Still no free downloads

for Tina Reber's romance novel Love Unscripted.  I don't expect that will change.

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To those who are looking for a free download of Tina Reber's incredible novel, Love Unscripted:


There isn't one.  You have to buy it from your country's amazon.com.


Thank you.


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There is no free lunch

Okay, all you people who are trying to find a free download of Tina Reber's fabulous book, Love Unscripted:

There are no free downloads of Love Unscripted.  Tina said so.  Since she wrote it, she should know.

If you live in a country where you can't get the e-book from Amazon, you're probably out of luck.

She's working on the second book in the series, Love Unrehearsed.  I'm looking forward to it :)


Oh, and--83 days!

Now, only 96 more days

Still up, still wide awake.  Still waiting for Breaking Dawn Part 1.

Eye candy :)

97 Days!

As Georgi so sweetly put it, "I knew you couldn't keep it up three whole days in a row."

99 Days!

(Yes, I'll more than likely be totally annoying about this.)

100 days!!!

*pops in*

100 days till Breaking Dawn part 1 opens!  I'm hoping to go to the midnight show with my nieces up in Virginia.

*pops out*

Life

I had such good intentions.

Really.  I did.

But as usual, nothing happened.

Life, and construction, sort of got in my way.  Around the first of the year, we got started on our remodeling in earnest.  We hired Bob the Builder (whose name really IS Bob, and he's a contractor) to come in and rip out the old windows, install new ones all over the house, install the subflooring in the living room and master bath and closet (it's amazing how much faster it goes with a nail gun!), put up new, nice clean drywall in the living room, hall, and kitchen, remove the two stupid in-the-way poles in the living room that were holding up the upstairs and replace them with a nice strong engineered beam which looks SO much better, on and on.

This weekend Tom's brother, Ken, is coming down to redo our plumbing and put down our new tile.  Jennifer primed the living room and kitchen, and Tom has painted part of the living room a nice creamy color.  Today he added textured paint to the ceiling to hide the drywall joins, and I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

We've basically run out of money, so the kitchen cabinets and countertops will have to wait while.  We have designed it, so we know what we want, and so Tom could rewire the kitchen for the new placement of the appliances and the outlets.

We have a new front door, a new sliding glass door in the kitchen (that will eventually lead out to the deck, when we have one), a new doggie door that Katie learned to use in virtually seconds, pocket doors for the master bedroom and hall half bath, a French door for the library, and bifold doors for the pantry and utility area in the kitchen.  Bob tore down the wall the between the kitchen and the living room; it had to be rebuilt because it wasn't under the beam holding up the upstairs and was 6" off being straight from the corner to the stairs, and once it was down, we decided to leave it open.  It's amazing how much brighter the house is with that wall gone and new doors and windows and new drywall and light-colored paint.  Already it no longer looks like a dilapidated wreck.

Bob also slapped together a handrail for the porch steps.  They need to be replaced, but it'll have to wait.

We brought in an exterminator to take out the bees that had gotten into the soffits upstairs; Tom cleaned up three garbage cans of honey!  The county requires that the bees be killed rather than relocated because African killer bees are in the area and they don't want them to breed.  I hate it, but these bees are already angry, so let's get rid of them!  Also, they're on the side of the house next to the pool, and they've driven us out of it.....

I'm flying to Richmond every 6 weeks for appointments with my retinologist, Dr. James Combs at the Virginia Eye Institute.  Bascom-Palmer in Miami (the "mecca" of treatment for people with Wet Macular Degeneration) charges for a hospital outpatient visit in addition to the doctor's charge, so it ended up costing us about $1000 a visit--and that's WITH insurance.  So I'm now flying to Richmond, visiting my family, and seeing the doctor that I like for less than it costs to go to Miami for a few hours!

This time I'm flying out of Key West.  Sometimes I fly from Orlando, since Jennifer and family live there and I can visit them too.  However, it's a 7-8-hour drive (and gas here is $3.69 a gallon), takes two tanks of gas (I love my Prius!  It gets 50-55 mpg regularly.) and a lot of time.

I've been knitting a sweater--for me!  It's a cardigan called Pole (Ravelry link) by Joji Locatelli.

I am so in love with this pattern!  I'm knitting it in Claudia Hand Painted Yarn in the Turquoise Jeans colorway, which is sooo gorgeous. My yarn is lighter in color than this, more like faded jeans.

The sweater, when finished, will be blocked (*groan*) intensely, making it lightweight and perfect for taking into air-conditioned restaurants and wearing in our chilly (50s-60s) winter weather.

And--I'm going to be selling Claudia's yarn!  I have to call and set up an account, make my first order, and I'm in business!  I'm not sure how I'm going to do this; ebay charges eat into profits, but it's the easiest way.  However, after I get this going, I'll put the yarns on here and you can order that way, if any of you are interested.  I plan to sell it at less than retail.

Katie's a real doll.  She's such a smart baby.  We celebrated her first birthday on Feb. 7, which was the first anniversary of Zippy's death.

So, what have I left out?  OH--I bought a Kindle right after Christmas!!!  I absolutely love it.  I've downloaded over 300 books, the vast majority of them free.  I get a bunch from Amazon, some from Smashwords.  There are pages on facebook that list free and inexpensive ebooks as they become available.  (Yes, I have all of the Twilight series on my Kindle.  Of course.)  When I travel, I used to take a book for each day I'd be away.  Now I just take my Kindle.  My oldest granddaughter has loved using it when we're together.  I downloaded a bunch of classics and books that I thought she'd enjoy.  In just a couple of afternoons she read over half of Alice in Wonderland.

I've enjoyed going to the beach at Bahia Honda this winter.  I usually wade in the water (at high tide, it's actually up to my knees) and take photos and enjoy the sun.  Due to the direction from which the wind was blowing, the Atlantic side of the island was inundated with jellyfish and Portuguese man-of-wars, making it sort of dangerous to be in the water.  Those being beached were immature ones, small, but those tentacles can reach up to 50 feet in adults!  Many people were swimming and splashing and I haven't heard of anyone being stung, but with that many dead creatures in the water and on the beach, I can't imagine how they've avoided it.

For some reason, I can't download the photos from my phone.  They're on there, all right, but my computer can't "see" them.  Stoopid Android.  Stoopid laptop.

I can't believe that I'm getting so many hits on a blog that hasn't been updated in three months--till I checked the keywords most looked at--every one pertains to naked women at Fantasy Fest.  *sigh*

Photos will come as I can access them.  I haven't used my "real" camera lately because the Android camera works pretty well.

Hi there!

If you guys come here looking for pictures of NAKED WOMEN from FANTASY FEST, would you do me a big favor and leave a comment? I know you're looking at my photos, and I'd really like to say hi to you!

Once I know that people are reading my page--and leaving comments--I'm going to run a contest. So please, leave comments!!!

Tina's having a contest!

Tina Reber, author of Love Unscripted and my own personal BFF, is having a really cool giveaway on her website. Check out her blog and enter the contest. And while you're at her website, scroll down to the bottom of the home page and click to read the first 6 chapters of Love Unscripted. I think you'll love it.



AND she's once again #6 on Amazon!!!

Electric Barracuda

Promo video for Tim Dorsey's new book, Electric Barracuda. I'm at 1:46.

She's #4!

This morning, Love Unscripted by Tina Reber, was #4 on Amazon's list of Bestsellers in Women's Fiction! Just above her, at #3, was Jody Picoult. Love Unscripted is currently at #6. Pretty damn impressive for a self-published author!

Congratulations, Tina, you deserve it! May you make it to #1 with this book and all the others that you'll write.

Geeeezzzzz

Why do I find such things so amusing? I stole borrowed these from (excuse my language, please) Fuck Yeah Jumping Rob; you may go there to see page after page after page of these things.

The original photo from the set of Breaking Dawn 1 in Brazil:



It's an unfortunate shot. He's so pretty. Usually.



So here are my favorites:



























Poor, poor Rob.

Look what came in the mail today! :)

Wow, Tina, you rock!!!


That's a real, honest-to-God signed-by-Rob-himself autograph.


Be still my heart, it came from the London premiere of Remember Me.

PocketEdward™ saw the photo and didn't know what to think.


Captions, anyone?

THANK YOU, Tina!!!

Christmas

It's not too early to make my Christmas cards! And I know what they'll be:

One year

till

I know where I'll be.

Key West, a new best friend, and some knitting

When we were in Key West on Saturday, I took a few photos.

We went to Island Books to have some books signed by one of our favorite Florida authors, Tom Corcoran. He's written a series of books set in Key West, and that's where I got the idea to have a shower on our deck. An outdoors shower in the Keys just sounds so decadent.


He's a nice guy. He said that he self-published his last book after being with Putnam for years. He wasn't happy with the way they handled him, so he struck out on his own this time. He loves it. He writes what he wants, when he wants, and he doesn't have to answer to anyone else. He loves Kindle.

As we walked back to the car, I took a few photos. Katie wasn't impressed with the dog-friendly fire hydrant.


Joan, do you remember where we saw the Spanish lime tree? I found it several years ago when Tom, Donna, and I spent a few days in Key West, but I've looked and looked the last few trips and we can't find it again. Was it on Elizabeth Street? I thought that's where it was, down a little from the library.

This lovely little lady was sitting right here when we parked the car; she was still there when we returned. She posed very prettily; I think she's a guard cat.





I guess I haven't told you about our new baby, Katie. She's the pretty little thing ignoring the doggie hydrant. She was found running on a busy street up in Homestead on the mainland. A woman from This Is the Dog! rescue luckily saw her and managed to capture the little wild beast. At the end of September I started seriously looking for a new canine friend and found This Is the Dog! online, with Katie's photo:


That smile is what convinced me that I didn't really want a Chihuahua. I'd said no more dogs with hair; grooming is so expensive and we really can't afford that on our budget. But that face just hit me right in the heart and I was sold. I emailed the rescue, sent in an application, and on October 2, Tom and I went to Homestead and adopted Katie.



On the drive home, she sat on the console between us and gave me this look:


I should have known then that she'd be a challenge......

She's just a puppy, about 8 months old at that time, our vet thinks. Oddly enough, the day we took her to the vet was...8 months to the day after Zippy died.

I didn't want a puppy; I wanted a more settled dog that was already housebroken. While she'd been trained to sleep in a crate, she was NOT housebroken. It's been fun. Finally we've learned her signals and are doing pretty well, especially since it's been cool enough to leave the door open all day. She's in and out all day long, tearing around the yard, leaving toys all over the place, terrorizing the lizards and geckos, chasing the cats, stalking grasshoppers. This morning she'd "cornered" a hermit crab; I'd never found one in the yard, didn't know there were any around, but she found one. It was not a happy crab, either! I didn't stop to take a photo of it because she was dead set on getting it back, and it was pinching me, so I put it on the other side of the fence. A few minutes later, I heard her barking again; the damned crab had crawled back through the fence and she had it again. This time I tossed it instead of gently placing it; it went in another direction after that.

Some photos of our little girl:

At the Islamorada Fish Company in (duh) Islamorada, where we stopped for dinner after we picked her up, she lay on the chair next to me and calmly watched birds while we ate.



Her first night with us:



Her introduction to the pool:







At the beach:



Her favorite place to ride:




Her favorite place to find crispy treats:



We're going to take Katie home to Virginia with us for Thanksgiving, and it's going to be a little cooler there than it is here (80 today), so I knit a little dress for her.





Deets:

Little Black Dress with Pearls by My Savannah Cottage (scroll down; all of her patterns are on that page)
Yarn: Lily Chin Gramercy, a superwash yarn, about 1.6 balls
Needle: US 6
Mods: This yarn is DK weight and the pattern calls for worsted, so I used the instructions for the largest size. Turned out just right, although if I make it again, I'll make it longer. It only took a few evenings to knit this up; it's very easy. Those ruffles are a pain with quadruple the stitches, but they're so damn cute.