It is funny how, when the kids were young, they were up at 0500 at the latest Christmas morning. Yesterday they woke up at 1000 and one of them had to be prodded for that. Good thing we live in farm country and have a prod. Christmas is over and now people are going to try to figure out what resolutions to make for the new year. I make resolutions every day that I fail to fulfill so how am I supposed to have a todo list for an entire year? I will not make any resolutions for 2015; is that considered a resolution?. I will just continue to have my daily goals and a few I will accomplish and many I will not. I do have many things that I will try to do this coming year and I will blog about them here as they arise as usual,I am exhausted but, I think this is the only day in, I cannot remember how long, that I do not have anything planned by me or for me. Sometimes I am unaware of the things that are planned for me until it is required that I perform them; I am sure there are hidden things planned for me.
We had a pleasant Christmas yesterday. My parents came over and we had a nice turkey dinner and then opened gifts and then played poker. We played Five Card Draw and Seven Card Stud. We have played poker the last two nights. You don't hear about family poker nights very often. It is different playing poker with people who don't play poker a lot. It is also different playing poker when the chips do not represent real money. You will take many more chances when those chips are merely a combination of clay and plastic and not backed by cash used to rent them. I have poker chips for most casinos that I have played poker or blackjack in; most of them are dollar chips because who wants a $500 souvenir sitting in his jewelry box? I am not sure why I have saved them. I also have sand from most beaches that I have visited. Those are in bottles and bags in the basement - they would not fit in the jewelry box. I guess maybe I AM a hoarder like Cha Cha says?
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| I have this one too. Not sure why |
I just got curious and now I have that box in my hands. It isn't actually my jewelry box but I have a box for some of these odd mementos. I forgot about some of these things that I have. I have two $1 poker chips from Playboy Atlantic City. We went there on a family vacation when I was 18 and it was legal to gamble there at 18. There is no more Playboy casino in Atlantic City. These are metal in the center and clay/plastic composite surrounding the smaller metal inside. I have metal coins (they looks like medals actually) from The Luxor, Caesars Palace and The MGM Grand in Vegas. I have composite/clay/plastic chips from: the The Sahara, New York New York, Bellagio, Hard Rock Casino, The Luxor, The Taj, The Wynn Casino, Treasure Island, The Venetian, Mandalay Bay, The Mirage, Paris, The Fremont, Binion's... Who says you come back from Vegas (and Atlantic City) broke? I need to go back out there and spend some of these. My favorite poker chip is one that one of the kids (I think it was Fabio) made me when I was playing a lot of Texas Holdem. He (or maybe it was Splenda?) took a poker chip and wrapped it in white paper and tape and it reads "Matt's Lucky Chip" on it. I would use that as a card marker sometimes. This box has a lot of stuff I forgot I had in it. There are LOTS of foreign coins in here from all over the world too. I forgot that I had collected all of this. I also have some of those $1 U.S. gold coins with the different Presidents on them that they tried to start and a few Sacagawea's too. And a real piece of pirate treasure that I bought at a flea market. Who knows if that is what it really is but it is that to me I guess. Hey, here is the scorer's pencil I bought and used at the old Yankee Stadium. Wow, this is like a box of treasure. Maybe I should bury it someplace? When I die and somebody finds this box they will think I was so much more interesting than I really am. Myths and legends live longer than people so I suppose I can accept that. Memories last forever. Everything else are all just ashes and dust!
It always amuses me when I do not have a clear idea of where the blog is headed before I start writing. I never know where it will go. Scary when I am the one behind the
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| I cannot believe how both actors look exactly like these two |
I am watching the film Rush again while I write this. I am so surprised how much I like this film. This Ron Howard fella is pretty good I guess. One of the main characters, Niki Lauda, has just spent a month in the hospital after a crash. They also just stuck a tube down his throat all the way to his stomach without any anesthesia. He was racing 42 days after his disfiguring crash. They wanted to do that tube thing to Jill while she was in one of the hospitals (I think it was Kishwaukee Hospital) and she asked if there would be sedation or she would be knocked-out or anything. The nurse said they could not offer any meds for that for some reason (I cannot remember why) and that was the only time that, through the whole two months in and out of hospitals, that she freaked out. They did not do that procedure. I think it was shortly after that when the ambulance took her back to Northwestern Hospital. That scene in the film makes me know that Cha Cha made the right decision in saying "No." It shows me how badly she was when she is still going through lots of stuff two month later and this dude was in a fiery, disfiguring Grand Prix crash and he was only in the hospital for a month.
Alright, I have to get on with my day. I have another load of dishes to do before we dirty some more; this will be load number three. I want to go on vacation for every holiday for the rest of my life. I very rarely get what I want though. Have a great day!!! Thanks, as always, for being here. Tomorrow is Mary Poppins day but, you know, I will blog before we country mice head to the big city. I wish I could quit sneezing. TTTT..MITM (out) TA!
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