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. 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.
I got an email telling me I would be getting a sample of Honey Roasted Peanut M&M's. I'll let you know when I get it.
I also received a Bloomindale's Little Freebies Box with samples of Chloe Sable and Lavender perfume, Infinity Coty Vanilla and Amber perfume, and Jil Sander Leaf perfume.
My favorite perfume this week was the Leaf by Jil Sander. That smells really good.
Did you receive any freebies or free samples this week?
I've been thinking of writing an autobiography or memoir, but it just never comes together for me, but I figured if I write one story at a time and post it on my blog maybe once a month, I can do that. Maybe one day I'll pull all the stories together and put them in a book but for now I'll just share some stories with you about my childhood and into adulthood. Some of the stories will be happy, some sad and some horrific because that was my childhood. But they will all be real, things that actually happened. If it seems like something that people enjoy reading maybe, I'll keep it going. These stories will not be in any kind of order; I'll just write them as they come to me.
Dealing With A Bully
For my first two years of high school I lived in Hawthorne, California. The High School I went to was Leuzinger High School in Lawndale, California.
Freshman year things were mostly fine and I got good grades and had no problems with anyone. Near the middle of the school year one girl had a problem with me for talking to her boyfriend. But I had my own boyfriend and wasn't interested in hers. She kept picking on me, pushed me into the lockers in the locker room of P.E, Class, tried tripping me on the way to class. Called me names ect. I got really sick of it, so I took another class the second semester of the year that we could take instead of P.E. so I wouldn't have to be in the locker room with her. I ended up taking ROTC. Ohh that was a lot harder than I thought it would be, we ran the mile 3 times a week.
The next year, Sophomore year of high school she kept picking on me. So I took girls wrestling instead of P.E. that first semester and got really good at it. The second semester I took weight lifting. By this time I was still running a lot after school, and I was in good shape. The weight lifting made me stronger after a few weeks of doing it and when she came at me during lunch one day, I just had enough of her.
She pushed me and I punched her in the face. She grabbed my head and punched me, then she grabbed a hold of the second piercing in each of my ears and pulled. She ripped the earrings right out of my ears and I saw red. I punched her a few times in the face and I ended up breaking her nose.
Campus security got to us, stopped the fight and took us both to the office. We both got suspended for 2 weeks and we both went to the ER. I had to have both of my ears sewn back together, you can still see the scars on my ears from that fight.
When we were allowed back to school, she never bothered me again. No one bothered me. I only spent a little of the next year at that school because I got put in foster care for a few months when my mom went to prison for 6 months for drugs and then changed schools when I lived with my dad later.
Billionaire werewolf Sebastian Deveraux needs a mate. According to his brothers, he's spent too much time in the spotlight. That's code for not putting the Pack first. They're right, but evenings with a starlet are easier than admitting the truth to himself.
He found his mate. And she'd run from him.
Amanda St. James is back in Louisiana for her father's funeral and not a moment longer. The place is steeped in memories, daydreams, and dangerous desires. It doesn't matter how smoking hot Sebastian is, she refuses to end up like her mother.
Sebastian let his pride get in the way before. He's not going to make the same mistakes again. This time, he'll do whatever it takes to keep her.
My Review
Sebastian Deveraux is a wolf shifter. Years ago he met Amanda and had fallen hard for her, she was his mate and he let her get away. He's thought about her as the years have passed him by, but he'd never gone after her. She's human and she had no idea that he was a shifter and he was scared that if she knew, she would reject him, so he left things the way they were.
Now his brothers, who had also liked Amanda, have been after him to take a mate. But the only woman he wants is Amanda. He's thinking about going after her when she unexpectedly shows up at his house. She's in town for her father's funeral and stops by to thank him for the flowers. Only thing is, he didn't send the flowers. I'm sure his brothers were behind that. So, because they came together again things are tense between them. She knows more than he thinks she does and confronts him about a huge secret he's keeping. She knows or at least thinks she knows about him being a shifter.
If they're going to have a chance at happiness, he's going to have to come clean about everything. But she has secrets of her own. She was afraid she was going to end up like her mother, pining away for a man who could never love her and when Sebastian finds out that's the real reason she ran, he feels so bad and knows he has to tell her and show her how much he actually cares, even if that means telling her the truth about him and risking her rejecting him.
These two needed each other, they've both had bad things happen, but they knew deep down that they were meant for each other which is why they had never had any other real relationships. I was happy with the ending and how they finally got their happy ending. They deserved it.
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.
Instead of Uber, I've been seeing this new car service called, Vay. You download the app, order a car and it comes to you driverless and then you can drive it yourself wherever you need to go.
I looked at their website and the price is above. Kinda crazy.
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I heard the police helicopter up and got a picture of it.
Then looked outside and there were 2 cop cars parked in front of my building. They went into the building next to mine but I have no idea for what.
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I noticed that someone (probably a homeless person) set fire to a box spring part of a bed. Good thing it didn't catch anything else on fire.
The fire stayed right here thankfully. This was close to my building though and I'm getting pretty tired of them setting fire to things around my apartment complex.
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The high this week was 110F/43C
The low this week was 75F/23C
So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.
Heat the oven to 350°F. Spray an 8x5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
Melt 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter in the microwave. Place the melted butter and 1 cup granulated sugar in a large bowl and whisk until well combined.
Crack 2 large eggs into the bowl. Whisk until completely combined and the mixture is smooth.
Whisk 1/4 cup milk and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract into the batter.
Peel 3 very ripe, medium bananas and add them to the bowl. Using a dinner fork, mash them into the batter.
Measure 2 cups all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg and 1 teaspoon baking powder into the bowl. Switch to using a spatula and gently stir until the ingredients are just barely combined and no more dry flour is visible.
Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan, using the spatula to scrape all the batter from the bowl.
Bake until the top of the cake is caramelized dark brown with some yellow interior peeking through and a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean, 50 to 65 minutes. Baking time will vary slightly depending on the moisture and sugar content of your bananas — start checking around 50 minutes and then every 5 minutes after.
Set the loaf, still in the pan, on a wire cooling rack. Let it cool for 20 minutes before slicing.
This is the best banana bread recipe I've ever made and it's so easy to make. I figured I would share the banana bread recipe I made last month before I start sharing the healthy recipes again.
Archaeologist Clara has always chased the past—until a mysterious artifact catapults her into a brutal alien war. Now, she’s face-to-face with Zorvak, a dominant warlord with a battle-scarred body and an iron will.
Zorvak doesn't trust easily. But the moment he lays eyes on Clara, he knows she’s more than a curiosity. She’s his.
As enemies close in and passion ignites, Zorvak must protect the only thing he’s ever wanted for himself. Clara may not belong in his world, but he’ll fight the stars themselves to claim her.
She unearthed a relic.
He unearthed a mate.
My Review
Clara is an archaeologist who finds an artifact that transports her to Zorvak's world. Zorvak thinks she is the alien that has been foretold to come and bring his people together. But once he's around her for a little while, he realizes that she's his mate too. He's shocked by this because he thought that his mate would be one of his own species.
She's treated well but feels like she's being held hostage for reasons she's doesn't understand. He really should have talked with her more about what he was thinking. But once they start spending more time together, she realizes that he really does like her and wants her to stay with him, not just because she's been foretold but because he cares about her.
I really liked these two and liked how the rest of the aliens came to think of her as being a strong female and not just an alien who they could overlook.
This novella was a quick read but it had a good storyline, danger at times, steamy sex scenes and a great ending.
Falcor had been resting in the sun puddle on my bed, but when I moved his leash and harness, he jumped up and told me it was time to go for a walk. 🐶🐶🤣🤣
There's some cursing and saying the "F" word so if that bothers you, don't watch the videos.
So as you know, I pulled a muscle and pinched a nerve in my back and had sciatica not too long ago. My doctor wouldn't give me any pain meds because the x-rays showed nothing was broken. I'm still in a bit of pain but nothing like it was a few weeks ago. I was using a crutch just to walk around the little bit that I could. My daughter has been using Cannabis edibles for the severe pain of Lupus and RA she's been in and it helped so she suggested that I try one of her edibles. So, I said, what the heck, it can't hurt. Right? Maybe it will just make me tired and help a little with the pain, and I'll be able to get a little sleep... Oh how wrong I was. My daughter can take the same amount and not feel much at all. But I've never smoked weed and never taken an edible before, so I had no idea this was too much to start out with.
My daughter has been taking the 100mg edibles and drinks. So, she gave me one of the packs of gummy candies that were 100mgs and told me to eat the whole thing. That was a mistake, I just didn't know it yet.
You might think me posting this online is a mistake, but after it happened, I find it hilarious now. Let this be a warning to anyone who's never eaten a cannabis edible, to start off with a very small dose. Whatever you do, don't ingest 100mgs your first go around.
It started off slow, 2 hours after I took the edible it got hard to read and I started feeling dizzy. A few moments later, I was questioning all my life choices that thought taking an edible would be a good idea. The room started spinning and I was grabbing the computer desk for dear life because I thought I was going to fall out of my chair...it went downhill fast from there. I was grabbing onto the desk so I wouldn't fall, getting dizzy, and my eyes wouldn't stay open. I had the craziest thought spiral, a panic attack, and dissociated so hard it felt like my body was on earth and I was traveling in tunnels in space and visiting different realities that took years and years to get back home from. It felt like a nightmare I couldn't wake up from. I was so dizzy and felt so fuzzy that I wasn't able to get up out of that chair for 8 hours.
I couldn’t get the words out fast enough before they would slip away and I'd fall into the unknown dark place. I didn't like feeling like my brain was not in my control at all. It felt like I was being dragged into different portals or tunnels and I'd be gone for 80 years and then come back to my reality and I'd say, "I'm back again." I kept slipping away to a dark place, the world went black for a second because I was closing my eyes and couldn't keep them open but I didn't realize that's what was happening. I started to panic because it felt like I could only remember 3 seconds in the past and I was forgetting everything else. I was like this for 5 hours. Non-stop talking my daughter said, for 5 hours. And then I got sick and was vomiting non-stop for 3 hours. After that I was finally able to lay down in bed and sleep for a few hours.
I found these pretty funny because I'm the exact opposite of what you see in these videos. I am not an emotional person. I have a flat affect most times, I don't show a lot of emotion on my face for 99% of the time. So me jabbering away for 5 hours and being so emotional is not something that you see from me very often.
