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 :)

Work on Your Website or Lose Subscribers

As most of you know I do a lot of hopping from this free sample blog to another one and also am a frequent flyer at romance blogs and horror forums. But more and more I'm seeing these websites, forums and blogs go the wayside ebcause the people who manage them, the owners and moderators of the sites just stop putting any effort at all into it then get all indignant and pissy when people leave and stop commenting and posting things on the website or forum.

I frequent a few forums that used to be hopping with new posts, people in the chat room, there was always something new to read, but then the owner and moderators decided to put their efforts into other things. Bigger MySpace pages, having everyone on their FB page, other websites associated with the original website that they want you to frequent also and when readership or the comments stop coming in because the people running the place are so busy with all these other things they want to do, they get pissy because they don't feel appreciated.

Well Boo Hoo, we don't want all that other crap, we want you to put a little effort into the original site/forum that we all came to in the first place. That's the one we like, that's the one that had all the people signing up for it and that's the one that is suffering because you guys are flitting hre and there and everywhere trying to make the site bigger and badder than all the other sites that are like yours.

When there's nothing going on at a website, forum or blog....they eventually just shut down and I've already experienced that several times. Several of the blogs I used to go to, just up and quit because the readership went down...while others wanted to stay in touch using Fb or some other reason. Whatever....if you want to keep people coming to your site, make an effort to get us there....or I'm leaving as will everyone else.

New Kodak Mini Video Camera

Brodie peeking out from the Space Pod.

Brodie and jasper.

Ken got this Kodak Mini Video Camera from his sister for Christmas and after reading the ridiculous instruction pamphlet that doesn't tell you much of anything...seriously....we finally figured out how to take a picture and download it.

The directions don't even tell you what the symbols on the menu page mean, I had to go through each symbol and figure it out. It doesn't tell you how to delete the images or that you can delete them while the camera is plugged into the computer.

What's with the instruction pamphlet not giving you all the instructions...

My rats

Hades

Brodie

Hades, jasper and Brodie

Jasper and Hades

Ares

Sometimes...I just need to vent

There seems to be too much on my mind these days, but I don't talk about it because I don't know where to start. It seems so pointless to even try talking anymore. I feel like no one else will understand the situation I am in or the depth of my pain.

Everything in my life feels so over with and wrong. I've been getting upset more and more lately, over the smallest of things. I guess I am making up for all the times I that I just didn't care enough to even lift my head. I'm just so darn depressed.

My birthday is next month.

When I was a little girl I used to imagine how my life would be when I was an adult, all grown and on my own. It seemed like I had years ahead of me back then and I looked forward to getting out of my life back then and making things better for myself. I looked forward to being happy, having a husband and a good job. Something more than what I had as a child, at least that. I believed that I had control over my future and was going to make things work.

But now that I am 40 years old, my life is nothing like I thought it would be. Time seems to have stopped for me, I'm totally out of touch with the rest of the world, with human kind. I'm trapped in hell, and can't wake from this nightmare that has become my life.

I feel like my time here is over, it's so done and over with. I feel like whatever I was meant to do with my life, I've done it and it's time to move on now.

I'm exhausted body and mind. My spirit is broken, the pieces are missing and can't be put back together again. I'm so tired of struggling with the pain, the stress. It's a losing battle and I'm tired of trying.

All the dreams I had as a child are no more, dreams are now nightmares. I've tried to kill myself and my family called me a coward, that I was taking the cowards way out, well no one wants to be known as a coward, but I'm no survivor and staying alive is like living in a prison of my own making where everyday I die a little more inside.

Yes I'm alive on the outside, but on the inside, I'm already dead. I go through the motions each and every day and some days are harder than others.

I need to vent but it does no good, words do nothing to cure the darkness inside me, the shadows that have taken over my soul that fade away a little more each day. I'm slowly fading away and soon there will be nothing left but an empty shell.

I don't want to start over, I don't want things to change anymore because I'm tired, I'm exhausted, I'm not really here anymore.

And I don't want another Birthday.

Book Review: Beast behaving Badly by Shelly Laurenston

Beast Behaving Badly by Shelly Laurenston







Blurb

Ten years after Blayne Thorpe first encountered Bo Novikov, she still can't get the smoothtalking shifter out of her head. Now he's shadowing her in New York - all seven-plus feet of him - determined to protect her from stalkers who want to use her in shifter dogfights. Even if he has to drag her off to an isolated Maine town where the only neighbours are other bears almost as crazy as he is. Let sleeping dogs lie. Bo knows it's good advice, but he can't leave Blayne be. She may insist Bo's nothing but a pain in her delectable behind, but polar bears have patience in spades. Soon she'll realize how good they can be together. And when she does, animal instinct tells him it'll be worth the wait.



My Review...

Bo Novikov is a Bear-Cat hybrid shifter and Intimidating hockey player. Blayne Thorpe is a Wolf-Dog hybrid shifter and a plumber who is on a roller derby team.

Blayne first see's Bo ten years earlier while he was playing a game and she bolted after she see's him staring at her. She runs away only to turn around and find him right behind her, so what does she do....she screams and run away.

Now she's at one of his games again, she doesn't think he'll remember her...but he does. Oh boy does he. Blayne is conviced Bo is a serial killer and she slowly makes her getaway when he stops and stares at her again. She see's he has his sites set on her so she makes another getaway, or so she thinks.

He's not about to let her get away this time and when she locks herself in the bathroom he tears the door of its hinges. Blayne confronts him, even asking him if he's going to kill her. He is so surprised by her intimidation and fear because most women throw themselves at him, he finally convices her he's not a serial killer, but when he asks her out for coffee, she flat out refuses and he doesn't know what to make of her.

They are complete opposites, he's got this hang up with schedules, being on time and wanting everyone else to be on time and he's introverted.

While she is what her father calls, weird. Blayne is funny, flirty, makes friends with everyone but has a side to her that most people don't see and really surprised me.

This book was so hilariously funny and romantic with a bit of slice em up action thrown in for good measure. There's a kidnapping, a roll over accident, tearing body parts limb from limb, as well as a hockey and roller derby game.

I laughed so many times while reading this book because blayne is so funny, her personality is just great..I loved her and so does just about everyone she comes in contact with.

This is the first book in this series that I have read and after reading it I found out it's actually the fifth book in the series. While I usually like to start at the beginning, I don't think it will matter to me this time because I liked this book so much. I will go back and read this series from the beginning now though.

I am Boycotting the Makers of Lipton Tea

Recently a friend of mine posted on her blog about how the Makers of Lipton tea have been testers their products on animals for no good reason. I have to tell you after reading this article I am totally disgusted with this company and will not being buying anything from them again.

If you feel as I do and think that animal testing is largely not needed for such things, then let them know it buy boycotting their products. I will be switching to Luzianne tea from now on or until Unilever stops this disgusting practice.

You can help by reading the article and sending the company an email.

Ten Fun facts About Me

Ten Fun Facts About Me

while there are a lot of things most people don't know I thought it would be fun to make a list of fun facts. So here goes.

1. I love looking at scary pictures, which is probably why I enjoy Halloween so much.

2. I love Watching Horror Movies. Movies that can actually scare me get brownie points.

3. I read Romance books like they are going out of style. I'm not kidding, I enter blog contests to win them and do surveys so I can get amazon gift cards to buy more romance books. Right now my favorite genre is paranormal which includes all sorts of things like, Vampires, Witches, Werewolves, Dragons..ect.

4. I'm very strange when reading a book. I use a bookmark and try not to open the book so much it creases the spine. lol It makes for an interesting time reading when you are only openeing the book just far enough. I hate dog eared pages and I always take the dust jacket off a hard back book ebfore reading it.

5. I own about 1100 books at this time, but that number is growing by the day. I've run out of space on my bookshelves and have started putting them in my desk drawers until I find another big bookshelf. Oh and I don't own a Nook, ereader of kindle, all my books are paperback or hardback real books. I just can't get into the whole Ebook business. I do have a few on my computer but it's just a handful.

6. I scream when startled. I don't know why, but I scream and not one of those little squeaks either. Ken told me it sounds more like a Horror Movie Scream where it would scare the person scaring you. LOL Ken gets a kick out of scaring me and making me scream but every once in a while I'll scream so loud it scares him, which is really funny.

7. I've been know to hold a grudge for years, although now I try not to.

8. I can really relate to charcters on shows like, House, Becker, Roseanne and Lie To Me...because they are all so sarcastic and so am I. I don't know why but I really like sarcastic people. Maybe because they can be so funny.

9. I wear foam ear plugs to bed because any little noise will wake me up.

10. My favorite jewelry is pretty much anything sterling silver and Black Onyx.

Camping

When did camping become so expensive to do? I remember when I was a kid we would pack the family up in the van with some food for a fire and go camping. We would sleep in the van because back then the vans had beds and tables in them. lol

But now when someone says they are going to go camping or fishing it costs all kinds of money to do so.

They have to buy a large tent and camping gear. Well, camping gear back in the day consisted of a van with a bed in it and some food to roast on the fire...maybe a roll of toilet paper to use behind a bush if you were lucky.

But now they need a tent, sleeping bags, pots and pans for cooking, steaks, cooking utensils -what happened to cooking chicken on a stick you picked from a tree? It was a rotisserie.

Now people want to have a log cabin with running water and heat or air conditioning, a lake to rent a boat and go fishing, need to buy a fishing license and 'good' bait. Can't just go out in the yard and pick out some worms from the garden anymore, no that's not the way to do it now.

The best case scenario is setting up the tent, eat some steaks, try to get some sleep in said tent...not getting any sleep because the ants have invaded the tent so they walk around making crunching noises in the camping area keeping everyone else from sleeping. get up in the morning and make more food, rent a boat to go fishing and catch nothing, then pack up and go home.

I think I'll save my money and stay home in the first place.

The freebies I won or received in 2010

For those of you that don't know I am a freebie, blog contest winning junkie! So I thought it would be fun to post all the freebies and contests that I won this past year. I hope I can remember them all..lol

Full Size Freebies- Those freebies that came as full sized bottles, packages, boxes..ect...This list does not include any trial sized samples that I received.

1.Bar of Dove soap
2.2 Package of Oreos
3.2 bottles of Excedrin
4.Bottle of Louisiana hot sauce
5.Package of Heluva Good Dip
6.Package of Borden cheese
7.Bag of Reese’s Pieces
8.Pantene Nature Fusion shampoo
9.2 bags of Planters Trail Mix
10.Pack of 5 React gum
11.Pack of Stride gum
12.Jar of Enfamil baby formula
13.Bottle of Renu Multi-Purpose contact solution
14.Package of Oscar Mayer turkey bacon
15.Box of Kraft macaroni
16.Package of Oscar Mayer deli meat
17.Package of Uncle Ben’s rice
18.Package of Kraft Cheesy macaroni
19.Jug of Tropicana Pure Premium orange juice
20.Box of Kool-Aid
21.Box of Mac & Cheese
22.One DiGiorno’s pizza
23.Box of 100 calorie cheese bites
24.Package of Oscar Mayer deli meat
25.Box of Ritz Crackerfuls
26.2 Packages of Pilot pens
27.2 Bottles of Suave Professionals shampoo
28.DiGiorno deep dish pizza
29.Bottle of Pure Scent~sation hair remover
30.Bottle of V8 V-fusion green tea
31.Glade candle
32.EasyGlide Bic pen
33.Bag of Nutrish Dog Food
34.2-liter of refreshe soda
35.Package of Cottonelle flushable moist wipes
36.Two Proforce cleaning kits
37.Bag of Natura Advantage dog food
38.Pack of Extra Dessert Delights gum
39.Can of Pringles Xtreme chips
40.Box of Barilla pasta
41.6 bags of summer sausage bites
42.Bottle of free Dream Water
43.Bag of guinea pig food
44.Bag of Rat Bedding
45.Nettie Pot
46.Nasal Rinse
47.Box of hair dye
48.5 boxes of tampons
49.10 boxes of pads
50.9 free magazine subscriptions
51.Saw Blade
52.Scotch Painters tape
53.Exacto Knife Blades
54.4 pairs of earrings
55.1 Necklace
56.3 packets of flower seeds


List of trial sized freebies.

1.20 samples of various lotions
2.27 samples of various shampoo
3.30 samples of various conditioner
4.15 trial sized boxes of cereal
5.3 samples of cleaning cloths
6.50 child toothbrushes
7.122 samples of toothpaste
8.54 various make up samples
9.18 various skin cleaning samples
10.68 various perfume samples
11.24 various tea samples
12.326 various coffee samples
13.8 cat food samples
14.5 dog food samples
15.22 tampon and pad samples
16.9 spice samples
17.12 sugar substitute samples
18.32 drink flavoring samples
19.7 diapers, bibs and various baby samples
20.1 paint sample
21.4 cookie samples
22.9 granola bar samples
23.3 diet bar, food, drink samples
24.1 nail polish sample
25.3 Scrapbooking samples
26.12 Various candy samples

Now for the Swag Bags, free books and eBook downloads I received last year.
1.76 free books-most of them autographed!
2.8 eBooks
3.7 Swag bags filled with pens, paper, books, pen lights, candy, and various other goodies.

Gift Cards
18 various gift cards including Amazon.com gift cards
I think I did pretty good...Now I'm off to enter more contests...lol

New Year's Resolutions

I don't make Resolutions anymore. I don't see the point, why set myself up for fail, right? So a few years ago I decided not to make anymore resolutions and I actually stuck with it. LOL So this year I am making some resloutions that I can actually stick to.

Eat Less Healthy- That's right, no more salad, no more tofu (Yeah like I've ever tasted that stuff!) and no more sugar free anything. If I was suppossed to be eating sugar free and taste free foods, I would have been born a rabbit!

Go Outside Less- There's no need for me to go outside anymore. With the internet I can have all my food delivered, have the paper delivered, but all my extras and personal things from Amazon and have them delivered and pay someone to bring me Pizza once a month.

Do less Laundry- I just figured if I'm not going outside, I'll never get dirty! So who needs to do laundry again, my clothes will never need washing.

Exercise Less- Of course this goes along with not going outside. So I can stay home watch tv, catch up on my movies and books and become the couch potato I was meant to be.

Become the Crazy Rat lady- I only have 4 rats right now, but I know there are dozens of rats that need homes right now. So I better tell Ken to get to building all those shelves for all those cages we are going to be needing. He may even need to find his own place beause there might not be room enough for him in bed with me and the rats.

Stalk my neighbors- I have binoculars and I know how to use them .

Spend less time on the Phone- With all the couch potatoing, movie watching, book reading and pizza eating I'll be doing, who has time to talk on the phone!

Shower Caddy

Recently we decided to fix up our bathroom, we bought paint, stickers, new shower curtain but still need to get a few things to spruce it up a bit more. We used to have a forest full of butterflies on the wall but Ken didn't like them so he painted over them the last time we changed the colors in the bathroom.

We've even bought paint for the bedroom and I have all sorts of things in my wishlist to get for the bedroom, including wall clings, a tv and tv stands. I've already bought 2 really nice throw rugs for the bedroom because they matched the dark green paint we are putting on the walls in there. But we decided to fix up the bathroom first and so I am thinking of getting a few more things to make it more comfortable. I recently came across this Zenith Corner Tub and Shower Caddy.



I am loving this and because it's white, it fits with the light green we have choosen to paint the bathroom. We already have a white, free standing cabinet and Ken is going to pain the wood cabinet that hangs on the wall in the bathroom, white as well.

So what do you guys think, pretty cute, eh?

Scizotypal Personality Disorder

I had someone on Fb ask me, "You're a little bit crazy, huh?" I kinda laughed it off but the fact is, yes I kinda am. I was diagnosed with Schizotypal Personality Disorder more than 15 years ago from a Psychiatrist who sent me to see a Psychologist. I was in therapy for years and after all that therapy for depression as well, I came to the conclusion that this is just who I am and I am fine with that. So why am I trying to change? It was everyone else to had the problem, not my problem anymore. If you don't like me, don't like the way I am...walk away..I don't care, it won't bother me in the slightest.

So what is Scizotypal Personality Disorder? Good question.

People with schizotypal personality disorder are often described as odd or eccentric, and usually have few, if any, close relationships. They generally don't understand how relationships form, leading to severe anxiety and a tendency to turn inward in social situations.

In schizotypal personality disorder, people also exhibit odd behaviors, respond inappropriately to social cues and hold peculiar beliefs.

Schizotypal personality disorder typically begins in early adulthood and is likely to endure, though symptoms may improve with age. Schizotypal Personality Disorder is a condition characterized by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior. This disorder is only diagnosed when these behaviors become persistent and very disabling or distressing.

In response to stress, individuals with this disorder may experience very brief psychotic episodes (lasting minutes to hours). If the psychotic episode lasts longer, this disorder may actually develop into Brief Psychotic Disorder, Schizophreniform Disorder, Delusional Disorder or Schizophrenia. Individuals with this disorder are at increased risk for Major Depressive Disorder. Other Personality Disorders (especially Schizoid, Paranoid, Avoidant, and Borderline) often co-occur with this disorder.

Symptoms of Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder is characterized by a pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

•Ideas of reference (excluding delusions of reference)

•Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is inconsistent with subcultural norms (e.g., superstitiousness, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, or "sixth sense"; in children and adolescents, bizarre fantasies or preoccupations)

•Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions

•Odd thinking and speech (e.g., vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped)

•Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation

•Inappropriate or constricted affect

•Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar

•Lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives

•Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self

So this may answer some questions about me, eh?

A little scare

I've been trying to get a hold of my mother on the phone for the past 2 days and so when the phone rang this morning and I see on the caller ID that is was the hospital I had a bad feeling it was my mother and sure enough it was. Thankfully she is fine but she had to call an ambualnce last night because she has an asthma attack and her allergies and COPD were causing her more problems.

I hate seeing on the caller ID that it's from the local hospital, because more times than not it's my mom calling to tell me she is there. I'm glad she is getting better and that she didn't break anything this time.

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Christmas tree is up

I finally got out my boxes and unpacked all y little goodies, all 8 boxes of them and put my Christmas Tree up. That's right, Christmas Tree, not Holiday Tree or any other politically correct term the idiots of the world are using this year.

Nice Day at the Buffet

Yesterday my brother and his fiance took me, ken and our daughter out to eat at the Texas Buffet in the Texas Station Casino.

They had all types of good food to pick from but I went right over to the mexican grill and got some freshly made fajitas. Omg they were so good. The funny thing was when I went up to that fry station the guy who was cooking looked at me and said Pollo or Beef? I replied, Pollo. I know a few words in spanish and Pollo is spanish for chicken and I wanted chicken fajitas. When they were just about done he looks at me and rambles off and bunch of stuff....I looked at him and said, Uh, I have no idea what you just said.

LOL

He laughed and said because I had replied Pollo that I knew spanish but he wanted to know if I wanted it mild or spicy. I said mild. But all the people around that station were laughing because of what happened and when he gave me my plate I smiled and said, Gracias, which got another round of giggles from all of them.

They did have a really good carrot cake at the dessert station though and it wasn't made with that nasty cream cheese frosting, it had a whip cream frosting which was so good...I had just a lil' piece. lol I was good.

Review of taming the Beast by Heather Grothaus

Lord Roderick Cherbon was wounded during the crusades, only living because his best friend Hugh saves him. He comes home to find his abusive father has died and is still controlling his life because he now has to marry before he turns 30 years old in order to hold on to his land and wealth.

He advertises for a wife and after several women come and go because of his dark personality and scary castle, we meet Michaela Fortune. She has always been picked on, ridiculed and talked about, but she doesn't care. She grew up being ridiculed because her mother said she was abducted during the Wild Hunt and the stories of her father run rampant. She decided to marry Lord Cherbon to save her family from financial ruin, this is her only chance to do so.

The chemistry between these two characters is explosive right from the beginning. But Michaela is a strong woman and is focused on one thing, getting Lord Cherbon to marry her.

For the most part, I liked the book but there were parts that irritated me. Trying to decipher what little three year old Leo was saying when he talked was one of them. Leo is Lord Cherbon's son, but not his blood son and when he talks it's hard to tell what he is saying.

High is one character that at first I liked him and towards the end I found his character to be strange. The twists and turns his character takes in this book takes away from the story, not adds to it.

The paranormal aspect of the story...The Wild Hunt, also was not well developed and didn't add to the story. In fact, it seemed like an after thought just to have The Wild Hunt somehow cleared up for the reader, but it didn't work for me at all.

While I love a good Paranomal story, the paranormal aspect of this book was not well fleshed out and detracted from the story as a whole.

Marissa's Sizzling hot contest

Here's what you could win...Sounds good, huh?
Just click the title to be taken to the contest page.

A copy of Sexy Beast VIII
A copy of Possessions by Devyn Quinn
A copy Twilight Hunger by Maggie Shayne
$25 gift card to any bookstore
A bag of swag stuff.
***There will be 5 different winners for this contest***

Holiday Blues

I know I'm not the only one who gets them but I've suffered with depression my entire life. For some reason that I can't understand I get even more depressed around the Holidays. I try to get out of it by cooking, making gifts, decorating...oh boy do I decorate.

We live in a 1 bedroom apartment and I usually have three small artificial tree's up as well as all types of other decorations up. 8 boxes worth, but when I'm all done and all the decorating is up, I look at it all and feel like crying..every year. Thanksgiving is a little better because there's no sad Thanksgiving music, and I make it a point not to watch anything that will make me sad on tv.

I just can't take it. But this year I've decided to hit this depression head on, I have an appointment with my doctor next weeka nd I am going to ask him for another anti-depressant and see what he says. Because the fact is, I'm not sure I'll be able to cope this year if I don't get some help. I can already feel it coming on and I ahve a bad feeling it's going to be a bad one. I don't want that, those feelings of utter uselessness and hopelessness...so maybe the doc can help me out.

The other reason I'm going to the doctor is I've had a lump in my stomach for about 3 years that I have put off getting checked out...and now it's starting to hurt...a lot. So I'm gonna see if we can't figure out what it is, hopfully it's nothing and will go away...yeah I have a good imagination don't I? I must live in fairy tale land to think this is nothing and is going to go away without surgery or some other form of intervention. Yea, oh joy, just what I need.

Bitten By Romance Christmas Giveaway...

Bitten By Romance Blog is having a big Christmas contest. Just click on the title of this blog post to be taken to the contest page. They are giving away a bunch of really cool stuff. :)

Roberto's Tacos

Have you ever stopped into a new restaurant or little diner only to find it was totally awesome and couldn't believe that you hadn't been there before now?

Well, Ken and I had an experience just like that one today. We were driving down the street and saw a little sign that said, Roberto's tacos and decided it was lunch time, let's try that place. I mean they can't really f*ck up a taco, right?

We parked and went into this little place. They had pictures of all their food with the names, so pople like us who don't speak any spanish can just point to want they want on the wall. lol

I ordered a Carne Asada Burrito and ken ordered a shredded beef nachos.

My burrito was so damn big, holy molly and it was jam packed with tender steak..omg so good.

Ken got home and opened what he thought was going to be a small nachos to snack on, well it turned out to be the biggest plate of food I've ever seen labeled as nachos. lol

And it was good! We even called our daughter Elizabeth to come over and share the nachos because there was so much of it and thought she would like it. Which she did. :)

So for 12.00, we had a kick ass lunch.

Extremely Happy

>Most of you know that I write for Associated Content and this month I got a new badge on my profile. It's called the Hot 500 Badge. "The "Hot 100" and "Hot 500" are the Associated Content Contributors with the largest audience, and most engaged readers, viewers and listeners. These badges are updated once per month, and grace the profiles of the top 500 active Contributors based on the previous month's page views."

Which means that a lot of people are reading my articles! Yeah!
I have a word linked over to the right hand side of this blog, right over there -----------> :) Just click on "My Articles, to get to my articles. Thanks guys.

Stop buying things made in China

There have been so many problems with products made in China and here we go to the store and keep buying the sub-par crap that they make and send to us, but there are many other reasons not to buy the made in china crap they have on our shleves.

Child Labor as well as prison labor which these people who make these things are barley paid a thing to make these products and to use small children to make things is just wrong.

Product safety is the biggest problem we are having with products made in china at this moment. Aquadots was just one product that was made sub par and made kids sick. Do we really want to be buying things that aren't safe and have to worry about our children getting sick or dying because we saw it was cheaper on the shelf of the store and bought it instead of buying something made here in America that might have cost us a few dollars more?

The more we buy from China the more they make and the more jobs right here in america are going overseas. We need to stop complaining when lead is founf in kids toys that were made in china and jsut stop buying anything with a sticker on it that says it was made in china. There are enough things made in america or even other countries that don't use child labor and have sub par products and safety issues that we could as purchasers put a real hurt on the chinese economy if we chose to stop buying their crap.

I don't want to hear about how we could ahve done something earlier but didn't and now people are getting sick because they bought lead stuffed toys, toxic baby food, toxic pet foods, lead based paint was used on childrens toys or the toys are made in such a way they kill kids. Stop buying the stuff we know to be a safety hazard and this kind of thing won't be happeneing. We are letting it happen by buying these made in china prducts.

My brother's little pot bellied pig

His name is Wilbur, isn't he cute.

Ratties

Making their Blogger debut....the furrbabies. Hades, Jasper, Ares and Brodie.

Real emails...

I would love to shhot the first person who sent out the 'scam' email. beacuse now when I check my mail in the morning there are at least 50 spam emails in my inbox and 75 in the spam folder. They get tossed together with real emails and then when I go a day or two without looking at my emails there are tons of spam in my inbox. It makes it hard to find the ones I'm looking for.

Which is probably why I have 6 email addresses. lol
Here are some 'real' emails I have gotten lately....I know everyone else gets them too but they can be funny.

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Hey, it's Anthony Morrison from Home Jobs For Citizens.
I heard you were looking for a new job, so I said I'd contact you.
click here
Right now, we've got more than 237 U.S. companies who are looking to partner with people like you.

You don't need any experience or special skills
You can work from home
You can get paid up to $150 per day
You can work in your spare time
You can start work immediately
You can get paid within the next 7-days
And, all you need is a computer with Internet access

What's more, I'd like you to know that this is not one of those scams or schemes. No way. In fact, more than 630,239 U.S. citizens now make a fulltime: or part-time: income this way. Plus, it's been raved about in the media.

For example:

CNN News says it's, 'A great way to make extra cash'
v Chicago Business News says it's, 'A new career opportunity for jobless Americans'

Even Ex President George W. Bush has been quoted as saying, 'It's an entrepreneurial success story that has helped thousands of citizens'

However, available positions are filling fast. To see if you qualify for this job, all you have to do is:

Yes please sign me up! *eye roll*
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FROM MR HEMANN HAMSA
MANAGER AUDIT AND ACCOUNTANCY DEPARTMENT,
BANK OF AFRICA ''BOA''.

ATTN:- DEAR,

HOW ARE YOU? HOPE FINE, MEANWHILE, I AM MR HEMANN HAMSA THE MANAGER OF AUDIT AND ACCOUNTANCY DEPARTMENT BANK OF AFRICA (BOA) OUAGA, BF WEST AFRICA.

I AM CONTACTING YOU FOR AN URGENT BUSINESS TRANSACTION. THERE IS AN ACCOUNT OPEN IN THIS BANK IN 1999 AND SINCE 2001 NOBODY HAS OPERATED ON THIS ACCOUNT AGAIN. AFTER GOING THROUGH SOME OLD FILES IN THE RECORDS, I DISCOVERED THAT IF I DO NOT REMIT THIS MONEY OUT URGENTLY, IT WOULD BE FORFEITED FORNOTHING.

THE OWNER OF THIS ACCOUNT IS MR. SMITH B. ANDREAS, A FOREIGNER, AND A MINER AT KRUGER GOLD COMPANY, A GEOLOGIST BY PROFESSION AND HE DIED SINCE 2000. NO OTHER PERSON KNOWS THIS ACCOUNT OR ANYTHING CONCERNING THE FUND, THE ACCOUNT HAS NO OTHER BENEFICIARY AND MY INVESTIGATION PROVED TO ME AS WELL THAT THIS COMPANY DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS ACCOUNT AND THE MONEY INVOLVED IS
SEVENTEEN MILLION THREE THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS $17,300,000.00 MILLION ONLY.

I AM ONLY CONTACTING YOU AS A FOREIGNER BECAUSE THIS MONEY CANNOT BE APPROVED TO A LOCAL BANK HERE IN BURKINA FASO, BUT CAN ONLY BE APPROVED TO ANY FOREIGN ACCOUNT BECAUSE THE MONEY IS IN UNITED STATES DOLLARS AND THE FORMER OWNER MR. SMITH B. ANDREAS IS A FOREIGNER TOO. I KNOW THAT THIS
MESSAGE WILL COME TO YOU AS SURPRISE AS WE DON'T KNOW OURSELVES BEFORE.
MY DEAR, BE SURE THAT THIS IS A REAL AND GENUINE BUSINESS TRANSACTION.

I ONLY GOT YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION FROM MY SECRETARY WHO OPERATES COMPUTER,WITH BELIEVE IN GOD THAT YOU WILL NEVER LET ME DOWN IN THIS BUSINESS,CONSIDERING MY POSITION AS A PUBLIC SERVANT, YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON THAT I HAVE CONTACTED IN THIS BUSINESS, SO PLEASE REPLY URGENTLY SO THAT I WILL NFORM YOU THE NEXT STEP TO TAKE IMMEDIATELY.

YOU WILL ONLY NEED TO SEND YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS INCLUDING THE FULL DETAILS OF YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION TO BE USED FOR THE DEPOSIT. AND I WILL FLY TO YOUR COUNTRY FOR WITHDRAWAL AND SHARING AND OTHER INVESTMENT IN YOUR KIND CONTROL, MEANWHILE, I AM CONTACTING YOU BECAUSE OF THE
NEED TO INVOLVE A FOREIGNER WITH FOREIGN ACCOUNT AND FOREIGN BENEFICIARY.

I NEED YOUR FULL CO-OPERATION TO MAKE THIS WORK FINE BECAUSE THE MANAGEMENT IS READY TO APPROVE THIS PAYMENT TO ANY FOREIGNER WHO HAS CORRECT INFORMATION OF THIS ACCOUNT, WHICH I WILL GIVE TO YOU AS SOON AS YOU INDICATE YOUR SINCERITY TO CO-OPERATE WITH ME, AND CAPABILITY TO HANDLE SUCH
AMOUNT IN STRICT CONFIDENCE AND TRUST ACCORDING TO MY INSTRUCTION AND ADVICE FOR OUR MUTUAL BENEFIT BECAUSE THIS OPPORTUNITY MAY NEVER COME AGAIN IN MY LIFE.

I ALSO NEED A TRUTHFUL AND GOD FEARING PERSON IN THIS BUSINESS BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO MAKE A MISTAKE SO I NEED YOUR STRONG ASSURANCE AND TRUST. WITH MY POSITION IN THE OFFICE I DON'T WANT ANYTHING THAT WILL JEOPARDIZE MY JOB SO I ADVICE THAT WE SHOULD MAKE SECRECY AND CONFIDENTIALITY OUR PRIMARY WORKING CONDITION, BEARING IN MIND THAT I AM A PUBLIC SERVANT.

I WILL USE MY POSITION AND INFLUENCE TO EFFECT LEGAL APPROVALS AND ONWARD TRANSFER OF THIS MONEY TO YOUR ACCOUNT WITH APPROPRIATE CLEARANCE FORMS OF THE MINISTRIES AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT. AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS BUSINESS, YOU WILL BE GIVING 35% OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT, 60% WILL BE FOR
ME,WHILE 5% WILL BE FOR EXPENSES BOTH PARTIES MIGHT HAVE INCURRED DURING THE PROCESS OF THE TRANSFER. I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR EARLIEST REPLY TO *spam email here*

YOURS SINCERELY,
HEMANN HAMSA









I am the only person that he has contacted about this business transaction...reallly? Then why did ten thousand other people get the same email. lol Idiots.

I'm getting rats.

I decided to adopt a couple of rats. I already sent away for the cage, accessories and bedding. Now all I ahve to do is wait for it all to show up. I bought it all through amazon.com so it should all be here this week. :) I'll be posting lots of pictures.

Blog contests

I routinely visit blogs and when there's a contest for a book that I like, I'll enter. I visit so many blogs each week and enter to win a lot of books and sometimes win them. But I'm starting to see an irritating trend on some blogs, not all but some.

Instead of just saying, leave a comment and your email address for a chance to win this or that...they ask you to practically jump through hoops in order to get "More entries".

I've seen things like, asking people to follow their blog, friend them on face book, post a link on their own blog back to the contest (which I don't find so irritating), follow them on twitter, visit other blogs and do all these things for them too and let's not forget that sometimes they make you do each of these things in a seperate post! for those extra entries.

If you go to the trouble of having a contest and then ask people to follow you, like you on FB...ect...it really makes your blog look pathetic...in my opinion. If someone wants to follow you, they will. If someone wants to be your friend on FB...they will...don't make these things a requirement in order to get a book, gift card, ect. it makes you look bad.

Hell of a month

Now it's time for me to vent, because we all have to sometimes. I've had a hell of a month, I tell ya. Last month my computer started acting all crazy like and we found that our motherboard was fried and were without a computer for a while. Thanks to my daughter's boyfriend who is great with computers, he was able to fix up a tower for us with some of the parts he already had. I never would ahve been able to do what he did, I wish I knew more about computers, but I don't.

Then I accompanied my brother to the mortuary to say goodbye to his son, Franklin. Franklin's mother was 6months pregnant when she had a miscarriage. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. It still brings tears to my eyes. The mortuary does something special for babies. Instead of a regular casket, they had him wrapped in a baby blanket and placed in a small white crib. My heart broke when I saw that, I don't think that part of my heart will ever be whole again. You never get over seeing something so heart breaking.

Then right after that my brother's started arguing and are now not talking. Of course, I got pulled right into the middle of it and now things are incredibly tense.

I can only hope things get better next month.

Review: The Shadow by Shelley Munro

The Shadow by Shelley Munro
Publisher: Medallion Press
ISBN-13: 978-1932815504

The cat burgular, called The Shadow is on her way to steal jewels and all goes well the women who she was going to steal from gets shot and dies. Lady Katherine has a run in with a guy but not just any guy, a cop! Right off the bat we can see they are atttracted to one another but can a thief and a cop have a real future together?

Lady Katherine is also looking for who raped and drugged her six years before this. Her rapist might even be her daughter's father and when she stumbles upon a picture of another girl who could be the twin of her own daughter, she is one step closer to finding out who drugged and attacked her six year before. In this dual storyline of looking for a rapist and a jewelry thief we get a great story. The characters are a lot of fun to watch as they try to figure out exactly what kind of relationship they have.

I really enjoyed this story, it had everything I want when reading a suspense story. A great plot, believable characters and a heroine who has a spark to her. The end of the book was quite unexpected and I love twists like this, especially when I don't see it coming.

A well written book, and I am definitely looking forward to reading more from Shelley Munro.

Nice to have a computer that actually works!

It's so nice to be able to get online and do what I need to do. I can even watch videos and play online games again. Right now I ahve three tabs open. One in the background has Adam Lambert playing a video from Youtube and the other two have other websites I keep going back and forth too. It's ncie when this machines works and real hell when it doesn't.

Review: Assassin's Heart by Monica Burns

Assassin's Heart by Monica Burns
Book 2 in The Order of the Sicari series
Penguin/Berkley
ISBN - 978-0-425-23652-9


From the back cover..

The truth of the soul.
Lysander Condellaire never understood why he had telepathic and telekinetic powers until the night his Praetorian father tortured him and left him for dead. Now, the half-angelic, half-demonic face he sees in the mirror is a reminder of the monster he must keep hidden or face expulsion from the order of assassins know as the Sicari. But his dreams of Ancient Rome hint at a destiny he finds hard to accept, especially when it involves the woman he loves, but can never have.

The consequences of desire.
A gifted healer in the Order, Phaedra DeLuca witnessed her mother’s murder when she was just a little girl. The haunting memory makes her loathe everything Praetorian. When she travels to Rome in search of an ancient artifact, she must work alongside a man who once cruelly rejected her love and healing touch. But her dreams of Ancient Rome tell of an irreversible and possibly dangerous future. For the distant past and present are about to collide--with the one man she is destined to love.

My review...
I read a lot and read this book in one sitting! I just couldn't put it down after I started reading, I was so enthralled. The story that Ms. Burns weaves together was one of tragedy, torture, sorrow, adventure and love. Anyone who likes paranormal romance is going to love this book. I just read Assassin's Honor the day before reading this book and couldn't wait to see what Ms. Burns had in store for us.

Lysander's story is so tragic and sad it made me want to cry for all he's had to endure. He was tortured by the Praetorians and they sliced off part of his face, but later we find out he has even more to endure and it seems like it might be too much for him. He has secret's and he's sure that if anyone finds out about them they won't trust him or love him.

Phaedra is a healer for the Sicari and she's been in love with Lysander for over a year, but he's keeping her at arm's length because he doesn't trust her to love him if she ever finds out his secret. They both have to get past the hurt of the past year when they are thrown together much to the dismay of Lysander, when they go in search of The Tyet of Isis. An ancient artifact they want to get before the Praetorian's get their hands on it.

Neither Phaedra or Lysander know that the other have been having dreams of the first Sicari lord and his wife and we get pulled into another heart breaking story as their dreams get more vivid and we find out they are dreaming about their own past lives.

As well as the past life story there is a romance story from other characters in this book that comes alive in a shocking way. Atia the Prima Consul and Marcus a Sicari Lord have a secret past and Atia has been keeping a huge secret from Marcus as he is about to find out. Their history and romance that barely conceals itself under the surface is sure to explode in the coming books from Ms. Burns. I liked this second book in the Order of the Sicari series even more than the first one if that's even possible. I think this series can only get better and more exciting as time goes by and we read stories about the rest of the characters.

This story within a story could have been so confusing if a less talented author had tried to write it, but Ms. Burns is incredibly talented and has found a way to bring a whole new world to the paranormal genre that fans are going to be talking about for years.

If you liked Assassin's Honor, you'll love Assassin's Heart.

Review: Assassin's Honor by Monica Burns

Assassin's Honor By Monica Burns
Book 1 in the Sicari Series
Publisher: Berkley Trade (June 1, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-0425234167


From the back cover..

A woman with visions of the past...

Archeologist Emma Zale sees the past when she touches ancient relics. It’s how she uncovered evidence of an ancient order of assassins—the Sicari. When a sinfully dark stranger shows up on her Chicago doorstep demanding an ancient artifact she doesn’t have, he drags her into a world where telekinesis and empaths are the norm. Now someone wants her dead, and her only hope of survival is an assassin who’s every bit as dangerous to her body as he is to her heart.

Bonded to an honorable assassin...

Ares De Luca comes from an ancient Roman bloodline of telekinetic assassins. A Sicari, he’s honor bound to kill only in the name of justice. But when the woman he loved was murdered, Ares broke the Sicari code and used his sword for revenge. Love cost him dearly once before, and he’s not willing to pay the price again. At least not until hot, sweet, delectable Emma walked into his life. Not only does she hold the key to a valuable Sicari relic, she might just hold the key to his heart.

Their dangerous passion will redeem an assassin's honor...

My review...

Emma is an archeologist and on a dig near Cairo when she once again must face a murder to someone close to her. The first murder she had to endure was that of her parents. But before her father is killed he leaves a coded message for her and she finds it right before someone tries to kill her. That's when a Sicari named Ares DeLuca tries to help her by telling her she needs to go into hiding because her life is in danger. But of course she isn't wanting to give up her whole life and Ares friends, the other Sicari are less than friendly to her when she first meets them because she is an outsider.

So many things happen while Ares is hiding her and we get to meet some of the other characters in the world of the Sicari. Including the bad guys, the Praetorians who want all the Sicari dead.
Monica Burns has made up a whole new world of hot heroes with smoldering eyes and telekenic powers. It's easy to tell that this new world took a lot of thought and time to make because it's incredibly believable. She even gives us a lesson in her own cross between a Latin and Italian language that the men seem to love to speak throughout the story. I even learned a few cuss words, even though I don't know exactly what they mean yet.

While reading this book I got a pretty good lesson in the Sicari way of doing things and their customs, while some of them may seem barbaric at first I understood why they are needed and why honor is so important to them by the end of the book.

I can't wait for more books in this series.

I'm Back!

Well, I'm finally back and this time for good...I hope. My daughter's boyfriend took parts from a couple of different computers and made me a new tower. He said my motherboard was fried and that's why my computer stopped working.

I've decided to name my new computer.....Frankenputer!

Because it's made up of parts from several different computers...get it...frankenstein...lol

See you in the ethers..

My computer is still acting up

Yeah this darn thing is still acting up, restarting on its own and crashing and sometimes not even letting me log on at all...but I'm online right now and wanted to say I'm still here! I miss talking with everyone and visiting the blogs the way I want to. Hopefully I'll figure this thing out soon.

Computer problems

Looks like I got a virus or something so until further notice I will not be online. Hope to get my Pc fixed soon.

teens and slang

Seems like teens have their own language, I like to refer to it as slanguage. Here's a few things one might hear from teens now a days.



Dope - Means cool or awesome.

Bowen- A person who often stinks, possibly with hygene issues. Derived from a creature that is known to inhabit sewage and have a frightening odor because it uses its own feces to disguise itself.

Butt hurt- to be hypersensitive or over offended over a prank or joke. (my daughter uses this one all the time)

Hardcore - Means something is intense. Generally said about something that is a good experience, but also used when something bad is happening to a friend.

all up in my grill- the act of being in someone's face.

hella- used in conjunction with another word as an intensifier. As if to say “very.” Derived from “A hell of a lot of . . .” Examples include: hella-cool, hella-stupid, hella-crazy, or hella-funny.

bamf- Acronym for “Bad Ass Mutha F***er."

tool- someone that is a geek or nerd; one who is socialy inept and does not fit it.

idk- short for “I don’t know”

wikijism- A term to describe any journalism, reports or writing that uses Wikipedia as it's only source.

my bad- a phrase said to admit guilt in a situation.

beatin' dem cakes- having sex. "I got with Juana and was beatin’ dem cakes like Betty Crocker!"

Beware when looking for a job...

Ya know, my daughter has been looking for a job for some time now and I like to browse the internet so I was looking on craigslist and in the local paper for job offers. You know what I see most often? Ads that looks something like this....

Wanted, girls 18-24 no experience necessary, will train.

When I see ads like that I get the heebie jeebies because all I can think of it PORN. They'll call the phone number and be asked if they like to make $50 a day and when they say yes they'll give them an address to come to the next day.

I can imagine when the girls get there they are immediately trying to make their way through a crowd of crackheads and Ron Jeremy wannabe's. *shiver*

Girls stay away from ads like this, it can't be anything good. It just can't be.

Film Brawl

A friend of mine self published a book called, Film Brawl and I wanted to let you all know about it. He is the owner of Wildside Cinema http://www.wildsidecinema.com/forum/index.php and has worked really hard on this book.

"Filmbrawl is a genre cinema review guide featuring hundreds of encapsulated reviews and star ratings for those looking for a quick read on the toilet! GET IN THE RING!!"

If you like reading reviews of movies, and are looking for something a little different, this is the book to get.

The title of this blog post will take you to where you can buy the book.

Leonid Meteor Shower

I've been going out for the past few nights, hoping to see a meteor in this meteor shower and for the most part, living in a city where the lights are always on makes it difficult to see the meteors. But I have seen a few in the past few days.

Pet Peeves

I know we all have them and sometimes I think I have too many of them because at times I'm very critical of others, but maybe I'm just normal. lol

My pet peeves..

People who write in all Caps. Anyone on the internet knows that, all caps is considered to be shouting. So stop shouting.

People who spit on the side walk. I've heard guys says that hawking a loogie...yes, that's what they said, was healthy. Ok, fine, get it out...but so it in the bathroom and don't spit it on the same side walk I have to walk on. That's just gross and rude.

Talking on cell phones when you are in a public place. Yeah I know, I'm an old fogie and think cell phones are the anti-christ according to my nephew, but there's really no need for someone to talk about their rash, infection..oozing, pus-filled sores or any other thing they are at the doctors office for. I have heard people talking about STD's on the phone in the doctors waiting room. I really don't need to know. Really.

People who think they know it all! I don't just mean they think they know a few things. No, these people think they know everything! and are right about everything the talk about. Holy cow, I would love to be right all the time but that's just not going to happen. Oh and when you are proven to be wrong, take it like an adult and say, yeah ok, I was wrong.

LOL that last post made every all blue.

I don't know how I messed that last post up so bad. Now everything is blue. Oh well, at least you can see what books I plan to get.

Books from my Amazon wish list that I plan to buy when I get my gift certificates

When He Was Bad by shelly laurenston

Dark Rival (The Masters of Time, Book 2) by Brenda Joyce In the Company Vampires: A Dark Ones Novel by Katie MacAlister

Born to Bite: An Argeneau Novel (Argeneau Vampires) by Lynsay Sands

Jacob (The Nightwalkers, Book 1) by Jacquelyn Frank (Mass Market Paperback)

Bound to Shadows (Riley Jensen, Guardian, Book 8) by Keri Arthur

Dark Lover (The Masters of Time) by Brenda Joyce

Dark Victory (The Masters of Time) by Brenda Joyce

Destined for an Early Grave (Night Huntress, Book 4) by Jeaniene Frost

One Foot in the Grave (Night Huntress, Book 2) by Jeaniene Frost

Lux in Shadow by R. G. Alexander

Dark Embrace by Brenda Joyce

Blood trininty book 1 in the belador series by Diana love snell

The Bodyguard by Lorie O'Clare

Ecstasy in Darkness by Gena Showalter

Midnight Crystal (Book Three of the Dreamlight Trilogy) by Jayne Castle

Twice Bitten (Chicagoland Vampires, Book 3) by Chloe Neill

Eternal Kiss of Darkness (Night Huntress World, Book 2) by Jeaniene Frost

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Really embarassing...

We've all done those really embarrassing things, the things that at the time we wished we could just crawl in a hole and hide. I look back on some of those times and can laugh now, so I thought I would let you laugh along with me...lol

Some of the funny things I've done...

Years ago when we first moved into another apartment complex...I was walking back to my apartment when I decided to scare my family by quickly sticking my head in the open window and screaming. Well I got the the window and pulled back the curtains and screamed....only to see another family sitting down to dinner! I went to the wrong window! Scared them half to death...but I quickly explained to them what happened when I showed them that I lived right next door. lol

I went up to a man in the grocery store and covered his eyes from behind. I said, "Guess who." He said, "My next ex- wife?" I quickly removed my hands because I realized as soon as he spoke he was not my friend. I apologized and thankfully he just laughed and thought it was funny.

One night I was on a road here in Vegas and I've been told if you pass a cop car sitting on the road checking car's speed's...you should flash your headlights to the cars coming in the other direction to let them know about the cop car so they can slow down. Well, I flashed my lights and he flashed me back...and as he drove past me I saw him smiling.....but not for the reason I thought....he was a cop...in a cop car! Good thing he thought it was funny!


Well, there you have a few of my funny embarrassing moments.

Irritating things

There are so many things that irritate me but there are a few things that stand right out and I think they bother most people.

Liars- people who lie to me or embellish about what has happened, will happen, ect...just irritate me.

Late people who don't call- You know when you tell me that you are going to be at my house at a certain time and I expect you to be here or meet me someplace at that time...you better damn well be there, or at the very frickin least call me beforehand and let me know you aren't coming/going to be late. If I have to call you because you are an hour late and you tell me you just decided not to come and was going to call me later.....just don't be surprised when you never get invited again, ok?

Rudeness- There's no reason to be rude just for the sake of being rude. If I give you a birthday gift and you think it's lame...keep that to yourself because if you tell me that I never would have given such a gift because it looks cheap...or you won't use it can you give it to the salvation army because 'those' people would use something like that. Don't expect to ever get anything else form me, ok?

Drunks- If you want to get drunk off your butt...first off don't drive., I will tell you right now, I don't care who you are...if you drink and rive I will call the police on you and turn you in. I don't want a drunk on the streets when I am driving and don't think anyone else would either. But if you have to get falling down stupid drunk...stay home.

Don't let your kids be monsters in public- I was in the grocery store a few years ago and this little girl maybe 7 years old was giving her mother one hell of a time at the check out. She went to take her cart outside and the little girl sat down and wouldn't move. The mother couldn't push the cart and arry the kid at the same time so and the kid was screaming every time she went to touch her. So I asked the mother if she wanted me to either take the cart or the kid and she asked if I would pick the kid up because she wouldn't fight me. I thought to myself...she sure won't fight me...she's only 7 years old. I'm the adult...good grief. I picked the kid up and told her to shut it! and we walked out to her car and I told the kid to get in the back seat and put her seat belt on. She tried to tell me that she gets to sit in the front seat and I told her after acting bad in the store she can sit in the back seat. Her mother didn't say a word to me as I walked away. Good grief what was that mother thinking. If my kid ever threw a fit in the store I left everything in my cart and took her outside and told her we would leave and she wouldn't get anything if she didn't stop acting like a brat. I did leave the cart one time and she knew I was telling the truth...she didn't do it again.

I'm sur ethere's more that bothers me but I can't think of any thing else right now.

Coffee or Tea?

I used to drink a lot of tea but recently I've been on a coffee kick. I still make iced tea because it's so darn hot and hot coffee is kinda weird when it's 111F outside. At least it is to me. But there's just so many cold coffee recipes out there.

Recently I've started making my own iced coffee and saving my money from the high priced Starbucks that I only get once every couple of months anyhow.

I used two teaspoons of regular instant coffee, two table spoons of hersheys chocolate, two table spoons of sugar or two packets of substitute sugar, a little warm water just enough to melt the sugar and coffee and the rest of the glass filled with milk. Add a dollop of whip cream and a couple of ice cubes...

Take responsibility for your actions

Right now I'm going through a bit of a problem with a couple of family members that drink. I don't drink and I don't...no I won't be around people that do. I don't like the way they look, all droopy eyed, slurring their words, thinking they either love you so much, man. Or can't stand you, never liked you.

I grew up with two alcoholic parents and know the horrors of what that's like. I won't live in a relationship with any relative or friend that drinks.

For some reason people who drink and then do things they wouldn't normally do, think they can just say..oh it was the booze..and that makes up for the terrible things that you have done. Well, here's your wake up call, it doesn't.

You chose to take that drink, so you are ultimately responsible for whatever you do while you are drinking.

Either stop drinking or you are out of my life. It's just that simple.

Free Coupons

I know I've talked about how I use a lot of coupons when I go shopping each week. I have been getting them right from the manufacturer through the mail, in the newspaper, my sister in law sends me the ones she doesn't use and I also find some online that I can print out. Facebook is a good place to find coupons for free items. Although I really don't like the fact that I have to become a fan/friend/like a company just to get a free coupon or sample. Just let me fill out the damn form, seriously.

But the other day I went into the smiths grocery store that I always go to and tried using my free Libby's can of vegetables coupon that I had printed from the internet. They informed me that they no longer take coupons for free stuff if it's been printed from the internet. They will still take cents off coupons printed form the internet..so if I have a .75 off of something and the coupon is printed from the internet they will take that. But not if it's for a free product.

I hear that a lot of different grocery companies are doing this and it makes me mad. If they are going to take any type of cents off coupons that are printed form the internet then they should still take the free coupons as well.

Makes no sense to me, I mean it's not like they don't get their money back for these products.

One Week Of Wolves

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