#### It's been exactly two weeks and a day now since I dropped all my inhibitions and chose sweet, unadulterated, clean, playful, gift-that-keeps-giving fun. At last.

#### Welcome to my Steemmonsters world.

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Hey Steem Fam,

At the end of this my second week, I'll start with the very same sentence I began my [**first Steemmonsters post**](https://steemit.com/steemmonsters/@angelacs/angela-s-steemmonsters-adventure-1-the-universe-responded-again-exactly-one-week-ago-monday-november-5-2018-ulog-37) with... 

#### It's been a fun, crazy, stressful, exciting, overwhelming, happy, synchronistic week that zoomed by even faster than most of the super-duper fast weeks this year.

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#### Love to learn new things?

Well this past week was all about learning, absorbing and implementing strategy. 

Just gaining more and more experience playing, getting to know the cards better and exploring new ways to put them together to build effective teams.

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For instance, this is a glimpse of my current neutral monster lineup. 

Neutrals can be played in any game, called up by any summoner from any of the other five splinters, Water, Fire, Earth, Life, Death and Dragon.

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I love that there are new conflicts that start and end pretty fast throughout each main season. These keep the battles and strategies necessary to win constantly changing. 

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Then there is also the the main season countdown to rank up and maximize the amount of booster pack prizes that are won.




The last few days, the conflict was to play a set of cards adding up to only 17 mana. The Summoners were also silenced, whatever that means.

That conflict changed to a 22 mana limit:

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Each card has a 'mana' count on the top left and streamlining a team that can win that's only 17 mana count was crazy... but fun.

Right towards the end, the blockchain node thingy went loony and games wouldn't load as fast as they usually do. But that just added drama and more excitement.

#### Being new, I wondered if they'd extend the challenge.

But no go!

That one ended, a brand new 27 mana challenge started and the longer than usual wait between battles continued.

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#### I'm now just below the border's edge between the Gold 1 league and the Diamond III league:

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Last night I was konking out but so determined to get to Diamond III before I fell asleep. But the 'nodes behind' message kept coming up and I gave in and went to grab some sleep

I did leave the browser tab window open though so I'd see it as soon as I got to the laptop. Still hasn't loaded a game but I'll keep trying all day until I clear this next league advancement hurdle.

Then the delays will end, we'll be right back to lightning fast game loading and we'll be on to a brand new season, my first season change since I started playing two weeks ago.

Until then, I'll be ranking up as far as the cards and my wits will take me.

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Even after writing up the draft to this post yesterday, Monday, November 12th, I kept hitting the Steemmonster battle buttons, 

Because of the temporary slowing down of the playing that all Steemmonster players are now experiencing, it takes several, sometimes lots of tries, before a battle completes loading.

#### This is usually the fastest part of the whole battling process... the loading of the games so we can enjoy sweet battling all over again.

But during this interim phase when finetuning happens on the backend, we're battling delays too, in addition to monsters. ;)  

Until things are sorted in the next few days, that's just how it's going to be.

#### BUT, despite all the delays and disappointing fully loaded THEN cancelled battles, I FINALLY achieved the Diamond 1 level league for the very FIRST TIME!!!

Yayyyyy!!!

So the previous chosen top pic for this post changed from this:

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to the current Diamond III rank pic at the top.... shown here again so you don't have to scroll all the way up....:

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#### Did I say Yayyyy????!!!! ;)

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That TINY advancement up the league ladder is even SWEETER because the blockchain processing of delays made it take so much longer than it would normally have.

#### All the frustration, all the disappointment just fell away when that Diamond III award notification popped up!!!

And the bonus or brawta as we call it here in Jamaica????

#### I now get a full TEN booster packs Prize at the end of this season which is a very short two days, ten hours away!!!!

TEN packs to open and sort and level up current cards with!!!

I CANNOT waitttttt!!!!

AND that's in ADDITION to the other Daily Quest packs I won during this season climbing the ranks starting from the complete Novice league.

Ahhhhhhh!!!

#### SO MANY Wonderful ways to WIN playing Steemmonsters!!! ;)
 
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I wrote up much more for this post, but adding that to the above will make this wayyyy too long, so I'll use for #3 in this series instead.

Don't want you falling asleep or running off to play Steemmonsters before finishing, right? ;)

In the meantime, do you want to join me in preparing for the upcoming exciting Steemmonster tournaments?

#### [GET your Starter Pack HERE](https://steemmonsters.com?ref=angelacs).

Then message me below so we can hook up in discord to help get you playing AND ranking. 

Talk soon again

Angela

#### PS  We all deserve every one of the following, currently available RIGHT NOW via Steemmonsters:

* extra joy and happiness
* continuous, evolving daily quest and ranking goals with sweet matching, dependable, ongoing accomplishments and prizes
* real immediate results
* AMAZINGLY delicious, regular, hourly and daily heart smiles and fun, extra, happy jump-out-of-bed boost
* list goes on and on....

If you aren't yet play battling on Steemmonsters, start battling and **earning** your DAILY GIFT Steemmonsters Booster Pack Prize. 

#### Each daily quest pack prize will have at least one Rare or higher level card that you can either keep or sell on the Steemmonster's market.

### GET your [STEEMMONSTERS Starter Pack HERE](https://steemmonsters.com?ref=angelacs).

**You'll find full instructions** on how to start battling under 'Battle' then 'How To Play' when you login to your [STEEMMONSTERS](https://steemmonsters.com?ref=angelacs) account. 


**PPS**  I'm still practicing my 'not-limiting-to-30 Days' personal **Ho'oponopono** healing forgiveness and gratitude challenge. I just use the simple 4-line exercise on anything that triggers, saddens, upsets or calls to me for attention during my days, including horrible news and world events. 

#### Here's the four line exercise:

**“I’m sorry.
Please forgive me.
I love you.
Thank you.”**

#### And here's my early, first post-HF20 **Ho'oponopono** inner detox five minute freewrite:
https://steemit.com/ulog/@angelacs/angela-s-five-minute-freewrite-12-day-341-prompt-detox-tuesday-september-25-2018-ulog-29

#### AND here's where you can get my help in cleaning up whatever aspect of your front burner life issues you choose to at this time so you can more quickly manifest the changes you want to:
http://www.AngelaChenShui.com


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* Soul Mate Relationship coaching
* "Inner Power Hour" Cosmic Healing Guided Meditation
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