Bizizzy

Not a lot of time to blog lately as the title suggests. Somehow in all of this busy business over the past week I've dropped 8 pounds. NOT happy about that. I need to keep up the eating and lifting, just haven't had the time lately. I'm sure this weekend's state fair visit could help...

Okay I'm going to continue to break my own rules, and complain a little about work. It's honestly sucked lately, it's so boring and stressful lately I want to puke. The project I'm working on is nowhere near completion yet tomorrow is the due date... and though it absolutely shouldn't, I don't think the incompleteness of it all will shine a good light down upon the four of us working on it. Whatever. If the judges decide to be ignorant to what has really happened for the past few months, I'll get to see a preview of how all larger problems will be handled in the future. Blah blah blah, enough of that. Okay one more rant. I hate to say it, but some days it seems I'm working at a place called Initech -- "...and we ship a few more units, I don't see another dime..." Okay okay I'm done. I cannot friggin' wait for this weekend, I NEED it.

I'm such a Sith

Why can't I be happy with where I'm at all the time? I always want more. Sometimes I think I just need to look around and realize how well off I am. A greedy Sith, I am. Or maybe it's just ambition. I want more...

A tiring weekend and a day to regroup

Friday: got home to two waiting for me to go to the Twins game, I had nothing planned so I did. We went, we saw, we won, then I came home and just passed out. At 10. On a Friday. What a waste!

Saturday: apparently my body was tired as I didn't get up until 11. I was still tired until the evening, must be one of those too much of a good thing kind of things. Saw some of the PGA championship, and once Tiger was tied for the lead heading into Sunday, it was over. Not even a question. We ended up in St. Cloud and someone had brought with a friend that has had some troubles since high school. One of my best buds in hs, I haven't seen him much during the college and post-college years. If he gets into certain situations, he seems to freak out and everyone else around him in the process. Well it happened again, and it was hard to watch. I hope he comes around one of these days. Other than that, a fun night, with the exception of my walk home that is. I somehow ended up walking home with someone I barely know but is friends with my friends.... anyhow he probably broke about 10 laws within a block and someone saw him as he yelled to me to "run!", but thankfully I was already walking briskly about a block ahead. Yikes.

Sunday: company picnic, got to meet everyone's fam and eat some good food, I even won a Target gift card, pretty cool. I also got to disc golf for the first time in forever, fun fun. M and M2 (right?) got to show off their bikes and leather, crazy bikers. After a few hours in the sun, I was spent again and went home to nap face down in the middle of our living room floor. It was nice to sleep again after a busy weekend.

Monday: productivity! After work: grocery store, got home and marinated teriyaki chicken for later, marinated steaks for later in the week, cleaned kitchen, bladed, did some laundry, lifted, cooked dinner and lunch for today, and cleaned room. That should hopefully leave me with some time today to do some other work as I've hardly played at all this month.

Today: considerably more energy after some exercise yesterday... very nice.

Finally

Over it. Something kicked in and I'm back in my usual routine, blade-lift-poker. That lift included new weights, thanks M. Sorry to everyone who saw me in my piss poor mood this week.

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9 hours of sleep. Still sluggish and tired all day. No motivation. F$!%.

In a funk

I don't have any motivation to do anything at all right now except to sleep. Don't want to eat, work out, play poker, cook, everything, and it's because I can get like this when something upsets me to an extreme. I know I shouldn't, but I can't stop thinking about it and it keeps me upset, and it takes awhile for it to go away. It sucks but at least I know myself well. So basically this whole week has been unproductive which puts me behind in keeping in shape, keeping a routine playing schedule, keeping a routine -- everything is f!$#&% up right now. Damn it. Go away shitty feelings.

Fake smiles for a day

Something pissed me off yesterday to a point I haven't been at in a long time. I'm not sure what's going to come of it but I won't sit and let my reputation go to shit without having a say in it. I won't go into details, but I will probably be in a bad mood for the rest of the week, so I apologize to anyone I may rub in the wrong way. If you want details, you'll have to get them from me, I'm not writing anything more about work on here. Sooo mad still.

Time to step it up

After all of this fun in Vegas and Madison the past few weeks, it's time to lock down again and get serious about making some money. I plan on going to Canterbury at least once a week in addition to playing online so I can keep up with this lifestyle I've grown accustomed to :) This won't be a walk in the park though, as I know it will take a good sleep/work/workout/poker routine and discipline while I actually play. It's gonna be great when my finances are extremely stable and I have an actual fluctuation withstanding bankroll. I honestly think this could be achieved by December, but only time will tell. In the meantime, it's one day at a time as it's not going to happen in one day.

A quick adjustment

I thought it might take longer, but I'm back in the normal everyday working mode already. It was actually harder coming back from 4th of July weekend as I was still ready to go after a 4 day weekend, but after 10 days of Vegas, I was ready to settle down again. Maybe I should take more 10 day vacations...

This weekend, it's back to Madi for a reunion. It's gonna be sweet, and hopefully there's no accidents this time... at least for me. Yeah, the stitches total is probably over $700 now, wow.

After a long trip, back to reality

Wow. It's about all I can say after the last 10 days. I love that town, but Vegas really takes its toll on you. And I was there for 10 days. Some memorable moments went down, and even on here I will refuse to write about them. If you ask me in person, I might tell you. But seriously, wow.

The whole WSOP experience was crazy, if I were to describe it in one word. There are so many fans of poker nowadays... it's crazy that such a game could become so popular that icons are created out of those previously playing for their living, and now they're celebrities (to others, to me they're just good poker players). I mean, what if they had put chess matches on TV and it caught on fire? Not quite a fair comparison, but it's not unfair either. I don't know. It's just crazy to me.

This is going to be a tough adjustment going back to work, but after such a trip, I'm almost glad to be back in a sane routine. I'm going to try to get everything around my house in order before I get back to the poker grind again, so I don't jump directly into the deep end and drown myself. This week I plan on giving my house a thorough cleaning (I think stuff is re-growing and dying inbetween microwave uses), managing my finances, and analyzing my poker statistics to a degree I've never attempted... and by this I mean looking at my best games, my best time of day to play, the optimum buy-ins for my pot-limit games, number of games, frequency of play, tendencies after good and bad rushes, in-the-money percentages for tournaments, blah blah blah. I won't go on about that boring stuff, but I think it might be a key for myself to get to the next level.

Oh yeah, and I need to get back into a workout routine after only having a few days with any sort of real physical activity over the trip. I've somehow managed to gain 11 pounds, and I have a horrible gut. JUST KIDDING. Ha, I'd never let that happen.

Okay okay, here's a peek of the Vegas experience I had, it's a picture of my roommate and... well let's just say my roommate is really, really happy in the picture :)