Friday, January 03, 2025
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:
3 Samples of Gold Bond Healing Sensitive lotion from SheSpeaks.
I like the lotion and it seems to work well.
Thursday, January 02, 2025
Book Review: Alien Crashes The Wedding by Becca Brayden
Book Description
Art dealer Sasha Montgomery is both nervous and thrilled to be invited to the Caldorian Earth Base for her best friend’s wedding to an alien warrior. One, she’s never seen an alien up close, and two, she made a promise to be there, no matter how much the idea of being surrounded by hundreds of huge alien warriors frightens her.
Sasha thinks she’s got it all under control, until Dagan, the groom’s best friend, crashes the wedding. He’s smoking hot—way too hot to be an alien—and determined to seduce her.
Sasha gives in to passion with unexpected consequences. Ancient power rises in response to their new-found bond, and the once innocent Sasha discovers that Dagan has been keeping secrets. He’s not just another warrior, he’s a king, and the power rising between them hasn’t been seen in a millennium. Sasha must learn to control the force clawing its way through her body…or destroy them all.
My Review
Sasha is on her way to her best friend's wedding when she encounters one of the aliens that are on Earth keeping us safe. She finds these aliens a bit frightening since they are so large, so she runs away. Sasha is shy and just wants to get this visit over with for her friend. So what are the chances that the alien she ran away from will be at her friend's wedding? Pretty good and that is where the fun begins.
Dagen was surprised and a little intrigued when he spots Sasha and she ran away but he spots her again at the wedding and he's even more enamored with her. When Sasha's friend witnesses the flirting going on with these two, she pushes them together gently and they start to get to know one another. But Dagen is an alien and he has his own customs that Sasha knows very little about. So when Dagen pursues her and she agrees to what she thinks is dating him for a week, he thinks she understands his customs and there's some miscommunication because of this.
I thought Dagen was a great hero and he treated Sasha really well. When something starts to happen to Sasha things really change and there's a huge thing that happens to her and him because of it. I think this might be the beginning of things changing for his people which makes me want to read more of this series now. I really like the direction this book went. I had a lot of fun reading this book and can't wait to read more now.
I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.
Wednesday, January 01, 2025
Everyone Has A Story, Here's One Of Mine
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. 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.
Babysitting in the 80's
My younger brother and I were both latchkey kids when we were young. If you don't know that term it means, I had a key to the house on a lanyard around my neck and I let myself and my brother into our house after school. I made us a snack, did the dishes and watched my brother. I was 10 years old and my brother was 8 when I started doing this. So I had a lot of experience taking care of a kid by the time I was 14 years old. The next door neighbor asked if I could watch her two kids at night mostly on the weekends because she was going to night school to become a realtor. My mom was fine with it and I just spent the night on her couch in case the kids woke up during the night. I made $2 an hour.
When I was 15 years old the lady across the street asked if I would clean her house and take care of her two year old on the weekends. Again I did this for $2 an hour. Any extra money I made went to buying my own clothes and extra food since my mom was spending her money on drugs.
When I was 17 I dropped out of high school because I was being bullied. (I got my GED when I was 23). But I started babysitting 4 different kids at that time. One girl was overnight during the week. Two others were during the day weekdays while their parents were at work and another little girl was on the weekends during the day while her mom was at work. All were $2 an hour. But I was babysitting pretty much all the time and just slept on the couches in their houses while the kids slept.
One of the kid's fathers was a single guy and he asked me out. But he was 55 and I was 17. The little girls mother was 21 years old and she up and left after having the kid. He was a nice guy and I did go out with him a few times. But he ended up moving to Montana and we broke it off after he got mad that I wouldn't move with him there.
Back then I was living in a little trailer that my mom owned and she let me live there for free. I just had to pay the $135 space rent and the propane for the stove which was $40 a month. I bought my own food and did all this on the money I made babysitting. Things sure were a lot cheaper back then. My mom and her boyfriend lived in another trailer in the same trailer park.
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