Very Josie

Now that Full Tilt is kaput I have to focus my energies somewhere and right now it's a tie between two things...exercising and sleeping.  I had been surviving on maybe 5-6 hrs of sleep per night and sometimes less if engrossed in a MTT, but now I sleept at least 9 hrs every night!  Sometimes more!  I wonder if the  increased exercise is a factor.  Took another power hike and went even further than last night.  My knees seem to be able to take it, so I think it's key to continue.  I had one person/car beeping and frantically waving.  I think it was my son's friend's mother, but really, who knows?  I find that between the sleeping and the exercising I really don't miss Full Tilt as much as I thought I would.  Although I did receive the following email that got me thinking..... So are you going to give up on online poker altogether, or pick one of the rooms that's left? There's UB and AP, of course, but I still wouldn't use them. Goo...

Even though it was live poker night at my house last night, I didn't use that as an excuse to skip exercising.  Poker starts at 7:30pm  and I figured I could get everything done before that.  3 sets of pushups, crunches and a variety of free weight exercises and then it was time to hit the hills.  I am still wearing the ShapeUps for this which makes the hike even harder. I find that my biggest complaint about walking around Saugus is that everyone is just too damn friendly.  I'm wearing headphones and powerwalking FAST, yet everyone frigging waves to me, says hello or wants to shoot the breeze.  Ugg.  I am NOT a friendly person....for real.  I'm a nice person to be sure.  But striking up conversations with strangers that live in my neighborhood is not me.  Yet it seems that's what everyone around me lives for.  Last night I had cars beeping at me at least 4 times.  After a couple I was ready to give them the finger but o...

After about 2 months of no exercising I'm back.  My plan is to do both cardio and free weights 5 days per week, and I just kicked it up a notch (or 3) by getting Shecher Shape Ups.  When I wear them it feels a bit like walking on red bull cans so it makes you constantly use your leg and core muscles to keep your balance.  Reviews for them are both positive and negative so I don't know what their impact actually is.  I can tell you that I live on a hill in the middle of a hilly area of Saugus, so walking hills with these shoes is a freaking killer.  I come home drenched in sweat, like it's been downpouring.  As much as it's been killing me (and my knees) tonight I actually went further than I had been and I cut about 2 minutes off, which means I'm going faster! I just hope it doesn't hurt my already hurting knees.  The fact of the matter is I have no cartilage in my knees so the orthopedic doctor told me to avoid hills and stairs so as not to get my k...

I swear I was going to write an uber long post last night about how I'm crazy busy in work, I'm so sore I can barely walk, and I even have poker stories!  Oh.... and I have something in common with Kim Kardashian! Since I'm waaay to busy in work right now, that's what I was going to do last night, but I got too tired and went to bed early again. I have an overly booked day today in work, so much so, I've even been getting to work early which is really unheard of. So tonight, I'll write a too long post giving you all the details (most likely tmi) of the following: 1.  Poker stories 2. Work stories 3. Oh my aching knees story (not a monica lewinksy story) 4. What I'll be doing with Heff on Sunday night (again not a monica story heh) 5. What I have in common with Kim Kardashian. 6. My new BLACK hair. And much, much more! Play smart. Josie

I got this idea from Airing My Dirty Laundry .  Every Tuesday she does a post called "It's Okay Tuesday" where she'll list a bunch of things to be okay about. You're welcome to join in and do something like this.  Doesn't have to be on a Tuesday either. It's okay....... 1. That I didn't love Black Swan even though Natalie Portman is one of my favorite actresses. 2. To be extra bitchy crabby when I have my period. 3. To overshare about said period.  :) 4. That I have never seen a Star Wars movie and don't want to. 5. To snicker whenever I hear the word twitter .  It's the word my sister and I have used for years for va-jay-jay, so that will always be twitter's first definition in my mind.  Hee hee. 6. To not have any desire to twitter.  Heh.  The word is cracking me up! 7. That I have not been on facebook in months.  I usually lose interest in such things very quickly. 8. That I don't miss online poker.  Really, I don...

You know I wasn't playing online poker right?  I slept.  All.  Weekend.  Long. I've always read that you can't like live on too little sleep and then try to make it up all at once.  It doesn't work that way, or does it?  I was overly tired all week long, but had a good 8 hrs sleep on Friday night.  Got up for a while on Saturday and then went right back to to bed and slept until my sister came over at 6pm and out we went.  Home by 9pm and back to bed by 11pm.  Then I slept till 10am.  Between Friday night and Sunday morning I slept for 23 hrs.  I shiat you not.  And that is soooo not me but I obv needed it. Hmmm what else is going on? Ummmm not too much.... Red Sox are actually on a 2 game winning streak!  Woot!  And are playing as I write this...here's hoping for the hat trick! Oh and the Boston Marathon is going on too.  Very exciting stuff if you're watching (or running ) but not so much if you're s...

One man did it, and he did it while taking care of a silly baby.  HeffMike kicked my ass.  Notice the choice of words?  I didn't say he winned, I said he kicked my ass, and for good reason.  We played best of 5 and he won the first 3 games.  Freaking shut out.  OMFG.  I battled away but I just wasn't on my game and I wasn't playing like I usually did.  Instead of taking control, as I like to do, I just laid there and took it.  So not me.  Neo Baby was railing and even commented how I didn't seem like myself...I wasn't even really trash talking.  I dunno.  All I know for sure is that HeffMike sucks donkey balls.  That and I will give him a link here for the next 5 days.  Blah.  FWIW HeffMike is a fine poker player, but wasn't anything special HU, getting in baaaad as much as good, but the cards just fell his way.  Couple that with my shitty playing, and I am dethroned.  I know I should be more gracious...

If you've played poker with me, you know that when my ire is up, I'll throw and insult or two in the chat box.  If you win a hand (and that's a big "if") you might be favored with a "biatch" "mo fo" "omfg" or something similar. Last night when I was playing the first heads up game with Jordan the chip lead kept going back and forth.  Ugh.  As soon as I got the lead, he'd take it away.  He'd done this more than once, so it was time to get my trash talking powers in effect.  I called him what I reserve for the most special of male players. "Whore!"   I said..  Let the verbal abuse begin! His answer....... "Yes?" ROFL LMAO  He answered to "whore" like it was his name.  Funny bastard. Play smart. Josie Currently reading Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott

Sweeeeet, wonderful YOU , You make me happy with the things you do, Oh, can it be so, This feeling follows me wherever I go. I never did believe in miracles, But I've a feeling it's time to try. I never did believe in the ways of MAGIC, But I'm beginning to wonder why. Don't, don't break the spell, It would be different and you know it will, You, you make POKER fun, And I don't have to tell you, you're not the only one. Oooh . . .  YOU make poker fun. It's all I wanna do. Oooh . . .  YOU make poker fun. It's all I wanna do. Oooh . . .  YOU make poker fun. It's all I wanna do. Jordan and I finally hooked up for our Heads Up challenge.  The parameters were best of 5 games.  Jordy requested turbo and $11 buy in.  The first game lasted quite a while as I got used to Jordan and his patterns, but soon enough I hit trips and parlayed that into a win.  Then I won game 2 and shortly thereafter game 3.  3-0 Very Josie FTW! ...

There's one more name that I didn't like, but I was called this the entire summer I was 10 yrs old.  It may explain why A.) I never like getting my hair cut and B.) why I don't like being called boys' names. Oh and there's definitely no poker content here, perhaps no content at all.  :) As a little girl, from like the age 5 and on, I'd always had very long, waist length hair.  Always.  My mother would cut my bangs every few months but the mane was left to grow.  This was a problem because I was a bit of a tom boy - always running and playing outside so my hair was always tangled.  Ouch!  We never had conditioner which would have fixed everything.  Nope, just shampoo and alot of brushing and combing by my mom afterwards.  That part sucked and I always complained very loudly about it. In response, my mom always threatened to cut all my hair off, which pretty much shut me up.  Since she'd threatened it so much, I didn't rea...

Perhaps you've read his post, but DO NOT LISTEN TO Wawfuls.  The guy is delusional.  Do NOT change any linkage.  My name is Very Josie, or Josie, my friends call me Jos, my family calls me Jo.  Hmmm let's see, what else?  Gary calls me Douche Bunt, which is a combo of douche bag and the c-word.  Ain't he a gem? The lesson to be learned here is that you can call me all the stuff noted above.  What not to call me is Joe C, even though my last name surely does start with a C.  I've also been called Josie Lungs because of my amazing lung capacity.  I shiat you not.  You can hold a flame across a vast expanse of horizon and feel the wind as I blow it out without much effort.  Ahhh the talents I have that you don't even know about! Other names I've been tortured with over the years, include Squashy Face, courtesy of my sister. Can I help it if I have some serious cheeks? That one used to make me cry and cry.  Anyw...

Very Josie and Pokah Dave Davey boy and I had a little heads up challenge tonight.  Davey boy a/k/a DDionysus a/k/a DoubleD is a better than competent player so I knew I had my work cut out for me.  I played my usual aggressive way and even though I chipped up early, soon enough I'd lost game one.  Doh! wtf!  Not to worry, I thought.  Onto game 2. Game 2 was going great until I lost a couple of small pots and the chip lead.  Meh, no biggie.  But then I played A-6.  Btw if you're playing heads up, you HAVE to play ace rag.  Statistically it's most likely the best hand preflop, so there wasn't the luxury of folding.  Anyway, I caught an ace on the flop.  Neither of us bet. (both of us were being tricky) Small bet on the turn, which I  called.  River was a 6!  I bet and he jammed all in.  I called and found out he'd flopped trips. I was down 2 games to zilch.  omfg.  We'd chatted about playin...

Yesterday was not a good day.  I was working on about three hours of sleep, I'm on a diet which makes me a wee bit cranky, and the Red Sox lost 1-0 after Lester pitched 7 scoreless innings.  In addition to all that, I'd had it "up to here" with being called a luckbox.  I mean seriously....how many times can dozens of guys, who I thought were intelligent, wax on about what a luck box I am?  I started thinking "Do these guys actually believe this?"  All along I thought everyone was kidding around.  Heck, I don't even "believe" in luck.  I see those people with "lucky" card protectors, or wearing their lucky t-shirts and I think "idiot", although maybe idiot isn't fair.  If these insignificant things make people a little more confident, then God bless them, go to it.  I just do not buy into the "luck" thing. I believe in "randomness" as in randomly you'll get better cards and worse cards.....ebb a...

Miami Don's a good boy.... After The Very Josie (much more on that in a bit) Miami Don challenged moi to a heads up match.  Now I tried to tell him that he didn't know who he was dealing with.  Heads up I'm like Mohammad Ali....I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!  But he insisted....... So we played a gazillion heads up matches.  Now you'll see on his blog how he brags about banging old asian ladies, but what you won't see on his blog is any bragging about pwning Sicilian ladies.  Cuz I spanked that big mo fo .  Maybe I needed a step ladder to get the job done, but I have a feeling it's gonna hurt Donnie to sit down this morning. We played Eight (8) heads up matches.  And I won 5-3, and quite frankly I probably should've won more.  There was a point when I just could not lose a hand,  Flopping 2 pairs was par for the course.  It was awesome.  The amazing part was that Don lasted as long as he did. (that's what she s...

These are actual definitions from the urban dictionary. Very 1.) Cool or awesome, used to emphasize a good quality about something "How very!" or "Come on, Heather, it'll be very." 2.) Another variation of teenage slang meaning tight, chill, sweet, awesome, cool, etc. the show to night will be so very Josie 1.) The head sexy girl (as in Josie and the Pussycats). The alpha female in any group of hotties. The decision-maker for any group of popular, sexy girls. Usually not very nice, but always a dime. Boss bitch. 2.) A sexy girl, who loves to spend time with guys. a girl who doesnt care much about money but she loves things that comes from the heart. that girl's so sweet! shes such a Josie! So now you know the meaning of The Very Josie :  It's a cool, awesome, sweet poker game hosted by the head sexy girl, a boss bitch, a girl who loves to spend time with guys.  Damn, those urban dictionary people hit the nail on the head! Play The V...

Things were looking up about 1/3 of the way through the game.  I had my solid alliance with Boat, I had a secondary alliance with Jamy and Muhctim, and I had my back up singers (xkm, turtle) when needed.  I was feeling particularly confident because of Muhctim.  He'd asked me to not let Jamy know that we were in communication.  I happily obliged and why wouldn't I?  He promised me the world. He told me he'd vote whoever I wanted him to vote for.  He told me even if he didn't win, he just wanted to help me get further. Nice guy huh?  Did I believe it?  Maybe a little.  In the beginning he did just what he said he'd do.  He'd email me asking who to vote for and then he did as he was told.  My kind of guy!  I was happy with how the votes were going, and with who was getting voted off.  I was lulled into a sense of security even though Hoy wasn't buying it.  The honeymoon was over when Jamy wanted to tak...

The winner of Survive Donkey Island Season 1 is ...Very Josie!  I did it!  But man what a long night! OMFG Thank God this game is over one way or the other.  I don't think I could take much more physically or emotionally.  The votes were very very close.  As Riggs didn't vote, and both Boat and I couldn't vote, there were 13 voters, which meant no tie.  At first we were tied 2-2 and then 3-3 and then 4-4...you get the picture.  Soon enough it was all tied up 6-6 with one vote left.  One guy had yet to vote!  He needed to vote and he would be the deciding vote.  I didn't know who it was and at this point I knew it could go either way.  Final vote was for Very Josie though so I won by one vote. omfg And that last vote that gave me the win....guess who that was?  Muhctim.  Yes Muchtim.  After all the curse words and swears I hit him with, he came through for me in the end.  Wow, just WOW.  There were a...

First let me tell you these are my opinions and perceptions which may differ from yours. That being said this is my attempt to accurately document my thought process, my fears, my strategies and everything running through my head during this very long Season 1 of Survive Donkey Island. ***************************** I saw the website for Survive Donkey Island over a year ago and immediately became a follower. I’ve watched every episode of every season of Survivor starting with Season 2 and I am a big fan. When I read they were combining Survivor and poker. Well frigging sign me up baby! I answered a few questions and I was in. I couldn’t wait to see who was on my team. I knew from watching the tv show that I need to make an alliance early on. My Team                                        ...