What happened with me was I took a 4-month break because of how stupid the game got when MK just kept on dominating tournament after tournament. Going from July to August was when I was trying to get back in the Swing N' Things with the Pokemon TCG (I'm still competing in tournaments to this day), and I focused on that for a while.
When end of August came about, that's when I started to Major in Graphic Design along with an elective course (took 3 courses, 2 for the Major and 1 for elective) to earn more credits. Unfortunately, the Graphic Design course didn't turn out to be what I expected at all. It was all basically sketching in paper and pencil and the teacher expected us to draw the persons face within a minute, so I decided to drop 2 classes after that and i'm still taking the one elective (Nutrition).
In October, I applied for a retail job, called "Wonder". A toy store company that sells products geared for children ages newborn to 7 years, and they also have a play area as well. Also, i'm working there part time (32-36 hrs. max, while taking 1 college course at the moment).
One day, I saw an add on the bulletin board at the college campus that said "We are hosting a video game tournament and here are the following: CoD, MK64, SSB, SSBB, Madden 12, etc. this saturday" and I was all hyped that they were going to host a Brawl tournament. That's one of the reasons why I got back into Brawl. Not to mention, a girl

at work kinda inspired me to get back into the game, so I can try to impress her by saying "Hey ___, I won $160 from going to a Smash tournament!".
Basically, I'm working at Wonder, currently taking 1 college course at the moment (planning on taking 3 college courses next semester), still playing Pokemon TCG, and recently just got back into Brawl. I haven't played Brawl however since July, so I'll definitely wind up playing very sloppy.