Sweater Weather Tag

TAG QUESTIONS::

1. Favorite candle scent? Apple & Cinnamon
2. Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate? Hot chocolate
3. What's the best fall memory you have? Raking leaves with my dad and hanging up holiday lights
4. Which makeup trend do you prefer: dark lips or winged eyeliner? Dark Lips
5. Best fragrance for fall? anything apple or cinnamon
6. Favorite Thanksgiving food? the turkey
7. What is autumn weather like where you live? Autumn in SC is basically all four seasons wrapped into one
8. Most worn sweater? My Walkers in a Winter Wonderland sweater from The Walking Dead
9. Must-have nail polish this fall? any dark color nail polish from essie or Revlon
10. Football games or jumping in leaf piles? FOOTBALL
11. Skinny jeans or leggings? skinny jeans
12. Combat boots or Uggs? I have to say both
13. Is pumpkin spice worth the hype? No I hate it!!
14. Favorite fall TV show? NCIS and The Walking Dead
15. What song really gets you into the fall spirit? I don't really have any certain songs from the seasons, just the holiday season.

Freebie Haul 9/26- 10/1

It was a small haul week. I am definitely going to be going through my freebie stash that is building up and dump or use. I am needing more room. Since the holidays are coming up, I am wanting to purge a lot. I know I bitch a lot about not getting much on some weeks, but this small haul this week was welcome.

Monday: One magazine today.

October 3, 2016 issue of Us Weekly

Tuesday: Got another magazine and my Friday freebie from Family Dollar that I requested last month.

Forbes magazine

Suave coconut oil infusion shampoo

Wednesday: Today was a big freebie day. 

The Monogram Murders from a Goodreads Giveaway win

November 2016 issue of Taste of Home and coupons

October 2016 issue of allure magazine

Allure magazine freebies

Thursday: Only one freebie today and it was the new Jo Malone perfume sample

Friday: Luna got her own little freebie today

Temptations Tasty Chicken Flavor cat treats from Wal-Mart

Saturday: I got two long awaited packages today.

my pinchme box: Scotchbrite scrubbing dish cloth & Purina cat food coupons

Amope heel gel inserts crowdkit from CrowdTap.

School Week 7 Photo Diary

Another week has come and gone. Seven weeks down and it is definitely hard to believe, but I am getting into a rhythm. At the beginning of the weeks after Cayce's days off, we start the days early and then nearing the end, I am so ready to just get the week over with and we start late, almost near noon.

Monday:  It was mostly a computer work day and more learning about the seven wonders of the world. We had a regular start day, and it was needed.

They switched up reading eggs and workbooks. They enjoyed doing those and then we spent the rest of the day with watching youtube videos on the Temple of Artemis.

Tuesday: Started the day with lesson pathways. I am so glad that website is still up. They made their own Olympic wreath crowns and then they did wordsearches.

Addy had to do her own little worksheets for her speech classes

She was excited to be the first one done with her Greek creature and events word searches. To finish the day, they learned about the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

Wednesday: On Monday, I had plans to talk about Johnny Appleseed, since it was his birthday, but that didn't happen. So, we learned about him today. We watched some videos on YouTube and they did a crossword.

Sammy got finished first, so she went straight to reading eggs. When Ariana got done, she went to her reading eggs and Sammy started her third page of her coloring book.  

 Looking so pretty. All that blue. After she got done with her coloring, they both did quiet time. 

To end the day, we watched Hercules. They watched it at my parent's house and have been wanting to see it again.

Thursday: Today wasn't much of a photo day. We caught up on a few days of Easy Peasy and sis more history on lesson pathways.

They learned about the Mausoleum of Hallicarnassus. It was pretty much a boring and tense day. Tempers got really high today.

Friday: Today was a really late start to the day and I was considering cancelling the day and pushing it onto Saturday, but Cayce took over and they took a field trip to the Lake Murray Dam. It was a hot day with no shade and they got red really quick but they had plenty of water. But before they went, they did their morning routines and we read another fairy book.

I am going to try to start filling out this post after every school day. I am getting to overwhelmed with keeping up with these school posts and freebie hauls on the same night.

2016 Reading List Update 3

Books read: January- March

1. Oasis (The Last Humans #1): Dima Zales
2. Buddhism for Beginners: Thubten Chodron
3. Buddhism for Dummies: Jonathan Landaw
4. Strange Candy: Laurell K. Hamilton
5. Guilty Pleasures: Laurell K. Hamilton
6. The Laughing Corpse: Laurell K. Hamilton
7. Circus of the Damned: Laurell K. Hamilton
8. The Lunatic Cafe: Laurell K. Hamilton
9. The Silver Linings Playbook: Matthew Quick
10. Bloody Bones: Laurell K. Hamilton
11. The Killing Dance: Laurell K. Hamilton
12. Enamored: Claudia Shafer
13. A Catered St. Patrick's Day: Isis Crawford
14. Burnt Offerings: Laurell K. Hamilton
15. Romeo and What's Her Name: Shani Petroff

Books read: April- June

1. Blue Moon: Laurell K. Hamilton
2. Obsidian Butterfly: Laurell K. Hamilton
3. Narcissus in Chains: Laurell K. Hamilton
4. Cerulean Sins: Laurell K. Hamilton
5. Incubus Dreams: Laurell K. Hamilton
6. Big Trouble in Little China: John Carpenter
7. Black 21: Nancy Glynn
8. Rose's Sin: Nancy Glynn
9. Micah: Laurell K. Hamilton
10. The Martian: Andy Weir    
11. Diary of an AssCan: A Mark Watney Short Story: Andy Weir
12. The Legend of Korra: The Art of the Animated Series: Book 1: Michael Dante DiMartino
13. Danse Macabre: Laurell K. Hamilton

Books Read: July-September

1. The Harlequin: Laurell K. Hamilton
2. Cinderella vs. Prince Charming: Lauren D.M. Smith
3. Tiger Lily of Bangkok: Owen Jones
4. Blood Noir: Laurell K. Hamilton
5. Skin Trade: Laurell K. Hamilton
6. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany
7. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: (Newt Scamander) J.K. Rowling
8. Flirt: Laurell K. Hamilton
9. Bullet: Laurell K. Hamilton
10. Charlotte's Web: E.B. White
11. I Don't Know What You Know Me From, Confessions of a Co-Star: Judy Greer
12. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens
13. The Man in the High Castle: Phillip K. Dick
14. Hit List: Laurell K. Hamilton
15. The Initiate: Laura L. Fox
16. Kiss The Dead: Laurell K. Hamilton
17. Mae the Panda Fairy: Daisy Meadows (girls school)
18. The Littles: John Lawrence Peterson
19. Kitty the Tiger Fairy: Daisy Meadows
20. 11/22/63: Stephen King
21. Mara the Meerkat Fairy: Daisy Meadows
22. The One You Love: Paul Pilkington

First Date Outfit: Horse Riding

I put this outfit together after talking to my friend who owns horses. We tell each other everything and he inspired a lot of things for my stories that I want to make books one day. One question I asked him was what his idea of a perfect first date should be. He painted a gorgeous picture of a horseback ride to a secluded lake where a picnic lunch would be waiting. I asked him what the guy should wear and he told me what he would wear. I pictured him as my main male character in this particular story and I envisioned my female character as wearing this outfit.

1. Jane Norman Printed tier cami vest top
2. Gsus sindustries THE CHERRY Slim fit jeans
3. Women's Durango Classic Western Boots
4. Aurélie Bidermann Dreamcatcher Gold-Plated Pendant Necklace
5. Tousled Fishtail Braid (picture brunette instead of blonde)

I hope you enjoyed this little outfit post. I really enjoy posting this outfit choices. I want to start planning out my characters outfits, as a little more inspiration. If you want to follow me on Polyvore, click here.

Goodnight everyone!

Review: Initiate by Laura L. Fox

I think it was a month or so ago, I signed up to be a reviewer for a book that OfTomes Publishing was releasing. It is called Initiate by Laura L. Fox. It is a YA sci-fi, not quite but close dystopian novel.

(Source: Initiate Goodreads page)

I will be pasting my review that I published on Goodreads here in this post.

**Goodreads Review**

This book was an edge of your seat thriller.... I loved it. I am not a huge science fiction reader and most of the ones I do pick up, get put down because they don't pique my interest, but damn this one got me. I loved how it was set underneath Antarctica, and that it was a post apocalypse time frame, and aliens. By the way, I TOTALLY ship Rhys and Riga!!!

I do have a lot of questions that I am hoping will be answered in the second book, and is her dad still alive? Are they going to encounter any bears or see more whales.

Thanks to OfTomes Punblishing for sending me an ARC to review. It was absolutely amazing and exhilarating!!
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I gave this book a 5 out of 5 stars and I want to thank Ben from OfTomes Publishing for allowing me the opportunity to read and review this amazing book. I can't wait for the second book to come out.

 For all of you guys, if you want to read this book, it will be out on November 15.

Review: Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton

I know I have bee saying this for the past few reviews for this series, but this one is now my #1 favorite. I like all the ones with Edward in them basically. It wasn't all about the sex and it was all about her day job as vampire executioner.

We get to learn more the Harlequin and how the Mother of All Darkness is supposedly dead. Yea right!! I am really sick of the Harlequin and their rules, but I like how they are split. Some are still following Mommie Dearest orders and the rest are protecting the gold tigers that are in hiding.

The story starts off with Anita and Edward on a manhunt for a serial killer that is killing clanless were tigers. They have already figured out that the Harlequin are the killers. Anita once again has to prove to the marshals that she is working with her, that she can hold her own and that she is loyal. She keeps having to prove herself to everyone and it is getting kind of annoying that she has to do it and the higher up that doubts her and gets frustrated and angry is getting really old in these stories.

I think that's what I like about the books with Edward in them because it's never the same. They have that friendship, but you will never know if the author just had a mind fuck and decided hey, let's finally decide who is better... Anita or Edward. I am also hoping that she will finally put Edward and Anita together because Anita has no other option. Edward is willing if need be and there is no one else Anita is comfortable with, but it never happens.

The one thing that really got me and made me terrified and wanting to rush to read more was Olaf's new storyline. OMG.....WTF!! As if he wasn't a dangerous motherfucker to begin with, he had to go and become a were lion. The next fucked up thing that Laurell K. Hamilton can do next is make Olaf's lion the Rex that Anita's Regina is looking for.... good Lord!

Just go read this.. it's amazing and not filled with the same sex acts from the previous novels. I always think I can't wait for this series to be done.. when it's sex after sex after sex.. but then she throws Edward and actual police work with minimal sex and I want more. I actually want to read more about her zombie raising job... the roots man!!!