Well... I know I've been more of a lurker the past couple months, mainly because I've been super busy. But I wanted to make a post to thank the people like courtiebee, aok, fnord, triptanes and all the other regular posters who have helped me out when I was starting out.

Mainly I wanted to thank you guys because I'm not gonna be around poker for quite some time (asides from low stakes home games). I just cashed out the $350 I had built from my original deposit (after finding this site... I dropped a couple hundred before I found this site) because I really need the money myself right now, and therefore can't afford to use it playing poker. I've had a lot of fun, and it's been great seeing myself improve with the help of you guys, and lurking on 2+2/liquidpoker. As much as I want to, I don't want to ask anyone to stake me - I love the idea of being staked, and would be good for it... but I just don't know anyone well enough to ask... nor does anyone else know me well enough to really say yes - so I'm just going away for awhile.

Hopefully the time will be brief, and I'm sure I'll be back by the end of the year... Just the next couple months are gonna be rough with me paying car payments on my new car, and having to pay for more of my skating bills than I've had to in the past (not getting as much money from the skating federation as I have the past few years =[). Also got to find a new job, as the place I'm waiting tables at is horrible (the only nights I make more than $50 is Fri-Sun, and I don't have enough free time to work more than a few nights a week) so I have to make sure I have enough money while I'm finding a new one.

Anyways, GL & HF to everyone here. Thanks for all the help you've given me. I didn't mean for this post to be that long but I just needed to type/say what was on my mind as I've been kinda depressed about my situation. Bye for now, but I'm sure I'll be back at some point.

PS - I didn't want to put this in Community as I never really posted there and I'm sure some people will be like "Wtf are you"... most of my posts were here and in the SNG forum, so I decided to post it here.