Will You Be Nice To Me?

I am a table games dealer in a casino in Nevada so here is something that I deal with on a daily basis.

WOW…”will you be nice to me”?  I hear that question a LOT.  It always flusters me.  What is really being said?

Do you really mean will I be polite to you?  Of course…why wouldn’t I be?

Do you really mean “will I let you win every hand?  Of course not!!  Anyway you you already know you won’t.  And even if you did, that would be boring and would totally defeat the purpose of gambling.

Quite frankly, if you win OR lose overall, has a lot more to do with you and the other players at the table than it does with me.

This   is what I do…make sure you make your bet correctly and place the proper cards in front of your bet. I also read the hands and correctly determine the winner and of course, pay that winner the right amount.

So if you come to a casino and play at a table game, do yourself a favor.  Know how to play he game and give yourself the best chance of winning by following the guidelines.  It will make your gaming experience better and just maybe profitable……but always remember being lucky really helps and so does a positive mental attitude.

Makes Sense To Me

I have been reading “WOMEN FOOD AND GOD” by Geneen Roth.   I first heard about this book when the author was interviewed by Oprah. The following paragraph from that book is something each and every one of us that struggles with weight or any other obsession needs to read.  Here it is:

“The bottom line, whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150 pounds, is that when you eat when you are not hungry, you are using food as a drug, grappling with boredom or illness or loss or grief or emptiness or loneliness or rejection.  Food is only  the middleman, the means to the end.  Of altering your emotions.  Of making yourself numb.  Of creating a secondary problem when the original problem becomes too uncomfortable.  Of dying slowly rather than coming to terms with your messy, magnificent and very, very short—even at a hundred years old—life.  The means to these ends happens to be food, but it could be alcohol, it could be work, it could be sex, it could be cocaine.  Surfing the Internet.  Talking on the phone.”

That is so profound I have spent all day thinking about it….I do a lot of eating when I am not hungry especially at night.  Wow what a concept ONLY EAT WHEN YOU ARE HUNGRY or at the very least, to be honest enough with myself to pinpoint the real reason I am  stuffing cookies I don’t even like in my mouth as fast as I can without choking.  This is something I will be working on A LOT.

Summer Without Internet: Part 2

The other day I mentioned some of the things I have been doing to occupy myself this summer without internet, today I want to think about what I miss.

I miss reading other blogs.  I always learn something and sometimes they give me ideas for content on my blog.  For example, I wrote why I exercise because one of the  bloggers did a poll asking that question.  I don’t know why, but for some reason the answers  they give you to choose from don’t apply to me.  So a post with my reasons for exercising makes sense to me.

I find I like concise blogs that give me food for thought.  Sarah Jio is one of my favorites,  she writes a lot for Glamour magazine.  I read a lot of blogs on “Shine” too.  I enjoys Jen Emmert at www.priorfatgirl.com, although her posts are pretty long.   I actually quit reading a few because they were just too long, too much.  Although I do find that I miss the bloggers themselves and do check in on them, just not as often.

I also feel that I have let myself down with this blog.  I could use livewriter as I am today to write one, but I have not been updating my blog as often as I would like to.  Just seems more difficult to me withort that instant gratification of having it published.  I need to work on that.

I miss the news or I should say the news that interests me.  I am pretty selective about what I want information on.

Otherwise, I am sort of glad I have time to do other things and enjoy the physical space I have available to explore this summer.  I am so lucky!!