Apartment Life #285

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 25 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 25 years here in a weekly blog post.  

At 1am I heard some sirens beeping out front so I looked out my bedroom window and sure enough there were 3 police cars outside. They had Mike pulled over, was searching his suburban and had him in handcuffs. But a few minutes later they let him go. I wonder what they were looking for?

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On Wednesday a thunderstorm blew through and my courtyard flooded again. it only lasted a few hours but at least it cooled things off for a while. 

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My daughter found these two pills in a baggie out near where some of the homeless people hang out. Over by where the camper was parked across the street a couple of weeks ago.  She brought them home and asked me to Google what they were. So I did. Search results below. 

Turns out these are Counterfeit Oxycodone pills containing Fentanyl. 

She washed her hands real fast, took a picture of them, picked them up with a napkin and flushed them. I don't know how dangerous they are but the fact that they contain fentanyl was enough to scare us both. And I already know she shouldn't be picking up pills from the sidewalk but they were in a baggie and she was curious. 

The high this week was 93F/33C

The low this week was 66F/18C

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

 

Ghost (feat. Danny Case & Jackson Bengtsson)

I found this song and dang but I am loving it. 

I hope you enjoy. 

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 this week?

I received a Healthy Snack Box that I won on Twitter. 

I also received a $5 payment to my Paypal account from a class action settlement that I signed up for. 

I also got $10 cash back from Pedigree for spending $20 on Pedigree dog food which I already buy. 

Daily Goodie Box and Healthy Snack Box no longer sends free boxes to bloggers but we can all still go over to Twitter and try to win a free box by commenting on their posts. That's how I won a free box. I liked all the different snacks in the box. 

Did you receive any freebies this week? 

Favorite Picture of the Week

 

There was this huge cloud right above my apartment complex and I was able to angle the picture to get the sound wall next to us as well. The wall always makes me feel like I'm in a prison yard because it's almost 20 feet tall. lol 

Sunrise one morning this week. 

Book Review: Bewitched In Blood by Jen Katemi

 

Book Description

I escaped death once and now the demon is back to claim my soul. The only thing standing between us is a hellhound shifter who sets my body and heart on fire…

Blood witch Topaz should be dead. She evaded the demon monster once before, with the help of the Fae Winter Court. But now the soul collector is back on the hunt and she is firmly in his sights.

Hellhound shifter Kyan's pack owes the blood witch’s family a debt. He’s there not to kill Topaz, but to protect her from his former Otherworld masters.

But how can she trust the man with the intense green eyes—the man who ignites her body with molten heat and sets her heart fluttering—when the hellhound genes Kyan carries in his veins are the same as the creatures she’s been running from?

Will the man who has stolen her heart, also take her life?

My Review

Topaz gets a cryptic warning from her sister that she thinks she might be in danger. So Topaz strengthens the wards around her home. So when a man collapses in her yard, she's not sure whether to leave him there or to bring him inside and help him. Being the nice person she is, she decides to bring him inside but since he's so big she has to use a little witchy magic to help get him inside. Once she helps him and he wakes up, she sure is glad she helped the very large hottie who was sent by a shifter pack to help her. But since shifters and witches don't usually get along, she's curious why the pack would want to help her and why. This question isn't answered until later and it sure was a good reason and gave us some insight into her and her family. 

Kyan is sent by his alpha to make sure Topaz is safe from the demon who is hunting her. But when the demon unleashes hellhounds on them, Kyan is able to fight them without even shifting into his animal form. Topaz can't figure out what kind of shifter he is and he's not telling her...yet. He doesn't want to scare her away and wants her to trust him so telling her that he's also a hellhound is probably not the thing to do right away. But we all know the truth will come out at some point and most people are going to be more mad about being lied to even if it's by omission. 

As secrets come to light, old debts are paid and the sisters come together to fight the demon, Kyan and Topaz are also fighting their growing feelings for each other. I loved Kyan's pack and am looking forward to getting to know more of them. 

This was an adrenaline rush from the very beginning of the book, right to the end. I had so much fun reading this book and am looking forward to reading more of this series now. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Book Review: Craze by Sedona Venez

 

Book Description

When Misty is abducted from Earth by terrifying beastly-looking aliens, she’s ready to fight for her life. But when the spaceship crash lands on an alien planet, and she’s rescued by Craze, a sexy alien warrior prince, she doesn't know what to think.

When Craze rescues her, he doesn’t expect to find his fated mate Misty, with her lush curves and tempting body. Now all he can think about is claiming all of her…soul, heart, and body…for his very own. And he will stop at nothing to claim her.

Craze demands the right to take her under his protection. But all Misty wants is a way to get back to earth and the life she was taken from. And there is no way in hell that she’d fall for the sexy, overbearing alien warrior prince, who is determined to make her his own…

My Review

Misty is abducted by big, ugly aliens. She finds out that they plan to sell her and the other females aboard the ship to slavers. She knows she has to get off the ship but she has no idea how. Then Craze, another alien from a different planet comes to her rescue and rescues her and the others from the ship. Because of the translator that the first aliens implanted in her neck, she's able to understand Craze. He's nice and isn't at all like the other aliens so she trusts him a bit. 

She's given asylum on his planet where Craze tells her he will make sure she is safe and taken care of. Because these two spend so much time together, they end up having feelings for each other and while intimate, Craze brands her as his mate which she isn't sure exactly how she feels about at first. But she really likes him and things seem to be going well until his planet is attacked by the first aliens that abducted Misty. After a bit of a fight, Craze and Misty board a small ship to try and salvage the alien equipment to remove the tracker the other aliens put in her neck but they are again attacked by another ship. This attacker though, comes to a shock to Craze, he wasn't expecting to be attacked by this person. 

They end up stranded on another alien planet where they meet the Mixims, a small, rodent-like creature who have psychic abilities. After scanning Misty's mind and coming to the conclusion that she will mean them no harm, the little creatures make themselves known and communicate with both her and Craze. The implanted translator helped with this so it's a good thing she had it. I have to say that the Mixims were probably one of the best parts of this book, I loved the small furry creatures. If you know me, I'm sure you are so shocked by this, right? *Sarcasm*

The Mixims are technologically advanced and are able to help Misty and Craze get back to his planet so they can deal with the betrayal that left them stranded on the planet in the first place. 

This was such a fun read and the cast of characters were so interesting. Craze and Misty really made for a great couple. I had such a good time with this read. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

Discliamer: I received this book for free from the authors website after signing up for her mailing list. 

Goodreads

Happy Raturday!

 

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

Apartment Life #284

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 25 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 25 years here in a weekly blog post.  

There have been so many military helicopters flying around lately but this one in particular was flying in circles about 2 streets from me for a while one morning. 

I think it's a Blackhawk helicopter but I'm not completely sure. I'm used to seeing them fly by but when this one started flying in circles a couple of streets over, I took a picture.

The cars were in the way when the police showed up and arrested a methhead who was yelling at someone down the street. But you can see the flashing lights from the police car. 

And I got a picture of the police car as it was leaving with the woman who was arrested.

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I heard my neighbors dog having a complete meltdown. I was getting ready to call the police because I thought she might be hitting her dog again. Then I saw 2 Animal Control officers dragging the dog *Chop* out with 2 catch poles. And yes, you might remember that this same neighbor called animal control to come get this same dog a few months ago because the dog growled at her. *eyeroll*

So she called them again! I have no idea what for this time. Hopefully Animal Control has better sense than to let the husband come get the dog two days later like he did the last time and bring him home again. Maybe the dog will find a better home. These people should be barred from having any animals. 

One of my other neighbors was outside yelling at the owner to at least come walk the dog to the truck so it wasn't having a meltdown but she didn't. Oh man, my other neighbor was mad that they called and had their dog taken away again.  She was outside telling anyone outside that the dogs owner is a piece of crap, on drugs and a b*tch. Oh she was mad. Not that I blame her, that was a messed up thing to do once, let alone twice.

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On Sunday I was busy trying to find an Emergency Veterinarian Hospital open but the one I found charged $350 just to be seen. So I waited until Monday to call Falcor's regular Vet but they didn't have an opening for 2 weeks. They referred me to a different veterinary animal hospital and they were able to get me in on Tuesday morning at 8AM. Turns out Falcor had an infected anal gland and they cleaned him up, flushed the wound and sent me home with antibiotics, pain meds, anti inflammatory meds and some cream.  He should be good and all healed in 2 weeks. 

The Veterinarian room. 

But that's why I didn't have time to put together Happy Raturday or My Favorite Song this week. I've been getting very little sleep because Falcor wakes up and needs cuddles or is just not comfortable. Sometimes he wakes up and and walks around bumping into things with the cone. 

Poor Falcor has to wear a cone for two weeks. 

I bought a footless pajama for Falcor so he could have some relief from the cone for a while. Well, he outsmarted me by finding a way to stick his head up through the leg hole and get at his wound. He outsmarted me. lol He's cute though.

The high this week was 98F/36C

The low this week was 73F/22C

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

Your First Mistake Was To Threaten Me..

 

My daughter's ex bf left this threatening comment on my Tiktok video before I blocked him and reported this comment for harassment.  I want to warn people not to buy dogs from this guy, he's bad news.  He wants to breed dogs and sell puppies. Dude shouldn't have involved me at all because now this screenshot is being blasted all over social media. He goes by these names on social media. bigaaron-babybluebullies, bigaaron_, babybluebullies and brothaaharon. And he also has a facebook page where he shows his crazy. 12TN Israelite News & Community

You don't get to threaten to kill my dog and think I'll do nothing about it. 

Update;

Since some of you have told me to call the police and make a report I googled what the law is about this and it said I could call animal control or the police to make a report since animal cruelty is against the law in every state. So I called animal control and he told me that I could make an incident report since I don't have this man's actual address or license plate number and the incident report would be on file in case anything escalated.

New Update: 

My daughter's ex made a fake account on Tiktok because I blocked all the ones I knew about and he wanted to spy on my account. He saw the post I made about him threatening to kill my dog and he got mad and made a post on his account. My daughter saw it and sent me a screen shot. He's mad I called him out but not surprisingly he cropped out the part where I said he threatened to kill my dog and just left the part where I told my neighbor who he was also harassing on Tiktok about his other account names. Down in small letters in the description is says, "How can you be old and petty." And yes, I reported his account for harassment and reported the comment for harassment. But they just deleted the comment and let him keep his account. 

New Update: 

My daughter's ex is still making trouble/drama. On Tiktok my daughter and I are friends with our elderly neighbor named Dorothy and she has also been having problems with my daughter ex, Aaron. So when Dorothy made a comment on my daughters Tiktok video, Aaron decided it was a good idea to say, " And yo old ass need to go lay tf down" to my elderly neighbor. This isn't the first time he's said something like this to her either but he deleted his other comment. Oh and he refuses to leave my daughter alone. He keeps messaging her on different apps and if she blocks him he makes fake accounts and message's her again. So she's just letting him send her messages and she's screen shotting all of them in case things escalate and she needs to get the police involved.

The day after Aaron left that nasty comment on her comment my neighbor made this on Tiktok. If you can't read what it says, it says, " This is the same guy that's up here at three or four times this is the same man that you banned for messing with me now he's still doing it. " 

Then at the bottom in the description it says, " Look and see who did you band for for this guy threaten it kills Mary dog this is the same guy tried to steal my car for real this is the same guy just called me some kind of old hag he have another page name Aaron you band the other one look and see who that you been"

Now I know what she wrote doesn't make a lot of sense but essentially, he was standing in front of her car one night and she thinks he was going to steal it and he's made other nasty remarks to her on Tiktok. He has a bunch of different accounts so if one gets banned, he has others to use to harass people.  

Here's a new update:

3 days ago from today 7/28/2023 My daughter's ex was contacting her trying to get her back and she noticed this post on his fb page. He has a bully (female) and his roommate has a male pitbull and his female had a puppy. he bought his dog for the sole purpose of having and selling puppies (backyard breeder) so when my daughter saw this post she asked him why he was giving away the puppy that he was going to sell for money. 

That's when he told her that his roommates dog bit the puppy and he didn't have money for a vet. She had no plans on getting back together with him but kept talking to him just long enough to get his new address so she could call Animal Control to go check on the puppy and make sure it was ok. Then she blocked him again. The thing is he just makes more fake accounts and messages her again. But once Animal Control went to his apartment, he wrote to her mad and he blocked her. So maybe he'll leave her alone now. 

Then on Friday 7/28/23 an Animal Control officer came to our apartment to get some more information from my daughter about the incident but didn't tell her the outcome of their visit to his apartment. But at least they are investigating it and hopefully the puppy is alright. So yeah, here's a warning not to buy your puppies from this guy. 

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/And one of his Tiktok accounts was banned. Hmm, I wonder how that happened?

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Update: 9/16/2023

A few weeks ago my daughter got back together with him. Gave him another chance. Yes, I know it was a mistake. And a couple of days ago they got into another argument and he came to my apartment, ripped up a plant we had growing in the garden, threatened to slap my daughter, threatened to throw a chair through our living room window, and took our chairs we had sitting by our door and threw them in the dumpster. We know it was him because our neighbor's video camera caught him on video doing it. It's a little hard to see but first he pulls up the plant and then he takes the chairs to the dumpster. He tried to lie about it until my daughter sent him the video. 

The plant/tree he uprooted out of our garden and left on the sidewalk. 

So my daughter broke up with him again and called the police to make a report. 

And since he did all this by our apartment and he brought this drama right to my door, I sent him a text. 

"Aaron,  

This is Mary,  Elizabeth's mom. 

I've tried to stay out of the drama between you and my daughter even though you've tried to pull me in a few times,  but now you've brought the drama right to my door by pulling up our plant and putting our chairs into the garbage can. This is considered destruction of private property. In the past you threatened to kill my dog and now you threatened to hit my daughter and break my apartment window. 

This text message serves as notice to not contact my daughter or myself ever again,  not to come to my door and not to touch anything that belongs to me or my daughter. Any further contact will be considered harassment and I will call the police to press charges. If anything happens to me,  my daughter,  my dog,  my apartment or my belongings,  yours is the first name I will give to the police because no one else has beef with us. This is the only warning you will get,  next time the police will be involved by me."

Hopefully this is the end of this but if not, I'll post more updates.

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: 

3 pouches of cat food. 

Erborian CC Water color Corrector. 

I gave the cat food to my neighbor who has a cat. 

I tried the Erborian color corrector under my eyes and it did work kinda like a concealer to hide dark circles. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Book Review: Cloudy with a Chance of Witchcraft by Mandy M Roth

 

Book Description

When it rains, it pours...and sometimes love finds you even when you can’t find yourself.

Fate has given me a second chance at the happiness I once knew in the odd Southern town of Grimm Cove. But only if I can come to terms with some rather eye-opening revelations. Supernaturals are a real thing. I'm a witch. My high school sweetheart, who happens to be the Chief of Police in Grimm Cove, is my fated mate and a wolf-shifter. Ghosts exist and can be very nosy and meddlesome. Someone is murdering witches left and right. And last but not least, my ex-husband's barely legal arm candy is taking fatal attraction to new levels of Hell.

I'm no shrinking violet, and with the help of my best friends, I'm going to live life on my terms--come Hell, high water, or magikal mishaps.

My Review

Poppy gets the shock of her life when her husband of 20 years tells her he wants a divorce and he's already moving on with his much younger girlfriend. After she gets over that shock and finally settles the divorce, she moves to Grimm Cove where her grandparents had left her a house. 

Brett is a wolf shifter, he was Poppy's first love but he broke her heart and to make matter worse he wrote her a letter telling her he never wanted to see her again. So she moved on with her now ex husband. But Brett never stopped looking out for her. 

When Poppy has a small accident on her way into Grimm Cove, the first person she runs into is Brett but she can barely believe that this muscular hunk is her first love. He is shocked that she is divorced and moving back into her grandparents house and because he wants to make sure he doesn't mess up a second chance with her, he let's her know he didn't mean anything that he said in the letter he wrote her all those years ago. He can't explain more right away because telling her that he's a wolf shifter might be a little much right away. 

Poppy enlisted the help of her two best friends who just happen to be a little more than they appear to be as well. But the entire town of Grimm Cove is pretty much some kind of Supernatural and she fits right in as she finds out she's a witch. We can't forget the ghosts that also make themselves know along the way. That was fun.

When weird things start happening and she has to start believing in magic and supernaturals, things start to make more sense to her. But there's more shocking news from her now ex husband when he calls to warn her about danger she might be in. It was so sweet to watch Brett and Poppy get to know each other again, fall for each other and finally have all the secrets between them come out. 

Poppy's friends are great so it was fun watching them interact with some of Brett's friends. I see more relationships forming in the future. This book ended pretty fast with everything wrapping up within a few pages at the end but the story was great. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Book Review: The Billionaire Shifter's Curvy Match by Diana Seere

 

Book Description

When Lilah Murphy started serving drinks at the exclusive Platinum Club, she never expected she would be on the menu.

Biotech billionaire Gavin Stanton had one taste of the new, curvy server and his craving could never be satisfied until he had her fully. Completely.

Eternally.

Fate brought them together, but a centuries-old secret could tear them apart, for the Stanton family holds a shifter legacy that no human has ever threatened.

Until now.

Gavin Stanton is the billionaire CEO of a Boston biotech firm. He’s also a werewolf, the son of a large, ancient family with roots in the British aristocracy. His work is his life. But then he feels the Beat—an irresistible urge to mate with Lilah, a beautiful human who inflames his passions like no other—and he abandons everything he thought he knew in his need to claim her.

Lilah Murphy is broke and desperate. All she wants is a job to support herself, her sister, and her ailing mother. The last thing she needs is to get involved with a rich, powerful guy who would discard her after a few hot nights together and get her fired at her new, high-paying job. But she, too, feels the Beat. She hears him in her mind, feels him in her soul, and the urge to answer the ancient call is undeniable. Is she strong enough to embrace his secrets—and her own?

The Billionaire Shifter’s Curvy Match is the first in an all-new series of hot (did we mention *hot*?) romances about the billionaire shifters and the women they’re fated to love.

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Welcome to the most exclusive club in the world. The Novo Club. Novo is Latin for “change.” Our members prefer the word “shift” though.

It’s the hottest club in town.

The price of membership is your heart and your secrecy.

All you need to do to join is to be loved beyond your wildest imagination by someone powerful with an…alpha side so primal it’s in their blood.

Are you ready?

Good. Then let’s begin.

The Billionaire Shifters Club is a new series featuring the five Stanton siblings, four brothers and one sister who are all part of an ancient shifter family living in modern America. The subterranean club-within-a-club beneath the streets of Boston, Massachusetts holds secrets only the Stantons and their fellow shifters know.

My Review

Lilah is trying to take care of her sister but they don't have much, then she loses her job. The bills are piling up and she's not sure what they're going to do. That's when she gets a call from someone offering her a job that pays more than she can believe. Of course she's skeptical but she goes in for an interview and gets the job being a server in an exclusive club. 

Lilah meets Gavin at the club after a short introduction on the street and he can barely control himself because he knows she's his mate but he can hardly believe it. Gavin really needed to slow down and get to know her before getting intimate with her and overwhelming her the way he did. I know this is a fated mates story and she was definitely feeling some of the same things he was but it seemed like things were moving too fast for the relationship they had. 

The fact that he doesn't tell her that he's a wolf shifter for such a long time and his brother, the alpha thinks he's making a mistake trying to have a human as a mate only makes things more complicated. The first half of the book was a little slow but the second half of the book was better plus there's a big twist towards the end that I'm glad I stuck around for. 

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Favorite Picture of the Week

 

Near where I take Falcor for a walk there is this fence and this little patch of grass next to it. Every year this grass grows really tall and Falcor loves to come over here and stick his head down in it and sniff around. I don't know why, he's a goofy dog. 

So we usually come over here so he can stick his head down in the grass and sniff it. lol 

Apartment Life #283

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 25 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 25 years here in a weekly blog post.  

This week I noticed that Antwon, Mike and some of the other crackheads in the neighborhood had a camper that they parked across the street. I took these pictures from my bedroom window so you can see it's across the street and around the corner a little bit. 

Mike and Antwon setting up a portable generator for the camper. Now the reason I started taking pictures is because I figured either they were going to sell drugs from the camper or the camper was stolen. In which case they would move the camper in a few days so the police didn't come and ask any questions about why it's parked there. 

After they set up the portable generator, I saw that Antwon, Mike and a couple of other crackheads were staying there and cars were pulling up and they would do drug deals right there on the street. 

The old guy in the motorized wheelchair bought something from Antwon in the white shirt. The guy on the bicycle bought something as well. I watched both of them come back several times a day for a few days. 

The lady in pink is a homeless druggie and she would go over to the camper around 5 times a day, stay for a few seconds and leave. I watched her and Antwon do a drug deal right on the sidewalk in front of the camper a few times. 

Just as I thought he would, they moved the camper on the 6th day it had been parked there to right around the corner and a little ways down the street. They are still selling drugs from the camper. So many cars pull up to the camper and Antwon will come out give them something and they will leave. I'm just waiting to see if the police stop by the camper at all before they move it again. 

Then 5 days later they moved the camper again but I don't know where to. 

The high this week was 99F/37C

The low this week was 69F/20C

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

 

Disturbed - Don’t Tell Me (featuring Ann Wilson) [Official Audio]

You all already know how much I love Disturbed and I think I shared this song before but I just had to share it again because it's just that good. This song features Ann Wilson from the band Heart. She has a powerful voice. Now that is a great combination and their voices sync together so well, it's a beautiful 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.

What freebies did I receive this week?

I received Mighty Patch under eye patches and Bright Eyes illuminating eye cream from Hero Skin Squad. If you sign up for an account, you might be able to receive some freebies from them as well. 

I also received samples of True Match foundation. 

I like the True Match foundation, but the samples are really small. 

The Mighty Patch hydrogels felt good under my eyes. I'm not sure they did anything for the puffiness under my eyes but I'll keep trying them. 

I do like the Bright Eyes illuminating eye cream. It's supposed to hide the dark circles under your eyes and make you look less tired and I think it did help with that. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Book Review: Claiming Emma by Leeah Taylor

 

Book Description

Pretending to be human is easy until the past comes back to bite…

I am on top of the world. I have my dream job. I have the gorgeous high-rise apartment I always wanted. It’s everything Savage Mountain couldn’t offer me if I’d stayed after high school.

All my dreams are coming true—until my exes show up out of nowhere and wreck through my life. Now I’m at risk of losing the efforts of my hard work, all because of Zeke and Grayson.

Newsflash for them—I’m not the sweet, demure girl they remember. I’ve grown into my fangs and claws and I’ll take them down, leaving my mark behind, just like they did to me.

There’s just one problem— I have no idea if I can fight the mate bond awakened in me to do what needs to be done.

What if I’m not strong enough to resist and buckle under the rabid desire?

Claiming Emma is a standalone in the Corporate Shifters Series. It’s a spicy MMF fated mates shifter romance featuring a sassy, independent heroine, a dominant cinnamon roll, and a broody alpha male.

My Review

Emma left Zeke and Grayson 9 years earlier and broke their hearts. They know she's their mate but she didn't want to have to pick one and break up the friends, even though they never asked her to pick one of them. I don't think she knew she could pick both of them at the time. Now, years later, Zeke and Grayson are a mated pair and Zeke still hasn't forgiven her for leaving them to make a name for herself in the human world. All three of them are shifters and they think she belongs with them. So Zeke makes a plan to go ruffle her feathers and maybe get a little revenge. But when she spots them, she does something they didn't see coming, she invites them both back to her apartment for the night. And for Zeke all thoughts of revenge go out the window. I think they thought that if they can get her to agree to be with them, they'll be able to talk her into coming back to them but that doesn't happen. 

She has feelings for them but she let's them know she isn't going to come back home with them because she likes her life. Well, when things in her life take a total upside down spin she is given a ultimatum by her alpha. So she ends up staying with them for a few weeks to see if they can salvage their relationship but of course there are people that don't want that to happen and throw curve balls in the way putting them all in danger. 

I don't want to give too much away because there are things that happen during the story that you should read for yourself, because the twists in this story are things that the reader should experience for themselves to make it more interesting. I will say that I was pulling for them and really liked this book, a lot. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

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