A - Available or single: Happily Married
B - Best Friend: My Husband
C - Cake or Pie: Cake
D - Drink of choice: Sweet Tea
E - Essential Item you use everyday: my alarm
F - Favorite color: rainbow! :-) I like top wear darker colors, like darker blues, greens, black, etc.
G - Gummy Bears or worms: Sour Worms
H - Hometown: Lourenco Marques, Mozambique
I - Indulgence: Caramel Treasure Chocolates....*drool*
J - January or February: Ummm August???? (my b-day lol) ok ok, I will say January lol
K - Kids & Names: Jasmine and Nicholas
L - Life is Incomplete Without? The Lord and my family
M - Marriage Date: August 1998
N - Number of Siblings: 3 brothers and 1 sister
O - Oranges or Apples: neither
P - Phobias or Fears: Claustrophobia
Q - Fave Quote: Don't have one sorry
R - Reason to Smile: My children
S - Season: Spring
T - Tag 3 or 4 people: I said wasn't going to...so just consider yourselves tagged lol
U - Unknown Fact about Me: I'm a HUGE fan of anything paranormal...shocker huh?
V- Vegetable You Don't Like: Beets
W - Worst Habit: Annoying my husband
X - Xrays: Chest and Wrist
Y - Your Fave Food: Seafood
Z - Zodiac Sign: Leo, but I don't pay attention to horoscopes or any of that astrology mumbo jumbo
Friday, August 08, 2014
Friday Book Review ~~ Safe by the Marshal's Side
Safe by the Marshal's Side (Witness Protection Book 1) by Shirlee McCoy
I wasn't sure I would like this book since I'm not so much into the mystery and suspense like I was back when I read every Nancy Drew book that was published. However I was pleasantly surprised.
Young mother, Annie (not her real name, it was changed for her protection) and her young daughter Sophia are in protective custody after Annie's husband was shot and killed. The killer also tried to kill Annie, but the gun misfired.
Annie and Sophia have been in protective custody for almost a year, awaiting the trial for the individuals that shot and killed her husband. US Maeshall Hunter Davis and his team have been protecting her. They have been on the run because for some reason someone keeps finding the safe houses and making threats. Finally Hunter makes the decision to hide Annie and Sophia, with the help of his other team members, at his home. He tells no one except those directly assisting him. This keeps them safe until after the trial when tragedy strikes again.
I liked this book. At times I thought the book was going to loose my interest, but there was always something to keep me reading. I recommend reading this book.
Leave me a link to your most recent book review in you comment.
Annie and Sophia have been in protective custody for almost a year, awaiting the trial for the individuals that shot and killed her husband. US Maeshall Hunter Davis and his team have been protecting her. They have been on the run because for some reason someone keeps finding the safe houses and making threats. Finally Hunter makes the decision to hide Annie and Sophia, with the help of his other team members, at his home. He tells no one except those directly assisting him. This keeps them safe until after the trial when tragedy strikes again.
I liked this book. At times I thought the book was going to loose my interest, but there was always something to keep me reading. I recommend reading this book.
Leave me a link to your most recent book review in you comment.
Thursday, August 07, 2014
Nothing too exciting happened today. It was pretty much a normal Thursday. Business was good at both places, which is a PRAISE! We are still praying for the building we would like to buy for the Castle. We are praying the individual will reconsider our offer.
Hubby asked for skillet fried corn tonight. Can you believe the 3 of us ate 2# of corn!!!!!! (the bag had already been opened, so I"m estimating the 2# but that's pretty close) This stuff is really amazing!
While I was cooking the corn I worked on the dishes. Here are before and after pictures of my counter. (That's all of my counter too)
Tomorrow will be Book Review Friday.
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
Books Books Books
Monday, August 04, 2014
Happy Homemaker Monday ~~ 8/4/14
Good Morning! I didn't want to get out of bed this morning. I asked hubby if we could call in sick, but be said "No", so we got up. LOL! What is it about Monday mornings and wanting to be lazy?
The weather outside today: We are supposed to get up to about 90 or so today. Weather tweet from the NWS said we could see spotty random showers today. The rest of the week looks about the same, with a greater chance for rain later in the week. I did turn the AC back on last night, after having cooler temps and not needing it.
Looking outside: From where I am sitting I can't even see outside. I left my laptop home for the boy today. Hubby uses the POS computer most of the time now since the one he normally uses is getting slower and slower. I am using the computer we use to run our Christmas light show. Figured it needed used since it usually only gets used about 4 weeks out of the year.
This morning I have: I've gotten out of bed, dressed, fed the cats, and made it to the shop. I paid a pile of bills, *sigh* and I've made a cuppa Suisse Mocha. I don't know why I buy that stuff, it is nothing more than hot cocoa! I do need to take a walk and pay a bill that is a few doors down, and also go buy more stamps, the post office is a block and a half away, so I will walk there also.
Thinking and pondering: building and land, make offers and how awesome I think this would be to eventually add. Not really as a dance floor, but just something fun for the arcade.
I'm thankful for: I'm thankful that we were able to open and sell food Friday as planned. I'm also thankful that today (Sunday) was a good day.
Breakfast this morning: Just the cuppa suisse mocha
Looking around the house: Need to do a few things. The only dirty dishes in the sink are the ones we just used. That is a good feeling.
On this week's to do list: This week I need to buy cat litter and change boxes, Need to buy cat food. Towels need washed and I really should put the clean clothes away so we can use the basket for dirty clothes
Currently reading: I finished reading Safe by the Marshal's Side, and haven't picked a new book yet.
Watching on the Computer today/this past week: Switched at Birth this week! You can watch it at 7 central on ABC Family. If you don't get ABC Family, you can watch last week's episode HERE. This may be close to my last time watching it.....it is getting pretty stupid. Not what I consider much of a FAMILY show anymore. There is some pretty dumb stuff happening now.
I also watched almost all the Coal House episodes on YouTube. I still have about 10 minutes of the last one to watch. I need to find me some speakers to plug into this computer and I'll finish watching it. Thank you Sandra for the recommendation. I really enjoyed watching it.
On the menu this past week:
Monday We grabbed some burritos from a local taco place.
Tuesday I can't remember
Wednesday I can't remember
Thursday We went out for Pizza
Friday .WE WERE OPEN!!!!!!!
Saturday .For lunch we had belly buster potatoes from a local food vendor
Sunday Had Chinese buffet for lunch
If I have a few minutes to myself this week, I will: Visit some of my favorite blogs again, and sneak in lots of reading minutes and hopefully some video clips on YouTube.
New recipe I tried, or want to try this week: We've been discussing a java and glazed donut shake......what do you think? We may try it this week.....or we may not.
Favorite photo from the camera:
Visiting with blog friends (blog you want to share, blog post that caught your eye): I think I've figured out why I couldn't comment on some blogs.....it has to do with the embedded comment box on blogger. If it's the pop-up I can comment. SO, now that I know that...... I really like reading Jones Clips. Gavin and Carrie are missionaries in PNG. About a year ago they had quints born. I found about them from a news post, and have been following their blog every since. They have recently gone back to PNG.
Praying for: We are still looking into possibly getting a different building and some land next to it.
My niece
Good Business
Approval for a business load to buy the building and land
OK I'm off to pay that bill and get stamps. I can't wait to read everyone's HHM posts this week! Hopefully I've figured out the comment issues I've had.
Linked up with Diary of a Stay at Home Mom for Happy Homemaker Monday
The weather outside today: We are supposed to get up to about 90 or so today. Weather tweet from the NWS said we could see spotty random showers today. The rest of the week looks about the same, with a greater chance for rain later in the week. I did turn the AC back on last night, after having cooler temps and not needing it.
Looking outside: From where I am sitting I can't even see outside. I left my laptop home for the boy today. Hubby uses the POS computer most of the time now since the one he normally uses is getting slower and slower. I am using the computer we use to run our Christmas light show. Figured it needed used since it usually only gets used about 4 weeks out of the year.
This morning I have: I've gotten out of bed, dressed, fed the cats, and made it to the shop. I paid a pile of bills, *sigh* and I've made a cuppa Suisse Mocha. I don't know why I buy that stuff, it is nothing more than hot cocoa! I do need to take a walk and pay a bill that is a few doors down, and also go buy more stamps, the post office is a block and a half away, so I will walk there also.
Thinking and pondering: building and land, make offers and how awesome I think this would be to eventually add. Not really as a dance floor, but just something fun for the arcade.
I'm thankful for: I'm thankful that we were able to open and sell food Friday as planned. I'm also thankful that today (Sunday) was a good day.
Breakfast this morning: Just the cuppa suisse mocha
Looking around the house: Need to do a few things. The only dirty dishes in the sink are the ones we just used. That is a good feeling.
On this week's to do list: This week I need to buy cat litter and change boxes, Need to buy cat food. Towels need washed and I really should put the clean clothes away so we can use the basket for dirty clothes
Currently reading: I finished reading Safe by the Marshal's Side, and haven't picked a new book yet.
Watching on the Computer today/this past week: Switched at Birth this week! You can watch it at 7 central on ABC Family. If you don't get ABC Family, you can watch last week's episode HERE. This may be close to my last time watching it.....it is getting pretty stupid. Not what I consider much of a FAMILY show anymore. There is some pretty dumb stuff happening now.
I also watched almost all the Coal House episodes on YouTube. I still have about 10 minutes of the last one to watch. I need to find me some speakers to plug into this computer and I'll finish watching it. Thank you Sandra for the recommendation. I really enjoyed watching it.
I highly recommend AdBlock via Chrome Extension if you are going to watch online episodes. AdBlock seems to do the trick and prevents most if not all pop-ups. You can enable it and disable it as needed.
On the menu this past week:
Monday We grabbed some burritos from a local taco place.
Tuesday I can't remember
Wednesday I can't remember
Thursday We went out for Pizza
Friday .WE WERE OPEN!!!!!!!
Saturday .For lunch we had belly buster potatoes from a local food vendor
Sunday Had Chinese buffet for lunch
If I have a few minutes to myself this week, I will: Visit some of my favorite blogs again, and sneak in lots of reading minutes and hopefully some video clips on YouTube.
New recipe I tried, or want to try this week: We've been discussing a java and glazed donut shake......what do you think? We may try it this week.....or we may not.
Favorite photo from the camera:
Our church has a free clothing exchange the first weekend of each month. This was one of my finds this time. I LOVE this skirt! I actually came home with 3 plastic grocery bags full of things for me, hubby, and a couple flat sheets that looked like good curtain material.
Visiting with blog friends (blog you want to share, blog post that caught your eye): I think I've figured out why I couldn't comment on some blogs.....it has to do with the embedded comment box on blogger. If it's the pop-up I can comment. SO, now that I know that...... I really like reading Jones Clips. Gavin and Carrie are missionaries in PNG. About a year ago they had quints born. I found about them from a news post, and have been following their blog every since. They have recently gone back to PNG.
Praying for: We are still looking into possibly getting a different building and some land next to it.
My niece
Good Business
Approval for a business load to buy the building and land
OK I'm off to pay that bill and get stamps. I can't wait to read everyone's HHM posts this week! Hopefully I've figured out the comment issues I've had.
Linked up with Diary of a Stay at Home Mom for Happy Homemaker Monday
Sunday, August 03, 2014
FREE Kindle books for Sunday
First of all here are some Free Books on Amazon Today (Affiliate Links). I either have purchased or purchased them (for free) today. I think I may share them from time to time here. Please note that they will not always be free, but they are Free for the date of this post.
Saturday, August 02, 2014
Some Random Thoughts
Here it is Saturday already. Friday was a GOOD DAY! We got to open back up our soda shop/arcade. Therefore I was busier, and more tired when I got home.
Sandra posted recently about Wanting to turn back time. I Love that post!!!!!!! I can relate very well.
I've tried several times to leave Facebook, but because it's how we reach a majority of our customer base for our businesses, it's difficult to just up and leave. I am still an avid Twitter fan though.
I have gone AWOL from it several times and other than one page I am following (local lady and her son were severely injured in a car wreck back in April, and they update her therapy progress and the son's progress on Facebook) and the few friends I talk to, who I just can't seem to talk into moving to some other type of messaging format, and the ease of hollering for HELP when needed between the businesses, it's hard to totally leave.
Anyway Sandra mentioned how blogs used to be the "social media" I used to LOVE reading blogs. I started blogging way back here on blogger (back when it was blogspot, for the boys' flat traveler adventures. That was around 2004 I think. It was so much easier and more cost effective to blog daily and add pictures than to write everything down on paper and spend a fortune to return the visiting traveler. From there I ventured out and created several homeschool blogs, using blogger and homeschoolblogger. There I blogged about our school day, what we were doing, etc. It was the thing to do. From there I deleted all those blogs, and created my own blog here on blogger. I moved it to my own domain, bounced around here and there between blogging formats, deleting, copying, exporting, changing blog names a few times, and even trying a personal/business blog.
The first of this year, I decided to come back to blogger and STAY PUT. I salvaged some posts from 2013. Recipe posts mainly, and a few book review posts (I think) from my old blog. It's still there by the way, but many posts have been deleted or put on "draft" status instead of being published.
Why did I bounce around so much? I think I was just trying to fit in. I wanted to be popular and have thousands of readers and make a lot of online friends. For me it just didn't work out that way. I have made a few bloging friends and those that are still around I check their blogs and try to comment.
Also at times I thought I was telling too much. Posting too much information about family, business, work, etc.
I don't think of myself as a great blogger, and I know I'm not good with words. I know I'll probably never be popular like some and have thousands of readers, but I do appreciate those who stop by and leave comments. It always puts a smile on my face.
Another thing, it seems like all the blogs I tend to read or am attracted to are homemaking blogs and stay at home mom blogs I'm far from a homemaker, and may never be a stay at home mom. My kids are grown now, and all through their growing up both Hubby and I worked. Half way through we started our own business and now have an additional business (no employees at either, it's just us) and we work more hours now than we did before. Kind of by choice and kind of out of necessity just to make ends meet.
I need to find more blogs to read, that are posted to regularly, and that will encourage me. Being self employed leaves me feeling lost and like I have no friends, because we can't go out and do things, or participate in events, etc. Not being open = no income. *sigh*
I'm not trying to sound whiny and complain. I don't know how tiring being a homemaker is, and there is a good possibility you don't know how tiring being self employed is.
Some time back I decided to participate each week with a Happy Homemaker Monday post. It irritated me because the topics, didn't really apply to me because I wasn't a homemaker. I decided to do it anyway, and combined business and home in the post. I think it helps give a better perspective of me, of who I am, and what I do. Many of those posts state that you don't want to look at my house. It's almost always messy! Now I actually look forward to Monday and posting that post, whether I can report my house is clean or "beware don't come visiting". LOL!
I think things are pretty boring around here.....seems like all I do is work and sleep and sneak in reading time, here and there, and try to keep clean clothes, at least in a separate basket than the dirty ones. Every day is nearly the same. Probably like yours! LOL!
Enough rambling. You're probably bored by now. LOL! I DID add the "reactions" to the posts, that way, if you're like me, and don't always have something to comment, at least you can "like" the post in some way. ;-)
See you on Monday for HHM!
P.S. I wrote this at work.
Sandra posted recently about Wanting to turn back time. I Love that post!!!!!!! I can relate very well.
I've tried several times to leave Facebook, but because it's how we reach a majority of our customer base for our businesses, it's difficult to just up and leave. I am still an avid Twitter fan though.
I have gone AWOL from it several times and other than one page I am following (local lady and her son were severely injured in a car wreck back in April, and they update her therapy progress and the son's progress on Facebook) and the few friends I talk to, who I just can't seem to talk into moving to some other type of messaging format, and the ease of hollering for HELP when needed between the businesses, it's hard to totally leave.
Anyway Sandra mentioned how blogs used to be the "social media" I used to LOVE reading blogs. I started blogging way back here on blogger (back when it was blogspot, for the boys' flat traveler adventures. That was around 2004 I think. It was so much easier and more cost effective to blog daily and add pictures than to write everything down on paper and spend a fortune to return the visiting traveler. From there I ventured out and created several homeschool blogs, using blogger and homeschoolblogger. There I blogged about our school day, what we were doing, etc. It was the thing to do. From there I deleted all those blogs, and created my own blog here on blogger. I moved it to my own domain, bounced around here and there between blogging formats, deleting, copying, exporting, changing blog names a few times, and even trying a personal/business blog.
The first of this year, I decided to come back to blogger and STAY PUT. I salvaged some posts from 2013. Recipe posts mainly, and a few book review posts (I think) from my old blog. It's still there by the way, but many posts have been deleted or put on "draft" status instead of being published.
Why did I bounce around so much? I think I was just trying to fit in. I wanted to be popular and have thousands of readers and make a lot of online friends. For me it just didn't work out that way. I have made a few bloging friends and those that are still around I check their blogs and try to comment.
Also at times I thought I was telling too much. Posting too much information about family, business, work, etc.
I don't think of myself as a great blogger, and I know I'm not good with words. I know I'll probably never be popular like some and have thousands of readers, but I do appreciate those who stop by and leave comments. It always puts a smile on my face.
Another thing, it seems like all the blogs I tend to read or am attracted to are homemaking blogs and stay at home mom blogs I'm far from a homemaker, and may never be a stay at home mom. My kids are grown now, and all through their growing up both Hubby and I worked. Half way through we started our own business and now have an additional business (no employees at either, it's just us) and we work more hours now than we did before. Kind of by choice and kind of out of necessity just to make ends meet.
I need to find more blogs to read, that are posted to regularly, and that will encourage me. Being self employed leaves me feeling lost and like I have no friends, because we can't go out and do things, or participate in events, etc. Not being open = no income. *sigh*
I'm not trying to sound whiny and complain. I don't know how tiring being a homemaker is, and there is a good possibility you don't know how tiring being self employed is.
Some time back I decided to participate each week with a Happy Homemaker Monday post. It irritated me because the topics, didn't really apply to me because I wasn't a homemaker. I decided to do it anyway, and combined business and home in the post. I think it helps give a better perspective of me, of who I am, and what I do. Many of those posts state that you don't want to look at my house. It's almost always messy! Now I actually look forward to Monday and posting that post, whether I can report my house is clean or "beware don't come visiting". LOL!
I think things are pretty boring around here.....seems like all I do is work and sleep and sneak in reading time, here and there, and try to keep clean clothes, at least in a separate basket than the dirty ones. Every day is nearly the same. Probably like yours! LOL!
Enough rambling. You're probably bored by now. LOL! I DID add the "reactions" to the posts, that way, if you're like me, and don't always have something to comment, at least you can "like" the post in some way. ;-)
See you on Monday for HHM!
P.S. I wrote this at work.
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