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Although windy and gloomy today I managed to trek all around Engineer Lake, I am guesstimating it's a little over three miles round trip. There is a rustic cabin you can rent on Engineer Lake too, it comes with a boat. I stayed in it last summer and got harassed by the mosquitoes. Chhaya is tired and happy after her walk today. I am full because I had a pizza, pastry and tea. And now I am laying here ready for sleep but it's not even 8 pm yet and STILL light out (YEAY!) and too early for bed. I think I am going to make myself some more tea and eat my second pastry, I am on the yummy diet right now. Then I have to do the dishes and a few loads of laundry. Better get busy before I get too tired to do anything.



On my mind - what is going on with the Malaysian Airlines flight? I don't get it, it's been too many days and so many people are not accounted for. How is this possible? I feel bad for the passengers and the people that are worried about them.

Ugh.....I am cranky and hungry but I'm sipping on my latte as I am writing this and I am slowly feeling better. Last night at work I basically spent on the couch texting, most of us did. Something like this......



Another dead night. I guess Friday (when I decided to stay home, was really busy....typical it's always like that for me). You have to go into work every night here to catch that "busy" night and who has time for that? Not me. Finally some kids came in. Nice enough but soooo unpolished. I think 70% of the 21 and over people here smoke and I can't stand that. It was so smokey in the club last night that I had to search for air pockets when I was on stage. I was yelling that I was about to have an asthma attack, very dramatic. Then the guys also stuff their mouth with that chew stuff, some of them have big eggs under their lip and then they spit out the saliva in a cup. NOT SEKSI. The first time I saw anyone do that was at the Bush Company in Anchorage, I didn't know what they were doing, spitting in a cup? Not something the people that visit strip clubs in Vegas do. Like a friend said last night when I told her about the chew, "Eww no!! People still do that? WTF. Why can't they snort coke like regular customers." LOL, right!? I would be scared to even try coke here, I am sure it's cut with rat poison. The drug of choice here, besides tobacco and alcohol is meth. And that is a NO THANK YOU for me.
Then there was a really high on meth (or something else) guy wandering around in there that ended up filming one of the girls while she was on stage. He was a total weirdo and came up to me several times throughout the night with his eyes bulging out of his head, not making any sense at all and he tried to casually put his hand on my upper thigh, sneakily trying to touch. After the second time I told him that he would seriously be sorry if he attempted to do that again. Fucking freak! Get away from me and stay away.
A while ago Marlene caught a guy taking pictures of the girls and she took his phone and deleted every single pic he had in it except one, of some fish he caught. Just don't take pics or footage of the girls people. I would sue. This is America, you can sue for shit like that.
Soon people will come in with Google Glass attached to their head and try get footage of us like that. Just stay at home and pay for video chat ok? We are not interested in being in your phones pic gallery. The pics of me at work that are on my blog are taken by me (most of the time) and are up here because I chose to share them on here, plus the pics belong to me.
Just like any other pic of me in my blog, even the ones taken by other photographers, copyright.
Then when I got home the temperature in the house was a cold 54 degrees for some reason and one of the fire alarms was beeping a high annoying beep every minute because the battery was juiced out. Of course I did not have a replacement battery so that thing was beeping all night. I slept downstairs with the door closed but I could still hear that beep.
AND when I climbed up on a storage bin that I pulled out from my closet (I don't have chairs upstairs) to see if I could get that thing to be quiet I slipped and fell and hurt my elbow really bad. OUCH! Now my elbow is slowly turning blue and it's swollen. Really? Good I didn't break my hip Grandma style, now that would had been bad!
OK.....well I am going to go to the gym now.

Last night I did some more research about the Iditarod race that is on it's 8 day here now and what I found was not good at all. I believe in animal rights and I don't like when people abuse animals or use them for their own cheap thrills. I no longer go to circuses (I did when I was little and later on too but I didn't know better) and I am against zoo's but think places that rehabilitate animals are good. SeaWorld? No. So this is what somebody wrote about the Iditarod race in 2009, three dogs died that year. 😥

"Three dogs have died thus far in the 2009 Iditarod. Two dogs were on the team of Dr. Lou Packer. Dr. Packer told the Anchorage Daily News he believes the two dogs froze to death in the brutally cold winds. For the dogs, the Iditarod is a bottomless pit of suffering. What happens to the dogs during the race includes death, paralysis, frostbite (where it hurts the most!), bleeding ulcers, bloody diarrhea, lung damage, pneumonia, ruptured discs, viral diseases, broken bones, torn muscles and tendons and sprains. At least 139 dogs have died in the race. No one knows how many dogs die after this tortuous ordeal or during training. For more facts about the Iditarod, visit the Sled Dog Action Coalition website, http://www.helpsleddogs.org

On average, 53 percent of the dogs who start the race do not make it across the finish line. According to a report published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, of those who do finish, 81 percent have lung damage. A report published in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine said that 61 percent of the dogs who complete the Iditarod have ulcers versus zero percent pre-race.

Iditarod dog kennels are puppy mills. Mushers breed large numbers of dogs and routinely kill unwanted ones, including puppies. Many dogs who are permanently disabled in the Iditarod, or who are unwanted for any reason, including those who have outlived their usefulness, are killed with a shot to the head, dragged, drowned or clubbed to death. “Dogs are clubbed with baseball bats and if they don’t pull are dragged to death in harnesses……” wrote former Iditarod dog handler Mike Cranford in an article for Alaska’s Bush Blade Newspaper.

Dog beatings and whippings are common. During the 2007 Iditarod, eyewitnesses
reported that musher Ramy Brooks kicked, punched and beat his dogs with a ski pole and a chain. Jim Welch says in his book Speed Mushing Manual, “Nagging a dog team is cruel and ineffective…A training device such as a whip is not cruel at all but is effective.” “It is a common training device in use among dog mushers…”

Jon Saraceno wrote in his March 3, 2000 column in USA Today, “He [Colonel Tom
Classen] confirmed dog beatings and far worse. Like starving dogs to maintain their most advantageous racing weight. Skinning them to make mittens.. Or dragging them to their death.”

During the race, veterinarians do not give the dogs physical exams at every checkpoint. Mushers speed through many checkpoints, so the dogs get the briefest visual checks, if that. Instead of pulling sick dogs from the race, veterinarians frequently give them massive doses of antibiotics to keep them running.

Most Iditarod dogs are forced to live at the end of a chain when they aren’t hauling people around. It has been reported that dogs who don’t make the main team are never taken off-chain. Chained dogs have been attacked by wolves, bears and other animals. Old and arthritic dogs suffer terrible pain in the blistering cold."

helpsleddogs.org

SO WRONG! It makes me sad and upset to read about this. What kind of a person treats their pets/animals in their care this way? And I don't think the person that wrote that is lying, only stating the facts.
And speaking of SeaWorld.....there is a proposition in CA now that wants to put an end to SeaWorld using orcas in captivity for human entertainment. I hope this goes through!
Animals are beautiful, sensitive beings that should be respected and cherished. I wish I understood Chhaya better, I am sure she gets annoyed with me at times. But I try to do the best that I can for her. I know I tortured her last nigh because I brushed her teeth, she suffers through it and then we cuddle. Here she is stretched out next to me....comfortable, warm, safe and happy (I hope).....the life she should have.

I was thinking about going to work tonight and even got invited to meet some friends out for a Mardi Gras party Alaskan style (we make bead necklaces out of moose dropping here) but decided to stay home and cuddle with my armpit hair instead. I mean wouldn't you too if you were me? It's soft and getting longer, I love it!
Actually, I stayed in because I was not feeling 100 % well from that headache I had earlier and I know that even a small amount of cigarette smoke will bring back that headache and I don't want that. So I am being boring, laying in bed and watching TV. I put coconut oil in my hair and smell like suntanning oil on a beach in Hawaii.
This might be the last pic you see of my armpit hair, I think I am shaving it tomorrow. I found a buyer for the hair, he is going to glue it to his face and offer ladies mustache rides. And I proved to myself, I guess, that I don't care if guys like hairy armpits or not. What matters for me is what I like on me. The hair doesn't bother me but I did feel more moist/wet at times in the armpits. And from an esthetical standpoint I prefer my pits shaved. So bye bye armpit hair for this time around. Besides....I pretty much stopped caring a long time ago what guys like or don't like.

I had a headache yesterday.....it started out lingering and when I went to bed last night it just escalated and I finally had to get out of bed, go downstairs and drink two mugs of water and I took a headache pill. I feel really bad for people with frequent headaches.....I can't function when I get them, well if I have a barely there lingering one. But last night it was pounding and my ears were aching too, it felt like my brain was too large for my head. This morning I woke up to a wet start. Because I drank that water late last night I peed in bed! Yes. I had a dream that I went to the bathroom and the dream somehow felt like reality and I woke up feeling something wet and warm. Great! After that I had to get up, strip the bed of the the sheets and clean up and I have been up and going since then. Nothing like waking up while peeing in bed.
Besides that I don't have much to report. Spent a few days at home, I think I feel up for going to the gym today and that's about it. It's Friday but for me it's like any other day of the week.

I had a busy day today and got a lot done, it feels good to get stuff done.....doesn't it? I had to make myself a list this afternoon to look at my tasks in writing.....besides the usual stuff I do everyday. Like the daily latte and take care of Chhaya etc.



I am saving the leg waxing, hair coloring and pedicure for next week.....those things are not urgent. I have not had nail polish on my toes since October now, I decided to let my toenails "breathe" after having them painted for years. Of course I don't walk around with talons hanging over my heels......kind of like this.....not so SEKSI maybe?



I still keep my toes neat and clipped, just not painted but next week it's time for some pink to get slapped on them.
So I got my taxes and lots off other things done today.....what a burden off my shoulders! Now I am watching Jimmy Fallon (he is so cuuuuute!) and writing this. So I'm basically relaxing.
I took Chhaya on two long walks today and this pic is from one of them, she is my little daredevil, always willing to do whatever I suggest. She is sleeping and snoring in bed right now.



The Iditarod race is going on in Alaska right now, several of the participants have scratched during this years race, meaning they dropped out for various reasons. I am against this race and I wrote about that last year. I don't care that it is a "tradition". That doesn't make it right, like plenty of other traditions. For example FGM (Female Genital Mutilation), Bull Fighting and other traditions that hurt innocent people and animals. I think that the dogs in the Iditarod race get subjected to cruel treatment, they run 1000 miles (I think actually over 1000 miles) in cold and harsh conditions, I feel bad for their little legs and paws.
And to point this out even more, I picked up the Redoubt Reporter today, a local weekly paper. Somebody wrote in a letter to the editor about the Iditarod race. This is what she had to say, "A few years ago I visited Alaska to explore the possibility of one day pursuing my dream to participate in the Iditarod. I went home with memories of glorious vistas and the warmth and courage of most of the Alaskan people, but my opinion of the Iditarod was radically changed. I watched with my own eyes a dog being repeatedly punched, kicked and slammed to the ground by a top-10 Iditarod musher. As hideous as that was, what haunts me most is knowing that dogs spend the majority of their lives on the end of a chain running circles into the frozen soil. To think about the senseless numbers of dogs who pay with their lives in the quest to breed a champion. The "slow" puppies and shotgun fodder. It is 2014, and it's time to acknowledge the stark truth of the Iditarod's cruelty. We can and must all work to change this inhumane mindset - please have the courage to speak up with me."

I absolutely agree with this person. The musher that wins the Iditarod gets a new truck and money. The race also brings in revenue for Anchorage and the villages that the Iditarod goes through = $$$. So it's all about the car and the cash. While the dogs suffer for however long it takes for them to reach Nome. If you want that truck and the money so badly, why don't you walk to Nome in the snow and cold yourself? Or go to work and buy a new truck. I would never subject Chhaya to that just so I could maybe win a car. I think the Iditarod is animal cruelty. I don't care that a lot of people say that these dogs "love to run". Really? How do you know this? They love to run for 1000 miles with almost no rest, get to sleep outside in the cold, fed some raw and frozen fish? Live their lives outside chained up? I don't think so.