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3 weeks of Sweden

Damn, time went by way too fast in Sweden. I got back to Mexico last night. It felt like I came to Sweden, celebrated Easter by visiting different friends and eating lots of candy, jetlagged, more friends & family time, had surgery, recovered pretty much, and then jumped on a plane back home again.

I was lucky that Sweden for once had pretty decent spring weather. The week before it could be sunny at noon and snowing a couple of hours later. Between all of the Easter meals my sister and I needed a walk. Something that runs in my family is that we can all sleep pretty much anywhere, at any time. This dock with a bench was a perfect nap spot 🙂

Right after Easter I had my consultation for a lower facelift. I probably could’ve waited a couple of more years for more saggy skin to pull up, but I’m not much for waiting when I want to do something. I was recommended a German surgeon whom my friend said he’s all about German precision. I was happy with the consultation and a surgery date was booked. All went great and I’m very happy. I will write a different post about this and show pics. Still have some bruising and swelling so waiting for final results 🙂

Something that’s great about Stockholm is there’s a lot of nature close to the city. I love being out in the woods. With my sister and 2 friends we hiked from Huddinge and checked out Tornberget. It’s a 10 meter high construction in the middle of the woods. It’s the highest spot in Stockholm – 111 meters above sea level, with great views from the top.

I always feel so happy when I’m in the woods and I try to make it a priority to spend more time outdoors hiking or camping. If I had to pick between a week hiking trip or say a beach vacation, I’d pick hiking and being outdoors any day.

After hiking we went to Karina’s summer house where they have a sauna right by a lake. Wow, perfect ending to the day and we actually got in the water too. I was going to write that we swam, but it was more like holding on to the stairs and dipping yourself and then hurrying back into the sauna. Obviously not before someone takes my pic!

Talking about sauna, me being a Finn and obviously loving saunas. But we’re also supposed to be very thirsty people, so my friend brought me 10 liters of vodka. Where and how she got it, probably is better untold hahhaaaa…

Spent a lot of time with my nephew, his girlfriend, and their “baby”. He’s 1 year and 3 months… is that a baby or a kid? First time for me meeting the little one and damn he is adorable. I’m not much for kids unless they are my friends and are cool to play with. One day we visited this incredible waffle place that feels like it’s in the middle of nowhere. It’s called Klockargårdens Våffleri. It’s about a 50 minute drive from Stockholm City in the countryside. It’s most definitely worth the drive if you visit Stockholm. So peaceful and tasty waffles!

It was great to be back in Sweden and seeing friends and family. Maybe I’ll make another trip there this summer. Now I’m very happy being back in Mexico City. Got some recovery to do and look forward to getting back to work 🙂 I leave you with the best thing coming out of Sweden after Puma Swede that is hahahaaa…

Cheers, Puma

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Food, friends, Mezcal, & Engagement

It’s been a couple of busy and fun weeks. First of all I received my Mexican Residency Visa, wohoooo! I feel a bit like I’m Mexican now 🙂 Considering it all, it was pretty smooth to apply and get it. Not like getting a greencard and then citizenship in the US. For me that included an expensive settlement with the idiot I was married to, and then going to court to get the citizenship.

Then there was April 1st. Do you guys do pranks on April 1st where you are? They don’t do it here in Mexico, but we always did it in my family. I had to go a bit easy on mom when she was getting old and didn’t want her to have a heart attack. One of my jokes to her one year was calling and saying there were riots in LA. I said I was hidden in a closet while fake crying. Then telling her with a panicked voice that they were breaking into my apartment. My mom started crying and I finally admitted it was April Fools… Mom was not too impressed. This year I posted this pic on my Instagram and claimed it was a drunken decision to tattoo some paws on my face. They kind of grew on me so don’t be surprised if I soon appear with paws on my face 🙂

I had a photoshoot with a new photographer. Supercool chick and who practiced her English with me and I tried my Spanish with her. There was some confusion and misunderstandings, but we got some cool pics of the Psychonaut clothing 🙂

Then a couple, Jared & Salma, that we know from San Francisco arrived here in Mexico City. So much fun with friends in town! The big thing was that Jared had planned to surprise Salma with proposing to her. It was all a big secret and I was involved in luring Salma to the location. First we went to get a mani + pedi. Very smart since there was going to be a photographer taking pics of the ring and you want a fresh manicure for that. Then I was to suggest drinks at the Four Seasons, where a bartender was going to come over with a key and ask Salma to go up to a room. I was to receive a phone call and just excuse myself. All according to plan and we had time to order some sparkling water before the bartender appears with a box, note, and room key. Salma was suspecting she had been tricked and there might be a proposal coming. I just played dumb and surprised. Long story short, all went great and she said yes 🙂 I was too excited to even remember to snap pics.

There’s been a lot of dinners when they’ve been in town. Lorea, a place we visited before, but great food and drinks.

A new place for us called Sud 777. That was a great tasting menu! Can highly recommend this restaurant if you are in CDMX! A couple of the dishes…

We also did a Mezcal tasting with El Tigre. They come highly recommended and people were writing on Reddit it was the best Mezcal they had in Mexico. And yes, I agree! Super smooth and tasty Mezcal. Good info about the procedure what goes into producing the drink. The wooden club I’m holding is used to smash up the plant. Got food too and before I knew it I was drunk and had to go straight home and sleep for 2h hahahaa…. But if you looking to have some great Mezcal, look for El Tigre!!!

A little bit of sleezing in between all the dinners and drinks…

I have had problems with my shoulder and wrist. Got recommended to go see Diego. He’s Colombian and they said it would hurt. No joke, he turned up the electricity on the patches until my arm was jerking off the massage bench and the massages he gives, is like being run over by a tractor. I’m so sweaty after trying to get through it all, but my shoulder and wrist feels better. He also goes through my legs and these ‘airbags’ were the most comfortable thing he let me try 🙂

Also found this great spot that’s kind of hidden – Traspatio. So nice inside. Small menu and great drinks.

I also made Salma put on a Psychonaut sweater and received some more clothing samples. We’re making progress 🙂

Here’s the leftover pics 🙂

On Tuesday night I fly to Sweden. I’m so excited! Long time since I’ve been back, so it’s going to be so good to see everyone 🙂 And eat Swedish candy. Oh, I might have some surgery too if it all goes according to plan. Nothing serious, just beautification heheheee….

I hope you all are great and don’t forget to #mute 🙂

XXX Puma

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Shoot & Party

I usually blog on Sundays, but I spent most of yesterday gathering back my strength after Saturday’s dinner party. We were 16 people with some Gringos, Mexicans, a Colombian, and get this, another Finn! Debating if I should write it was ‘so much fun’ or ‘too much fun’ 🙂 I am the type of person that feeds off the energy from other people. When I’m surrounded by fun people I tend to get overly excited and go all in! You never know, could be the last party so you better make the most of it! I had a plan to take some pics, but the Mezcal was flowing, and cigarettes had to be smoked. But this pic pretty much sums up yesterday for me LOL…

On Friday last week I shot with a new photographer here in Mexico City. A girl at the gym recommended him. We shot a lot, and I think we got some really cool stuff. Still waiting for the pics so here’s some behind the scenes pics in the meanwhile 🙂

And when you don’t have access to a pro photographer, you do it yourself. I think I do a pretty good job…

I have a great week ahead. Trying another photographer to shoot some clothing on Wednesday. Going to work out hard, get my Spanish lesson, some friends coming into town, and on Friday I hope I get my Residency Visa wohoooo 🙂

How about you?

Kisses, Puma

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Carajillos & Swedish ‘fika’

When Sunday comes it’s time to reflect over the week that passed via my blog. I hate feeling like nothing happened, and a week of my life just passed by. All of a sudden it’s all over, and you wish you’d done more with your time. Fortunately this past week did have some fun things 🙂

First I met this Mexican woman at the gym, and when she found out I’m from Sweden, she starts talking fluent Swedish to me. WTF! So cool. Turns out she studied in Sweden for 2 years and learned the language. We decided to get together for a ‘fika’ (having a coffee in swedish) and talk some more Swedish. We talked about all the foods, candy, and snacks from Sweden we miss. Made me miss it a lot and I hope I’ll make a trip to Sweden next month 🙂

Then there was work and threw in some St Patrick’s Day vibes as well 🙂

On St Patrick’s Day some friends and I got together for dinner & drinks at Estiatorio Nostos. It’s an amazing Greek restaurant in Lomas de Chapultepec. It was so much fun and I had waaay too many Carajillos. Carajillos being a coffee drink with just coffee and Liqueur 43. Soooo goood! I only managed to take a couple of pics when picking out our fish for dinner. Then I kind of forgot to capture anything…

I’m pretty proud of myself that I did make it to the gym the next morning and did a hard workout. Best way to cleanse the leftover alcohol out of your body!

I’m excited for next week too. I’m shooting with a new photographer a friend recommended. Got some awesome stuff planned and think it will be very artsy and creative! Also putting together a dinner next weekend so I’m sensing more Carajillos coming my way 🙂

Now I’m going to go get a Cappuccino and read some. I’m reading the 2nd book in the ‘Gentlemen Bastards’ series by Scott Lynch. Very good and exciting. Oh, and if you’re like me, waiting for the 6th book in the Game of Thrones series by George R. R. Martin, I can highly recommend another book he wrote. It takes place before the events of Games of Thrones, but there are some familiar names – ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’. Very good!

That’s it! I hope you’ll enjoy your day and I’ll leave you with a beautiful rainy & sunny day pic and a couple of cute dogs!

Kisses, Puma

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Visit to Tepoztlán

Tepoztlan is one of Mexico’s ‘Magic Towns’ since 2010. In Spanish they are called ‘pueblo mágicos’ and there are currently 132 of them in Mexico. I’ve visited 4 of them: Sayulita, Valle de Bravo, San Miguel de Allende, and now Tepoztlan. It’s only about 1.5h from Mexico City, so it’s very convenient to pop by there. We went from Tuesday to Friday. I like going during the week when there are not that many tourists. The only downside to that is that some of the popular places are closed during half of the week and are only open from Thursday to Sunday.

Found this nice house on Airbnb. Really like that it was right by the mountains and so peaceful & quiet.

Threw in our bags and headed out starving looking for food. Since we were in the outskirts of town, it was about a 20-30 min walk to all of the places. It didn’t matter, because it’s beautiful walking around the town.

Went to this hotel and ate at their restaurant Mesa de Origen. I love fried pork fat and guacamole. It was a good restaurant, but I prefer more local joints than hotel restaurants. But when you’re starving, time is of the essence or I get hangry!

I continued walking towards the town center. By accident I looked up and saw a cool balcony. Decided to venture inside the building, and in the back there was a little staircase that led up to this great bar. The spicy Mezcalita was one of the best I’ve ever had! Unfortunately there was no visible name anywhere at the bar and I can’t find it marked on Google maps either 🙁 Just look up and if you spot the ‘lady’ on the balcony, you’ve found the place!

Next morning we headed out for breakfast. This place Tlacuacha Cafeteria was amazing and the food + coffee was delicious!

Then I wanted to enjoy the pool and catch some sun. Like an amateur I stayed out waaaay to long and my skin got fried! But it was so nice and relaxing to just chill there… Took some pics and had to filter the f*ck out of them or I could be posing as a stop sign!

More walking and it’s beautiful lighting during sunset. We came across these horses that just casually strolled through the streets. And this beautiful cat…

Tried the restaurant La Cueva Tepoztlan for dinner. It is a cozy bar and restaurant. Food was tasty and they had 2 for 1 drinks so we obviously had to try them out too. Muy bueno!!!

My favorite place was Cafe de la Milpa where we went for breakfast. Google directions were a bit off, but we finally found it. You walk this beautiful road surrounded by orange trees (at least I think that’s what they were) up to the cafe. The whole place is surrounded by their fields and we sat outside in the garden eating. And look at this cute dog that became very friendly when the food arrived 🙂

There is a famous pyramid on a hill that everyone recommended us to go see. The hike up there was closed now though, so we opted for a waterfall hike I found. We found the hike, but no waterfall. Instead we found this place that resembled a cave. So cool and there are beautiful views from there.

On top of our place you could see a cave in the mountains. I asked the guy who managed the Airbnb if we could hike up there. He only said “no, muy peligroso” and looked very stern so no exploring that cave. I wanted to know if it was dangerous because it was a steep hill or if there are like mountain lions or something up there. Admit it looks inviting 🙂

Time flew by and wish we would’ve had a couple of days more in town. Well, it’s not far so I can easily go back 🙂 Not many Ubers in the area so we had our Uber driver who took us there pick us up. Very smooth and can recommend a visit to Tepoztlan if you are around 🙂

Did the Crossfit Open workout scaled on Friday when we got back to Mexico City. Very hard, but it’s done! Otherwise a relaxing weekend and changed the mezcal drinks for coffee…

And I found this superfunny IG page that jokes about the Finns and theirs ways – @veryfinnishproblems.

Also watched Donnie Darko for the first time last night. Very good!!! Have you seen it?

Hope you’re doing great!

Kisses, Puma

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Another week…

It’s been a week of working, working out, and I finished off drinking enough alcohol to put my liver to serious work!

Anyone else doing the Crossfit Open workouts? I did it on Friday, the scaled version, and got to 4 burpees in the 10th round. Felt pretty satisfied with myself until I saw a Finnish girl racing through the workout. She got to something like 3 rounds. She lives in Mexico and competes for Mexico. So fun to get to talk some Finnish to her after. Didn’t get any pics from my open workout, but the last pic pretty much sums up how my Crossfit is going hahahaaaaa…

This week I also took a gong class for the first time. Very cool and it was great doing it on a rooftop while the sun was setting.

I try to get outdoors and have some nature around me on the weekends. There are great parks here, and I love feeding the squirrels! Last weekend handing out nuts 🙂

Shoot, shoot, shoot…

Before Christmas I did a really cool shoot for a Swedish magazine. I was styled in cool outfits and got a black wig. The magazine is called Nuda and this edition is called Ego. The text below is from their website and a link where you can order your copy. You can choose between 8 different covers too. https://nudapaper.com/shop/

“Nuda is a theme based publication, investigating a field through visual culture and science. This issue is titled Ego, an exploration of our psyche, brain, and mind. Ego is on a mission to untangle the mess of the I and find out what we really see when we look in the mirror.”

Some BTS pics from the shoot and a couple of samples from the magazine 🙂 So cool if I may say so myself, and there is some text about my explorations with LSD.

Fixed up my hair too. Needed a bit of highlights and a trim.

Last week I finished the series ‘Banshee’ and ‘The Righteous Gemstones’. Two very different series, but so great!!! ‘Banshee’ is a lot of violence & killing, while ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ is hilarious comedy.

On Friday it was a friend’s 40th birthday celebration with a live band and all. When they throw a party here it seems like they do it properly 🙂

Yesterday it was a dinner party, but I think I drank more than I ate 🙂 But a very fun night, and now I’m chugging coffee and writing to you. Hangovers are for basic bitches 😉

Here comes some dogs & cats for you and this guy painting a crosswalk 🙂

Wish you a great new week to come. I booked a stay in a new town close by I want to explore. Tell you about it next week 🙂

XXX Puma

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War

I don’t think anyone has missed that there is war in Europe between Ukraine and Russia. So horrible and I never thought there would be war in Europe during my lifetime. I know there are wars that have been fought far longer in other countries, but this feels so close.

My mom and dad grew up in Finland during WW2. I remember them telling me stories how the bomb alarms went off and they had to run for shelter in basements. They got coupons for food since it was rationed out. My grandma couldn’t afford to feed my mom and her two sisters, so the sisters were put on a train to Sweden. They got a note around their necks with their names, and people in Sweden took them in. My mom was the youngest and stayed in Finland.

I have a Russian friend and her parents live in Russia, but she has relatives in Ukraine. Some of them made it out to other cities where there’s no fighting by car. Someone wanted to take the train the next day, but then the city was surrounded by tanks and they couldn’t leave. So horrible and I can’t even imagine what people are going through at the moment! I don’t know how, but I hope this war comes to an end quickly!

I hope you all are safe!

Puma

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Olympic Gold & San Miguel de Allende

Wohooooo, first of all, big congrats to Finland for the Olympic Gold in hockey on Sunday!!! It’s the first time ever they got gold! I couldn’t watch the game despite VPN’s and all, so I was on WhatsApp with my sister in Sweden. She would comment, film the TV, and show me the action. In the last period when Finland was winning 2-1 against Russia, we were so nervous Russia would score. But no, Finland got the gold!!!! I played Finland’s National Anthem and my sister ran out on the balcony in Sweden waving the Finnish flag hahahaaaa… For those who don’t know, I’m born a Finn 🙂

On Tuesday last week we took the bus from CDMX to San Miguel de Allende. Only like 3,5h away and a very nice and comfortable bus ride.

I found a very nice Airbnb house for a great price. Was greeted by homemade guacamole, chips, and a bottle of wine 🙂 Oh, and not to forget the garden & beautiful views from the rooftop!

Starving we headed out and picked El Manantial for food & drinks. Supercool place and the food was so good! Of course there was Mezcal too and the cocktails were so tasty I had to have 2! We actually went back and ate there the next day too because it was just too amazing to pass up!

Strolled around the super cute town with all the alleys, boutiques, restaurants and churches. And there’s no shortage of rooftop bars/restaurants. Watched the sun go down and the moon appear on a rooftop with some tacos 🙂

Our place had 2 fireplaces. One was in the bedroom and it was perfect to end the first day chilling in front of it.

And how about waking up to this view?

Headed out for breakfast and coffee. One of the more popular breakfast spots in town – Cafe Lavanda. Good spot and a lot of options for coffee!

Toured the city some more after.

Then refill on the coffee intake. Great coffee spot – Ki’bok coffee. Much needed after walking the cobblestoned streets.

I needed an afternoon nap and got some sun upstairs too. So peaceful!

Finished off the night at a rooftop bar. Great to be drinking and have the churches remind you you’re probably overdoing it to their standards hahahaaaa….

Worked a bit the next day. A pleasure when you can do it outdoors and catch some sun while doing it!

No time to waste and more restaurants to try. Ended up at Tostevere. Wow, wow, wow! Small menu, but my soft shell crab wrap and the dessert was some of the best I’ve ever tasted!!!

Then off to a Mezcal bar – San Mezcal. A funny part about SMA is that there are a lot of retired gringos there. I don’t blame them, it’s a perfect place to retire and half of the bar was people aged 70+. I’ve decided that’s how I want to spend my retirement, out eating and drinking cocktails and no fu*ks given if I’m hungover the next day or not hahhaaaa… Great Mezcal drinks!

The next morning we got up early and went for breakfast at the Rosewood Hotel. They’re supposed to have an amazing Sunday buffet, but regular breakfast was good too. And a then a coffee at Zenteno Cafe before heading to the busterminal and back to CDMX.

Almost forgot the picture of this cool cowboy that came riding in the middle of town. He said he lives close by and likes to ride in to town. Yeah, sounds perfect to me 🙂

That sums up last week. My weekend was relaxing and now going to mentally get ready for my crossfit class in a couple of hours 🙂

Adios amigos, Puma

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Work & Goals

I set some goals for 2022 with one of my best friends in Sweden. To make sure we stay on track, we have quarterly goals, and we have a meeting at the end of each month. We’ve been pretty good at sticking with our goals in January. It’s great to have someone to be accountable to. I’ll share a few of my goals. At least 5 min Spanish on Duolingo 5x a week, and practicing a handstand against a wall twice a week. I’m chicken shit scared to kick up against the wall and I know it’s all in my head! Annoying!

Did a mini hotel stay last week too. Tried out the hotel Condesa DF. I liked the hotel it a lot. A bit expensive, but super nice people working there. Pretty good sushi on the rooftop restaurant/bar and my Mezcal Margarita was excellent. Breakfast was included and they had a good variety. Very good location in Condesa if you need a place to stay in CDMX 🙂

Also visited a factory for clothing manufacturing. Planning on some t-shirts and comfy wear 🙂 Hopefully have some samples ready in 1-2 weeks. It is a family owned factory and everything there is produced in Mexico.

I also received samples on some embroidery work I’m having done here. It’s all done by hand by 40 women here in Mexico. Very cool and can’t wait for it to be ready. Just had to redesign them a bit, but their work is of excellent quality.

It was also Tamale Day here in Mexico last week. Yummy! There’s a small taco place around the corner from where we live and they invited us for some tamales. The pink one is a dessert tamale. Looks like a ________ hahahaaaa… Oh, and the pink drink was some specialty too. I just didn’t really understand what it was. Tasted like a warm bubblegum milkshake 🙂

Met so many cute dogs and the cutest cat too. Look at his round face. The girl was walking him in a harness and he was so chill! The puppy is a guy’s from the gym, adorable!!! I waaaaaant…

A couple of ‘work’ pics and a couple from a walk in the park 🙂 Areola and nipple edited off for IG hahaaa… Who ever got offended by a nipple?

Nothing special planned for this week other than work and working out 🙂 And remember –

Kisses, Puma

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SF pics & back to CDMX

Here are some pics from the trip to San Francisco. First day it was so foggy you could barely see the top of the tall buildings.

Outside the Mexican Consulate. I think this was the 2nd day when the visa was approved because I look so happy 🙂

One of my favorite things in SF is all the amazing coffee places! Before I left I marked all the shops I wanted to get coffee from on Google Maps. One of my favorites in flavor and location – Andytown Coffee Roasters. They have this rooftop park with a walkway outside that was awesome!

My absolute favorite is Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters. WOW! So good and brought a couple of bags of coffee beans back with me to Mexico.

Other great coffee spots I visited were Home Coffee Roasters, Radiator Coffee Salon, and Red Rock Coffee Company in Mountain View. I used to live in Mountain View and stayed with a friend there on this visit, so it was great to go back to Red Rock every morning 🙂

There was this great specialty market that had pretty much all of my favorite coffee roasters. I love Verve, Chromatic, Ritual, Equator and Four Barrel. Had to buy a couple of more bags from there too 🙂 I was pretty over-caffeinated by the end of my trip hahahaaaa…

It was so much fun walking around in San Francisco again. I love the colorful Haight – Ashbury area.

I love lobster rolls and ate that twice. One of my favorite foods!

Great to see Patricia again and catch up with her. Patricia is the human.

More random pics from SF. Oh, and I love my Russian style hat that I wore everywhere. SF was sunny but cold!

It felt good to return to Mexico. Needed to get my butt back into gym and it feels so good!

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I have a busy and fun week ahead. A little overnight getaway on Wednesday, crossfitting, shooting and got some clothing samples to hopefully approve for production 🙂 Oh, and a visit to an orthopedic too because one foot has been hurting for a while and not getting better.

Let’s rock, Puma

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