Entries by TATIANA

Today me, Julia and Chhaya went to the park where we walk several times a week. That park is the home to a group of feral cats, although they are rather well taken care of by animal lovers that feed them and give them water on a regular basis I thought it would be nice if we would feed them too. So that is how we started our day today, by feeding the cats. I just got six small cans at Whole Foods for the cats to eat. And Julia had a bottle of Fiji.



You can see two of the cats behind Chhaya, they are scared of dogs and waited until we were further away before approaching the food and start eating.



Here is Julia preparing the food for the cats.



Then we went to these places in following order.....Paper Source, Sambalatte, Victoria's Secret and then home to change clothes for an evening hike at Red Rock.







We caught the last rays of the sun disappearing behind the mountain inside this heart we made from our hands......

I got ready and drove to work only to be told I could not work without showing them a copy of my business license. See in Vegas you need to shell out $200/year for a business license if you are going to be an exotic dancer here. You have to renew it yearly too for $200. My old one just expired (March 31) and I renewed it last week but tonight I forgot to bring in the copy of my new license. I just thought it would be OK since I have it technically.....but no. They need to actually SEE a copy of it and put it on file. Otherwise the club could get in trouble. Oh well. I'll just go back to work tomorrow. Or Friday.



I was kind of happy to return home. See last night I discovered a new ice cream flavor (for me). Limoncello by Häagen-Dazs. So on the way home I had to stop and get some more.
The best. Be warned, all you ice cream lovers out there - it's addicting! I'm very happy at home in bed with my ice cream. Oh and I have the latest Adbusters too. So I'm feeling quite content tonight.

Last week I went on a booze binge. Seriously. Well, at least for me because I rarely drink.
So Wednesday after I went on my road trip I was craving a beer so I stopped and got one on the way home. Thursday I went out and had a drink at some bar called Vesper inside the Cosmopolitan. Kind of posh and totally my style. I had something called Moscow Mule and it was good. I did enjoy that drink.



Friday I went to eat at Pizza Rock, I need to go there again for the pizza, it was SO good.
I ordered a pomegranate margarita because the rim of the glass supposedly has lavender salt around it and I love lavender because in Sweden we have a candy called Viol that I LOVE. Anyhow, the margarita was kind of yucky so I drank about half and the lavender salt did not taste like Viol. Saturday night I went bowling and had a few sips of beer and a few sips of White Russian. That's a lot of boozing for me!



Today I'm nursing my hangover with a latte......no, I don't have a hangover really. So I'm sitting outside sipping on a latte and painting my toes.



I am a fun tipsy person. I can't recall last time I was actually drunk. That was a loooooong time ago. And I don't think it's fun to be drunk. What's the point really? And I don't think it's enjoying to be around drunk people either. Tipsy in a fun way - yes. But when people get obnoxious, angry, aggressive, pushy, have a chip in their shoulder that they all of a sudden want to talk about, engage in scary behavior......all of that and more when they get too much alcohol in them, then I don't want to be there anymore. I don't like that at all. Anyhow.
It's Monday. Not sure what I'm doing this afternoon yet.

Next month it will be two years since I got my Samsung Galaxy 3. I dropped it a few times too many and last year at some point before Burning Man I just dropped it enough so the screen cracked over the camera and I could not take selfies anymore in "selfie mode". DISASTER!
I had to hold the phone reversed to take a selfie and that's what I've been doing and it's annoying cause I don't see what I'm doing and the selfies or whatever I'm trying to capture on picture is not to my liking. I mean, just look at the pic in the previous blog with me and Chhaya in bed, I don't think I really look that awful but whatever......I still take the pics and put them on the blog. Yes.....I'm talking about extremely important stuff here on Easter Sunday like selfies but I don't celebrate Easter, so why not right? And trust me.....my world revolves around much more than selfies and pics of myself. I'm not a Kartrashian but I do like pictures. Of myself. And a plethora of other objects. If you would spend a day with me you would soon notice that I take lots of pictures of all kinds of stuff. Even a crack in a wall can look interesting.
My phone is called "the selfie machine" and I've been thinking about getting a new one since my contract is up for renewal and you used to be able to get a new phone every two years when renewing your contract. Not anymore I guess!? At least not with AT&T. Now you have to BUY the phone or make payments until it's payed off. What is up with that shit? I wanted a Samsung 6 when it comes out in a few days but it looks like the price tag on that will be over $500 (although I'm not quite sure about the exact price). And that is a lot for a phone I think, although I do use my phone everyday and often. But still. I can think of a few more things I'd rather spend $500 on.....massages and facials for example. Well, yesterday I carefully peeled of some of the cracked plastic covering the camera eye on my phone (cause it cracked even more after the last time I dropped it) and voilà (!) my selfie machine is back in action! YEAY!
I don't know how long this will last though.....Until I drop it again or some desert dust gets in there, or something like that? I do have a sturdier cover for my selfie machine......a pink cover but it's somewhere in Kenai packed away. And I'm in Vegas.
Anyhow, to celebrate the rebirth of my selfie machine.....here are the two first pics I took with it. Now we're talking.....this looks more like ME.





And this is what my cracked selfie machine looks like now. Cracked but working again so I'm happy!



HAPPY EASTER everybody!

Hello and good morning from me and Chhaya. Well, Chhaya took her time getting up this morning, as you can see she had no intention of even moving when I took this pic. She had to go out and pee around 9 am and then we went back to sleep until noon sometime. I went to get some breakfast at Sambalatte and now I'm outside on the patio writing this and Chhaya is napping in the sun. Like a large lazy lizard.



Yesterday around 6 pm we went to Red Rock for a walk, as always it was so nice there.
The desert is actually blooming right now, there is a green shimmer everywhere and the wildflowers are out and the cacti have colorful flowers. It's BEAUTIFUL. People who say that the desert is boring have never seen it blooming.



Chhaya had a great time. Look at that happy face! When she is happy, I am happy.

Since I haven't been to China Ranch by Tecopa, CA in some time now I decided to take a road trip out there the other day. It was too hot to hike all the way to Slot Canyon. This is right by Death Valley, so it gets hot. All we did was lounge around the gift shop at China Ranch, got the mandatory date shake and went for a shorter walk. I was tempted to start walking to Slot Canyon but having Chhaya with me and not knowing exactly how bothered she would be by the heat I decided it was better not to go. Chhaya comes first. She had a fun day sniffing around China Ranch. She loves road trips and fun adventures.







Pretty mosaic steps.



And here is a view of the Tecopa mud baths from up on the hill.



And Chhaya right by the mud bath pool.



Although I have soaked in the mud baths many times with no incidents.....the last time I did so I was bit by something. Something got into my skin and I itched and was red in certain areas for about a week. I don't know when this sign about the mud mites came up, because it was not there last time I visited. But it makes sense now what caused the itching - mud mites. I also did not shower afterwards either, I fell asleep on the couch and I think that had something to do with it. Maybe you need to rinse off as soon as you can afterwards. So I decided to stay out of the mud baths this time. Chhaya too. I don't have time for red and itchy skin right now and neither do I want an itchy puppy. Don't let my mud mite experience deter you from getting in the mud baths though. I know plenty of people that have enjoyed them without any complications. Like I said, I think I got itchy because I didn't take a shower when I got home. I've had mud mites once before. I was in the middle of nowhere in Nevada by a place called Diana's Punchbowl. I dipped myself in a shallow pool of warm water and when I got out I was SUPER itchy and had red welts on my skin. It was immediate too. Gross!





I LOVE Nevada, can't wait to explore more of this beautiful state soon.