Junk Food Hangover

Superbowl Sunday started out well. I got up early, coaxed the dog out of bed (literally, it took treats) and we went for a 5 mile run. It was a crisp frosty morning, but boy did it feel great. My eyes started to water as soon as I got outside from the shock, and I could feel my tears getting very cold....my eyelashes were a bit frosty when we got home. Gage had frost all over his chest and his whiskers were frozen, he is such a trooper. So I started the morning like this because I was too lazy Saturday to do my "usual" (I will explain soon) long run, and I was planning on eating 3 days worth of calories while watching the football game. I was just trying to get ahead.

It was actually a really great game (says the girl who doesn't really care for football). Great food, great company, and great gambling. What? Did I say gambling? Actually, that's a funny story. My office does the "100 square pool board" at $10 a square. I wasn't going to play but, I had a $20 bill left in my wallet from Christmas money, so I decided to take a chance. I bought 2 squares. Now gambling for me usually has nothing to do with money, usually it involves me taking a gamble on which will be the quickest way home from work, or taking a gamble on eating one more slice of pizza only betting I won't feel sick. I won't play poker, or Texas hold 'em unless it's for fake money or food. And the $.10 slot machines in Vegas have been the only machines/tables to take my money. You catch my drift? So it was a gamble for me!

The winnings are as follows:
$200 for the 1st quarter
$200 for the 2nd quarter
$200 for the 3rd quarter
$400 for the final score

Well the first three quarters went by and I wasn't even close, so I put the sheet down and went to eat more food. I was rooting for the Cardinals, just because they were the underdog, and I was really excited when they made their last touchdown. But of course the Steelers came back. Well, at about 20seconds left in the game I decided to look at my sheet one more time. Well, you guessed it I had the numbers, they were on my square, I was about to win $400!!! I suddenly went from enthusiastically rooting for the Cardinals, to yelling at the screen "NO BODY SCORE!!" I took the low road and decided I wanted to win myself over the underdog. Pretty soon all of our friends stopped routing for the football game and started rooting for us. I think "PARKERTS, PARKERTS, PARKERTS," was actually chanted. Then the clock when to zero and I won $400! Everyone keeps asking me what I am going to do with the money, and because I did not think in my wildest dreams I would win, all I can think to do is throw it up in the air and maybe roll in it.

So despite the junk food hangover I woke up with, I also am $400 dollars richer. And as you can tell, very humble and unselfish about it, na na na na na. Maybe, I will go to the casino and see what gambling can really do for me.....