Out with June, In with July

Well, the last few days has been eventful (a little). Let's see here, what has happened in the last few days. Let's start with tonight. Tonight is my sister's birthday and I caught up with her at a local lounge club to have a drink and play some pool. Even thought I don't really know how to play pool, nor am i good at it, I played three games against her, sent the cue ball flying off the table twice and decided that pool wasn't my game like poker is. I like poker, it's not as violent as pool is (the cue ball went off the table and hit my sister's foot). But we had a good time and I don't think I'll be investing any money into a new pool stick anytime soon, even though I did blame my pool playing performance on the stick I was using! :)

Poker is awesome and I'm loving the poker league I'm in. The time and the day of the league is convenient to my schedule and I really get excited when I go. Then when I'm at the table, it's so peaceful and I play and socialize. :)

And last week, I stopped by the golf driving range which was which was great! I was hitting balls with my "security blanket" 8 iron so smooth and straight. I'm going out to hit golf balls again tomorrow night for an hour to get just some general practice in. When I see my golf coach again, we will be brushing up on hitting with the Driver. Not to sure of that club, but will force myself to get use to it. Next season (2014) I will be teaming up with a golf league to explore other courses and make new golfing friends. Can't wait!

The hand gun training I've been taking is really moving right along impressively. I really got down all the different types of guns and ammo, stance, holding form, and where on my body I could carry a concealed gun. Very informative. Next Sunday I got shooting with four or five different types of guns to weed out my favorite one to concentrate on. Maybe a 9mm, maybe a .22, we will have to wait and see. :)

This past weekend I got together with three other girl friends and we headed out on the town Saturday night to live it up. We ate dinner at a local Chinese restaurant and then by 9pm and two drinks later, we headed over to a local LGBT lounge bar which had a very entertaining Drag Queen show happening. None of us swing that way, but it was quite entertaining to watch the dancers entertain us to their favorite music. I would definitely go back again. They are very talented and I would love to get make up tips from them, cause I sure need it :)

My studying for my PT certificate is suffering a little bit with my social life being high on the hog. But, I'll have to manage to get that re-focused again and get back on the wagon. As for fitness, there are so many options and directions for me to go. My choices are to go with an expensive gym and have alot of perks under their roof including insurance to visit their doctor on staff, full gym, spa area, restaurant, social clubs, TRX, golf swing simulator, yoga, and P90X. Yes, they all sound impressive but the membership rate is a staggering $171 a month (including the insurance to see a doctor if you get hurt), so I guess it would be good for people who don't have insurance.

Another avenue I'm looking at is signing up for a 3 times a week boxing gym, I like this because it's $99 for 9 weeks. I think boxing is great to get in shape and teaches you self defense. That's pretty much what I'm looking for. Their schedule is awesome too, I can make every class. But, that's only great for cardio and core work, I'm got to bring in some heavy artillery and incorporate CrossFit into my fitness routine. Why? Cause CrossFit is the gem of all fitness factors including losing weight, gaining muscle, flexibility, and balance, and again, it doesn't come at a cheap price. CrossFit is about $135 a month for unlimited. Due to my schedule, I would probably go with the $125 for a 10 punch pass. Sometimes I can go once a week, sometimes twice a week depending on what they are offering for a workout schedule.

One last thing, I did renew my swimming membership at the local hotel, I'm hoping to go swimming once a week for cardio and relaxing. So that membership is paid in advanced and good for a year! :)

So that's what I've been up to lately. I'll turn in again soon to update you on what's next and what's new! :)

Walking and Poker League

Hi! I'm still enjoying this awesome weather we are having over here. But heard on the news the temperature was taking a down hill turn starting tomorrow with rain coming in on Thursday. This morning I met up with my walking group and I took Jake with me. What a trooper he is, he made it 3/4 thru the walk and I had to carry him the rest of the way! That's not bad though for his little paws to keep up like he did.......I got pictures! :)

HUH????? What is this all about?? I have no more picture storage availability left for my bloggie??? *clicking on links to see what this is all about*. Okay, Google Pisaca (photo storage website) gave me 1024MB for free, I have used 1023MB so far and can't upload any photos at all right now and if I delete pictures it will come off my blog, SO google wants $5 dollars for an additional 20GB, (that's quite a bit of open storage I think) AND it will take like 24 hours for the darn 20GB to kick in........not even a warning that I was getting near my 1024MB!!!!!! Geez, think they would of told me I was getting close to running out of storage.......guess I'm just writing the blog tonight......OH POOH!!!!

Moving on, ANYWAYS, :) I'm still in a good mood.....technology and software, it's a love/hate relationship. Okay, so where was I? This afternoon, I watched TV all afternoon comfy on the sofa with Jake recuperating (snoring) from his morning walk. So, basically it was a quiet day.

Now, tonight.....*smile* Last week I had signed up for a Poker League on Monday nights at a local bowling alley. I had no idea what this was all about, but I knew it was Free! And if it's Free, it's worth Me checking it out! :) Heehee! So, I hop down there tonight and get there before 7 and I take a looksy around and find that they have four poker tables set up with 7 or 8 players per table. After signing in with my name on the list, I get my seat assignment and we start playing. I did this for two reasons, 1) to be a decent poker player, you can't play poker online forever, and 2) I wanted to get comfortable playing cards live (I was so nervous, my poor heart beating a mile a minute and I thought I was gonna have a heart attack when I was served 8, 9 different suits and, with a whole lotta luck, got an 8 and 9 in the flop, and then an 8 on the turn, and nothing on the river........but see that!!! Loook at it! :) All that right there is called a Full House! Yippee! The guy next to me had a "PartyPoker" shirt on, probably thinking he could intimidate people flashing that little badge on the shirt around. Ha! I took him out in two games. How embarrassing is that. I didn't wear anything special, just a grey simple t-shirt, gym pants, and sneakers, you know, like a sly shy snake, the quiet one, that fits right into the casual company around them, that everyone over looks. And then from Seat 2 (that's me) my unsuspecting players get an unexpected bite with the cold cards I hold, and I scoop up all their chips with my rattle snake tail, show my fangs and dare them to do it again........shhhhhhhhh, it's always the quiet ones, as I rattle my tail right back under my seat so no one sees it. :)

Okay, well, like I said it was a great night! I'm not sure what I'm doing tomorrow! So check back in with me tomorrow...............have a good night! :)

Oh, I had to come back here and leave you with a link of "Glossary of Poker Terms" that you might want to glance over.....okay I'm outta here for good now LOL!