I picked up Sienna on Friday evening and took her to kindy for the Christmas party. We ate some food that people brought and she got me to play in the sand pit with her. After a while we all went inside and Santa came and gave all the kids a present. Sienna got a nice book from Santa and was way happy.
Saturday morning we got up and went to swimming lessons. Sienna had a ball and we got the usual sausage sandwich for her after-swim breakfast. We went to the local shopping centre to see Dora the Explorer in the flesh (well .. felt or something). They had Dora, Santa & Mrs Clause and….. er….. Ronald McDonald (!?!) Don’t ask me how he fits into this line-up! They had photos with the icons but the lineup was out the door before we even arrived so we didn’t bother staying long. Instead we went downstairs and Sienna had a ride on the Merry go Round with another girl whose dad didn’t bring a $2 coin. I didn’t either but bought a ham and mayo scroll at the bakery just to get some change. We bought a few groceries and headed back home again.
Sienna had a nap for a few hours while I played online Poker. I was doing really well. I went All-In a couple of times and jumped my play money up from $2,000 at one stage to over $27,000! Before the game finished Sienna had woken up and was wandering around the house looking for something to do, so I bet on a few hands I didn’t think would win and lost my money. I got out at 299th place out of over 4,400 players. Sweet. One hand I got was AA and The Flop was AQQ. I sure collected a lot of dosh that time!
It was 5.50pm and we quickly jumped into the car and drove to the local shopping centre again and watched OPEN SEASON at the cinema. Sienna loved the popcorn and Sunkist orange fizzy drink (plus the bag of Choccettes I had to take off her before she scoffed the lot!!).
We came back home and watched some episodes of The Mickey Mouse Club and went to bed.
Sunday we took easier and just played games and watched some more Mickey Mouse until it was time to head off. I dropped her home about half an hour earlier than usual and came home to clean up the house. Sienna isn’t too keen on the vacuum cleaner so I didn’t want to upset her. I cleaned up the house and headed out to a night of Texas Hold’em Poker. I had a fantastic night as well. I made it to the Final Table and ended up coming 6th. (Would have been 5th but they had the Wild Card — a random player already gone out whom gets called back for another go with a few thousand dollars). This should have helped my position in the Top 15 go back up again. Since I made the Top 15 players for Sunday nights I am playing in the Grand Final Texas Hold’em Poker game to win a trip to Crown Casino. Depending on how other people went I could be at #3 on the Top 15. I hope they update the Leaderboard webpage soon so I can be certain. One girl playing at my table was #3 previously. She was on my table the last two Sundays which is funny because she hasn’t been on one of my tables for the whole season until then. I’m friends with her and her husband so we have a chat most weekends. Strangely enough neither of them has done very well in the last 3-4 weeks playing poker either. But we had a fantastic night Sunday. A guy sitting to my right was 2 points behind her in the Top 15 Leaderboard and was hoping she would go out of the game before him so he could get more points and move up to #3. He was so adamant and kept on going on about it so much we were all barracking for her. In the end they both went All-In at the same time and lost to someone else. So they went out at the same time and got the exact same number of extra points. So, he is STILL 2 points behind her in the Leaderboard!! Classic!!
Last night I just stayed home and caught up on some TV. I watched a couple of episodes of Mythbusters (first on SBS then the Discovery Channel) and a show hosted by William Shatner called “How techies saved the world”. It was about how many inventors came up with ideas for their inventions from watching Star Trek. eg. The Motorola employee whom invented the first mobile phone, a NASA employee whom created satellites, etc and named them “Enterprise” and “Voyager” and a surgeon working on devices to irradiate cancer growths (tumors) without surgery with precise lasers aiming directly into the tumor. Fascinating show.
Tonight I went to the movies again to see Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and I have to say it’s the funniest show I’ve seen in a LONG time! I’m definitely buying this one on DVD when it comes out. Friggin’ HIGH-LARIOUS! Go watch it now.. stop reading this blog! It’s almost finished anyway.. just run out and watch BORAT! You know you want to!
