Apartment Life #195

This is a new weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 20 years that we'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 20 years here in a weekly blog post.

On Monday I saw the police down the courtyard making one of the homeless men who was sleeping on the sidewalk, move. His brother who lives here lets him sleep by his door but his neighbors don't like it so they must have called the police. He was back sleeping in the same place the next day and everyday since. 

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The woman who lives in the drug dealing apartment has been stopping by my door for weeks with her dog and talking to my dog. Falcor starts yelping and barking every single time because he wants to go see the dog. So last Sunday I'd had it and stopped her while she was at my door and told her not to stop at my door anymore because she was upsetting my dog. This crazy bitch says, "Oh I'm just passing by"

So I said well on your way by can you not stop in front of my door? She stood there looking at me like she was going to say something else and then just said, oh ok.

I mean, really? You have to be told not to stand in front of someone's screen door and make their dog bark? Farking idiot.

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The fire truck showed up Thursday night for the old guy down at the end of my building. Then Friday morning at 6am the ambulance and fire truck were outside again for the same guy. This time the paramedics put on gowns and masks and had the old guy come out wearing a mask before they put him in the ambulance. I got a bad picture of the ambulance but I'm hoping this guy didn't test positive for the Coronavirus. This is the same guy who lets his homeless brother sleep by his door.

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

Favorite Video of the Week

 This is my new favorite song of the week. It's such a sweet song and his voice is so nice. The ending was sad though and I have no idea what movie or show the video is from.

 

 This song is an old favorite. How many of you remember this one? I liked a bunch of their songs back when this came out.

Freebie Friday!

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

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

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

This week I received:

I tote bag from Dollar General with a coupon booklet.
A full size bottle of body wash from Seventh Generation.

I don't care for the body wash's scent. It works fine but the scent isn't pleasant. I don't know when I'll be going out to use the coupons. I'm not sure I'd be able to find any of those products on the store shelves right now anyway.

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Review: Under Fyre by Cara Bristol

Book Description

Betrayed by her people, does she dare trust a dragon?

The alien dragon shapeshifters who discover Earth come in peace—at first. Then, inexplicably, they threaten to attack. In an attempt to show goodwill and appease the dragons, Earth sends a human woman to become a concubine to one of the Draconian king’s sons, Prince K’ev.

K’ev would sooner give up his ability to breathe fire than accept a human, but when he meets Rhianna, sparks fly, and his dragon realizes she’s his mate.

Rhianna falls for the hot-blooded prince, unaware she’s a key link in a desperate scheme to defeat the dragons, a strike that could backfire with devastating consequences. Will she figure out what Earth has planned in time to save her dragon mate? And if she does, will K’ev be able to save her planet from the fire of angry king’s retaliation?

My Review

K’ev liked the human child he had met years ago because she hadn't been afraid of him but he never in his wildest dreams imagined that the same child, now an adult would be the woman sent to be his consort. 

Rhianna remembers meeting a dragon when she was a child and now she's sent with her best friend who is to be a dragon's mate to stop a war between humans and dragons but her government really has something else planned that she wasn't aware of. 

Draconians can smell fear, lies and other emotions so it's hard to lie to a Draconian. The Draconians had found a suitable planet that was hot enough for them, Elementa but then the humans had also arrived and started drilling which really pissed off the Draconians. 

Helena was the daughter of the president and he picked her to be the consort to a dragon. But Once aboard the ship she switched places with her friend, Rhianna and let her take her place. Rhianna hadn't know her friend was going to do that so she felt betrayed because she was. Once Rhianna had agreed to say she was Helena, the real Helena had rushed off the ship, into a car and fled like the coward she was. Since dragons could smell a lie K’ev already knew that she wasn't Helena and let her know as the ship left Earth. She thought she could go back then but he was interested in her so he didn't mind her becoming his consort even though his dragon kept yelling at him that she was his mate. 

Rhianna doesn't believe that humans have sent colonists to Elementa so K’ev takes her to see for herself. When she sees them and he tells her that the Draconians were there first and want the planet for their new home, she understands why his people and her people are about to go to war. The humans lied about finding it first and removing the Draconians flag only to replace it with their own and the government won't own up to the truth. Now K’ev's father, the king wants to punish the humans by killing them. 

When K’ev and Rhianna spend more time together and find that they actually like each other, things quickly get dangerous because Rhianna is secretly in contact with Earth's president. So when K’ev finds out about that, he feels betrayed. Things take a quick twist at this point and a huge secret is revealed that changes the way this story could have ended but I loved this ending. I'm really looking forward to the next book now. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

Review: Birchbox- March

Birchbox is a subscription box. It's only $14 a month and this month's box came with 6 products.

What was in the box:

Rainforest of the Sea 4 in 1 setting mist. 

The POREfessional Hydrate Primer. 

Counter + No2 Plumping Facial Oil. 

Double Date Lip and Cheek- color Rendezvous. 

Rosie Eau De Parfum. 

Radiant Skin Moisturizer. 

The lip and cheek product is a lip and cheek tint. I thought it was a nice color for my lips but much too pink for my cheeks. 

The perfume smells a little like roses and that's one of my favorite scents. I really like it. 

Plumping oil for your face. So I was weary to add oil to my face but I tried it out and it surprised me. This oil is almost like a dry oil that absorbs right into your skin and doesn't leave it oily. As for plumping, I didn't see that. 

The 4 in 1 mist is a primer, setting spray, and midday hydrating mist. The card only gave 3 examples of what it could be used for so I don't know what the 4th would be. But it does work well as a setting spray. 

The POREfessional primer is an excellent makeup primer though. It's great for filling in those of us with large pores and blurring the lines a little. And the moisturizer is a good one.

I'm happy with all the products this month. 

Does this look like a good box to you?

Review: Chasing Tail by Celia Kyle

Book Description

Werelioness Penelope Little has a growling lion pacing the library’s shelves. Not just any lion, either. He’s the most powerful feline in the country. And for some reason, he’s got his sights set on curvy, slightly nerdy, and totally frumpy Penny Not-So-Little.

When he finally calms enough to shift… Well, gorgeous doesn’t begin to describe him. He’s sexy, sinful, and has a smile that nearly brings her to her knees. Even better, he’s all hers. Or is he? When a witch is involved in his sudden appearance, there’s no telling.

**Stand alone, no cliffhangers.**

My Review

Penelope has had a hard life because her parents were disappointed in her so her pride also treated her badly. Penelope was a lion shifter and a librarian so when she spots a huge lion in the library, she doesn't really think much of it since there were a lot of lion shifters in town. But this lion was acting strange and she wasn't sure if he wanted to use her as dinner or claim her as a mate at first. 

Marcus is the North American alpha and has come to Penny's town to claim his mate. He followed her scent all the way to town and then the alpha there tells him there's been a mistake, that Penelope isn't really his mate because a witch put a spell on him. The only problem is, the spell wasn't really put on him but put on Penelope to bring her mate to her. Penelope's best friend hired the witch to find her mate since Penelope was so lonely and had been treated badly for far too long. 

When Marcus gets the truth out of the witch, all he wants to do is claim his mate. Sparks fly between these two in a good way and so they know they found their mate. The best thing Penelope's friend did for her was hire the witch to find her mate. This novella was a quick read but so full of heartbreak and passion. I loved that Penelope finally found the one person who would make her happy for the rest of her life and could leave the pride that didn't even like her, behind where they belonged. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Happy Raturday!

*Picture courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

*Picture courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

*Picture courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

Apartment Life #194

This is a new weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 20 years that we'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 20 years here in a weekly blog post.

So for the most part this week it was quiet. There were two different nights that we heard gunshots in the area and a few minutes later the police helicopter flew over my complex and the complex next door for a few minutes and then left. 

One other night the police were at the opposite end of my alley because someone called to complain that the homeless people had set up their camp right next door to where their apartment balcony was. The police came and made them move. I didn't get a picture because it was night and the police were far away, about a block away and none of those pictures came out. 

But on Wednesday while I was walking Falcor I saw the Fire Truck was in the Mariana's Mexican market parking lot. I got out there just as the ambulance and police were leaving but I have no idea what happened. 

But my apartment complex and my courtyard was quiet this week. 

While I was out walking Falcor I spotted something in the rocks by my bedroom window. If you can't spot it, look at the next picture. 

Some kind of homemade drug pipe. Not sure if it's a meth pipe, crack pipe or marijuana pipe. Looks like a crack pipe stem inserted into a plastic something. Yep, having all these druggies around here I'm spotting things like this laying around now. I went back home, got a pair of plastic gloves and a bag and threw it in the trash. I didn't want some kid finding this and playing with it. There are a lot of kids around here.

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

Review: Daily Goodie Box- March

The Daily Goodie Box has been around since about July of 2016. I signed up for an account right after I heard about them. They are 100% free, you don't even have to pay for shipping. And for a free box it's a nice sampler box of products.

What did I get in this box?

Cate & Chloe - Ariel Tempest Halo Stud Earrings- These earrings are a $150.00 value on their website. I thought the earrings were really pretty. I wore them for a few days and they didn't irritate my ears at all which is nice. 

Tiger Balm Active - Muscle Spray- The website says that it's good for sore muscles and for the hard to reach places. It also doesn't stain clothing and is non-greasy which is nice. I'll try it next time I get a muscle cramp.

Prince Of Peace - Ginger Chews with Lychee- I love ginger chews. This is the 3rd such product that I've tried and I like these too. They are chewy which I like and while they still have that ginger ' bite' to them, they also have a great taste. 

Blister Balm  - External Analgesic Ointment- Anyone who has ever had a cold sore knows that they hurt. Any type of cream that you can put on it to keep it moist and from cracking is going to help. I will try this next time I get one. 

Prince & Spring - Stellar Seltzer Water- I don't like seltzer water, I just think it's nasty and unfortunately hubby didn't like it either. So anyone who likes seltzer water might like this though but it's not for me. 

Prince & Spring - Fruit & Nut Bars- I like trail mix and most kinds of the fruit and nut bars. This tasted so good because of those sweet dried cranberries. I love dried cranberries. This is a great fruit and nut bar. 

Teami Blends - Alive Tea Blend-  This tea has ginger, lemongrass and green tea. We've already established that I like ginger and the lemongrass was interesting. This tea while not my favorite isn't bad. I have already used half of the tea bags. So that says something. 

Real Chemistry - Environmental Rescue Mask- This mask is supposed to firm your skin and help with wrinkles. You're supposed to wear it for 25-30 minutes so I did while I was watching tv one night. Yes, my skin felt soft and smooth but my little wrinkles were still there and my skin really wasn't any smoother. I'm 50 years old, I really don't think this mask did much for me. 

The box was filled with goodies. 

For a free box, they really do send a lot of products to try out.

All they ask you to do is try the products and leave reviews for the products you got in order to be eligible for more Free Goodie Boxes. As you guys already know, I'm a fan of all these types of boxes. I love all the different subscription boxes and it's really nice to be able to try new to me products for free. This is a great box to try for.

Oh and one more thing, if you visit their FB Page, they give away Goodie Boxes to people who interact with their posts. So if you've tried before and weren't able to get a Goodie Box, there's even more ways to get one now.

Daily Goodie Box. It's more than just Free Samples!

Have you signed up? Have you received one of these boxes?

I'm a fan of subscription boxes and love trying new products for free so this was a huge hit with me. New products+free box = Fabulous!

Disclosure: I was given and free box in exchange for a review but all opinions are my own.

Freebie Friday!

Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday, 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:

So as you can see I received The Daily Goodie Box this week. I posted a sneak preview of what was in the box and I will have a review of the entire box tomorrow. Stay tuned! But the entire box is free and you can find them on FB where they give out a lot of boxes to people who leave comments. So get to commenting on their posts and you might win a free Goodie Box too.

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I was also the grand prize winner in the Jennifer Faye blog giveaway.
The win included a $25 Amazon gift card, candy, an autographed book, stuffed duck, jigsaw puzzle, Garfield Recipe Cookbook, pens, bookmarks, mug, stickers, and note pad.

Review: Ipsy- February

Ipsy is a monthly subscription box that sends you 5 sample size makeup or beauty products and a makeup bag. You can customize what they send you by filling out the personal surveys. These bags are $13 each.

This month I received:

Half Caked lip gloss Super Glazed in Semi Charmed. 

Chella La Vie mini quad eyeshadow. 

Merci Handy Hand Cream hello sunshine. 

Tula The Cult face cleanser. 

Tarte Sex Kitten Liquid liner in black. 

PAPA RECIPE Eggplant Clearing Cleansing Foam.

MERCI HANDY Hand Cream in Hello Sunshine. 

THE SAEM Perfumed Hand Essence in Magnolia.

Rose Tinted makeup bag. 

The Saem perfumed hand cream and Papa Recipe cleansing foam were $3 add-ons that I picked. 

The Merci Handy hand cream was a free gift this month. 

I love the add-ons I picked. The Magnolia hand cream smells so good and the face cleanser works really good. The other facial cleanser I got is a good one too. 

The lip gloss has a slight pink color to it and it dries down a bit so it's not completely sticky like most lip glosses and I liked that. The liquid liner is really nice. It goes on easy and stays all day.

The Merci Handy hand cream stinks. The scent is over powering and does not smell good. I didn't like this at all. 

I think this makeup bag is one of my favorites so far. I have a bunch of them now but I love how soft this one is. 

That eyeshadow quad has 4 really pretty colors in it and three of them work really well but that darkest color does not want to blend well and just comes out patchy as all get out. At least the other colors are nice.

Did you get this bag?

Review: Wish by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Book Description

My ex was a con artist who left my life in shambles. But am I going to let that break me? No.

I’ve got a plan. It’s a long shot, but with some hard work, I’ll pull my life back together.

Only, just as I’m in the thick of it, I find an unusual bottle with a note inside: “You get one wish. Make it count.”

Har har. Someone’s idea of a joke?

Apparently not.

And nothing could prepare me for the screamin’ hot man with piercing blue eyes who shows up at my door. He says the note is his and he wants to give me true happiness. Money is no object. A wish granted from a billionaire.

Uh, is he for real? And why me?

I should slam the door in his sex-god face, because this guy has trouble written all over him. But the more time I spend with the demanding, arrogant man, the deeper I get into a twisted history that pulls at my heart.

Suddenly I do have a wish... Him.

My Review

Ginnie makes art pieces from broken glass. She needs to make these pieces and hope that they sell because her ex took off with her money and left her with a mortgage that she can't afford. 

Marus/Mr. Wish goes around granting wishes to people who find the glass bottles that he secretly puts around town. 

Ginnie finds a glass bottle at a garage sale but some guy takes it from her and walks off with it. Later she finds the same bottle at a thrift store and takes it home with her. Inside the bottle is a piece of paper that says it will grant her one wish. But she thinks it's just some kind of joke until a guy knocks on her door and asks why she hasn't made her wish yet. Mr. Wish is at first a grumpy, kinda stalkerish guy that I have to say I really didn't like. He was a little pushy and showed up out of the blue and kept after Ginnie to make a wish when he knew she thought he was some weirdo. 

What happens next was stunning and heartbreaking. Marus/Mason/Mr. Wish has a very complex background and as the secrets slowly unwound around him, I had so many emotions about him but in the end he really did redeem himself, it just took a while. 

This story had my emotions all over the place but I stayed up until after midnight reading it because I could not put it down. I needed to see if things worked out and what would happen next. At one point I was shocked and felt so bad for Ginnie, but it's a good thing she's such a tough character because she really needed to be for a while. 

This is the first book that I've read from this author but it won't be the last. 

If you had one wish, what would you wish for?

Disclosure: I was given an ARC of this book via NetGalley but all thought and opinions are my own. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

Review: Mate Claimed by Celia Kyle

Book Description

As if hitting thirty wasn’t enough, unmated Scarlet Wickham is summoned to this year’s Gathering. As a woman Marked to be the mate of an Alpha pair, she’s not going to find happiness anywhere other than in the arms of two Alpha werewolves. So, off she goes with her sisters in tow. ‘Cause yeah, she’s one of the plump Wickham triplets, and they’re all being carted off to werewolf speed dating.

Keller and Madden, Ruling Alpha pair, can’t believe their luck. They’ve found their mate, and she’s more than they could have ever hoped for. She’s feisty with spirit to spare, and lush curves that they want to trace with their tongues. They can’t wait to solidify their bond and get to know the beautiful woman who is to rule at their side. But first, there’s the minor inconvenience of a challenge to the death…

My review

Scarlet and her sisters are all summoned to the gathering where werewolves sniff the chosen females who are born with the marks to show they are werewolf mates. Only problem is only two of the sister actually have the mark so why is the third sister summoned? They're anxious, angry and a little scared because who knew what their mates would turn out to be like. At the gathering the werewolves sniff the females to see if they're mates and they seem to know right away if they are. Scarlet seems to know fairly early that Keller and Madden are her mates because her mark tingles when she's near them. 

The only problem is another pair of werewolves seems to think that Scarlet is their mate and they challenge Madden and Keller to a fight to the death to claim her. This novella is packed with information, action, romance and plenty of smexy time. 

I already love this author so it's no surprise that I loved this first book in the series and now I want to go read more from this series because it definitely stated out fun. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens to the other two sisters and who their mates end up being. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Happy Raturday!

*Picture courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

*Picture courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

*Picture courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

Apartment Life #193

This is a new weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 20 years that we'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 20 years here in a weekly blog post.

So of course the police were on my street again this week. Picture taken from my bedroom window. I heard someone knocking really loudly on the neighbor who is right across from me and saw the police go into his apartment. So I looked out my bedroom window and sure enough, police cars.

We're friends with the couple that lives there but they don't get along well because the wife has an untreated mental illness and calls the police on her husband all the time for no reason. It's actually been a while since this happened but he said he came home from work and had brought a co-worker home with him for a minute. The wife didn't like the stranger coming over so she walked outside and called the police. The police came, he and his friend left and she went back in the apartment and the police left.

It's a horrible picture but the manager left a 5 day eviction notice taped to that door on the left. The guy that lived there moved out over a month ago and let one of the homeless druggie people stay there after he left. Several people in my courtyard told the manager that the homeless people were squatting in that apartment and he did nothing for an entire month. Finally he went there and made the homeless people leave and locked the apartment after putting the notice on the door. Why does it take an entire month to go check out the apartment and kick the homeless druggies out of the apartment?  I don't get it. 

Then Thursday morning the guy in this apartment left all of his trash out in front of his door. When someone told him to pick it up because it was going to cause ants, he kicked it out in the rocks and the porter picked it up when he came by to pick up any trash on the grounds. I just thought it was rude and selfish to do that. 

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

Review: The Vixen and the Vet by Katy Regnery

Book Description

In this modern-retelling of "Beauty and the Beast," Savannah Carmichael, betrayed by an unreliable source, returns to her hometown of Danvers, Virginia with her once-promising journalism career in ruins. Given the opportunity to get back in the game by writing a patriotic human interest piece, Savannah turns her attention to the town hermit, Asher Lee, a wounded veteran who returned to Danvers eight years ago, and hasn't been seen since.

After an IED explosion in Afghanistan took Asher's hand and disfigured half of his face, he's lived a quiet life on the outskirts of Danvers where the locals respect his privacy...that is, until Savannah Carmichael comes calling in a borrowed sundress with a plate of homemade brownies. When Asher agrees to be interviewed by Savannah, he starts feeling things for the beautiful reporter that he hasn't felt in years.

Misfits in small-town Danvers, Savannah and Asher create a bond right away, touching each other's hearts in ways neither thought possible. When a terrible mistake threatens to drive them apart, they'll have to decide if the love they found in one another's arms is strong enough to fight for their hard-won happily ever after.

** Contemporary Romance. Due to profanity, realistically depicted scenes of war and very strong sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.**

My Review

Savannah comes home after she got fired from the journalism job she loved. Her sister, Scarlet is getting married so that's a good reason to come home and help. When another journalism job gets dropped in her lap, she jumps at the chance not knowing that interviewing Asher will be more rewarding than she expected. 

Asher is a wounded warrior and came home to a less than welcome arrival. Because he's disfigured and feels like the people of the town look at him like a monster, he's kept himself locked away in his home for years. But when Savannah asks to interview him, he surprisingly agrees to it. 

The interview happens over the course of a few weeks and the more time they spend together the closer they get. First starting out as friends and then more when they find that they really like one another. 

When Savannah's article is published, it's not printed exactly as she had written it which causes a lot of problems. I don't know if a publisher can actually 'edit' an article the way this one was in real life and get away with it but I would have been more than a little mad. 

It takes them a while to get passed this bump in the road and frankly I wasn't sure it was going to happen but Asher finally finds out that she never meant to have that story published. Things happen, some things change and some things get better before we get to end of this story. Asher's story is heartbreaking and it's gruesome in some of the descriptions of what happened to Asher but this book was great and a real tear jerker. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.

Freebie Friday!

Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday, 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:

Garnier Fructis Sleek Shot.
Garnier Fructis Shine Hold.
2 Cure facial moisturizer samples.

I haven't used the moisturizer yet but I'm pretty sure I received these samples in the past and used them and they were alright as a moisturizer.

I've used the Sleek Shot before and thought it really didn't do much for my hair. I don't really use a lot of mousses or styling products in my hair so I'll be giving the Shine Hold to my daughter.

I also won two more Goodreads giveaways this week.

Did you  receive any freebies this week?

Review: Jurassic Pork by Stix Hiscock

Book Description

I can't even get my common-law husband to look at me these days. It's like he's so freaking busy bringing dinosaurs back to life that he can't even be bothered to look at his saucy, bodacious wife, much less to do hot sex things to me. But everything changes when he takes me along to visit his private island full of abominations to the Lord, when our helicopter crashes in the middle of the sea and my life is saved by a pterodactyl- a sexy, well hung pterodactyl at that. Now my loyalties are divided between a negligent husband who doesn't give a damn about me, and three bisexual polyamorous dinosaur studs who want nothing more than to bury their bones in me. It's a problem that every woman faces at some point in her life, but I'm so unsure whether I truly have the nads to handle it...

My Review

You know when you sign up for authors newsletters they will sometimes send you free books? Well I absolutely had to download this freebie from the link in the newsletter of Mary Auclair because the cover was hilarious and the blurb was even funnier. C'mon, tell me you didn't read that description and snort!

Dr. James Hardon and his wife Gina Moyst hadn't been intimate for a while and Gina was getting perturbed about it. But James is a dinosaur scientist and would rather work on his new experiments. James makes time to take Gina on a helicopter ride to a little island called Cretaceous Cay where most of his lab experiments lived. Now think Jurassic Park about this place because there are a bunch of dinosaurs here but there's also more. 

But a huge water lizard jumped up from the water and grabbed a hold of the chopper and made them crash in the water. A pterodactyl scoops Gina up and fly's away with her. When she wakes up, there are several dinosaur/human hybrids surrounding her talking to her. Looks like James was doing more than just bringing back the dinosaurs. Several lonely dino's want to be intimate with Gina and she shows them a good time. Gina thinks her husband is dead but he comes back and she chooses the dino's over him. But once back at the lab, James makes a big decision that leads him back to Gina and the dino's. 

This was just funny. Getting it on with several hybrid dinosaurs that can talk to you was something new for me. I doubt I would keep reading anything like this but it sure was an interesting change of scenery. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars for the sheer hilarity it brought me.

Favorite Picture of the Week

If you've been reading my blog for long you know that I hadn't figured out how to take pictures at night without them coming out blurry, especially with flashing lights from the police or ambulance. I asked on Twitter if anyone knew and really didn't get any help and looked online ad again, no help. So I sat down with my reading glasses and started pushing buttons on my camera. LOL 

I have a Nikon Coolpix digital camera and on the back is a button that says, "scene". So I pushed it and moved the curser down to scene and on that page are a bunch of outdoor pictures. When you click on them there are modes for "Night Portrait, Landscape, Cloudy day, Rainy, " Ect. So I clicked on Night Portrait and took a picture at night and it's not blurry! I did try to take a picture at night again when the fire truck was out there with the flashing lights and it's still blurry. And I absolutely cannot take the picture from behind my bedroom window because all I get is a picture of the flash reflecting off the window. So weird, right? So I have to be outside, have flash on, put it on night portrait and not have a bunch of flashing lights. So I probably won't be taking many night pictures. I had never turned the flash on at night because then people look at you and I don't want to draw attention to myself if the police are out there. 

I was able to get this picture of the fire truck the other day though. And even though it's night time, the picture isn't as blurry as it usually is. The flashing lights still mess it up a bit though.

I started taking pictures just as the sun came up or at sunset and changing the color too. 

So now I can take a pretty good sunrise picture when it's still really dark outside.

It was really dark outside when I took this one but the moon was lighting this up just enough to be able to get a good picture.

Falcor gets me up early so when I saw a pretty sunrise, I snapped a picture.

I can change the colors too, this one was grey. 

I'm still messing around with buttons and changing colors but we had some really cool sunrises this week.

It was so dark out that the street lights were still on and the picture came out good anyway.

The sunrise between the two apartment buildings. I don't know why that one window lit up like a lighthouse but it made me laugh.

Such a pretty sunrise.

I spotted this one huge cloud out there all by itself.