Welcome to Chaos !!

I spent last night watching the newly released Pinocchio by Guillermo Del Toro (I really like his movies). It was filmed here in Portland at the animation studio ShadowMachine. You can watch it at Netflix.
I HIGHLY recommend it.
I loved it.....and it is a bit sad (I cried a little). I think you should bundle up one of these evenings with some hot tea and cake or maybe some ice cream and watch Pinocchio. Take it in. It is quite a beautiful film. The story about Pinocchio was written by Italian writer Carlo Collodi.
And there is a reason for the pinecone.....
"What happens, happens. And then, we are gone."

I've done many photo shoots but today was the first glitter shoot that I participated in. I got covered in gold glitter, besides my face except for some flecks here and there. Looking back now I think we should had put more on my face....anyhow I hope we got some good shots. You just never know. It was fun and the photographer was super nice. These couple of snaps I took at the end and the glitter had started to come off.





To get the glitter off I stood on a large plastic sheet, rubbed my body with micro fiber rags (takes off the glitter kind of easy if there is such a thing as easy glitter removal) before getting dressed. Took a shower when I got home.

Today I got some more skin care stuff. I have not tried Mario Badescu yet but there was a sale at Ulta today so I decided to get the oil cleanser and the Vitamin C serum. I could not pass up this forehead skin patch by The Cream Shop. I have not tried any of this yet but I will in a bit after I take a shower.



Next on my list to get is the Triple Lipid Restore 2:4:2 by SkinCeuticals. That face creme is amazing. I tried a sample of it a while back and decided that one day I will get the full size creme.
I waxed my legs this evening and I am about to wash my hair in a bit.
I have the glitter photo shoot tomorrow.

Woke up to snow but that has all melted by now.



Decided to go shopping this afternoon. I think I am halfway done with this year's Christmas gifts. I also wanted to get a cleansing oil for my face. So I got the DHC Deep Cleansing Oil, a first time for me. Hopefully it works well. I want something that doesn't dry out my face when I wash it.
I also wanted to get La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Baume B5, I went to two Ulta locations and they were out and had none in stock. I also went to Target to look for it and they did not have it. So I will try to find it somewhere else. It is supposedly very moisturizing.
I got the La Roche-Posay Lipikar AP+M Triple Repair Moisturizing Cream (a body cream basically). I will slather it on tonight after I take a bath.
And two lip glosses by BUXOM, colors Sophia and Clair. I got a gloss for a friend as well (BUXOM Sophia).



And that was that. Came home. Made the Jennifer Aniston salad again. Decided to finally hand wash some clothes instead of just looking at them laying in a pile. Soon I will take a bath and force myself to send some work emails so I don't have to do it tomorrow. What kind of work emails? I have another job besides dancing but it is not as "exciting" as dancing so I rarely talk about it......Sometimes I am busy with that other job, other times not.

Well here we are....the last month of the year has arrived. December 1 today. It IS true, time goes faster the older you get.
Sometimes (often actually to be honest) I think that death will be a reward. No more suffering here on earth. The only thing I am worried about is to die suddenly and leave behind pets. Yes....I think that life is "suffering" in different forms. Just like the Buddhist do.
I had a photo shoot today with professional lights and all. I did a shoot with Ann last year and we were so excited and thought we looked great. Then when we saw the pictures we could not believe how terrible both of us looked, like two haggard broads that seen better days. And Ann is 27 (now) and very pretty. I could understand if I looked like an old hag in the pictures but not Ann, she has a baby face still. We did not pick out a single picture from that shoot.
There were a few OK ones but only OK. Lighting is key. Bad lighting can make even a beautiful person look haggard unless you are a teenager.
Anyhow.....I have another shoot next weekend and supposedly they will paint my whole (?) body with glitter.
Today's shoot was about off the shoulder sweaters, drinking a hot beverage by the fire and being wrapped in white fabric. I hope I managed to get a few good ones. The people that took the pictures want to take more pictures of me and they paid well.



Afterwards I went grocery shopping. I felt cute cause I had mascara on today. See for yourself.



It was cold so I put my mössa on (Swedish for hat) and one of the guy's working at Trader Joe's saw it and started talking perfect Swedish with me. He spent 15 years in Sweden, he even pronounced Stockholm (my city) just like a Swede. Impressive!



I decided to make a new salad today, the Jennifer Aniston's Salad. Yeah....a bit of a weird name for a salad but it was absolutely delicious. So if you are in the mood for a delicious salad I highly recommend it! SO GOOD.





Of course I did not put any meat in the salad. And I did not use mint, not because I don't like mint. I was too lazy to look for it when I was grocery shopping. I used everything else.....quinoa, English cucumber, pistachios, garbanzo beans, red onion, feta cheese, parsley. The salad dressing was olive oil and lemon juice. I am planning on making this salad again on Saturday. I am already looking forward to it.

There are strip clubs scattered all over Oregon and since Portland is the largest city in the state you can find most of the clubs here. There are about 30 or so clubs in Portland.....of various sizes.
Every year dancers compete in the Miss Oregon Exotic competition and I went to check out the finale last night.
I think 18 girls performed (I missed the first one) and at the end the dancer that won last year, Phoenix did her thing.
Some of the dancers were meh but some were freakin' AMAZING. Just wooooow. Upon entering Dantes, where the competition was held you got handed a plastic bead necklace to give to your fave dancer.
I had like four or five favorites, my beads went to Nia that is a dancer at the Golden Dragon. I loved her energy and her smile.
Of course she was super pretty too and a really good dancer.
Towards the end she climbed up high on the pole and she lit the ends of her heels on fire, the lights got dimmed and all you saw were sparkles flying.
In order to place in this competition you should work on a theme/presentation besides just doing the normal two songs on stage with some pole tricks. I personally look at posture, how well the girls move and pole technique. I do not like jerky fast movements, I prefer slower and seamless.
Last year's winner Phoenix put on a whole rock show last night with singing and like 20 back up dancers.
One of the presenters was 2020s winner Axel (she won doing a Clockwork Orange theme) and the other presenter was a guy that puts on all the dancer competitions around town (there are several), they referred to all the competitors as dancers which I love. All the girls were appreciated verbally. I feel that stripper is somewhat derogatory and sometimes used by people that feel they are better than "some stripper". Newsflash bitch - you ain't better. You just sorry so sit down.
Anyhow.....great evening!