Entries by TATIANA

On the way back from Burning Man I stopped by Crater Lake, that's in Oregon. First of all, Oregon is a beautiful place, I need to spend more time there. I know there must be some amazing hot springs and hikes there and I need to explore more of Oregon. Crater Lake is magical. The color of the water is a blue I have never seen before, rich, deep and intense.
No picture I have is making the place any justice.....





The island out in the lake is called Wizard Island, a very fitting name. I can just imagine a Harry Potter style wizard living there with a few owls as company.
I explored the surroundings for a few hours.

















My dream right now is to get an RV, travel around the country and see beautiful sights, go for hikes and visit hot springs. Stop for a latte at cute or interesting cafes. Take my time, enjoy, dip my toes in the ocean, lakes and streams. Gaze at a sky full of stars in a forest somewhere. Fall asleep to the sound of chirping crickets and the wind rustling through the trees. All of that and more.

LOVE. ❤

I am very excited to announce that it's Breaking Bad time for me again. I am going to watch the whole show from the beginning until the end and savor every second. I loooooove Breaking Bad, I think it's the best stuff ever. Even better than Dallas that was my fave when I was little, oh and Little House On The Prairie too of course. When I was little (young teen or tween can't recall exactly) they would show Dallas on Swedish television and I thought Dallas was great, I was fascinated of what I saw. Everybody was so pretty (Pam and Lucy were my faves) there were horses and a ranch - in my mind back then Dallas was the way to live life. Never would I had imagined then that I would live in the US in the future, building up to having my own Dallas kind of life.....oh yes it's going to happen.
I'm not the only Breaking Bad fan, have you read Anthony Hopkins open fan letter to Bryan Cranston (that plays the fantastic Mr Walter White in the show)? If not, you should. Here are some snippets, "I have never watched anything like it. Brilliant! Your performance as Walter White was the best acting I have seen - ever. Thank you. That kind of work/artistry is rare, and when, once in a while, it occurs, as in this epic work, it restores confidence. You and all the cast are the best actors I've ever seen."
I have to say I agree. The plot and the acting - superb. I love Walter and I love Jesse.
LET'S COOK!



And before anybody's crappy imagination starts running wild. It's freakin' baking soda and food coloring OK? I have humor, if you don't - too bad for you.

This will be my last entry about my Burning Man 2014 experience. To sum it up - I had lots of fun, I was happy, it was amazing, I want to go again and I'm very grateful that I had the opportunity to go and experience Burning Man again.











If you want to read more about it, check out Sarah Wonderhussy's fantastic blog here
We camped together this year again.



GRATEFUL. THANK YOU! ❤ ❤ ❤



Some parting words that I read somewhere, I don't know who the author is......

"Come with an open mind and an open heart. Let go of any sort of agenda or expectation and you will be right where you need to be."

I'm not quite done yet with my Black Rock City experience.....I have a few more pics to share.



If you know me then you know that I don't like littering and I care, or try to at least......care for the environment. I mean if I was a true environmentalist I would not fly, so maybe next year I just bike to Burning Man? Yeah right, I'm hoping for an RV again! Well, I had to take a pic with this because it's so me and a few days later a couple of Black Rock City Earth Guardian volunteers came up to me and gave me a green bracelet and appointed me a Black Rock City Earth Guardian. That's right! Speaking of volunteering, so far I have arrived at Burning Man and enjoyed everything that was there, so generously awaiting me, at my fingertips. I might volunteer next year. MIGHT. Do not hold me to it but I have an idea of what I want to volunteer for! Leave No Trace, a message to live by everywhere you go!



This was the first day......it's been 24 days already since that first day. Going into Center Camp. Me from the front.



And the back.



Mooooore pics of me and......stuff.











At the deep Playa I found a very interesting medicine cabinet. A free for all fest. All kinds of goodies, I grabbed fistfuls.



I stopped at the Census wall of information, lots of interesting stuff to read. And I even completed the Black Rock City Census this year.

I attended the same two burns this year at Burning Man as last, the burning of the Man and the Temple. The Man got set on fire Saturday night and I made sure to take some pics of me in front if the colossus in the daytime. They start preparing the Man for the burn on Saturday by stacking up firewood and fencing off the area.



In the evening a large crowd gathers in a circle around the Man. There is a pre burn ceremony with fire dancers and stuff but I didn't catch much of that.



Then the Man slowly starts raising his arms and everybody cheers......



Me in the crowd.



The Man burnt for a looooong time, it was a very stubborn Man this year. I'm not sure how long I was sitting there watching the flames but I'm stubborn too and I decided I wasn't going to move until I saw the Man fall. And finally there was the collapse......



This was what was left the next evening, some parts, ashes, smoke and heat. Kind of weird.....you watch the whole thing unfold and then it's over just like that. Like life. Hmmmmm.......that is depressing actually.

I woke up to rain. The rain is never ending. I start taking Chhaya for a walk and then it's starts pouring down, annoying. What is good though is this years Permanent Fund Dividend amount, the third largest since the program started. Not bad.



This is what I am going to do with my money, save and many invest some of it. So I have some for a rainy day.
And here is what I think other people should do with it. If you have kids I think you should use the money on your kids, either save for their future (it is THEIR money after all, everybody that is eligible and filed the paperwork will get the money, even children) or buy them stuff they need. Do not spend your child's money to buy booze, drugs, some sort of a motor vehicle for your new boyfriend (yes people do this, I'm not making it up) and other bullshit purchases like that.
And to everybody else with no urgent responsibilities, spend some of it on me and my girlfriends. I promise I won't spend my earnings on a motor vehicle for a guy. On the other hand, I want a new body chain and a new nice purse.

Now to something serious and disgusting. A dairy farm in New Mexico (Winchester Dairy) is being investigated after a video surfaced of a large amount of farm workers abusing the cows. Stabbing the cows with objects such as screwdrivers, whipping them with chains and metal wires, punching and kicking them and shocking them in the genitals with electric prods. YES, you read it right. FUCKING animal abusers, I want people like that to either be put to death or spend the rest of their miserable lives in prison, in a hard labor Siberian style work camp. This was secretly filmed by an animal rights group called Mercy For Animals.
THANK YOU I say to Mercy For Animals, I admire people like that.
It's one thing if you work at a dairy farm or some other place that handles animals for our consumption and it's another if you abuse these animals. These animals deserve and should live good lives, they give us A LOT. I HATE people like these, yes I feel hate. I would not hesitate for a second to inflict severe injuries on one of them if I witnessed something like this with my own eyes. This makes me furious and sick.
I think they need to make the laws stricter and punishments more severe. Cameras all over in all places that handle animals should be required by law, recording 24/7 with live streaming on the net, open for everybody that is interested to be able to view. If you have nothing to hide, if you treat the animals well, then you would have NO problems with cameras recording. Right?

I myself was involved in a minor incident at PetCo the other day. I observed a large behemoth of a "man" handle his dog in a manner that I thought was unnecessary and harsh.
I intervened nicely. He basically told me to fuck off and mind my own fucking business and I told him that what I just witnessed was my fucking business. If you weigh 300 lbs you do not need to manhandle a scared dog that weighs 50 lbs at the most. I never have to mistreat Chhaya, neither would I want to. The behemoth had a little girl and a woman with him, not sure what relation they had to him but they did not say a word, just looked at me with big eyes. I bet he manhandles them too at home, if that was his family.
It is everybody's human responsibility to say something when they see a defenseless person or animal get mistreated, by doing that you made it MY business. I am not scared of any large burly dudes, bring it! I would love to see you spend some time locked up.