Apartment Life #369

 

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.  

I heard sirens pretty close on Monday morning so I pulled up the PulsePoint app and saw that something was happening at the end of my street. So I walked out there with Falcor to get some pictures. The police drove by while I was getting out there the police drove by really fast, too fast for me to pull my camera out and get a picture.

The fire truck was parked at the end of the street.

And as I was standing there, the first ambulance pulled up. 

And then the fire department's ambulance also pulled up. There was a lot going on down there and they were there for over an hour. Something happened but I'm not sure what. 

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This made me laugh because when I Googled the words, I realized it was the name of a band. So, me being intrigued, I clicked on their Instagram and was surprised to see my neighbor!  It's the name of my neighbors band! And he must have spray painted their name on this power box that is right next door. That was really smart. Smh Good way to let everyone in the neighborhood know who spray painted on the power boxes. LOL Not very bright. Free promotion?

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Someone spread a pile of shredded foam right in front of the manhole where the homeless people make their way down into the tunnels underground. Not sure what the purpose of this was. 

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"Screamer lady' screaming in my courtyard right after 8AM on Wednesday morning. I've talked about her before. She is not homeless but does drugs and has mental illness. She routinely walks up and down the sidewalk just screaming nonsense. She's been doing this for years. 

On Tuesday the guy who was arrested twice last week was once again back. The jail/ ER didn't keep him more than a over night. I could only upload a short clip from my tablet since the videos I took with my phone won't upload to Blogger for some reason. This guy was in my courtyard and in front of my door for over an hour. His friends a few doors away told him to leave, then they shut their door and refused to open it again when he kept knocking. I didn't call the police because, why bother. They don't keep him more than a few hours and he's back again, even after throwing a chair through his friends window last week. He was back the next day for a while and then he's been gone since then. 

The high this week was 90F/32C

The low this week was 62F/16C

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. Most pictures are from my daughter since she takes good food pics. lol

Chicken, Rice and Vegetables

You will need: 

4 ounces of Chicken Breast- cubed

5 Mushrooms- sliced

1/2 Bell Pepper- sliced

1/4 Onion- Sliced

1/4 Cup uncooked white rice

No calorie cooking spray

What to do: 

Cook your rice and set aside. 

Spray a pan with no calorie cooking spray, add onion, mushrooms and bell pepper. Saute over medium heat until desired doneness. I like mine very done. I have to spray them a couple of times with cooking spray to keep them from burning. 

Add chicken to the pan, add whatever spices you like and cook until done. 

Mix the rice with the vegetables and chicken and enjoy. 

I eat this for lunch quite often. 

Would you eat this?

This makes one serving and is 400 calories and 35 carbs. 

What's In Your Cupboards?

 

 A while back my blogger friend Debra She Who Seeks did a blog post called, What's In Your Cupboards? 

I thought it was a cute idea and I told her I was stealing her idea. Ha! Sorry Debra. lol 

I have a ton of funny coffee mugs and cups in my cupboards so I thought I would share a few of them. If you want to share what's in your cupboards in a blog post too, I'm sure Debra and I would love that. 

Let's start out with this cute kitty face coffee mug. It has a little crack in it but still works just fine.

I got this for my daughter because she's been playing a lot of Call of Duty. 

It says, "I'm a Mom what's your super power?"

My brother sent me this for my birthday one year. LOL He knows me so well. 

Is this a statement or am I trying to convince myself that I'm fine? Maybe both. lol 

It's a white mug with a face on it. The opening at the bottom is supposed to be for cookies. lol 

This looks like a regular coffee cup, right?

But when you finish your drink, boom! Skull. 

More skulls. 

And today I'll leave you with my Falcor mug. I made a mug that has 3 pictures of Falcor. 

He will toss raw potatoes around like a ball if he finds one. 

Look at that cute face! 

Book Review: Angel of Darkness by Cynthia Eden

 

Book Description

Angels of death do not feel. They do not need. They do not lust. They do not love. They carry out their jobs. They take souls.

Or at least…that is what they are supposed to do, until Keenan, a powerful angel of death, refuses to take his latest charge on a blood-soaked New Orleans night. He should have touched Nicole St. James, a sweet schoolteacher slated to die, but instead…he took the vampire attacking her. With one touch, Keenan changed fate, and he fell from heaven.

When an angel falls, all hell breaks loose.

Keenan’s wings burned away in the fall. Without his wings, he’s hit with every single human emotion—and need. And his entire focus is on the woman who cost him everything. He hunts Nicole, tracks her, but is stunned to see that the human he knew before is long gone. Nicole changed on that dark night, too. She’s got some new and dangerous accessories—fangs and claws and definite bite because she’s a vampire.

Heaven and hell are after them.

Nicole and Keenan are being hunted. Demons and angels are both closing in. If Nicole and Keenan are to survive, they’ll have to trust each other completely. A vampire and a Fallen aren’t supposed to bond, and they sure aren’t supposed to become mates, but some desires just can’t be contained. Keenan has been tied to Nicole from the moment he first saw her. Human, vampire—doesn’t matter to him. Nicole is his, and he will wreck the world to keep her safe.

He fell for her. She will belong only to him.

My Review: 

Keenan is angel of death, he is waiting for Nicole St. James to be attacked and die so he can touch her and bring her over to the afterlife. Nicole fought very hard to stay alive and Keenan for some reason couldn't bring himself to touch her and free her soul. She hurts the vampire when she slashes him with some glass but that only made him madder. Instead of touching her so she can die when she's attacked by a vampire, Keenan does the unthinkable and touches the vampire instead, letting Nicole live. But what he did has terrible consequences for him because there are no second chances for angels, if they don't do what they're supposed to, they are punished and sent to Earth as a fallen angel. No trial, no hearing, no second chances.

Months later when Keenan finally finds Nicole, she's not the same woman he left to live. She had been good, trying to be a good person all the time. Now though she's a seductress, sinful...a vampire. When she slashed the vampire who turned her, some of his vampire blood got into her wounds and turned her. She still tries to be good and not kill anyone but hunters are still after her. Keenan is surprised to find she's a vampire. But that doesn't stop him from feeling things he shouldn't be feeling, wanting her like no angel should want a human. 

As an angel he didn't have feelings. He just did his job, did what he was told but now with all of these human emotions bombarding him, he's in trouble with Nicole because she's a vampire. Now Keenan has to try and keep her safe not only from hunters but The Angel of Death himself, Azrael who sent Keenan to Earth and burned his wings off in the process. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Favorite Picture of the Week

 

*Click on the pictures to enlarge them.*

One day this week it got really cloudy. I took all of these pictures at the same time I just pointed the camera in different directions around me. This picture reminded me of a painting. 

Then this way there was some blue skies and grey clouds.

And more blue skies as all the grey clouds moved in the direction of the first picture. 

Book Review: Indebted To The Vampires by Erin Bedford

 

Book Description

A broken vase isn’t all this maid owes her masters…

Piper is desperate for a job, but when the temp agency assigns her to be a maid for a bunch of entitled rich men, she isn’t sure the long hours and meager pay are worth it.

But a priceless, broken vase takes away any other option, and Piper suddenly finds herself far more indebted to her new employers than she ever thought possible.

Now, Piper comes to find that her clumsiness is the least of her troubles. Her mysterious and dangerously tempting employers have a secret. One that they are willing to kill to keep. She already owes them her time and her pay…

But will she owe them her life?

My Review

Piper takes a job as a maid at a large estate with five wealthy men because she's in desperate need of money and has no other choice. But it becomes clear to her that weird things are going on at this place because the men are referred to as, "Master" by some of the other servants on the property and the aftermath of the wild parties are so extreme she's not sure she wants to know more. 

But the men there are flirting with her and even though she feels attracted to them, she's sure something strange is going on with them and that holds her back. It's a good thing too because they sure do have a big secret, a secret they are willing to kill to keep. 

Piper keeps the guys at an arms distance romantically because while she's more attracted to one than the others, she's still attracted to all of them eventually. This is definitely a reverse harem romance meaning all five guys want Piper which makes for an interesting romance. 

The sexual tension, slow burn romances, and great twists made this a very enjoyable vampire romance to read. 

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Happy Raturday!

 

*For those that don't get it, rabbit is probably a typo and should have been rabbi, because that's how the joke usually starts. A pastor, rabbi and priest walk into a bar...* lol It took me a minute to get it too.

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

Apartment Life #368

 

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.  

Monday morning around 6:30AM a guy staying with the guy who lives 4 doors away started yelling, picked up a chair, said "F*ck you" and threw it through the window of the apartment of the guy he was staying with. The cops came, arrested him and made him go to the ER. His roommate said someone gave him drugs 3 days ago and he's been acting crazy. His friend was trying to calm him down before the police got here.

The broken living room window.

He had been acting crazy for the past few days. I kept hearing him yelling randomly for a few days. 4 cop cars showed up to get the guy in handcuffs. And even when they had him in handcuffs he was yelling and acting crazy.

He was handcuffed, loaded on a stretcher and put into the ambulance on his way to the ER. 

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On Wednesday that same guy was out of Jail/ER and was back. He was loud, acting crazy, slamming the door, threatening to beat all their butts if they didn't shut up ect. The police came again but by this time the people who live there were all inside the apartment with the door shut and were being quiet, the guy who had been shouting was elsewhere. 

So the police left. If the police had come an hour earlier they would have seen him acting crazy and being loud.  

Later that evening around dinner time that same day the police came again when the guy came back and was yelling at his friends who live in that apartment 4 doors away from mine. 

The dude was arrested again! But this time his friends who live in that apartment pressed charges and wrote statements out for the police. His friends kept yelling at him to leave and he refused so they had no choice but to call the police and have them remove him. 

His friends who live in that apartment told my daughter that he was recently diagnosed with bi-polar schizophrenia and that they asked the psychiatric hospital to keep him the other day but they let him out the same night he threw the chair through their window. 

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 On Tuesday I watched the guy on the left in blue on the bicycle ride up to the 4 homeless people who are behind the white car and sell them what I figure is drugs. I've seen bicycle guy sell stuff to people in cars that pull up, get something from him and take off. 

After bicycle dude was gone, the 4 homeless people sat in the grass across the street, pulled out their crack/meth pipes and did their drugs. Right there out in the open without a care in the world as to who saw them doing it. The homeless people who were over there was married guy (Jeff)- his girlfriend cordless drill woman, long haired guy, Jessica and another guy I don't know. I've talked about Married  guy, cordless drill woman and long haired guy before a few times like in this post. Jeff used to live across from me until he had a fire in his apartment. I called Jeff married guy because he was cheating on his wife with cordless drill woman years ago when he and his wife were still together. The girlfriend used a cordless drill to get into the maintenance shop in my complex so they could have some sexy alone time together years ago, hence the nickname I gave her. lol 

Long haired guy is the guy that the guy drug dealer tried to kill by shooting him a few years ago. Thankfully drug dealer was evicted a while back. So as you see all of these homeless people have been around for years and are well known.

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I got a picture of the Fire Department ambulance as they drove by on their way to the alley across the street.

The Fire Department's fire truck drove by on their way to the alley across the street just a moment later. I couldn't see what happened when they were in the alley. 

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Tuesday morning I noticed one of the flags that maintenance installed 2 years ago that I told you about in this post, had been busted and thrown on the ground. This is the second flag that someone has broken. The flags were installed to try and prettify the grounds I guess. I don't know who it is that keeps destroying them. 

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The high this week was 95F/35C

The low this week was 59F/15C

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. 

Baked Chicken Thighs with Lentils and Sauteed Vegetables

What You Need: 

2 Chicken Thighs

Garlic powder

Onion powder

Salt and Pepper

McCormick Roasted Garlic and Herb seasoning

McCormick Chipotle and Roasted Garlic seasoning

McCormick Montreal Chicken seasoning

1/2 Cup uncooked Lentils

1/2 tsp. Chicken Bullion powder

1 Carrot- sliced

1 Cup Broccoli florets

1 Cup Fresh spinach- chopped

10 Mushrooms- sliced

6 stalks of asparagus

No Calorie cooking spray

What To Do: 

Add chicken thighs to a baking dish and sprinkle whatever seasonings you like to them. I wrote what seasonings I added above. Cook uncovered in a 350 degree oven for 1 hour.

Rinse the lentils under cold water. Add to a pot and add 1 cup of water. Add chicken bouillon powder and bring to a boil. Then turn temperature down to medium heat and cook uncovered for 20-30 minutes until done. Set aside. You can add a little salt to them at this point if you want to. 

Spray a non stick pan with some cooking spray. Add vegetables, except for the spinach and saute over medium heat for 10 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Add spinach and saute for 2 minutes until spinach is wilted. I added the same seasonings to the vegetables that I put on the chicken. I didn't put the amounts since I just sprinkle some on. 

I put 1/2 Cup of cooked lentils on my plate and put some vegetables on top of them. I mixed it together to eat it. I like lentils mixed with vegetables but you don't have to do that. 

This dish has 350 Calories per serving and 25 carbs. 

Would you eat this?

Freebie Friday!

 

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

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

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

This week I received: 

A sample of La Roche Posay Vitamin C serum.

A sample of OGX shampoo and conditioner. 

Both were fine. I didn't care for the scent of the shampoo and conditioner but it works fine. Vitamin C serum made my face feel soft but that's about it. 

Did you receive any samples or freebies this week?

And because we had 3 days of rain this week and I took a few sky shots, I thought I would share those too. Cloudy days always make me happy. 

I was standing across the street from my apartment complex.

This big cloud on Saturday produced a little bit of rain. I thought we would get a lot from it. 

I decided to walk to Mariana's Market to do some shopping on Sunday. I was in my alley here and took this picture.That fenced in place is where Cal Ranch keeps their big items locked in the fenced in area.

You can see how close I live to the Cal Ranch right next door. Only the alley wall separates us.There were some big clouds this day.

Once I got out into the parking lot for Mariana's which is right next door to Cal Ranch I took a couple of pictures of the clouds over the mountains since it was raining over the mountains. We got a bit of rain a few minutes later. Mariana's is just across the parking lot. It's pretty convenient. 

More sky pictures while I walked across the parking lot.

On my way home after shopping the clouds were covering the mountains and we started getting more rain. Mariana's is the big building on the right of the picture.

Monday afternoon. More clouds and rain. It was a lot cooler at least. 

Monday morning it was raining over the mountains. And we got rain on and off that day and Tuesday.

I hope you enjoyed the clouds as much as I did.