Welcome to Chaos !!

This evening me and a girl I work at the cafe with (Gabi) went to Illumilatte for open mic night. We had a lavender tea latte each, very good. Watched some local musicians sing and play.



Now I am back home after a quick trip to the grocery store to get some watermelon, Chhaya eats watermelon too. We share.
Speaking of open mic and music, back in the day I so wanted my own band.
A CRAZY over the top band and I wanted the band to be called Dirty Sanchez. I think whatever I would had came up with would had been great but nobody wanted to join me in the Dirty Sanchez project. Booooooo! Now I am trying to convince Roxy to start a Dirty Sanchez band with me but she is not interested. I don't blame her....LOL! She suggested I just hold some instrument, pretend to play it and look pretty. Kind of like the girls in that Robert Palmer video...... Addicted To Love .
I guess I can stand behind a synthesizer like a female version of Nick Rhodes.
Roxy has like a small studio set up at home, I was playing and singing with her the other night. We had fun. American Idol next?

I just got home from a traditional Swedish Lucia Celebration in Las Vegas! Well, as traditional as it gets here in Vegas. There was a Lucia and tärnor and stjärngossar singing songs. Swedish traditional Jul mat (Christmas food) and glögg. I went and got food several times and some man renamed me "The Girl with the fast metabolism" and said something like "Thank You for being thin". I was like......?
I have a good appetite and I am for sure not going to hold back on my food intake when I can have Swedish food that taste like HOME. No dieting for me.
Roxy was kind enough to accompany me this afternoon, we had fun (Thank You Roxy). There was a raffle and Roxy got us tickets and she won a knitted throw in blue and yellow, the Swedish flag colors and I won a $50 gift certificate to a Mexican restaurant so I am taking us there. Yeay!
Lucia walking away. Lucia is a big deal in Sweden, I was Lucia in 6th grade.



Glögg! I got us a small cup that we split. In Sweden we usually serve it with almonds and sometimes raisins on the bottom of the cup/glass.



Lussekatt or Lussebulle.

I have more cupcakes for you.....just because they are so pretty! Perhaps working at a cafe with all kinds of sweets will make me lose some of my sweet tooth?
Today I had chai and Holiday Tea to drink, cupcakes, a cookie and lavender cream cake.



I got off at 2 PM today, went to IKEA afterwards, then home to get Chhaya and we did some errands. I now have two days off until work again on Monday.



I got really cold at work too. So I had to put on my hoodie and warm up by the oven.



I'm feeling sleepy and it's not even 9 PM! I am going to watch a Swedish program that I follow and then bundle up and walk Chhaya before I go to bed.

December has arrived. The last month of 2016......Santa is coming soon, are you ready?



I am getting there. Singing Christmas songs, getting gifts for people, feeling nostalgic, remembering childhood Christmases and others from not too long ago. Memories in my heart, memories that make me feel warm and happy.....also memories that hurt and make my eyes burn with tears and my heart ache.



Me and Chhaya went to Sunset Park this evening, to go for a walk and we brought some food for the rabbits.

I love spicy food. This salsa called "Death Salsa" is very hot. My mouth burns when I eat it. I got one for my friend Mikey and he he could not eat it, too hot for him. And today I tried the blackberry serrano Noosa. If you like yoghurt and haven't tried Noosa yet, you HAVE to - it is so creamy and delicious. Spicy yoghurt might sound a bit strange but it is surprisingly tasty, I have to try the raspberry habanero one. I am definitely a spicy food person. My Mom used to say that spicy food is really good for the stomach and intestinal flora. And fermented food like sauerkraut too, another food that I love.



And this tea I really like also (not spicy), Youthberry by Teavana......mmmmmmmmm! It's so good! And it smells heavenly.