Pickleball, Linda, tacos…

Did what I always do, started last week by strength training. I was in a pissy mood and hitting the gym helped 🙂 Checked if I made some gains on my a$$ after… Nope!

Had a friend come over and shoot some stuff. I guess people like me as a boss/teacher character. I think I could teach you a thing or 2, and I’d be a boss/teacher you could definitely bribe hahahhaha….

I finally got to try Chicken N Pickle. Very cool and even better that me & my pickle partner were winning 🙂 Maybe because I went to the gym in the morning and played an hour of pickleball too 🙂 We also ate there afterwards and the food was OK. Forgot to take more pics, but going back there today to get Angel hooked on pickleball too 🙂

I did pop by Angel and we took her doggos walking. This one is Vixen 🙂

Then it was finally time to pick Linda up from the airport! Catching up and Hunter was there too of course…

Showed Linda the neighborhood and did some shopping. The car ran out of gas before we did. I’m impressed that Linda has no jetlag…

I’ve been wanting to check out the big Antique Mall of America here, and finally we did. Angel and Cathrine came along. Wow, it’s humangeous and you can find all kinds of stuff there which I of course did 🙂

Exhausted after trying to cover the whole place, Cathrine suggested we go to Tacos El Gordo close by. It’s a Mexican place and I got to say the food was pretty authentic. None of us went for trying the eyes, beef brain, head or guts though hahhaaaaa… The guy is showing the eye since I was so curious how that looked… I thought it was just going to be a round eyeball.

Great place and will go back when I crave some tacos el pastor 🙂

Hunter says hi and says he enjoys the warmer weather between his naps…

We did watch some of the Super Bowl, but mostly to see the halftime performance. Thought it was pretty mellow… Did you watch?

Linda is here this week too so we’re exploring Vegas. Heading out to Boulder City and hiking too and Hunter gets to be our Valentine’s date on Friday 🙂 Do you have plans for Valentine’s?

Time for another cup of coffee and then get this day going!

Hugs & Happy Valentines 🙂

Puma

                                                   

Work, Hike, The Companion…

Started the week by hitting my work quota 🙂

Almost every week I start with the mindset that I’m going to be eating healthy, train and end up with a six-pack by the end of the week. Started great with snacking on carnivore snacks and actually doing a proper workout at the gym.

Went to get my body realigned too…

Then usually by Thursday I get lazier, order food for delivery, snacking late at night and end up just playing pickleball. BUT, the biggest thing I achieved this week is that I quit vaping! Been a week now and I don’t think about vaping every other minute. It was HARD the first 3 days. I always had the vape within reach and would puff from morning until I went to bed. I do have a couple of regular cigarettes here and there now, but I’m happy I’m off the vape!

Had some time off and decided to go to Mothership for some good coffee and to read. I really like Eckhart Tolle’s book ‘Power of Now’. I listen to it as an audio book too, but like to read and highlight good sections. I’m an expert at ‘spacing out’ and this book is all about being present in the moment. Harder than it sounds, but I can really recommend it!

I also just finished another book on the same topic –
‘Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering’ by Joseph Nguyen. It’s about how much time we spend on thinking and the difference between a thought and thinking. So good and it’s a bit of a wake up call that I can really recommend this book too.

It’s been forever since I went to a movie theater. Angel and I went to the one at the New Orleans hotel and saw ‘Companion’. It was pretty good. Next movie I want to see is ‘The Brutalist’. It’s 3h and 35min long so I better stock up on snacks 🙂 Lmk if you’ve seen it and what you think of it!

I never visited the New Orleans Hotel before and they had some pretty cool decorations there. Bet they would be morphing pretty freakishly if you were on shrooms LOL….

Have a friend who decided to pop by Vegas for 24h from San Francisco yesterday and nothing better than hiking after a plane ride. Even though it’s a short one. Tried a new hike with Angel yesterday called Petroglyph Loop close to Henderson. Good trail if your looking for a loop trail that’s not too hard.

Built up a good appetite and hit Settebello pizza again hahhaaaa… And the Nutella pizza in the end sealed the deal!

Needed some caffeine after to top it off so tried a new (for me) coffee spot called Dark Moon Coffee Roasters. Tasted great!

Amazing sunset on the way home!

Tried a new restaurant called Salt & Honey for brunch today, Will definitely go back!

Took a walk later and came across this girl with her mom carrying a rabbit. It looked passed out, but the mom said it was alive. Good to know hahahaaa…

Hunter is pushing the limits to see how spoiled he can get. Offered him one plate first and he just walked away. Put a second option and he at least bothered to taste it until he decided he wanted to see if I was going to offer him a 3rd option. Which I obviously did, since he gets whatever he wants 🙂 He decided the 3rd option was good enough to eat…

That’s about it from my week. This upcoming week is going to be fun. One of my best friends from Sweden, Linda, is coming to visit me for 10 days by the end of the week. She has visited me pretty much everywhere I’ve lived around the world, Bali, Puerto Rico & Mexico. We always have the best time with a few incidents. In Bali we drove off the road on a moped and ended up in a muddy rice field. In Puerto Rico I asked her to sit in a river and shoot a video of me. She almost got swept along the river and down a waterfall LMAO… I will try to find the video cause it’s hilarious!

Also shooting another fight scene with Angel. Trying a pickleball place called ‘Chicken N Pickle’ for the first time. It’s super popular and barely any free times available. They have indoor and outdoor courts and bars & restaurants.

OK, going to grab some snacks now so I can start healthy tomorrow again hahahaaa… How are you doing?

XXX Puma