Entries by TATIANA

I did not want to get out of bed today......but I had to because of my commitment to Pet Pack. Sundays means Pet Pack for me, not every Sunday but most. Today I had to pick up a donation from Mud Bay. This is a chain of amazing pet stores. And they are very generous, they donate weekly to us. Today Mud Bay donated several bags of kibble for dogs and cats. Canned food. Toys. And a large brand new crate on wheels. I loaded up my car with everything and headed for Stumptown to get a latte.



At Stumptown they clipped my coffee card with nine stamps because I brought in my own mug. That means I will get a free latte next Sunday! Generous! Stumptown is my fave coffee shop in Portland.

The art theme for Burning Man 2023 was announced a few weeks ago - Animalia.
The first time I went to Burning Man was in 2013 after years of wanting to go. That first time I decided that I was going to try to go 10 years in a row as a start.....if I am lucky enough to be there next year that will be my 10 year in a row at Black Rock City in Nevada.
In 2020 I went to Baker Beach in San Francisco for the gathering there (Baker Beach is the place where the first Burning Man happened). In 2021 I went to Renegade Burn/Free Burn which was held at the regular location in Nevada. So if I do not count 2020 Baker Beach, then next year will be my 10th year.
And Animalia is so far my FAVORITE art theme so I am feeling EXTRA excited over it. I love animals and I hope with this this theme, which will be interpreted in many different ways of course because it is Burning Man after all, but I am hoping that it will bring more understanding and compassion for our fellow friends here on this planet -the animals. I think the future is vegetarian/vegan. In the future I think majority of the human population will look back at history and be disgusted with our treatment of animals.

Well I tested positive for COVID, I tested at home with one of those test kits that got sent out to every household a while back. This might be the second time I have COVID, the first time was almost two years ago, mid November 2020. So sit back and relax and I will tell you about all my COVID ailments just like your older auntie in Queens would do.
The first time (in 2020) I was sick for about three days. I did not get tested. I was basically sleeping, slurping soup and drinking tea the whole time I was sick. It's been two years after all and I don't really remember all the symptoms. But it was similar to this time around. Just like your older Auntie in Queens, I am now older and have started to develop some age related memory loss.
But here I am on day four, still alive and kicking and I can tell you ALLLLLL about my COVID symptoms.
Monday I started feeling a tickle in my throat which developed into a full on body ache, my eye sockets even ached, chills, all the hair follicles on my legs and arms ached throughout the night, the muscles in my back ached and I did not sleep well. I probably had a fever too but my thermometer is broken so I do not know for sure but my body felt hot. I took two headache pills the first full day/night with COVID.
Somebody please send Tati a thermometer!
Tuesday it all continued but instead of chills at night I was sweating. Another night of poor sleep. Oh and LOTS of peeing throughout this whole ordeal. Wednesday I woke up feeling OK, still felt sick but not that sick but later towards the evening I started sneezing and coughing.
And today is Thursday, the coughing and sneezing is accompanied by a runny nose. It actually hurts in my throat to sneeze. And my cough is deep. My nose feels hot inside, the right nostril feels sore. My hair follicles on my scalp are achy. My lips are chapped on the inside of the mouth somehow.
Have I been sick like this before? Yes I have. As far as I can remember. It feels like a full on cold/flu.
And in case you do not know yet.....I belong to the minority of unvaccinated people.



I might entertain you with some more sick stories one day. I have noticed that some people love to talk about their sicknesses and ailments. I don't really relate to them but to each their own.
I will continue this evening with blowing my nose and hopefully tomorrow I will be almost back to normal.

It rained like all day yesterday Halloween. I did not do much besides go out to a project I am working on to check out the progress on things. I love Halloween but I have not felt super enthusiastic about it lately. This is as festive as it got for me this year.....basically that is as festive as it has been for the last couple of years. Good for the people that have the energy to go all out with fun Halloween decorations.



And then I started feeling sick yesterday, it came on slowly like a tickle in my throat and yesterday evening I was just SICK. Like fever (I think), my eye sockets are hurting, body aches, every hair follicle on my arms and legs feels sore, chills. I am about to drink something cold and take another headache pill and hopefully get some rest. I could not get comfortable last night.

I am a happy human today, I saw BERNIE live! The minute I found out he was going to be in Portland I decided that I was going to be where he was planning on being which happened to be the Roseland Theatre.



I really like Bernie. I am of course a socialist, well actually a hardcore communist. On my spare time I devour The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. I can quote passages from those two masterpieces in my sleep. Well actually I am more of a HUMANIST neohippie if I would describe myself as anything. A humanist since a teenager, that was the direction my studies took in school in Sweden and a neohippie going on two decades now. The other day somebody I discussed politics with called me a Libertarian. In the end I am a human being.
Bernie spoke eloquently, with confidence and clearly. At 81 years "old" he sure has a lot of spunk. THAT is GOALS to me, true goals instead of dreaming of having an ass like Kim K and similar bullshit to that.







Politics is a very complicated subject. I hate huge amounts of money is necessary to reach anywhere politically in the US. And just like you cannot agree with everything an individual does and says you cannot agree with every choice and statement a politician stands for and has made in the past.
But overall I agree with what Bernie stands for and I think it is time for affordable health care for all, women should decide on their own regarding their own reproduction, education should be low cost and so should child care, rent should be affordable and I believe in caring for the environment because we only have this one planet that is housing us all. GO BERNIE! I wish he was the president of the United States. And me the VP.

It has been soooooo nice outside all of October so far, almost summer like. But according to the weather report the rain is lurking around the corner. Like tomorrow or so. I wore my flip flops this evening, one more day. Holding on to one more day of flip flop weather. I took in all my spring and summer garden decorations today, in case it does start raining tomorrow.



It has been so warm that the trees are still green although the leaves are falling.



The flowers are still vibrant.



And one more picture.....I like that lone light shining in the midst of the trees.



I am laying in bed yawning and ready for sleep......trying to come up with some other stuff to write about but I am too tired.