My Old House and Poker

Nap on: March 7
People Involved: my brother, my sister, my niece, Minnie, Bob Kircher, Janet Kircher, Miles Kircher, Kristy Kircher, Brian, Phil Helmuth, Daniel Negreanu

I'm walking with my brother, my sister, and my niece. We're walking towards a pool, and I figure we're just going to hang out there, but they all get in. I don't really feel like going in, but I do anyway. The pool is warm, which makes me realize how cold it is outside. There's a bit of a wind chill. I debate telling my sister that I hate going in the pool sometimes because it makes everything feel colder. I'm throwing a ball around with them and my niece starts getting sad.
It's time to get out now, and my sister is consoling my niece. I'm walking back in what is now my backyard at my old house. As I'm getting to the side door, my niece is running up and throwing the ball. I'm afraid it's going to go on the roof. Instead, it goes over the side gate. My brother gets it quite easily, even though the gate is locked. I lock the gate back up. We then see my next door neighbors (when I lived there): Bob, Janet, Miles, and Kristy. Janet says, "Happy Birthday!" I assume she's just telling me late 'cause I haven't seen her in a long time. She then adds, "It is today, right?" My family chimes in and corrects her, and everyone laughs and has a good time. As we're about to go in, Minnie peaks her head over the wall, which scares someone in my family. She says, "hi" and tells us about how she got her wisdom teeth out (not in real life--no idea where this came from). Her face isn't swollen at all.
I'm somewhere else now and find a note from my sister that says to come find her and return "the ball" and "the owl."
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I wake up and Brian shows up. It's all dark in my apartment. I tell Brian that I need to check my lottery tickets, and that I need to tell him a crazy story about it: 2 guys won the lottery on March 3rd, but they repeated numbers too frequently (which is against the rules in my dream world), so the lottery took away their prize. So now I have to check my old lottery tickets to see if I'm a winner for March 3rd. I find my old lottery ticket, and notice it has numbers on both sides. I also see that the ticket says Kyle and I bought 300 numbers, so it would take forever to check them all. I think about how Brian is sitting in the other room, doing nothing. I actually have The Family Man dvd menu playing on tv, but that's it. I come back in the room, and I see Brian sitting in the dark, watching the dvd menu. I tell him how I love The Family Man, and he says he does, too. We're going to watch it after I check my numbers. I tell him I still have to tell him the crazy story, and he says, "Oh I know!" and I go back to check my numbers.

In Retrospect: Kinda weird that Brian just came over and is in my family room alone right now as I'm typing this.
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I'm waiting for Brian to come over and I find out that the game he wants to buy tomorrow is coming out today, so he's not going to come over. I'm bummed.
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I'm playing poker with Phil Helmuth and Daniel Negreanu. We're all standing up in a circle, and the pot is in the middle. I have a ton of chips. I go to raise Phil, who is to my left, by 1 red chip and he points out that I barely raised it, and he has to call no matter what. I'm a bit embarrassed.
It's my turn again, and I again raise by 1 red chip. He points it out again, and I feel like an idiot. I claim that I meant to raise by a green chip, but I don't know if I really meant to or not, or if I just forgot the values.