When i started my poker blog i started with a basic introduction of my poker life, followed by some strat focus, and then drifted into scantily dressed asians, debauchery, and more scantily dressed asians. It only seems fitting then that i start this blog with a basic life story. I highly doubt that this blog with go the way of scantily dressed asians though. So without further delay *deep breath*
My life story! Most kids growing up wanted to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or some other prestigious career that only a few would go on to become. I realized at a young age that what i would like to do was absolutely nothing. I wanted to get paid to do nothing. Now at 28 going on 29 i still am not 100% i want to be this but i am currently 1/2 way thru getting a BA and will be settling down in business finance to support my newly born family.
So while i may not have always had a career i wanted, I always knew I wanted the family life. I wanted the house, the cars, the dog, the wife, the kids (in about that order). But life goes fast. The laziness i had in elementary school followed me into Jr High and High School. Before i knew it my life was literally spiraling out of control and i was only 17. I was dropped out, had no ambition except "make money", and had never been taken seriously by any girl i "talked" with. One morning at about 415am waiting for a friend at the army recruiters so that we could go play free laser tag, i opened my eyes and came to a logical conclusion with a little assistance from a substance that was "frying" my brain; I need to become all that i can be. And with that i went back to school, graduated a semester later (super senior ftw) and enlisted in the army.
Life on track, somehow i ended up in vegas at 23 years young. I did ok in the army. Had some setbacks because of a temper problem but overall i did pretty good. Still like i said, i decided it wasnt a career i could see myself doing for 20 years and got out. A big reason for getting out was that i still wanted the dream of family, house, etc, and the army really doesnt offer that. (especially as our politicians are seeing more and more fit to turn the middle class into a militia that fights on multiple fronts non-stop.....i think i will be doing some opinionated ranting on multiple topics on this blog). But moving on
I landed in vegas with a good job, a serious gf, and a nice nest egg that i had saved from the army. Well to speed through that stage of my life. The next four years went something like this, hate job, chase dream of playing poker, relationship and buying a house at the peak of the real estate bubble blow up in my face, enroll in school, continue grinding poker and plan to do this for 4 years and then
Now i havent really come out and said this but, my wife (lindy is her name) and i were unemployed, living with roommates, had known each other for less than 2 months and we talked it over and decided we should try to have a baby. No joke, we had a discussion and the two of us decided a baby was what was a good idea. So she came off the pill. Things at the residence were getting shitty, the job hunt was going even shittier, and funds were starting to run low. So i called up my dad and asked if we could stay with him while we looked for jobs in.....MADISON WISCONSIN.
Now hold on, in less than 2 months i had went from single, borderline insane, full time gambler/student in las vegas, to married, calming down, planning a child, job hunting guy/student, living in middle america??? Life, ya got me again. No way could i have seen this coming.
While packing up our stuff and having a lot of....coitus, lindy and i had some talks that went like "should we get back on the pill? Nah, i mean worst case you get pregnant now and we deal with it while we job hunt in wisconsin, but more than likely (according to our research) it will take 3-6 months minimum and that will be about perfect." Well Lindy had been off the pill 3 weeks and, uh oh, she was late. She peed on a couple sticks and uh oh
But seriously, despite it being at the least positive end timing wise, i was excited from day 1. I guess add "father" to the list of changes in that 2 month list. I mean seriously what a roller coaster right?
So we left vegas and are driving in utah at night when all of a sudden, while going 85mph, in the middle of the fucking highway was a dumbshit dear carcass. I swerved and hit the brakes, the car spun out of control, to the best of my memory i did a pretty good job turning into the spin etc. I kept the car on the highway, immediately look over to Lindy ask is shes ok, she asks the same, we both were. As a side note here up until this point in my life i had almost NEVER worn a seatbelt, for some reason i was at the moment, and i now do. I still disagree with it being a law, but i now choose to wear my seatbelt. So, Lindy was OK, i was OK, and our unborn baby (Pat is what we are calling it until gender results are in) was ok. Whew, we continued our life changing journey and just stopped driving at night. It really drove home this louis ck bit:
We got to my Dad's in Wisconsin and found our jobs within a week of being there. Within a month we moved into our own apartment. We are on state healthcare, which is awesome and further proof that we are idiots for not pushing for state run healthcare systems. And before i get negative feedback from my 0 followers, yes i would gladly pay more taxes so that nobody has to worry about the bill to be paid for one's health and well being. Lindy and i both work at the same place, the same shifts, the same days off, and somehow were still not sick of each other.
Things are really going great, and i wanted to start this blog sooner but ive procrastinated a bit, and as you can see....IVE BEEN DAMN BUSY! But with things settling down, i figure wtf lets give it a go and start a new blog. We are in week 15 now, all checkups have went very well, 1 in 20,000 chance it has downs or a couple other worrisome defects, now were trying to dodge some genetic things that could affect Pat, but nothing that would make us "terminate" so that is good.
And ill finish this entry with a pic of pregnant as can be wife:
and 13 week Pat:
Hope that wasnt tldr
OH BABY!
Ahhhhhsht
