Apparently Thanksgiving is almost here

Until a couple of days ago I was pretty much aloof to the fact that Thanksgiving is 3 days away?!?! I guess with everything that has went on in the past 2 months, regarding moving across the country and all the life changes Thanksgiving just slipped my mind. It's also very hard to realize what holidays are approaching due to the weather always being nice. It's always 60-70 out therefore its basically spring/fall to me. A close friend has invited me to his place with his wife and her parents for Thanksgiving dinner. It will be nice to be with a "family" on Thanksgiving and sort of take a break from the whirlwind that has been the past 2 months.

I have been grinding out alot of hands the past week or so and really trying to get back into the groove. It's almost as if I have lost the grinding mentality with all that has gone on. Now with things settling down my mind is clearer and I can start to focus back on poker. I played a nice 9 hour 12k hand sesh last Friday night as I started around midnight and got stuck a decent amount and decided to grind through till I was positive. I eventually went to bed around 12:30 pm on Saturday for a few hours and since then my sleep schedule has been messed up. I liked grinding through all night though as I havent done that much in the past few months and sort of proved to myself that I can and should more often. I think it's good to push yourself from time to time to challenge yourself.

I have been fairly happy with my play the last few days as I have been playing more 6 max and crushing it. It's interesting how 6 max forces me to be more aggressive, which in turn makes me play better. I think it's just the mentality that full ring is much nittier (tighter) and therefore a more passive game in general. I'm thinking of starting to really mix my play up to maybe 60/40 or 75/25 towards 6 max over the next month or so and see how I like it, closing out my first year playing for a living.

It is crazy to think I have been playing for almost a whole year after taking the leap. It's equally mind blowing to think how far I've come as a person, as well as poker playing within this year. I never would have imagined a year ago that I would be living in San Diego with another poker player and being moderately successful at my dream job. It's such a gratifying feeling to see and be allowed to do some of the things I've done due to poker. It's funny to think about the past year of my life and how I would not be where I am at today had I stayed in some of the relationships I was in as well as continued to go with the flow and continue with the insurance gig.

A couple relationships over the past year and a half have been very eye opening and have helped me a lot with life. There are two relationships in particular that affected my life tremendously pre/post break up and I am happy to be able to look back and take away the valuable life lessons that I learned in both of those. It's kind of funny to think when you are in those moments/relationships that that person may be "The one" or "A one", if you will, and in retrospect realize that the person you thought so highly of was actually cancerous to your life happiness and development. Overall, I hold no grudges and people will be themselves and pretend to be someone they are not. I am, as I have always and will hope to continue to be an honest person always doing what I think is right, even if it doesn't seem like the right thing to those looking in.

I am finally within 2 days of the 2k milestone. This fing thing has been the bane of my existence over the past month, it seems and I am almost finally there. I have a staking/coaching deal in the works for a higher limit with a good small/mid stakes player and I'm really looking forward to that as my first year closes and a new year approaches.

Again, I am finally at a very happy place in my life with everything seemingly coming together at once with this move to San Diego. I'm really looking forward to the next 6 months with Joey, San Diego and everything else that comes my way. Life is just great!!