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I finally played Backgammon today! I'm so happy! I haven't played since I lived in Sweden and I love playing Backgammon and Chess. A while ago I noticed two guys sitting at Sambalatte playing a lot, I wanted to play too so I asked if i could join in sometime. And today one of them was there when I got my coffee in the morning and he asked me if I wanted to play a game - of course! We played five games. The score? Peter 3, Tati 2. The last one was almost mine but then he got double 6 and that was the end of it. Peter is from Hungary. There might be another game tomorrow.



One more thing about Sambalatte. The other day I found a $100 bill laying on the ground by one of the tables there. I told the barista working at that time and she took the bill. I asked the people around that table if it belonged to them but they said no. I waited a bit to see if somebody would come in and ask for the money. No. Now I'm thinking nobody claimed that money and the two baristas working that afternoon just kept it. Which of course is wrong, since I found it. But I would never keep it if somebody came looking for it, so I thought I did the right thing. I did not even think about it, my first thought was to try and find the owner of the $100. The next day I went back and the barista I gave the money to didn't even mention anything at all about the money. I'm sure she would had not forgotten about it. Plus the day I found the money I paid for my coffee and muffin with a $50 bill. The total was $8.75 and the barista behind the register asked me if I wanted my change. Ummmmm, yes? Why would I tip you over $ 40? And I just handed your co worked a $100 bill that I found on the floor. Rude. I'm going back tomorrow and I will inquire about the money. All of my friends that I asked about this told me I should had kept the money. Looking back at it, yes I should had kept it instead of giving it to some girl I don't even know.

One thing that I have learned on this journey called life and it's not a very enjoyable lesson.....is that the true friends that you have and the people you can trust in life are few. Sad. In the last couple of months I've had two people betray me that I put trust in and as late as yesterday another person very close to me turned out to be a coward and a liar. If you can't trust the people that are close to you, then who can you trust? But then again, I have lied too and withheld the truth to people for whatever reason, selfish reasons mostly.
I've even cheated on boyfriends. I can't write stuff like this and not owe up to my own faults, I don't want to be a hypocrite. So I was upset for a while last night but then I went out with my friend Mikey and had a FABULOUS time ice skating at the Cosmopolitan. For whatever reason, perhaps reasons that I can't see now, people come and go in our lives. It sucks when you get betrayed and people owe you money and stuff, so many people owe me money that it's laughable. I should start charging interest. I don't own a single person a dime, besides the bank for my house loan. If you want to learn a valuable lesson from me today that would be, DO NOT borrow money to friends or other people for that matter. Tell them to go to some sort of a loan center. Almost every time I have done so it's been a problem getting it back.. Even when I borrow something as simple as books, there has at times been a problem getting that back. Or you borrow an item in one condition and get it back broken. It's disgusting and makes me feel sick inside. Having said that, I think I know that I have some friends that really are TRUE friends and for them I am grateful and I love them.
One of those friends is Mikey. Me loves him. So last night we went ice skating and it was very windy and cold up on the roof top at the Cosmopolitan but it was so much fun to skate in Vegas high up overlooking the Sin City sky line.
We started with a spicy jalapeno drink. Yummy.















Windy!



And speaking of true friends.....both me and Mikey wished our friend Rose-Marie had been there with us last night, we miss her. But she lives in Sweden......

Two new purchases today. The December issue of Playboy with Pamela Anderson on the cover, her 14th cover and Adele's latest album 25. I love Pammie (Pamela) and her pictures in this issue are REALLY good. It helps to have a great photographer like Ellen von Unwerth that really knows her craft, also the light is your friend when taking photos, bad light can make anyone look awful unless you are a kid but I think Pam takes great pics in general and I love her smile. I guess Playboy is going through some changes next year and won't have any more full nudity pics in the magazine, I'm assuming topless will be OK still? Having said that, they do have pictorials of Miss January and Miss February 2016 and those girls are nude and here is some critique from me. Although Miss January was born in 1991 according to her Playboy data sheet, she looks like about 15-16, I think she looks like a pedophile's dream.
She looks like one of those girls they use for teen porn movies. This does not look like Playboy at all to me, she looks like a shapeless little girl not like a woman. Miss February is an improvement but in some of her pics she is posing with a cigarette. Unless you do some edgy dark themed shoot then a cigarette is just trashy. Trying to look all sexy in Playboy with a cigarette in between your fingers - NO. Trashy. Smoking is gross either way.
Pammie blows both of these girls out of the water. Her pics are gorgeous.
So of course I have Adele's 21. Not 19, I did not care for the songs on that album. But 21 is, as we all know, great and I am looking forward to hearing her latest album. I read somewhere that tons of women will be singing along loudly and sobbing to Adele's latest album while driving. Yep, that will be me. I definitely sing in the car, loudly. And sometimes I cry when doing so.

I just got back home after two hours of pleasure, I had a massage. I've been going to Cathy for years now. The $100 I give her is money well spent and some chocolate for her too since Christmas is right around the corner.





I love getting my feet rubbed, acupressure style. Rubbed, NOT tickled. Now I'm home wishing I had some ice cream. But it's cold and very windy out, I think my ice cream craving will remain a craving only tonight. Yawn.....I'm tired.

It's Saturday evening and the last day of the rodeo has arrived here in Vegas. There are many people wearing cowboy hats in town right now, doing their thing at the rodeo. Rodeos don't interest me, I think it's animal cruelty some of the stuff that I associate with rodeos. I went to one rodeo in Kenai and was bored after ten minutes.



It's going to be nice to work at a club where I can pick my own songs again. With a decent stage. For now it is what it is.
My dinner this evening consisted of, as it does several times a week, whatever the food bar at Whole Foods had to offer. I don't cook often, so Whole Foods feeds me. And Chhaya too.
She got beef from there today and yesterday.



We went to the park, as we do everyday. I have six parks around here that I rotate in between unless we venture out to Red Rock.



My house is that way, towards the mountains. Those mountains are gorgeous. If you ever visit Vegas, rent a car and go to Red Rock. Explore, go for a hike, look for the wild flowers and breathe in the desert air.

Here are some more photos from my shoot last month at Red Rock with Cindy.











And Cindy e mailed me these nice words after the shoot, "It was so great meeting you and working with you yesterday out at Red Rock. I am so very pleased with our images! It is going to be so hard to narrow them down because there are so many amazing shots we got! You are so photogenic and are so fun and easy to work with. I also really enjoyed talking with you and hearing about your interesting life and I like that you have such great interests in Burning Man and nature, etc. You are so great to work with and I love your style!"
It's like getting a nice Yelp review!
I hope to shoot with Cindy again, I rarely take pics with a woman photographer but this was a good experience, she is super cool and knows what she is doing.

Photographer Cindy Enchanted Eye Photography.
www.enchantedeyephotography.com