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Happy Finish to 2025 and Happy Start to 2026

How have your holidays been so far? Ready to say bye to 2025 and get started with 2026?

I am very happy with my holidays 🙂 Having my sister over, hanging with Sandy, nice Santa, great trip to LA, and a tasty Xmas Eve at Angel’s house to mention a few things.

Here are some pics from when Sandy was over. Enchanted garden maze.

We also did the strip and checked out the decorations at the Bellagio Hotel. Love the holiday shop they have there and I would buy half the store if I had the budget for it 🙂 The kids also required a stop at the M&M store and we checked out some other hotels too…

The next morning after I woke up I had tooth pain again! WTF! And no, not from the wisdom tooth extraction. Another tooth. Off to the emergency dental clinic. Turns out it was a cracked filling this time. Since we had made plans to see the Red Rocks, I made an appointment for later and had it dealt with. I decided that I’ve dealt with enough things this year so 2026 better keep it together! But the Red Rocks were great as always 🙂

Then came Christmas Eve. My sister was jet lagging, so when I got up around 7am, she was already making meatballs hahahaa…

Later we went over to Angel’s house. She was cooking a Czech soup that was delicious! We brought over some Swedish stuff like homemade ‘rödbetssallad’ (beet salad), the meatballs, herring, ham & salmon, glögg (mulled wine) which was a German version and of course there were sweets! I have never tried herring. Decided this was the year I would try it. I ate the one in mustard sauce and it was pretty good. Angel and Abby liked the herring too.

Got some presents and Hunter got a new cat tunnel he was unsure about at first, but loves it now!

Best thing is left overs and Christmas day started with knäckebröd (Swedish Crispbread) with ham and Dijon mustard, a meatball sandwich, and Angel’s soup.

After all this eating, I took my sister to Calico Basin and we did a hike. Beautiful weather and felt good to be outdoors.

On the 27th we hit the road to LA. Usually takes a little bit over 4h. After leaving and about 30min later we hit a standstill. Used Gemini AI and found out there was a semi truck that had turned over in the midsection about 4 miles ahead. Took us about 1,5h to get past that. Had time to throw our packing in our hotel and then Sandy picked us up for dinner. We ate at Sora at The Grove. Wow, some of the best sushi I’ve ever had! If you are in LA and like sushi, go here!!!! The spicy Margaritas were great too hahahaa…

The next morning started with coffee and then brunch at the Beverly Hills hotel with Sandy’s mom. I call her my extra mom and she is super fun!

We chilled at Sandy’s for a bit after before we went to Long Beach to see our friend Cindy. Back in the day when we were young(er), we used to party our asses off together. There are a lot of crazy memories!

Next day me & my sister did a whole day of shopping. My sister loves shiny stuff as much as I do, so the rhinestone shops in Downtown were our first stop. The parking lot was managed by a nice Mexican guy and we talked about Mexico for about 20min and petted his sweet dog!

We were out all day and crashed to bed when back at the hotel.

Since I didn’t know how the traffic back to Las Vegas was going to be before New Years, we decided to make it an early start and left at 03.30 in the morning… Not a lot of traffic at this time 🙂

Took a 2h nap when back though! Hit the gym later and also played pickleball. I was pretty damn good for once 🙂 Then I took my sister to the spa for some red light sauna and cold plunge.

Watched ‘One Battle After Another’ last night. I liked it a lot. De Caprio, Sean Penn and Benicio are great. I’m bad at writing short captions about a movie so google it if it’s something up your alley 🙂

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We are going to get mani/pedis soon to make sure we enter 2026 in style 🙂 Going over to Angel’s later and we’ll see if we make it until midnight LOL… What are your plans? Got any resolutions? I plan to keep focusing on my health. Strength training and improving my pickeballing. Hope to start doing pilates and eating healthy. Maybe even laying off vaping because it’s a bit out of control ugh! I hope to be off the Prednisone pills too asap. Next weekend I’m off to Hawaii too 🙂 Very excited about that.

I wish you a fantastic New Years Eve whatever your plans are and the best start on 2026!

XXX Puma

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Happy Holidays :)

I’m already confused about the days. I might of mentally entered the holiday season. I thought yesterday was Monday all day, and that my sister is arriving tomorrow until she called, and told me I better be at the airport tonight to pick her up…. ooops. I also had to cancel a restaurant reservation I thought I had made for tonite, but it turns out that in my confusion I had made it for tomorrow…

But before the holiday stuff, there were preparations. Both good and bad. Had a day with Angel when we got some Botox touch ups, took her dogs to the park and then some shopping. Mostly for ourselves, but that’s the safest way to guarantee you get what you want from Santa 🙂

This also required a trip to IKEA to buy some pickled herring (for my sis, cause I don’t eat that), lots of chocolates, that I already finished, and then you end up buying like 10 other little things that you probably don’t need…

Since I know I won’t have much time for the gym when my sister is here , I tried to maximize it last week. Even got a 2h pickleball clinic in. Starting to get some stamina and strength back finally. And I’ve been able to taper down on the steroid pills from 15mg to 10mg yeay!

The bad stuff? I started feeling a bit of tooth pain. Ignored it, as it was just like once a day. But then on Saturday it felt pretty bad and I started searching for emergency dental places. Don’t feel like dealing with tooth pain during the holidays and I’m guessing most places are also going to be closed. Found a place and got an appointment. Turns out my wisdom tooth had a huge cavity. I assumed I would get an appointment to remove it for an other day. The nice dentist said he can remove it right there and then. I told him I’m not mentally prepared for that. He was so nice and said he would talk me through it and it shouldn’t be hard. I finally agreed with the nurse holding my hand through the procedure. It actually went really smooth for once hahhaaaa…

OK, some holiday stuff should be appropriate now. Managed to find a willing Santa, to force a Christmas hat on Hunter and some other Christmassy stuff 🙂

Hunter loves the neighbors decorations though. Also he has some semi friendship with the neighbors cat. Hunter goes to their cat door waiting. But when he does come out, they get close, but not too close LOL…

Sandy arrived yesterday with her kids. So great to have them over. No time to waste, so we took off for some ramen and did the Enchanted light garden at night. The light maze was cool, but the hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows was the sh*t 🙂 Pics coming. Just haven’t had time to catch my breath (or nap), since today we been running around all day too. Just got home, recharging and then we’re going to pick my sister up and head to dinner 🙂

Me & Hunter are wishing you the best Christmas! Hope Santa is generous to you 🙂 Hope you get tasty foods and are surrounded by friends & family! And stay clear of the flu or whatever the stuff people are having!

That’s it. Better take the opportunity to chill for like 10 min before it’s time to get going again!

Happy Holidays!

XXX Puma

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International Market, tree climbing & decorating…

Feeling the holiday vibes yet? I finally ordered a shiny Xmas tree (couldn’t resist) and put it together. I haven’t got a pictures of it at night when it’s lit up yet. Looks fab! Just a pic of me piecing it together and Hunter supervising 🙂

Also helped Angel decorating her tree 🙂

We think we did so good that we deserved to be rewarded for our efforts. Off to the International Market we went. I love poking around in there. Anyone up for some blood or a pork uterus perhaps?

Favorite section is without a doubt the candy section! I bought some Swedish ‘knäckebröd’ to put some ham on, some herring for my sister, lingonberry jam for meatballs and candy. My sister is spending Xmas and New Years here so got to have some Swedish/Finnish stuff on the table. I never tried herring and don’t plan to… What’s your must haves for the Christmas dinner?

Knocking out pics and vids too. Tried to engage Hunter into the Christmas spirit, but as usual he gave zero f*ucks!

One night I was outside with Hunter patrolling our street. This is a nightly routine we have. He always looks up the tree outside our house. He sometimes runs up looking like he’s going to climb it, but never does. So I decided to lift him up to see what he would do. Well, he took off climbing. I got nervous that he might not be able to make it down and started forming a plan how I would get up there to rescue him. He made it down on his own luckily!

When not climbing trees, he oversees me or sleeps next to me…

Did an other attempt in the cryo chamber. Lasted 1 minute. The girl that stays in the room while you’re inside, said that I should really try to stay inside the whole 3min to get the full benefit from it. So now that’s my goal for next time! Have to find that Finnish ‘sisu’ I’m suppose to posses somewhere…

Last night I went to a holiday party with Angel. Ate like a champ, lost in the games we played and finished up by making s’mores by the fire pit.

Saw these awesomely decorated houses when walking Angels dogs. One year I hope to decorate my house like these!

On my 2nd cup of coffee now. Considering the gym or cleaning up the house a bit. Or maybe read… Don’t have too many plans for next week. Maybe some Xmas shopping, throw in a bit of work, hit the gym + pickleball and next Sunday Sandy is coming to visit from LA, yeay! What are you up to? Shopping gifts? Decorating? Whatever your plans are, me & Hunter wish you fantastic week 🙂

Hugs

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Happy Holidays :)

Started my week off with pickleball. So much fun. I think my face is supposed to show excitement, but looks more like I got hit in the head with the raquet/paddle hahahaa….

I like to get my most urgent work done in the morning. And Hunter wants to get his morning cuddles in then too, and guess who wins?

Had friends in town and hauled them out to Red Rock to see the sunset… I’m pure fashion when I walk out of my house as you can tell!

Also tried Thai dinner at Lotus of Siam at Red Rock. Will definitely go back!

And they treated me to Peter Luger at Caesars. Wow, wow, wow… The crab cake and steak were superb.

Then it was time to cook for the Swedish/Finnish Xmas party. Too many balls to handle myself, so I brought in Angel to help me handle them. The recipe was in Swedish measurements so it took both our brains to convert and calculate measurements hahhahaaa… But let me brag a little, they were amazeballs!!!!

Got work done before partying, I tried to dress up Hunter and I didn’t feel the cooperation from him. He was supposed to wear a scarf too, but his neck is too chunky!

This one will have to do. So Happy Holiday season to you all from me and Hunter!

I made some more Xmas content on my own…

And this is now my official Xmas card so one more time, Happy Holidays!

The Xmas get together was so much fun. Nobody tasted the ‘sill’, herring. I never tasted that in my life, so I don’t blame them. And you know you have a good time when you only find a couple of pics in your phone the next day. Some of the food and Amanda in her awesome cat sweater cuddling up to Hunter 🙂 I feel very fortunate to have such great fiends!

Catherine, my Swedish friend here, and her boyfriend, brought these incredible truffles and before passing out, I downed almost the whole box! Oh, since they love cats, they also brought Hunter treats 🙂

Amanda & Gorge brought coffee which I enjoyed with a candle from Angel. Angel’s Xmas gift had a lot of beauty products too, so I’m wondering if she’s trying to tell me something hahahaa…

Saturday was mostly spent recovering 🙂

Yesterday I headed out past the Valley of Fire with Kayla, Huggy the photographer and Marshall, the rope guy. We shot bondage stuff in the middle of nowhere in this abandoned factory place. Such a fun day and I’ll show you more pics when I get them. It was the first time I got tied up and suspended up in the air! Very cool and will definitely get more bondage stuff done with Marshall 🙂

Kayla gave me a Xmas gift and it cracks me up! I love when people get my humor!

It was a freezing day being buttnaked in the desert so what’s better than pizza at Settebello’s after!

Hunter and our neighbor’s cat Ocean have been making progress on a friendship. They actually were under the same car after eyeballing each other across the street for some time…

Hunter trying to make me understand he needs more food. Keeping an eye on me while he hides in the bushes and I work on the couch and I guess all that results in one of his naps 🙂

What are you up to during these Holidays? I plan to chill, see friends, eat and watch movies and then repeat all that 🙂 I hope you will have a great time whatever you are up to 🙂 I will also do a mushroom trip before New Years to reset myself for 2025 🙂

Merry Christmas to you all and thank you for being here 🙂

Hugs, Puma & Hunter

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Knife-Man, Halloween, Cats & Dogs…

Me & Angel went out to buy some Halloween decorations. When we parked in the parking lot a lady pulls up in her car and says there is a man with a knife running around and we should get back in the car. Then all of a sudden cop cars come and people point to the back of the parking lot where the guy supposedly was. The guy threw the knife away and people were filming. A cop walked by us after a couple of minutes and we asked if they caught the guy and they had. OK, safe to go shopping 🙂

Hit Costco too to buy some candy for the kids and looked at Christmas trees. I’m thinking these 2… My mom & dad are cringing in heaven, because we would never have a fake tree in our house when I was a kid. That’s just not Christmas-sy they said! Sorry….

Me and Kayla had a Live Show online together. I love her cats. I didn’t get the full pic of ths darker one, but he has T-Rex legs. They are short stumps and it’s so cute!

My Halloween costume was Deadpool. Had to go back to Costco because I realized I needed more than candy, but while there, I got more candy hahhaaa….

I sat outside on the lawn at night handing out candy. Hunter was very happy to greet the kids and he was a bigger success than the candy… The neighbor across the street had an amazing set up in his garage and upstair window that projected horror images and sounds.

Tried a new hairdresser and I guess I’m a brunette now 🙂 It’s just a toner so I’ll be back to blond in a bit. Or maybe not. I’m kind of liking it for a change…

For some reason I’ve been feeling pretty tired and lethargic this week. Hunter likes it because there was a lot of relaxing and napping together 🙂

I also found this heated blanket at Costco and Hunter loves it!

Got the pictures from my and Angel’s shoot with Greg. There are so many great ones. He is such a fantastic photographer and made us look fabulous. A couple of favorites are these BTS pics he took of me when I was creeping on Angel. Will show more when I’ve picked out a few 🙂

Had to get some stuff for the house so dragged Angel along yesterday, She has 4 dogs and they are so funny and looooove attention as much as Hunter. They are just as spoiled too!

Came in contact with a Swedish girl here in Vegas through this blog. Today we went hiking at the Late Night Trailhead. An easy hike and nice scenery. She also gave me great tips on shows, bars and more here in Vegas. Bowling is next on our list 🙂 Pics to come…

At the end of next week my sister is coming to visit and I plan to work a lot before she comes so we can make the most of our time together when she’s here 🙂 We’re also popping by LA.

Leave you with a filtered selfie and a pic of Hunter in his stroller for one of his walks.

I ate way too many spring rolls on the way home and my stomach is complaining. Going to grab Hunter and stretch my belly out on the couch and watch Terriers or something. Hope you had a great weekend and wishing you a fabulous upcoming week!

XXX Puma

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Merry Xmas…

…God Jul, Hyvää Joulua! How are you spending your Xmas and Holidays? What’s on your wishlist from Santa or you been naughty? Santa gave up on me looong time ago hahahaaaa… Just wanted to wish you all amazing Holidays and here’s some Xmas greetings from me to you 🙂

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Getting ready, but as I say in the video – my mom probably expects me to wear a little more than this…

Or maybe I should show up like this?

Well, I’m just waiting for my sister and nephew to wake up from their nap. It’s noon and they’re napping!!! Ain’t nobody got time for that!

Kisses, Puma

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