014 Goals

I have decided to make some goals for myself this year.  I have found that I have a lot of projects that I want to complete, but realistically, can't complete.  So, I'm going to simplify things in hopes of completing some of my major goals of autographing, card collecting and this blog.

1.  Complete 2011 Heritage (including SPs) and 2013 Topps Update.

2.  Hold two contests through this blog.  Not sure what I'll do yet, but I have some ideas.

3.  Complete five trades through this blog.  I'm totally jealous when I see other bloggers posting their goods that they got through trades!

4.  Achieve 50 TTMs in the 2014 calendar year.

5.  Complete my Royals and Cubs needs.  Probably my hardest goal of all.

I hope these changes for myself will help me concentrate on the items I really want to achieve through my hobby of card collecting, TTMs, and trading.  I will post this under my stats tab so I can keep track throughout the year.