Home Sweet Home!

We are finally, finally home from Raleigh. It was a fun trip...okay, maybe not fun, but definitely interesting. The trip was a success for me! I read a total of three books from Thursday to Sunday! I completed the Sookie Stackhouse series (go read it ASAP, if you haven't already)! On a side note - I just have to confess my love for Eric. Okay, I feel better now. I also got my book, Mockingjay, which is the last book in The Hunger Games series (again go read it, like yesterday)! I'm super duper excited to read it now that I have some closure with Sookie! So anyways, back to what this all is about - Starcraft Tournament. I got to meet Day 9, and I'm pretty sure I squealed like some tween with Bieber Fever! He was super, super awesome! He was funny and kind of embarrassed about himself. He was better than I could have imagined. And I just have to tell you that this whole thing must be a total mind-screw for these guys. It's insanity. I know that the majority of the population doesn't follow gaming and has little interest in the pro gaming world. However, there is A LOT of money that goes into it. And I have to wonder what it's like to be like Day 9. He's a normal guy going to grad school, but on the weekends he goes to these tournaments and casts. It's like he's a celebrity. People (myself included) line up for his autograph and a picture with him! All of these SatrCraft groupies (seriously - there really are video gaming groupies) make goo-goo eyes at him! I'm pretty shocked at the whole thing. I can't imagine what it would be like to be George Clooney on the weekend, and the during the week, being a John Doe nobody. It has to be completely strange. There's also some pretty crazy bullying that goes on at these tournaments, and I don't mean between players. There's all of these vendors that show up to these events that like support the cause. There was Dr. Pepper, Stride, Dorritos, and Hot Pockets (go figure). These people hire these moderately cute, semi trashy girls to go up to all of these geeks and fake flirt with them to get them to sign up for stuff! It's totally sad to see. Because these poor guys probably have never been approached by a girl before, so they're basically getting a boner at that alone. And then these girls want something from them, and they're so blinded by a REAL LIFE GIRL talking to them that before they know it they're probably signing their lives away. Seriously - this is no joke. I also blogged earlier in the hopes of there being some epic tantrums, and I'm sad to say, guys that play PC games are just too classy for that. There is absolutely no tantrums in StarCraft. No one even slammed their mouse down hard after they lost...I'm like COME ON. Give me some action. However, Halo did not fail to bring the drama. We sat in the main stage (LOL at there being a "main satge" in gaming like it's fight night) and there was this team that had such terrible manners. They yelled and screamed at each other the enter time. They were the worst sports in the history of bad sports.

This is the main stage...



Me blogging in Starbucks...



Me and (gasp) DAY 9!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Bobby (Fiance's friend), DAY 9, and Austin (Fiance)



DAY 9's totally awesome autograph!!!!

Just met Day 9! I'm blushing and in love! Pictures to come later!

PS - The tantrums tonight should be EPIC! I hope someone throws a mouse!

Drum roll pleeeeease!!!!

First I have to apologize about my previous posts! Apparently texting in updates is not successful! So I'm currently sitting in the Starbucks in the lobby writing on my iPhone! This is actually a lot harder than one would expect!!! Anyway, I know you're all dying for and update on all things Starcraft! We are officially signed in, but we had to exit the building until 1:30pm when practicestarts! Seriously?! What on earth could they possibly be worried about?! I suppose fighting could be an issue. Poor Zerg players hate Terran and Protoss, and Terran are basically roided out assholes that oppress the lower beings! Gosh, if that doesn't give me bonus points with my fiancé, I'm not sure what will! So anyway back to what I inteded to say...this lobby looks like a bunch of kids on an overnight high school field trip! No kidding! Like I can feel the hormones raging, it's super awkward. There's like such an odd mix of people here. It ranges from jacked guys with tattoos and stars dyed into their hair to white kids that think they're not to guys that are SERIOUSLY wearing their pajama pants out in public. If he doesn't win due to sheer comfort, the game is rigged. Another thing, there's a bunch of moderatly cute to trashy looking girls that are actually SPONSORED by Dr. Pepper! There are so many things wrong with this! Honesty, whydoes Dr. Pepper even care?! And how did this even happen?! I can only imagine what that pitch sounded like. They're probably World of Warcraft players! I promise I'll update later as well as fix my previous postings AND post pictures. PS I'm on the hunt for Day 9 and u can't wait to meet him! I hope I don't get too star struck!!!!

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SUCCESS!

Testing!!!! I can officially blog from my phone! Just in case I can't get to a computer, I can live blog from the event on my phone!!!! Oh, technology...

I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it!

Tomorrow we leave for Raleigh!!!! Friday the games begin! BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR PICTURES AND POSTINGS!!!! :)

Just to clarify...

It was brought to my attention that sometimes my blog can be a bit harsh towards my fiance, his friends, and the gaming world. I'd like to clarify a few things. I love everything about my fiance to the nth degree (Star Craft included). I'm glad he finds something that he enjoys. I also really like my fiance's friends. They're absolutely fantastic in all of their own ways (totally serious). I think they're wonderful friends, and they treat me like I'm they're friend too, and really how could you ever ask for more?! Even though they're all terrible influences on my fiance with these games and many of them are Terran, I still think they're great people.

Now that that's out of the way, I'd like to bring up the fact that my fiance is ranked in the top 100 Zerg players in the US. I'm so not surprised by this. What a bad ass, right? I mean how many people can brag about that? Only 100, obviously, but if you take into account how many of those Zerg players actually have girlfriends, it's probably a lot less than 100, perhaps around 20. He's such a stud! All week, though, I've been hearing him gripe about how Terran is totally rigged and it's impossible to beat a good Terran. He's thinking of trading up races after this big MLG tournament if things don't turn around (as are various other Zerg players). It's actually kind of sad. Like this one guy, whose name is totally escaping me - but it's not Idra, has totally said publicly that he will change from playing a Zerg if they don't un-rig the races. I've also come to find out that Zerg players are seriously really low. Like less than half of all of the top players are Zerg. How crazy is that?! I know that doesn't sound crazy, but if I told you these number, you'd be pretty pissed off.

On a totally unrelated note, I'm reading the Sookie Stackhouse series, and I am totally addicted. I'm past addicted. I love it so much. So far, there's ten books, and right now, I'm on book seven. I can't wait to finish it! They're sososososo good, so if you haven't, go read them!

My fiance is kind of a big deal.

So there's this StarCraft 2 tournament coming up at the end of August. The tournament is for 64 people, 32 were invited and the other 32 could apply and get accepted. My fiance was among the 32 to be accepted. You better believe I will be live blogging my way through this tournament as I will absolutely be in attendance. It's in Raleigh, so we better be making a mini vacation out of it. If he knows what's good for him. There are a few reasons why I am completely hysterical over this (and by hysterical I mean hysterically laughing). First of all, who signs up for a tournament (my fiance apparently)?! Second I'm completely shocked he was accepted. I mean he is in diamond league (don't be jealous). But still. This is shocking. Anyways, his friends actually want to GO THERE to support him (LOL). He's seriously sitting here talking to his friends about how nervous he is and how he is going to have to "grind the shit (SORRY GRAMMY) out of this game" before the tournament. Seriously he grinds everyday. He really doesn't need to grind anymore. If he grinds more, we will be complete strangers!!! I really can't get over how hilarious this is. Like, when I think to myself that this couldn't get any worse, he gets accepted into this friggin' tournament! At least I get a road trip out of it!

Now, to catch you up, he is completely insane about this game. I keep waiting for the appeal of it to start to simmer down, but I am convinced he will be buried with this game. It's so outrageous. One day, before finals, he said he needed to wake up early to study. He woke up early, all right. I woke up briefly when he got up and I said, "What? Are you studying Star Craft?!" He was so busted. To his credit, though, he did stop playing shortly after to study. But still, it was like he COULD NOT get on the computer without playing Star Craft. He made me watch a replay of one of his games, and I'm not kidding, it was like a form of torture. He's like trying to explain it to me, and all I'm thinking is, why do those damn things look like cockroaches?! His friends came over a few nights ago, and we were supposed to have a game night. Guess what we did instead? That's right, we watched some replays of Star Craft 2 games with Day 9 doing commentary. I have to say that I absolutely find this guy completely hilarious (in a bad way). I can not even put into words how incredible he is. Honestly, he could have a real career in commentating. He has a pretty good voice. And I suppose he gets really into the games and really excited at the right times (since I don't know what's going on I can't be the best judge on this). I'm wondering if that cable channel G4 knows about him...If not, they better find out fast and pay him because he's a diamond in the rough. Seriously. I love his glasses and especially when he takes them off and wipes them and then puts them back on, which he does in like every video. I think it makes him feel cool or something. It's also totally obvious that gaming is his life as his room is filled with gaming posters. I'm pretty sure he's never talked to a girl before about anything other than Zerg. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping to hell that Day 9 will be at this big tournament because I would love to meet him.

Someone should be caught and held responsible for this bloody mess.

So, my fiance is off to take the first of his finals, so for the next five hours I get my desk back! He has completely taken it over with his ginormous desktop computer as well as various bags of Mike and Ike's and Cheetos. Seriously, I always knew I was messy, but I'm pretty sure my fiance takes the cake! He is an absolute disaster! I know you will have something to say about this Bobby, but seriously, he's a lot messier than me! Anyways, I've been pretty sick for the last few days with bronchitis. We all know that when a guy is sick, even with just a runny nose, the world is over and nothing will ever feel good again. Seriously, they suddenly can't do anything for themselves. Well, my fiance has been on the computer playing StarCraft (GO FIGURE), and I'm in bed coughing up my lungs, and he actually asks ME to go get HIM water!!!! SERIOUSLY?! He's completely hopeless. Oh well. I'll be really, really happy when he gets over this weird obsession with StarCraft. I'm crossing my fingers that it happens soon. Here's why I find this game so outrageously annoying...

First, he sits there for HOURS with like absolutely no communication my way. Which is fine. I can find ways to entertain myself. I mean, I am the gossip queen. I love me some TMZ, People, and Perez Hilton. I also have a bunch of shows that I love and he hates (Supposedly anyways, he usually asks me a zillion times about what happens). So I get me time, and I'm so not complaining about that. What I will complain about is him and his friends singing "HIDE YO KIDS HIDE YO WIFE" about a million times. Seriously. They find a stupid video and talk about it for hours. They sing things over and over again. It's like they're energizer bunnies and they never get tired of anything.

Okay, I guess that's not like the most outrageously annoying thing about the game...But honestly, I thought that if I heard "HIDE YO KIDS HIDE YO WIFE" one more time yesterday, I may have thrown myself down a flight of stairs!!! By the way, if you don't know what I'm referencing here, do yourself a favor and DON'T look it up!!! For real. Anyways, I think it's time that I pick this room up a bit and start on my finals!