Welcome to Chaos !!

Today I had to go to the grocery store, two different ones.....I do not like being in the grocery store. Too noisy. Too many people meandering around, yes I know that I am one of them. I feel like a sheep in a herd. Then I had to pay bills, do all that stuff one has to do in order to live in society.....and there are days when I just do not want to do any of that. In fact most days I do not want to do adulting. Because adulting mostly sucks. Who enjoys getting gas, grocery shopping, paying bills, dealing with rent and/or mortgage payments, checking and answering emails, laundry, work, driving in mind numbing traffic.....and it just goes on and on. Barf. I just want to be a stay at home pet mom at this point and do as little adulting as possible. 
BIG yeay for bagless grocery stores. I think it is ridiculous when people buy one or two items and want a bag. For what? You cannot carry those items without putting them in a bag? Bring your own bag. Some stores offer recycled boxes to put the items in, that works too. Do I use my own bags......of course. 

One of my lattes this week. Note to self - I should bring in my reusable cup more often. I am planning on drinking coffee at home in bed for the rest of the week until Sunday. And next time I go to the coffee shop I am bringing in my own cup.

Next week I have to go to the DMV......definitely not looking forward to that. 

Not much to mention about week 8. One of the frequent and nice visitors that comes in to the club took a longer break and we were atually worried that he was sick or something worse but he came back this week. It was good to see him again. He is one of the few that you can have a conversation with without suffering. 
Week 9. Ugh. This week a girl quit due to getting insulted by the owner of the club. Another girl is taking a break or quit. We have a new girl but I have not worked with her yet. And since a couple of weeks we have another new girl that I forgot to mention until now. 
Friday night at 9 20 pm the club was empty, except for us girls and the bartender. It was a bad night, it was a bad week. Friday a really nice man told me to pick out some rocks for myself, he carries a pouch with rocks on him. He comes in once in a while, he has a crystal hanging in his beard. Very interesting person, kind of reminds me of a wizard from Lord of the Rings.
I picked these. That was the highlight of the evening. 
Probably the highlight of the week. 

Since I am bored out of my mind like 80% of the time that I suffer in the wooden box I have to entertain myself somehow with my very childish humor. The banana peels we use to slap dudes with when they don't tip us enough.
Another way we entertain ourselves is to make up a club language. We do laugh a lot. People that come in probably think we are like legit insane and I like that, they can think that. This particular club is basically like a mental asylum. And I am not joking when I say that.

Yesterday I got some croissants. The expiration date/best before date on the box said February 27 so I was thinking they would be fresh enough. When I opened the package this morning I discovered that all four croissants were stale. Ewwwww like no. I was hungry and put two in the oven with some butter on them hoping that it would do it. I could barely eat one and took a bite out of the other. Selling stale baked goods and bread at full price is just not ok.
Some coffee shops do that too. You order a scone/muffin/baked goods and take a bite and that thing is like a brick. Sold for like $7. If the stuff is stale it should be sold at half price IF THAT as yesterday's goods. Better yet given away for free to the hungry. Anyhow. I decided to take the box of croissants back to the store for a full refund. Tired of spending $ on stale stuff.
I looked up the issue online first and found out that I am not the only one with a similar opinion about this store's baked goods. I don't think I will ever get croissants from that store again. Do better than selling stale food. Or like I said, sell it for less than half price or give it away to the hungry.
It should be ILLEGAL for grocery stores to throw away food that you can still eat. I think some places are making an effort and give away the safe to eat food to food banks. As they should. I do not like wasting food.

Sometimes I use an app called Yuka to check the quality of the stuff that I consume. It is a free app that scans the barcode on food and cosmetic products and rates them from excellent to poor. I like it, other people don't. For example......the juice on the left is about $3 more than the juice on the right. I like the juice on the right and according to Yuka it is also the better choice out of the two.

The 2026 Winter Olympics.....! Did you watch? I only watched the figure skating. Very impressed with Ilia Malinin and Alysa Liu. Born in the US, children of immigrants. Alysa's Dad, Arthur Liu's story is impressive as well. 
Now I am going to eat apples and watch Dateline. And then I am going to take a bath and wash my hair. Dateline is great and also sad because of all the victims, mostly female victims. That is where I learn about all the pretend righteous often church going folks that do things to others that I would never ever imagine doing.

There is only one shift to say something about this whole week and it is Saturday February 14, which was Valentine's Day.  
I was not supposed to work but decided that I needed to because I made very little money my other shifts this week. So I reluctantly went in and had a decent night. I brought in chocolate for everybody.

Wait....Friday a group of three guys came in with beautiful red long stemmed roses for all of us and cute little cards. I kept the cards and gave my roses to Siren at the end of the night. I do not keep cut flowers at home because I feel bad for them. But it was very sweet of them to do that and all three (the guys that gave away the roses) were very nice. Much appreciated.
So the other shifts I had were bad but Saturday night two guys came in and said that they only come in for me. I wish they would come in more often, the admireres I have that only come in for me. Cause there are a handful of them and I don't even remember their names, I am really bad at remembering names I will confess to that. Two completely different guys, one of them is constantly telling me that I get him very excited. I don't enagage too much in those kinds of conversations because I don't know what to say. I kind of just laugh and say really.....? The other one told me that he is almost in love with me and wants to talk about more serious stuff. Both are sweet in their own ways.
We also had a lot of couples in both Friday and Saturday.

And that was Valentine's Day weekend. The next day all the roses, boxed up chocolates, teddy bears and all that other stuff that gets promoted before Valentines' Day go on sale. I think it is better to wait until the day after Valentine's Day to make any purchases but I am frugal like that.

Week 5.....The slimy guy came in Friday (and Saturday). He can't get enough of us. Friday night he declared to me that I would not be able to handle him. Like who said that I would want to? No way ever. He got pretty drunk as usual and at one point he decided that trying to walk into our dressing room would be a good idea. He did not make it far. And on his way out of the club, when he finally decided to leave he walked by me while I was sitting with two of my co workers and he pointed at me and said that I am the devil. Ok then. Let's see how long before he gets to take a break from us, as in getting 86d.
Saturday was a very loud night, people drinking and a lot of making noise. It took until my last time on stage right before closing to have a decent stage set. 
Lavender that usually only smiles no matter what, actually yelled at people twice for just standing around and looking for free. A couple stood by the stage while she was dancing and stared at her, so she smiled at them and friendly motioned to them to sit down and join her and they shuddered like NO WAY EWWWW and continued staring at her so she yelled at them to go away. If you are standing next to the stage looking at the girls or sitting at the stage you have to tip the dancers. If you are sitting away from the stage minding your own business nobody will bother you to tip.
I had to tell a guy to please sit still cause he was moving around so much while i was in front of him and his friend on stage. Like he was bobbing in and out around me every other second, wildly moving his arms around. So much so that when I moved my legs my heel connected with his forehead, not hard, no blood or anything but still, I do not want to bop people in the head with my heels by mistake. So I had to stop and tell him to please not move around so much. Of course every time you scold somebody they act offended. 
Week 6. Swedish Word Of The Day.

Marilyn (a girl I work with) said that she fake laughed a lot Friday. And that the only time she really laughed is when I was telling jokes. I can't recall what I was joking about but we were sitting around in a group talking, eating and having fun. Two people ordered us pizza and breadsticks. Thank You nice people! We appreciate you a lot! Feed The Strippers!
Saturday was pretty busy and crazy. I have a devoted fan that is very nice and thinks I am like the best thing ever. He came in both Friday and Saturday and declared that I am the most perfect specimen of a woman that he has ever seen. He should see me when I am bumming around during the day.......Another guy thought I was just gorgeous. And another one came up twice to say that he thought that my stage performance was just beautiful. Some nights everybody is all over you and other nights people say you look like an old lady and you leave with $8 profit.
It was a fun night but rowdy. The guy that me and Siren defended from the two dudes that wanted to beat him up (last week) came back and expressed his gratitude.
Unfortunately the bully guy that pushed one of our nice and fun regulars a few weeks ago came in twice this week with his dumb friends. I am disappointed that he is allowed back in. I totally avoid and try to ignore him and a few more girls do too, the ones that were at the club the night of the incident. He is a total asshole bully. And the guy he pushed has not been in since that happened and we all really like him and we are worried that maybe he got injured. I think that the bully guy is an accident waiting to happen. He is just looking for a reason to act out. He tried to start something with me last night while I was talking to another regular that I consider a friend and we just looked at him like ???? and he kept on going on and on until I decided to call for the bartender to put an end to it and as soon as I did he walked away back to his group.
Anyhow......last night's shine.

This evening I went to a meeting here in town addressing what to do with the many homes that sit empty year round while there is a housing shortage and also rent is unaffordable for many. It is no joke. If you survive on a single income you better have money. Or you need to have a partner of some sort to share living expenses with, live with family or a roommate or several rommates. And not everybody has a partner or wants to live with roommates. I know of many people that work full time that struggle with rent. You should be able to survive on one income with no problem, not too much to ask I think. 
I believe in affordable housing for all. I believe that a roof over one's head is a basic human right. The suggestion brought up on tonight's meeting is to put a tax on homeowners with  homes that sit empty for most of the year. I am totally OK with that. Other cities in the country are already doing this. And the income generated from that tax would go towards improving the housing situation for the local people in town that are in some sort of need. Basically.
I also think that large unused commercial buildings should be put to use. Either converted into housing or affordable storage units. Many churches have a lot of space and can put up people that need a roof over their head. Unless you WANT to be houseless you shouldn't have to be. Yea I know it is a complex issue and it is not my job to figure it out. I am far from an expert but I do care and I want to work for a change.