Although yesterday was my first full day of this Las Vegas trip, I am considering today the first full day.  Yesterday I woke up after not sleeping and worked.  Today, I am free.

I woke up at 6:30 AM and instead of “OMG GAMBLER YAY” I was “Ugh, need to run an errand boo.”

I needed to go to the Las Vegas Paiute Smoke Shop to get cheap cigarettes.   A round trip Uber was $45, lol no. I just sat on my balcony for a bit.  I’d still be sitting there Googling all the places in the world I wish to visit if not for the fucking sun blinding me on my balcony.

But that brings me to Dear Diary time.  I went to a fortune teller earlier this year who told me a few odd things that came true so far.  One was that my manager would be gone in 2 months.  She isn’t fully gone, but she isn’t MY manager anymore.  He said I would be undergoing a renovation that would cause a huge change in my life.  Well here I am in Vegas because my apartment is being renovated?  And honestly, I cannot stop binge searching for Manhattan apartments.  Because while mine will still be very much under market rate, that’s market rate for a 2 bedroom.  I don’t need a 2 bedroom.  So my new rent will bring me closer to the market rate for a studio in Manhattan.  Then I could not spend hours of my life on the fucking N train anymore.  No longer walk through my train station which is always coated in pigeon poop.  Ah this is the new dream.

But back to the fortune teller.

And the final two things he told me were:

I will be retied in 2 years.  I do believe I may somehow be able to pull that one off.

And he told me March 7, 2025 will be the most important day of my life.  But I don’t want to know that.  Because what if I book a trip and am not home but the important thing would have happened if I stayed in NYC for the weekend?  Or what if I stayed in NYC to wait for whatever it is, and miss out on the life changing jackpot that was to be my fate in a Las Vegas casino?  Or what if my fate requires me to be in (city) and I don’t know that so I am not there?!

Why am I ever posting this shit?  Well you guys seem to like coming “on” trips with me and reading this insane bullshit I write so this would be the conversation I would be having this morning if I were social at all (no) and traveling with a person (never.)

Me: Maybe less rambling and more getting dressed

Me: FINE

I took a shower and had one of those great experiences that no one ever talks about, probably because it’s disgusting. Whenever you’re in las vegas and your nose gets dried out, the post shower nose blow is one of the greatest feelings. Mine always turns the tissue red with blood. But for a few seconds there, I could actually breathe.

Oh hey, wouldn’t ya know it, round trip to Paiute is now $23. Let’s fucking go.

The Uber driver was having issues with her app. She mentioned she might not get paid.  She was really nice but im not risking getting charged twice by giving you cash.

Got my cigarettes and some extra to leave on machines as Random Acts of Cancer. I first did this 2 years ago and had my biggest winning trip ever. So it continues.

Sexy view of Bellagio from the Uber:
Everything in my refrigerator froze solid overnight, including my Trenta iced coffee I bought to have iced coffee this morning. So I had to buy more coffee.

Didn’t want to go to Starbucks at Cosmopolitan because it’s in the opposite direction of where I am headed. Vdara never has their mobile app turned on. Aria Starbucks has a 39 minute wait for mobile orders.  I figured that was fine because I could just use that time to get my my kanami is free play loaded.

There was a couple at the Buddha at Aria who are using as a desk to conduct business. All their stuff was spread out and one was on the phone and the other was handing them a credit card. Do this somewhere else you assholes.

I got my free play loaded and got my coffee. And these assholes were still blocking Buddha so I just pushed past them and rubbed his toe.

I took this on the way out.

Into the casino, where I placed a pack of cigarettes on a slot machine and the second someone touched it, I hit a bonus for $48. Okay see it works.

I ended up leaving aria down forty dollars, which wasn’t bad. Considering I could have lost it all because I’m a degenerate loser

Back to Cosmo, where I played Ultimate X video poker for a while, and I mean a very long while, but I never could to get to a cash out point.

I then tried Buffalo where we have debut of an actual win photo on this trip.

Then to Cleopatra Keno, where I just kept winning and ended up getting my full dally budget back to normal.

At this point I was absolutely fucking starving, and my head was just pounding. I wanted to keep trying eating at places I normally don’t eat at but I swear to god the amount of peace people in this city make things impossible. I ended up getting a sandwich from Hattie B’s hot chicken and pimento mac and cheese.

I went back to the room to eat and wrote a little bit on this blog, and now i’m going to take Aleve for my headache and nap.  I cannot wait to go to Soulu Head Spa in a few days and have them permanently remove all traces of this headache.

Holy shit, best nap ever?  I even slept through the shitty music blasting outside my balcony.  That was seriously the best nap I have had in all of 2024.

I spent about an hour laying in bed, trying to decide where to go tonight. I have the luxury of time. I don’t have to get up for anything tomorrow.  I can go anywhere tonight.

You know where I decided I wanted to go? Back to bed.

It took me about two hours of looking at the internet before deciding you know what?  I can go back to bed if I want to.  I purposely booked nice rooms for weekends so that I could sleep all damn day.  Why not do that?  You lost too much money last night anyway.  Oooh, that’s it.  That’s why I feel I need to go out.  So I am not wallowing in pity in my room.  But I am not wallowing, I am relaxing.  I even packed books for crissakes, let’s have a nice night in?

I did have to go out and get some food.  Would have been nice to not have dropped the sandwich on my floor last night.  But it probably would have frozen like everything else in my refrigerator.

I walked over to Bellagio to claim my MyKonami free play and get dinner.  I found a nickel on heads as I was walking and put it in my bra.

YAY WIN!
I then lost $80 in Moolah and won on the Buffalo I hate  more than anything but keep playing for no reason at all?
I came back to Cosmopolitan with dinner and my full day’s budget in tact.

I did try to read a book I brought and ended up  just passing out.  Woke up and decided to get today’s trip report live and this is what I am doing right now, before going back to bed again.

Oh and I have an Amazon affiliate account.   If you click any Amazon link on my blog, I get some pennies to put in my bra. Amazon loves reminding me that I haven’t posted anything yet and is suggesting THIS jacket.  Likely because Antarctica was one of the places I Googled today.

Today’s itinerary, I did literally nothing on it.
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