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I love bread and I have found a delicious bread at Safeway that I love, my fave bread for a few months now. Dave's Killer Bread . It comes in many different flavors and my fave after tasting a few is the Robust Raisin. I can go through a loaf in five days, it is soooooo goood! You should try it. Also, the story behind Dave's Killer Bread is interesting......check it out if you have some time.
www.daveskillerbread.com

I worked Friday and Saturday.......This is what I had on Friday evening when I arrived at work.



After examining myself in one of the mirrors at work I decided that I have added a layer of Christmas food chunk on my body. But that will go away......if I stop scarfing down food late night at home. Easier said than done. Working more will do it too. I want more hip bone, less chunk. And yes, I went to the gym this weekend, twice.
Also, we (us girls at work) also managed to have a small disagreement at work Saturday night that got somewhat heated, more about that in another blog.



Have I showed off my two new bracelets that I got in New York at Henri Bendel? I don't think I have yet. Large crystals - I like!



It has been raining here the last two days, the roads are very slick, basically they are frozen and icy with a layer of water on top. I found that out for myself at 2 40 am Sunday morning, while driving home from work. My car ended up halfway in a ditch, I totally lost control of my truck when I made a turn. I steered one way and the truck went another. Scary. But no damages.



I have been eating berries with whipped cream every day for six days now, can't get enough. Here is a bowl of blueberries, so good!



Another thing I did, I played pull tabs (rippies) for the first time. I found out that there is a place in Soldotna called Pot Of Gold and they will give you ten free rippies a day. So you have nothing to lose, really. BAZINGA! Since I was doing errands in Soldotna Saturday I stopped at Pot Of Gold. There were a few older ladies in there, smoking and ripping up their pull tabs in a frenzy. The place would be like Soldotna's answer to Arizona Charlie's in Vegas. An old smoke filled casino notorious for the mostly older people in there gambling, glued to the slot machines, many of them hooked up to some kind of a breathing machine, still sucking down a cigarette though.
I won four additional rippies but no $. Maybe next time!?



And tonight I went and saw a movie.......Django Unchained. Not too bad. Lots of shooting, blood and guts. But an entertaining story. And I like that Jamie rode his own horse. Although I think that Quentin should have stayed behind the scenes as the director, the small role he played was acted badly. But some directors want to make a cameo in their own movies, two more that come to mind, Hitchcock and Woody Allen.

Earlier today I was getting out of my car and I saw a woman light up a cigarette in her car, no big deal.....Well the windows were rolled up and a dog was in the car with her.
A few weeks ago I saw some other woman driving and smoking with a young child in the backseat, again windows rolled up. That is SO GROSS! I remember when I was little and adults sometimes would light up a cigarette in the car, the smell was almost unbearable and I had to find a pocket of clean air somewhere so I could breathe.
I would always feel sick and queasy from the cigarette smoke. Don't these people remember how they felt about smoking BEFORE they became smokers? How bad it smelled? How gross is was to be exposed to somebody's fumes and breathe that crap in?
I think that many smokers are really selfish with their cigarette smoke and I have a really hard time with selfish people that trample through life without any consideration for others. Smoking is a great example of that. There is nothing positive about smoking, name one thing! It stinks, it's unhealthy for the smoker and everybody exposed to the second hand smoke and it is gross.
I don't know how you as a parent can drive around with your child in the car, smoking with the windows rolled up? Doesn't it occur to you that it's wrong in so many ways?
Or that poor dog that has to breathe that poisonous air?
I hope they make all bars, restaurants and yes strip clubs smoke free. You can't go to a bar without lighting up a cigarette? You have to have a smoke with your beer? Ok, then stay home and drink and smoke and let me breathe clean air. A designated area for smoking is ok as long as I don't have to be subjected to stinky carcinogenic smoke.
I actually do care about my health and my skin. Many heavy smokers look years older than they are. That is not what I am trying to look like. Thank You!
Why would you expose your kids to the things that bothered you when you were growing up? The same goes for forcing a kid to eat some food that they can't stomach. Sure kids need to eat but they have taste buds too, just like grown ups. I could not stand spinach and milk. I hated that. And guess what, my Mom would serve spinach at least a few times a month. In Sweden it's called "spenat" and it looks like a dark green mush and is served warm and I couldn't stand the taste of it. I also had to drink a glass of milk with dinner, just because it's good for you supposedly. I would force myself to drink that glass of milk at the very end of every meal and sometimes I wanted to puke it up. Talk about torture! When I was about 12 I put my foot down and my Mom finally understood that I really didn't want to eat spinach and drink milk. I could never force a child to eat something they don't like, that's wrong. It's one thing to make sure your kid eats and it's another to make it eat stuff that they don't like. I still don't drink milk by itself. I have milk in my latte, I eat cheese, yoghurt etc but a glass of milk? I would barf.

Here are some old movies that I love. I can watch them over and over again and not get tired of them.
The Breakfast Club. I don't think I could ever get tired of this masterpiece. I had a huge crush on Bender (Judd Nelson's character), he was soooooo sexy and I wanted him to be MY boyfriend!



The Lost Boys. Oooooh, I love vampire stories and this is my fave! Michael (Jason Patric) was so hot. Kiefer Sutherland was PERFECT in his role as David and I was IN LOVE with Corey Haim, he was so cute!



Weird Science. One word.....Kelly LeBrock as Lisa. Girl crush! Kelly is still beautiful, once beautiful always beautiful, if you live your life right......
I remember thinking that people were wearing some funny looking outfits in this movie. And I thought it was strange and gross that people in the US walked around inside their house with shoes on. Especially shoes in bed. YUCK! That was unthinkable for me, I was in Sweden when these movies came out and I watched them a while after they got released here. I still would never walk around my house with shoes. And I am in the US now. Kelly looks the best towards the end of the movie as the new gym teacher in those high tops, gray leggings and that leotard. Yum!

I got an email from a girl asking what hair color I use. You might wonder......."does Tatiana color her hair?" YES, I do! I don't change my hair color, I hide my gray hair. I have written about this before but I don't remember mentioning any specific products. I got my first gray (or do you spell it grey?) hairs around 18. It's supposedly hereditary (the premature graying), the Chinese believe it has to do with the kidneys and the blood in the liver. Could be true......when I was three I was hospitalized for a lengthy stay, something was severely wrong with what the doctors thought was my liver. I was very sick.
So what I do is I only color the gray areas, the new regrowth. I have an area where I have a larger spot of gray, on the right side of my head and some more spread throughout. Not my full head.....yet. LOL. This is only further proof of my high intelligence! And if you don't think that girls color their hair whether it is to change the color or camouflage their gray hair, think again.
I heard that Jennifer Lopez colors her gray regrowth every nine days. I am not as diligent......
I usually do it about every five weeks or so.
I use Argan Oil Hair Color by One 'N Only. And the 20 Volume developer by the same brand.
I mix three different shades together to match my own hair color as closely as I can. You do not have to go to a salon and spend lots of money to color your gray hair. I have been doing it at home myself and my hair looks fine. You need a brush for applying the developer and the color, that you mix together in a bowl according to the directions.
Remember to use a good deep conditioner once in a while. I like the Morrocan Oil products. Make sure you leave in the deep conditioner for at least 30 minutes. Also you can coat your hair in coconut oil, massage the oil into your scalp and sleep with it overnight. Guys can do this too!
I think that blow drying, flat ironing, over styling and over bleaching is what damages the hair the most. I never blow dry my hair. And I use a wide tooth comb when I brush it. I don't use hairspray or any other styling products either.
Before I found the Argan Oil Hair Color I used Clairol Deep Conditioning with Soy Complex.
It was good too but I like the Argan Oil better, it feels nicer - more gentle and rich. You can find them both at Sally Beauty Supply. And before I used the Clairol I used box colors that I got at the grocery store, like L'Oreal .
There are companies that are trying to develop a pill that will reverse the gray hair to it's original color, there are some pills out on the market already. I would maybe consider trying a pill like that if it worked for sure and if the side effect weren't too severe, like explosive diarrhea......
NOT good for work! I would have to charge extra for a lap dance with a shart ending.
At least $ 60.

There is a giant stalagmite icicle outside my house, me and Chhaya discovered it today, it's at the back of the house and I haven't been back there for over a week. What did I do today?
Took Chhaya for a long walk. Ate a lot, I am being a food monster again. Watched movies. Chewed on my cuticles. Once in a while I chew on every finger, don't know why. Once I start I can't stop but I think I'm done now - for this time. I also think my lazy "vacation" is over. It's time to get serious with work and the gym. Let's see if I can keep that promise......HA!



So Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) tickets for Vegas went on sale yesterday. They (Insomniac) actually had an early ticket sale back in November when a limited amount of tickets got released and sold out in like 40 minutes. This year they are only selling three day passes. And that costs
$ 289 plus service fees for general admission, so a total of $ 326. I don't think that's ok. Last year you could buy one day passes, although I did go all three days and it was about $ 100 cheaper.
I know a few people that won't go this year because they think the price is too steep. I also think that they should reveal the lineup at the same time the tickets go on sale. I have no doubt that the rave (or massive or party like you call it nowadays) will be amazing and feature many great dj's but I don't think they are doing the ticket sales right this year. So I doubt that I am going.......in Vegas. Instead I am planning on going to EDC in Chicago with Angelica! That is going to be SO MUCH fun, she loves HOUSE music as much as I do and Chicago and HOUSE go way back. I got it confirmed from a reliable source that EDC will happen in Chicago in May.
Unless something goes wrong, like the venue falls through.....or something. And I have another event planned for the end of August, we'll see.......
Here is a pic of me and Angelica at EDC in Los Angeles 2008.