Fun weekend so far!!

Jeff and I had a lot of fun Friday and today. Friday night we went out for a dinner. Nothing to exciting, just some grilled cheese. For some reason grilled cheese on sourdough bread is a wonderful comfort food. I was good and had a salad as a side. Jeff was very sweet and bought me some new clothes at Old Navy. They were having an amazing sale. I needed some more shorts and a few tank tops. It seems to be getting hotter and hotter lately. Not because it is summer time, but every year it feels as if the sun is baking us. I ended up getting this amazing multicolored blue light weight top. I am probably going to wear it on our drive to Vegas in August. As some of you know, I am looking into a new Kindle. Since my old Kindle is not working very well and is out dated. So I asked for suggestions and I think I am going to get a Kindle Fire HD. The only downside is that there is not a camera on it. Other then that, it s a perfect fit. Plus I really want to get some cute covers for it. I have a thing about cute covers. I got myself two new phone covers. One is dark blue with some pretty metalic flowers. The other is a pretty pink with white vines.  I of course had to stop by Barnes and Nobel. I ended up getting two more books and a cute tiny book light to attach to my books. So hopefully I can read at night and not wake Jeff up. He needs his sleep or else he is very grumpy.  Jeff and I will probably just relax tomorrow. I forgot to mention, we went to Downtown Disney today. We wanted to say goodbye to Tom one of our favorite Disney Employee's. He was retiring and today was his last day. We did not get to see him. The good news is that we got to see him last weekend to say goodbye. He is a very sweet older gentleman who has a heart of gold. Jeff was also wonderful and bought me the best pen. It is a giant push pen. I have a thing for push pens. Now I can write something and feel like a giant! We also bought soft chocolate chip cookies. I checked the calorie count and they are only 115 calories per cookie. So I don't feel to guilty if I only eat one cookie!  I hope you all are having a great weekend.

This really pissed me off..People these days..

First off,  like many people I am  just shocked that someone could use someone else's words in their book. Then have the book published. Then I find out today there might be more than one person who has done this. Wow how lazy and stupid can people be? I hope this person gets sued. They ripped off two different authors in two different books. I am not just talking about a line or two. I am talking about full paragraphs! One section looked like it was more than a full page. How lazy and greedy can you be to steal someone else's work? I can't write to save my life, but to steal is just wrong! On a second note, I am really PISSED OFF! An author asked people to ask her questions. I asked her what is her favorite color. She said green. Someone else asked her why did she _______. Which pretty much gave away the ending of this book! I don't want to read it now. You have to understand, I don't forget things like that! The book in on my nightstand! I am now going to return it and go get another of her books. I wish people would think before they do things! I sure hope my day gets better. I hope you all have a good day! On a great note. I have a wonderful father! He is being very very sweet and paying my car registration for me!! Yeah!!! So now I will have more money for books for Naughty Mafia and money for more Toad the Wet Sproket T-shirts!! I am very happy about this!!

Working out,Arms and being bad with chips.

Today I did level 2 of a Jillian Michaels 30 minute dvd. The way I look at it, I am sweating like I am made of water. I am pushing myself. So why the heck should I do over an hour? Sometimes, I do like to do more then 30 minutes. Today was NOT one of those days. On another note, my arms are looking really good. I can see some great definition. It has been a very slow process. It will probably still be a slow process. I am fine with that. I have a major love/hate affair with salt and sugar. Probably more with salt. I love kettle potato chips. I think I had about 15 today. I know I was bad I did not count. I will push myself more tomorrow to make up for those chips. I also LOVE hot peppers. Those are on my diet plan. I have heard and red that hot peppers are good to boost your metabolism. So I try to eat them everyday if I can. I guess you can say I am spicy. ;) I am knitting myself a new beret. It is a light powder blue. It is a new pattern. I have not knitted something for myself in awhile. I love knitting for friends, family and charity.  I just wanted to knit this beret. I am not sure when I can wear it. I am sure it will not work on our Vegas trip in August. Since it is going to be in the teens if not worse. So I will have to wait until it gets colder to wear it.

Restore My Heart by Chelsea Camaron- Book review

Restore My Heart by Chelsea Cameron is a Contemporary Romance novel.
Dina has been in a horrible relationship and gets hurt in so many different ways. Ryder comes in and seems to be like a savior.
Ryder is a player he owns a garage and restores vintage cars.Ryder is learning that being a player is not all it is cracked up to be. Especially when someone from his past is getting in the way of what could be a future with Dina.  Dina is still dealing with her parents death and is reserved with her feelings.

I enjoyed the angst between Ryder and Dina as they deal with their feelings for each other. Can these two people trust one another?
 I give this book 5 stars! I also loved book #2 which is Savaged that continues the story of Maggie and Bryden. Dina and Ryder's best friends and business partners. I hope you love these books as much as I do. I can't wait to read more from this wonderful writer Chelsea Camaron.

Having fun today with some of our oldest "children"

As you know Jeff and I can't have real babies. So our dolls are our children. Today we took Vanessa Adina aka Nessa and our son Lindsey Roddy out for some quality time. Vanessa Adina and Lindsey Roddy I guess you could say are twins. They were "Adopted" on the same day. They both have brown or reddish hair and brown eyes. They are Cabbage Patch dolls. Jeff and I went and had breakfast at the Harborside restaurant. That is on the Balboa Peninsula. I don't think the heavy food of yummy crepes and eggs benedict agreed with us. We got headaches later on in the afternoon and had to take a nap. After we had breakfast, Jeff and I went over to our local AAA Automobile club to take to them about our big vacation. I have decided that we are going to go to Florida in mid January to celebrate my Big number birthday!! No I wont tell you which one it is. Guess! :) Hints are in previous blog posts, so you should know if you are a faithful reader. :) We were supposed to go almost 3 years ago, but did not.This is one of the places I want to go to on my bucket list. The other three are Italy to see the Trevi Fountain, Prince Edward Island in Canada since I am a huge Anne of Green Gables fan! Oh and the other one is Australia. It is going to cost some coin so to speak, but Jeff owes me big time! So he better come threw or else!!! When we were at AAA we also got discount movie tickets! After that we promised Vanessa Adina and Lindsey Roddy that we were going to take them to get new outfits! They are our oldest Cabbage Patch Kids. Let's just say Vanessa was bouncing off the wall for over a week, since I told her about this! We went to a mall first that did not have a Build a Bear, then we ended up at Downtown Disney. To say they got spoiled is an understatement. Vanessa got a cute little outfit that has Gwen Stefani's little dolls all over it. She also got a outfit that has Spongebob on it. It is so cute. The yellow t shirt has Spongebob on it. The shorts or lounge pants ( Vanessa says they are shorts) have Spongebob's face all over them. Lindsey Roddy got a pair of blue jeans with a dinosaur and a hanging chain from them. He says the chain makes him feel tough! The shirt is red black and white plaid with little dinosaurs on it. He also got a nice pair of plaid shorts and a white t-shirt with a dinosaur on it for Vegas. He wants to look cool and feel cool. The total came to over $75 dollars!! Vanessa could not leave without the cute doll head bag and hair bows to finish off her Gwen Sefani outfit. I thought the funniest thing was the "twins" are older then the people that were helping us. The two women helping us were 20 and 26. I started laughing when I told them that Vanessa Adina and Lindsey Roddy were 29 years old. Tonight to make their day even better Jeff and I are taking them to see Monsters University. On a sad note. We got to see Tom our favorite Downtown Disney worker and he is retiring. Good thing we went today. He told us next weekend is his last to be at Disney. So we are going to go there next weekend to say goodbye. He is a sweet man and it's funny when he calls me his girlfriend. Tom is old enough to be my grandfather. That is all for today. Have a good weekend!

New York Times Best Selling Author A.L. Jackson

If you have not read any of her books. These are books, that will grip your from the first page. My favorite is When We Collide. I am looking forward to If Forever Comes which is to be released in September.

If Forever Comes by A.L Jackson Cover Reveal

Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17859033-if-forever-comes

SYNOPSIS:

If Forever Comes, the final chapter in the New York Times Bestselling Regret Series (Lost to You and Take This Regret).
Christian Davison’s life is complete. With a ring on Elizabeth’s finger and his daughter at his side, he’s ready to run headlong into their future.
Elizabeth Ayers never believed she would again find this kind of joy—the joy of a family and the wholeness found in the touch of the man she’s always loved.
Their love is intense and their passion only grows as they set out to rediscover each other.
But life is never easy.
Rocked by the unforeseen, Christian and Elizabeth will find themselves fighting for the one thing they hold most important—family

EXCERPT:

I stood in the hush of the darkened room, the long drapes pushed to the side as I leaned with one hand pressed to the wall just at the side of the window. I stared out, watching as winter pressed down on the city. Snowflakes fluttered toward the ground as they were set free from the inky sky. Through the haze, lights glimmered, and far below, the city was still alive even though night had grown late.
My past seemed to echo from the streets, the memories so thick they almost seemed alive.
I looked over my shoulder and let my eyes wander over the one who inhabited them all.
Elizabeth lay facing me, twisted just to the side, her blonde hair spread out over the pillow where she rested her head. Her chest lifted and fell in a slow cadence, her soft breaths released into the air.
The deepest kind of devotion quickened my heart and pumped fiercely through my veins.
Sometimes it was hard to believe we’d come this far, that this beautiful girl lying across the room from me had been strong enough to forgive me for the greatest mistake I’d ever made, that she was good enough to look past my failure, and that she had the capacity to lie there now, lost in sleep, free of fear and full of love.
A wistful smile tugged at my mouth as my gaze traveled over her perfect body. She wore a short nightgown, the creamy material bunched up over her hip, the length of her legs fully exposed. One arm was draped over her head, and the other was stretched across the sheets in the spot where I had held her in my arms as she’d fallen asleep.
Emotion squeezed my lungs, knocked at my ribs, just as strong as the desire that lifted in a crushing swell before it settled as a subdued ache in the pit of my stomach.
Elizabeth would never stop stealing my breath.
Only because she possessed my soul.
As if she felt the intensity of my stare, she stirred. Those brown eyes blinked open as she adjusted to the dimness in the room. A soft, sleepy smile crept to her lips when she found me watching her in the shadows. She ran her hand over the sheets on my side of the bed. “What are you doing way over there when you’re supposed to be in bed with me?” she whispered.
“Just thinking.”
She lifted up onto her elbow. “And what are you thinking about?”
My mouth tipped up in a slow grin as I made my way over to her. She rolled onto her back just as I crawled over her,
bracing myself on my hands and knees.
“Thinking about you. What else would I be thinking about?” I trailed the back of my index finger down her cheek and along the underside of her jaw. At her chin, I twisted my hand to drag my fingers all the way down her neck to the cleft between her breasts.
A soft breath parted her lips.
“You consume me, Elizabeth,” I said. “Every second.”
Trembling, she reached up to cup my jaw. “Always.”
That word shot straight through me, her touch a firestorm that singed me from the inside out.
And she had it right. I wanted her. Always.
I pressed my hands into the bed on either side of her head, dipped to caress her mouth with mine in the same second her fingers wove through my hair. I could feel her heart hammering, pounding just as hard as mine, this thrum of need spinning through us with the slightest touch.
It’d always been that way.
Always.
I rocked and Elizabeth moaned, our bodies pitching and lifting and seeking, the soft skin of her inner thighs like strokes of fire as they brushed against mine. Our tongues caressed and every last inch of my body hardened. God, there was nothing in this world that felt so good.
I pulled back, one hand gripping the fabric at her hip as I searched her face.
“Elizabeth, I don’t want to wait. I know that’s what we planned, but being here, in this city, it just makes me think of all the time I wasted, and I don’t want to waste any more.”
Shock rolled through her, and brown eyes snapped up to lock on mine. “What do you mean?”
“All of it, Elizabeth…waiting to get married…waiting to add to our family. I want it all…and now…because I want it with you.”
“Christian—”
“Don’t say anything now. I just want you to think about it.”
She grabbed my face. “I don’t need to think about it. I’m ready for this. Ready for us to move on.”
Relief and joy escaped me in a throaty groan. It was all I wanted, to spend my life with her, to spend it with our daughter, to live for my family, to watch grow.
“Oh my God, Elizabeth.” I dropped to my elbows, brought us closer, our kiss frenzied between our words.
“Christian.”
“I love you so much…so much.”
I sucked at her bottom lip, kiss her at the edge of her perfect mouth, dropped to feast along the line of her jaw.
My nose got lost behind her ear, in her hair, in the softness of her skin.
I burned.
Elizabeth arched, silently begged.
I rose to one elbow and grabbed her left hand, kissed the ring she allowed me to place on her finger. “Forever,” I promised against it.
Her heart thudded a little more. “Forever,” she said.
And I couldn’t wait for forever to begin.

Author: A.L. Jackson

A.L. Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of Take This Regret and Lost to You, as well as other contemporary romance titles, including Pulled and When We Collide.

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