What would Cameron do....: The funnest thing about winning at slots is not knowing what you're doing....

The reason I started this blog...

Two years ago, I was flying on a plane to take my son out to visit college prospects. I'm a nervous flyer, so I started reading an article in a magazine about Cameron Diaz. Now, I had never really thought about her other than being in movies, some good, some not so good. But, after reading the article, I was inspired! She does a lot of fun things! It basically said that she never says no to any kind of fun. I wondered what would happen if I started being more like that. I started incorporating the phrase "What would Cameron do?" into my daily life and I have to say, it has made a huge difference. So this blog is basically about me trying to be a more positive person and do things that initially inspire fear, but make my life more exciting! Kind of like the movie "Yes, Man"...but more realistic since I am somebody's mother and I have to plow through those piles of laundry and unload the dishwasher occasionally...Hope you enjoy my journey!

Sunday, October 14, 2012

The funnest thing about winning at slots is not knowing what you're doing....

Last weekend, we took a trip to Mohegan Sun which was a first for us. Not really on the bucket list, but it was definitely a trip. After strolling through and checking out the sights, I learned a lot about the gambling life. And that is that you need an advanced math degree from MIT to figure out what the hell you are doing. There are so many combinations of lines, bets and symbols to decipher, I feel like I may have stumbled upon the next think tank waiting to be discovered. One 90 year old woman was explaining to me Achems Razor on a 1/4 cent slot machine. Another "slotter" (who I really thought was Jabba the Hut wandering over from a Comic.Con convention) was extrapolating how it was possible to beat the odds at Wheel of Fortune. I learned so much, and the only downfall is that I now need a heart lung machine because I must have inhaled twenty packs of secondhand smoke in my quest for higher gambling knowledge...