Since I knew the end of this week was going to be busy, I hit the gym, boosted myself with caffeine, and got a lot of work done.
A friend invited me and Angel to a steak dinner for Tuesday night. The friend ended up having to cancel, but it didn’t stop me and Angel from going 🙂 The restaurant is called ‘Four Sixes Ranch Steakhouse’ at the Wynn. For those who’ve seen the series ‘Yellowstone’, you probably recognize the name. We had some steak tartare prepared tableside, spicy Margaritas, and then we both went for the burger. Very tasty!
We sent our friend this pic and said she could edit herself in this image and pretend she was there with us getting kisses…
On Wednesday the AVN Expo started. I was signing for my agency ‘101 Modeling’ for a couple of hours each day.
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I had someone special even send me flowers out to the expo 🙂
Sandy came over late at night to stay with me & Hunter. Hunter acted like he’s known Sandy forever and even slept next to her the whole night!
Thursday, 2nd day. So much fun to see old friends & fans and meet new ones.
Sandy was doing makeup, so I would go to her room to chill and hang with her before heading home. There are always tons of parties during AVN, but I decided that one party will have to do…
3rd day. Lots of people were there…
During Thanksgiving dinner last year I met this superb photographer who is Swedish, Anneli, and Earl Miller who is a legendary photographer from our industry…
I would pop by Sandy in between and rest up a bit, eat, and do some work 🙂
At night we had a fun group that went to dinner. After we went to the White Party. I used to party like there was no tomorrow. Now I’m at least aware that there is tomorrow and do my best to try remember that when partying. It works so so…
After a couple of coffees on Saturday morning I was feeling pretty good 🙂 I was helping Sandy with girls getting ready for the AVN Award Show later in the afternoon. I skipped the award show and went home. Pretty beat, but it was fun to experience AVN again after so many years absent.
Today has been pretty mellow. Met a friend for lunch that I knew back in San Francisco who also lives here in Vegas now. We made reservations to go play pickleball in a week and a half and maybe a hike this upcoming weekend. I’m too tired to think about what’s happening next week, but I’m sure it will all be good and wishing you the same 🙂
I loved being in San Francisco! Familiar places, friends, a wedding. I want to live in Marin County! Took an early flight last Friday so I could squeeze in as many things as possible while there. I was doing well with my healthy eating the week before SF. No chips, refined sugars, or treats at coffee shops. That all blew out of the window as soon as I got to SF. I love clam chowder and a shrimp sandwich to top it off. Salad with that? No thanks, give me fries, hahahaaa….
A common sight in the Bay Area is self driving cars. Next to my Uber this car was just driving itself…
Tried a new coffee spot RÉVEILLE. Pretty good…
I had booked a Genius Bar appointment beforehand. My Mac was overheating and the battery lasted like 5 min. Turns out the battery was pretty much done. Ended up walking out with a new Mac and will use the old one as a back-up 🙂
Then went to my friends house and was served Espresso martinis 5 minutes after I walked through the door. That’s what I call hospitality 🙂 I love coffee cocktails! My night ended with more martinis and we ordered Indian food for dinner.
Stayed at another friends house in Mountain View. In the morning I need coffee like pretty much right away. I threw on my sneakers and walked to my old coffee shop Red Rock Coffee. So beautiful walking through the neighbourhood. So green and everything was in bloom. OK, a little overkill with all the rose photos, but they were so big and beautiful. (I have like 20 more if someone has a rose fetish lol).
After the coffee I painted my face and then drove out to Turlock. It’s 2h outside the city, in the middle of farm lands for almonds and apples. Then you turn in on a small road and arrive at a lavender farm where the wedding was held. It was like a green oasis in the middle of nowhere…
In the beginning of the ceremony the person marrying the couple asked everyone to put down their phones and to actually participate fully in the moment instead of taking pics or videos. I thought that was a really nice initiative. When Salma & Jared finally stood by the altar, the person said, ‘OK, I know you all want that one pic for Instagram, so here is your moment.’ Hilarious! phones came out so fast, including mine, and everyone got their shot hahhaaaa… It was a great wedding as they are one of the nicest people I know and I got to know when living in Mountain View. Here’s a photo of me looking like I’m dressed for a S&M party, and I snapped this pic of S & J when they where taking some wedding photos in the sunset.
Spent the night at an Airbnb in Turlock. On Sunday day I wanted to check out Marin County. First stop was Larkspur. Wow, what a cute little village! Bonus that they had an Equator Coffee there too AND a Swedish cardamom bun that I just haaaaad to have!
From there I drove through Corte Madera to Tiburon. Such a beautiful drive with houses by the water and so green and lush…
Had lunch with friends, pictured here is gorgeous Romina with Lucy, and the view from the restaurant…
I could easily see myself living somewhere in these hoods! Drove over the Golden Gate bridge back to Mountain View…
It was a fast and great trip over all. Almost forgot to show you this cool hat I found while shopping. Obviously had to have it!
On Thursday I visited Tatiana to laser off some sunspots skin bumps or whatever they’re called on my face & neck. I look like I have some skin condition, but doesn’t stop me from going out and it’s healing nicely 🙂
While on the laser topic, I went and injected and lasered my spider veins yesterday. They require constant maintenance and this Dr is super good and my legs look a lot better than before…
Feels good to be back at the gym. Been doing longer and more cardio based workouts. I like switching up my exercises and I hope I will feel more comfortable with running soon. Running is my least favorite thing with burpee broad jumps!
Did some ‘artistic’ work as well 🙂
And as usual Hunter is close by, but he doesn’t care about being in front of the camera as much as I do hahhaaa… He counts the seconds until I release him from my grip!
While on the topic Hunter. Milla came visiting and Hunter was quick to lay next to her and get scratches 🙂
There was a bazar the week before last and I had some stuff for sale. This Day Tripper jacket from Psychonaut Explorer among other things 🙂
I had a friend who had some surgery done and I went to a checkup with her. As you can see I’m great at support taking selfies instead hahahaa…
Other than that I’ve been to school and tomorrow I have the studio booked and I’m going to practice lighting on Ximena. Then me drinking coffee and and a couple of cute doggies I ran into 🙂
Popped a microdose yesterday and was smart and baked cookies before incase I would get cravings 🙂
That about concludes what I’ve been up to. Plan to bake my paleo bread today and maybe visit Milla because she got one of those hairless cats.
I got some leftovers from 2022 that I thought I’d share.
Got back from San Francisco last week. It was a great trip and fun to be back in my old hoods. I lived there for a year. When it was time to land at SFO I look out of the window and there’s a plane pretty damn close to our plane. Never seen that before. And when we start to go down and are about to land, our plane just speeds up and takes off again. The captain announced that it was crowded on the landing strip. No shit. I think the Southwest plane beat us lol…
First thing I did was to meet up with Patricia and her doggie. I met her at the crossfit gym when I lived in Mountain View. She is Mexican and has the same humor as me – nothing being off limits. So the day I met her at the gym, we are holding ourselves up in a pull up position for as long as we can on the bars. She looks over at me and says: “This reminds me when me and my family climbed the wall over from Mexico to the US”. I just crack up and had to let go of the bar. “Beat ya’ blondie” she says and kept hanging on the bar hahahaaa…
All of a sudden while we’re eating we hear a engine revving and a loud noise. Turns out this lady hit the gas a bit too hard and ended up in the mid section of the road. We talked to her and she was fine…
I hit all my favorite coffee spots while in town. Verve, Wreckingball, and Ritual being a couple of them.
Excited to get my mouth on some Ben & Jerry’s Strawberry Cheesecake ice-cream and getting a selfie with my favorite Elf who was in the neighbourhood.
Santa was nice this year too. Or maybe it’s just me who was nice and got rewarded 🙂 A pic of me and the ugliest wrapped Xmas gift. But it’s the inside that matters, right?
Got some coffee too, Puma socks and so excited about the Meta VR set. I think VR is amazing and if you have any cool tips on what to play or experience on there, please let me know. I do have Resident Evil but I got stuck at the first door cause I couldn’t figure out how to open it hahahaaa…
That was about it from SF. Before I left I was invited to another Guess event by my friend Dyana. Why can’t I do my hair like this on my own???
I also put together a small Swedish pre-Christmas celebration. I made meatball sandwiches with ‘rödbetssallad’ which is beet salad, some cured salmon with this sweet mustard from IKEA, and this amazing Daim cake.
Had some friends in town and we went to see the Teotihuacan pyramids. I had no idea about the history behind them. Someone said there are some documentaries about them and I want to see that. If I remember correctly they built these to be positioned after the stars. In the first photo on the 3rd row you can see how they apparently messed up the positioning of the building. They then just rebuilt a new structure on top of the messed up one with correct positioning. Very cool and if you visit Mexico, go see them.
You didn’t think I forgot to work did you?
And working out… Or checking how my mobility is 🙂 This could maybe be useful in other places than the gym hehheee…
Good thing I got more Puma socks cause Hunter likes to represent LOL…
Ok, time to move over to 2023! Have a fantastic week!
Ho ho ho… Just wanted to stop by and wish you an amazing holiday season! I’m in San Francisco and everything is great 🙂 Will post more next week, but need to go stuff myself with more Oreos, chips & candy now. Will eventually feel sick, but that too shall pass 🙂
Here are some Xmas pics that might brighten your day. Otherwise just look at Hunter S Thompson’s Xmas pics. Guaranteed you’ll be happier than he was being forced into this hat and scarf LMAO…
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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Worked on Pussitive…
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.
Right now I’m sitting at the airport in Guadalajara waiting to connect to Mexico City. The tickets were very expensive when booking them last minute, so had to get one flight with a layover now. One thing that’s always a great experience here in Mexico are the airport lounges. This one is huge and super nice. I love to have a coffee whatever time of day, and at this lounge they even have a Rancilio bean grinder (coffee lovers will know). In Mexico City, before flying to SF, the lounge had a nail salon, cooked meals you could order for free, and even offered shoe polishes.
Very happy I’m almost done with the residency Visa. Took 2 visits to the consulate in San Francisco and on Friday it was finally halfway done. Just have to exchange it to a permanent Visa now in Mexico.
Pics from SF coming soon. Will share a couple though with my favorite Mexican. So great to see Patricia again. We met at a Crossfit gym and it’s been about 4 years since I last saw her. Or since she saw my cleavage hahahaaa…
OK, it’s Monday now. I didn’t manage to finish the blog last night before taking off. I was too busy picking up and eating Oreo cookies and then I got super tired. So happy to be back in Mexico. Just feels like home now 🙂 Got straight into work this morning. Painted my tired face and then shot a bunch of stuff. Ate anything but healthy in SF so it felt good to hit the gym today! My bloated belly bounced pretty good on the floor doing burpees hahaaaa…
And finally some pics from LA. Sandy’s kids are always very creative and surprised me with this tent on my arrival. -“This is your bed” they said proudly! Awesome!
Everyone was having Covid or was having a fear of it and didn’t want to shoot. Instead me and my favorite (I’m writing that in case he reads this lol) photographer Nick hit our secret outdoor location and got creative. Great content and a great day!
Also shot at a location.
Then we took the kids and drove to Big Bear. Can’t believe I lived in LA for years and never went! I loved it and I’m pretty sure I’ll go back there for some hiking some day.
One of my biggest fears is bears! Imagine hiking and all of a sudden a bear would appear. I read and watch so many videos on how to act if you encounter one. I would most likely do just the opposite of what they all say – take off running with a squirt of ‘Nutella’ in my pants! So I saw this building covered in bear paintings and this is the only way I want to experience bears!
That was about it from LA. As always it was great to hang with Sandy and her family. A couple of more random pics before I flew back to Mexico. I always look for new coffee places and found a great one – Ideology Coffee. So good!
Love Snoopy! Relaxes 90% of the time 🙂
2 different selfies, 2 different styles 😉
Oh, almost forgot these 2 videos. One of the reasons Nick is my favorite photographer. He got the same humor as me 🙂
I’m only 2 weeks late wishing you that. Better late than never as they say right? How were your Holiday’s? Already broken some New Year’s Resolutions? Or did you bust into 2022 guns blazing?
Things here got busy during the Holidays. First of all I cooked my a*s off on Xmas-Eve. Rolled and cooked about 150 meatballs. But everyone loved the meatball sandwiches with the beet salad! And the Colombian empanadas were super tasty, so it was all a success 🙂 I haven’t had a meatball sandwich since Xmas, and I’d lick a toilet seat to get one right now!
The rest of Xmas flew by, and I have to say the Swedish traditions are a bit better. People were ordering pizza to eat on Xmas Day, and I felt I was mostly cleaning up after others. I love having people over and around me, but when they don’t clean up after themselves, I lose it a bit. Well, you live and learn 🙂
I did like visiting the Historic District during the Holidays. They know the meaning of bigger is better over here!
Need inspiration for your next nail design? They have a tent with like 80-100 people doing manicures in there!!! Take your pick…
On New Years we were supposed to go to a party. Everyone going had to get a Covid test. Well, turns out the host himself got his test back on NYE and was positive. Ooops, change of plans. Instead we had some people over at our place. Some food and drinks before 2022 wohoooo! It went so fast and I didn’t even snap one pic. But I shot these that I was supposed to post before NYE hahahaaaa….
Then I took off to LA and was hoping to get an interview date at any consulate in the US for a residency visa here in Mexico. Things are not always as easy I think they are. A lot of consulates have a huge backlog or don’t even have available dates for interviews. Finally I got lucky and now have a date next week in San Francisco. Flew back to Mexico because pretty much everyone in LA was getting Covid or locking themselves inside. Hard to get any shoots done. At least I got to hang with my bestie Sandy and her family. We did a day trip to Big Bear and that was awesome! Pics coming 🙂
Working hard before taking off to SF next week. Lived there for a year before Puerto Rico, so it’s going to be great to go back 🙂 Already planned a dinner with my friend Patricia there, and she just sent me a message that she popped her hip and ended up in ER yesterday. I love that she has the same humor as me! Nurse Puma is coming!
A couple of more left-over pics from 2021. Seeing the meatball sandwich pictures made me hungry and I need to go find some tacos now!
