Oh What A Night

Late December back in '63. Oh, wait, I'm singing in my head again and it manifested itself on my blog. Sorry 'bout that.

I did have quite a night last night. It was a success. Something in Miami didn't blow. That's twice now, lately that I've done something in Miami and it wasn't the usual hokey Miami crap. Wow, they must be getting better, or something.
Anyway, we went to the Quapaw Casino for our candle lit dinner for two. The beef coins were good, the wine sauce was okay. It tasted mostly like brown gravy made with red wine. I could taste the wine flavoring but it wasn't so overpowering where I didn't like it. When we first sat down the waitress asked us what we would like to drink, we gave her pop orders and she went off and got us our drinks. When she came back she asked us what kind of dressing we'd like on our salads. Mike asked her if they had Ott's and she looked at him oddly then said no. So he ordered Ranch. I ordered French, because I prefer red French over Ott's anyway. We got our salads, and Mike's was Ranch and mine was Ott's. Lol. She was young, she probably didn't know there was a difference between Ott's and French. I didn't use to. Use to be around here, when you ordered French, Ott's is what you got every time. You don't see that very often anymore. Mike and I traded salads so he could have his Ott's. I'm nice to him that way.
The place looked very elegant. The silverware was all laid out complete with a salad fork, a dinner fork, and a dessert fork. Then on the other side was the steak knife, butter knife and spoon. I had to tell Mike what fork to use, but really, no one was watching, and even if they were, no one would have known any better or even cared if he would have used the wrong fork. In fact, the place looked so elegant, I felt like I should use my most polite of table manners. No, laughing loud or talking loud enough for people four tables over to overhear. Wait, I don't ever do that anyway. But, anyway, you catch my drift. I sat up straight, I used the correct fork, I dabbed at my mouth with my linen napkin. Then, I saw this old man at the table next to us light up his cigarette with the candle and that was it. I felt it was a waste of time.
After our salad and steaks with baked potatoes, we had the most delicious strawberry cheesecake. Man, it was good. Then they gave us our free play, $10 a piece, and we went out to the casino part and cashed them in. I didn't spend mine, I just tucked my 10 bucks in my wallet. Mike spent 5 of his and then we left. It was getting crowded in there because they were getting ready for their birthday drawing. We headed on out to Wyandotte's casino and played for maybe 10 minutes. Mike played his other $5 and walked out with $10 and I played my whole $10 and walked out with $9. So, they got me for a dollar, but hey, it was given to me, so it wasn't too heart breaking.
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I'm so glad it Friday. I think I say something of the sort every week. It's also pay day and I'm going to go to Hobby Lobby and spend some of my hard earned cash. I wanted to Sunday, but I used my "wisdom to handle money" and didn't go. It was hard, I really wanted to go and get that stuff that I'd seen Friday night. But, I held off, knowing that I got paid this week. So, I'm off to Joplin tonight. It's funny, I go 6 or 8 months without setting foot anywhere near Joplin, then all of a sudden, I go a lot. If I go tonight (which I'm sure hoping I get to) it will be the 3rd time in 7 days.
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Today would have been my cousin Bobbi's 17th birthday. May she rest in peace and may her Mother just have peace.