Sad News about L.A. Banks

I sometimes struggle with a post here on my blog, but there are days that something just hits me square in the face and I know I have to pass the information on. Like the other day I was reading the posts on my favorite blogs and read a post on on Obfuscation of Reality about how L.A. Banks is battling an illness and loads of people are helping with her medical bills by way of auctions.

If you would like to see one of these auctions you can click here.


Sometimes you see something just needs to be shared with others and this is one of those times. I have read a lot of her books and this is really sad. It's sad when it happens to anyone but when it's someone you feel you know through her books, it hit harder.

The Red Star World Wear Scam

I recently saw a gift card in my Outside magazine, for $500 worth of free merchandise from Redstarworldwear.com

I looked over their site and soon realized that this merchandise which is mostly sunglasses and watches was not going to be free with this gift card. There is a 'service' [shipping and handling fee] of 9% per item. That's right 9% per item! So if I bought $500 worth of sunglasses from the site I would be paying about $50 just for shipping and handling. Don't waste your money on sunglasses that you could buy for $10 on the street or someplace else and get ripped off by shipping and handling fee's that cost you more than the glasses are actually worth.

If someone wants to offer you a free product, the shipping and handling will be free to. Or at the very least the 'gift card' they are supposedly giving you will also pay for the shipping and handling....which this one does NOT!

Bottom line...It's not free. Save your money and go to the drug store and buy a pair of sun glasses you can try on beforehand and make sure you like them. Don't get scammed by sites that are going to over charge you on the shipping and handling fee's for things that wouldn't never cost as much as they are charging.

My week In Pictures...

I've been busy doing all sorts of things, among them has been taking pictures or finding pictures in my many, many photo albums and scanning them to post on Fb so I could share them with my family that has no idea I still had them. Hey, I'm not called the picture keeper for nothing!

I've got all the pictures from my mom and dad that they had when they were little and I have all the families pictures that have been taken at all the family functions ect. I have about 20 very large photo albums and 4 large scrapbooks that I myself made.

I really love taking pictures and having the old pictures of my family and I. I even have pictures of really old cars and pictures of my grandpa when he was a kid. Not too long ago I went through the old pictures that my dad gave me years ago and had him tell me who some of the people were in the photos. I found I had a picture of my dad's grandparents. How cool is that?

So this is what I have been doing this week...



This is a picture I took of my String Doll that my daughter gave me. I wrote an article about string Dolls and should have it published in 2 weeks after the editor approves it.


Here's a picture of my rats that my daughter took. One of my rats, Hades is laying on his back and the other rats are snuggling with him.


This is a picture of my brother Billy and I. I was 16 at the time so it must have been in 1986..can you believe that? Oh how time flys. My brother didn't even know I still had this picture until I uploaded it to FB.


Here's a picture of the boys cage right after I had cleaned it. They messed it up right afterwards. They love to snuggle into those baby blankets.


and this is a picture of my childhood best friends kittens, back in 1984. That cats face is just priceless...He was yawning and made that face...LOL

Now I like Powdered incense...lol

I asked a friend of mine what in the world I was doing wrong with the charcoal briquettes and the powdered incense. It turns out that I was not lighting the charcoal briquette long enough for it to catch fire and get red hot, which would keep the fire inside it going and burn the powdered incense on it.

I finally get it now and have had it working just fine. Sometimes I just need to have some patience..lol

I do not like powdered incense

I recently bought some more powdered incense, the same kind that I had with my Wicca box and because it smelled good I wanted more and some charcoal incense burners. So I bought the charcoal briquettes and the incense and quickly found out that the little charcoal briquettes don't burn worth a shit. I put sand in the bottom of the brass burner I have, then lit the charcoal briquette and let it get hot, then put about 1/2 a teaspoon of incense on it and it smoked for about a minute and then stopped, I knocked the ash off the top and put more incense on and it didn't burn because the charcoal wasn't still hot. Maybe I need better briquettes.

I always seem to be writing something these days

I just finished writing another article for Associated Content from Yahoo! and now have another article published on my profile. I would probably write more but I run out of ideas really fast most days.


I really don't know how some of my author friends do it. I know authors of books that write several books a year! That would be a lot of work and quite frankly, I get tired of writing when I know I have to do it because it's work. That seems to take most of the fun out of it for me.

But thankfully I can write on my own time and get the articles I want to write out there for people to read, and it surprises me each month when I see just how many thousands of people click on my articles to read them.

But when I'm not writing articles I'm writing emails, notes, IM's, FB updates, blog updates, grocery lists, entering blog contests, reviews, and let's not forget all the wonderful paperwork for things like school, the government when it's needed, checks needing to be filled out, and the never ending list of books I want to get and put in my wish list.

The amount of writing and note taking I do seems to be never ending, good thing I have lots of paper and post it notes. lol

Fright Night Remake

I loved the original Fright Night movie and was irritated when I heard they were re-making this classic movie. The original is my all time favorite movie and I don't care what anyone says, Chris Sarandon is the ultimate vampire and no one will be able to replace him.

Now that being said, after watching this trailer I have changed my mind *yeah, I'm allowed to do that* and from the looks of the trailer it seems this isn't going to be a word for word remake of the original, which I am really glad about. I'm kinda looking forward to seeing this movie, because truthfully it looks pretty good and if I'm not comparing it to the original but watching it as a stand alone movie...I'll probably like it. Check out the trailer:

I'm a Winner!

I've been reading all sorts of books, even ebooks that I have won. Since I don't have an ereader like a Kindle or Nook, so I read all the ebooks I get on my computer. But I really don't mind, I'm going to be on my computer anyway, may as well read a book I've won and enter a few more contests.


I've been on a roll lately winning on some of the blog contests that I entered. Recently I have won:

2 books from Hanging with Bells http://hangingwithbells.blogspot.com/

1 Book from Sizzling Hot Books http://www.sizzlinghotbooks.net/

6 Books from When Midnight Comes http://cassandracurtis.blogspot.com/

I also won a mystery prize from Shiloh Walker's Forum http://pub34.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=2886669836&frmid=0

And I won a mystery prize from Heidi Betts Yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HeidiBettsHappyBookers/


I'm so excited ya'll, I can't wait to get all these books in the mail and start reading. It's been a very good week for me.

Family Heirlooms

I recent blog post on another blog got me thinking about the things we keep from our families. Most of us have some sort of family heirloom from grandparents or parents. It also got me thinking because my mother in law recently passed away and my sister in law sent my hubby some of her things. My mother in law loved wolves so hubby was sent some of the wolf pictures and plaques she had on her walls and some of her jewelry. Our daughter was given some of her jewelry and I know she will treasure the jewelry as much as I treasure my own grandmothers that I have had for years.

I ended up being the keeper of the pictures in my family. Since I was about 12 years old everyone in the family has been giving me the pictures to keep and now I have about 30 photo albums. I also have things of my grandparents, uncles and aunts and parents that they all gave me.

Sometimes I look at things and realize that it was my grandmothers or grandfathers and it brings back a lot of good memories for me. I have a geode sitting on my shelf that my grandfather found over 90 years ago. He was a rock hound and found this rock and broke it open to find this really pretty greenish blue rock inside it. He polished it and gave it to my dad who gave it to me. I don't know what kind of stone is inside the rock, it kind looks like turquoise, but I have no idea.

My daughter is funny because she'll look at something in the apartment and tell me, I get that when you die. LOL I say, Yep, but I'm not dead yet.

Not Funny

You ever have one of those days where it seems like everything you do is just wrong? Where no matter what you do it seems like you just can't catch a break and something goes wrong? Yeah, me too. I hate it when that happens and it seems to happen to me much to often. It's really starting to mess with my mind.

Sometimes it feels like life is playing one big joke on me after another. Well Universe, I'm no longer laughing.


This stuff just isn't funny anymore. Things keep happening that I have no control over and it seems to mess everything up for weeks.

Case in point, my mailman has once again not delivered my mail when he was supposed to. I didn't get one of the bills for the month and a check I sent in for another bill never got to them. So once again I am having to complain to USPS about my mail not get delivered to the right place and once again they tell me it's not their fault. I am so sick of this. They are the mail! They are supposed to get the mail to where it's going and they are getting paid good damn money to do this.

I always pay my bills each month, always have. But now I had to call my electric company and tell them I never got the bill, that's why the payment was late. And when I tried to order a movie on Pay Per View and couldn't because they telephone company said I hadn't paid my bill I was way like, The hell you say! I sent in a check 2 weeks before it was due...but yet again they didn't get it. Which meant I had to cancel the check..$30.00, pay with a check by phone $10.00 fee and have a blemish to my spotless record...I'm pissed and there's really nothing I can do except start paying all my bills online.

I'm just waiting for the next shoe to drop...because I know it will, something else will go wrong this week...I can feel it.

Funny Food

Fun food facts:

• apple is made of 25% air, that is why they float.
• apples, onions, and potatoes all have the same taste? Try the test: Pinch your nose and take a bite out of each.
• avocado has the highest protein and oil content of all fruits, but most of this is the healthier unsaturated type.
• cabbage is 91% water.
• carrots were originally purple in colour, changing in the 17th Century to orange with newer varieties.
• celery requires more calories to eat and digest than it contains.
• cherries are a member of the rose family.
• corn always has an even number of ears.
• corn makes up about 8% of the weight in a box of corn flakes.
• eggplants are actually fruits, and classified botanically as berries.
• honey is the only edible food for humans that will never go bad.
• lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
• orange does not rhyme with any other word.
• peanuts are legumes and not a tree nut.
• peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
• pear is a fruit that ripens from the inside out.
• strawberries are the only fruit which has its seeds on its outer skin.

My little ratty faces..

I hear the world is supposed to end today, but I'm not worried. I'm gonna go about my day and play with my rats like always. But if the Zombies start walking the streets...I'll worry...lol





Jasper just relaxing next to his brother.



Hades has a foot thrown over Jasper's face and he just laid there like that.


Hades, Jasper and Brodie sharing my yogurt.

My Week So far...

Yesterday ken went back to the orthopedist and the cast on his arm was taken off and the pins holding the bones together were pulled out. His arm is healed but it's going to take a little time for the stiffness to go away. I'm just glad it healed.

I published three more articles and you can see them over on the right hand side of this blog where it says my name and Associated Content. How To Treat Bumblefoot in Rats in one of the articles recently published. if you read my published articles, let me know what you think of them. I love comments.

It seems that all this time I've been thinking a cold I had last month was just lingering on was actually a sinus infection. I'm now taking antibiotics and hopefully they will get rid of it so I can finally stop coughing every two seconds.

Yesterday my daughter and I watched The Exorcist for the umpteenth time. But it's such a classic movie I never get tired of it. Afterwards I put on Se7en, but that movie didn't go over as well with her. She thought it was boring even though I love this movie.

That's all the updates I have for now.

Our fan for the computer tower lol

Here's some pictures of how Ken fixed our computer and made a fan for it.

Computer Woes

yet again here I am about to tell you how my computer has something wrong with it. This time it's the Power supply which keeps one of the fans running. Two nights ago all of the sudden a red light started flashing on the tower of my computer and an alarm went off.

If was like. Danger Danger, Danger..

It turns out the back fan wasn't working and the motherboard got reaaaaaally hot. So Ken opened it up and cooled it off. Turned it off and after it cooled down, started it back up. Thanksfully...it worked. So Ken made a makeshift fan for the back of the tower for now. We will have to buy a new Power supply when we get paid.

Missing Blog Posts

So Blogger did something and now my House..blog post is missing. I know not a whole lot of people read my blog and we already know how much I love House, so I am not going to re-write the whole blog post. I know carol had commented on that blog post *Hi Carol* Waves...:)

I love House too! I can't wait to see what he does exactly..I guess this might teach him not to mess with experimental drugs in the future...Oh who am I kidding...He'd do it again..lol He's just that crazy.

So this week...Smallville ends with a 2 hour series finale. I can hardly beleive it. I love that show and think it should have had some more years on the air. Especially when stupid shows like 2 and a half men are still on the air. grrr.

At least Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries will be back next season. I hope they don't get rid of those two great shows anytime soon. That would really suck.

The other shows I am really liking right now are Criminal Minds and Law and order SVU...I have watched so many episodes of these shows I could probably kill my entire neighborhood and get away with it. Not that I'm thinking of that ot anything. *Just in case the FBI has me on a watch list* lol

Now the last show I am really liking is Sanctuary...it has been on for a few seasons and every show is pretty interesting.

I am a little upset that Stargate Universe was cancelled because I really think that show could ahve gone places...*Get it? They are in outter space..they could have gone places...lol I crack myself up*

House

I don't know how many other people love this show as much as I do, but I have been watchign House since it first came on. I love sarcastic characters on tv. Some of the other sarcastic characters that I also liked have been Roseanne, Becker, and now House.

This show impresses me each week, because they have him doing some of the craziest things and he almost awlays saves the patient...almost always.

But I saw the preview for next weeks episode and was shocked. They are going to have him operate on himself...Who the hell does that? Okay wait...lol since I had an abscess a couple of weeks ago and tried to take an exacto knife and dig it out myself, I am the wrong person to be asking that question. LOL

If it hadn't been on my back where I couldn't reach it really well, i would ahve been able to cut myslef open and dig it out and probably stick it up. But since I couldn't get to it easily, that didn't work out for me...So now that I think about it...I can see him doing this...but I doubt it's going to work out the way he thinks it will.

So is anyone else watching House?

My Funny Rats

I looked over at the cage the other morning and saw one of my rats, Hades hiding inside the blanket. So I took a closer look and what he has done is completely covered himself in the blanket and chewed a whole through it so he could poke his head out of it. He laid like this covered in the blanket with his head poking out, for about an hour. How cute is that.

Time to Pamper Yourself

 I hope everyone had a Happy Mother's Day. I know I did. My hubby and daughter were very sweet and bought me some lotion, perfumes, body wash ect. All of which smells so good. My mom came over for the day and I made some Lasagna and salad. She gave me a pair of really pretty earrings with my Amethyst Birthstone in them. I'm so glad I was born in February because I love Amethyst.

After this summer of wearing sandals and flip flops all day everyday...my feet are a bit on the rough side. Sorta feel like those leather feet shoes up top. lol

I figured it was about time to start putting on some lotion on my feet and get them in better shape. So I started applying lotion to one foot and then the other..and then stood up in the bathroom to put the lotion away....and BAM! Fell flat on my butt! Because the rugs are out of the bathroom...you know the rugs that I slipped on and broke the toilet...yeah those rugs. So my feet were slippery and I fell on my butt and now my hip hurts again.

I can't win for losing. Thankfully I didn't break a hip..but I think I'll put the other rugs back in the bathroom...not the ones I slipped on but my older sorta ugly pink ones...that is until I buy new ones. lol

Following Through...

Just a little rant today...

I really dislike it when someone tells me they are going to do something and then they don't do what they said they would. Why do some people say they are going to do something or ask for advice and tell you that they are going to take your advice and do what you told them to...and then do the exact opposite of what they said they would do?

Why not just never say outloud that they are going to do it...then they won't prove they can't be trusted to follow through.

Don't tell me you are going to do something if you don't have plans to keep your word. Nothing riles me up faster than a liar.

I broke the toilet!

For those of you that don't know...I slipped and fell on a bathroom rug I had near the toilet and fell on the brand new toilet Ken installed less than 2 months ago. When I fell on it...I broke it! That's right..I broke the toilet. So Ken called our managers and they said they would send another toilet over and Ken agree'd to install this one too. They didn't even charge us for the new toilet. how nice was that? So here are a few pictures of Ken taking out the old toilet that I broke and replacing it...




Here's the toilet that I broke after being taken outside. The broken pice is inside.

Plumber's crack! Ahahahahaha Ken's going to kill me if he ever see's this. *totally worth it!*



Here's Ken taking the old wax ring up and cleaning up the old caulking.



Ken looking at me and telling me I better not break the new toilet. lol



Ken putting a cup underneath the hose that kept leaking even with the water shut off.



Here's the poor toilet that I broke. You can see the huge chunk missing from the bottom.



 See where that missing piece is supposed to be? Yep, I broke it.

Some Days...

Some days you just want to be left alone. It's not hard to remember those days when you were a moody teenager and nothing during the day seemed like it was going the right way for you.

And as you got older you felt like this can't keep happening..I'm an adult now! I won't allow my life to take these types of twists and turns that make my insides knot up into twisted pretzels that take a xaxan to unravel. but it happens adn we all remember what it would feel like...

You got up only to find out that your mom ate the last bowl of your favorite cereal, at lunch you find out you forgot your lunch money and feel like a fool for having to borrow some from your best friend.

You look into your book bag only to see that you forgot your homework for the second time this year and your favorite teacher tells you how dissappointed they are in you. On the way home, it starts to rain and you didn't bring your umbrella and while a car drives by...they spray you with a huge puddle. When you get home the door is locked and you don't have your key so you have to crawl through your bedroom window.

Later that night when everyone gets home you just want to be left alone to cry about the horrible day you had but your parents don't understand what could have been so horrible... I mean it's just a school day!

Little did they know...

But as we get older and grow up thinking that things like this won't happen because we are adults, we come to realize that sometimes life just wants to give you the trash bin and there's nothing you can do but smile and move onto the next big disaster that comes along.

My favorite bumper sticker is...*Somedays you are the windshiled and some days you are the bug*

Either way you are screwed.

Just when you think things are looking up...

Just when you think things are looking up and getting back to normal....

Ok, so I didn't have a chair delivered, but I really hate it when things happen that I have no control over. Am I a control freak? Well no, but I don't like unexpected bad things to happen either.

Everything was going good, I'm feeling better. Ken has a cast on his arm that is going to be there until May 19th and it looed like the spray I got is getting rid of the mites my rats had.

Then...I tried to order a movie from Pay per view and it wouldn't let me. I call the cable company and think they can just reboot my dvr and he tells me I haven't paid my bill this month. What? Um..yes I did. But they never got the check.

The mailman strikes again.

I put the cable bill and the telephone bill both out in the outgoing mail at the same time and they didn't get it. So I had to pay for the bill with a check by phone and that cost me an extra $10.00

Now I have to figure out if I should cancel the first check that they never got or not. I am thinking yes, I should, but that's another $30.00 to put a stop payment on a check.

I am thinking about paying all of my bills online but as often as people get hacked..I'm just not sure and what if something happens to my computer? What then? I'm so irritated.

Worldwide Cookbook Blog

Here's a blog you all should take a look at.

http://worldwidewardcookbook.blogspot.com/2011/04/secret-giveaway.html

They have all sorts of fun stuff and the occasional contest as well. Go take a look and see what neat stuff they have. They even have some really easy recipes that I might try.

My Bookshelves are Out of Control

I knew that I was running out of room on my bookshelves and that's why I decided to buy two wall hanging book shelves because I don't have any more floor space either. I've tried weedling down the amiunt of books I keep...but that never works...they are all 'keepers'. If you are a reader like me you know what I'm talking about.

I thought it was funny, the other day the mailman asked my hubby what are in all the little packages he keeps delivering for me and Ken told him it's mostly books that his wife wins, buys, gets for free, ect..

The mailman looked at him very seriously and told him he should get me some help before it gets out of hand. My mailman thinks I am a book hoarder! I'm not even kidding. Ken told this guy that I have about 2000 books and he went off...I mean literally went off about how it's dangerous to ahve so many books and he should put a stop to it right now. That these little apartments can't store that many books without someone getting hurt. I kid you not, Ken said the mailman was just letting loose. lol

But anyway, I expect to be buying a couple more books with the Amazon.com gift card I should be getting for doing some surveys. Hey, I spend a little time doing surveys and get free books. I think that's a fair exchange. I could buy other stuff on Amazon and some times I do like rat food and toys and a few days ago since Ken said that I never ever get him anything with my gift cards, I bought a Figi's sausage and cheese sampler. I think he will be very happy.

Now I'm off to make some more room for those books I'll be getting next week. LOL

Had a small Health Scare Over the Weekend

The other morning I woke up and I was having slight chest pains and shortness of breath. I figured it would go away and waited most of the day until it got worst and at 2pm called an ambulance to come check me out. My blood pressure was really high but the heart monitor said my heart looked alright so I went to the ER just in case. I had all sorts of tests on my heart and they all came back clean. But they found out I do have an irregular heart beat (arrythmia) but it's nothing to worry about. My doc said a lot of people have it but most don't feel it and never know they have it, the fact that I can feel it when mine beats weird threw me into a full blown panic attack, which cause my heart rate to elevate and make my blood pressure go through the roof.

I've also had an infected cyst on the back of my shoulder for the past 3 weeks and didn't have it looked at...because again I thought it would just go away...it didn't. (I'm really stubborn that way). The darn thing turned into an abscess that was huge and terribly painful and he talked me into letting him take that out too.

But they let me come home after keeping me in the hospital over night and keeping me up all night running tests. They gave me one short of morphine for the chest pain and wouldn't you know it...it made me sick. Then when they did the CT scan with iodine contrast the iodine contrast made me sick and they had to keep giving me anti nausea meds all night. Fun night.

But at least I know the irregular heartbeat I keep feeling isn't anything to worry about, and that darned abscess is now gone..even though he left a big hole in the back of my shoulder to heal closed on its own..yuck.

I scared my family half to death because I hardly ever get really sick and haven't been in the hosipital in forever.

Oh and hospital beds suck...my butt hurts from sitting in it. lol

They took blood so many times over the course of that day, that night and all the next morning. I also had 3 EKG's, A Chest X-Ray, an Echo of my heart and a CT Scan of my lungs to make sure there were no blood clots. They did a full work up and checked for any possible heart attack signs or symptoms they could think of.

It seems that I have some sort of irregular heart beat that isn't going to hurt me and other people have the same thing and enever know it because they can't feel it thumping in their chest. I can feel it thumping in my chest like my heart is stopping and I could see it on the heart monitor I was hooked up to. All the doctors said that I had a panic attack when I started feeling the thumping from the irregular heart beat and then started getting muscle spasms in my chest, which led me to have an even bigger panic attack where I had shortness of breath, dizziness and numbness in my arms and then my blood pressure spiked way up when the ambulance got here because of everything. But now that I know what I'm feeling it doesn't worry me, I just have to learn to live with the thumping in my chest.

I've also gone on a diet and started walking a little more. I really don't want to end up in the hospital ever again. That's absolutely no fun what so ever.

I think my doc was more concerned about the abscess on my shoulder than anything else.

I was an idiot and let it go for 3 weeks and it got really bad. By the time a doc looked at it, it was about 3 inches round and almost 2 inches high sticking up off my skin. The doc really gave me a lecture about letting something like that go. But I thought it would just go away at some point...in the future sometime. Eh, live and learn.

Keeping Busy

So this weekend Ken is in California dog sitting for his sister while she is gone. So I've been keeping myself busy. I put together my corner wall bookshelf yesterday, which was easier than I thought it would be. Especially with the terrible instructions they give you. It was a page with a few pictures and some of them made no sense. I finally figured out what the little plasic things were after reading reviews on Amazon, where I bought it. They were wall anchors to screw the shelf to the wall, not that I could figure that out by the pictures in the instructions. Either way, it is up and now I have room for about 50 more books. lol Good thing because I just ordered 5 more from Amazon.

I've been wanting to read Big Bad Beast by Shelly Laurenston and Primal Bonds by Jennifer Ashley..so I ordered both of those and a couple of others.

Review: Wicked Pleasure by Lora Leigh

Review of Wicked Pleasure by Lora Leigh

Blurb:

Jaci Wright has been running from the Falladay twins, Chase and Cam, for seven years now. Fears of the desires they arouse in her, and the knowledge of the relationship they wanted with her, spurred her to run, to find a life that kept her traveling the globe and out of their reach.

But now life has come full circle. A new job has placed Jaci in the Sinclair mansion with Chase and Cam. And they're tired of waiting. It's hard enough to face accepting a relationship with two men rather than just one, but gossip and the tattered tales of juicy secrets fill the society she now moves within. Can Jaci face the world knowing she's a lover to both men, or will her hesitancy and her fears destroy her chance of happiness forever?


My Review:

Seven years ago Jaci runs from both Cam and Chase when she learns that she isn't just about to sleep with Cam but with his twin brother Chase as well. At the time Jaci is a virgin but has wanted Cam for years and even though he thought she knew what coming to his home would entail, she had no idea that he wanted to share her with his twin brother.

Seven years later Jaci comes to Virginia to do a decorating job for one of her friends, Courtney. But what she gets is way more than just a job, she comes face to face with flirty Chase and then later Cam who makes it very clear he and his brother plan on having her in ways she can only imagine.

Jaci also finds out the there's more to the decorating job than she could ever imagine. There's a super secret club that the brothers are a part of and she will have to get over her shock at what goes on there before she can do her job.

Jaci has secrets and so does cam, but neither of them are willing to let the other one in until the very end of the story.

This is Lora Leigh's 9th book in her Bound Hearts series. I have really liked all the books so far but I did have a few small problems with this book. First, Jaci doesn't love Chase but she wants Cam so much even though she's never had another lover, she willingly has sex with both brothers but only ever calls out Cam's name.

There were glimpses where Jaci had been abused by a couple in this story and yet when cam spanks her, she has no problem with it. It would have been a little more believable to have her be scared at first and the memories of being whipped come back. Then bring the teasing spanking into the story in a way to replace those bad memories with good ones with Cam, but that doesn't happen and it was a little unbelievable and I want the story I'm reading to be at least a bit believable.

The other thing that really bothered me is that Jaci kept saying in her mind that she saved herself for Cam and even seven years later she's never taken another lover....but she took her own virginity with a vibrator? When I read that I could not believe that had been written. What woman who is saving herself for a man takes her own virginity with a vibrator?

Chase's character is very under developed in this book. Instead of being the hero right along with his twin brother he comes off like a secondary character that wasn't given much thought. We really don't get to know much of him in this book.

While I really enjoyed reading this book for the most part, there were things about it that bothered me, but not enough to tell others not to read it. I still love Lora Leigh and will be reading more of her books in the future.

I learned Something New

My hubby Ken has had the bandages on his hand for a week or so now and he wanted to take a shower without having to worry about getting the bandages wet, so he had me take all the bandages off. But you could have blown us both over when I took that last bandage off. His doctor only told him that he used wires to fix his arm....he did not tell him that the ends of those wires were going to be poking out of his skin or that he would have to pull them out after his arm healed.

Ken and I were both looking a the 5 wires stiking up out of his hand and were like, well...how the heck is this gonna work? And how does he plan on getting them out?

I taped a trash bag over his arm so he could shower and then went to looking online about these wires. I didn't know they were called K wires, so I googled surgical wires and found so much stuff that didn't pertain to him. So I went to youtube because they have all types of medical precedures and within a few minutes I found them.

The doctor takes a pair of pliers, grabs the end of the wire and twists and turns it while pulling until it is pulled out of the bone. Some of these wires are down 5-6 inches into the bone.

I'm really surprised the doctor didn't tell Ken about this before he left...I'm really surprised. This is something a person needs to know, ya know. I hope Ken gives him hell for not letting him know what was under those bandages and what was gonna happen next time he goes in to see him.

But if you want to see K wire extraction and I know you do...here's a good video I found. Just fast foward to after they get the cast off...lol

Things are looking up

Happy Saturday everyone.

Well my hubby Ken came out of surgery very well. No complications as of yet, but he is still in quite a bit of pain. The surgeon said he used wires to put the breaks in his arm back in place that it was less intrusive and should heal faster.

You never really realize how much you use both your hands and arms until you can use one of them. I've been putting his socks and shoes on for him as well as cutting his meat and helping him put on deodorant. I remember how I felt when I partially dislocated my shoulder and he was helping me do all those things and more. You feel like your being a burden, but he's really not and I know he would do the same for me...he did.

His next doctors appt. is on the 20th, so we'll see what the doc says then.

Going to be gone for about a week

It's been a bad week for me, so I am taking a little break.
My husband broke his arm and is having surgery to fix it on the 6th and I'm hoping all goes well with that. But he is going to need me to help him do things he can't. Just having the half cast on right now is making it hard for him to do things because he can only use one hand.

So I'll be back after things settle down at my house again.

Don't do anything I wouldn't do...

How Many Giveaways do You Enter?

Ya know a few years I hardly ever entered the online giveaways because I hardly ever won anything and the blog contests and giveaways weren't as popular as they are now. But a few months ago I got a little obsessed in entering every giveaway I sw online and for a while I was winning all sorts of stuff and had packages coming about twice a week. But then I started looking through all the stuff I was getting and had to pause for a minute because what in the heck was I going to do with all the books, rubber ducks, pens, pencils, pencil toppers, free samples of baby food, candles, and all sorts of other things I had been getting.

In one month a few months ago I entered into 150 different giveaways, sent away for 67 free samples, and won 2 gift cards to amazon.com...I ended up winning 3 of the blog contests that I had entered and whenh I got the books and read them I asked myslef why I had entered a giveaway for them when I knew form the description I wasn't going to like them.

I donated a bunch of books to my local library and gave some away to my friends. Now I make sure that I only enter giveaways for stuff I actually want or can use.

I have been using the free dog food I got for my rats because for some odd reason they love the stuff and the free baby samples I got I gave to my daughter to give to one of her pregnant friends.

I got a little obsessed there for a while but I am much better now...lol I still enter a lot of contests and giveaway and much to my husbands dismay I win quite a bit of books and get a lot of free samples. And it's nice to win things like baskets and swag bags too. I love getting stuff in the mail. lol

Review: Pleasure Me by Monica Burns

Lady Ruth Attwood is a forty one year old courtesean who's younger lover just left her for a much younger woman. The fact that she was abandonded for someone younger seriously dents her feelings about her age. But her friends talk her into going to a ball where she meets young Garrick Stratfield.

Garrick is 12 years younger than Ruth and she thinks he is just being nice when he intervenes on her behalf at the ball, but she finds out different when she finds herself up against him for the purchase of a house they both want. Neither one knows they both want the large house for orphanages they both need to expand.

The more Garrick is around Lady Ruth the more he likes her and wants to be with her but he has a closely guarded secret, Garrick is a 29 year old virgin. When Garrick was younger his ruthless uncle found out about a physical birth defect Garrick had and mercessly teased and taunted him about it, now Garrick believes no woman will ever want him in her bed.

Lady Ruth is so reluctant to enter into a relationship with Garrick because of their age difference, she feels she is too old. But Garrick can barely keep his hands off of Ruth even though he is reluctant to complete the act of love making...that is until Lady Ruth gives him a way to come to her bed where he has no worry she will see what he is ashamed of.

Pleasure me is an emotional read that was hard to put down. The eventual love scene was built up just enough that I was waiting on the edge of my seat for it to happen and when it did the scene played out better than I could have expected and with an erotic twist I couldn't have anticipated.

Monica Burns does an exceptional job of perfectly combining dramatic confrontations, emotional storylines and white hot sex scenes.

I give it a 5 out of 5

Boycott Dorchester

A writer that I really like has a blog post about what Dorchester Publishing is doing to its writers and today was the first I had heard about this. But if you want to know what I'mk talking about please click here to visit Brian Keene's blog post about what Dorchester Publishing is doing.

In a nut shell they have stopped paying their writer's their royalty checks and any other monies they are owed for the past year because they aren't making enough money to pay everyone. Dorchester is also going to an all ebook format, which so many of us readers won't like.

I am making sure that I don't buy anything from Dorchester until I read that they are treating their writer's the way they should, what they are doing is wrong.

Sizzling Hot Book Reviews Contest

Sizzling Hot Book Reviews is having a feeback giveaway just for giving a little feedback about thier site. They have a really nice set of things you can pick from if you win including some great books. Just click on this link or the title of this blog post.


Click Here For Contest

Operation Auction

Anyone in the Romance Novel or blog community knows Fatin. She recently lost her husband in a senseless act of violence, leaving her to raise her four children alone. The Romance community is coming together to help her with Ebay auctions the end of march. Read more about it at this link.

Operation Auction

My heart goes out to her and her family. More and more people are adding to the things that will be auctioned on Ebay at the end of this month to help her and her kids out. I urge everyone to bid on something because this is really for a great cause.

Digital signature Pads

I was reading another blog this morning and it talked about those digital signature pads that are so popular now a days for just about everything. UPS and FEDEX both use them to sign for packages and when you go to the hospital at least here, they have you sign your name on those digital pads.

I remember seeing them for the first time when UPS came to my door one day a couple of years ago and he told me how to sign the digital pad. I had never seen one and I couldn't put my entire name in because I had written my first name so big like I usually do, that I handed it back to him after writing my first name. He looked at it and asked me if that's how I was going to sign it and I said yes instead of telling him that I messed up.lol He asked what my last name was and pushed a couple buttons and went along his merry way.

Of course I've had that same UPS guy come back to deliver packages several times and I know he remembers me.

What I thought was really strange was how the E.R. used their digital signature pads. My hubby went in for out patient surgery last year and they had him sign all kinds of papers beforehand. But they told him to sign his name and then she would print the paperwork out and he could read what he had just signed but she couldn't print it out until he had signed it...Now that I thought was just weird. Why would they do it like that? What if patients didn't want to sign a form...they will not allow you to have surgery of any kind until you sign all their forms.

I remember when I went in for an emergency C-section they had me sign all the forms really fast but I refused to sign the form that would give them permission to give me a blood transfusion if I needed it. I don't beleive in taking blood from another human being, I also don't believe in donating organs, it's a personal choice and I refused to sign the paper. Well, now when you go to the hospital for a out patient service they make you sign the form and print it out and if you don't want opt in for a blood transfusing they have another form that they staple to the form you signed that says you opt out of the first form. Yeah I see this going really bad for someone like myself.

It really makes no sense to make someone sign the form in the first place if they want to refuse that service.

Having Fun In The Summertime Heat

In the summertime here in Las Vegas we usually have temps around 115F and it might be hard to find things to do with your kids outdoors because of the heat. But right near my apartment we have a really nice park that the city just fixed up 2 years ago. It has a pond as well as ducks, geese, and if you bring food even the pigeons and other birds will love you.

A little ways away there is a really nice kiddie park with swings, slides, and all sorts of other things for the little ones to do. Not all of us live in houses or can afford backyard swing sets or the other larger toys that kids love to play on. But with the free parks you don't need to have a lot of money and it doesn't have to be done during the hottest part of the day since most of the parks are open until 11pm and they open failry early in the morning.

I used to go to the park early in the morning just to feed the ducks and the geese because there aren't a lot of people there in the morning and it was so peaceful.

My husband and I used to take our daughter to the park all the time since it was so close to where we live and we have a bunch of really cute pictures of our daughter feeding the ducks, geese and playing on the toy train and slides that the park had. This particular park even has a rose garden that is free to go in and walk around it. The smell of roses always makes me feel better, I mean how could you be in a bad mood after smelling so many gorgeous flowers?

There's always something fun to do here and you don't always have to spend a bunch of money to do it.

Congratulations to both my brother's on their weddings.

This is my younger brother and his new wife, Lynnece. This is a great picture.

My older brother and his new wife, Melissa got married the other day. They look great together, what a pretty picture.




Aren't my brother's handsome guys.

Uncoorporative

I was cleaning out the rat cage this morning and most of my rats are always ready to come out and play on the couch so I can change the baby blankets for their cage. But...but this little mischief maker Brodie, will see me taking the other ratties out and he will go hide in this purple bubble and look at me like, "Ha, you can just leave me here and clean the cage, lady. Cause I ain't movin." lol





He'll watch me the whole time but he won't come out to play until I am done and move the whole cage so that the open side is up against the couch and he can come and go from the couch to the cage all by himself. Yep, I finally figured out a way to get him to come out of the cage without him totally freaking out.
As long as I keep the cage door open and close to the couch so every few minutes he can ran back inside th cage and sniffa round for whatever it is that he's checking, he's fine. I'm assuming he is making sure the cage is stll there and he can get back inside and hide is he needs too. But he is so much more friendlier now that he can come and go when he wants. He lets us pick him up, pet him and he even gives little rattie kisses.

It's so funny how all 4 of the rats can have such different personalities.

ebooks and contests

As most of you know by now *because I've talked about it before* I enter a lot of contests for free books, gift cards, ect...and I win quite a lot. I find new authors that way and spend most of the gift card money on books. Right now I have about 3-4 books arriving in teh mail each week, either from winning them or from buying them with gift cards, or from me just buying them because I want them.

The thing is right now for me some of the cntests are irritating because they don't tell you that the book you are winning is an ebook until you have already won it. Now I don't have anything against ebooks, I really don't but I refuse to buy an ereader. I am not going to start buying ebooks where I can't even trade, send to my mom and daughter or sell if I want to. I've sold over 100 books on amazon and will again sometime in the future. You can't do any of that with an ebook and I'm not gonna start buying the right to read the book and delete it aftwerwards. it seems like a waste of money to me.

Winning the ebooks I will read them but I have to read them on my computer which isn't the most comfortable thing to do. But I have found that so many of the ebooks that I've won are very short, novella length type books. I'm not real big on novellas unless they are in a book with a few more novellas.

My point right now, because I seem to have made so many points in this post...is during contests where authors are giving away books or where the blog is giving away a book...it would be really helpful if they would let us know beforehand if the book is a paperback or an ebook. Most do but it seems like some do not. I like to know what I am entering the contest for. Sometimes I won't enter a contest if it's for an ebook unless I really want to read it or it's from a favorite author.

Talking Kitty

Talking Kitty

If you haven't seen this funny funny series of videos on Youtube here is just one of them. The guy that does this is so darn funny and there are more than 15 videos with his 'talking kitty" each one funnier than the last one.

My Rant: Work Ethic and Keeping Customers

I remember back when I was a kid people had a good work ethic and it seems as I ahve gotten older that work ethic has gone by the way side for the most part. And along with the work ethic has gone the though of keeping your customers happy. Do you remeber that old saying that the customer is always right? Yeah, probably not because most places don't think that way anymore.

I'm upset because not only are people not trying really hard at their jobs anymore they just don't care and that rubs off on everyone else. This past week I saw my mailman pass our apartment compplex up three days in a row and not deliver any mail to the entire complex for three days in a row. Now I figured he was a new guy I would give him the benefit of the doubt and think he was just running behind and didn't want to get in trouble. I'm nice like that. But after a few days my hubby went to talk to him when once again he totally passed our complex by and delivered no mail to anyone here. We have over 80 apartments and all the mailboxes are in a central location so we can see if he comes in and some of the older people wait out in the pool area for him to come each day...so we all saw what he did.

My hubby walked down the street and asked him why he passed up our apartment complex once again...he said with a straight face that he delivered the mail and it was illegal for my hubby to come and bother him about it. So hubby told him if he didn't deliver the mail he was going to call the post off and complain..he said go right ahead that he was a state employeed worker and wouldn't be fired.

He delivered the mail the next day though.

I never thought we would ahve so much trouble with the mailman..what ever happened to relaying on the mailmen in the sleet, the snow, the rain no matter what? Yeah right.

Not only does the mailman do it, my FedEx delivery person tends not to even knock on my door when they have a package for me. They will just drop the box off at my front door as they are running by...I'm not making this stuff up. So all my purchases make sure that they need a signature and you can tell they just want to go. Maybe their bosses are giving them to much to deliver but don't drop a small envelope off from Fed_ex on my front door step and not even tell me about it. I had them do that one time and it got stolen. I had UPS deliver a Tv my sister in law bought for us to a neighbors house and then more than a week later go back to that hosue to get it, pack it back up in a box and try to deliver it to me in a smashed box. By that time my sister in law had cancelled the order so all I had to do was refuse delivery and have it sent back....he was not happy about it either.

But it's not only these places. I was listening to some teens talk about their jobs at places in the mall and at fast food places and they are actually mad they have to be nice to the customers. They were getting mad at their bosses about not being to have a break every hour and were talking about how they did things to people's food and got orders wrong on purpose just to piss their managers off.

It's all so irritating.

Stress

Stress is not good for me, it does all kinds of nasty things to my body that I have no control over. Right now whenever I get stressed out I get hives...or I should say more hives than I have everyday. For the past 6 months or more I've had hives...every single day and when I get stressed out....I get even more or the patch of hives on my leg flares up really bad.

I've resorted to wrapping my leg in gauze just so I can't easily scratch it because the itching it driving me insane but I think this patch of hives is leaving a permanent scar on my leg and it just looks really bad. My daughter saw it for the first time the other day and the look on her face pretty much said it all.

I've tried several medications for stress, anti- histamines and steroid cream for the hives and nothing is working. My doctor tells me to get rid of some of the stress in my life....yeah ok...I'll just move to a small cave and keep to myself...it's just not possibe.

We're finally getting rain

So after so many days with no rain we are finally getting some much needed rain. of course it won't be nearly enough and if the lake goes down anymore we are going to have some serious water restrictions going on.

Lake Mead had dropped so much in the past few years that it would be a frickin miracle to get the water level at Lake mead back up to where it needs to be for us not to ahve water restrictions soon. Sad state of things because we already have restricted days as to when you can water your lawn or wash your own car in your driveway and it's gotten so bad that there's an anonymous phone number to the health dept. that people can call to turn in their neighbors for watering when they aren't suppossed to.

I had a Great Birthday!

Yesterday I turned 41 years young! Yep, that's right I told my age...even thought my mom says that she is still 21 years old, so I don't know how that works out...lol

My daughter and mother came over to my place yesterday. Ken bbq'd some hamburgers and my mom brought me the best chocolate truffle cake I've ever had. I love chocolate truffles and this cake was even better than a chocolate truffle. Wow, I can't believe I said that. o-O

I received so many cards in the mail, my mailman should have gotten paid more...lol and I had so many birthday wishes on Fb it was so nice.

My Experience with Vons.com Delivery

So as many of you know we lost our car a few months ago and it's been kinda hard getting here and there without it. But it did last quite a long time and right now we just don't have the funds to buy another one, so having groceries delivered seemed like a great idea...in theory.

The website is pretty easy to navigate and I ordered about $200.00 worth of groceries. The shipping and handling is between $6.96 and $15.00 depending on when you have it delivered and how fast you want it. The first shipping fee is free for new customers.

The next day they arrived and I started un packing. They don't give you a total until they deliver because of the difference in meat prices and if they had to substitute some things. I had 3 things on my list that they were out of so I didn't get those items and 3 things were substituted for a different size. I also noticed that 2 packages of meat that I had ordered did not make it to me but I was acharged for them. So I called the customer service number and she said they would refund my money. I had asked if they would just bring the packages to me that I had been charged for but unless I ordered $50.00 more worth of groceries they will not deliever even to make up for a mistake they made.

So I was given a refund to my credit card.

All in all it wasn't a bad experience and I might just use their service again, I just hope they get it right next time.

My Rats being Funny

Here's a couple of pictures that I snapped the other day when my rats were out playing. I actually took over 50 pictures but they wouldn't sit still long enough for me to snap a picture so most of them were too blurry to use. lol They are just a little crazy when they come out to play. It's too cute.








Here's three of the rats all huldled around each other. Some coming from the cage and some running back into it. They do this th ewhole time the cage is open and pushed up against the couch.

Hades looking at me...awwww....I think he's thinking "food, you got food?"

Hug Please? lol This is Brodie.

And my little hellion, Jasper who chewed a small hole in the wall...yes, that's right the wall....while I was looking the other way. Ken is going to fix the hole..

Reviews, Opinions and Hurt Feelings

I have read that an author here made a blog post about a reviewer and made a lot of people very angry.

Now I realize that there are countless review sites, blogs, ect out there right now and a lot of reviewers get their books to review for free in exchange for a review. But the author, publisher ect..should not expect a good review just ebcause they gave the book in exchange for the review.

I have written a few book and movie reviews and have been given a couple of books for free for writing a review. Or I win them in contests ect..But most of the time I buy the book myself.

I do not however consider myself a book reviewer, not like on some of these blogs where that's pretty much all they do. I read a lot and sometimes I write down my opinions of the books I read or the movies I watch.

I have made reviews where I did not like a particular book or movie and let it be known. I'm entitled to my opinion just as everyone else is. But the author in this case got 2 bad reviews and decided she didn't like what was said so she decided to retaliate in her own way, on her blog. But I think she will come to regret what she said because the people she wants to read her books are regular people who sometimes review books too and she probably just made a lot of them very mad. Her post is spreading like wildfire and as more and more people read it, she might want to remove it before she regrets what she has said in a fit of anger. But that's just my opinion....

Winner Announced!

And the winner of the bookmarks are.....


Ashlyn

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Almost time to pick a Bookmark Winner

So one person in entered for the great bookmarks right now...I'll pick the winner a little later today.

Heidi Betts, who just happens to be one of the fabulous authors from the bookmarks I am giving away today relayed a message to me to for all my readers. She said that if you send her a message or a SASE she is more than happy to send you free bookmarks as well as other great promotional goodies.

You can find her contact page here.

Bookmark Giveaway! Heidi Betts, Marie Treanor, Shiloh Walker and Erin McCarthy Bookmarks

I know I have told you all how much I love collecting Bookmarks, well I have decided to start someone else off on the same path, or help them along with their already bulging collection of Bookmarks.

Giveaway Rules:

Post one comment and tell me who your favorite author is. Leave your email address so I can contact you.

I will pick a winner on Feb 2nd.

Review: Love In The Time Of Dragons by Katie MacAlister

Katie MacAlister's Paranormal Romance novel, Love in The Time of Dragons: A Novel of the Light Dragons is the first book in this series. Book 2 in this series is: The Unbearable Lightness of Dragons, which will be out May 3, 2011 and I plan on getting it, so you already know how much I liked this book.

MacAlister's Dragons are richly imagined and come alive right from the very beginning. The two main characters Baltic and Tully are so well thought out, you truly feel their pain and pleasureas they experience it.

Tully finds herself in a world of dragons, where they keep telling her she is one also. She has dreams of her past where she tells her story as well as Baltic's and it was a great way to share the stories with the readers.

MacAlister is a great writer, she makes you laugh and cry all on the same page. Love in the Time of Dragons is full os other characters we get to know, including Demons, Silver Dragons, Black Dragons and family. My favorite by far are the demons you think are going to be bad...but have a heart of gold and make you laugh.

This book can be read as a stand alone but if you want to understand all of the characters I would suggest reading the previous Dragon books in the Silver Dragon series. You'll better understand the link between characters and the all of their connections.

It's Been a Strange Week

I kinda feel like that poor guy pictured above. My eyes are pryed open only by the amount of caffeine I have been consuming because I'm not getting enough sleep for a gnat.

25 questions about me

I got this questionare from Strange Candy Reviews, and thought it would be fun to do it too..


1. Do you sleep with your closet doors open or closed?
Closed...the boogeyman might come through if it's open..

2. Do you take the shampoos and conditioner bottles from hotels?
Yep, sure do.

3. Do you sleep with your sheets tucked in or out?
I'm a tucker, I tuck myself in all the way around, whcih is why I have my own blanket. lol

4. Would you rather be attacked by a bear or a swarm of bees?
I would pick neither one, but the bear would be my pick if I had to pick one. Bee's give me nightmares. *shudder*

5. Do you have freckles?
I have a few, not as many as my hubby.

6. What is your biggest pet peeve?
Liars, cannot tolerate a liar.

7. Have you ever peed in the woods?
Yes, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

8. Do you ever dance if there’s no music playing?
I don't dance...period...ever...

9. Do you chew your pens and pencils?
No, there are germs on them..ewww

10. Is it okay for guys to wear pink?
Sure as long as it isn't a pink tutu or something.

11. What do you dip a chicken nugget in?
Nothing, I like them naked...lol

12. What is your favorite food?
Mexican, I love burritos.

13. What movies could you watch over and over and still love?
Hancock, Fright Night, Queen of the Damned, Ever After, Willard, Nightmare of Elm Street...there are a lot of movies I can watch more than once.

14. Were you ever a boy/girl scout?
no

15. Would you ever strip or pose nude in a magazine?
Seriously? No one needs to see that... lol

16. Can you change the oil on a car?
No, but I can take the car to Auto Zone and have them do it...;lol

17. Ever gotten a speeding ticket?
No. But I probably should have several times.

18. Ever ran out of gas?
No, I worry way to much to let something like that happen.

19. Are you lazy?
I can be when I am not feeling good.

20. When you were a kid, what did you dress up as for Halloween?
A witch.

21. How many languages can you speak?
Besides English, 2...if you count Sarcasm...lol

23. Do you sing in the car?
Yes, I love singing when no one can hear me..lol

24. Ever eat a pierogi?
Yes and I don't care for them at all.

25. First concert?
Never been to one.

Music Players Have Changed

I remember when I was a kid I wanted a radio so bad, so my parents got me one. It was one of those old radio alarm clocks that the sound was really bad on, but I loved it. I had my own radio and an alarm clock.

When I got a little older I got a small boom box from my grandpa and I was able to record all my favorite songs onto the tapes from the tape deck. It was so cool, I had about 50 homemade tapes. lol

A few years ago my husband and daughter bought me a CD walkman shown right below here. I still use it to play my CD's on. I also have an MP3 player that my husband bought me a few years ago, but I don't use it often because I don't like to buy music when I listen for free on Youtube.







So yesterday Ken was cleaning out a box from the closet and found this...

This is so old, omg. It's a Sony Walkman, Tape Player with Am/FM stereo. I must have used this thing so many times that I thought the tape player would stop working. I think we bought this about 15 years ago. It's old. But it still works. I still ahve a few tapes left but for the most part I gave a huge box of tapes away to the VA, when I sent them to a friend who said she would give them to her local VA hospital. There was a gnarly mix of tapes too. lol

It's funny now, I hardly ever listen to my Cd's and my tapes are all but gone, and while I have an MP3 player I mostly listen to free music from Youtube. I made a playlist of about 23 songs and add and delete songs from it all the time, for free. I have looked through some of my CD's and added a few songs from my favorite Cd's to listen to as well.

I have my headphones on whenever I am online, which is all the time it seems. lol

A little video I took of my Rats

Here are my rats in my first ever YouTube video.

What I've Learned by Watching Horror Movies

I've been watching Horror movies since I was a little kid and my mom let me watch dracula with her. She used to let me stay up late with her so she wouldn't be out in the living room all alone while watching a scary movie. *And I wondered why I had nightmares*

Since I've been watching Horror movies for what seems like my whole life, I thought I would share what Horror Movies have taught me.


When walking into the bathroom, never ever look behind the shower curtain if you hear a noise. A serial killer is likely waiting to rip you to shreds if you do.

Never uncover your feet while sleeping. All body parts should be covered at all times and don't dangle your hands off the side of the bed, the monster hiding underneath your bed will take that as an invitation to pull you down there with him.

Do you like to Swim in the ocean? Well stop right now or else you could be the only one who ever gets an up close look at the prehistoric fish....right before he eats you. Never swim in a pool when it's dark outside, Saunas are the same...just make sure there are others in the sauna or hot tub with you if you are in the water after dark. Never fall asleep in the bathtub or use bubble bath so you can't see what's in the tub with you.

Never open the curtains to look outside after dark just because you hear a little noise, you never know what might be looking back at you from the other side of the window,, and then they'll know you are home...

Never ever go in the basement, or the Attic...best thing to do is just board those places up and pretend they don't exhist.

If you are the jokester, always crackin' jokes in your group of friends....you'll be the first to die...sorry buddy.

Never, ever, ever trust a clown. Don't go to the circus, invite them to your kids party, or take any ballooons from them at amusement parks. Trust me on this...

If you start hearing voices...you're probably just posessed by a demon or ghost...don't worry, you won't be alive much longer...

If you turn your tv off and it comes back on even when unplugged, give it away as fast as you can. Don't just throw it away, it has to have a new owner because...Sometimes They Come Back!

Don't trust that just because you hit the big monster-looking guy in the head and he falls down that he won't get back up when your back is turned. Make sure to cut his head, arms and legs off before you sit down.

If your child has a weird fascination with knives and cleavers and has tried to cut you on more than one occassion, you might want to stop this serial killer before he grows up...call an exorcist right away.

If you suddenly find youself pregnant without having had sex.....have an abortion right away, or the little moster may eat its way out of you.

If your child tries to skin the family dog to make a fur coat, you may want to get him some mental help or you'll end up with a Buffalo Bill.

There are some places you just should never go and I know this from experience...Never go to West virginia, I lived there for a year so I know wheat goes on in those back woods out of the way places... Some of those inbred hillbillies might see your girlfriend and want her as breeding stock, which would make you tonight's dinner.

Also living in the Nevada Desert has brought a few things to my attention...like never go into the desert by yourself, you are just asking for some nuclear bomb-mutant to clock you over the head, take you back to his underground camp and serve you with 10 year old canned beans for dinner.

And for the love of all that is holy, stay away from the Rest Stops! No good can ever come from getting out and using the restoom here, trust me....you're already dead if you do.

Stay away from old burial grounds and never ever use the creepy burial grounds to put poor fluffy to rest....you'll just find him back at the door the next day and he won't be the same.

If you can't find the light switch in the kitchen, just go open the refrigerator door, then use that light to find the switch instead of flailing along the wall for an hour in search of the mysterious light switch.

Never under any circumstances ever pick up a hitch hiker. If you do, you are already dead, sorry buddy.

To My Readers

I recently added a counter to the bottom of my blog because I was interested to see how many people visit my blog....well you could have just bowled me over when I looked a few days later and the counter was at 3800....wow, just wow. I had no idea so many people were visiting my blog.

So even though a lot of you don't leave comments...lol...I wanted to give a big thank you out to all of you readers :)