Very Josie

Not much to do today.  I'm still feeling a little sick and I'm supposed to do nothing that would exert my lungs.  Unfortunately, I can't do my favorite non-exertion pasttime; tanning, as it's cloudy as a mo'fo'.  So instead, I've had a two hour nap that SOMEONE insisted on waking me from, and I just spent an hour watching four youtube videos of Kim Kardashian getting her make up done.  Getting "the smokey eye look", to be exact. All the videos take place in Kim's kitchen and the guy applying the makeup above is a genius!  He's in all the kitchen videos too.  I got some good tips, but haven't tried anything out yet as I haven't even showered today.  (gross huh?  but I ain't going anywhere and I'm lazy)  I do plan on taking a shower once I get a little motivation, and having a bit of a spa home day, which means a sugar scrub on my skin and alot of moisturizer.  Then I may try out the Kim Kardashian smokey eye tricks alt

The two mammoth tomato plants are the two big bushes in the middle.  They're kind of hard to see because there's a high ivy wall behind all of the plants.  There's basil and cilantro in the pots. Waiting for them to ripen. The tall plants to the left and right of the little girl are sunflowers.  They're about 5 ft tall but no flowers yet.  :( Shrimp colored impatients Wild flowers from seeds Petunias and allysum boatload of impatients Mmmm tomatoes Mmmmm basilico! (basil) These are cantaloupe plants.  If you clicky on the picky you'll see all the stumps where some animal has been munching. Grrrrr all my cantaloupe flowers are getting eaten! More chewed up plants These are chewed up tomato plants.  I think they're too far gone to produce fruit but we'll see. This is the row of tomato plants in trouble. Pretty petunias Medium sized tomato plants that are doing pretty well. Again, medium sized tomato plants The ONLY raccoon I want to

I do have pneumonia. *cough*  I'm glad I got home and saw my doctor.  Gary was kind enough to drive me to the doctor's, and then the hospital for a chest x-ray and finally to Walgreens to get 3 prescriptions filled.  Gary's a goooooooooooooooood friend.  We got into the hospital elevator with a guy WHO LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE SANTA CLAUS.  I cannot stress enough that I'm not exaggerating.  The guy was stout, balding on top with long white hair and a longer white beard.  He had a belly like a bowl full of jelly.  He was wearing red suspenders, a red belt, red sneakers with a white shirt and white pants.  I shiat you NOT.  It was fricking Santa Claus if you met him in July. I swear he looked more like Santa than this guy. I soooo wanted to say "Santa's sick?"  but every time Gary made me laugh it would end in a fit of painful coughing so I was trying hard to keep a straight face.  For the entire elevator ride with Santa, Gary faced the corner with his

...Did I say I wouldn't be online for a week? I guess I didn't plan on getting pneumonia myself.  Blah.  Actually, I don't know that I have pneumonia; I only know that I feel like crapola.  That and the fact that my little Sugar Bear definitely had it a week and a half ago so there's that. I'm going to the doctor today so we'll see what he says.  Maybe just bronchitis? Josie

Guess what I'm doing?  If you played the you tube video you'd enjoy a nice acoustic performance and you'd have a big clue on what I'm doing because the beginning lyrics of the song are... Josie's on a vacation far away Come around and talk it over So many things that I want to say You know I like my girls a little bit older.... Yep, I'm working a half day today and then vacation starts tomorrow!  I will be in at lakeside cottage for a week with no internet access (oh the horror!) or TV.  So far all I've packed is wine, tequila, a shit load of books and bug spray.  There will be about a dozen kids playing with drunk Auntie Josie all week.  I can hear it now: "Ma, Auntie fell off the dock..."   I do not plan on spending this vacation sober. (I'm already planning on leaving a day early for another Foxwoods hit & run) See ya in a week. Josie

I failed to mention that this was the FIRST session of poker I'd ever played with sunglasses on and you know what?  I'll always play with shades on going forward.  First of all, it allowed me the freedom to really focus my gaze where I wanted it to be without being obvious.  When I'm not in a hand I'm still watching the players' reactions to opposing bets and it was freeing to do this behind the shades.  Plus I think the shades gave me confidence that I wasn't betraying my actions with tells.  Yeah, I got a few comments about the shades, but so what.  Stuff like "Ooooo she's putting her shades on, you're in trouble."  I'd take them off between hands and put them on when I felt I'd be playing a hand.  In hindsight, I won't be doing that again.  I need to just leave them on for the whole session.  It does make for a darker atmosphere, but I'm telling you it's worth it. So me and my shades amassed a good sized stack, and I de

I got into the poker room at Foxwoods by 10am.  My plan was to play 1-2 NL cash until the $80 satellite mtt at 2pm.  One in ten win entry into a $300 megastack tournament in August and that was my goal.  Win entry into that.  Last time I was in Foxwoods I'd had a huge win at the cash table but lost the tourney.  I was immediately seated at a full table at 10am, which was a pleasant surprise. A couple of players at the table were good, a couple were complete donks and the rest mediocre, who played a little too scared.  I was in seat 4 and the complete donks were in seats 3 and 5 much to my delight.  In seat 3 was a loud foreign man who talked nonstop. He also had the habit of showing one card to me when he was in a hand.  It was always the best of his two cards and I found that he seemed to chase middle pairs to the river and bluffed badly.  He acted before me and whenever he'd bet I'd raise.  I got alot of chips from him.  In the 5 seat was a nice older lady, who I felted

You know I'm partial to men, but my flava of the month is Tennessee men.  They're the bomb.  Not to stereotype (yet I'm about to) they seem to be the nicest and funniest men around.  For example.....there's this hiker deep in the heart of Tennessee called Grant Silverstone .  Grant has done me the kindness of listing me on his blog under the title "Favorite Gals" and get this, I didn't even ask him to.  I get lots of referrals from his blog, so thank you Grant.  You remind me of a sexy poker dealer I used to know.  ;) And then there's DUGGLE BOGEY .  He ain't so bad.  He knew that I wanted to see High Roller, The Stu Ungar Story, so he was kind enough to offer to send me a copy.  I got it yesterday in work and I was so excited I immediately opened it and took a picture of it.  (see below)  Oooooo The movie I want to see is here!  Duggle Bogey rocks! And then I noticed there was a note wrapped around the DVD.  That sweet Duggle Bogey sent me a

We will pump you up! If you've been following the news you know that Roger Clemens' perjury trial was declared a mistrial because evidence was shown to the jury that they weren't supposed to see.  This is a miscarriage of justice! Of course he was shooting up roids, when he was a yankee anyway.  (btw Yankees suck!  Ever notice that The Yankees try to collect ex Red Sox players like a little kid collecting pokemon cards?  both The Yankees and those kids obv have too much disposable cash, but I digress) Where was I?  Ah yes, Roger Clemens may be getting an easy way out of all this, but what about the victims here?  Yes, the victims.  I'm talking about Roger's boys, and I don't mean his sons!  Did you know that steriod use leads to testicle shrinkage ?  Barry Bonds' girlfriend testified to how his boys changed and not in a good way.  The official term is called testicular atrophy and I say it's a tragedy.  All those good looking adonis-like baseball play

This one's for Duggle Bogey ! Mama mia, what a scooter! You wouldn't believe how hard it was to find a picture of a hot guy with a scooter.  I didn't do too badly though, now did I?  After searching image after image I found the one above on a gay website.  Obv this man is too good looking to be straight, but what eye candy!  If you'd prefer a hot GIRL on a scooter visit DUGGLE BOGEY .  He'll take care of you, and tell him Very Josie sent you.  I also spent alot of time looking for the perfect picture to use as retaliation against WAFFLES for THIS .  However my friends, art cannot be rushed, so you'll have to wait till tomorrow for it.  Besides, revenge is a dish best served cold.  *evil grin* Now, back to my current obsession about Vegas movies.  I read the wikipedia blurb about Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas and it certainly wasn't what I was expecting.  I can still see it On Demand so I will, and I think I'll appreciate it, but like I said, n

I stole this idea from another blog where the woman lists things that are okay. 1.  It's okay that my toe is broken because it enables me to wear flip flops in the office.  Woot!  Note to self:  Milke this for as long as possible. 2.  It's okay to be pissed off that Casey Anthony will soon be walking free.  It's not okay to assume the jurors didn't do their job correctly. 3.  It's okay to like movies set in Vegas.  The next one I want to see is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.  I have no idea what it's about except that Vegas is in the title. 4.  It's okay to spend half of my vacation time playing poker so long as I sped the other half doing family stuff. 5.  It's okay to get my hopes up that I'll eventually receive my Full Tilt money, even though the odds are slim.  Lucky Duck says odds are 15% we get paid and 85% that we do not.  I think the most frustrating part of this is all that time and effort expended to win Survive Donkey Island a

Um, I broke my toe being stupid, running around the house and running smack into a chair leg.  Frigging killed when it happened but it's okay now.  I mean it still hurts when I forget and use it too much but it's taped and I'm dealing with it just fine. Sugar Bear though.....is not quite as good.  Remember he got sick during the camping trip?  Well he's been sick ever since.  Fever off and on for a week and alot of congestion and coughing but he doesn't really have a cold.  I wanted to take him to the doctor over the weekend but they were closed so first thing this morning I called and got him squeezed in.  The doctor checked him out and told me he was worried it was pneumonia so we needed to get to Children's Hospital for a chest xray to confirm it.  And yep, a couple of hours later it was confirmed that he does indeed have pneumonia.  His friend from across the street also has pneumonia so I wasn't surprised.  He's on antibiotics now and already seem

I broke my toe.  I'm a klutz. Josie

Maria Bello, Alec Baldwin and William H. Macy I just finished watching The Cooler.  I'd seen it a few years ago but I don't think I'd ever seen it in it's entirety.  The casino in the movie is called  the Shangri La.  After I got a good look at the "Shangri La" the one thought that stayed in my head for the whole movie was that the casino was a thinly veiled replica of the Imperial Palace, the place I stayed in during the WPBT.  In the movie (and at the IP) 'Epcot Center' had sprouted up all around Vegas but didn't touch the old casino.  It was like Vegas had moved on but these casinos were staying right the fuck where they were, thankyouverymuch.  Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone else noticed the similarity. Me personally, after staying at the IP, think there's nothing wrong with a little "Epoc Center" if it comes with sparkling clean surroundings.  Now that I think about it, when I stayed at the Imperial Palace a dead body

It's 1pm on Friday and I'm home, having just woken up.  I got home about 5:30am with a headache and a purse FULL of cash.  :)  Our two hour ride to Foxwoods took a little over four hours because Sister and I made a few stops along the way.  I was late for the deep stack event but jumped in anyway.  I did NOT cash in the tourney.  I lasted about 3 hours and went out with pocket aces.  Prior to that I was doing great.  I lost a big chunk of my stack with Q/Q when the flop was 9 high.  My opponent, who was wearing sunglasses, hit trips and I paid him at every street.  Grrrr... He was one of those young aggressive kids and I could feel his eyes watching my every move.  BTW  I ended up taking Ken's advice, no sunglasses and a very low cut top. It worked like a charm! I did keep the sunglasses perched on my head like a tiara, just in case I needed them, but I didn't. So after I busted out of the tourney I headed over to the cash game to get my $180 buy in back.  I sat

The Wonder of it all! I have one word for you:  FOXWOODS! I'm heading down to Foxwoods on Thursday afternoon.  The plan is to play in the deep stack tournaments on Thursday and/or Friday nights as well as playing a little 1-2 NL.  I should have quite the write up posted here by Monday morning. My sister Carmela Cricket is meeting two friends at Foxwoods and "invited" me to join her.  Okay, maybe I coerced her into inviting me, but I say potato, potahto.  She met her two friends, Giggs and Michael there a couple of weeks ago, WITHOUT inviting me, (can you imagine?)  but I'm coming along for Hangover 2.  These peeps are loads of fun so it's sure to be a blast, although the boys only play slot machines so I don't know how much time I'll be spending with them, as I don't anticipate leaving the poker room. My sister does play better than average poker when she puts her mind to it.  When she went last time she sat down at a 1-2NL cash game with.......

Casey Anthony was just found NOT guilty of First Degree Murder.  Now for me, that's not a shocker.  To be guilty of first degree murder there has to be evidence of premeditation and I never heard an iota about evidence of that.  For me the shocker is that she was also found NOT guilty of 2nd and 3rd degree murder.  Wow! She must've killed the kid, right?  I mean sure, perhaps she didn't plan it, but her selfishness and stupidity led to her daughter's death I assume.  The thing is, in this country you have to be proven guilty.  Assumptions don't matter.  Facts and only facts matter. #1 Fact- Dead child That's really the only fact.  Sure we heard about Casey's car smelling like death, but that's not a fact.  Who else would put a heart sticker on the baby girl's duct taped mouth if not the mother?  Again, assumption not fact.  Sure, it took the good mommy over a month to report her child missing, which I guess is a fact, but isn't proof that

We had a wonderful time camping in New Hampshire but things just did not go smoothly.  "The best laid plans of mice and men" and all that. For starters it took us about 4 hours to make the 1 1/2 hour trek.  I dunno why.  All I can tell you is I have no sense of direction but my sister is usually great at directions, so I blame her.  It was fun though - kinda like Thelma and Louise on a road trip, with lots of coffee. The worst thing that happened is Sugar Bear got sick.  Really sick.  This is the type of kid who will not lay down or even sit still when he's sick, but he was like a dead man walking and for alot of the time decided to just lay in the tent and be sick.  I kept hearing "Mama, can you lay down with me?"  Poor baby.  This is a kid who would never dream of taking a nap - or going to bed before 11pm when camping yet he napped every day and went to be last night at 7:30 pm.  Today he has a fever and the shivers.  Booo!  And because he has some bug bi