Happy Raturday!

 

"I has a hamburger."

*All pictures today are courtesy of Rat Logic and martymousehouse.com*

Apartment Life #386

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 27 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 27 years here in a weekly blog post.

I've noticed a lot of the homeless people out and about walking through the courtyards across the street into the alley over there. Me being the curious, nosy neighbor that I am, I decided to take a stroll and watch where they were going. The fence you see in the background back there had been repaired and you might be able to see some of the new fence slats that haven't been stained yet. Well that house is empty and so the homeless people pried off the new slats so they could go through the back yard and break into the house and quat there. The police come, make them leave, never arrest them and the next day they are right back again. 

You might be able to see the hole in the fence a little better here. There's another vacant house a few doors down from this one that the homeless people break into the stay as well.

I've seen Jessica (The mayor of Tunnel Town) bringing men from my courtyard to one of the vacant houses late at night. I'm only guessing what she's doing there but I have a good idea. 

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The window towards the right, next to the wall AC was broken out of one of my neighbors apartments. A homeless lady pushing a cart walked by and for no apparent reason punched a hole in their window and kept walking. No idea why she did it. But the guy who has been following Jessica to the vacant houses late at night lives there 

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On Wednesday we all got notices that our apartments were being inspected again for bank purposes, whatever that means. So on Thursday I was up early and they came by before noon. There were 13 people walking around going into the apartments. I took a picture of some of them outside the apartment across from me. The other half was inside that apartment. They only stayed for a minute, literally and then moved on to the next apartment. They came in looked under the sink, in the bathroom and took pictures of the AC. That was it. So weird.

About 2 hours later I'm in my bedroom reading and I hear what sounds like someone running back and forth on the roof and then there's a scraping noise near my bedroom window. I pulled up my camera and this guy (One of the inspectors) was right at my window. So I opened my window and asked if I could help him with something. He said no, he was just looking at the paint that was peeling off the wall. He said wasn't this recently painted? I said yeah less than 2 years ago. He said, Oh that's not good. lol 

The high this week was 96F/35C

The low this week was 71F/21C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.

Saturday Vittles

 

My Daughter and I are trying to eat more healthy so I thought I would share some pictures on Saturday's of what we've made.

Corn and Avocado Salsa

You will need: 

2 Ears of corn

1/2 cup Cilantro- diced

Juice from 1/2 Lemon

1 Large avocado- chopped

Salt to taste

What to do: 

Boil corn in water for 20 minutes. Remove from water and let cool. Once cool cut the corn from the cob.

In a bowl combine cilantro, salt, avocado and lemon. Mix well and add corn to the bowl. Mix well and chill. I served this with some chicken breast. 

1/2 cup of salsa contains 90 calories and 25 carbs.

Would you eat this? 

Freebie Friday!

 

Welcome to another weekly Freebie Friday post, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too. Someone asked me why I do a "Freebie Friday" each week, so I'll tell you.

A while back I listed all the free samples and wins that I had received that previous year and so many people didn't believe that I could have gotten so many free things. So I decided to prove it by taking a picture every week and sharing the sites that I found the links to the freebies at. So now you too can get great free samples coming to your mailbox each week.

  You can find links to great samples at Hey It's Free and Freebie Shark.

This week I received two sample bottles of KY Ultragel. 

I answered a survey and women who are postmenopausal were qualifying for the sample bottles.  

Book Review: Alien Mercenary's Heart by Mina Carter

 

Book Description

She wanted a coffee and an easy shift. Instead, she got a smart-alec mercenary and commandos trying to kill her…

Medically discharged from the military over a decade ago, Station Chief Eris Archer just wants a quiet life. But life on a frontier station like Tarantus is never dull. The wild west of space, she’s used to less than scrupulous characters crossing her path.

So when handsome cyborg, Zero, charms her with fantastical tales of being non-human, she takes it with a pinch of salt. When commandos storm the base, trying to kill her and she ends up with a price on her head, she has to trust him with her life… but can she trust him with her heart?

He doesn’t know where he came from, but he knows one thing… his destiny is with her.

Zero is a mystery, even to himself. Since waking up badly damaged in a wrecked shuttle, he’s made his home with the Warborne, a band of Latharian Mercenaries with a lethal reputation. He lives fast and he expects to die young…

Until he meets her. Eris Archer captures the attention of all his instincts, human and cyborg. Drawn to her like a targeting lock… he wants to get to know her better. But his plans for a date in the station’s brig are foiled by people with guns and they have to get off the station. Fast.

Between murderous commando's, betrayals and an unexpected rescue mission; can Zero prove to her that he’s all the man, or machine, she’ll ever need...

My Review

Station Chief Eris Archer has a secret. She has a prosthetic leg, implants that are about to fail and leave her paralyzed and her old 'tank' that she's fixing up because she couldn't bare to see it go to the scrapyard.  Little does she know that someone has put a price on her head and commando's are headed her way to kill her. The government has a lot to answer for because they put these implants into these soldiers knowing that they wouldn't last and would leave the soldiers disabled if they made it out of the war alive, which they never thought they would. 

But now, Eris has a part cyborg man on her side and he's not letting anything happen to her. Once Zero and Eris are on his ship and she meets the other aliens that Zero works with, she starts to feel safer. Not only are they helping her with the commando's that are after her but their medical technology might be able to save her from being paralyzed, which is something she never thought possible. 

Eris is such a warrior in her own right though. She's a soldier who is not afraid to strap into a large machine and kick some butt of her own in order to save the people helping her, even knowing it could be the last time she would ever have use of her leg. I loved her. Zero is such a great hero and I sure hope that he gets answers to the questions about his past. 

I'm definitely going to be reading more of this series. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Favorite Picture of the Week

 

A Las Vegas Summer sunset.

And a Las Vegas Summer Sunrise.

And then for two days this week, we had crazy amounts of clouds and at night we had so much lightning. It was very cool. 

In the morning there were a lot of clouds for just two days and then back to sunny days. Those big puffy clouds blocking out the sun were nice for a couple of days though.

Book Review: An Alien Prince for Thanksgiving by Isla Chiu

 

Book Description

The last thing I expected this Thanksgiving was to meet an alien prince.

Because I have no life and no friends, I'm working a shift at the convenience store on Thanksgiving. I expect the day to be completely uneventful.

Then a freaking UFO lands in the parking lot.

Sani is a 7-foot-tall green man with 12-pack abs, and he's a prince from the planet Eler. Even crazier? He is in search of a mate because he needs to repopulate his kingdom.

And he wants me to be his mate...

My Review

Prudence is an orphan and doesn't have any family so she's working in a convenience store on Thanksgiving. When Sani lands his space ship in the parking lot and tells Prudence that he's looking for a mate, she is quickly teleported onto his ship and away they go to his planet, Eler. 

With the female population on Eler dwindling because of the wrong person being in charge of the planet. Now that the rightful Queen has taken back her planet, they need more females to repopulate the planet. So Sani goes in search of a mate. He thinks he's found her when he meets Prudence. With no family and very little to look forward to in her life, she gives Sani a chance to get to know him, see his planet and meet his people. 

Prudence likes how sweet Sani is and quickly realizes that she could see having a life and a family of her own with the gorgeous alien. 

This was a quick novella length story but it was very sweet. Sani's sister, the Queen was welcoming and funny. This was a cute, quick read. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Happy Raturday!

 

This was my rat, Lucky. He only had 3 legs and a friend of my daughter who worked at the pet store called and asked if I would be willing to take him because they were going to euthanize him because they said he was not sellable because of his disability. He lived to be almost 4 years old. He was super cute. 

Just look at Lucky's face. How could I say no to that face? He was very friendly. 

This was Fang, another of the rats I had over the years. I got him from my daughters friend who could no longer take care of him and his 3 cage mates. I took all 4 of them. Fang was a biter though. He bite my late husband Ken a few times but he never bit me. He and Ken made friends though over time. Because Ken would feed him some of his food all the time. Fang liked to hang over his hammock like this and just stare at me. After he got used to me, he just wanted me to hold him all the time. He was such a goofball. 

Apartment Life #385

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 27 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 27 years here in a weekly blog post.

Last year my apartment manager hired contractors to paint my apartment complex. It was a complete fiasco which I talked about in this post. If you haven't read it, it's funny because I was sealed in my apartment and had to break out to take the dog out. At that time they took all the building numbers off the buildings and it took months of complaining to get maintenance to glue building numbers back on the buildings. Well they probably should have nailed or screwed those numbers to the buildings because the glue they used isn't sticking too well in this heat we're having and the numbers are falling off.

Here's the missing number on the ground. They used a bunch of glue but it melted in our scorching heat and didn't stick too well.

I had wondered why there were no building numbers out front for the back buildings. Well I just realized that these idiots put the back building numbers on the back of the buildings facing the alley. Now who is going to drive down the alley to find a building number? I see the ambulances, fire engines, Door Dash, Amazon and other delivery trucks driving up and down the street several times looking for building numbers that aren't facing the street. And yes, I know this building looks like a jail with the security bars on the window. That's the laundry room and they had to do that to keep the homeless people from breaking the window and breaking in to the laundry room to do drugs and passing out in there. 

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I know you can't see the dog very well but I circled him in red. I was walking past the pool courtyard in my complex and saw two homeless ladies in the pool. One of them had her dog out there as well. (One of these days I will get a better camera lol)

The homeless people around here have been treating the pool like a bathtub recently. Bathing themselves and their dogs. They can get in because someone in this courtyard took a handsaw to the pool lock and broke it open. Management doesn't care, they've been informed. When I walked out there to check the mail, one lady was picking the scabs off the other lady's back while they were sitting in the pool. I don't use the pool and I see the pool cleaner out there every week but eww. No thank you. 

The high this week was 102F/38C

The low this week was 78F/25C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.

Saturday Vittles

 

My Daughter and I are trying to eat more healthy so I thought I would share some pictures on Saturday's of what we've made.

I made a couple of new recipes for dinner this night. This is roasted chicken breast with berry & tomato salad and stuffed mushrooms. 

Berry & Tomato Salad

This one is easy! Just combine 1/4 cup raspberries, 1/4 blueberries, 1/2 cup chopped strawberries and 1 chopped tomato. Add the juice of one lemon and mix. This was so good and refreshing. 

Mozzarella and Spinach Stuffed Mushrooms

You will need: 

8 White Button mushrooms

1/2 yellow onion- chopped

2 cups fresh spinach

1/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

1/2 tsp. Garlic Powder

1/2 tsp. McCormick Montreal Steak seasoning

Salt and pepper to taste

1 tsp. butter

What to do:

Remove stems from mushrooms and chop them up. Add them to a saute pan with the butter. Add diced onion and other seasonings. Saute until onions are soft. 

Use a spoon and enlarge the hole in the mushroom where the stem was. Just a little. 

Wash and chop the spinach into small pieces. Add it to the saute pan. Cook until all the water is gone. Remove from heat and add the onion mixture to a bowl, let sit for 5 minutes to cool. Then add the mozzarella cheese and stir well until combined. 

Spoon a little of the mixture into each mushroom and place in a baking pan. Bake at 350F for 15 minutes. 

The calories for 3 slices of chicken breast, 1 cup of berry salad and 4 stuffed mushroom's is 350 and it's only about 10 carbs. 

Would you eat this?