Happy Raturday!

 

"Maybe I can find a dating site for single rats."

"Or maybe I'll just look at funny cat meme's like everyone else."

*This weeks pictures courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

Apartment Life #375

 

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 26 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 26 years here in a weekly blog post.

On Monday morning while I was outside, the Fire Truck pulled up and the firemen went inside a courtyard. 

Less than a minute later they came back out and left. Why call for the fire dept. if you don't actually need them? I don't get it. 

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I've noticed recently that a few homeless people will go up to people getting in and out of their cars around here and ask for money, food, clothing, or if the person getting out of their vehicle wants to buy whatever they are selling. A guy on a bicycle came up to me and asked if I wanted to buy a shock collar for my dog this week. I declined. Most of the time they are selling stolen goods from stores around here. 

I watched on my camera as this lady was getting out of her work truck  these two homeless people quickly walked up to her and I'm guessing asked for something. Because she reached in the back of her truck pulled out water bottles, a blanket and sandwiches. 

Then she took out a box of donuts from inside the truck and gave them some of those too. I thought that was really nice of her to do that.

The high this week was 107F/41C

The low this week was 74F/23C

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 healthier so I thought I would share some of the foods we are eating. 

Fruit Popsicles

You will need: 

A blender

fruit

popsicle molds

2 TBSP  Zero Calorie 7-Up

I found the popsicle molds on Amazon years ago. I've been making these every Summer for years. 

What to do: 

2 packages of strawberries made 8 popsicles. Wash and trim each strawberry. I cut them in half for easier blending. Add the Zero calorie 7-UP to the blender and pulse until it's blended very well. The 7UP adds a bit of sweetness without adding any calories. Some of these strawberries were very tart so they needed a bit of sweetness. 

Add the strawberry mixture to the popsicle molds and stick in the freezer for 3 hours. 

Each popsicle is 25 calories and 6 carbs. 

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: 

A bag of Zukes Mini Naturals dog treats from Fur Buddies. 

Breathe Right nasal strips. 

2 CeraVe lotion samples. 

I redeemed my points on Pinecone research for a $25 Amazon gift card. 

Falcor loves getting mail so he was excited there was something for him. He likes the treats. He gets so excited when he knows I'm opening something for him. 

The breathe right nasal strips are supposed to open your nasal passages when they are closed due to allergies or colds. They don't work for me. I guess I'll stick with the allergy medications. 

I love CeraVe lotion so I loved these samples. 

I've been saving all my amazon giftcards for a while because I want to use them to buy a new Laptop. Right now I'm using a Windows 8.1 and some websites won't allow me to even access them because  you need Window 10 or higher to sign into their websites. I now have $135 in Amazon giftcards so I'm slowly getting there. I think by the end of the year I should have enough just in Amazon giftcards from doing surveys that I will be able to buy a new laptop. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

How I Get Free Stuff and Make Money Online

*I thought I would share this post again for those of you that didn't see it the last time I posted this. I've updated my list and added a few more links to this list that have sent me free stuff to try or that I've received gift cards from.*

I tell my friends and family all the time how I get free things coming to me and some of them have tried it and they don't have the same results that I have. So I am going to tell you the websites that I belong to in order to get free stuff and maybe you'll be able to get free stuff too.

Fetch Is an app where you snap a picture of your receipts from shopping and you get points from it that you can exchange for gift cards. I've earned more than $100 this year. 

Inbox dollars sign up with Inbox Dollars and click on the emails they send you and shop with them for points that you can turn into real money. This one takes more time to do but in the past 3 years I have gotten $120.00 from them.

Hey it's Free This is one of the best place to find free samples online. I used to use a lot of sites but this is one of the best ones I've found for free samples that actually come. And they have a fb page where members post other freebies they've found.

She Speaks- Sign up for an account and sign up for free samples and full size products to test. Sometimes they just send you an email asking you to fill out a form to see if you qualify for the product testing they are doing. I've had good luck with testing products with them.

Ripple Street- Sign up to host a Ripple Street party "Formerly known as House Party" and if you get picked they send you all sorts of freebies, coupons, and free products to test and share with your Ripple Street guests.

Freebie Shark- This is another really great place to find links to free samples. I use this site a lot for signing up for free samples and they have a fb page where other members can post freebies they find.

American Consumer Opinion - This is a survey site where the points you get for surveys can be exchanged for gift cards.

Influenster- A site where you sign up for an account, fill out some surveys and do small tasks to improve your score. Then they send you free products to try out at home. I have been a member of this site for years and have filled out a few of the surveys and done a few tasks and have been sent free products. If you want to get free products at home to test, this is a good site to sign up for.

YouGov Sign up with this site and take surveys for points that you can cash out for either cash or gift cards.

Paid Viewpoint- This is a survey site where you get money for each survey to complete and when you reach $15 you can cash out. You do need to sign up with a smart phone number though in order to cash out because you have to verify your account with a text.

Crowdtap- Is a site where you interact with brands by answering questions, tweeting, posting pictures,  posting to fb and taking polls. You can apply for sampling parties and get free products to review and samples to share. Everything you do gets you points and at the end of the month you get a chance to win gift cards based on how many points you have.

My Points- It's a site where you answer surveys, and complete tasks in order to get points that you can exchange for gift cards.

Simple Solutions - This site is all about Arm & Hammer Baking Soda. They send out free samples or full size boxes of it for you to try and have you fill out some surveys.

Generation Good - This is the Seventh Generation site about their products. They've sent me several free Seventh Generation samples and products to try and review.

Snuggle Bear Den Community - This is the site for Snuggle Fabric Softener. You sign up for an account and fill out a few surveys and they might send you free samples to try out. So far I've received a free Snuggle stuffed bear that I gave to my grandson and a free full size bottle of Snuggle Fabric Softener to try.

Pinecone Research  This is another great site if you can get in that sends you survey invitations where you can earn points that you can cash in for actual products or virtual prepaid cards, and gift cards. 

Social Nature - Sign up for an account and pick products that you'd like to try. They'll email you if you get picked to try the product for free.

Valued Opinions This site you take surveys that you can then cash out for gift cards. 

It's All Free Online - A website that finds free samples, unique testing panel opportunities and other free product opportunities that I haven't seen on other freebie pages.

Fur Buddies - If you have a dog or cat, sign up for this site and you can get free samples of dog and cat food and supplies. I've been sent so many free products and samples from them for Falcor. You just have to share about it on social media and write a review for the products. 

Batiste Nation- Do you use Dry Shampoo? Sign up with this site nad you might get sent some for free to try out. I've been sent several bottles of dry shampoo since I signed up. You just have to share online, and write reviews. 

Thrifty Pig Surveys- This survey site gives you points for the surveys you take. You can then exchange the points for either an Amazon gift card, Paypal transfer or a paper check when you reach $5 you can cashout. 

Book Review: Lin's Challenge by Mara Jaye

 

Book Description

I don't want to die, but I just might on an alien mining moon.

On Earth, I had a good life. For the record, I didn't go into the light, but it came for me. It turns out the "people" were aliens. They abducted me and others, threw us into a cargo hold, and told us nothing.

Later, when we're dropped on a strange and barren planet, we're expected to work. I do, wanting to stay alive. Nothing distracted me until a bronze god of a man strolls in like he owns the place.

The hunk of an alien is everything a tall, dark, and handsome man should be. I can't help but stare until he stares back. He finally talks to me, calling me his forbidden fruit and making me scream his name during sexy times. He also says I don't belong here and plans to rescue me.

I hope so since I'm sure the other aliens know he's in an alien law enforcement agency. If he can't call for backup spaceships and ray guns, we might both be doomed.

My Review 

Lin wakes up and finds herself aboard a ship that is flying them to a far away planet with other aliens. She can't understand any of the other aliens but some of the female aliens help her out. They find themselves on a mining planet and are forced to work. She's seen what happens to those who cannot or will not work so she works and barely makes it until she is befriended by Turkh. He and another of his kind are there on a mission to bring the aliens who are enslaving lesser aliens on this planet to mine for them to justice. But his mission goes a little sideways when he meets Lin because she turns out to be his mate. He does things that are against his mission protocol in order to keep her safe until they can be rescued. 

I loved Lin because even though she finds herself in a terrible situation, she's really strong and keeps it together. She wants to believe Turkh when he tells her that he's going to get her out of there but she isn't sure that they are going to be saved. They spend a lot of time in this mining colony gathering information to bring down the evil aliens and in that time Lin and Turkh get closer and Lin learns a lot more about him. 

But they are in an open field with the open prisoners when they have their sexy times which even though they are supposed to be far enough away from the others so that they have a little privacy, it seemed a little to voyeuristic to me. The tech he has in his head is a little confusing and I thought it was a little unbelievable that he could mess up and accidentally give her too much of it when he's trying to help her. And when he tries to take it back to save her Lin acts like a child about it. 

The story was good, the conclusion was a good one. So even though I had a few things that bothered me about the story as a whole, I still enjoyed this book. 

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Favorite Picture of the Week

 

Typical Summer sunrise. Not many clouds in the sky this morning but a couple that didn't stick around for very long as the day heated up. 

Book Review : Kyrix by Kate Stevens

 

Book Description

Meredith always dreamed of being whisked off her feet by a prince—she just didn’t realize he’d be a blue-scaled alien warrior.

Working a dead-end job in a chocolate shop, Meredith Sinclair has all but buried her dreams of finding happiness.

But when a bland-looking man comes into the shop and starts asking her suspicious questions, the most ridiculous thing happens—he turns into a horned, seven-foot tall alien before her very eyes.

Sent on an expedition to determine the intelligence of the human species, Lord Kyrix Yio’naeus doesn’t expect his cloaking device to break down on his first mission.

When a human sees his true form, he has no choice but to take her back to his ship. But at the touch of her soft skin, his blood ignites like it has with no other female.

When the Herkleian government orders Meredith transferred to a lab for study, Kyrix will do anything to save her. Is it possible a human could be the fated mate to an alien royal?

And even if she is, will Meredith and Kyrix be able to escape his crew for a future together?

My Review

Kyrix comes to Earth on a mission to see if humans are ready to join the other aliens in an alliance. But while questioning Meredith his cloaking device fails and his true form is shown to her. He has no choice but to bring her back to his ship and erase her memory but the memory wiping serum doesn't work on her. When Kyrix's government hears about this, they decide that she is to be transported back to their planet and experimented on to find out why the memory wiping didn't take on her and if humans will be a problem. 

But Kyrix doesn't like this at all and has formed a bond with Meredith so he's going to do what he has to in order to keep her safe. 

Kyrix and Meredith fall for each other so fast and I loved that. At first she thinks she's having a break down because big, good looking alien in her shop? That can't be real. But it was and Kyrix turns out to be such a great guy. He is the illegitimate son of the King and the King has sent him away so that his other son can take the throne. Kyrix doesn't want the throne and wants to keep his mother safe.  

This was a cute, quick read and now I want to go back to the first book and read that too. Bring on the aliens! I'm here for it. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Happy Raturday!

 

"We got a new duck bed"

"It came with Quack Snacks, which I might share either the others."

"Maybe, if there's any left after I'm done."

*All pictures this week are courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

Apartment Life #374

 

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 26 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 26 years here in a weekly blog post.

Firstly, Happy Birthday to my daughter who turns 34 today!

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This is also my 5100th post. That's a lot of posts. 

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The big crane was back across the street putting in another new AC on the roof. There are 8 apartments in each building and from what I can see there are 4 large AC's so 2 apartments share a rooftop unit.

  They did it from the alley side so I only got this picture of it. I think that's 4 new AC's in the last 2 years for 3 of the different apartment buildings across the street and those things are not cheap. 

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While I was out walking the dog on Monday, I saw 2 police cars pull up and park real fast. This was the first one. 

This was the second one that showed up really fast. They were walking so fast they almost ran into the courtyard across the street with the tan buildings. I stayed outside for a few minutes and then watched on my cameras and they were there for over an hour. Then they left. No one was arrested and no ambulances showed up so I have no idea what was going on. Maybe they were taking a report for a robbery or something.

It was hot as Hades here this week. 

The high this week was 110F/43C

The low this week was 76F/24C

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

Saturday Vittles

 

So I thought I would share this delicious recipe again for mini chocolate pudding pies that I made. I've shared it before but some of the newer readers might not have seen it and it's so good so I'm sharing it again. 

Mini Pudding Pies

You will need: 

Keebler Mini Graham Cracker Pie Crust

1box of Jell-O Sugar Free Pudding Mix

1 can of Sugar Free Reddi Whip

What To Do: 

Make the pudding according to the package directions. I made mine with 2% milk. Let chill in the refrigerator for an hour. 

Preheat oven to 350F, place 1 pie crust on a cookie sheet and bake for 5 minutes. Do not over bake. Remove from oven and let cool completely. 

When you're ready to assemble one, add about 1/2 cup of the pudding mixture to the crust and top with 2 TBSP of Reddi Whip. 

These crusts are ready to eat and you totally don't have to bake it for 5 minutes but I liked it a little crunchier. You can remove the crust from the tin before you assemble it if you like but it came out easy after I added the pudding also

1 Mini Pudding Pie has 210 calories and 26 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.

I went from not getting any freebies to getting a bunch this week. 

This week I received: 

A sample of Blue Lizard sunscreen. 

A sample of castley cologne. 

2 Samples of Erborian CC cream.  

I wear sunscreen everyday so it's always nice to try something new. 

The cologne smelled good. 

The Erborian CC cream was too white for me. Not just light but bright white. No way I could use either of them. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Book Review: Knight's Salvation by Sherilee Gray

 

Book Description

Demon hunter Zenon lives with a dark secret. When he escaped Hell, he didn’t leave alone—and he’ll do anything to keep the shameful reason hidden. But when an intoxicating demi-demon, new to her powers, has him breaking all his own rules just to be near her, he knows he’s in serious trouble.

Painfully aware of being different, Mia Westbrook has always kept herself apart from others. Yet her new demon life comes with strings attached, namely one scarred and broodingly seductive knight who storms into her world—and her heart—and may just be her perfect match.

But a formidable evil has been watching, and is determined to tear them apart. They want Zenon is back in Hell, with them, where he belongs…

My Review

Because some demons have mated with humans and had offspring, those children come into their demon powers when they get older. They are known as demi-demon. The Knight's are charged with keeping the demi-demons safe while they learn to control their powers and also keep other demons and shifters from kidnapping the demi's and enslaving them. 

Mia has known her entire life that she was a demi-demon. Her human mother and demon father cared about each other but her father left and never came back. Mia knew she was a demi and she thought her sister could help her get through it when she got her powers since her sister has already been through it but she called the Knight's for help when it became apparent that she was going to need more help than her sister could give her. 

When the Knight's show up she meets Zenon. The Knight's are half angel, half demon and charged with keeping the demi-demons safe. As Zenon's past is unfolded little by little, I felt so bad for him. He's not like the other KNight's and never felt like he was part of their family tight circle. He keeps to himself mostly and doesn't let anyone in. But he can't help the way he feels about Mia and he is heartbroken because he doesn't see a way that they can ever be together because he has a big secret. 

Mia was so good for Zenon. She kept at him no matter how many times he tries to push her away. The characters are awesome, the fight scenes are great, the romance made my heart hurt for them and the world building left me wanting to read more of this series. I'm definitely going to read more of this series now. I highly recommend this book, I can't say enough good things about this story.

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Favorite Picture of the Week

 

Here is a typical Summer sunrise here in Las Vegas. Not many clouds but this day had a few. 

The little bit of clouds we did have were in the right place to be in front of the sun as it came up and so I was able to get this picture without being blinded. lol 

Book Review: Kissed By Fire by Kimber White

 

Book Description

Billionaire dragon shifter, Xander Brandhart is running out of time. If he doesn't find a mate soon, his last shift will be permanent. He can already feel himself starting to lose control.

Shae MacKenna grew up alone, trying to survive on the streets of Chicago until a powerful mage took her in and gave her a home. But when a wolf pack kills her foster father, Shae doesn't know where to turn. She's a marked woman and knows not to trust even the hunky dragon shifter that just saved her life and swore to protect her.

Xander knows Shae's his fated mate. But no human has ever survived mating with a dragon. To break his curse, Shae must take his brand. But a dragon’s kiss comes with a deadly price. The trouble is, Shae loves the way he burns. Can she find a way to survive it for a chance at her happily ever after?

My Review

Xander is on the hunt for something rare when he's told by his mother to go to a shop to look for it. But when he gets there, wolf shifters have already broken in and are terrorizing Shae and her foster father. Xander is too late to save her foster father but he whisks Shae away and brings her back to his home where his brothers and mother are. But Shae isn't sure what's going on, she knows about shifters from her foster father since he was a powerful mage but Xander is something different, something that shouldn't exist. She's not sure how safe she'll be in a house full of dragon shifters but with the wolves still out to kill her, she doesn't have much choice but to stay with Xander. 

Xander can hardly believe it when he realizes that Shae is his fated mate. How could fate be that cruel. A human would never survive the mating or giving birth to a dragon baby so he has to find a way to stay away from her. Not that she's making that easy since she feels the mating pull as well. Shae is willing to risk it in order to be with him and he's doing everything in his power to keep her safe not only from the wolves but from himself as well. 

The twist at the end of this book was so good! I love how they ended this. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Undeliverable Mail, Auctioned Mail and Lost & Found

 

I was wondering what would happen if I wrote the wrong address on a letter and forgot to add my return address to the envelope. So I went in search of answers...

If you Google what happens to undeliverable mail, this is what pops up. 

"The Mail Recovery Center (MRC) is the U.S. Postal Service's official "lost and found" department for undeliverable and non-returnable mail. Undeliverable mailpieces are letters, flats or parcels that cannot be delivered as addressed nor returned to the sender."

And if you go to the "What is the USPS Mail Recovery Center" page. It says this...

*Click on image to enlarge*

So apparently if they can't deliver the mail for whatever reason they open it to see if the contents are worth more than $25.00 ($20.00 for mailpieces containing cash), and they hold it for 30-60 days. If no one claims it within that time, they sometimes auction off the contents of lost mail, donate it or just throw it away. You can find the auctioned items for sale at the United States Postal Service Auctions page. 

I didn't even know this was a thing! They have all kinds of products available to buy. 

So if you're wondering how to file a missing mail request or if you could just go to the post office and have them look for a piece of mail that was missing. Well, they make it very hard to file a request if you're missing a piece of mail. I know, because I've done this several times before with no results. The way I was told to do it was to make an Informed Delivery account on the USPS website, click on 'support' and then on the right hand side click on 'missing mail' and fill out the missing mail report form.

 I've done this several times because my mail has gone missing more times than I care to admit. Either the mailperson puts it into someone else's mailbox slot, doesn't deliver it at all or it goes missing. And since mail carriers have been caught on video disposing of large amounts of mail into dumpsters behind company buildings, it could have ended up in a dumpster for all I know. 

Each time I waited 2-3 months for them to write me back, just to tell me that the 'missing mail'  was not found and the report was now closed. Yep, very helpful, not!

So if you've ever wondered about what happens to missing mail, undeliverable mail or lost mail, now you know. 

Apartment Life #373

 

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 26 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 26 years here in a weekly blog post.

On Monday while I was out walking Falcor first thing in the morning I saw a lady that used to be homeless in the neighborhood that goes by "Chocolate" slap david (Chicken Wing) across the face. He lives in our pool courtyard. He turned to leave and walked into the alley across the street and I heard her screaming at him. As they came back onto the street I was on, Chocolate saw some of the other homeless people and started screaming for someone to call the police that he robbed her and took her money. But by that time Chicken Wing was standing with Long haired guy, dreads, creepy guy and crazy guy. So I'm not sure who she was talking about but most likely it was chicken wing since she slapped him across the face. The guys started walking into our alley and she followed them screaming to call the police that he stole her money. She has a phone, she could have called the police but she didn't. 

The very next morning, I found out that Chocolate had died from a drug overdose. My daughter talked to Chocolate's sister who lives in my courtyard and they think it was foul play because she had gotten her life together recently. She had a house, was seeing a probation officer, and was wearing an ankle monitor. She was being drug tested so she wasn't doing drugs.  I talked to several homeless people in the neighborhood and they said she was found in her home with 2 drug needles in her arm. Her sister confirmed that and that the police think someone did this to her deliberately. I talked to Chocolate's mom (Who used to be my neighbor) and she thinks someone killed her deliberately too. I seriously doubt she did that to herself. The coroner is doing an autopsy and they are doing a drug analysis. I'm just guessing but I bet it was Fentanyl. 

If you've been reading my weekly posts for a while you know I told you that several homeless people have died from drug overdoses in my neighborhood in this post. 

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Monday afternoon screamer lady was out walking up and down the sidewalk in front of my apartment building with a cart. As I've told you before, she is not homeless, she just has a lot of mental problems. She walks up and down the street just screaming nonsense. She was here 26 years ago when we first moved here but back then she was the neighborhood prostitute. She propositioned Ken multiple times and she was mad that he kept turning her down. lol

Mostly everyone just ignores her and lets her do her screaming. But Monday night at 9PM I had gone to bed early and all of the sudden this woman was standing right in front of my bedroom window screaming. When I say right in front of my bedroom window, I mean she was about a foot away from my window, facing my window. Why the hell are you screaming into my bedroom window, lady? She woke Falcor and me up and I was pissed. So I threw open my bedroom window and yelled at her to go somewhere else. I shut the window and thought that was the end of it. 

Nope. She moved to the street and screamed some more. So I opened the bedroom window again and screamed back at her. I said, "Shut the f*ck up, people are trying to sleep. Don't make me come out there. I can scream too." 

She screamed once more and moved on. But by that time I was too riled up to go back to sleep. I opened my bedroom door to tell my daughter I was fine and she was laughing because I don't get mad too often. Yeah, don't wake me up and I won't get mad. 

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This was spray painted on the other side my my alleys wall. So I Googled WSL 13 and found this means West Side Locos- A street gang from California- it's gang graffiti. That's my apartment complex behind the wall this is painted on. Isn't that wonderful? I know there are gangs in the area because I see graffiti all over the place. It gets painted over all the time but I got a picture before maintenance painted over it this time. 

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Last week I told you my locks got changed because the office didn't have a key. This week everyone had notices on their doors that on Thursday Maintenance and the manager would be coming through to check and make sure they had keys to everyone's door. But why did they put the notice on my door too? They just changed the locks. Idiots. It was the same maintenance guy who changed my locks who was putting out notices. So he knew. 

And then the next day, Thursday when they were supposed to show up for the lock inspection..they never showed up. lol But on Friday they were walking around knocking on certain doors. They never knocked on mine (Why did I get a notice?) 9 Times out of 10 they never show up for whatever 'inspections' they are doing on the day they say they are going to do it. 

Since it's not the first time that has happened, it didn't even surprise me. This happens almost every single time they say they are going to come and inspect something. The AC inspection came 2 months after they sent me an email that they were doing it that week. 

The high this week was 108F/42C

The low this week was 80F/26C

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.

One Pan Roasted Chicken and Vegies

You will need: 

1/2 bell pepper- chopped

1/2 yellow onion- chopped

2 carrots- chopped

1 cup broccoli florets

1 chicken breast

1/2 tsp. Chili powder

1/2 Cumin

1/2 tsp. McCormick Mesquite seasoning

salt and pepper to taste

No calorie cooking spray

What to do: 

Spray a baking sheet with No calorie cooking spray.

Add all the vegetables and chicken breast to the pan. Spray everything with more of the No calorie cooking spray. Add spices to the chicken and vegetables and bake in a 400F oven for 30 minutes. 

My daughter and I halved the chicken breast because it was a big one.

This made two servings. Each serving was 300 calories and 15 carbs. 

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: 

I was sent the Arctic Air Pocket Personal Air Cooler- from Life Hack Collective. 

I like the little rechargeable fan. You can fill a small well with water and have a mister with it as well. It works pretty well. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Book Review: Kiran by Kenzie Kelly

 

Book Description

Go to space, they said. It’ll be an adventure, they said. They had no idea.

Cora’s boring job as a lab tech on board the space station Shangris is interrupted when two ships fall out of hyperspace and put Earth smack in the middle of an intergalactic war. She’s not sure which side she should be on, but the built-like-a-brick-house blue warrior who rescues her from the crumbling station could be more evil than Hannibal Lecter and she might not care. Especially if he’s in to eating people. But not in the creepy way.

The Talia’s captain ordered Kiran and his team to search the damaged station for survivors, and kill any Scozid he might find. The squid-like humanoids were known for using more primitive races for barbaric experiments. The Talia was tailing this particular ship when they jumped blindly into an unknown sector of the galaxy. With Ka’atari mates being as rare as a three-headed givuthde, he never dreamed his would be one of the survivors.

Things get even more complicated when another hyperspace jump, an unruly alien pet, and politicians get involved.

Hunka hunka blue alien love, action packed, steamy sci-fi romance fun!

This novella is the first in the Ka'atari Warriors series and has a guaranteed happily ever after and no cliffhangers.

My Review

Cora works in a lab on a space station and things are going alright when all at once two spaceships appear and are fighting. The good aliens are fighting against the bad aliens who want to take over other alien planets. Cora's space station gets caught up in the fight and is about to be destroyed when aliens from one of the ships come to rescue her and the other survivors. She's not trusting him at first but they know the space station is about to be destroyed and he won't leave the humans there to die so he doesn't give Cora or the others a choice. 

Once back on Kiran's ship though, something happens so that the ship they're on slips into a worm hole of sorts and they move quickly away from Earth and not sure if they'll be able to get back. Cora and the other females quickly find out that they are mates to some of the aliens on the ship so that makes things interesting. The mating heat affects some of them to the point that they can't stop themselves from mating with the aliens, not that they mind since they are big, strong, gorgeous and nice to them. 

I really liked Kiren and the other aliens on the ship. There were different aliens all working together against the bad aliens that were trying to take over planets. 

The different characters in this book made it so much fun to read including a sentient animal that befriends Cora to the horror or Kiran and some of the others on the ship. Everyone was scared of this animal and Cora is able to telepathically talk to her which helped make them fast friends. 

The non stop adventure, the fighting the bad aliens and romance made this such a fun book to read. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

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