Entries by TATIANA

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Zion, Utah for a hike called "The Narrows".
The bottom of The Grand Canyon, Arizona
Havasupai Falls Grand Canyon.
Thailand.
Machu Picchu, Peru.
Portillo ski resort, Chile. And Chile in general.
Various countries in Africa. Participate in an Iboga ceremony is something Tatiana wants to do. Meet Maasai people.
Burning Man, Nevada.
The Great Wall, China.
Japan.
India.
More raves.
And visit, see and experience hot springs, water falls, mountains, hikes, forests, deserts, oceans etc. ALL over.
The World is an amazing place!

Tatiana slept until 1 pm........got up and managed to tan (totally nekkid of course, who wants tan lines?) outside for about 30 minutes before the sun decided to hide behind a large mass of clouds and the wind picked up.
Then it was time to walk around Arc Lake, but Tatiana and Chhaya call it Eagi Lake because there are a ton of eagles hanging out there. Really. If you are into bird watching, that is the place to be. Lots of fish jumping in that lake too. Chhaya loves that place.
Tatiana is also trying to talk Chhaya into adopting a boy pitbull. That would be soooooo cute, Chhaya could have a friend and a boyfriend! But Tatiana senses that Chhaya is not totally sold on the idea, Chhaya is a very territorial young lady. But Tatiana would love to add another pit to the family, like a two year old boy, he could keep Chhaya company and play tug with her, that would be good.
Then Tatiana felt hungry, so she went and got food. Today's meal consisted of a sandwich, rhubarb pie and an iced vanilla latte with whipped cream.
Lately Tatiana has been craving some new books to read, it's been only gossip and fashion mags lately. Tatiana should fill you in on the latest gossip and what she thinks about it. But anyway.....so Tatiana found some books that she is going to read. Not much beats the company of a good book.
"Princess" by Jean Sasson. It's a true story about a princess in Saudi Arabia. Tatiana loves reading about people in other places, interesting.
The other book is "The Harvard Psychedelic Club" by Don Lattin. The title speaks for itself. Tatiana loves to soak up all kinds of knowledge on this subject, psychedelics. Books make Tatiana happy.
Later on Tatiana is going to wash her hair and get ready for work. It is time for a trim, Tatiana hair is getting to be really long. Last time she had a cut, the girl that cut her hair took off 3 inches, this time Tatiana is trimming no more than 1 inch.
Tatiana often gets asked if she ever cuts her hair or if she always had long hair. Yes, she usually gets two, sometimes three hair cuts a year. Not much though. She does not take off more than 2 inches, she thought 3 inches was too much, she felt weird after she cut that much. And no, Tatiana has not always had long hair. But for a while now. In Sweden it was kind of short at some point, then longer but far from as long as now. When Tatiana came to the US and lived in sunny California, she noticed that her hair started growing really fast and she just suddenly ended up with long hair, she likes it and she is keeping it for now.
Tatiana watched "Ellen" today. Ellen is still in the top of Tatiana's girl crush list, she is SO cute and funny! What the heck Ellen......you should get rid of Portia and start dating Tatiana. More fun! Install a stripper pole in your house and let Tatiana show you some real moves.
Another current girl crush is Rihanna. She is YUMMY. Face and body. Tatiana would totally date her.

Managed to crawl out of bed about 20 minutes ago. Chhaya made a point of curling up right next to me and be extra cuddly so I stayed in bed longer and enjoyed her warm, furry body.
It is gray and cold out. It is supposedly really warm and sunny in Sweden, like 80 degrees something (27 -30 Celsius) everybody is wearing shorts and is laying out tanning, eating strawberries.........nice.......! I am jealous, I want to be laying out in the sun too! So far I got two tanning sessions in but it was still a little chilly to lay out.
I am going to brush Chhaya's teeth now and then we will probably drive to the beach for a little walk. Then I am going to decide on what to eat and later on I am going to work.
OK, time to get going.......
Byeeeeeeeeee !

Yesterday Tatiana had a talk with one of her friends that lives in Sweden. She told Tatiana how she had asked some guy to pick up some litter she had witnessed him throw on the ground, though there was a trash can close by. Tatiana likes that her friend opened her mouth and said something, it's easy to just look the other way. But she was right!
Tatiana can't stand people that litter. It's gross. Pick up your trash already. If everybody would do THEIR part, picking up the litter they cause, then there wouldn't be any random litter laying around. How difficult can it be?
It is so nasty to find beer cans and bottles in the forest. That is just lazy and nasty.
Tatiana does her part with the littering. And she recycles now, glass, plastic, aluminum cans. There are probably many areas she could improve in. But she is not going to hop on a bike and pedal back and forth to work on the side of the highway anytime soon.

It often takes a long time before litter from the environment disappears.

* Paper and paperboard: 6 months
* Cigarette butts: 2–5 years
* Plastic (PET) Soda Bottles: 5–10 years
* Plastic shopping bags: 10–30 years
* Gum: 20–25 years
* Polystyrene chip wrapping: 90 years
* Tin Can: 80–100 years
* Aluminum Can: 200–400 years
* Six pack bottle wrapping: 450 years
* Golf ball: 100–1000 years

Or some cute, innocent animal might mistake that gum for food and die from eating it.

That would be sad, right?
Tatiana likes the anti littering laws in Singapore. Heavy fines and sometimes community service.