<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249573970000850581</id><updated>2011-07-30T23:05:08.537-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pokernista</title><subtitle type='html'>...This is NOT a poker blog!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pokernista.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4249573970000850581/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pokernista.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>JaneDoe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05092104923668302005</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ERNGCvg5JEY/SpLi72FC4_I/AAAAAAAAABM/HxRKoKHbFUA/S220/28_07_06_1204.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249573970000850581.post-7376585625534667813</id><published>2009-08-24T17:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-27T17:09:28.756-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Necessities of life: Food, Shelter &amp; Louboutins</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;M&lt;/b&gt;ademoiselles, &lt;b&gt;M&lt;/b&gt;ademoiselles,....&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ever been tempted to grab a bottle of nail polish and paint the soles of your black pumps lacquer red???!! I'm this close. I'm just dying for a pair, I mean, I deserve a pair..after all that suffering! It's  gotten so bad that every time I spot a chick in any  kind of black pumps, I only need 6 seconds to give them the once-over, and if they do not meet the  louboutiments, I cast her into a bottomless shoe-pit at once!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ERNGCvg5JEY/SpMxub9ZzEI/AAAAAAAAACU/VIrNMGA5kgc/s1600-h/Christian-Louboutin-shoes-Declic.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ERNGCvg5JEY/SpMxub9ZzEI/AAAAAAAAACU/VIrNMGA5kgc/s320/Christian-Louboutin-shoes-Declic.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Eureka!!!... Friday grocery shopping!!!! ..NO NO, that won't work, I'll have to steal it...OK, I nick the husband's  Mastercard, dash to Milan,(It's just an hour-and-a-half away) purchase a fabulous pair, and hire a divorce lawyer with whatever's left on the card. It's the only way, lest I be doomed to that unfabulous Louboutinless pit.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Oh, Monsieur Louboutin, you home wrecker you!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Oh well,  look on the bright side, it's all for a good cause I mean you gotta have one of those...priceless &lt;strike&gt;pieces&lt;/strike&gt; pairs of art.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4249573970000850581-7376585625534667813?l=pokernista.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pokernista.blogspot.com/feeds/7376585625534667813/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pokernista.blogspot.com/2009/08/necessities-of-life-food-shelter.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4249573970000850581/posts/default/7376585625534667813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4249573970000850581/posts/default/7376585625534667813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pokernista.blogspot.com/2009/08/necessities-of-life-food-shelter.html' title='Necessities of life: Food, Shelter &amp; Louboutins'/><author><name>JaneDoe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05092104923668302005</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ERNGCvg5JEY/SpLi72FC4_I/AAAAAAAAABM/HxRKoKHbFUA/S220/28_07_06_1204.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ERNGCvg5JEY/SpMxub9ZzEI/AAAAAAAAACU/VIrNMGA5kgc/s72-c/Christian-Louboutin-shoes-Declic.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249573970000850581.post-7407507728149237401</id><published>2009-08-24T09:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-24T13:46:07.824-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Author's note</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ERNGCvg5JEY/SpL4Y-z9-NI/AAAAAAAAABs/OAuE1HNLKk0/s1600-h/poker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="129" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ERNGCvg5JEY/SpL4Y-z9-NI/AAAAAAAAABs/OAuE1HNLKk0/s200/poker.jpg" width="157" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15pt;"&gt; play poker. Home games and mostly online tournaments. The husband initiated me some two years ago. At first, I condemned it like the cardinal sin-“thou shalt not gamble“. Endless number of times I threatened leaving him if he didn’t stop. But then his wallet started getting thicker, and being the Nigerian girl that I am, I quickly took to the game and I haven’t looked back since.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15pt;"&gt;Don’t get it twisted though, if we got a dime for every time we’ve sworn on a stack of bibles never to play poker again, we’d be billionaires by now. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15pt;"&gt;There were days I’ve had to restrain him from throwing his mac out the window, replace a broken lamp or pick the throw pillows off the floor, (all 23 of them) and to date, I’ve replaced four mouse devices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15pt;"&gt;But nothing makes life sweeter than when these downswings are overcome by ‘cashing out’. The oh-so sweet feeling of hitting the withdrawal button and smiling to the ATM five business days later. &lt;sigh! _moz-userdefined=""&gt;&lt;/sigh!&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15pt;"&gt;Now,I won’t even bother arguing with poker-illiterates out there on whether or not poker is gambling. POKER IS A SPORT. Enough said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15pt;"&gt;If you’re wondering why I’ve set up a poker page on this blog, that’s because poker constitutes a MAJOR&amp;nbsp; part of my life. I will play poker for food or/and shoes. Need I remind you that I’m a jobless, hopeless &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15pt;"&gt;illegal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15pt;"&gt; undocumented alien? So, while the husband's away at work trying to make an honest living for us, I’m home &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15pt;"&gt;gambling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15pt;"&gt; playing poker.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4249573970000850581-7407507728149237401?l=pokernista.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pokernista.blogspot.com/feeds/7407507728149237401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://pokernista.blogspot.com/2009/08/authors-note_24.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4249573970000850581/posts/default/7407507728149237401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4249573970000850581/posts/default/7407507728149237401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pokernista.blogspot.com/2009/08/authors-note_24.html' title='Author&apos;s note'/><author><name>JaneDoe</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05092104923668302005</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ERNGCvg5JEY/SpLi72FC4_I/AAAAAAAAABM/HxRKoKHbFUA/S220/28_07_06_1204.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ERNGCvg5JEY/SpL4Y-z9-NI/AAAAAAAAABs/OAuE1HNLKk0/s72-c/poker.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
