Recipe: Low Carb Meal- Seafood salad, Sugar Snap Peas and fish fillet

 

As I've told you guys last week, I'm trying to eat low carb meals now. So I thought I would share some of the recipes and meals that I make in case you want some inspiration. 

This dinner consisted of a fish fillet (whiting), shrimp, seafood salad and sugar snap peas and mushrooms. 

I make my own seafood salad and you can find the recipe here. I use imitation crab meat because I like it and it's cheaper but you can of course use real crab meat for this. 

I cooked the whiting fish filet in a little butter and seafood spices and lemon. I did the same with the shrimp. 

For the mushrooms and sugar snap peas I sautéed the sliced mushrooms in a little olive oil first and then added the peas and let them cooked for about 10 minutes or until a little tender. I like them a little more done and tender but they were still crunchy and they are sweet. They are so good. This is the first time I've tried them and I really like them. 

As you can tell, I really like seafood. But even if you don't, I would still try the sugar snap peas and mushrooms because they are so good. 

Would you try this for a meal?

Oh and I got good news this week when my doctor came out to see me. In just two weeks I've decreased my blood sugar numbers from 350 to 229 by eating a low carb diet. My blood pressure is down from 197/101 to 147/91 and all I've done is cut the processed food and cut my salt intake. I have a ways to go but this is a start.

Book Review: Court of the Vampire Queen by Katee Robert

 

Book Description

Three Powerfully Alluring Vampire Men and One Queen to Rule Them All.

All Mina ever wanted was to escape her father's control. Half human, half vampire, she lived eternally torn between two worlds, never fully experiencing the pleasures of either―until her father chose her as the pawn in his latest political move, gifting her to the darkly powerful and dangerously seductive Malachi Zion.

Malachi is not a vampire to be trifled with. He rules with an iron fist and has a reputation for the darkest of sins. But the longer Mina spends with him, the more she realizes he's not the monster she first thought―and as fear bleeds into lust, then trust, then something more, Malachi opens Mina up to a world she never knew could be hers for the taking: including the love of Malachi's two closest friends and companions.

Now surrounded by all three men, the center of their shockingly seductive world, Mina may finally have the power to face down her father and take back the life―and crown―that by all rights should be hers.

My Review

When Mina is sent to Malachi to be his food and to hopefully get pregnant by him so her father has something to hold over his head to get his compliance, she is not happy about it at all. Her father who is a vampire and powerful politically, has never shown Mina any affection. Mina is a dhamphir, meaning the offspring of her powerful vampire father and a human mother who wasn't treated any better than any other human when she was alive. She tried to get out of being sent to Malachi but she was beaten severely as punishment for defying her father. She knows that if Malachi is able to get her pregnant, her father or his people will come snatch her up, keep her prisoner until her child is born and then probably kill her since her usefulness will be done. Her child will be a pawn to keep Malachi in line which does not sit well with her or Malachi. 

Malachi knows full well why her father sent Mina to him. Her father is the reason he hasn't been able to leave him home in a long while and now her father is using Mina to try and get a better hold on him but Malachi has friends that may be the key to helping he and Mina beat her father. Malachi is nothing like Mina thought he would be. While he does bite her and use her blood to nourish himself, he hasn't made a move to bed her right away and she isn't sure why. Malachi talks to her and let's her know that he understands that her father is using the both of them but he thinks if they work together they might be able to beat him. 

When Wolf shows up, he just adds to the already weird relationship that Malachi and Mina are forging. Wolf makes it known to both of them that he's attracted to Mina and wouldn't mind her sharing his bed. So when yet another of Malachi's friends, Rylan shows up but isn't instantly infatuated with Mina the way Wolf and Malachi obviously are, there's a bit of a problem between the friends at first. But Rylan is older than both Malachi and Wolf and can sense something different about Mina that the others haven't realized yet. When they set out to figure out a way to break the block in Mina's mind and set her true self free, they get more than they bargained for to say the least. 

Now the four of them together may have enough power to overthrow her father and take hold of the crown that she should have had to begin with as her father's heir. They face a lot of danger from her father and come face to face with a demon who seems sneaky but who also might have ulterior motives for helping them. I really liked the ending and plan on reading more from this author since I loved this book a lot. If f/m/m/m romance bothers you or very explicit sexual situations are not your thing then this might not be for you, but if you like those things then I would tell you to delve head first into this book because it was a seriously sexy read. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

Disclosure: I was sent a free copy of this book via mail from the publisher. I would like to thank SourceBooks Casablanca for the copy of this book.

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Happy Raturday!

 

"Here's a cool picture in case it's hot where you live."

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

Apartment Life #320

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 24 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 24 years here in a weekly blog post.

I was out walking Falcor in front of my apartment complex and saw this ambulance pull up. I thought they were going to the pool courtyard which is one down from mine but nope, they walked into my courtyard and went to the new move in. They stayed for a few minutes and then left. He's a really quiet guy and he works from home so I hardly ever see him outside. Hopefully he's alright.

It's kinda hard to see but there's a tent set up down by the blue trash can just to the right of it. And to the left of the trash can there was a huge metal shelving unit with a bunch of blankets pulled across the opening of the fence that I walk through to take Falcor for a walk. One of the homeless guys had all his stuff set up out there in the alley right behind someone's bedroom window. Someone must have called the police because I saw the Sheriffs car pull up next to him and make him pack all his stuff up and leave.

That white car in the Middle is the Sheriffs car when he drove away. 2 days later the homeless guy was right back in the same spot. I feel bad for the guy but he needs to find a better spot to set up his tent. He was taking up one of the parking spaces and was right in front of someone's bedroom window. Plus he blacked everyone from using the hole in the fence that most people use to get into the grocery store's parking lot when they walk over there or like me when I walk the dog. 

A few days later the homeless guy had moved his sleeping bad to in between two of the bushes in the pictures above. I was walking by after the sun had gone down and he was eating something but all I heard was him very loudly making nom nom noises and loudly saying "MMMmmm munch munch munch" The people in drug dealers apartment feed him and that's where he gets his drugs which is why he sticks around here. Not gonna lie, he scared the bejuju's outta me when he made that noise because it was dark, his sleeping bag is black and I didn't see him until he made noise. 

The high this week was 112F/44C

The low this week was 84F/28C

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

Favorite Song of the Week

 

I heard this song on Tiktok and liked it. I don't like rap for the most part but a little rap in a rock or metal song and it's a little different for me and I will sometimes like it. Like with this song. Nevertel is a new band for me so I hope you like the song. 

Freebie Friday!

 

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

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

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

This week I received: 

Costa Brazil body oil. 

Clinique wrinkle cream. 

I'm not a fan of the body oil because it stayed really oily after rubbing it in. I've used dry oil and that disappears into your skin when using it. I like that more. 

The wrinkle cream seems like a good moisturizer but I didn't really see any decrease in the fine lines of my forehead. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Recipe: Low Carb Lettuce Boats

 

I made these for dinner with a side of crab legs for dinner the other night. They were so good so I thought I would share the recipe in case anyone else wanted to try them. 

You will need:

Several lettuce leaves- I used Romaine

12 large shrimp- cleaned and deveined

2 slices of bacon- cooked

1/2 tomato- diced

1 small avocado- diced

1 green onion- diced

1 small carrot- julienned (Sliced very thin)

A small handful of cilantro- diced

The juice of 2 lemons

1/2 tsp. garlic powder

1/2 tsp. paprika

1/2 tsp. McCormick Herb and Garlic seasoning

1/4 tsp. Old Bay seasoning

What to do: 

Cook your bacon and save grease in the pan. Add cleaned shrimp to bacon grease pan, season shrimp with whatever seasoning you like. I used Old Bay and McCormick Herb and Garlic seasoning. Fry on both sides until it turns pink. Remove from pan and cut each shrimp in half so they are bite size pieces. 

Mix together lemon juice, garlic powder, paprika, Herb and Garlic seasoning and old Bay. Mix well and set aside.

In a bowl add the Tomato, bacon, avocado, green onion, carrot, and cilantro. Add the lemon juice mixture to the bowl and mix well. Add shrimp and toss well. Add this mixture to whatever lettuce leaves you like and enjoy. 

Makes 6 small lettuce boats.

We had ours with some crab legs. 

So, why low carb? Well saw my doctor a couple of weeks ago and my A1c and blood pressure is really high. I have diabetes (for several years) and just haven't been sticking to the low carb diet and my blood glucose levels are starting to show it. A1c shows what your average glucose levels have been for the past several months. For anyone curious my A1c was 10.1 and that's high. My glucose levels have been averaging 350 during the day when they should be around 100. My blood pressure was 198/101 the last couple of times she came out and took it. Normal range is 120/80. She's afraid I might have a stroke if I don't change my diet and bring these numbers down. So that's why salt wasn't an addition to my spices and I used a bunch of other spices to make up for the lack of salt. The bacon has enough salt for this meal all by itself but distributed into 6 lettuce boats, I don't think it was that much.

So I will be sharing a few of my low carb recipes with you as I make them and try to bring all these numbers down. 

Favorite Picture of the Week

 

Earlier this month my daughter made ceviche. My daughter had it on tostada shells, I had mine on the side with other seafood because I try to eat low carb. (More on that tomorrow)  It was really good. Here's the recipe if you want it. Note: It's not made with raw fish because I won't eat that. But the taste is really good regardless.

Ingredients

1lb. Cooked Shrimp- diced

1lb. Imitation Crab Meat- diced

1/2 cup diced Cilantro

1/2 diced White Onion

1 diced Cucumber

2 diced Tomatoes

Lemon Juice from 2 Lemons

Tostada Shells

Salt and Pepper to taste

Preparation

Mixed all ingredients together and let sit in a container with a lid for at least an hour before serving.

Book Review: Eight Simple Rules For Dating A Dragon by Kerrelyn Sparks

 

Book Description

TRUTH—OR DARE?

Gwennore is an Elf able to track down the cause of a certain illness and heal it—a valuable asset to her people. But when she is thrust into the realm of the dragons, she discovers a haunted place of power, passion, and magic—one that is plagued by an ancient curse. When she meets the smoldering General Silas Dravenko, Gwen knows she’s entered a whole new world of trouble. She’s been raised never to trust a dragon. So why does making a deal with the devil feel so good?

Silas has no way of saving the royal family he’s served for years. But when a beautiful, innocent elf comes bursting into his world, Silas is awakened to desire in a way he’s never felt before. But how can he trust a sworn enemy. . .and how can he live without her, in Eight Simple Rules for Dating a Dragon by New York Times bestselling author Kerrelyn Sparks.

My Review

Gwennore is outside with her niece, a dragon scoops the child up and tries to fly away but Gwennore is able to grab the dragon and is hoisted as well. But the dragon drops her and another dragon catches her but she's not sure why they want the child. When she is able to hear the conversation between the two dragons, that they are having telepathically and she is able to speak to the dragon holding her, Puff, as she names the dragon tells her that he will keep her safe and she will be able to remain with the child once they get to their destination. 

Puff, is bewildered that Gwennore who is an Elf is able to speak to him telepathically since that isn't supposed to happen with anyone but other dragons. But he does keep her safe after they arrive at the castle. But Gwennore finds herself in the middle of a mystery when she finds out the King has been kidnapping children to replace the ones his wife, the queen had lost and she quite crazy not knowing exactly what's going on. 

So while they try to find out what is causing the Queen to go mad, the King to believe in things that can't be true and the royals to become sick because of some ancient curse, Gwennore has to keep the child safe and work with Silas to find a cure for the curse. Once the child is safely home, Gwennore agrees to stay and help Silas find a cure for the curse. She has a gift that allows her to touch someone and find out what is wrong with them, so she knows that the Queen is being poisoned. 

It was fun watching Silas fall for Gwennore so fast and having to wait for her to catch up with him and give into her feelings. He knew what he wanted but had to make her see that he would be worth giving up her home and staying with him before she would give into her feelings. I really liked the slow burn of this romance and how Silas and Gweenore worked together with the secondary characters to find out what was going on and who was behind it. I'm enjoying this series. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.

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Happy Raturday!

 

*All pictures today are courtesy of www.martymousehouse.com*

Apartment Life #319

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 24 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 24 years here in a weekly blog post.

A few weeks ago we had a lot of rain and it's been raining a little each week since then. The neighbor who used to live right there used to throw out bird seed for the birds each morning. But she moved out over a month ago. After the rain, I saw that something right in the same area she used to throw bird seed started growing. 

I told my daughter it looked like corn.

Yep, it's corn.  I had thought that maintenance would pull it up but it's already dying off now. There have been lots of clouds but no more rain. 

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Back in May I told you in this post that someone had run into the fence that separates my courtyard from the walking path and it was destroyed. Well the city finally came out and fixed it last week. Here's our new fence.

To the right is my apartment building and my courtyard and in the middle is the fence. The path that I walk Facor on is on the left and further left is the sound wall. I was just happy that they left a small section open down by the blue trash can so we can walk through the fence to get to the path where I don't have to walk up and down the steps. I have Osteoarthritis in my knees and hips and going up and down stairs hurts a lot. 

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We can't end the week without some police car pictures. lol 

My neighbors across from me down at the end of the building were fighting. One guy likes to scream at the top of his lungs when they argue. It's two guys that live there, roommates, brother's...not sure but they do fight like siblings let me tell you. Later that night when Falcor woke me up at 2am because he needed to go out, I stood in the courtyard with Falcor and could hear them yelling at each other again. 

The high this week was 106F/41C

The low this week was 79F/26C

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

My Favorite Song of the Week

 

I don't listen to I Prevail a lot but every now and then they come out with a really good song that I like, this is one of those songs. I hope you like "Bad Things" as much as I do. 

Freebie Friday!

 

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

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

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

This week I received: 

I cashed in my points from e-Rewards survey site for a $50 Macy's gift card. 

I bought these three sets and paid a little of my own money along with the gift card. 

I got a 4 candle set. 

A Clinique set of makeup remover, face wash mascara and moisturizer. 

I also bought a bath set of Orchid scented lotion, body butter, bath salts, bath oil, and shower gel.

I'm very happy with my purchase.

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Book Review: Alien's Temptation by Tina Moss

 

Book Description

I’m the captain of Earth’s moonbase. I can handle any mission. I do not need a partner, even if he is a sexy-as-sin alien commander, who looks at me like he’s trying to decide between throttling me or…something else.

His grumpy demeanor and dominant streak make me want to shake him, but I can’t deny the heat between us. Do I dare put my hand to the flame? I’ve been burned before. And I’ve guarded my heart ever since.

As we travel to a distant planet to find the rare substance that will save both our kinds, we soon discover the inhabitants have some odd customs. And if we don’t follow their sensual mandates, they’ll withhold the bounty.

The survival of the Earth-Rhonar treaty depends on our success. We can’t afford to fail. But when victory depends on a death-do-us-part bond, can I put my heart on the line and trust again? And will this alien warrior lower his defenses to let me?

Only the stars know.

Alien’s Temptation is a sci-fi romance and book three in the Earth Brides and Alien Warriors series, but it can be read as a standalone. Will they find their brides? Steamy seduction, fated mates, and a happily-ever-after guaranteed.

My Review

Tor's planet was ravaged when the Versaken killed all their female's. Now the males become empty, without emotion because they don't have mate's. But Tor's people, the Rhonar Warriors have found that they can mate with human females if they can find a mate among the Earthlings. But the Earth's government won't agree to a treaty between our two people's unless the Rhonar Warriors can prove that they can keep Earth safe. 

So Jane, who is a captain of Earth's moonbase agrees to go on a mission with the grumpy Tor to Sense VII to get ergamite, which would prove to Earth's government that they would be safe. But Tor is very gruff with Jane because he's trying not to act on his feelings for her since he knows she is his mate. But he wants to wait to tell her until there is a treaty between their people. But their passion will not take a back seat to this mission. Not when they are both lusting after each other. No matter how short or iterating Tor is to Jane, she still finds him to be a very handsome alien that she has a hard time not fantasizing about even when she wants to throttle him. 

The snarkiness between them was really funny to watch because she has no idea how hard he is trying not to give in to his feelings. She just thinks that he's a jerk so she pushes his buttons to drive him crazy at every turn. That was fun to watch. 

What they have to endure together once on Sense VII in order to get the ergamite, was comical but it really brought them closer together and made it impossible for Tor not to show her he isn't the jerk she thinks he is. This is my first time reading this author or this series but I'm looking forward to reading more from this author. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book via NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving a review.

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Favorite Picture of the Week

 

My daughter was playing with Falcor and caught him with his tongue out. lol 

Book Review: Blood & Vows by K. Easton

 

Book Description

Never make a deal with the devil–especially if that deal entails holy matrimony. There’s only one rule my mother passed down to me before she died: Never venture into the east side of Edinburgh.

I never questioned it.

There are creatures in this world that could hurt us, she’d said. So, I stay away—until my life hits rock bottom, and I find myself curious about the forbidden side of the ancient city.

It doesn’t seem all that different here–bars, clubs, restaurants. Just like the human side. One too many drinks later, he finds me. A silly poem and a whispered wish are all it takes for him to rip through the mirror between realms and pin me against a wall. Cruel, inhuman, cunning. A demon—an actual prince from hell. With horns. What could he possibly want from me?

Marriage, apparently.

Because as it turns out, Bloody Marius is dead serious about upholding his end of the deal.

Blood & Vows is a dark retelling of the legend of Bloody Mary. It is a paranormal romance novella that will leave your kindle sizzling. Please note that this book has dark themes such as forced marriage, kidnapping, dubious consent, violence, and explicit language, which may be triggering for some.

My Review

Liz was told by her mother not to go to the other side of the city, it's dangerous. But after her mother dies and her life starts going down hill fast, she decides to throw caution to the wind and go there anyway. Not knowing that her life is about to change in ways that she never could have imagined, she doesn't realize that she might be in danger until it's too late for her to do anything about it. 

When Marius comes through the mirror and claims Liz is his soon to be wife, she's not sure what's going on. Unfortunately Liz's mother made a pact with the devil, quite literally and now she has no way of escaping Marius because he's a powerful demon and can just make her come with him if she won't go of her own free will. 

The secrets that were kept from her were revealed to her and the twists that come are quite exciting. At first she thinks she's going to just be his slave but when he slowly reveals that he isn't really a bad guy, and she starts to get to know him, they get along a lot better. The romance was so sweet and spicy at the same time which was fun to read. I wasn't too sure about him at first but I ended up really liking him. I think she was really good for him too. 

I was mad at Liz's mother though. She should have told her why she didn't want her to go to the other part of the city. But this ended up being pretty good for a novella so I will forgive the mother. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Happy Raturday!

 

*All pictures this week and courtesy of Rat Logic*

Apartment Life #318

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 24 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 24 years here in a weekly blog post.

The police were on my street and had someone from drug dealer's apartment at the front of their car. I waited to see if he was going to be arrested but he wasn't. They let him go after questioning and running his name I presume. As the police were leaving he was yelling, "You know you did me wrong!" 

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He's baaack. Drug dealer is out of jail and the druggies are right back in his place again. All hours of the day and night *I have not been able to get a picture of him yet for those who are waiting*  In the  morning he has his motorcycle in the courtyard and was revving the hell out of it. It was loud as hell. 

On Monday I was walking Falcor and one of the homeless people was out on the path were I walk and was pacing back and forth, yelling and screaming to himself about how he was sleeping in front of some lady's apartment across the street that morning and she woke him up and told him to leave because he was scaring her kids. He started talking to me and said, she scared her own kids, effing ugly heifer. lol 

He asked me if I've seen him cleaning up after some of the other homeless people, and how he picks up the used needles and other stuff and I said yes, because I have. He says, I've paid my dues around here, that heifer should have let me just sleep. I wasn't going to say anything because he was so upset and you just never know about people. 

Then he said my maintenance man told him he had to leave because he didn't live here and said maintenance man walks over to the big trash can and he starts yelling at him again. So I walked away as they were yelling at each other. As I'm walking back into my courtyard drug dealers says to me, "You see what I have to deal with?" I asked, "What do you mean?" 

He says, "He's mad at me because I won't let him in because he wasn't respectful to me." I said, "He's not mad at you, he's mad because some woman across the street wouldn't let him sleep in front of her door this morning. But if you didn't let those people into your apartment, you wouldn't have problems like that." 

He had the nerve to tell me that he doesn't let anyone into his apartment.  So I said, "Yeah you do. There are people coming and going from your apartment all day and night for the past few years. Everyone around here knows what goes on in your apartment." 

He says, "It's not like that. You don't understand." 

I said, "I understand that you have all these homeless people and drug addicts coming and going from your apartment all hours of the day and night. " 

He's like, "I was in jail, I had no control over who was in my apartment for the last month." 

I said, "I know, several of your neighbors called the police trying to get all the people out of your apartment while you were in jail and Theresa was in the hospital. But the police wouldn't do anything because you had let all those people in your place before you were ever gone." 

He says, "I don't let anyone in my apartment, and they pillaged all through my things and I'm not the only one who lives there." So now he was trying to blame it all on his wife. 

I said, "I am up all hours of the day and night with this dog because of his sensitive stomach and I see people coming at going from your door at 3, 4, 5 AM all the time. And I see you letting them in, they stay for a few seconds and they leave. I'm not stupid, no one around here is and everyone knows what's going on in your apartment.  I could go on a month long trip to the Bahamas and no one would go in my apartment because I don't let anyone in to begin with. 

He yelled at me and said, "You don't talk to no one around here!" 

I said, "Exactly." 

He said, "I'm just not going to get anywhere with you." 

I just said, "Nope." And I walked to my apartment. 

More was said but I don't remember everything we said to each other. This is the first time I've said more than hello to drug dealer but I was done with his BS and was in a bad mood that day. 

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So other than that and my neighbor telling me I need to date again and I need a man in my life, and trying to fix me up with my 70 year old neighbor...it was a fairly quiet week. lol 

The high this week was 100F/37C

The low this week was 78F/25C

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

Favorite Song of the Week

 

I found another Bad Omens song. The Death of Peace of Mind is my new favorite song this week. I've been listening to it on repeat a lot. I first heard it on Tiktok if you can believe that. I hope you enjoy it. 

Freebie Friday!

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

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

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

What did I receive? 

A print book from the publisher for review. 

A bookmark I won. The postmark was from May, so I guess it got lost in the mail before I got it. lol 

Laneige sleep mask cream for the face. 

I'm looking forward to reading this book. I don't get a lot of books from publisher's in the mail so this was a happy surprise. 

I've tried the Laneige sleep mask before and really liked it. You just put a little on before bed and it is supposed to help brighten and moisturize your skin over night. It does make my skin feel moisturized for sure though. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?