Welcome to Chaos !!

It's busy here in Vegas....many people are in town for the weekend....St Patrick's Day and March Madness is coming up. The weather is good, I like the winter months in Vegas, end of September until end of March. Summer is a bit too hot for my taste, I don't like the feeling of getting scorched by the sun and wait until sundown to venture outside. Here are some pics from the Strip from the other night. I am going to Whole Foods now for some fooooood......I'm starving and then I am going to walk and maybe run in a park close to my house.

There is one thing that has happened down at the Strip since I left Las Vegas.....besides a few new hotels and a giant Ferris wheel (the High Roller - love the name) that will be open for business soon. There are now more people hustling on the Strip, quite a large number actually. Back in the day there were porn slappers all over the place, I haven't seen them this time around but maybe I was in the wrong spot. But I always thought that the porn slappers were annoying, an embarrassment for the city and wanted them gone anyways. No thanks, I don't need any flyers for naked girls straight to my room shoved in the face....ok. Now there is a plethora of people dressed up in all kinds of costumes....cartoons, superheroes, showgirls, sexy cops, famous movie characters.....you name it. Kind of like on Hollywood Blvd in Los Angeles, you see the same concept there. Then the tourists will take pics with the dressed up people, for a donation of course. This is how they make a living.....I wonder if it's lucrative?
I think it seems annoying to stand out on the street hustling people for pics and tips but different strokes for different folks. It definitely helps if you are two good looking girls dressed in something revealing and matching (guys love that twin fantasy you know), like these two. Welcome to Las Vegas.....I wonder if people get a severe culture shock when they make their way down the Strip for the first time?



You also get approached by people wanting to give you passes to the "hottest" club, strip clubs, bars etc. The Strip is full of hustlers nowadays, back in the day we had the porn slappers and the occasional prostitutes (that would end up on Cops).

Although tired and in need of sleep I could not fall asleep this evening, I guess I'm too wired or something. So I headed out for some retail therapy, nothing like going to the malls here in Vegas, that always makes me feel better. I did not find much though.....but I did get a new eyeshadow from MAC. And an ice blended coffee from the Coffee Bean to sip on while shopping.



I was looking forward to see the new stuff at Victorias's Secret, especially hoping to find a new pretty bra but no, no bra screamed my name. I did get a white long shirt/tunic with fringes.
It looks a bit hippie.....perfect for Burning Man. I also saw a black full piece bathing suit that looked super sexy, reminded me of a Bond Girl bathing suit but they only had it in a Large, need to look for my size in another Victoria's Secret store.



I always sample Teavana, love it.



Besides the retail therapy and being tired I feel kind of sad. The first few days in Vegas, when I come back here are always bittersweet for me. Being here brings back so many memories, I've had so much fun in this town but it's over now. Sometimes I have a difficult time with things being over and done with and I tend to dwell on the past. When I drove past where Utopia used to be earlier I teared up, I will never again come out of Utopia into the bright Vegas sunshine after closing the club down. Thinking about that place feels weird.
I remember how excited I used to be driving along Las Vegas Blvd knowing I had a night of dancing and great music ahead of me.....no more! It feels like yesterday although it's been years. The reality that I will never go out with my friends here again like we used to several times a week feels sad......BOHOOOOO we used to have so much FUN.....! So I am feeling weird and sad tonight. Maybe I should start practicing yoga so I can feel better about certain things? Just a thought that struck me tonight.

Yes, I needed some city lights. So I am in Vegas, got here this morning. Things are the same here, feels good to be back.....or home, or what is home for me nowadays? I'm not sure.
I have mixed emotions and I miss Chhaya. Plus I am tired from the traveling and the lack of sleep, so I am feeling a bit off right now. And I miss Chhaya!!!! But I said that already.



I ate at Whole Foods, of course. I always make a beeline for Whole Foods as soon as I get to Vegas, I love that place. The weather is great right now so I enjoyed my meal outside, wearing flip flops.



Later on I drove down to The Strip and went to the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood just to see some nice things, stuff that I like. And I got an ice blended coffee and the latest Las Vegas Weekly. So nice to be able to get a good coffee after 10 pm if that's what I want.



But I need to catch up on my sleep now. More from me tomorrow.....unless I get too busy with stuff in Vegas.

I can't remember when I discovered Ugly Dolls......? I think it was in 2006, or was it earlier? Anyhow, I have a small collection of them, some here in Kenai (they hang off my lingerie drawer in the closet, fiercely guarding my delicates) and some are in Vegas.
They accompanied me to many raves, I just snapped them to my chosen purse of the evening. My friend Julia has a bunch too and when we used to go to raves together back in the day, her Ugly Dolls made it to the party as well, an Ugly Doll outing.
The other night I was watching a show on Dateline about some guy that started some sort of a Buddhist "cult" in the Arizona desert. I like to watch stuff like that. What was really funny about that show though is that when the cult leader got interviewed he lounged on a couch with an Ugly Doll and a Starbucks cup that he was sipping coffee out of. I think he even talked to that Ugly Doll beside him once or twice. So now, mine and Julia's Ugly Dolls have started a cult, new members are currently being screened and we also accept monetary donations.
Just like that cult in the desert, the cult leader accepted donations too. Weird how some people are willing to give up everything, change their whole life and give away their saving to join a cult. But what do I know......maybe the life I live is some sort of a cult, society as I know it. Here are my Kenai Ugly Dolls, just hanging out and enjoying their Starbucks.



Julia's Pamelas (boobs) are working overtime receiving donations to the Ugly Doll Cult.



So my favorite person on SNL is Kenan Thompson, he really makes me laugh. He looks like he is very close to busting out laughing too when he does his sketches. My favorite is "What's Up With That?". I LOVE that one! Last night I was watching it and laughing like crazy. Now I do Kenan's "What's Up With That?" dance and sing just like him. That is going to me my new joke at work, when I see something weird or funny, which happens on a nightly basis when I do work, I am going to bust out singing and dancing, "What's Up With That?" OMG hilarious!
THANK YOU Kenan for making me laugh!

Chhaya got a new teddy the other day and it was love at first sniff and bite. Ever since she was a baby she has had one or two teddies at home that she has been biting into, I call it nibbying. She opens her mouth really big, chomps down on it and then kind of just holds it in her mouth for a long time, 30 minute or longer stretches are not unusual, while kind of moving her mouth down on it ever so often. She sometimes makes sounds too while she is nibbying. I am not sure what this is about, I am thinking she is being a baby again when she does this, kind of like milking her Mom but then she might also be "killing" it because Chhaya is a predator is some ways. Anyhow, she loves her teddy time and her teddies. She does not accept all of them, there have been a few teddies that I brought home that got the cold shoulder. But she loves this one and it's her largest one so far.
Chhaya.....I love her so much, she fills my life with happiness. ♥