The first task,,

OK, so it's been a really long time since I blogged, let's see if I can put up some sort of an update. So I guess a lot has happened since i've last blogged, don't know where to begin. Guess I'll start with my Vegas trip, but will shorten it a bit.

Vegas- So I went to Vegas for the first time at the end of March. I went with most of the AV ladies (Emily, Allison, and Kupski) and Ali's friend Mary. It was different than I thought my first Vegas trip would be, as I was with 4 girls, but it was still an awesome time. We rented a car and drove up to Vegas, leaving at like 4 o'clock on Friday and getting there sometime close to midnight. Got to the room, got changed and headed down to start drinking. Ali and Mary got a 100oz Margarita, which I ended up finishing, along with quite a few other drinks. Not much gambling happened until after the girls went to bed around 2:30 in the morning (i taught Emily and Kupski how to play craps, but that was it.) After they left, I headed down for some more craps and my first go at the poker table. All in all I got the shit kicked out of me and it hampered my gambling for the rest of the trip. I stayed up playing (and drinking.. not smart) until about 11am and then caught some sleep. My plan was to wake up a few hours later and head to the sports book for some hair of the dog and to place a bet on West Virginia against Kentucky, and St. Pierre against whoever he was fighting.. I was late for the WV bet (they won) and forgot about the UFC bet. I headed back to the poker table and promptly got beaten over and over again. Having lost twice as much as I planned to spend on the entire trip withing 16 hours, I swore off gambling for the rest of the trip and decided to simply drink, which is what I did for the remainder of the trip. This is already too long, and I haven't even touched on just hanging out with the girls having a good time in Vegas, the awesome ride home (which took WAAAAY too long, but thankfully involved a stop at Peggy Sue's diner somewhere in the ~middle of nowhere..) But yea, Vegas was a blast and it renewed my love of poker, and specifically, live poker.. Bringing me to the name of this blog..

So I have sort of a motif going with my blog names (see if you can eventually figure it out, this is the third in the series.. haha) and this one is talking about how I want to get something rolling again with poker. Obviously not going to take it as seriously as I have in the past, but in my last couple blogs i've said I was kind of giving up, and this one is refuting that. The first task, is to somehow get to Vegas for this summer. Whether it's somehow saving up enough for a $1000 or $1500 event, or winning a seat in the ME (neither are too likely, but i'm gonna really try!) it is what I am aiming for here. Just to get into the swing of things, it's been so long since I played on the World Poker Tour and played in a few WSOP Circuit Events, and I really miss that feeling that I had at that point.. It was the best I've ever felt while doing something that I considered work.

As for everything else going on.. it's the same as it has been. It's weird that so much has happened yet so little has changed. Still working at Uno's in Fashion Valley, and not digging it (although money is starting to get slightly better, which is good as I already said I spent over twice as much in Vegas as I should have..) Still learning Spanish and doing pretty well. I was christened an honorary Mexican at work last week because of how my spanish has improved.. i will henceforth be known there by a few of them as "Miguelito" (even though I told them that I'm way too big to be called anything with -ito on the end of it..) To that point, I've been hitting the gym a lot (not as much recently, but still a decent amount) and between my workouts, and playing basketball a lot, i'm continuing to drop weight. I still can't get over the hump to where I'd consider myself in good shape, that is to say not "overweight" but i'm on my way.. and if I can keep myself going, i'm hopeful i'll get to where I want to be. The last update is the obvious one..

I'm still obsessed with going to the orphanage with Dan whenever I can. It's literally what I look forward to more than anything else. I stayed over for Easter and then wasn't able to again until the following Thursday, and when I returned a bunch of them came up and hugged me and yelled at me for taking so long to come back. Now usually i'll get a hug and a lot of attention from one or two when i get there.. but I think 7 or 8 of them came up to me.. all because i wasn't there for a week and a half. It's really great how close i've become with all of them (yes, all of them, not just Nayeli.. haha) and how they've become such a huge part of my life. Well I'll leave it there for now.. I could talk about the orphanage for hours (in fact, I do.. all the time..! haha) and I don't want to bore those of you who made it this far further with my rambling (continued rambling that is..) Oh well.. I'll say that i'll update again soon, but I can't promise that.. Peace!
-Roddy