Maybe I really can play poker...

Today I played in my first online poker tournament. I figured it was a good way to pass the time while I was working on my laundry--yeah, I know, a wild and crazy Saturday afternoon. :) Anyways, 4920 people started the game on 492 tables. When I was finally taken out, I was on table #5 and finished in 45th place. 45th out of 4920! Considering this was my first poker tournament ever, I was pretty impressed with myself. So, I thought I would share it with you guys! :)

On a side note, I was looking at my last post, and figured I need to clear something up. That post has nothing to do with me or anything that has been going on in my personal life recently. It is about a close friend of mine who is in a really tough place at the moment. So, if you read it and thought it was about things that happened a few months ago, nope. Just thought you should know. :)

WHY, WHY, WHY?????

Why do people keep going back to people who are horrible for them and to them????? I will never understand this! It is so damn frustrating watching friends continually hurt themselves in this manner. I won't put details on here because I promised my friend that I wouldn't, but I didn't promise to not vent in vague terms about what it going on! This person feels that they owe the other person something...but what, I will never understand. The funny thing is, my friend has never really been happy in this relationship, at least not that I know of. I am sure there has to have been some happy times, but those are not the times that the public sees, not the times that are shared and talked about with friends. Maybe that is why I can't understand why they want to go back to them, maybe I need to hear about some of the good times, just so I know that they really do exist. URGH!!! It is making my head hurt just thinking about it!!!

Anyways, enough ranting, it isn't going to make things any clearer for me. I pray that eventually my friend will see how unhealthy this relationship is for them and get out of it before they suffer any longer. And if my friend reads this and realizes that this is about them, please don't get upset with me--nobody knows who this is about but you and me. Hell, most of the people who read this don't even know you, so I could have mentioned you by name and they still wouldn't have known who I was talking about. I am just worried about you and needed to get this off my chest. Take care of yourself, and quit worrying so much about the other person, okay?