My Squirrel Family

So, I mentioned this a little while ago and started to write and then didn't publish it and then started to write and then ended up writing a different post...maybe I'll get there this time.

The first thing you should know is that I am NOT talking about the little (or big) fuzzballs that live in the trees outside and go completely crazy to find nuts they can't remember where they buried. (Though some of my little family is relatively close to that explanation.)

B and I play a card game called Magic: The Gathering. Yes, we've been over this, I'm a nerd. I'll give you a moment to Google and then realize how MUCH of a nerd. Go ahead. I'll wait.

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Better? Moving on. Without getting too in to details that you may or may not now know, this game holds weekly tournaments on Friday nights. There are also some higher level events (we'll move on). Generally you find a store that has space and hosts the Friday night tournament. Most people that play these games have crazy store loyalty. You find a store, you like and you go there, and that's generally it. You may go to a regional qualifier at a different store, but you game at your store.

In 2010, around September, we found a little store in Clovis that hosted events and Friday Night Magic. Sweet deal! You may remember that we had a few things happen and that we ended up getting super busy, went to go by the store in Mayish...it was closed. Bummer!

Enter Auguts 2011, we run in to a guy that we played with at the now closed store. He's gaming at a store called Crazy Squirrel. No joke, that's the name of the store. I did ask him to repeat what he said and heard him right the first time. Crazy Squirrel Game Store. They sell anything that you could imagine, as long as it does not have a cord. :) All table top games. Board games of all kinds, card games, dice and chip games. Anything that you could play on a table. It's amazing. So many games I didn't even know existed, but are entirely too many hours of fun. I digress.

So, we start going to this store. The first people we meet and talk to are probably Jen and Scott (the owners) and Isaac. He's loud and talks a lot, however, he has a giant heart and hates conflict. You can imagine that we hit it off pretty well. We also ran in to Julian, whom we met at the other store, he was still playing the same kind of deck and was just as sweet and kind of timid as he had been before. We enveloped Frank (who is now our roommate) and Matt, loud and crazy and all over the place, and we wouldn't have him any other way. He's passionate about EVERYTHING he does. We also have Trisha and Morgan, they started playing again right about when we started going to the store. Remi, Isaac's cousin and Julian's girlfriend of a couple months now, also came in to our little circle of friends. A few more weeks and we also got Jocelyn and Zac, she is a lot like me and he is a lot like B. It's kind of crazy. He didn't talk much, he's starting to talk more :) Aaron came along a little after them. He's a lot like Morgan, it's kind of scary.

So, after a few weeks of going every Friday for the tournament and staying later than we should have playing OUTSIDE the store after it closed, we decided to start going to Denny's...tables and chairs and food (those are like the three nerd requirements). Denny's gets expensive though, so we started inviting people over to the apartment. Now, just about every weekend, we have our friends all in one place.

This is my Squirrel family and I love them. It's been weird not having them all in one place because of the holidays. I miss having them around all as a group. We plan events together (like our Secret Squirrel for Christmas :) And going to higher level events for the game we all play) I'm blessed to have them all in my life and to have found another family of friends.

There you have it...I should go in to more detail, but maybe you'll meet them in later blog posts. :)