Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read


• Open to a random page


• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page


• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)


• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

I even thought about who he might be - who he really was under all that blue black leather. Try as I might, though, I couldn't figure out his true identity.

Jinx by Jennifer Estep

2012 Reading Challenge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fantasy Fiction

Karma Girl by Jennifer Estep (January)

Hot Mama by Jennifer Estep (January)
Jinx by Jennifer Estep (January)

Mystery Fiction

Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich (January)

Mystery

Real Murders (Aurora Teagarden Series #1) By Charlaine Harris (January)
A Bone to Pick By Charlaine Harris (January)

Total: 6

WWW Wednesday

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

My answers...

• Currently - Aurora Teagarden Mysteries Real Murders by Charlaine Harris


• Recently Finished - Jinx by Jennifer Estep


• Next I'll be reading - I plan to continue the series

2012 Book Challenges

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read


• Open to a random page


• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page


• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)


• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

I dried off in about three seconds, went into the bedroom, and flicked on the light in my closet to begin my search for the perfect first-date outfit.  I wanted something cool, something sophisticated, something that said, We'll probably have sex if you behave yourself and buy me a nice, big dinner first.

Hot Mama by Jennifer Estep

Ethan's Hand vs the Car Door

I am literally still sick to my stomach. I was hustling the kids to gymnastics this afternoon and didn't think twice when I locked the car door and slammed the door shut. It didn't catch all the way and I leaned forward to give it a shove when I realized Ethan's hand was in the door. Shit! I lifted the handle and pulled, the door didn't open. Ethan started wailing. Shit! I hit the unlock button and pulled again, hard enough that the door handle came off in my hand and I stumbled backwards. Shit, shit, shit! At gymnastics between classes a teacher is assigned to the door to greet people and I'm sure watch to make sure no children make a break for it without their parents. I motioned for one to come.  And she hearing Ethan realized something was wrong and started to run to us. As she ran out, I called to her. "His hand is stuck in the door. It's jammed, I'm going to try to open it from the inside." At this point, thank fully a Dad ran over. He couldn't open the door either but took my place inside of the car. Another father, drove past and saw what was going on. He stopped in the middle of the parking lot and came to help. I looked at him and yelled "A crow bar, we need a crow bar" He went to his car and brought back what has to be the largest flat head screw driver I have ever seen. So large that I first thought he was bringing the tiniest crow bar I'd ever seen. There was, thankfully, a small gap in between the door and the car. He put it at the top and the worker and I pulled while the other father pushed from the inside. We got that pulled open and his pointer and middle finger were free. He moved it down further and we pushed and pulled until Ethan could pull his fingers out. I wanted to cry and scream right along with him, I was so scared. The father with the screw driver  said" okay, now he's out, you don't want to take any chances take him to the er and get him xrayed" I checked out his hand and it looked alright. He was able to move all his fingers and other then a cut on one finger and a line across the others he was fine. We went inside and another coach had an ice pack ready for him.

One of them had called an ambulance and the paramedics came in to talk to us. They had Ethan bend his fingers just as I had done by the side of the car and asked if they could help us any further. With nothing left to do they left. Ethan sat for a moment and I asked if he wanted to go home or if he felt like he could or wanted to go to class. He said he wanted to see if he could do his back flip so sat there for a little while longer and then went to class. I was shocked. Years earlier Craig had closed my hand in the same damn door and I can assure you if I could have done them I would not have been wanting to do back flips after it happened. He was fine and so I let him go to class with the understanding that if it hurt too bad he would stop. By the time class was over the cut on his hand had already healed. It always amazes me how quickly my kids heal. I feel like less then crap and will probably be letting him get away with way to much for a little while.

Menu Plan Monday

Sunday - Pork tenderloin, twice baked potatoes, and shells and cheese

Monday - not home so we eat out

Tuesday - Creamy chicken pockets

Wednesday - Frozen food ( we're at dance so husband has to cook)

Thursday - Southwestern Egg Rolls

Friday - Steak and baked potatoes and salad

Saturday  -frozen food

Blog Dare 2012 - Dreams

 

Dreams, lol, since becoming a mom I don't have much time to dream, be it day or night.

Last night, I dreamed that my Kindle broke in half, I woke up devastated.  The Kindle revolutionized my life, I was able to be a bookworm after children. I don't spend all of my reading time trying to find my spot because small fingers pulled out my bookmark.

I have had a handful of dreams that have stuck with me through the years.

When I was in middle school my grandfather, Robert, passed away after a hard fight with cancer.  When he died we knew it was coming, we'd known for weeks. He spent at least a month withering away in a hospital bed.  I can't imagine he was happy in his last days, looking back I know realize he was probably doped up on pain killers and out of it. He couldn't see, hear, or talk.

The night that he died I dreamed of our family sitting in his study. We were sitting there waiting for someone to talk to us. Robert walked in, in a white suit, with a white aura. He told us that he would be okay and that he would miss us. We said our goodbyes and he left.  It was very peaceful.

For years after that I had nightmares about my grandparents house, dark evil figureless shadows haunting my grandfather's study and the bedrooms.  We lived next door to my grandparents and I avoided those rooms until I had children and could no longer do so.

Have you seen Road Trip? I love that movie and when I was pregnant with my son I had a dream that my husband had an affair with Rhonda. It cracked me up and I still tease him about it even though it was almost 7 years ago.

 

 

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