Pickle Shots!

While I was staying in Atlanta, a good friend/family of Satni and the SKW crew, Lauren Skinner, came to visit from L.A. Santi through a surprise party for her and I got to help set it all up...I love parties! It's too bad the surprise was ruined though... Lauren found out about the party the day before. It was kept hush hush for two weeks, but when Santi sent out a reminder text to everyone the day before, Lauren had her sister's phone in her lap and intercepted the message. So, the surprise was a bust, but the party was still a success. Lauren was excited and quite taken back that there was a party for her. Everyone that came had a super good time!

During the party Lauren's sister Kimmy decided to make pickle shots. I was surprised that there were pickles at Santi's house...since he hates them so. When he heard what was going on he darted out of the kitchen screaming as if someone was running after him with one! How can someone be so afraid of pickles!? They're so yummy! Anyway, I was down for the shot! Let's do it!




A shot glass, tomato juice, vodka and a pickle...there you go! You eat the pickle after the shot. Just like a lime after tequila!

Back to Georgia

After spending two weeks in Texas I was supposed to drive with Kim back to AZ for the Arizona Shootout, a 3 day glamor modeling event in Phoenix. However, how our schedule ended up working out, we would not end up getting there in time to make it to the first day of the event, the meet-n-greet. This is a huge part of the event for me where I make a lot of contacts to work with throughout the year. It is also the night of the clothing swap between all the models which is a big reason I like to attend. I didn't really want to go if I couldn't be there the first day. Plus we would have to drive straight from Dallas to Phoenix in one night, a 14 hour drive, and then work the next morning. I was not looking forward to that. So, I decided not to drive back to AZ with Kimberly. Instead I flew out to Georgia to work with Sleeperkids World again and hang out with all my great Atlanta friends.

London In Austin

Got to spend a few days with London and her boyfriend Pat at their new home in Austin. This is London's first "real" home after living on the road for two years. She did live in Cleveland for a few months, but I don't really count that. She never really seemed happy in Ohio. Austin is much much different. She's bouncing off the walls with joy to be living here. Plus, she's been wanting to live here for awhile. After traveling around the country she decided that this is the best place to be! As far as I can tell, she isn't wrong.
There is always something to do in Austin and it has fun community that strives to Keep Austin Weird. So far we've gotten some great BBQ, walked around downtown and checked some of the several bars and shops, scoped out the state capitol building and watched the bats fly out from under the bridge at sundown. I love hanging out with Jes and Pat and am so happy they found a great place to live. They also found some kick ass roommates that are pretty cool to hang out with. I wish them the best of luck in this city and I can't wait to come back and visit once they're more settled in!

Driving to Texas

I sure notice once I cross the Texas border! I start seeing large stars everywhere, billboards cluttered with "Lonestar State" and "Texas", big T's displayed in windows. Texas definitely lets you know that you are in Texas, lol! I'm on the road with Kimberly Marvel for the next two weeks, while we visit Austin, Houston and Dallas. I have a few shoots lined up in each city and we will get to visit London at her new house in Austin!

Kim and I have worked together a few times before and recently roomed together in Tampa during Fetishcon in August, but this is our first time traveling with each other. Actually, this is my first time traveling with another model other than London. I love working and staying with other people, making new friends. Its one my favorite parts of my job. However, traveling with someone is a whole different story. To be with another person 24/7 can be trying, no matter how well you get along with that person. London and I have traveled so much together, that we just fall into a groove and don't have any problems. We just lucked out that way to be natural travel buddies. I'm curious at how well Kim and I will get along on the road.

So far, traveling with Kim has been good. I can tell that we are very different types of people and have different work styles. Traveling with her is going to be different than traveling with London, but I think it's going to be fun! I'm looking forward to having a new travel partner! We spent the whole drive from Tucson to Texas chatting away, catching up on each other's lives, making each other laugh. One thing I love about Kim is that she is silly fun :) She just says and does the silliest things sometimes that just makes me laugh. I hope we can continue to get along this well throughout our trip!

WrestleMania!

Here are some photos from my wrestling shoots with Sleeperkids' World.

ATL!

I've been spending the past two weeks in Atlanta, GA with Sleeperkid's World. Santiago, the owner and producer of the site invited me out to stay at his place and shoot for his website. It was a blast! I love wrestling! I had worked with Santi and a few of the SKW girls before when they came to Arizona this summer. It was nice to see these friends again. I also made several new friends! The SKW crew, all friends/family of Santi and Sleeperkid's World , is huge! There are so many loving people in Atlanta that I had a great time getting to know and spending time with!

The night I arrived, Santi had arranged a Welcome Party for me. I was welcomed with friendly faces, warm hugs, cold beer and Rockband! He even had a new puppy for me to play with. Life was awesome! I felt like a queen or something...I had never really had a party thrown for me before. I was very excited to be there and make new friends. And to think, this was all just part of my job...Yep! I sure do love what I do :)

The next day started work. It was hard work too! I spent the next few days training in wrestling manuvers and wrestling in videos for the site. Sometimes I would wrestle one-on-0ne versus another model, other there would be several of us in a shoot. The shoots were long and kept me active. I had to remember the moves I was doing, the moves that were being done around me, make the moves look good, act tough, not get hurt or hurt others, and try to stay looking pretty through it all. It was a lot to remember, tough to do, but oh...so much fun!

I loved learning all the moves! I had a great time getting thrown around the wrestling mats. Santi has a great mat room/studio at his house, which is a great place to work in. There is plenty of room to be tossed around. At first, I was beat up and lost most matches. But eventually, I got to win a few! Another great part was that I got to work with several other models, some long term SKW wrestlers and even a few pro wrestlers. I learned a lot from the people I worked with and had so much fun. It seemed as if we were always laughing and having a great time during the whole shoot. This tends to happen when you get several of us models together, but usually not much work gets done. Santi does a great job at getting the work from us he needs, while having fun too. We got several videos completed in efficient time, despite all the fun we had while shooting. It was great to be a part of such a great team! After a long day of shooting we would usually go out to dinner with everyone from the shoot with drinks and Rockband to follow afterward. I have never had so much fun with a whole week full of shooting before!

I had a few other shoots around Atlanta while I was there. I shot in a haunted house that was being constructed for Halloween. That was creepy, but cool! I also had a shibari ropework photoshoot with PassionAndSoul and Photognome. We shot at Joe's (Photognome) house and he had a suspension hook, so I was suspended by the rope up in the air. It was a really awesome experience, and I got some great images too!

Overall, I had a fabulous time in Atlanta. I was surrounded by wonderful people, made tons of new friends and got lots of work in. So, I'm able to pay my bills this month and come home with a little extra money! Yay for ATL!