Hi All! It has been a while since I wrote in this blog. Yes I am still gambling, sorry to say. I have had ups and downs. Right now I am in the down side, and on vacation from my everyday job. Pretty boring, one would think. I actually have been working my line of jewelry on http://www.ebay.com/itm/121104594034
which will take you to one of the necklaces I have listed. Once there look under my name and there is a link to "seller's other items" follow that and it will show all the pieces I have for sale. Feel free to purchase any. Then on my Etsy site https://www.etsy.com/shop/Suestreasures2012 I have eighty items listed for sale. Etsy allows payment by visa and master card which makes it easier to purchase. Ebay needs paypal.
I also have another blog which http://suesladybugjewelry.blogspot.com there are pictures and the links under take you to the sites.
Right now I need the sales so feel free to purchase any of the items. This down side to the gambling has really hurt this time. Of course I have stories. I was desperate and right now have nothing to loose. I worked at my real job on Tuesday and do not usually work on Tuesdays. It is the day I hate working out of the entire week, I know weird but for my entire working life I have always been off on Tuesdays. So it always feels weird even now.
To go on with the story: I went to the casino and with nothing to loose I figured I could not get any worse than I was right then. I was there for a few hours and kept loosing and loosing. Of course I wrote checks to the casino so not only was I overdrawn at the bank from the last trip now I had added more which would cost me thirty-five dollars each when they hit the bank. Thank God for overdraft protection! I cashed one more and said to the cashier when I got the money, 'this is it, I am leaving after this' and I had planned on it. It was getting late and I had to go to work early the next morning.
I have certian machines which I really like and they are either hitting or they are not, usually not. Think I would know the 'usually not' is the statement there. But, no I think I can tempt fate, always with a gambling mind, think I am going to be different and it will hit for me. Yeah Right!!
There is this bank of machines they had just switched and two of my favorite machines are there. I figured what the heck! and sit at one, not wanting to leave because reality will set in and I will have to face how much I lost in the two visits. Sitting there hitting the button playing the minimum amount allowed thinking about how I was going to come up with the money to cover all the checks I wrote and the overdraft charges. I was getting tired and really upset, scared, and all the feelings going along with desperate. I decided to up the bet to two credits a spin. Still not feeling very lucky I just kept hitting the button and wishing, lost in my own thoughts. I think when I get into that zone the building around me could fall down and I would not know, almost like a trance of the machines. Sitting there looking at the machine with my legs up pressing up against the machine. For some reason I like my legs up and rest my arm on my knee while I hit the spin button. Then it happen, the three igloos, which signify a bonus, come up. I got ten free spins. I sat there watching and nothing to speak of on spins one to eight, then on spin nine I was watching and an owl came on the first reel, the four wilds, another owl, then the four wilds, and as I watched in disbelief the last reel, almost like in slow motion, the last owl dropped into place. Yeah!! I had one over six hundred dollars in that one spin. All my money from both days plus alot more. In one spin I won over six hundred! And I wonder why I gamble.......I wonder why anyone gambles. The losses are so high but the chance of the gains are just as high. Of course I cashed the ticket in. Always the safety conscious person I cashed the ticket and went into the belly of the casino again. I always walk around and play some other machines before I walk out with any large win. I am usually alone and do not like to go into the dark parking lot right after I cash a big ticket. Never know how desperate someone is and what they are driven to do. So I play it safe and walk around for awhile. I play a little and wait before I head to the door.
I am not sure if it is the thrill of the spin or the stress of the games. Is it the win or just the symbols lining up on the pay line? Yes the money won is exciting and thrilling specially after loosing and loosing for so long. But to the true gambler is it the money or the lining up of the symbols?
I will leave everyone with that thought.
Is it really the money? Or is it really the winning symbols coming up on the machine? I really do not know. Maybe it is the thought of beating the machine?
Please visit my other sites and help this poor gambler by purchasing some of my jewelry. Feel free to purchase alot and keep me busy so I stay out of the casino.
