Archive for September, 2007

I have the NUTS!

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Just so most of you don’t freak out I wanna let you all know what it means to have “The Nuts”.  I play a good amount of Texas Hold’em poker.  It’s a game that I just love to play.  Be it winning or getting killed I just love sitting down at the tables and playin’ some poker.

Well, I have been playing in local “Freeroll” tournaments for a while now.  I have always been into poker and just recently within the last year a whole shitload of these tournaments have sprouted up.  This is a good thing but a bad thing in another way.

The one bad thing is these tournaments turn into “Donkaments”.  Now I love anyone coming out and trying to learn and get some more practice but to me it just seems like they should stay at home and play online while they are at work answering phones or waiting for their boss to come back from a meeting.

Okay maybe that was a bit harsh.  I will say this:  You are welcome to come and play but there will be no mercy.

Daniel Negreanu says it best:  If you are in a poker game for money and are taking it easy on one your buddies, you are cheating yourself, your friend, and every other player in the game.  I realize that’s a bold statement, but it’s absolutely true.

I find this statement to be one of the best pieces of advice I have ever heard or read.  I followed it tonight when I played in a tournament.  All I have to say about that is……..well…….I WON!!  I have placed before in tournaments and made it to countless final tables but this was my first final table that I went all the way to the end to take all the chips!

I am getting better and better but I still have a long road before I play in the WSOP Main Event.

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Overdue

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

It’s one in the morning and I can’t sleep. I am feeling a slight sickness coming on or maybe it’s my allergies. But I can tell you that I am not able to sleep and my constant tossin’ and turnin’ is not helping the wonderful angel I share a bed with.

Not to sure exactly why I can’t sleep. It could be a plethora of reasons. You know the whole “my mind is racing and I can’t sleep” story. Well, that is pretty much the case. Don’t need to bring Holmes and Watson in on this one.

Denise’s parents were recently here in town while on their trip up the West Coast. They were on a 3 week vacation and stopped in from Friday till Monday. It was a great time. They were on a trip for the two of them and could have gone anywhere but they decided on the West Coast. I think this is due to a few reasons:

1. They hadn’t been out on the West Coast since Mr. Neal graduated from school.
2. They wanted to see San Francisco, Canada and Oregon.
3. Their daughter lives out here now.
4. They wanted to see said daughter’s living situation.

I believe that out of all of these great reasons to come here, #4 was the one that they wanted to make sure of.  They wanted to see the apartment they Denise and I live in.  They wanted to see the Rogue Valley.  They wanted to see the safe mountains that surround us.

With all these questions they had about me and where we were living I found out the last night that they were in town that they were pleased with what they had observed.

Mrs. Neal and I were on the front porch when Mr. Neal, Denise, Jay and Megan were inside chatting.  She and I were taking in some fresh air (while she was saying hello to “nick”) and we talked about what they had see.  She assured me that everything they had seen was going to help them sleep better at night.

I really like Mr. and Mrs. Neal.  They are a wonderful and dynamic couple.  It’s just nice to know that they feel safe knowing that their daughter is here with me.  And how could they not?  I mean seriously, have you met Denise?  She is phenomenal.  Just having her here provides me with entertainment and companionship.  She is loving and also a good friend when needed.  Having her here just brings everything to a nice balance.

P.S.  Mr. and Mrs. Neal also purchased a new couch for us and an Oregon Ducks welcome mat.  Now we can watch episodes of our favorite shows from a nice new sofa and not the $9 dollar couch that was purchased from the local Goodwill.  I am gonna miss that couch when it’s gone.  It was good for us and our starting of a new relationship and our new living situation.

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You want Shitty Chicken?

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

With all the choices in the world of what to have for dinner, Denise and I chose to have Safeway chinese food. Well, she chose and I made the simple response of “Hell yeah!” It was that easy. Do we wanna have Kraft Cheese and Mac again? Garlic and herb shells? Or how about having that chicken with the peanut sauce that I make? No, we are going to have sketchy, MSG loaded chicken from Safeway. These are the things I love about the Pacific Northwest.

It’s small things like this that make me happy for my situation. Situation being that I live with my girlfriend. She leaves me little notes from the night before that I will read when I am leaving early in the morning. Yes, they may say something like:

Have a super fantastic day.  I love you.

Yes, things are that lovely with us.  It’s nice to know someone cares.  I really know she cares when she leaves me something like the note mentioned or something else like this little ditty she left me:

You are a vagina face.

Real love.

Tomorrow is a big day.  Denise’s parents come to town for the weekend and we get to do all the tourist shit that there is to do in this lovely state of Oregon.   I am also excited that my mother is going to be joining all of us for a nice dinner together.  Nothing like have the parents of someone you are living in sin with meeting for the first time.  Ah, memories.

SOU and I also have a meeting tomorrow to figure out all the Financial Aid bullsh*t that comes with going back to school.  I am really REALLY looking forward to continuing and finishing my education that I started a DECADE ago.  Damn.

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