I Wasn't Prepared For This

I wasn't prepared for this....post. I have no coffee, I have no card pictures uploaded to talk about, and have no idea what I will talk about in this post but at least tonight I finally have the time to put a post up.

I wasn't prepared for this....new college homework assignment. I had to interview someone in my potential future career when I graduate college but I didn't know that the assignment was more than just an interview. The fun part was I chose Sport Card Marketing for my job chase and got to interview the one, the only, Susan Lulgjuraj or as some call her Sooz. (formerly of Beckett, Topps and Goldin)

I wasn't prepared for this.....the piles of sport cards I kept telling myself I will get to sorting but they just sit there and stare at me like a puppy who was left home alone by their owner.

I wasn't prepared for this...the amount of snow we have had this winter. Yes, it will be great for my well when spring hits and it melts to fill it up since it ran dry last year, but for now, it's been such a pain to drive in.

I wasn't prepared for this...March is literally a week from today. I haven't gotten my wife's birthday gifts for the 15th yet and I turn another year older on the 19th (never prepared for that).

I wasn't prepared for this...family visiting next week. I have school, appointments and a house to clean.

I wasn't prepared for this...collectors actually wanting to trade and my card room being a mess and unable to find the right cards for them.

I wasn't prepare for this...a friend of mine on Instagram contacted me and told me he was going to send me a card off from my list of cards I wanted to add in 2026. The card is now in hand and came along with a friend that was /5 that I didn't know about. 

I wasn't prepared for this...no football on TV, no girls basketball to coach. Offseason stinks.

I wasn't prepared for this...storing cards by player that need to be added to my TCDB collections in front of my TV so it's been a challenge to try and turn it on.

I wasn't prepared for this...having plenty of stamps on hand, but not having time to mail out cards to others to get some trades done.

I guess the next time I post on here, I better be more prepared.

What's something that you weren't prepared for that's coming up or happened recently?

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

*that's the one thing in this post that I prepared for typing*

It Was A Fun Ride

Good Morning Coffee Card Enthusiasts!

*takes a sip*

The weekend has come and gone again and so hasn't my basketball season.

We did pull out the win, but the last girl didn't make her shot which was disappointing. Her teammates tried, us coaches tried and the girl tried multiple shots. The ball just wouldn't fall in.

But, overall, it was a pretty successful season as a head coach. We finished 5-2. We had 9 out of 10 girls make a basket. Every girl on the team bonded. Every girl grew tremendously by seasons end. I am proud of this team and everything we accomplished together as a family. That's what I built our culture on.

So much a family that I got us all matching shirts. Remember that post about a month ago where I traded off the Ohtani Topps rookie and a few other cards, well, this is what I did with it. I got them custom shirts with jersey number, name and same front logo as myself. They just showed up last week which is good timing as they arrived in time for our end of the year celebration on Wednesday.

I can't wait to give them away, but I am also really sad that it's all come to an end. I have seen these girls since November so it's been something I have gotten used to and will be weird/sad not having to spend hours writing up practice notes, drawing up plays and practice drills and posting on the team website every other day.

Next year I plan on coaching again and will be coaching 5th/6th grade and will hopefully have some of the girls I had this year return.

It was a fun ride.

*takes a sad sip with a small tear in the eye*

Another fun ride for me has been collecting Mikaela Shiffrin who is in this year's Winter Olympics and was someone who trained skiing only about twenty to thirty minutes from my house which is super cool. She is also very talented and even though I am not watching the Olympics, I am loudly cheering her on from a distance.

 

My latest add was the Metalized Subset Dots Parallel from Skybox Metal Universe which is numbered to 199.

I need to add this to my TCDB collection at some point. I believe I am still third or fourth place when it comes to collecting her. She was included in the recent 2026 Topps Chrome Winter Olympics product so maybe I will try to add some from that product as well.

I hope everyone has a great rest of your Monday. Some Monday's are better than others, I am currently doing school work while I am typing this so you know how mine is going.

*takes a final sip*

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Card #50 Of 2026 Has Arrived

*coffee is in hand, blogger is finding time to blog, let's go*

*takes a sip*

Well, I have reached the first minor milestone of 2026 and I reached it in February. It feels like it took awhile to get here, but, it's here.

It's card #50 of the year. Doesn't seem like many when you really break it down. 

That means I am only averaging about 1.14 cards a day which I am sure is well below what everyone else is averaging.

I will need to work on this as the year goes on obviously.

You can check out my numbers anytime you come on here as they are updated daily in the right corner of this blog along with other coffee type decorations.

*takes a sip*

Now onto the reveal of Card #50 on the year.

 

It's the 1999 Topps Chrome Lords Of The Diamond LD8 of Juan "Gone" Gonzalez that I got from a Twitter RAK from user @CraigCaruso . 

This is a new one for my Unfinished Cup set. I need to update the numbers on there soon so I know what's left to the chase.

Thanks again to Craig for the card, thanks for those of you also who are reading this today.

I plan on doing more mini milestone posts throughout the year.

In comments, tell me how many cards you have roughly acquired so far in 2026. I am curious to compare!

Well, I need to get back to school work and enjoy the last few sips of this current cup of coffee, *takes a sip*, of coffee remaining while I do it.

Have a fantastic Friday!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

5 Things I Did In The Hobby Last Week

Good Morning Coffee Card Friends!

Even though I have a ton of homework this week to do, I wanted to get a post up quickly.

It also allows me to update you on our last game.

Which as you can see went very well. And guess what....GIRL NUMBER 9 made her basket!! One game left on Saturday, one girl left!! Can I pull this off? We will see. I have drawn up two crazy plays to try and get things open for her and I hope it works. It will be a practice thing the next couple of nights.

I am hoping it will all work out. I will update you guys next week on that. Otherwise we are 4-2 currently and played a pretty dominating game. Our final opponent won't be an easy one.

*takes a sip hoping for the best*

Welcome to the next edition of 5 Things I Did In The Hobby Last Week. I am glad a few of you have reached out and let me know this is one of your favorite segments on here. I like information such as that.

But, for those of you that are new to this segment, here is the background to it:

This series is once again related/played on by Elon Musk's email to government officials in February 2025 asking them about what five things they did.

Also, once again, this is not about politics. I just liked the idea.

*its best to never post politics, make friends, not enemies*

Here we go onto my five things.

1.As always, I did a lot more social media posts across my planet of them. I started doing Rodney Hampton, Eli Manning updates along with small mail day posts on there since it's much faster to send out a social media message than putting up a big blog post.

If you want to catch up on stuff you missed out on, here is a list of all of my social media channels:Cards Over Coffee YouTube Channel is for cards:

Cards Over Coffee - YouTube

Matt's World Of Fun YouTube Channel is for everything else:
Matt's World Of Fun! - YouTube

On top of this, I have two Facebook accounts, Cards Over Coffee and Sport Card Collectors,

Twitter/X: Coffee Card Guy

Instagram account: Coffee Card Guy

Bluesky as Cards Over Coffee

There you have that. Now go check me out on those!

2. I cleaned up the floor going into my card room. I just kept stacking and stacking and stacking stuff and not finding the time to get it off of the floor. This past weekend I took some time out to finally get it done.

    

  

3. With my end of year party next week for the girls, I started gathering some cards to give them.

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Some I have taken from my own collection, others have been donated by great people on Twitter/X.

4.I have been trying to trade more and by trading more that takes time.

 

So I have been pulling out trade stuff as I go along. Now I just need to finish up some of these trades and need to pack up others to make them official. Such a process. I wished I had time.

5. I uploaded some pictures in the drafts here for a couple new posts that will be typed up when I have time for them. I didn't take a screenshot of them because that would ruin the posts so I guess you will have to stay tuned!

And there you have it. Five things I did in the hobby last week.

I hope to keep this series going when I have time to post on it.

*takes this posts final sip*

Tell me five things you did in the hobby last week or make a comment on mine. I will make sure to read and comment back on all of them.

Have a great Thursday!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Hidden Gem

Early last month, my wife messaged me from work that she and her co-workers wanted me to pick up some Dunkin' and make what they call a MattDash run. Not to be confused with DoorDash, but MattDash doesn't get paid with anything but a lot of thank you from nurses.

So, I took the adventure and grabbed myself a coffee while I was there. The great part about that, was they were running a promo where they were giving away little tote bags with a donut of your choice with the purchase of any beverage.

 

This was the little tote bag I chose.

And my choice of the donut for the day was a strawberry frosted.

After finishing that up, I still had this kind of cool collectible bag and didn't have any ideas what I would do with it other than keep it as a collectible.

That's when I decided to get creative and use it for today's post and call it Hidden Gem.

Because I literally hid a gem card inside of it.

I picked this card up after I saw someone on Twitter have one and I felt influenced to have one myself.

  

I like unique cards with unique relics I haven't seen before. I am not sure how hard it was to pull one of these as I can't find a lot of details on it, but, it's still a cool addition.

Good coffee, good donut, good card. Sounds like a win to this Coffee Card Guy.

Hope everyone has a Magnificent Monday.

Below, tell me your favorite donut flavor.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Blog Bat Around Again: The Post Without Words (let the picture(s) speak) Football Edition

 

*Coffee Card Blogger Out* (yes I know, these are words but deal with it haha)

Cards I Want To Acquire in 2026

Yes, there are close to 300 cards on my Top Want List, but some cards stand out more than others.

That's where today's post comes into play.

These may not be the most expensive cards on a list, but for me these are the key ones I am looking to add before the end of the year.

1. 2024 Prizm Caitlin Clark base rookie. This is the best rookie I think of the Jordan of WNBA. She made the sport popular and grew it. This is a must have for anyone.
2. 1994-95 Collect-A-Card Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The New Season - Acetate Character PlastiCards #CS-6 - The White Ranger. Growing up a huge Power Rangers fan, this card is a must have of my favorite Power Ranger.
3. 1994-95 Collect-A-Card Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The New Season - Acetate Character PlastiCards Lord Zedd My favorite Power Rangers Villian!
4. 1998 Fleer Ultra Gold Medallion Peyton Manning I once owned this card in my youth as I pulled it from a pack, it's time to bring it home again.
5. 1997-1998 Metal Universe Base Michael Jordan Cool, iconic card.
6. 1996-1997 Metal Universe Base Michael Jordan See Above
7. 1995 Summit Ground Zero Curtis Martin One of the last better cards I need for that set chase!
8. Pop Century Ed O'Neil Autograph. I loved watching him in many movies and shows!
9. 1997 Topps Chrome Refractor Jake Plummer Rookie. Have you seen the photo they used on this card? Super cool.
10. 1992 Bowman Mariano Rivera. It's the GOAT closer, so, yeah.

If I can get at least one or maybe even two of these accomplished, that would make my year.

Let me know in comments what are the top cards you are hoping to acquire before this year is out! They can be big or small or a little of both. 

The year will go by faster than you think, I mean I had this idea ready for the second week of January and here we are in February already!

And bloggers, feel free to use this as a new post idea if you need one :)

Have a great day full of blessings.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*