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Happy Holidays.......I am now Engaged
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By justinsampson
on 12/28/2007
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Well....I have not entered a blog in a while because the last 3 or 4 days have just been crazy. I have not had barely any time to put in poker or even get some updates in, but there has been so much more going on in life that is exciting. So her goes a bunch of stuff....................
On Christmas Eve Shelby and I headed over to her mom's for dinner and to spend the night for Christmas morning. Her mom lives about 90 minutes away so we left about midday on Christmas and got over there in time to have some dinner and hang out with family. I decided it was going to be a beer drinking night and had put down about 4 before dinner. We ate dinner and had a good time and finished some last minute christmas shopping for one of her sisters. She has seven brothers and sisters so they just do a name exchange for Christmas. We headed to the mall to aeropostale to pick up a gift card and a few other things. I then realized that I had left her engagement ring in the car....probably not the smartest thing, but it was still there when I returned. Christmas eve was good and I think I ended up drinking about 10 beers and decided to pack Shelby's stocking for the morning at about 1am while drinking with her brother. I woke up Christmas morning bright and early with a nice headache from all the beer the night before.
Christmas morning came quickly as the house was buzzing with people about 8am....we got up and opened stockings and hung out with her family. I opened up some things from her mom and grandparents. They all did their gift exchange and we played some guitar hero 3 (Her brother in law brought his Wii over to make Christmas more exciting) and ate breakfast. We left about 12:30 after I finally found time to ask her mom if it was ok if I proposed to her daughter (Her dad is basically out of the picture). Her mom said of course and that lifted some weight off my shoulders as we headed back over to Seattle and up North towards Canada to my Cousin's house for a dinner and hang out with my family.
We picked my mom up on the way and got up there around 3:00pm. Along the way we ran in to some snow showers, but nothing hazardous which is good. It has not snowed here in Seattle on Christmas Day in years. We got up to my cousins and hung out and did our gift exchange and watched all the little kids open up there gifts. I don't think I ever see so many gifts in one room at once. I am not exaggerating here when I say that there were probably 200 gifts all across the floor for various people. It was a good time and I got to see my cousins, aunts, uncles, ect and we had an awesome prime rib for dinner. I ended up getting this sweet new jacket in the gift exchange and really nice bottle of merlot along with some cologne. My cousin has the new Golden Tee Arcade game and we played a round of golf. I so had him beat on his own game until I totally choked on the 18th hole. BAH!!!! He ended up beating me by one stroke and I was then told it was time to go as everyone else had left. We headed back down home to Kirkland at about 8;30pm to finally hang out with each other. We opened gifts (It was a Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Christmas). I got a Wii along with Mario Galaxy, Tiger Woods Golf 2008, Zelda, Guitar Hero 3, Big Brain Academy, Wii sports, Mario vs Sonic Olympics and a ton of accessories. I must say the Wii is awesome. I had played it before and even though I am not a gamer anymore (I was when I was a kid from NES to PS2) it is a blast. We finished opening gifts (Tons of clothes, gift cards, shoes) and I had the engagement ring in my wastband of my shorts and was giving shelby a kiss on the couch as I slide down to one knee and she opened her eyes to a ring in front of her. She said "yes" as she was in tears and it just capped off a great christmas.
The day after christmas we went back up north to my aunts house and has a family gathering again since my grandparents were in town from Arizona. Everyone congratulated us and harassed me about not having a job and getting engaged (I quite my old job about 3 months ago and have just been taking some time off the last few months). It was a really good time and fun to hang out with everyone again. It was great to see my grandparents since I only see them about once a year or so.
The last couple days we Did lots of shopping after christmas and played some Wii. Last night I went and played a $40 Rebuy live tournament at a small card room about 20 minutes from my house. I had never played there but was invited by Shelby's brother in law. There was about 35 people and 1st paid $1000. It paid the top 6 players. I have more details, but I ended up busting in 8th on the FT with 9's. I lost a majority of my stack early at the FT with QQ to the chip leaders A7s when I totally made a mistake. I am lucky I did not go broke there and I think I could have easily won the stupid thing if I did not make such a bonehead play/ Oh well!!! I will be doing a trip report this weekend and need to get the small card room added to the list of venues to get a review up. It is called the Silver Dollar Casino in Bothell/Mill creek. The structure was ok and the play was awful. I will probably play it more often for how bad the play was. Half the people were drunk which made it even better.
Well...other than that I got a good call today. I am now employed again :)
I interviewed for a job about a month ago and the process continued until the Director called me this morning and said I would be receiving an offer after the New Year once the Human Resources individual returned from vacation. That is definetely good since we are now planning a wedding. Poker has treated me well over the last couple months I have taken off from work, but for now I have no plans of playing full-time. I will continue to probably play about the same amount, but maybe a little less than I had been when I was not working. The work start date is not nailed down yet, but probably will be the 7th or the 14th. So I know have time to relax and enjoy the last part of my short 3 1/2 month break of work.
I will be going up to Tulalip Casino for New Years to play some NL and hang with friends, so look for that report early next week. I will probably play some cash games this weekend, and possibly the Stars $11 Rebuy and a few others tourneys on Sunday.
I hope everyone had a great Christmas and please everyone be safe for New Years!!!
Justin
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