Entries by TATIANA

My friend Jim gave me a mosquito zapper the other day (Thank You!) and I put it up. I don't know if I have seen any reduction in the amount of mosquitoes yet, there are plenty out there still. I live in the forest with many areas of standing water surrounding the house, the water is a breeding ground for mosquitoes. When I let Chhaya out after sundown she comes back home with so many mosquitoes on her, it's absolutely gross, I swat her with a towel and then I walk around the house several times a day and swat the walls with the same towel, there are dead mosquitoes all over the house. BARF! First I felt bad for killing them, because I take out all other insects (even flies) but now I just kill them. I don't care anymore. I even got bit on my eyelid twice while sleeping in the last couple of months, woke up with a swollen eye. Sometimes I can hear them at night, the bzzzzzzz noise coming closer and closer. I think they are so gross!

I didn't get out of bed until 1 45 pm today. That's late.....even for me! I worked last night and I stayed until 4 I think and when I was driving home I was soooooo tired I had a hard time keeping my eyes open. I was going to work tonight too but I have to get up early tomorrow and take care of some stuff in Anchorage and I need to be out of the house by 8 am, so if I work tonight I won't get many hours of sleep and I don't like to drive long distances when I'm tired. So I'm staying in. Good, feel kind of sluggish anyways. Is it possible to have jetlag this long? I might go for a run later, might as well take advantage of the gorgeous weather and the late night sun.....in a few months it will be dark by 9 pm again.
This was me today. I did some errands in town earlier. Got groceries, food for Chhaya, checked my PO BOX, got a latte at Kaladi - the usual.


And this is my new purse for work. Pippi! And I have two Pippis hanging off it, decorations. Plus I have the exact same purse for outside of work too since my other purse now has a broken zipper. I still have my Hello Kitty purse for work, I'm going to alternate. Why not.



OK.....I have to change into some other clothes now and go running, I have to force myself but I know it's going to feel great afterwards. Then I'm going to enjoy a bath, scrub myself all over, slather on lotion and go to sleep. Oh I almost forgot, I have the latest issue of TIME magazine to devour also....it's going to be a nice and cozy evening at home!

It's a new day today and life goes on, right? And it's July 1! Like we say in Sweden....."Sommaren är kort, den nästan rinner bort." Last night I stayed at home and felt sad and lonely, I ate chocolate and read a bunch of blogs. Today I woke up feeling better, the sun was shining and although I miss everybody in Sweden and feeling homesick.....I have something to look forward to when I go back home again.
Today I met up with a friend at Coffee Roasters and then we went for a walk and went down to the beach......that was nice. And it was even warm enough outside that I could tan for a while when I got back home.

I am very very homesick today.....not feeling that great at all. I know that going somewhere on vacation is way different than actually living there because I was complaining and being bored with everyday life when I lived in Stockholm too. That's normal I think, especially when you are in the midst of winter. But NOTHING.....NOTHING is as boring as Kenai. At least for me. I'm sure Kenai is a perfectly fine place for a lot of people but not for me. I'm not going to expand on the Kenai is a boring place topic any more this time around. I am homesick and that's that. I miss my friends and actually DOING stuff because there are plenty of things to do in Stockholm and I also miss walking around in City. I put some new stuff from Sweden in the kitchen window......



What else can I write about? O yeah, I had to get a new passport while I was in Sweden. Therefore I had to get measured.....I was curious to see if I had shrunk since the last time but I I'm the same.



And I was also curios to see what I weighed in actual kilos. There is an old scale at the gym here in Kenai, the kind where you have to move the little weight around to balance it out.....
I don't know how to use that stuff and I don't know what I weigh in pounds either......so I stepped on my brothers scale and it said 61.9 kilos. Now I know.



Well.....I'm going to start my day now. I have a few things on my to do list.

Today's very important question at Kaladi was whether you prefer blondes or brunettes.....hmmmmm.....I do not have a preference so I put a dollar in each jar. My number one girl is still Rihanna. I met up with Daisee at Kaladi, we sat there and talked for a while, then I did some errands and came home. I worked last night but I forgot my selfie machine (phone) in the car so no pics from last night. By 1 am I was so tired I could barely keep my eyes open, I am still on Stockholm time. By 3 30 am I finally left after asking several times if I could leave already due to me being tired, there were plenty of girls and nobody spending any money when I left, so it's not like I left at a bad time. My other question (to no one in particular, so do not feel obligated to preach a sermon to me like somebody already did a few times.....spare me that, thanks) or should I say thought is.....if dancers are so called independent contractors or self employed like most clubs like to refer us as, meaning we do not get an hourly salary from the club we work at, no form of insurance, no 401k etc etc, then we should be able to arrive to work and leave whenever we want, right? Or are dancers employees? There should be no fines implemented on dancers for "being late" or a NO when we want to leave the club for whatever reason. This is why girls are now suing clubs all over the country and actually winning the lawsuits, not because some judge is feeling sorry for the dancers, simply because the clubs (club owners) are breaking the law. Just a small observation. Girls are talking. I guess they are fed up with being treated as disposable doormats with no rights. And rightfully so.
YAWN.....again, I'm tired. Taking Chhaya out now.

Oh.....and if you want to read a bit more about dancers and whether they are considered employees of a club or independent contractors, I found a recent article. That might shed some light on the constant dilemma.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/judge-pin-ups-strippers-are-employees-not-independ/ncbyS

Ooooooh today we have a beautiful summer time day here. I just got back home from a walk with Chhaya, she is panting because it's hot outside.
I am trying to decide if I should work or not. When it's nice out like it is right now, going into work feels like torture almost......I might go for a run right now and see how I feel about work after that.