Saturday, May 21, 2005
I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to obtain money from ATM machines here at the hotel so I am broke. It does appear that the ATMs are just having technical issues so hopefully I'll be back in business in a few hours. The internet was down earlier today too so maybe there are just some gremlins floating around here :)
Tomorrow I'll be flying back to Miami anyways- technology tends to be much more reliable in the US.
Hope everyone is doing well!
Many kisses,
Tanya
Friday, May 20, 2005
I still have not figured out a sneaky way to access the Playhouse bulletin board without prying eyes seeing what I'm doing so I thought I'd greet all you members via the front page again. It is very peaceful and relaxing here in South America and I think I'm becoming fatter and lazier by the minute. Rather than hiking through the Amazon I have been loitering near the hotel and eating a lot. They will have to give me a seatbelt extension on the plane when I fly home.
My friends have been much more active than me and one of them commented that I'm basically having the same vacation I would have had if I had just driven to Palm Springs and checked into a hotel there. That may be somewhat true, but I'm still relishing my lazy self-indulgence too much to care.
Maybe tomorrow I'll go for a long, sweaty hike. Or not.
Hope everyone is doing well!
Many kisses,
Tanya
Thursday, May 19, 2005
At this moment I am unable to access the bulletin board inside the Playhouse because I'm in an internet cafe type of place in South America. It does not seem prudent to log onto an adult site in a public room here, particularly when there's a picture of my big head on top of my scantily-clad body on the very front page. Fortunately I can access my Blogger account through a seemingly innocuous webpage and no one will guess that I am a scandalous woman who is transmitting her words to a site with "mature" content :)
Funny..there are two American businessmen sitting right across from me. They were speaking in English about an off-color topic and must have assumed that I could not understand. Well into their conversation I spoke to the attendant here in English and these two men just shut right up in embarrassment. Perhaps I look Brazilian. Or Argentinian. Women in Brazil and Argentina are notorious for getting massive amounts of cosmetic surgery. My surgery has been confined to my breasts, but that and the long, blonde hair are perhaps enough to give me the native look.
Actually, it's not really the native look since upwards of 90% of the country lives either a very rural existence or in poverty, but the women frequenting the hotels and airports here are some of the few with money and from all appearances cosmetic surgery is quite the rage.
I arrived here in the Amazon at about 4AM and was photographed and fingerprinted by the immigration officers. My two travelling companions were not. We had quite a trip getting out here. In Los Angeles we were not allowed to board our flight. It was a domestic flight to Florida where we were to switch airlines and then fly to South America. They told us that they could not check bags for domestic flights less than 45 minutes prior to departure. Huh? Were they kidding? No, evidently they weren't, because they did not let us or our luggage on the plane. One of my friends was later pulled aside for "special screening"and we were much later permitted to board a different flight that got us to Florida via Washington DC. How convenient ;)
It occurred to me after the fact that perhaps we looked suspicious since my two friends had one-way tickets (they had found a cheaper return flight on a different airline) and one of them was travelling with a Belarusian passport. Come to think of it he does kind of look like a terrorist anyways- hehe.....
In any case, we made it here and it is beautiful.
Chairman, I'm happy to report that I made the whole journey wearing my Everton jersey. I was even proudly sporting it in my immigration photo. And Evgulick, there is a trampoline here at the hotel. I kid you not. They probably don't expect anyone over 12 years of age to use it, but I'll surprise them.
Hope everyone is doing well. I will try to figure out how to get on the bulletin board while I'm here.
Many kisses,
Tanya
(I'm an Evertonian in the jungle!)
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
This Wednesday's update features one of my absolute favorite models, Katarina. I think this is the 4th gallery of her that I've put in the Playhouse recently. In today's pix Katarina is dressed in severe green leather military garb (hey, this is about fantasy...) and strips down to reveal her lacy lingerie and all-natural 36DD boobs. Yep- ALL NATURAL!
Normally I'm not fixated on natural breasts because I love large silicone breasts too (!!!), but it's not really that often that you find women with h-u-g-e natural racks and thin, fit bodies like Katarina. I love Katarina :)
Best of all, there are 144 new full-size pix of the lovely Katarina in today's update!!!
- XXOO Tanya
Monday, May 09, 2005
Sunday, May 08, 2005
I need to get on my soapbox right now so this is probably a good opportunity for you to stop reading. It's necessary for me to expunge my emotions from my system so I can put my annoyance behind me and enjoy my Sunday.
In the Sunday paper this morning an author of a new book is quoted as saying that she returned to live with her parents because she had no job and no interest in working at a local coffeeshop. The reason that irritated me is because I hear people making similar comments all the time. It is as if they think there is shame in an honest job. They should feel lucky that they live in a country with so many jobs and such abundant opportunity. When did it become preferable for people to remain unemployed rather than take a paying job that may not be the position of their dreams? If they are determined to do so they will eventually get the job of their dreams and there's no excuse for being a lazy sloth in the meantime.
I can understand people wanting to live with their parents, but I just can't fathom why able-bodied adults choose to sit on their butts and let their parents pay all the bills. My parents and I never got along, but in a way I'm glad that I never had the option of returning to their home and sitting idle. I've worked full-time since I was 17 because there was always that specter of the homeless shelter looming in my future as the alternative :)
-- XXOO Tanya
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
It was a sickening spectacle involving screaming,
profanity, clawing at breasts, hairpulling, punching,
spitting, and even worse. It could have been the
sideshow at a Nascar event, particularly since the two
busty combatants were dressed in studded G-string
ensembles that must have been around since the 1980's.
Who were these two white trash idiots? And why were
they fighting in 6" spiked heels? Well..it was me and
my friend Summer Cummings trying to decide who was
going on stage next at The Rack Shack where we work as
topless dancers. Judging by our animosity you'd have
thought we were battling over the deed to the
Trump Towers, but it was just another strip club battle
for supremacy. Come inside the Playhouse to view the
debauchery..
-- XXOO Tanya
Sunday, May 01, 2005
Updated: 02:12 PM EDT
Town Repeals Ban on Speedo-Style Suits
By JOHN CURRAN, AP
CAPE MAY, N.J. (April 30) - Come on in, Speedo wearers, the water's fine: Your skimpy little swimsuits are legal now.
For more than 30 years, this quaint little Victorian-themed resort at the southern tip of New Jersey said no to "skintight, formfitting or bikini type" bathing attire on males over the age of 12.
For an ocean resort that once required men and women to swim at different times of day, wearing heavy woolen, cover-everything swimsuits, it made sense to modernize.
"It's a beach town, for God's sake," said Police Chief Diane Sorantino. The town also agreed to lift a rule that stopped bare-chested men from strolling along the beachfront promenade.
Not that everyone's cheering. It's often the older guys - the ones with beer guts, or wrinkly skin, or unsightly tufts of hair - who wear the tiny swimsuits.
"The people you want to see in the Speedos, you don't," said Maggie Creighton, 19, who works in a downtown lingerie store.
Locals who share the beaches with tourists said that despite the ban, the itsy bitsy suits have been a common sight in summer, even though most surf shops and beachwear retailers here don't sell them.
"A lot of people do come in and say `Do you carry Speedos?' said Becky Fitzgerald, sales clerk at Della's General Store. "It's the 40- to 50-year-old group who ask. And it's funny, their bodies aren't the shape for Speedos."
The swimsuit ban was enacted in the 1960s in response to complaints about gay men who wore the suits on the beach, according to former mayor Robert Elwell, who writes a Cape May history column for a local newspaper.
But the ban was rarely if ever enforced, according to the city, which voted to amend its beach regulations last week.
City Administrator Luciano Corea Jr. said the skimpy swimsuit ban was largely unknown. There was no push to eliminate it, but doing so made sense, he said.
"We had no complaints, and we've never issued a summons for it, to my knowledge," said Corea. "Technically, we could've left it on the books. It was never enforced anyway."
Vince Grimm, executive director of GABLES of Cape May County, a gay advocacy organization, said the ban was outdated and holds no particular significance for gays.
"We're no different than anyone else. If they (the suits) are in style, we wear them," said Grimm.
Charlotte Beheler, owner of Sports `n Stuff, which sells Speedos for $25.95, said they're not among her top sellers.
She doesn't expect any big boom in sales this summer - or an explosion of skin on the beaches. Neither does Speedo, which says the men's brief-style suits make up only 1 percent of the Los Angeles-based company's sales.
"I could see that people may buy more, but I don't think it'll be a huge dramatic change," said Speedo marketing manager Lesley Benko.
Still, some people will be watching the beaches this year just to see who's wearing what.
"I haven't been to the beach in years, but now I'm thinking I'll go down there this year," said Joann Quinn, of North Cape May. "The beach ought to be interesting this year."
04/30/05 14:02 EDT
-- XXOO Tanya
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Misti Knight and I were auditioning for movie roles together. We were going to play sisters. Our audition should have been simple: just a few lines of dialogue and lots of smiles at the director. For some unknown reason Misti started getting really competitive with me. She would interrupt me when I was speaking, stand in my light, and roll her eyes when I was rehearsing my lines and trying to get into character. Finally I turned on her and asked her what she thought she was doing. Did she think that she was going to play the roles of BOTH sisters if she succeeded in upstaging me at this casting call? The whole room broke out in uproarious laughter when I demanded to know this. Misti didn't like being the butt of the joke and all of a sudden we were writhing around on the carpet in nothing but our short skirts and sheer tan pantyhose!!
-- XXOO Tanya
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Do you happen to remember when I had a Photo of the Day on the front page here? Well, I still have one at
www.blondeisland.us
Today's photo is especially comical with the bouffant hairdo :)
-- XXOO Tanya
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
I don't often start my day off crying, but today I did. As I was standing in line this morning to buy my coffee, candy bar and newspaper I began reading one of the front-page stories in the L.A. Times. It is about the residents of Bangor, Maine, many of whom are ex-military themselves, who turn out to greet every single plane of returning soldiers who pass through their town. It is a genuinely touching story and I'm still in tears as I think of it now. Every one of our soldiers deserves a hero's welcome upon returning to US soil. God Bless them all.
The story is called "Welcome Stop for Warriors" by Tony Perry and is on the front page of
www.losangelestimes.com today too.
-- XXOO Tanya
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
I just reread my post from yesterday and realized that it may have appeared that I was on the cusp of a religious conversion or something. Don't worry, I'm not. I just liked the part of yesterday's post that espouses kindness to one another.
Maybe that's just because I live in a big city and I'm tired of people leaning on their horns if I haven't shifted into gear and blasted away from a stoplight at 90 MPH one second after it turned green :)
Several weeks ago I was standing in line in Sav-on when an elderly man in a wheelchair had to ask a lady in line to step back so he could maneuver through the store. She seemed fearful that he was trying to cut into the line in front of her and she pointedly informed him that he couldn't. The poor guy indicated that he was just attempting to move to a different part of the store and the line was blocking his access. Afterwards the woman was slightly embarrassed and she turned to the couple behind her and said: "Well, I have to watch out for #1 because no one else will."
It was kind of a weird moment in a mean city.
- XXOO Tanya
Monday, April 18, 2005
This was sent to me by a friend the other day and I thought I'd share it:
Numbers tell only part of the story. Whatever one thinks of Christianity, the history of Jesus gave birth to a new, lasting vision of the origins and destiny of human life, a vision drawn from the religion's deep roots in Judaism. Everyone is created in God's image; there is, as Paul said, "neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus"; all are equal, special, worthy. In the Christian world view, says the Roman Catholic theologian George Weigel, "we are not congealed stardust, an accidental byproduct of cosmic chemistry. We are not just something, we are someone." The promise at the heart of the faith: that God, as the fourth-century church father Athanasius said, "was made man that we might be made gods."
As the search goes on for so many along so many different paths, Paul offers some reassuring words for the journey: "Be at peace among yourselves ... encourage the faint-hearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all. Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks ... hold fast what is good, abstain from every form of evil"—wise words for all of us, whatever our doubts, whatever our faith.
-- XXOO Tanya
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Good afternoon,
There has been lots of stuff all over the news here
about the possibility of the FDA lifting its ban on
silicone breast implants. During a hearing many women
gave what amounted to 12 hours of testimony pleading
with the FDA not to lift the ban. They spoke of
illnesses and deaths that had occurred allegedly
because of silicone breast implant ruptures and
leakages.
I have silicone breast implants and elected to get
silicone implants instead of saline even at the height
of the silicone breast implant hysteria here some
years ago. That was when Dow Corning and the other
implant makers were hit with huge class-action
lawsuits from women who claimed that the silicone
implants were unsafe.
My feeling is that the silicone implants made in the
last 20 years or longer are not unsafe. I have known
of women who blamed their leaking implants for their
own serious illnesses and in every case they had
received their implants before 1980. What I am going
to say next is entirely anecdotal, but it struck a
chord with me as soon as I heard it. It just seems to
have the ring of truth even though this is basically
just uncorroborated thirdhand information.
An acquaintance of mine knows a man who worked for a
company that manufactured some of the first silicone
breast implants. Those implants were put into womens'
bodies and the company realized after the fact that
the industrial-grade type of silicone (or whatever)
they were using would be very dangerous or fatal to
the recipients if the implant ever leaked and that the
design of them might allow a lot of leakages. They
quietly researched the issue and created a safer type
of silicone implant. Now, many decades later the
company will never, ever admit to this.
As I said, I know of women who became seriously ill
with peculiar afflictions they feel were due to their
silicone breast implants. In most cases they were
friends of friends of mine, all of them were dancers,
and all of them received their implants in the 1970s.
One obvious conclusion to that is that it just took a
while for their implants to leak and that those of us
who received implants in the 1990's will eventually
have leakages and illnesses too. I don't believe so
because a lot of these women were already having
health issues in the 1970s and 1980s. Plus, I
personally know other dancers whose post-1980 silicone
implants have leaked and they did not become ill. They
had to have surgery to replace or remove the implants,
of course, but they never had recurring or abnormal
medical afflictions afterwards.
These words almost seems like a waste of my typing because
everything I'm writing is based on hearsay. Even I
don't actually have substantive reason to believe what
I'm writing, but yet it all feels like the truth on
some intuitive level. So much for my contribution to
research science :)
Nothing I've written will ever be proven, but I just
can't shake the feeling that it is the truth.
-- XXOO Tanya
Sunday, April 10, 2005
My friend Jay has built a new Yahoo group for me!
groups.yahoo.com/group/devoted2tanya
--XXOO Tanya
Friday, April 08, 2005
My sister and I grew up in California, but she later went on to teach highschool in the Dallas public school system. In her words: "The way the kids look at it is that either you're a football player or you're a cheerleader or you're a loser." She said the attitude was very deeply entrenched. I hope she sends my nieces and nephew to school in California. They are nice kids and I'd hate to see them turn into complete nimrods just because they're growing up in Texas.
Texas High School Football Coach Shot
CANTON, Texas (April 7) - The father of a high school football player shot and wounded the coach with an assault rifle Thursday and fled in a pickup loaded with weapons, claiming to have a hit list, authorities said.
Jeffrey Doyle Robertson, 45, was captured a few hours later, after his truck was found abandoned near a golf course outside Canton. Robertson was carried out of the woods on a stretcher.
Police were trying to establish the motive for the shooting of Canton High coach Gary Joe Kinne.
But Police Chief Mike Echols said Robertson had been banned from campus and told not to attend school functions. Robertson had had confrontations with some of the coaches, including Kinne, who took over the football program in 2003, authorities said. Kinne's son was the team's quarterback.
According to one parent, Robertson had complained last year that his son was being picked on by his teammates.
Kinne was shot with an AK-47 rifle in the chest at the school's field house, officials said. He was airlifted to a hospital in nearby Tyler; his condition was not immediately released.
Robertson said he had a hit list, according to state Homeland Security spokeswoman Sophie Yanez.
An athlete's father, Steve Smith, said Robertson had threatened to kill Smith's son last year over an on-field teasing.
"He's a very high-strung, hot-tempered individual," said Smith, a Canton business owner.
Smith told the Tyler newspaper that Robertson's son, then a freshman football player, was walking off the field when some older students "razzed" him.
"This guy blew up," Smith said. "He thought some kids were picking on his son. My son wasn't even the one who said anything. But he threatened to kill him."
Smith said he complained to the school and police. Robertson was never charged.
A local restaurant cashier said Robertson had a reputation in Canton, about 60 miles east of Dallas.
"I wouldn't say he was respected. But he was well-known," said Sister's Cafe cashier Diane Price, who said she has known Robertson for 37 years because he attended high school with her daughter. ___
(Associated Press writers Anabelle Garay and Bobby Ross Jr. in Dallas contributed to this report. )
-- XXOO Tanya
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
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-- XXOO Tanya