He Remembered, Did You?

Today marks my 42nd year of life. Yes, it's my birthday and I will party if I want to. But, at 42, who parties anymore. You are just hoping at this point something else doesn't ache when you wake up.

Curse you lower back!

So, my form of partying at this age is having the day to myself, drinking some coffee (takes a sip), and putting up a new post on here. Otherwise, I don't have much planned. I have spent every birthday like this pretty much so anything outside of this would be a surprise.

Speaking of surprises, I got this mail day in the mail a week ago and I suspected it might be my birthday gifts from blog reader/friend Oren, so I didn't open it until this morning. He never forgets it.

*takes another sip*

Oren once again just like he does every year, hits the nail on the head with my birthday gift.

First up, he sent some packs,

Plenty of variety here. I have opened some of the packs and will post results in my Coffee Break segment.

Malcolm Gladwell is a journalist and writer.

The Shep! I don't have this autograph of him either. I wished he had stayed retired as a Giant but he had some great times in Tampa last year.

I have a couple other Electra rookies, but not the bowman Chrome one. Awesome card. I wished they made more celebrity cards like this.

This is one half of the Sklar brothers who are comedians and used to host the show Cheap Seats which was on ESPN Classic channel.

Another new Rhett Bomar.

And speaking of new, Eli! I have a couple others but not this green one. Oren finds another new one for me.

Still one of the greatest catches ever in NFL history, I think Tyree's helmet catch was better, I still watch and re-live this moment time after time. If Odell had stayed on the Giants, kept his head on, stayed healthy, he may have been one of the most dominant receivers EVER. He was that dominant on the Giants. But, he got traded away and everything was messy after that.

Thanks again Oren for the birthday gift and thinking of me.

*takes a sip before finishing up today's post*

Early in the day only woke up with a new small back ache, so that's gotta be good news right? Maybe 42 will look good on me this year. I hope. Haven't checked my hair count yet either, but maybe I will just leave that alone and stick with the positives.

Have a great day everyone.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

The Slump Is Over

It's the day after my birthday, of course I have leftover cake with my coffee this morning. 

*takes a sip*

*takes a bite...followed by another sip*

If my mother-in-law was a baseball player and was a hitter, you can say the last few years she has been in a "slump" when it comes to getting me a gift, whether that's for Christmas or for my birthday. She has been buying me junk wax completed sets from a place similar to Goodwill. Even though junk wax sets are my least favorite thing, I don't complain because she is trying, and she doesn't have to get me anything, but she still does. So, I just accept it, smile and say thanks.

But, just like with any hitter, you get yourself out of a slump. 

And she did just that when it came to this year's birthday present.

 

First, she handed me this cheesebox full of cards. This is from the same place she normally buys the complete sets for me. 

I was a little worried at first this was checkerblock full of 1991 Fleer and 1988 Topps, but it wasn't. It had its expected junk moments, but there were some fun surprises hidden within as well. For once, the good outweighed the bad.

Just check them out,

*but first, a sip and another bite of cake*

Now you can see the cards,

This was just a few of the fun finds. There were other baseball parallels and some holiday base cards for my set chase as well. 

Next, she picked up these two packs from Walgreens.

Sweet!! I only recognize the NPB packs. I had wanted to open some so I could try and land a Yamamoto.

Inside of each package came with one pack each of 2021 Topps NPB and a 2023 Topps Series One Pack.

The results weren't too shabby.

These were the key inserts and then came a surprise....

Vlad Jr manu-relic! I didn't expect this or anything from these packs. I thought one felt a little thicker. 

I don't know much about the Topps NPB packs other than searching for the one player.

And, I didn't pull a Yamamoto. I am not sure of any other names in this set, so if you do, let me know.

 

I did pull this gold parallel. These are dope and fall 1:12 packs. Makes me wish Topps did these for their flagship parallels.

Between the decent cheesebox and the packs, I would say this slump ended for my mother-in-law with a homerun.

Thanks Ma!

*takes a sip before closing up today's post*

Well, I still have to finish rest of the piece of my cake and my cup of coffee before it gets too cold. I still need to sort these cards all out as well.

Hope all of you have a great Wednesday.

Before I close up today's post, I also wanted to remind you of the Coffee Card Hall Of Fame voting and that it needs you guys to nominate cards in. So far, ONLY 3 cards have been nominated!!

Details on the Coffee Card Hall Of Fame can be found HERE. I may add this to every post from here on out for a reminder as I will forget about this too! Haha!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*