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2011-07-07T09:41:00.002-07:00

new digital layouts using Jen Martkis new kit from two peas in a bucket and her creative team.

She has been gracious enough to allow me to be a guest designer on the kit.

Magic in the Shadows by Devon Monk

2011-07-07T09:36:00.004-07:00

Allie Beckstorm is back with her love of her life Zayvion Jones to back her up. This time instead of drug lords, and her father to battle its fractions of the Authority too!

Here is my favorite part:

p.118

He frowned. "When magic is involved, there is never a happily ever after."

p.145 Have I mentioned I have always sucked at all the b****** backstabbing games women play?

totally relate to this piece of line in the story. I have lost jobs and friendships because I don't play any type of politics

Eat Prey Love by Kerrelyn Sparks

2011-07-07T09:21:00.004-07:00

Carlos Panterra a werepanther from "All I Want For Christmas is a Vampire" is back. This time its his turn to get shot with cupids arrow. Though the lady for his heart is Caitlyn Whelan, the daughter of Sean Whelan the good vampires second enemy to the Malcontents. Caitlyn Whelan too is confused and dazed by the feelings she has for Carlos. When they both feel it won't work out. He is search for a werepanther mate that can produce more werepanthers. She normally picks the straight and narrow type of guy.

Needless to say, until the last possible second, they both deny it.

This is the last book of Kerrelyn Sparks "Love at Stake" series that I have heard of and not read. I am left wondering how Sean Whelan and his wife will cope with him being a vampire from another "love at stakes" book (oops sorry a spoiler) I normally don't do that. When will Gregory get his cupid arrow shot at him? Phineas is left out in the cold or is just the mojo behind all the love taking place? What about the weretiger? Is he brought into the team as well? Does he finally have his love find him?

What about the two bad guys that escaped? Master Hun and the Corky from the VPN reporter. If you have read all the books you know what I am talking about. The main

My favorite part(s) are listed below:

p239 A conversation between a village leader and caitlyn

"There's one more thing I need to tell you. Carlos and I are pretending to be married."

Ajay's brows shot up. "Pretending?"

She felt her face grow warm. "It's ....complicated."

"Of course it is. When you start deceiving people, it alwasy gets complicated." He shook a finger at her. "It's like I always tell the children, once you start lying, it always comes back to bit in the butt."

My new jelewry

2011-07-01T03:36:00.013-07:00

Anyone that has known my family for awhile. And, awhile I'm YEARS, will tell you I don't wear a lot of jewelry but I do have a few requests that I make to get some. The first request was a cross necklace. I am spiritual person by nature. So, my first offical christmas/birthday with my husband his parents gave me this beautiful silver cross with victorian/irish design and purple stone revisible side. I rarely take it off. I don't care if it costume.

I learned a long time ago that your marriage and other relationships are not based on material things but the respect love and a balance between you and the other person.

I gave up a lot to have that including jewelry that was a gift.

Now, that my kids are older, I am looking for some jewelry. Unfortunately, I don't spend a lot of money on it. I don't have a lot to spend on it and I loose it or break it. Seriously, I do. The original text of this message was not saved properly and is lost to the cyber matrix so you are getting the editted version. Do I get a amen from the choir?

So, tonight we are doing some window shopping . We are walking by claires. My Dh notices a sign that says, 10 for $10 sales on specially marked items. Since I need earrings another family member is like me always loosing earrings. My Dh says, that I can get four items off the sale, and they each can get three items off the sale. Yeah? Boo? It's a yeah moment.

The other two get three necklaces, and three earring sets.

Me..see pictures above...blogger won't let move the items around like I want.

Okay first picture is of four ring set one with love carved into it, the second is a three piece earring set a little fancy but hey i'm a girl what can I say, the third is a nine piece earring set for everyday use..yup nothing fancy, and the last image is of a flower ring similar to a ring I had years ago.

Thanks Dh for a nice night out.

Vampire Mine by kerrelyn sparks

2011-06-25T14:57:00.003-07:00

Love the cover. I love the fact we finally get to see what Connor has been hiding and why he has been so dead against other's happiness.

Transition

2011-06-23T08:29:00.002-07:00

is not just a word but an actual movement that is happening in the world right now. Meaning many families are stuck in transition right now until the economy straightens out and turns around world wide.

My family is included in this. After three years, a relocation to an area of the country we thought would be good for our family. It turns out, that a the job he took isn't good for his health in all areas, the enviroment for the family is great for allergies, miserable for the making friends and connecting with the community, and most of all spiritual. The churches near us aren't what we expected. One of them, I literarily ran out of at the end of the service told my husband if he ever took us back to that church again where the devil ran rampt I would divorce him.

Now, my husband is looking for a new job, I am stuck not finding a new one because I lost mine I just got. I don't do politics never did and never will. If you tell me you want me to do something then I do it, if that is not what You wanted you should have never presented in such a manner. Now, I may never find a job that works with my kids schedule here.

My husband is finally connecting more using social media that he swore he would never use. Thank goodness since most of the people we know use it frequently.

We are now looking at relocating again either within the state we currently reside in or across country. I pray that it is closer to his family, for his sake. Yes, we have family here but it is not like we see them as often once we relocated to a different community area.

Annette Blair's new book, Vampire Dragon

2011-06-02T14:40:00.004-07:00

is my newest book being read!! Makes my summer even more smokin' hot. Love the cover and the tatoo on the model!!!

Extreme Couponing

2011-06-01T05:56:00.003-07:00

Thanks to the TLC, my family and I have started couponing again. Extreme style. It is not just time consuming. It is a way of life. Thank goodness my children are old enough to understand that coupons are basically money in our hand we don't have to pay on groceries and other products. Seriously, folks it worth the trouble. My only hang up is the drinks. I want to know where these people are getting free powerade, flavored water, etc for free. That is something we use a lot thanks to sports, and living in the desert. It is hot.

Memorial day Weekend Puke and Pizza

2011-05-29T06:21:00.004-07:00

First off, I am not dead not in the hospital. I have been way over stressed out in the last month and half.

It has been super crazy from soccer games, to troubles at the school with my kids, to multiple teacher/parent confrences, a survival plan for my kids until the end of the year, extreme couponing strageties put to use, and getting more product into the shop to sell.

Did I mention the crazy work schedule I have to maintain to help DH get to and from work again. Oh, yes meaning I had to stay up late to get him out the door on time, get little sleep as possible for myself, still get the kids to their activities, work at my job with other peoples' kids, and do all the mundane stuff a stay at home parent has to do to have a functing household.

Yikes, that would make most people runaway and start life over again right?

Nope, not me! I tackle it like the leader of the greek move 300. Going down until it kills me right. NOPE!

I have no instituted massive chores for my kids to do, I holler orders at my DH for help when I get overwhelmed, and refuse to do things when I know I am to exhaugsted to do them.

I am re-establishing contact with friends that we have not seen in months, and repair damage to our family's self-confidence due to some serious bullying problems that did come out until the end of the year, and trying not to sweat the small stuff as the book puts it so nicely. Not an easy task to do.

My Dh tried to do something nice for us. A short trip up to the Prescott metro area. On the way, there one of my kids puked all over my nice new van. You know the one I posted a year and half ago. Oh, yes that nice new van. He deseperately searched and found a car wash with a high water pressure house to scrub clean the puked on matts, and outside of the van. He even vaccumed my said van out removing in missed puked piles from removing nasty matts. Yes, we missed a spot. Then it was off to get new set of pants for my poor kiddo who lost the entire breakfast treat. Then off to find a friend/co-workers car show in the middle of B.F.E. Guess who didn't bring the GPS for added assistance, already frustrated and fuming DH. We finally found said car show. Had fun, with more than even comments of my stomach hurts and I need drink from the peanut gallery. We left to go eat at Bill's Pizza Place on the square. No close parking places to be able to stay and eat. All parking availabale indicate a 30 minute walk with all grumpy family members. My DH turned the puke van around, stopped at two stores not finding what we needed. We headed back down the mountain home. We did finally stop for pizza an hour later at Streets of New York! Yummy. By that time, all was better expect for the smell in my van. Arizona heat and puke smell do not go hand in hand. We stopped for some special vechile cleaner. I got to scrub the carpets under the matts, the seats, doors to remove any remaining missed dried puke and did I forget to mention the LaLa Yogart Smoothie that the kids sprayed all over the back of the van. No, rule no drinks but water allowed in Mommy's van! I know I am so mean! Proud to be it. They are not having to clean up the crap. I am. I have to make my honda last at least 10 years folks. so, excuse me I don't want it destroyed in two the entire that is.

No back to this weekend. Once we got home from our little trip. My dh was complaining about our struggle to coupon and use extreme coupon strageties. Well, one look in the freezer and cabinets just about shut him up. He couldn't beleive the deals we got. He played video games, the kids watched movies, and I worked on the newest line for the store. Educational pdf files for boosting reading comprehension and writing skills.

I am sick of paying for over priced items that in general only cover parts of what my kids need to hold their skills up over the summer. My kids don't like a lot of the material they find it boring. So, I am getting creative with kids. You my followers benefit by me posting affordable pdf files for you to download for a small fee at the www.artfire.com/users/beautifulswagstore site. It's not there yet. Waiting for approval of several teachers that I know to check for mistakes. All I ask is that since its a low price, please promote it on your twitter, facebook, and blog, so, others can get it too. If there is so book, you need done let me know. I will love to do it.

Extreme couponing is great but it has to be a family lifestyle. Seriously, even my kids are telling their dad to stop complaining and help. Help as in do the research for the sales, print out the list of what is on sale and we will match the items to our coupon stash. No shame in saving money. Will he do it? Hell NO!! We are not embrassed to say we coupon. Heck some of our summer outtings are pre-shopping trips to double check regular prices and sale prices before actual shopping. Let start a seperate post about this because there are somethings I need to say about it.

So. its Sunday Morning I have been awake since 5:30 am with a sinus headache. I have caught all the blogs up and will be starting the twitter stuff for the store.

On a serious note:

THANK YOU TO ALL THE SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN that serve our country. To their families we can't do it without your sacrifice. Thank you!

Awakened by P.C. Cast & Kristen Cast

2011-05-20T09:34:00.004-07:00

Picture from Amazon.com. Zoey has put together her soul and saved her warrior from the otherworld. Now, she has to face the real world and how to get good and evil back in the right balance again.

Here are some of my favorite parts of the story. I have quoted them from the pages.

p. 17

Sgiach laughed. "Science often feels more mysterious than magick, or at least I have always thought so."

p.25

"Not because of you,Z. I've been hurt because that's what Darkness does,-it tries to destroy those of us who fight for Light."

p.101

"Darkness is territorial, possessive. Once it's had a piece of you, it doesn't like to let go."

"Darkness doesn't have any choice if you choose the path of the Goddess, and you have. It can't beat Light."

"But I'm not sure Light can ever really beat Darkness, either. There's a balance to things, Z.

p. 137

"You know what, Erik? All I'm gonna say to you is this: Evil wins when good folks do nothing," Stevie Ray said.

p.158

"Because there is no old magick left here!" Sgiach said, almost shouting in frustration.

"Out there inthe aht world of yours, the mystical, wonderful magick of old, where the black bull was revered along with the Goddess, where the balance of male and female was respected, and where event the rocks and trees had souls, had names, has been destroyed by civilization and intolerance, and forgetfulness. People today, vampyres and humans alike, believe the earth is just a dead thing that they live on-that is somehow wrong or evil or barbaric to listen to the voices of the souls of the world, and sothe heart and the nobility of an entire way of life dried up and withered away..."

p.159

"Aye, remembers a time when honor meant more than self, and loyalty wasnae an option or an after thought," Seoras said solemnly.

p.183

It's a friend's job to love you , too, if they're real friends." Mama Johnson paused...

p201

"I don't think High Preistessess are supposed to make mistakes."

"Of course they are. How else would they learn and grow? "

"It is wise woman who recognizes that." "It is one of the key differences between you and your mother."

P. 218

Do Not forget this feeling, the Goddess's voice sang through my mind. A tru High Priestess is humble as well as proud, and never forgets the responsibility that being a leader entails.

p248

My son, there is no need to get over Jack. Remember him, and rejoice in the brief, beautiful love you shared. Choosing to do so does not mean forgetting or getting over, it means healing.

p257

Zoey said, "Sometimes nothing and your friends equals a whole lot of something."

p276

Under normal circumstances that is the way of things. But the world today is not normal, nor are our circumstances.

p279

"magick of the oldest kind. it is rarely present in the modern world; it does not suffer civilization well."

p285

What was the old saying? If it has tires or testicles, its gonna give you problems.

River Marked by Patricia Briggs

2011-05-05T13:49:00.004-07:00

Finally, Mercy and Adam get hitched whither by their planning or family's planning. Their honeymoon was suppose to be naturally blissful but the fae have other plan unknown to them. The newly married "Hauptman" couple have to have their honeymoon cut short.

Quotes from the book

p. 16

"Not at all," he disagreed , though I've heard him call me both rash and stupid as well as munber of unflatterin things. "Your ability to survive anything that gets thrown at you sometimes leaves the rest of us swallowing ulcer medication for days afterward. I don't like the taste of Maalox."

p.25

"It's a new trend, Mercy, he said. "Right up your alley because it's supposed to be based on an Indian legend. The story is that if you catch a butterfly and whisper your wish to it, then let it go, that the butterfly will take your request to the Great Spirit. Since you released the butterfly, when you could have killed or capture it, the Great Spirit will be inclined to view your request favorably."

"I am doomed," I told the pillow. "Doomed to butterflies and balloons." "At least it isn't pigeons,"observed Warren practically.

p.49

Mating is a lot more permanent than marriage. Partly, I think it's that usually if you find your mate, he's not going to be someone you need to divorce. Abuse is almost not possible whe tow people are connected by a mating bond, and it gives you insight into your mate that allows you to avoid the nastier fights that a snowball into cold distance. And partly it is the magic is some what harder to deal with than legal paperwoark, and the mating bond is pack magic.

p.50

"And if your ex-wife or any moderately attractive woman from thirteen to seventy is in the area, you should be aware that there is no reason good enough for you to take off your ring."

p. 51

" I thought that if you're feeling primitive about this, it is only fair to let you know that i'm feeling primitive, too," I informed him lightly.

P.52

That dog tag meant more to him than the ring did-and so it meant more to me, too. I noticed that the chain looked to be tough enough that I could wear it when running as a coyote, too.

p.70

My Whole life I'd been an outsider: first a coyote raise in a pack of werewolves, then a supernatural outsider in my mother's mundane household, finally an outsider who had too many secrets to really have friends. I was good at appearing to fit in, so no one really took notice of me.

p. 166

I hadn't ridden in the back of a pick up truck since I was a kid, and it was still fun. I jumped out before he stopped, just to see if I still could. I landed on my feet but let the moment roll me backward and carry me back to my feet again. It was a matter of timing. My foster father had taught me how to do that after he caught me trying to imiate him.

"Teaching her how to do it right, so, she doesn't break her fool neck," he growled, while my foster mother, Evelyn fussed, "is likely to be less fatal than forbidding her to do, because tha doesn't work at all."

p.188

"I'll try to make sure that you always feel that way. My mother use to threaten to shoot my father."

He could barely stand up, and he was making jokes.

I nipped his shoulder. "I can see why she might feel the urge. Tell you what. If you make me mad enough to aim a gun at you--I'll aim for right between your eyes."

"So I won't feel it?", he asked.

I nipped him again, but gently, just a scrape of my teeth. "No. So the bullet ill just bounce off your hard head."

He laughed. "Bird of a feather, Mercy."

p. 239

"I like this man, your husband," he told me. Maybe it was an explanation. "He would have attacked me for putting you in danger--even though the wolf knew exactly what I was. And yet, when you asked him to have patience, he did. It is proper that men listen to the counsel of women."

"Like you listen to your sisters?" I said, as the wolf put his nose just under my ear. I tilted my head to give him my throat. Sharp teeth brushed against my skin, and I shivered.

"Wise women," Coyote agreed. "But sometimes pushy and easy to rile. I think they need to develop a sense of fun. They do not agree with me, so maybe they are not so wise at all that, eh?"

p 266-267

"Why should He?" Coyote asked. "All that is mortal dies. Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death."

"I like my God better than I like yours," I told him.

"Don't you know, child? He is one and the same." Coyote watched the river devil wait for my response. "The Great Spirit has given us our wits and courage. He sends helpers and counsel. He sent me to you, didn't he? I talked to my sisters tonight. It was a good thing."

p269

I had made the right decision, the only decision. But that didn't make it any easier to live with the deaths of four people I could have saved. I fed Adam, and when he grunted at me, I fed myself too. I had to keep my strength up. If four people had died to give me chance to help kill the river devil, it wouldn't do to fail because I hadn't eatten.

p308

"She does stuff stuff likethis all the time?" asked Calvin, looking at Adam with respect.

Adam lifted his head, and his eyes yellow again--but his voice was only a little rough. "To be fair, it's usually not her fault. She doesn't start things."

"But it looks like she finishes them," said the woman holding Benny's hand.

p 320

I patted his shoulder. "I hate being dependent, too. It sucks."

He gave me a rueful laugh. "We do seem to be in th same boat, no?"

I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it. Now, why don't you twll me of your adventures? I've heard quite a bit from Warren, of course, but I prefer to get the story from the source whenever possible."

It's march already

2011-03-03T05:11:00.002-07:00

Wow 2011 is literarly flying by us at nascar speed. I can't believe it. My anniversy will be here in less than a week and a half or less than that..

gheez, somebody make sure I don't lose track of time

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2011-02-24T07:38:00.001-07:00

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Meltdowns

2011-02-23T10:01:00.001-07:00

Melt downs are a privilege to those that serve as the stay at home partner or the partner that only works part-time but deals with the rest of the crap every day. Thus, this person is entitled to their fair share of melts of voicing their needs, wants, and being listened too.

The other partner should listen, think, and act accordingly to help the said partnes having melt downs to correct what is causing the melt downs.

I know I am currently in melt down mode. At least my partner is responding to the point, I am not as upset as I was.

The Harlequinn by Laurell K. Hamilton

2011-02-23T09:10:00.003-07:00

OMG..Laurell does it again. This book is great. Look at the quotes I have posted from the book. Laurell, I would love to meet you personally because girl you hit the nail on the head with your writting. Trying to figure bits and pieces out about yourself then Laurell K. Hamilton does for you with her character Anita Blake.

Background: Anita and Jean-Claude master vampire have been stirring the bucket of politics withing several different groups. The most powerful the vampire council. In doing so, the harlequin have been sent to supposedly observe not destroy, however, in most political observation some jump the "gun" to the destroyed department. For more down load of the book, read it yourself.

p.27
Riddle me this: Why is it that there is mever a line for the men's room, but the women's always seems to have one? I did my bit in line and then finally got into the stall. At least it was clean.

Okay, this happens not just at the movie theatre but all events. Why is it that only the women's restroom has an ungodly line to go to the bathroom.

p37
"You hate most in others what you don't like in yourself."

Hmm-I wonder if we all looked in the mirror and said do I really hate myself for that trait quality what would we do to change that..

p56
Sometimes "practical" and "ruthless" wer just different words for the same thing.

Another hmm moment, so, how practical or ruthless are we in our lives?

p60
I'd tried to be his friend, but somehow the sex had ruined that. I think without sex we could have been friends, but with it...with it we neither friends, nor boyfriend ro girlfriend. We were lovers but... I had no words for what was wrong between us but I could feel it, like an old ache in a wound you thought had healed.

Hello! How can you not stop in your life to say, I feel the same way about my relationship is going. Though the other person may not see it.The other person is probably sticking their head in the sand and ignoring the fact. Its easy to ignore than deal with it.

p65
" I spent centuries being given to masters that didn't give a damn what I wanted or needed. You love Nathenield and he loves you, but eventually, needs left unanswered can curdle love like milk left to spoil in the sun."

You have to ask to have your needs meet in a relationship. If you haven't spoken what you need then your partner can't help. If you have spoken your needs, and your partner doesn't try at all to meet your needs then it maybe time for counseling or to restate what your needs and they aren't being meet. Something I discovering, to be my own advocate in my relationship.

p108

"I'm tired of running from myself."

I wasn't sure that answered the question, but Richard seemed to think it did, and I felt Micah not behind me. "Stop running"

So, simply stated but so hard to do when its ourselves we are running from.

p124
The smile slipped away from her face, and I saw something I hadn't expected for a moment: fear.

I see this often in the eyes of those around. I don't know how to make the fear go away from them. Its not fear of me but of other things in their lives. I know they must face it one day.

She leaned over to take my hand, saying, "In this world I would rather live two days like a tiger than a hunderd years like a sheep."

I think this talking about fear. I do believe that when we let fear rule our lives we are sheep. If we face it like a tiger then fear doesn't rule our lives.

p142
He'd always be bound to use in a triumvirate of power, but we'd be broken up. It would be like being trapped in a relationship with someone you'd divorced but could never completely get rid of. A little slice of hell, that.

If that ain't the truth, then what is. This perfectly describes how a couple that divorces and has kids between feel about each. They are still in hell if they choose to make hell.

p195
Though to him, sometimes seduction was business, but not this morning.

I have known people, "business" people that were like this.

But the coffee was good. I sipped it black, because the first cup should always be black. It's the morning slap in the face that lets you know you're awake.

I can't drink coffee black. Sorry but it is too bitter for me. Though, I totally get the slap in the face its morning.

p199
"Its the lady's privilege to keep a man waiting."

To all spouses of that get upset that their spouses take too long getting ready. Remember this line and this line only. Its our privilege to keep you waiting. You should learn patiences.

p208
"I'm treating this the way i treat an emergancy in th middle of a police investigation, Richard. You don't get too hung up on the horrible details or you stop being able to function. You keep moving forward, because you have to."

For those that don't react loosing their cool in situation after situation then this is what applies to them. I know often I don't over react as some would. I am called weird or strange. I have to keep going. For if I don't, who will keep the torch burning.

p318
"What I meant was the loving people changes you. It's changed me, too. I'm softer in some ways, harder in others. I haven't compromised myself as much as you."

Anybody home? This is normal reaction in a relationship.

p337
"A lady always makes a man want to be better than he is. "

"Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for feat that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment."

Hello, for all the men or those in the man position of a relationship, read, listen, and think. It's that special person in your life that makes you better.

p383
I offerred gentleness. I offerred love. If I hadn't tasted Malcolm's power only moments before, maybe, I couldn't have done it, but his intent was so pure, so unselfish, that it was like the ardeur had learned a new flavore, I offerred that flavor to them. I offerred them a choice. I gave them cool water and safety.

She should have remembered that people have gieven everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it.

Anyone ever else wonder this but can't find the answer. Here it is..think on it.

Chore Bucks and chore Charts

2011-02-17T06:21:00.003-07:00

Okay if you are like me, you try to raise your kids to be responsible and trustworthy, get them ready for what having a job is going to be like by having chores, including an allowance which another term for paycheck.

Though with tough economic times, its hard to always have cash on hand to pay said allowance. So, this is a solution that is awesome. Pretend chore bucks, I have a downloadable file I can email to you if you are interested in trying it in your home. Instead of handing out cash on a weekly you had out the chore bucks. They have the right to keep it to have cash paid later, turn it in for a 2 litter of soda of their choosing, a box of movie candy at the local store, or a redbox movie. If they save it and get cash, then they must have a percentage paid to a savings account, a percentage to charity, and a percentage to their wallets for spending. A rule of thumb is 10% for said doing. I also have started saying you want that name brand item save your chore bucks. Seriously, it has helped curved the I wannas in my house.

I have sparked your interest. email meanmomdigitalproductions@gmail.com you will receive an email back with a chore chart and chore bucks that will be in jpg form.

Lesson Learned

2011-02-15T18:59:00.002-07:00

My kids have been told don't feed the puppy table food. This is something pretty regularly repeated like a broken record. Well, apparently the puppy got a hold of some doritos today. Wonder how? Uh hum..

Well, dear puppy puked them back up.

They now know for sure no table food for puppy.

Quick question if the chips make the dog sick...how much damage are we doing to our bodies by eatting to many chips?

Puppy..Puppy Puppy

2011-02-11T09:34:00.002-07:00

Our house has puppy love. We love our new puppy. She is now up to 2.80 lbs from the time Santa brought her to our house in December 2010.

Our lives now revolved around the puppy. Its so much fun. Check out her picture. How can you not love this little one.

We do!

Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris

2011-02-11T09:30:00.004-07:00

This book totally took me by surprise. I wasn't expecting the ending, nor the events that took place throughout the book. The tv series is combining alot of different parts from several different books. If you haven't read the series yet, then you won't know what I am talking. Am I putting the True Blood Series down? Nope, I really do enjoy the show very much. Needless to say, I am looking for to season 4 of the show, and to the next book.

Fae Wars, Vampire take over, true love conflict and much more..

Incubus Dreams by Laurell K. Hamilton

2011-02-01T09:07:00.004-07:00

p. 24 In fact, he mirrored back so exactly what I wanted, what I needed , that it made me wonder if I knew him at all, or if I saw was what he wanted me to see.

He was too perfect. Too perfect what I needed hime to be. that had to be and act right? Nobody was perfectly what you needed them to be, everybody disappointed you in some way, right?"

I think this is how we truly look at relationships because starting young we get disappointed by our parents. It is very sad that we don't understand ourselves like we should.

p46-47

(Jason speaking)He sighed, "You shut it down on the dance floor. That's not control, not really. It's like you have a gun, and you can lock it in the gun safe, but that doesn't teach you how to shoot it."

(Anita Blake speaking)"I do not **** the people I take care of. It would be like taking advantage of your position."

(Jason speaking) "Anita, what I'm trying to say is that Nathaniel doesn't feel used. He feels useful. He doesn't need a girlfriend, because he thinks he already has one. He doesn't want to date, because he's already living with someone. He doesn't need to look for a place of his own, because he already has one. Micah knows that, Nathaniel knows that, the only person who doesn't know that seems to be be you."

first line I quoted- I just like the line sorry. No words of wisdom here. It can apply so much in our lifes about so many different things.

Second line area I quoted-I have say, I think that all of us to a degree feel this way about others. We do not want to take advantage of them but to a degree we do take advantage or better stated we do not full appreciate those near and dear to us until its too late.

Third line area I quoted-How many of us are blind to the truths that literary sit in front of our faces on a daily basis. Uh? come on...think truly think about this for awhile.

p48
In fact, it seemed easy to make a lot of sense, but inside, it felt hard. Inside it felt like the hardest thing in the world. To just let go, and not pick everything to d eath. To just let go and enjoy whaty ou had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So Simple. So difficult. So Teffifying.

Wow! Can I say, that this in itself so be the most quoted passage that we as a people need to learn about relationships to a degree. Its better to let it go than pick a fight. How many can't or won't let go of something.

p.61
"That's not my message to you, you know I never mind you asking my advice. I actually kind of like it. Who else have you been asking advice from?"

I opened my mouth, and closed it. "I prayed"

"What I'm getting is that you usually only pray when you're out of other options that you like. It might be nice if you prayed as something other than a lasts resort." She said it so matter-of-factly. Nothing big, you prayed. God can't talk to you, so her left a messag on your machine. Great.

I licked my suddenly dry lips, andsaid, "It doesn't bother you that you just took a message from God for me?"

"Well, it wasn't from him directly. He just sent it."

Okay totally get this passage. Hello, how many of us only pray when we want something or need something for ourselves when we are totally sick of the options in front of us. Though those options are the only true options. Seriously, what if we stopped and truly looked at what we needed to do. Could we say, we had the ability to accept it, do it, and deal with consquences when they came.

p134
"Panic that freezes your body numbs your mind, makes you forget everything that you've learned about how to make your body a weapon, and all that is left is a small screaming voice inside your head that mkaes you a victim. If you can't think and can't move, then your are victim. That is why panic will get you killed."

I refuse to be a victim of anything any more. Serioulsy. Not to my allergies, not to frustration, not to stress, not to being treated like idiot that can't remember what is happening on what day. Seriously, I am not a victim. It freaks people out the way I stay calm through situations. Though, why panic. There is no need.

p135
"..it was the emotional scars torn open and spilled my heart out into my skin. You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but isn'ts not always yoru heart taht betrays you."

p137
"What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be wh0 and what you are, and letting the person you're suppose to love be who and what he is, too. Or maybe, what and who they are."

Every person who is in a healthy relationship or even a non-healthy relationship, stop read this pharse. This doesn't mean you get to belittle, put down, or make your partner feel less than you. They are your equal. You want them to be accepting of you then you be accepting of them.

P171
"Sex doesn't make you a couple, Richard, love makes you a couple."

All the southern belle or bellos don't even go off the deep end saying, I'm in endorsing sex before marriage. I'm not. I'm simply letting everyone know that it takes more than sex to make a relationship work. Seriously, its just the rewards of the other steps you take to make it as a couple. So, for any teens reading this, wait on having sex. It's worth the wait.

p175
"Just angry. You get angry whenever you get uncomfortable, and what happened in the kitchen is going to hit a lot of buttons for you."

Okay, everyone that doesn't understand or totally get their partner, don't get angry because you can't physical and mentally figure out what they meant or are doing. Let it go..

p304
Sometimes the partso fo my life that are weirdest to me aren't the part dealing with vampires and werewolves and zombies. Even vampires politics didn't confuse me as much as my own love life.

p309
"Give a truly good person power, and they're still a good person. Give truly bad person power, and their still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. Thaeon tht isn't evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don't always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside."

In light of recent events of our time, this is a very bold statement of our society as a whole.

p311

"I broke some personal rules tonight, that's all."
"Rules that you thought you would never be broken," Requiem said softly.
I looked at him surprised. "You say that like you know."
"A person likes to think of himse ina certain way, whe nwhen something happens that make that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were."

Put the brakes on everyone that is in the middle of self-hate and self destruct mode. Why are you in that mode? OH! You broke a few personal rules. Mourn it, get it over it, and move on. This coming from someone who broke a few of her own personal rules.

p318
Demon? If she though Requiem was a demon, she'd never sone one for real. I had, and i know the difference.

I hear this saying in the Bible, I hear it in songs as " personal demons" etc. I have seen my fair share of demons whither it is of a family secret demons of other people's inability to accept who they are ...so I can honestly most people wouldn't know it if it walked up and shoke their hands politely. Basically, what it is saying before casting judgment check out your own sins.

p425
He turned at the bathroom door, and aid, "****, Anita, you are the better man in any relationship. Just because you don't have the right equipment , doesn't change what you are."

Okay, I am inturpting this as it doesn't matter who's on top in the relationship. The better person is the one that thinks of others before themselves and doesn't give a crap what others think about the relationship. Meaning, that if my DH could stay at home with the kids and be sahd of the house he would be. He would gladly let me bring in the income if I could make more than he.

p436
Let go. It sounded so simple. But letting go of anythign was so not my best thing. I wasn't even sure I knew how to do it. How do you let go? How do you openjd your hand and let yourself fall, and trust that other people will catch you? That they'll catch you and not let you hurt them, or yourself. Did I trust Nathaniel and Jason that much? Sort of.

Did I trust anyone that much? Maybe. Okay, not really. I took a deep breath, let it out slow, and I let go. I let go. I lget and trusted. Trusted, even as a small voice inside me whispered, stupid, stupid, stupid.

Okay a reoccuring theme this week in quotes and real for me. The two words, "let go". Hmm, how many people have the same trouble. If that was a knock on the door from heaven, to let us know to let go and let God.

p520
"I'm what you call an addictive personality. Do you know what that means officer?"

"It means if you can't drink, you've got to be addicted to something." I said.

He smiled , and really looked at me for me the first. Not just like I was a cop come to hassle him, but like I was a person.

"Yeah, yeah, my counselor wouldn't like that definition, no siree she would not. But, yeah, that's the truth. Some people are lucky, and kits just they're addicted to drinking, or smoking, or whatever, but for those ofuse are just addicted tobeing addicted, anything'll do.

Okay, this is a really important section for those who have an family member(s) or spouse with this. They have to be addicted to something. Even if they stop the bad stuff they turn to food, sugary drinks, or other things they need to replace the other addiction. I know..I watch a family member(s) struggle with this all the time.

Valentine Wish

2011-01-31T07:32:00.002-07:00

for this awesome program that I just heard about. I attended a church service finally after about three months of being very busy or out of town, or vet visits (Banfield Hospital in Pet smart has sunday appointments).

The program is call H.O.T.S. which is short for Hope on the Streets. A program that reachs out to the homeless and those down on their luck. You say why reach out to those on the streets, it could be you one day. Seriously, with the jobless rate rising, and companies closing, it could be you. So, let's make this program be able to have a wonderful time of giving on Valentine's Day this year.

Let's be a secret giver of their list of needs by mailing it to them via mail. This applies to everyone, if you travel, grab a few of the travel size stuff and send it to them. They can use it. Got a nicely used pack back laying around send it. You got a sleeping bag you have no use for ..send it. Let's be there special rack givers. When you send it your items in to them simply put a note saying you heard it on the net about their program and wanted to give without glory or fame. That you are praying that the receiving more than they know what to do with to continue their ministry to these people.

here is their actual need list:
sleeping bags
large heavy duty tarps
hodies/Coats/jackets
Gloves/Caps
Men's White Socks (cotton)
Men's Gym Shoes
Back Packs
Razors
Soap
Deodorant (travel size) 50 cents walmart
Shampoo/Cond. (travel size) 50 cents walmart
Lotion (travel size) 50 cents walmart
Tooth Brushes/paste (travel size) 50 cents walmart
Lip Balm/chap stick dollar store 4 for a $1.00
Sun Screen (travel size) $1.00 walmart
Tissues (travel size) $1.00 dollar store
Band Aids
nail clippers
Feminine Hygience: pads/Tampons
heavy dutey comb/picks
hair brushes
Ponytail holders
bibles
puzzle books
pens

**I'm adding gift certificates to Dollar Tree, Wal-mart, Safeway or Fry's grocery stores. This way they can continue providing a sack lunch once a week along with these items.**

they have a facebook site either under H.O.T.S. or Anthem Fellowship church if you are interested in giving.
Here is the church website. www.AnthemFellowshipChurch.com or www.AnthemFellowship.com.

I lost their program with the exact information. I know beautiful swag store is planning on donating their items that don't see to their ministry seceretly as well.

Another puppy giveaway at

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http://thiscrazylife-michelleunderwood.blogspot.com

Congrats to Bret and Kristi

2011-01-18T16:31:00.005-07:00

Its about time!!! Seriously, I love the Poison music and Bret's independent stuff. Though, I can understand his hestitation in popping the question. You always wonder in the back of your mind, is this person going to change or leave me. I totally get why it took, so, long. It just shows you how special of person Kristi is. Way To Go!!!! Congrats again...

May you both be blessed with many more years of happy blissfulness together.

Roses and Thorns by Bret Michaels

2011-01-18T16:29:00.002-07:00

His book got cancelled by the publisher. This really bites and not in a good way. As in I was looking forward to reading his background. I wonder what his opinion is on this matter. He is really good at taking a negative turning it into a postivie.

lifestyle challenge week One

2011-01-14T14:32:00.001-07:00

From Dead To Worse by Charlaine Harris

2011-01-13T09:17:00.004-07:00

Is awesome? Humm why is this underline..go figure. I like how Ms. Harris addresses the fact that recovering from Hurricane katrina is a long process. I like the fact that Sookie and Sam are getting closer as friends. My most favorite part of the book is when Sam and Sookie ask the in depth question, "What price are you willing to pay to have a more than average life?"

Answer Sookie is giving up part of her soul the part that no longer gives her the ability to regert her actions like having to commit murder or defend her home.

Desert Sunrise Monday 1-10-2011

2011-01-12T15:32:00.003-07:00

I took this picture Monday morning while dropping and running errands. I thought it was a beautiful sight. Though, stopping the car in mid-traffic would probably have caused an accident. So, when I was stopped at a light, I took a reflective picture with the cell camera.

Enjoy!!

Job Application and Interview

2011-01-06T06:34:00.002-07:00

After two years of actively searching for a job that would fit the schedule of hours I need. Thanks to my friend Robyn. I may have a job interview at one of the local schools tomorrow Friday January 7th, 2011. I am hoping for tomorrow because I have pick the right outfit out, make sure I have the correct shoes to wear, and of course its the weather that my hair hates. Dry and cold. If I dont' have the right shoes, let's just say Dh will be purchasing a pair today to make sure it looks all good.

where did I go?

2011-01-06T06:30:00.003-07:00

Hi Erica,

I am still around. I just have a computer that is like finky eatter. I have to go to the library to post anything on this blog anymore. So, I usually load up the draft forum with stuff. Then I drive my happy self over to the library to post my stuff.

You can follow the shop blog as well. That let's me post type but not pictures from home.
http://beautifulswagstore.blogspot.com

Dh is currently trying to find away to get me a new computer. Times are really tight since i haven't found a part time job any where for two years. He doesn't mind. He knows its hard right now. Though, the extra cash would be helpful at times. Those times would be said last two months for us, we have five trips to an emergancy clinic. Can I say, its been a hair pulling frustrating.

Meet Diamond our New Puppy

2011-01-05T09:00:00.003-07:00

Please welcome...

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Diamond our three month old chihuahua. She white with grey and brown spots. She loves to lay in your lap and snooze the time away.

Though having diamond is a joy and half..the pottying training is very frustrating. Since she arrived from Santa she has only made it four times on the paper in the house. Oh take her outside you say...well that's easier said than done. She isn't big enough for the xxs small collar we bought her and the tag it weighs her down. She gets her first set of shots tonight after my DH gets off from work.

She has had a shopping trip in a portable carrier and didn't know what to think. Well, our family is adjusting to having a puppy in the family but we all love this precious pup.

Pictures will be posted as soon as a I get some from DH.

Dog collar give away

2010-12-27T08:17:00.002-07:00

you will read soon why this is important to me to win..
http://thiscrazylife-michelle.blogspot.com/2010/12/super-tramp-dogl-collaars-giveaway.html

December 14th

2010-12-14T07:43:00.002-07:00

One kid home from school, sick. Another upset that they can't stay at home with other kiddo.
Doctor appointment on the agenda today besides putting up laundry that is clean and in a big pile on the floor of my room.

More sewing on that last remaining gift. Yup..very productive all considering.

December 13th

2010-12-14T07:41:00.002-07:00

December 13th-monday

Let's see..major clean up from the weekend, sew on my last remaining gift, a package arrived, and the bug company came and sprayed, delivered present to a ticket agent that has been very good to us over the last couple of years when we have bough tickets to a sporting event. One of my kids woke up still sick. Yuck!

Pizza for dinner because we got in late from deliverying the gift.

december 10th -december 12th

2010-12-13T09:50:00.004-07:00

december 10th:
More christmas shopping, eatting at mcdonald's, last soccer practice of the season, and lots of holiday movie watching
Lot's sewing of the remaining gifts.

december 11th:
Last soccer game of the season with happy bags and drink handouts, more christmas shopping, more watching holiday movies

december 12th:
Mickey Mouse club house hot dog dance is dangerous to daddy's health. He fell down and hurt his ankle. Two hours later in an emergancy clinic and x-rays, so far, just a serve sprain. A Birthday party for odc. More holiday movies and not so holiday movies. The Expendibles was okay. Not bad for actors that are older than me. Should inspire us all to stay in shape.

Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris

2010-12-10T07:15:00.003-07:00

Okay if you have been watching the series, you know that it doesn't follow the books exactly. Though, it is close. Between the show True Blood, dead as a door nail, and this part of the series, I am totally caught up in the story line.

I can't believe they killed off a character that in the show runs away. I can't believe they haven't gotten to some of the stuff in the book yet. Though, I can say, this yummy on the character descriptions.

READ READ READ READ READ!!!

December 8th-December 9th

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WEll lots of television viewing christmas special and non christmas specials. Lots of early bedtimes for some tired folks.

Deember 6th-December 7th

2010-12-08T07:25:00.006-07:00

Monday:
Let's see more sewing for birthday gifts and christmas gifts, choir practice and choir performances.
Helping out a friend who was in a jam. The stress and choas of the holidays affecting everyone as the count down gets closer.

Tuesday:
Pearl Harbor Day, a family's member sweet 16th birthday, and more sewing on gifts.
I got news about our house that we didn't want to hear. Terminates. Luckily, we have a yearly contract and warranty with a company that when they came for something else they immediately scheduled a time for treatment. For once a warranty was able to be used and it didn't cost a darn thing.
The kids watched Big Time Rush Christmas special with Miranda Crosgrove and Snop Dog.
I finished my Charlaine Harris book.

december 3rd -5th 2010

2010-12-05T07:18:00.009-07:00

December 3rd:

I ran a few errands for Daddy. WE watched more Christmas movies on the television. We had a soccer practice. We ate store bought pizza with salad.

December 4th:

We got a birthday present for yk's friend birthday party. Soccer game which we left early to make it early to the birthday party. We ate at tacos for lunch, pizza and cake at the party , frozen treat for snack, potato soup for dinner. More christmas specials.

Mommy finished up more hair stuff.

December 5th:

I did laundry. I wrapped finishe presents. We went to go see santa at Wal-mart. We went grocery shopping. Toy Story 3 movie is really good. Boy it time flying in this christmas season!

december 2nd

2010-12-03T10:39:00.003-07:00

they girls watched the rest of Pipi longstock's christmas dvd. Then switched to Spongebob square pants. They also helped me move chairs around in order to vaccumm and mop the title floors.

I cut out applique letters for gifts. I spent the day with my friend Robyn her two younger children. We shopped at an outlet mall. I found a new way to discover christmas season. Through the eyes of children. Everything is a game, everything is unique and special. Everything is must see moment even if the adults fail to see the fun in it. Darth Vader is a comical evil villian. Gloves are gonna get you monsters. Toy stores are the land where dreams come true for kids.
Thanks Robyn for the afternoon of fun.

I made Butternut squash for the first time. My family didn't like .I loved it. Call me weird. I don't care. I just need a whole lot more squash to make it thick and creamy.

I discovered that the older the kids get in school. The less they remember that Christmas time isn't about stress factors but about being kind.

Cerulean Sins by Laurell K. Hamilton

2010-12-03T10:08:00.004-07:00

They're back! Anita, Jean-Claude, Asher, Richard, Mich, wereleopards, wererats, and werewolfs. Vampire politics, to secret government agencies trying to recuit Anita, and to an understanding of oneself is part of this life adventure Anita has continiously going on. A spoiler..remember the oh so controled father figure Lt. Dolph from the local police. Read the book and find out what happens to him.

Here are my favorite parts of the book.

p.147

"Michah, I still have feelings for Richard, but he dumped me. He dumped me because I'm more comfortable with the mosters than he is. He dumped me because I'm more blood-thirsty for him. He dumped me because I'm not the person he wants me to be. I will never be the person he wants me to be."

"Richard will never be the person he wants himself to be," Micah said.

The world was what it was. And no amount of anger, or hatred, or self-loathing, or stubborn blindness would change that.

p.168

The hard emotional truths bothered me more than having intercourse with someone I wasn't in love wiht probably said something about how far down the well of moral decay I had fallen.

p172

Jason's words came back to haunt me. That I hadn't really given myself completely to anyone. That I heald back something from everyone. I"d held back huge chuncks of myself from Nathaniel. More than any other men in my life, he was the one that I'd held back the most, because I didn't believe I was keeping him. Once the ardeur under control I wouldn't need a pomme de sang every day. Once I could fee the ardeur from a distance like Jean-Claude could, I'd stop using a pomme de sang. Wouldn't I?

Do we really give up ourselves to make our relationships work or do we hold a piece of ourselves back from the other to be sure we aren't totally destroyed when the unspoken expectation isn't meet.

p.199

"You have no scent, you aren't real, only a bad dream, and dreams have no power unless you give it to them. I give you nothing. Go back to where you came from. go back to the dark."

Oh boy could I have used this a few nights ago during bad dreams nights with kids.

p. 216-217

"I asked you to feed off me a few minutes ago, and you said not while the ardeur was riding me. Not while I was intoxicated."

I had to smil at the choice of words, because intoxicated was good description of the ardeur. Metaphysical liquor.

p. 229

Legends say the Amazons chopped off a breast to make them better at archery. I don't believe that. I think its just another example of men thinking a woman can't be a great warrior without cutting away her womanhood, symbolically, or otherwise. We can bbe great warriors; we just got to the pack the equipment a little differently.

p. 323

I believe in love, but I believed in evil, too. Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

November 30th Through December 1st

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We ate a spinach salad with cucumbers, and have a private selections pizza from Fry's Grocery store on November 30th, 2010. The kids had popcorn for snack, and cake for desert.

They started watching Pipi Longstockings Christmas Dvd. We had to stop it half way through due to bedtime.

MOmmy cut out patterns for christmas presents and cut up scrapfabric to blanket buddies for friends.

Wednesday December 1st 2010, we had planned to finish watching the Pipi Longstocking Dvd. Daddy had a bad day. We watched Phoenix Coyotes play the Minesota Wilds instead.

Dinner was toasted sandwiches with chips and sweet tea. Mommy is sewing more christmas presents for teachers, and friends.

Headbands, and sleeping masks. Hopefully cut out blanket buddies this weekend.

November 29th Christmas Countdown

2010-12-01T09:18:00.005-07:00

The kids had brown rice, carrot chips, brocolli, and roasted sweet potatos for dinner.

They also had sprinkle cake with strawberry frosting for a snack. Not to mention what they got at school.

We watched the dvd Music and Moonlight Christmas Special together. Well, the kids watched it and I read my Laurell K. Hamilton book.

We got a surprise that evening. Their father didn't have to go out of town on business after all. He came home early to tuck everyone into bed.

What have I been up too?

2010-11-29T09:45:00.003-07:00

Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K. Hamilton

2010-11-19T07:44:00.005-07:00

Anita Blake, Richard, Jean-Claude, Micah and his pack are introduced, the werebears, the werelions, and etc are all in an all fight for freedom from a sinister panwere that is trying to take over the packs in the world to try to unite them to keep them from having further miscommunication problems. Unforunately, the panwere is also a famous bounty hunter that is infected with the were viruses. He is also going mad from his inability to accept what he is becoming. Anita Blake may also turn fury once a month. For further details of whither or not she actually turns fury. Read the book.

p. 24

"No safety first, vengeance is a luxury."

What a good point to make. So often we feel that we need vegeance for a crime or an insult done to us. What if we let it go and have safety first. I will be the first to admit there are times I would have loved to have the final word of vengeance but I didn't. I let it go. I let the rule of what goes around comes around. By doing so, I have been blessed.

p.25

" What do you fear?"

" I fear by giving in to you and Richard that I'll lose myself. I fear that by not giving in to you and Richard I"ll lose one of you. I fear that I'll getus killed because I'm thinking too much. I fear that I'm already a sociopath and there is no going. Ronnie said thae one of the reasons that I can't give you up and just settle down with Richard is that I can't give up a boyfriend who's colder thant I am."

What if we all honesty looked at ourselves in the mirror like this? What would happen? Would we embrace what we see? Would we run straight to a mental ward and declare ourselves crazy? Could we even face ourselves like this?

P. 53

All these months of trying ot forge the wereleopards into a cohesive and friendly unit, and it was me that had learned to be cohesive and friendly. Me that had learned that not every helping hand is a threat to my independence. Me that had learned that is not every offer of physical closeness is a trap or a lie.

How true a statement for women in general. We as women have to always judge someone or somebodies as either threats or foes or trustworthy for anything.

p. 177

"Go ahead and say it."

" I wouldn't think that you'd be that picky," I said.

"I wasn't when I first got here. But lately I justdon't to be with someone who just wants me so she can brag to her friends that slept with a shapeshifter, or got to sleep where the vampires sleep. No matter how good it feels for a few minutes, it still makes me fell like they've just come to look at one of the freaks."

I slipped my arm jthorugh his, squeezed his arm. "Don't let anybody make you fell like that Jason,. You're not a freak."

I really need to take this advice to heart myself. You should never be made to feel about yourself by someone else if you are in a relationship.

p. 211

"To know another's hear, you must first know your own, ma petitte."

Ouch...do we really know our own heart before getting in a relationship?

p. 237

"One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the council is his belief that all power must be taken, thta all pwoer must comethrough freat. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not asthe spoils of the some personal war."

How 0f us feel we have to conquer someone else feel powerful? We shouldn't. Love given freely is the most powerful tool.

p. 244

"He can't say no. If a person can't say no, then it's the same thing as rape."

One thing when in a relationship, if you don't feel secure in saying no, then do you really have a true relationship.

p.316

"First I have to accept the fact that you're kindhearted, now I have to accept the fact that your insightful as well. I knew your powerful, ruthless, and prettyk but that you ahvea mind and ahearts beside is going to take some getting used to."

"Does everyone think I'm just a sociopath who happens to have magical abilities?"

"It's all that you let people see," he said, "until now."

How many of us do exactly that? Let out only what we want people to see not the real us.

p. 346

Oubliette is French for a little place of forgetting, but that's not a direct translation. Oubiette simply means forgetting, but what it is, is a place where you put people when you don't plan on ever letting them out.

I think for many of us, we have that place. Not for people but for events. This why many people have a little get away place out in the middle of b.f.e. Its just a place to allow themselves to forget and go back to a simplier time.

p. 351

Without hope, loves dies and parts of you whither.

How true, how true.

p.394

I kept equating submissiveness with breing inferior, and that wasn't really the case. Some people choose to be bottoms, toserve; it doesn't make them less, just different. I looked into his face and wondered what else I'd missed, or what else he'd show me?

Pay attention all partners in relationships. You may feel your partner is a lesser being by being at stay at home partner. I have news for you. We are stronger than you are, we are smarter than you are, and we see things you can't see by being home. You need to respect that opinion of the stay at home partner because they may see the train wreck coming and can help you avoid it.

p. 477

"The heart wants what the heart wants, Dolph. You don't plan on making your life a complicated, it just happens, and you don't do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt the pople who you love. It just turns out that way."

There is some truth to this however in relationships if you hurt your partnes in any way its wrong. It still needs to be addressed. Maybe this my way of helping myself confront the things in my life in order to get it straight before the train wreck of life unseen tries to mess it up more.

Bedeviled Angel by Annette Blair

2010-11-19T07:41:00.004-07:00

Queisha Saint-Denis is a very special young woman. She is a survivor of having a building collapse on top of her, a surogatte to twin girls, and an overcomer.

Chance Godricson is the man that helped saved Queisha during the building collapse. In doing so, he became her own personal guardian angel. Now, that her twins need her to be a well and strong mommy, he is back to help become that from help from his angel friend Angus.

P.111

"What do you mean by rainbow wings?"

"Well, the top row of feathers were a shiny gold."

Gold for love.

Lace nodded. "I remember the second row was the colore of the pans ihanging in the kitchen."

"Cooper?" Queisha asked.

Chance swalllowed. Copper for faith.

"The next color was light purple." Lace said. "Like in the angles's wings right there on the wall."

Right, he thought. Lavender for hope. Like in the mural.

"The dark pink row is my favorite," Skye said. For patience.

Lace pointed them out. "Then green, blue, and the silver onces like Skye's feather."

Green-kindness. Aqua-charity. Silver-Chasity.

p. 134

"Nooo, you can't leave it there. Every day a fairy gown hangs in a closet, angel loses its wings."

Chance turned and hit his head on the open door. "thinkyou're a little storyteller."

Skye crooked a finger and touched his head with it.

"All better," she said.

"Why , so it its." He acted shocked. "Thank you. Does that make you a nurse?"

"No fairy magick," Skye confided.

p.276

"You get wise in that place between life and death,and if you come back, youtake psychic wisdom with you."

Cheer Bows

2010-11-18T07:59:00.001-07:00

Hugs for Angie

2010-11-18T07:57:00.003-07:00

Please leave some verbal hugs here at my blog. My friend Angie jsut found out that her grandmother passed away. The way she found out is not what I call an appropiate way to notify someone of a loved one passing.

IF SOMEONE DIES DON'T POST ABOUT IT. CALL THAT FAMILY MEMBER. IT IS MORE COMFORTING.

Now, that I am done being a wise momma..please leave my friend some hugs. I will be tell to come look here.

Go Purple Day Shirts From Beautiful Swag Store

2010-11-15T11:14:00.004-07:00

Phoenix Coyotes

2010-11-14T20:51:00.002-07:00

found their pack mentality finally this season. What let me not speak so soon. I do not want to jinx my team. Can I watch all the games on tv? Nope either black out or its on a channel i don't get.

I am proud they are pulling together finally? Yes.

Could we all use a little pack mentality? Yes.

could our families be tight like a pack? yes.

Do we act like a pack? Not always, but some of the time.

WTG Coyotes!!!

SCRAPBOOKING AWARD

2010-11-14T06:33:00.003-07:00

I received this last week in an email letting me know that this blog is this week's featured blog.

Here is the aware image I choose. You can see it added to the sidebar as well.

http://scrapbooking.com

Go Purple Day!!

2010-11-14T06:31:00.001-07:00

It was a success. I walked ran a 10k. This is nothing to what my friend did.

Robyn ran/walked 24 hours on a tred mill. Set a new record, Got an endorsment.
I officially declare her honorary wonder woman!!! Her children will love that title.

WTG!!

No rest for Weary

2010-11-09T11:39:00.003-07:00

Okay, so, many of you know I finally did something with my crafty side to try to earn money from home. Thank Goodness for friends and local schools in deseperate need of price breaks. I have some business.

My business end is sponsoring my friends run. My local school cheerleadering team hired me to do this year's bows for the team. Yeah right.

The kids get sick the week, I need to complete both accounts by Friday.Boo right?

Wrong!

After no sleep last night, I have a rule if you stay home from school, and we are up all night then we have rest time or rather nap time for mommy and rest time for kiddos. Did that work out this morning. Heckhum...NO!! The phone including cell phone rang three times while I tried to get rejuvinated for working on the cheerleading stuff this afternoon. The only good thing about running a very small business from home is that you can work from home still when the kids have basically either small touch of food poisoning or an allergic reaction to some food or both at the same time.

Think if the blessings that come from this in many ways!!

Proud Sponsor and Crew Member

2010-11-09T09:16:00.001-07:00

of the go girl purple day. My friend Robyn, is running for 24 hours on a tred mill to raise awareness and money to prevent domestic violence.

My weekend Projects

2010-11-08T10:06:00.003-07:00

Its Wednesday

2010-11-03T20:55:00.003-07:00

Yup, I totally fruit caked on posting my stuff while at the library. What can I say? Its been a busy week from getting ready for a field trip at the school, to heckhum children tipping in their chairs at school and getting in trouble for it, sneaking candy instead of healthy snack, cleaning and reorganizing bedrooms and baths, and increasing my personal training sessions.

Trick or treat

2010-11-01T06:26:00.002-07:00

It went by much shorter than what I expected. We didn't get to go with friends. We didn't get to go as far as we wanted too due to my DH's not wanting to walk that far. Though, this year we were able to hand out candy to individuals. Last year we were recovering from a trip to the emergancy room with one of the kids.

Yeah no injuries.
Boo n

gutting pumpkins to roasting their seeds

2010-10-30T21:19:00.002-07:00

Its Saturday night as I type this. Though you probably wont' be able to read it until sometime Monday, when I get to the local internet cafe to be able to post it.

Today was awesome. Seriously, it was. Not only did I get my favorite treat of banana nut muffin and a starbucks chai tea latte with peppermint shots and whip cream. My DH actually bought pumpkins for carving. After nine years of waiting for my Dh to feel the kids were old enough to help gut, sort seeds, and carve; he took the plunge.

So, after an all day affair of when are you going to the store yet or have you gone to the store yet; we started the process. He cut them open and the kiddos and I gutted them together. The seed sorting was all me. I had to show them how to do it.

Then we put a cup of water in each pumpkin put the lid on for carving tomorrow. I roasted my seeds in lightly sprayed butter (Thanks Robyn for your spray butter it was perfect!), salt and pepper for seasoning. I followed my friend Angie's instructions for roasting. They turned out beautifully roasted and great tasting.

Am I still digital scrapbooking?

2010-10-29T13:55:00.002-07:00

This is a question I received over an email. Yes/No I am. yes, I have every intention of doing. No I have not done it in awhile.

1. I have been having major computer issues in the last five months, in case you haven't noticed.

2. Both creative teams, i was on dismantled. Leaving me without having access to new kits for free and a deadline to keep me on track.

3. Life just has gotten in the way.

4. I started my own side business. Its seasonal. So, right now is some what busy. Though, i have not made as much money as I thought I would.

5. Sigh...no excuses...just plain lazy at the end of the day.

Dead as a Doornail by Charlene Harris

2010-10-29T11:36:00.002-07:00

Okay, I missed some serious stuff in the series by jumping books. Thanks to the parent that lent me this book.

All the cast of characters are back again. More mysteries, more drama, and more understanding of finding your path in life.

A+ Charlaine Harris..

Obsidian Butterfly

2010-10-29T10:53:00.003-07:00

Anita, Edward/Ted Forrester, police force in New Mexico, and the FBI are all trying to figure out what and who are on a serial killing spree. Is it human or supernatural? No one wants to be that it could be supernatural. Though in the end it is. This all I am giving away for the plot of the book. Anita is not in her home state of Missouri. She is New Mexico. She not only has to deal with the local law enforcements but the rest of her new crew. Brenardo and Olaf. Brenardo is one hunka hunka show for Anita to look at. Though she stays true to herself. Olaf maybe the hunka hunka bad boy look but all the way through evil monster as well. If you have started in the middle of the series as I have. Then you already have been introduced to Olaf and Brenardo. If you haven't then this is a great intro. It also explains later on events between Olaf and Brenardo with Anita. You also realize how Edward. Ooops, Ted Forrester gets a family when originally no one thought him capable of having one.

As usual Laurell K. Hamilton keeps you on your toes about who is really the bad guy. Remembers of how prejudice we can be against things we don't know enough about or are scared of.

Here are some great quotes to live by.

P. 60 Paragraph 1

I did go back into the roon, and no, I didn't learn a **** thing from the last three victims. All that wasted bavery for nothing. Well, not exactly for nothing. I proved to myself that I could go back into the room without throwing up or fainting. I didn't care if it impressed Edward or Marks. It impressed me. If you can't impress yourself, then one else really matters.

I think this is an excellent point of view. Why worry about what others think? You need to be sure you know what you think of yourself first.

p.117

"I've never seen you do anything like what you just did. You hate mystical crap."

"Yes, I do, but I've had to accept what I am Edward. This mystical crap is a part of who and what I am. I can't run from it because it is me. You can't hide from yourself, not forever, and you can't ever out run yourself. I raise the dead for a living, Edward. Why should it be a shock that I may have other abilities?"

"It's not," he said.
Okay, why this section? You have to accept yourself the way you are before you can it for good or bad. If you say, hey I'm over weight but I still look great. Then you can achieve anything. If you look in the mirror and see nothing but bad and no hope in the end then your are not ready for helping yourself or others. Its a choice of accepting ourselves first.

P.132

He spread his hands. "Sorry, didn't mean to step on your toes."
"Yes, you did," I said.
"You think so."
"Yeah," I said. "I think your jealous."
"Of what?"
"That I can pass and you can't."
He openned his mouth and emotions flowed over his like water; anger, humor, denial. He finally settled on a smile, but it wasn't a happy one. "You really are a *****, arent't you?"
I nodded. "You don't pull on my chain and i won't pull yours."
"Deal," he said. The smile flashed wider. "Now, allow me to escort your lily white *** to the dinig room."
I shook my head. "Lead on, tall, dark, and studly, as long as I get to watch your **** while we walk down the hall."
"Only if you promise to tell me how you like the view."
I widened my eyes. "You mean give you a critique on your butt?"
He nodded and the smile looked happy now.
"Are you this big egotist or just trying to embrass me?"
"Guess."
"Both," I said.
The smile spread to a grin. "You are as mart as you look."
"Just get moving, Romeo. Edward doesn't lik to be kept waiting."

Seriously, people are really like this. No kidding or joking. People are really like this.

P.387

Most systems of magic or mysticism have rules of conduct, things you do and things you do not . The wiccans call it the three fold law: what you do to others comes back to you three fold. Buddhists call it karma. Christians call it answering fore your sins. I call it what goes around comes around. It really does, you know.

Remember the golden rule. It looks like every regilion has the basic principle of it no matter the flavor or your ice cream. Treat people right and you will be treated right.

P. 583

"I never thought you missed the pieces of yourself that you gave up to be who and what your are, but when I syou with Donna and Beccca, and Peter, I see reget in you. You wonder what life might have been like if have hadn't met Van Cleef, or whoever the hell was first."

He looked at me, eyes cold. "It took me long time to understand what I saw in Donna. How did you know?"

I shrugged. "Maybe, the same thing I thought I saw in Ramirez."
"It's not too late for you, Anita."
"It's too late for me to have a white picket fence, Edward. Maybe I can figure out something, but not that. It's too late for that."
"You think I'll fail Donna," he said.
I shook my head. " I don't know. I just know it wouldn't work for me. I'm not the actor you are. Whoever I'm with has to know who I am, warts and all, or it won't work."
"You know which monster you're going to settle down with?"
"No, but I know I can't keep hiding from them. Hiding form them is like hiding from who I am. I'm not going to do that anymore."
"You think I'm running from myself by going with Donna."
"No, I think you always embrace the monster part of you. You're finding for the first time that not all of you is dead as you want it to be. Donna appeals to a part of your that you didn't know was left."
"Yes," he said. "And what do Richard and Jean-Claude represent for you?"
"I don't know, but it's time I found out."
He smiled, but it wasn't a happy smile. "Good Luck."
"The same to you," I said.

Hello, ptsd people. What does ptsd stand for. Post Traumic Stress Disorder. You are still yourself, you just have to find it. There is hope for your situation. Hugs survivors.

Software upgrade

2010-10-25T06:23:00.001-07:00

If you noticed that my posting has been down. My dh has been doing software upgrades on my computer. This is a good and bad thing. Good it runs faster, I no longer have to deal with microsoft vista. I have a few choice words that are not really appropiate to post about vista but you get my drift of my feelings.

I will try to get back on track with posting more.

For some reason the beta version of internet explorer doesn't like blogger. It won't let me post from home..go figure

McDonald Ranch Field Trip

2010-10-20T07:23:00.004-07:00

This is the place we went to for our field trip for our youngest daughter.

Needless to say, it was not as nice the farm we went last year. It was a whole lot closer to our school. The bus ride was a lot shorter. Unfortunately, farms and this family don't mix. Anyone that went on the field trip now is full bloom allergy mode and having sinus problems thantks to the rain front moving in.

Please Welcome ...

2010-10-19T11:33:00.001-07:00

Raven Kelly as a follower. She has multiple on goings in books and reviews. She is kind of enough to post my buttons on her sites. So, I have her buttons on mine.

Blue Moon by Laurell K. Hamilton

2010-10-14T12:10:00.002-07:00

Anita Blake, Richard Zeeman and some of his family members, Jean-Claude, Damian, Asher, wereleopards, werewolve pack of Tennesse, and corrupt police force all with a very dark and evil businessman named Niley; that himself could be considered a demonic being. They not only have to save the local troll population, but themselves from local vampires, corrupt businessman Niley, and most of all themselves.

Favorite parts are listed below. Yes, I said parts as in plural. So, pay close attention to the dialogue between the characters and with themselves. You might learn something important mentally.

P. 216

"If you continue to fight this munin, it will get worse. If you cease struggling and met her even partyway, the humin will losse of its strength. Some feed off of love. This one feeds of fear and hatred. Was this the old lupa? Theo ne you killed?"

"Yeah, "I said.

Marianna shivered, "I never meet Raina, but even that small touch of her makes me glad she's dead. She was evil."

"She didn't see herself that way," I said. "She saw herself as more neutral than evil." I s aid it like I knew, and I did know. I knew because I'd worn her essence like a dress more than once.

"Very few people see their own actions as truly evil," Marianne said. "It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not."

Jason raised his hand. "Evil"

Cherry echoed him. "Evil"

Nathienal and Zane and even Jamil, raised their hands.

I raised my hand, too. "It's unanimous,"I said.

Marianne laughed, and again, it was a sound equally at home in the kitchen or the bedroom. How she managed to be both wholesome and suggestive in the same breath puzzled me. Of course, a lot of things puzzled me about Marianne.

Okay, this is so true in life. We don't always see our true reflection. It takes those around us that love and care to stand up to speak for us. It sometimes, takes us saying I can't do this by myself or it takes us saying there is a problem in order to get it fixed.

P. 399

"Give us a few minutes," Jason said.

Nathaniel went back to the rear of the van without another word. He did follow orders well.

"Talk to me, Anita."

"There's nothing to talk about ."

"You keep staring off into space for minutes at a time. You're not even here. We need you for this to work. Daniel and Mrs. Zeeman need you."

My head turned slowly of its own accord, and I glared at him. "I have done my best for them tonight. I have gone above and beoyond my personal best for them tonight."

"Until they're safe, it's not over."

"I know that. Don't you think I know that? If I don't get them out alive, then what I did was for nothing."

"And what do you think you did?" he asked.

I shook my head, "You saw."

" I helped hold him down."

"I'm sorry about that."

Jason put an hand on each shoulder and shook me gently. "Damn it, Anita, get a grip. It isn't like you to wallow in the horror. You're a good solider. You kill and keep going like you're suppose to."

I pushed him away from. "I tortured a man, Jason. I reduced hime to something that writhed on the floor, mewling with terror and pain. And I wanted to do it. I wanted him to hurt because of what they'd done to Charolette and Daniel. I wanted to do it." I shook my head. "I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if its a little bit harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm not superwoman, after all."

"Not superwoman?", he exclaimed, putting a hand on his chest in mock surprise. "You've lied to me all these years !"

It made me smile, and I didn't want to smile. "Stop it

"Stop what? Cheering you up? Or is life suppose to stop because you did something horrible? I'll tell you the real hoorrible truth, Anita. No matter what you do or how bad you feel about it, life goes on. Life doesn't givea **** that you're sorry or upset or deranged or tormented. Life just goes on, and you gotta go on with it, or sit in the middle of the road and feel sorry for yourself. And I don't see you doing that."

We are never made to be a super hero. Though, our kids may think so at some point in their lives. We can handle only so much. It takes special friends in our lives that have been there in some way that they can relate. Cheers to our friends. They deserve a hug.

P.411

I wasn't evil. Everything that I'd done, and my faith was still pure. When I spoke the words, they were just as real to mea s whent i'd memorized thema ll those years ago for the Christmas pageant. The words still moved me. I never doubted God. I doubted me. But maybe God was more generous God than I allowed him to be. Jason was there with Marianne.

Often, we are blocking the miracle we are so desperately seeking. We must let go and let God. Not matter what branch of regilion you have faith in.

Its hump day..yeah

2010-10-13T17:00:00.001-07:00

two more days until the weekend. I can't wait!

Beautifulswagstore follower contest

2010-10-11T17:44:00.002-07:00

http://beautifulswagstore.blogspot.com is having a follower contest. Win a few swag bag with swag inside.

Did you know that they are on etsy too.

http://beautifulswagstore.etsy.com

Columbus Day

2010-10-11T11:32:00.002-07:00

As a kid loved this day. It meant no school. Another day of play.

As a mom, I wonder what does it really mean to my kids and for our society. Most places aren't closed anymore with expections to banks, government or schools. Everything is sale sale sale.

This day is sorta of a wash. Nice break from our schedule but I'm left a little empty and nasty back wash of taste in my mouth, when I realize its no longer the day it was originally meant to be.

What's your take on it? I am sure if I worked on one of these places that are off, it would be my highlight in my work schedule.

beautiful Swag Store

2010-10-08T13:54:00.001-07:00

now on etsy:

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Sunny days and teatime top

2010-10-07T10:00:00.002-07:00

Its beautiful weather outside today.

I ahve been working on a teatime top. The most frustrating thing about this is RUFFLES it makes it so girlie but a nice girlie. I finally got the bottom hem to look just right. Will sew it tonight. I will be working on the parts this weekend.

hail rain and storms

2010-10-06T09:48:00.002-07:00

Its still nasty outside here. Yesterday we had softball sized hail. For the desert its an event like a rock concert because we never get cool enough to have hail or snow in this part of the desert. It made the news, people were texting others with pictures, etc.

As for our hair styles..its wind blown or rain flat. Seriously, it is. More people wearing hats than ever..

Be careful for what you ask for .

Rain, Rain

2010-10-05T05:25:00.000-07:00

come back please. It was so nice to have your winds, and cleansing ability. Not mention the catcuses were really thirsty.

It rained here all over the desert yesterday. OMG it was so nice.

The Wild Road by Marjorie Liu

2010-10-04T06:53:00.003-07:00

The pictures is from amazon.com. The story started out slow but slowly picked up speed through out the entire book. I love the fact that it was a free will story. Choosing by free will. It was awesome.

I give the book an A.

Fun day

2010-10-01T06:23:00.001-07:00

yesterday was a fun day for me. I went to costco with my friend Robyn and her kiddos. It was so much fun.

Of coarse, we had to go see creepy stuff all through the store. One of the kiddos loves fall and halloween a lot. It was so much fun to see all the stuff in the store. Unfortunately, there were no samples which was the highlight of trips down to Costcos. The never ending supplies of samples.

Owls Owls and more Owls

2010-09-30T07:43:00.003-07:00

Seriously, I never thought I would witness the owls in the desert. The guy from wild at heart said that they are here.
This morning leaving from a work out. I had unplugged. Then I heard the most beautiful gorgeous and peaceful event.

Owls having a conversation and singing to each other. The funniest thing was the owl I spotted on the roof of the building following my direction of movement. I knew his mate must be near because they follow where they are at.

It was the best way to start the morning out. Plus, fall cool temperatures and a starry sky. OMG, I can't tell you what a fullfilling moment that was.

I encourage everyone to unplug for awhile in the wee hours of the morning or night. Experience something so precious that it is a scared moment in time.

The real Guardins of Ga'Hoole

2010-09-28T07:11:00.004-07:00

Presented by our local library and the Wild at Heart Foundation.

Wild at Heart Foundation is a local rescue group that helps rescue rehibilate and release owls in the enviroment. They typically don't come out to do education presenations because they don't want the owls to get use to human contact, so, they can be released back into the wild. These owls here are either too injuried to be released or some humans tried to raise an owl as pet. The pet could not be reintroduced into the owl community, so, the group carries for the owl. The taught the kids about the reality of the real owls to the book owls. The only thing that was misrespresented in the books was the nest care taker of a snake. The owls would in real life eat the snake.

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2010-09-27T20:40:00.002-07:00

http://leanmeanbeings.blogspot.com

http://beautifulswagstore.blogspot.com

I'm Back in the Saddle Again

2010-09-27T20:39:00.002-07:00

Yes, folks that means my computer is online finally.
Great job DH! You are the best.

Gone with the Witch by Annette Blair

2010-09-21T10:57:00.002-07:00

Storm Cartwright's facade hides
true beauty from above.
Aiden McCloud is not far from
his own mascrade mask of his own design.
Dragons to sea horses to
Turtles in a shell
They discover what each other seeks
is within the other.
Life, love, and laughter
together will blend & heal
in perfect harmony.

Spider bones by Kathy Reichs

2010-09-17T12:20:00.002-07:00

Temperance Brennan is bakc investigating a misidentified body in Canda. This time it involves JPAC, Montreal Canada, and North Carolina officals. Add a little gang war for flavor. You've got the perfect shaved ice drink in book format. Of course, you still have the very yummy Dect Ryan, his daughter Lily, her daughter Katy, both sets of bosses from Canada to the U.S.A, an old character Danny Tadler, and a new ever rockin the rules Hadley Perry of Honolulu's medical examiner.

I give it an a+.

Club Dead by Charlene Harris

2010-09-17T12:15:00.002-07:00

Sookie, Sam, Bill, Eric, Pam, and Bubba are back again. They face more maysteries, skeletosns from the past. They meet new vampries and werewolves. The vampires are from Mississippi this time instead of Dallas. Much of the area described is very familiar to this southern. You get Franklin Mott, Talbot, Russell Eddington (the king), Betty Joe, and Lorena. Aclide and Janice are Haerveaux and Debbie, they are from Lousinia and Mississippi, they are weres. Only Janice is human.

I have to say the endi is not what I was expecting. Since I also watch TrueBlood.

Again, I feel they picked the right actors to play the rolles. They truly do resemble the images in my imagination of what a book character would look like in in real life. The story plot is similar but different forks in the road per say.

Read, read, read what's it gonna hurt? Next book Dead to the World.

Computer and Eye examine

2010-09-16T13:47:00.002-07:00

Okay,is going without a computer for almost 2 weeks truly sucks. Yet, I still feel blessed because I can access the internet through public computers at local joints. :)

Okay eye examines this weekend for part of my family. My computer is suppose to be worked on this weekend. OH BOY!! I hope that does happens.

Still waiting...

2010-09-10T13:49:00.001-07:00

for my computer to be fixed. Currently, using public access to let you know what is going on.

Offline

2010-09-08T11:13:00.001-07:00

My personal computer has been hacked by viruses. Using public access to be able to post this. Please be aware that posting will be very spuricate.

thanks for hanging in there with me.

Sex and the Psyhic Witch by Annette Blair

2010-09-07T10:33:00.004-07:00

Harmony Cartwright a
queen in her own right.
King Paxton a
king in only his
solitude mind.
They each feel their duty
is to restore a
castle to a new glamore.
Yet, each knows their
hearts will join
forever more.
Through construction disasters,
heart collapses,
and a family that is forever
theirs to enjoy.
Will they give and find
peace, love, and life
together once more.

Labor Day Weekend

2010-09-03T14:37:00.001-07:00

I will be offline spending time with family.

Guilty Pleasure Winner

2010-09-03T06:10:00.003-07:00

drum roll please..

Chas @ LLL Reviews

You until 72 hours to email me your address.

runner up you will get a decorated ponytail holder from http://beautifulswagstore.blogspot.com..the rainbow one

My Favorite Witch by Annette Blair

2010-09-02T05:43:00.004-07:00

Kira is karsma
w/o end or glee
Jason is locked up tighter
than a bank vault withtout a key
to open it.

When the two meet
its like treasure hunters
finding lost Pirate booty.

Each scared
to no end
to let their hearts
be revealed for
love to begin.

For life's destiny
to become reality
in the end.

I love the fact that this had hockey in it.

Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris

2010-08-30T05:57:00.002-07:00

Sookie, Bill, Eric, Jason, Sam, and Andy are back for another round of adventure. This time it is off to Dallas Sookie goes. It is also where is learns the mere truth that sometimes humans are more cruel than vampire law. The introduction of new characters of shape shifters, vampires, and Greek mythology creature is here too. Let’s not forget Tara and “Eggs” either.
Have you seen season 1 and season 2 of True Blood yet? Have you compared notes between this book and the series? I would definitely say it keeps you on your toes.
I give it an A + in my grade book of reading materials.
Off to request the next book in the series.

The Party

2010-08-29T06:39:00.002-07:00

was a success. The little purse happy bags was a hugh hit with all the girls. Out of 21 girls invited each had 6 guests. They didn't want to stop playing games to eat or open presents. Eatting they had to stop but openning gifts we waited until we got home to do.

Its offical, I am tone deaf not just from the peter piper pizza play area but from the screams of delight my dear children let out as they openned their presents one by one last night. The top gift with the deafing scream would be the craft kits. OMG..thanks K!!!

The final count down is on

2010-08-26T07:23:00.002-07:00

Okay, so I totally panicked tuesday. I felt like I was never going to get the happy bags sewn and draw string installed in each bag. May I say 30 of them is a lot to do. I got them done. The I spent yesterdy ironing strips of fabric I had previously sewn and turning rightside out. Last night I made 10 out 30 fabric bows for their pony tail holders that I am making.

Did someone actually say take a picture? Why don't you come help and take the blast picture yourself. Do you know how much work this is? Did I mention in between all this I finally sewed a new dress for myself. I'm girl. I like dresses and skirts so sue me. I think I look good in them. My friend Robyn and kids are coming over. Hi Robyn. She can tell you on her blog about how crazy things are right now.

Deep breath, I can do this. Seriously, I can do this.

You wanna help me out. Seriously, check out the shop blog later this weekend for pictures of the stuff I made.

Birthday Party Vinue decided...

2010-08-24T06:23:00.002-07:00

Can I get an Amen from the choir please? I really need it. After five weeks of debt, yes, its sorta like the presidental debts at times when it comes to deciding to hold the kiddos double birthday party. Did I hear a what what from you? Yes, I did say, a double birthday party. My kids are born with 10 days of each other but two years apart, so, instead of the choas and stress of having two seperate parties within 10 days of each other, we just do one big bang per say.

Where did we decide to throw the party?

Peter Piper Pizza its like Chuck E. Cheese but smaller scale. Plus, for the money they provide everything but the cakes and happy bags. WE can handle that...kids are particular abou their cakes anyways.

Now, the families only have *cough & wheeze** four days to tell us if they are coming or not. I know its not party polite rules but tell that to my DH who is the one that took so long to decide.

So, in a mad dash to make sure that the arrangements were made correctly, and to pick up invitation because there is not enough time to print out the ones the kids and I created using the new song bird kit due out September 1st. Yes, that's me sniffling and holding back tears that we could not use them. I know so petty of me right..;)

Now to finish all these hand made happy bags and loot to go with it.

Oh, now I have your attention. YOu want pictures..you'll have to wait and see what they look like at the http://beautifulswagstore.blogspot.com next week. I know I am such a freakin' tease.

Stealing Kathryn by Jacquelyn Franks

2010-08-22T06:32:00.002-07:00

Kathryn is a trapped twenty something year old in a human prison of caring for her family’s ranch and her family, is exhausted when Adrian kidnaps he from earth to his world. Adrian at the time is a hideous monster form, yet his heart remains true in finding his soul mate. The trials they go through to discover that they this is unique as each person journey to finding a mate on earth.

The sex scenes are well written. Not to graphic. I wasn’t afraid of my kids picking up the book.

I give it an A minus.

Second book in the Gathers Series
First book is called Hunting Jullian

Other series by same author:
the Nightwalkers(5 books so far), and The Shadowwellers(3 books so far)

My Little Quackers bedtime sillies

2010-08-19T05:57:00.002-07:00

Youngest: "Why do I have lay down first? How come i have to go to be 15 minutes early? It's not fair."

me: "Well, it is fair believe it or not. You may not get to stay up late like your older sibling but you do get two stories. When that child does not."

youngest:"I don't want the fairy book."

me:"then its no hugs til Friday and Mama's bayou."

Read stories said prayers..then lights out with giggles

Oldest: "Its not fair that I only get one story and the other gets two!" (add dramatic foot stomping and animal throwing on the bed at the same time)

me:"Well, you got to finish the show and the other child did not. I think that is more than fair."

oldest: "No, its not. I am going to pick the book we read."

me: "no you are not. neither did the other kid."

oldest: "not, fair. not fair. NO NO NO." (add a few more humphs and bumps).

me: "then I am leaving since you can not act your age and apparently need the same bed time as your sibling."

oldest: "do not!"

me: "yes, you do. you have to the count of one to decide."

Story read and tucked into bed with a stack of animals and me by the kids side..

oldest: "will you stay in here tonight with me. I need you."

A few hours later, I am getting kicked out of the kics bed while the said kid is having a dream. I get the kid to stop. Then a few minutes later more weird pushing and stuff. I take it as my cue to leave the kids side. A few minutes later. I have concissionly regrister, can I sleep in your bed. NO. Go back to your own bed. We will dicuss this in the morning.

Setting up the store

2010-08-18T06:28:00.002-07:00

Phew, what a frustrating process. couple that with trying to get a double birthday party planned. OMg!!!

The new blogger makes it difficult for me to upload photos of my product on the store. Arrgg..its been 20 minutes already for upload. Take that back..any one else using the new upload feature..someone hit already..

Any tips for making it easier..

Exciting news..

2010-08-17T07:01:00.001-07:00

I am going to do what my DH suggested and start selling some of the stuff I make for little girls. So, be on the look out for news about this.

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

2010-08-15T06:34:00.004-07:00

This is the start of the Sookie Stackhouse novel series and the start of the show on HBO called True Blood.Sookie Stackhouse, Jason Stackhouse, Bill Compton, Sam, and the rest on Bon Temps are set a fire when two murders happen to fang bangers. Sookie learns to control her gift. Jason learns that video taping his bedroom adventures isn't exactly a good idea. The community learns that someone they thought they could trust isn't trustworthy at. They are very similar but there are some difference between the two. I didn't get into the show until after the first season hit DVD and found it. I have been trying to bring myself to read the book series to keep up with show with the off season. Needless, to say, I am just now getting around too.

I wish I had started the book series before watching the show. I, now, know what they left off the show. I know you can't include every single detail but it would have been nice to know what was left out. Why do I do things backwards? Sorta like Sookie to a degree.

Being from the south, whither it was small town or bigger. I laughed at some of the traditions represented in the show and in the books where hysterical. Seriously, I am a southern bell by birth right and up bringing. A lot of it is hyprocital and supersitious beliefs but some of it is actually very wise advice. So, thank you Charlaine Harris for doing this.

Meet the Teacher Night

2010-08-13T06:07:00.003-07:00

What a day before the night. Every 10 minutes it seemed the kids thought it was time to go as in go to the school and meet the teachers. Um, I finally loaded them up to go view party spots for their double birthday party to distract them. We finally made a decission for the place of the party. Thank you my dear children. Now, just to reserve the darn spots.

Okay, we leave at what I feel is early. Nope, people were already arriving when we get there. Did I mention, I have this thing for being on time by about 5 minutes early. Yeah, apparently all the kids in the area this year where ready for school.

Each kid meet their new teachers. One is a cheerleading coach, and the other is known for the zoo room. Lots of pets in the room, for the kids to learn about and watch grow. This is great for the child that got this particular teacher,because the child in question wants to be a vet. The child has said this since kindergarden. The other child will have a rude awaking that its not cheerleading camp all day. Seriously, does the kid think that the teacher will do that..young minds are so fantastic.

Unfortunatley, it was still really hot here in the desert, so, the kids got too hot playing outside on the equipment as a reward for being good and stopping by their old teachers rooms as well. So, when we got home we had to drink lots of water. Why my kids won't take a water bottle with them is beyond me.

Yes, there is a different betweem..

2010-08-12T11:53:00.003-07:00

boyshorts and hipsters underwear, for all sales people in department stores

This is a hipster. This sits up on your hips and is shorter in the leg bands. This is a type of boy shorts.The come up a bit higher off the hips, and longer leg bands on the legs. they are

Why are having a dicussion on underwear today? Well, I have to decided to get more comfortable underwear than the traditional bikini, brief or hi-cut style that is available. Wedgies after 30 years no matter the size sucks!

So, I was shopping for new under. Yes, Gennifer I finally found bra style that works, girl. They do have matching panties.

Now, for the sales people that told me they were the same. You lied!!! Hipsters gave me a wedgie and slip and slide off my hips..trust me, if they slip and slide off my hips they aren't made great.

So, Jc Penny, Khol's, Target, Wal-mart, kmart, Old Navy, and Gap know the difference of your style please. Lying to make a sale isn't great escepially since people like me will let the world know what a difference there is.

Pictures ..Mississippi waterbottles and bows

2010-08-11T07:48:00.002-07:00

This waterbottle I want. You want more information...go to http://leanmeanbeings.blogspot.com Here is how I spent four and half hours on my oldest birthday. The bows are for all the girls that in the entire family. Can you say, bow wow bow?!? Three times fast..I still have to attach them to the clips folks..this is close to twenty-four bows I think or more..

This was a sunset in Mississippi. Pretty isn't it? I thought you might enjoy it.

This Layla aka Queen Sheba. This is my bil's cat that lives with my inlaws. She is the most friendly cat, I have ever met. She will sit by your feet even while you are getting a hair. No joke! If you walk outside even if you don't see her, she just suddenly appears. Love you Layla!!

These were flowers I saw out running /walking aren't they just beautiful!!

I had more interesting pictures but I forgot to watermark them. So, I am not able to upload at this time.