Monsters of Rock ROCKED!!!

Man o Man!!! what a great concert!!! Floor seats... with one of my best buds... Finally saw Ozzy for the first time! He's still the best :o)

We got there a little late, and just missed Testament.. doh!! but seen Serj Tankin (sp) then another band (not sure who..lol, we were in the beer line up) then Judas Priest. I had seen them before and they still kick ass!

Then this real big guy, must have been 7 feet tall said he'd keep our places on the floor for us... I really had to go (remember - beer line up - LOL). We just made it back for Ozzy and I swear, he may appear to be a lil off centre, but he's smart as hell. His show starts on the big screen with funny clips of him impersonating different movies and people. Then he gets right into it and rocks the place. He also has a foam hose for the crowd - LOL, he loves that thing..

I cant wait for my friend to send me the pics and the mpegs (shhh - teehee) She's now hunting a concert we can go to in possibly Vancouver, or someplace relatively close in Canada :o)

Poker note - lost my stake :o( bad donking, oh well, that's AP.. more in a few..

Tarina
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Time to Partay!!!

Hi Everyone, hope you are all enjoying the summer so far. And what better way to enjoy it but with an outdoor concert!! I managed to get floor seats for Monsters of Rock in Calgary today YAY ME!! Ozzy here I come!!

Poker is going good.. my tourneys on AP seem to be one of the popular ones on there (rebuy Saturdays, bounty Thursdays, 9 eastern, password is thys) I won last Saturday's rebuy, but was out REALLY early in the bounty Thursday, doh, oh well, that's poker.

I managed to make the money Thursday in the $10R, 13th, vs the last time I played it, 20th, so at least I'm getting better. :o) I'm going to try and build a stake I was given.. The staker has faith in my abilities and that's what drives me. I have $50 left of the stake - and I'm going to play some of the $5R's to WIN {determined look on my face).

But first, TIME TO PARTAY!! I'll post the results of the concert soon.

Tarina
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Short and sweet... just like me :o)

Hi All, thought I'd give y'all an update. Vegas was a blast for me. Getting there was a battle..lol Kev and I missed the checkin at the airport by 3 minutes.. but they said we probably wouldnt have made the flight anyway because the customs line was so long. Piss poor scheduling by the airport if you ask me.. but we did make it, eventually, lol

Got off the plane in Vegas, got the bags, hopped in a cab, burned rubber to the hotel, changed, hopped another cab to the Wynn.. whew Unfortunately not everything was what we expected. Instead of a meal it was appys, nice appys but still.. after the day we had busting our asses to get there at a reasonable time we expected a dinner, with chairs and place settings.. not napkins and sideplates. Oh well. we took off and went back to the Monte and played some cash $1/2 NL.. yes, I really suck at cash games.

Friday was Day 1 for Kevin in Event 48. He played awesome!! dominated early and was chipleader for a long time on his table. Very proud of how he played :o) I saw a few big names.. Tilly, Phan, etc. anywho, as Kev grinded it out I talked to some pretty neat people on the rail from all over the country, pretty friendly folks which made standing watching bearable lol Later in the day some bad flops generated a shortness of stack and at about 9pm, going all in with slick suited and catching the Ace, Kevin busted out. Lost to another short stack all in with pocket J's (J also hit the flop) Oh well, was fun GG Kevin you are still my favorite WSOP Player!!

After that, on Saturday we went to the MGM and Kevin took his aggression out on the Fish there..lol He cleaned up on the cash tables and was up over a grand, I didn't totally suck, was up about $120. Later that night we decided to do the 9pm multi at the Monte Carlo. I gotta say, I played pretty much flawless except for one hand I chased to the river and didnt catch. I ended up in second place, yay me {happy dance}

Sunday we checked out and motored around, got a couple souveniers, had a Fat Burger and a chocholate shake (I dare anyone to get anything outa that straw within the first 10 minutes) was awesome. Flight back was fast.. and now I can say I've been to Vegas, thanks to my great friend Kevin.

time for a new post...

Well, since my last post I've come to the conclusion that Dave was just like any other lying man out there.. that he didn't mean anything what he said. Pity.. I thought he was different and couldn't believe he could be that cold. I ALWAYS say what I mean, and mean what I say - why is it so damn hard for people to be the same way??

I'm sure that he will eventually read this so... You are the worst man I've ever known. To lie the way you did, say you love me, sleep with me, lie to shosh telling her you couldn't touch me, ONLY for your own gain - is SICK and TWISTED. I've been lied to before - that's nothing new - but for you to take it to the extent you did, was cruel. You said I wasn't the truth; you wouldn't know the truth if it slapped you in the face - which is what I should have done when you wanted to sleep with me on the friday before I left. But no, I loved you, so I did. So you are lower than pond scum that will get what's coming to you. karma's a bitch.

edit: forgot to add... no, I do NOT "owe you two" - shosh, ask him what that means, he'll probably lie again so nevermind.

Now on to BETTER news:

My good friend Kevin (blaze982) won the raketherake freeroll in May and is going to Vegas!!! Nice part, I'm going with him :) woohoo!! Game #48 (June 26 - 29) I'll be there to support him, and probably sweat to death lol. remember - fish belly white Canadian here.. LOL Whoda thunk - a holiday with a person who isn't a lying sack of shit..

I also have some tourneys coming up on Absolute first one is June 19th - please come play them, the more the merrier. Thursdays 9eastern for the Bounty game - $1 goes to the pot, $1 goes on everyone's head. And on Saturdays 9eastern for limit HORSE, this is a rebuy. All my tourneys have same password (thys).

TWMA

T
XO

bad trip

hey.. well.. it didn't go well. at first it was wonderful. he met me at the airport with roses - we kissed, hugged, it was perfect. waited for my luggage, holding each other - couldn't keep our hands off each other, i'm sure people thought we were married and hadn't seen each other in months. luggage didn't come so we had to go to the lost luggage counter and fill out a report, we couldn't keep out hands off each other there either. they told us we would get it sent out to his place direct, so we left. We got into his truck, and we had to get his dog from the kennel and get a few groceries. Every light, every stop sign, every aisle in the store, he'd stop to kiss me. it was wonderful. got back to his house, made a drink, kissed some more.. then made love. and then made love again later.

I woke up thursday, early, let the dogs out, stood on the back patio and thought to myself "i could so see myself living here", which is what goes against what him and I had discussed. we said that he'd come to canada to live and work. but felt so good. I woke him up, we made love again, had breakfast.. it was all wonderful. Then the shift came... thursday night... I felt it, didn't want to see it, wanted to ignore it. I'm hyper sensitive to that - probably because i've been on alot of blind dates. Thursday night, he got drunk, and passed out.

Friday, didn't do much, hardly talked.. we went for a drive out to some resort that he wanted to look at. the conversation was strained, at best. went back to his place and we played a game of headsup poker. after the game he decided then to tell me that I should go home - that i had to leave and it was for the best. He said he's still screwed up from his marriage and has to be by himself. I was stunned. I got up and went into the bedroom - he got up and took off for an hour and a half. he came home, more drunk, he had went to the bar. Also he had called united airlines for information on departing flights because he pulled out a envelope with a bunch of numbers on it. I was trying to talk to him about it but he kept trying to dial the phone. It got ugly.. he got more drunk.. then, he came over to me, and started to kiss me and then he stopped to say, "i have something just for you" he goes into the back bedroom and comes out with 2 fireworks. he set off both in the back yard - come in - and takes me to the bedroom. I was confused, but i loved him so I did.

he didn't "finish".. most cant with being drunk.. he got out of bed, put shorts on - grabbed his keys, he was going to get more booze or something. i bolted after him and shouldered the door. He decided not to leave. got back in bed. he said, "you know why I didn't leave? because I love you", then he passed out.

The next morning I was curious.. was bad of me but needed to know.. i opened his laptop - 3 programs running - i saw two yahoo windows. one to john, a friend, discussing me and him - saying, "I could ride some sweet ass this weekend but that's not me" yadda yadda.. And another window, the shosh, this girl who has always wanted him. "she's not my soulmate, she's not the one, i know that now" Felt like a dagger in my heart. not only did he go against what he said to me that he would never ever talk about me, but that he talked about me with shosh.

so i woke him up, asked him, "so does this mean you changed your mind?" he said "huh?" i said "we had sex last night, does that change anything?" he said he couldn't remember having sex, nor IM'ing shosh. so it didn't, and he ended up escaping, again, he started drinking early, took off to go fill up his truck, he says. 1 1/2 hours later he comes home saying he got pulled over and they took that long to process him with a sobriety test.. sorry.. no way.. it doesn't take that long. he was at the bar, killing time because he didn't want to spend it with me. He ended up calling me a cab, he said he didn't want to get pulled over again. so I left. we did kiss alot.. he said it wasn't me, it was him, he said he's fucked up after Vicki, his ex, and has to be by himself. took me what seemed like an eternity to get home. boise to san fransisco, then Calgary.. 600 miles as the crow flys, yet i had to travel 1500 miles to get home.

Anyway, the next day, i felt even worse.. a friend had told me that shosh was basically gloating over the fact she was now with dave and that they talked on yahoo phone for 20 hours.. and that she's going to Idaho, he told her he couldn't touch me and sent me home early and didn't even drive me to the airport. purely to make himself look better in her eyes, he left out all we did from the first meeting, the first night, to her. I confronted him, he denied all of it. Another daggar in my heart.

So now, I'm just trying to fix my broken heart. I lost not only a lover, but a best friend. he was a huge part of my life and my heart and my stomach wont ever be the same.. it's killing me now to relive it.

I'm posting this basically to help myself. I know I did nothing wrong.. I love him, and that's not going to change, but I wanted to get this off my chest.

T

2 more.. :o)

Yes.. 2 more.. not that I'm gonna sleep the night before, but, hey.. then it's only 1 more sleep..LOL

Have my two tourneys this weekend, I didn't place, in fact - I bubbled out of Sundays.. GRRRRR Oh well, back to the grind. But I wont have poker on my mind for a while... teehee

More later..

T
XO

7 more, and counting...

cant believe it's one more week.. teehee Now it's getting real.. Now it's getting really real.. but I'm so ready!! Thanks to the people who have been putting up with me about this LOL All are poker players so just think of it as an exercise in patience!!

On Sunday I had a tourney on Absolute, got 2nd, yay me. Really needed the cash, then yesterday, I sign on like usual to my room.. I got more than I thought in my bankroll. wtf? I check.. looks like RTR sent me $37 worth of my referral money WOOHOO! Thanks to all that I referred :o) Now I dont have such tight butt cheeks about my account LOL

I hope everyone reading this is having an awesome day!!

T
XO

PS Still 4 more tourneys this month, 9 eastern on AP, Saturdays and Sundays, password is thys

And play my room..lol..I know you're around.. ;o)

12 more sleeps... :o)

I played the VIP this past wednesday.. I bubbled.. yes, 19th.. sigh, beginning not to like poker so much. I wanna take a break so bad, but I have responsibilities that dont allow me to {the forum and the room} so i'm pretty much stuck. All I can do is play way less and hope that my brain doesn't explode.

But none of it matters, what's important to me is going to happen really soon, and I cant wait!! getting close.. getting more excited.. teehee, such a stinker not spilling all the beans, I know, but, the people who know, know what I'm talking about :o)

Work is going good.. getting into the groove of it all. It's a growing experience for everyone here, learning each other's boundaries. But for the most part, it was a good decision on my part to take the chance and uproot. I love my apartment - minus the geese who insist on doing fly-bys past my balcony, honking their fool heads off - sounds like someone's killing them.. wait, that's not a bad idea.. lol, kiddin', well maybe only a lil.

Anywho, more later..

T
XO

20 more sleeps...

I cant wait :o)

Barring the fact I caught a super-duper cold, when I cough now it's a new experience in pain, I feel excited for what's to come. Feels so right and I know it's going to be great.

I played the VIP last night.. no real good new to report there, lol, but at least I'm grinding the sng's to get my br up again. Was dangerously low, I hate that feeling, so I'm a little more comfortable now. AP has been producing really unfair flops, and not just for me either, for alot of people. But we still play.. {addicts that we are.. LOL}

They, at least, got my weekend tourneys up correctly now.. Saturdays and Sundays at 9eastern. If anyone wants to play, please feel free to sign up. password is thys

More later...

T
xo

When will it end??

OK, April 20th and there's a foot of snow on my balcony.. this just isn't right.. LOL and it's not stopping for the next few days either.. sigh..

On a lighter note, 31 more sleeps {wink} then I'll be extremely happy! I cant wait, but I've been waiting for this, basically, all my life, so 31 more days isn't so bad. The last week is gonna be killer. Sorry, I know I'm being vague, but, I dont wanna jinx it. There's alot of people out there, mean people, who don't like to see other people happy - their own lives are shitty and they dont think anyone else has a right to be happy {already had to encounter 2 saboteurs} Frankly I wanna shout it from the rooftops LOL and I plan on doing so after. The people who know me know about it, I'm so grateful I have their ear to talk to about it. This is MY YEAR. Last year sucked bigtime, but this year is going great!!

I am hoping to also take a trip to Vegas June 21st for two dear friends' wedding. I've never met them, but have grown close and fond of them both. If I can swing it, I will. So if anyone is reading this and you wanna grab a quick game or two when I'm there, lemme know :o)

T
xo

PS anyone reading this pre 9pm eastern sunday - ThysAsyllum multi - pw is thys

3 weeks under my belt...

Hi everyone,

On my third week now in Calgary, getting a lil easier to find my way to work.. which is kinda important.. LOL, so that's a plus. The weather here has been, to say the least, wicked. Freak snow storm that cripled the commuters one day, to 20+C (70F) the next. Chinook winds are neato.

We had our second game last night of April, busting the prizepool of last week's of $118. We got up to a pool of $139!!! woohoo!! 2 more tourneys {sundays - 9eastern on AP - password is thys in case ya wanna play} this month.. hope it's a trend.

Personally, I'm doing ok, a bit lonely and homesick but I'm sure I'll be fine, just really tough. Thank god for my online friends. They dont care what city I'm in, just as long as I'm online, LOL, cant wait for next month.. that's when I'll really start living. A few reading this will know what I mean and smile *wink wink, it's going great there and only getting stronger by the day. I think 2008 will be my luckiest year ever.

Well I know this is short, but I will have more to say later, just wanted to update and let you all know things are progressing nicely. Take care and bye for now.

T

5th in VIP {happy dance}

Woohoo!! My best placing ever!! $130!! my top win before that was a $1 rebuy that I won for $114 so this did my brain a whole heck of alotta good.

I want to thank all my friends railing.. the support I get from you guys means the world to me. Especially Sweet Potato {you know who you are} *wink wink

More after the move on Monday..

T
XO

ThysAsyllum.. you don't have to be crazy here.. but it helps!!

My first Entry.. hmm.. what to say, what to say...

Well, I am going to be starting a new chapter in my life in Calgary, Alberta soon {9 days to be exact} and I'm scared as hell. New city, new people, new place to live.. it's very exciting and at least I am going to be working for the same company that I have been with for 5 1/2 years, so that's a definate plus. Just very hard to leave Edmonton, i've been here since 1979 {y'all are trying to do the math, right?} to leave my close friends and brother is difficult, but it's for the best. It's not like I'm moving to another country.. Calgary is 3 1/2 hours away.. just I wont be about to see them as often as I would like. On the other hand, when we do see each other, it'll be that much more special :o)

I, of course, love poker.. even though it doesn't love me back at the moment.. and I will continue to grind away at it whereever I am.. lol.. have laptop will travel :o) The most important thing to me is not the game.. that's where I differ from a few people.. to me, it's the people that keeps me playing. I've made so many very special friends on here - people who I dont know how I could get through the day without - I never want to lose that, ever.

My room is going really well too.. ThysAsyllum is now 99 people strong and the people in there are top notch, but they gotta learn to fold when I bet.. LMAO.. kiddin'

Hey, can anyone tell me how to add "buddies"? I'm a blog virgin..

That's all for now.. I'll post after the move again..

Tarina aka Thy,
XO