How To Lounge and Gamble Away a Saturday

As I sit down to watch Nanny McPhee Returns, I think that I should probably complete the financial statements for my,upcoming audit. However, I'd much rather write about my day yesterday, when I also should have been doing some work. Instead, I spent my day doing anything but something productive. That's not entirely true.

I woke up pretty early for a Saturday, say 7:30, to take the dogs out. Since Alex has to get up so early during the week, it's only right that I be the first one up to let them out on the weekends. But once I'm up, I'm up and can't go back to bed. So, I coddled Diego for a little while as he was in pain from his surgery on Friday, then I ran on the treadmill to an episode of Angel. Yeah, I'm like ten years behind, but I love it!

Once I was showered and Al was up and going, we made our way to run our few errands for the day. Stopped by the vet for meds, perused the Indy Winter Farmers Market, and made a spur of the moment decision to head to Sam's Club for lunch and chicken treats for the dogs...geez, are they spoiled! On a side note, I had the location of the IWFM wrong, which put Alex in a mood. Or maybe he was already in a mood because I wouldn't let him buy the iPhone then. Who knows? When we finally made it to IWFM, I picked up my yummy marshmallows from 240sweet.com and we basically ran through the rest of the stops because Al wasn't interested in anything there. Anyone ever want to go, just let me know because Al is no fun at those kinds of things!

me with my marshmallows--one of them

(I came home with 7 bags)

Upon returning home, I did absolutely nothing. Watched tv and played stupid computer games. But it was oh, so nice! After lounging for approx four hours, we decided it was time to get ready for dinner. We had dinner plans at Maker's Mark at Indiana Live! Casino with my parents and Em & Tony to celebrate Em and Al's birthdays. Dinner was pretty good! I consumed the lobster tail (and was ridiculed by Al for eating the meat from the fins--see How To Eat a Lobster Blog), while everyone else had steak. It was slightly on the pricey side and in the middle of a casino, but it was still tasty.

Afterward, we walked around the casino and probably gambled about $150 between the six us of (Al only lost $10 and I only played with my dad's winnings). I have a hard time understanding how people can sit, press a button, lose money, and call it fun. Not what I call fun. And it's crazy the kind of people there. Lots of old people, white trash and (with fear of sounding racist), blacks. I figured there'd be lots of hillbilly types there, but not the rest. I also couldn't believe the older people that were walking around with masks on. Seriously?! You enjoy this so much that you'd risk your health to sit in a stinky, smokey casino? What is wrong with people? I guess that's why they call it an addiction. Doesn't seem worth it to me. When it was time to go, we snapped some pictures and piled in a five seater car to take me and Al back to our car. It was a tight squeeze, but we made it work.

 al & am at casino

tight squeeze

On the drive home, we decided to hit up redbox and partake in some movie watching. Don't know what I was thinking because I was knocked out tired. I didn't even make it through half of The Town. All in all, it was a nice, relaxing day that was topped off with some good food and company!

Lounge away another day!
--Am