Unbox Battle! Lootcrate vs. Nerdblock - January!

Woo! January lootcrate and nerdblock are here!

Both had some impressive items, but only one will come out a winner!

Up first is lootcrate - Theme: Rewind

One thing I really like about lootcrate is the box, it is always so sleek and cool. You can take a picture of it and not have to worry about address labels. They also always do a great job packing the box. It is sorta like a sneak preview before you start pulling everything out!

The first thing Preston pulled out of the box were these bad boys: 

He quickly claimed them :)

Next was a Voltron shirt! Neither of us really watched this show, so this may turn into a re-gift for someone. 

This little guy was up next.

Then this cool notebook. Lootcrate is actually doing a contest using this item. I wish I could draw so I could enter it!

This next item got Preston really excited. It is a nerdy tie!

Star Wars Comic! I haven't read it yet, but it seems interesting. It apparently takes place between A New Hope and Empire. 

Lastly, my favorite part of every lootcrate, the pin!!

And let's not forget the book!

Overall this crate was pretty cool. Preston said this was the first crate he actually liked. 

Preston: 9/10

Me: 8/10

Nerdblock time! Theme: A Galaxy Far, Far Away

Unlike the lootcrate, the nerdblock box isn't that pretty. They also didn't really pack it all that well. Everything looked thrown inside. 

First item was the shirt. Doctor Who! Preston and I just started season 5 of Doctor Who and we love it, I was really excited to finally get a shirt!

Next was Grumpy Cat. This little plushy is SO soft. <3

I really like her :D (cause grumpy is totally a girl, who knew?)

If you couldn't tell, in the picture above I'm wearing elf ears, cause... you guessed it, we got elf ears!

Woo! 

Keeping with a Middle-Earth theme: 

As a future English teacher, I can always use more bookmarks and pens in my life!

This next item I feel like should have gone in a nerdblock jr. It is totally lame, even though it came with a cool dart board. 

This next item, Preston thought was the coolest thing ever, a film cell from Empire!

Last but not least, another comic book. This one a crossover between Star Trek and Planet of the Apes. I read the first few pages. It totally reads like an old episode of Star Trek. I liked it :)

One thing I like about nerdblock is the simple post card they add in explaining the items. I like how lootcrate has the book with interviews, but I honestly haven't really read any of them. The post card is too the point. I like that. 

Overall this crate had lots of items that were up my alley. Though I was a bit disappointed at the lack of a pop!vinyl... I'm sorta addicted to those now. I read somewhere that usually nerdblocks always have a pop and a shirt. I was sad not to see a figure. 

Preston: 7/10

Me: 8/10

Looks like Lootcrate is our winner for January. Nerdblock still has some work to do when it comes to keeping the items connected to the theme. Everything in the lootcrate was of a higher quality than the nerdblock.

I hope you liked my first unboxing post! I'll have another next month!

In other news, my internship is going really well. I love my school, the kids are great and I have a wonderful cooperating teacher. 

I'll hopefully have a more detailed post on that once I have a bit more time! We had a snow day today, which is the only reason I was able to get this post together. 

Until next time!

Hello 2015!

Here we are in the 2nd day of 2015. New Year's Eve was a fun and fabulous night spent with awesome friends. There were also wine slushies, Cards Against Humanity and bobbly-headbands:

The first day of the year was spent relaxing. I managed to level up Hol'den to 60 and began working on getting Wreynn to 60. Then I started my first book of the year... and finished it! 

I read Cinder by Marissa Meyer. 

 

It is the first book in the Lunar Chronicles. This book has been sitting in my Kindle library for a while and I kept seeing the book on Best YA book lists, I should give the series a shot. I'm so glad I did. I'm already seven chapters into book two and the story is great!

If you like Fairy Tales and science fiction, this series is for you. It really takes those classic tales we all know so well and puts a fantastic dystopian/science fiction spin on them. Though the big "twist" in book one was fairly obvious from the get go, the ride the book took you on was still exciting. 

Another cool fact, the author is apparently a huge Sailor Moon fan and an avid cosplayer! So awesome. 

Yesterday I also pondered on my goals for the year and came up with this list: 

1. Read 28 books

2. See 25 movies

3. Work on healthy habits

4. Get on budget and STAY on budget

5. Keep track of happy memories

6. Cook healthy meals at least 6 days a week

7. Continue to do well in school

8. Level Nessà up to 60

9. Go on a Road Trip

10. Get my teaching license

11. Get rid of negativity in my life

12. Get a teaching job

13. Write more

14. Start writing movie reviews again

15. Organize my life

16. Continue being confident and loving myself

17. Move out into my own place

18. Sleep at least 7 hours a night

19. Get dressed up and go dancing

20. Make 2015 a year of awesomeness

Some are very similar to last year and I did that on purpose. There were quite a few things I didn't get to last year that I really want to work on this year. 

I realized that my lack of planning, organization, space, time and money were keeping me from my weight loss goals. So I decided that I need to work on my planning better. I started last year asking a bit too much of myself, which was a big part of my failure. This year I am starting slow and steady and working myself up to success. That is the only way I am going to be able to achieve my healthy habits goals. 

When it comes to blog goals, I think I also put a bit too much on myself. With school and tons of other responsibilities, writing something once a week was a bit too much, so this years blog goal is once a month. I know I will be able to accomplish that because I am going to start a monthly feature!

So Preston and I began subscribing to Lootcrate in October of last year and we have decided to continue our subscription into this year.

Lootcrate is a box that comes every month filled with nerdy awesomeness. Each month is themed and you have no clue what you get until you open it. 

Now there is another nerdy subscription I have also subscribed to, and that is Nerd Block. Like lootcrate it is a box of nerdy collectibles, and starting this year they are also going to be assigning a theme to their boxes. 

I thought it would be fun to blog about what is inside the boxes and to rate which one was better! 

So for this month I will be rating lootecrate's "Rewind" box

and Nerdblock's "A Galaxy Far, Far Away" box

I will admit, I am SUPER excited for the Nerdblock box, they have revealed that there will be an exclusive Star Wars collectible AND a Doctor Who collectible. SO EXCITED. Also, by the looks of this picture, there may be some Lord of the Rings as well!

This doesn't mean I am not excited about lootcrate, because I see Star Wars up in that picture as well, also some comments have made me think there might be some Power Rangers stuff too! YAY!

I think this is it for now. My next post will most likely be my lootcrate and nerdblock unboxings. 

I'm off to wait for my Pop Vinyl Baby Groot to show up AND read more of my book. 

Until next time...