i love being single. i really love the ‘let’s go anywhere right now’ attitude that comes with it!

had quite the whirlwind of trips this holiday weekend.

my bff (had falling out with old bff, this is new bff-he’s been promoted from bgf-best guy friend- to bff…long story-coming in another post) had a cousing get married in vegas last weekend and wanted to cruise out from la la land to say congrats and hello to family he hasn’t seen in 16 years. something i’ve noticed about bff is that he doesn’t really like to do stuff alone. naturally i offered my services as bff to accompany him on his vegas trip. even if it’s just to sit in the car and keep him company. we weren’t really thinking of staying more than a night, if even if it’s a no sleep night kinda night. my only parameters were that we drink heavily, or as much as allowed and still drive, and to make it back to LAX by 10am. I had a flight to visit my fam for thanksgiving leaving 11am sunday morning.

so, to recap: leave LA friday night, drink heavily, get back to LAX by 10 am. easy breezy.

just after 10 pm friday night

we have a 4 hour ride. no worries. his brother, nephew, dad, cousin and other various members are already out partying. ‘alright, but make sure you guys are still up when we get there’. but as the night and  drive wore on, the fam was more and moreinebrieted, we weren’t sure if they were gonna make it for our arrival. our sleeping accomadations were with brother and nephew, so at least they were gonna make it right? wrong.

2am

no ones picking up their phones. all we knew was they’re staying at the luxor. no room number no nothing. thank goodness for smart phones! i got online with his wonder of a phone (i have severe phone envy. his rocks. it’s not an iphone. it’s better) and hooked up a hotel room. that was an interesting convo, i spent most of it trying to tell the other end that we were showing up in 20 minutes, not later that night. we finally score a room at the luxuirous stratosphere.

3 am

we have our first cocktails in hand. he gambled and i watched, cheering him on in my own way. i don’t like to gamble, so i’m just there for the free drinks and for moral support.

5am

5 cocktails later, we are just as ineberiated as brother and nephew must have been.

6am

we stumble to our room

7am

passed out

10am saturday morning

i am up, still drunk and take a shower. somehow manage to get my shit together enough to make myself look somwhat decent. oh, yea, and there was a wedding to attend at 2:30. plenty of time to get ready. i need tea. he needs coffee.

11:30am

he needs a haircut and out comes the smartphone. we find the nearest not so near fantastic sams and pop in. we both look in the mirror and realize we should not be out amongst normal, non casino people. we look like shit. i feel great tho, still drunk. the hangover hadn’t quite made it through the system yet, altho it was creeping.

12:30pm

meet up with brother and nephew. (um, hi there nephew, you’re hot! this will be fun!). hit the bar for the first couple rounds of g&ts. brother has a joint, and we go to the car to smoke it, and discuss the ‘getting ready’ plans for the wedding. now, if you’ve ever been to vegas, you know that just walking to your car from your room is in itself a fuckin 1 hour 22 min walk. i was not gonna make that walk more than necessary so i decide i’m just gonna change in the car. as we’re walking out to the car, brother starts to dry heave. it’s the funniest thing i’ve heard in a week. i wasn’t sure if he was gonna make it, i envisioned puke splashing everywhere on the skybridge. luckily, he ran towards the trash can, dry heaving all the way and makes it in the trash. i’m dying. i haven’t seen a 40 year old in that condition in a while. we get to the car, smoke the joint and i strip down to bra and panties in the parking lot. i didn’t care who saw or what they thought. i just needed to look cute for the wedding. i change, bff and bro are impressed with my skills-and i even got a couple of compliments. nice.

1:15pm

make the long ass walk to brother’s room, which happens to be on the other freaking side of the world. stoned and back on track to gettin drunk, i wait in the room as the boys change. not bad watching a bunch of hotties gettin all cleaned up. i had to keep my composure tho, they are like deer, you can’t spook ‘em. otherwise they get embarrassed and the show’s over. i was caught by bff, but he just laughed. hey, they oogle the hot girls and waitresses in skimpy outfits, let me oogle some good looking men.

2:00pm

meet up with extended fam and get in the cabs to go to the very very end of the strip to where all the chapels are. i’m having severe traumatic flashbacks. i got married in vegas. at the little white wedding chapel (the same one britney spears did, but i did 2 years earlier. funny how they both ended up-in divorce). still having flashbacks and now a severe craving for a g&t (gin and tonic), we end up at the graceland chapel. cute. real cute. and of course elvis is there.

2:30pm

elvis hits on me. but he later apologizes cuz he thought i was the bride. so wait, it’s ok if you’re hitting on the bride? whatever. itsvegas. nothing makes sense in vegas. the ceremony itself was short and sweet, and very funny! i was in the very back, and all i could see of elvis was the hip pumping and gyrating and that was enough for me! we hung out, took some pics and it was done.

3:30pm

at the bar for some more g&t’s. dinner for the reception isn’t until 5 so we hang and drink and we all talk. of course, here and there some of them are playing the slots. i just go along for the ride. i’m doing my best to hang with nephew. seems like a really good guy. wonder what he’s like in bed. hmmmmmm. now, that’s just the gin talking. but still-i wonder if he’s any good.

4:30pm

meet up with extended fam, and the tequila shots begin. ouch. tequila. we stumble to the taxi line and fall into a taxi to get over to planet hollywood for dinner.

5:00pm

dinner at some brazilian steakhouse. dad was keeping me nicely buzzed. everytime i looked down there was a g&t there. saweet! i’m wearing a super cute dress by the way. the girls were nicely shown off, not slutty, but nice. and every man in there noticed. hence, the g&t’s on the table! gotta work whatcha have, my girls aren’t the biggest, but it’s all in how you work it. a female cousin and i had sat next to one another during the ceremony and we had a good time. she  seemed nice. a little conservative, but nice. clearly she noticed my girls too. in a brazilian steakhouse, they come around with skewers of meat and slice them off for you as you like. i didn’t realize it until girl cousin spoke up, but all the waiters were coming around to me first-and i was not in the most convienent location either. but there was a line of them. ‘roasted chicken miss?’, ‘would you like some pork loin miss?’, ‘filet mignon miss?’. i had a pile of meat (ha ha ha literally and figuritilvely) in front of me, while the rest of the table waited. girl cousin said she needed to hang out with more so she could get learn how to work it. that makes me laugh even now. dinner was great, and i realized that this was the first time since getting into vegas that i ate food. g&t’s don’t count?

8:00pm

it’s all kinda blur from here. i know at one point i couldn’t walk in my heels any more,m and i needed to change, i stripped again in the parking lot-this time hottie pottie nephew watched too-and again amazed with my skills, the boys and i were hitting it up. more drinks, they gambled and i watched, more drinks.

11:00pm

bff and i discuss if we should sleep or if we should just pull an all nighter. i vote all nighter. but then we have to vote who drives home. some how i get roped into driving home (which is yay kinda, cuz i’ve been wanting to drive his truck since i’ve met him, but he’s never let me…). i make it a point to tell everyone that come midnight, no more drinking for me. i have to drive in 5 hours.

1:00am

why is there a g&t in my hand? i thought i was driving home? ok, well, i’ll just finish up this one and that’s it.

2:00am

shit. there’s another g&t in my hand. i didn’t even order this one. wtf?

3:00am

we stumble up to brother and nephew’s room for a catnap. watch as paid prostitute works her way up the elevators and goes to work. the boys’ heads are following her ass. one day, with enough working out, my ass will do that to a group of guys as well. ok, gotta get up by 4:30.

3:30am

who the hell ordered the roll away bed? and what the fuck for? why are they calling the room to let us know? fuuuuck.

4:30am

some alarm is going off. time to get up and hit the road. what day is it?

5:00am

bff and i are in the truck, hitting the road. it feels like a new day. even tho we just went to bed 2 hours ago. he drives the whole way, and i stayed up to keep him company. it’s the least i could do.

9:30am sunday morning

checking into my southwest flight at LAX. i look like hell. i’m starving. still drunk? not yet hungover? i smell like vegas. and gin. lots of gin.

11:00am

sitting on my flight with a nasty little snot nosed kid named jacob behind me. kicking my seat. if i had more strength, i would have thrown him out the emergency door.

2:30pm

my brother picks me up. ‘you stink like cigarettes’. i run into the bathroom of the airport, strip-get a nasty ‘oh my goodness’ from crazy lady, and change.

3:30pm

saying hello to my family for the thanksgiving holiday. playing with my niece.

8:00pm

passed out and didn’t get up until 8 am the next day.

i love being a single woman. doing what i want, when i want and with who i want.

viva las vegas!

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Like I said, the dinner last night was great. I have only lost some $50, which isn’t too bad at all.

Today we have done some gambling, mall browsing, more gambling, and soon we’ll be going to CPK for lunch at the hotel next to ours, The Mirage.

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We started our Friday at 3:15am. I got up and dressed and by 4am we were out the door.

The line for Wal*Mart was several blocks long, with what had to be over a thousand people in line.

There were no incidents that I was aware of. It was much more crowded than last year. I got most of the things that people asked me for, plus a couple of things for myself. More on that when I go home.

We left for Vegas after 10am and didn’t get here until past 5pm. It took FOREVER to get here.

The hotel is amazing! Well, at least so far.

Tonight we had dinner at The SteakHouse. The food was amazing as well!

(when I’m not leaning over a table to post instead of sitting in a chair, I’ll give details)

We finally made it to Vegas! It took a while, but we’re here.

The hotel is really nice! We’re staying at Treasure Island. We (and by “we” I mean my parents) paid an extra $20 a night to have a strip view.

Now, off to the casino, later updating!

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Thursday November 26, 2009 By Kevin Morrow

So I hit the freeway early Wednesday Morning headed to Las Vegas. A mini road trip for the thanksgiving holiday. The night before I left I came into the possession of two packages of those tuna and cracker kits. I ate one that same night. I usually eat two of them. Something told me to keep the one for the road trip.

To me it really isn’t a road trip, driving to texas is more of road trip to me, but anyway I was on the road and it was a “trip.” I was in the car with family and we had only a few cd’s. Micheal Jackson’s bad album,Toni Braxton, some type of workout mix, and some others. I really only remember the bad album because that’s what was in the cd player the most.

To me I arrived in Vegas in record time, there was no traffic since we left so early, and we floated all the way there. I exited the freeway on tropicana and ended up waiting forever at the light. I see this homeless gentleman who looks really down and out. People just keep passing him as if he isn’t there. He has a sign in his hand but I couldn’t read what it said.

Without even thinking I look down and see the tuna and cracker package in between myself and the passenger seat. I roll down the window and ask him if he wants something to eat. He looks confused like he doesn’t understand but he walks over to the car and I hand him the package. It’s all I could give him at the moment, but I felt like it was more than he had in a while.

It’s hard for me to imagine that with all the food in Las Vegas at the buffets and such, that this man for whatever reason was not able to eat. It bugged me to think of this, but then I remembered that I did what I could with what I had. I always hear people say “to see a change in the world be the change.” So maybe today I started off in the right direction.

It appears to me that I will be used more in the future as an avenue to help those who need it. I accept that openly.

After that I headed to UNLV where I pretty much fell in love with the Thomas and Mack Center. I can see myself playing in that gym in the near future. For whatever the reason may be. School or whatever, I know the NBA plays there in the summer time. So it’s up to me to believe in myself no matter what the circumstances may appear to be.

I never personally went on a recruiting trip to a college, so as I was at UNLV I decided to take my own tour. They have some really nice facilities. In fact I would most likely spend most of my time in their fitness area. The gyms on the upper level were calling my name.

It was a good day, I met some cool people and returned back home in time to play practice a little basketball at the gym. I just wanted to share that story, not much else to say.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!!!

This is another Photoshop: Before and After post, as I’m sure many of my posts on this blog will be.  Not only do my photos generally need a lot of “help,” but I’m the type of person who just can’t pass up an opportunity to fiddle with and tweak things if I think it’ll make a more interesting picture.  This often backfires I think, but oh well – it’s fun.  I can’t decide if I over-tweaked this photo or not, but as you can see from the original shot below, I did tweak a lot!  By the way, that streak in the unedited version kind of looks like a shooting star, but it’s just an airplane. 

With generally all of the photos on this blog, including these, you can click on them to see a “full-size” version.

PS: There are a couple things I know already that I’d change next time in making this picture.  First, I’d start out with a slightly darker picture by lowering the ISO (I’m not sure about that one, but I think that’d make a positive difference), and I would definitely close the aperture a little while making the shutter speed longer.  After this set of pictures, I’m starting to think that lights at night (such as the “city” lights on the original picture) appear less blurry when the aperture is smaller, even if the shutter speed is slower.  This might also help with how much noise there is in this pic… I’d have tried to blur it a bit, but it was too hard to work around the stars which were already a bit blurry to begin with.  Uggh, I have so much to learn still!

It would be interesting to completely re-create this photograph about a year from now, and see how much better I can make it.

We didn’t come to Vegas to gamble.

We didn’t come to watch a volcano explode or listen to singing gondoliers.

Sure, we did all those things and more, but…

We came to Vegas to get (re)married by Elvis.

Everything else was mere icing on the cake—neon, blinking icing on a gold lame’ cake.

This was my first visit to Vegas, and I wasn’t disappointed.

True, Sinatra’s Vegas now belongs to the ages, and gambling is about as exciting as watching golf on TV, but that didn’t matter.

When you enter a world to which you have but only one true expectation, and it’s met in spades, the rest is a bonus.

When time stands still, you can stop and smell the roses, and for as much as Vegas has to offer, I never once felt rushed.

It’s because she lives up to her reputation as the city that never sleeps—no point in hurrying when it’ll all be there waiting for you, regardless of when you arrive.

I didn’t hit any jackpots. I never went up big at any tables. I experienced neither the thrill of victory nor the agony of defeat.

But…

As I danced with my wife while a young, gold lame’ Elvis serenaded us, vows freshly renewed and sealed with a kiss, I realized something:

You don’t have to beat the house to walk away a winner in Vegas.

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