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Blind Date with a Book Giveaway

9/29/2024

Here are the questions for November. DO NOT ENTER UNTIL NOVEMBER 1rst. You can copy them in an email and answer them that way. Or go to the Giveaway page and click the Enter button. Make sure to read the rules.

1. How old is Tyler Beck when he dies? Twenty-two, Twenty, or Thirty
2. What is the name of Tyler Beck's band? VH, Bad-Rock, or Danger Zone
3. What is the creature called that almost kills Nick? Border Monster, Ghoul, Reaper
4. Why does Bay-Lee think Nick is dead? He falls into a bottomless pit, A monster bites him, He gets shot
5. What is the tree called that Bay-Lee kills? Fallen Tree, Tree of Death, Devil Tree
6. What happens to the girls at the school when they freeze like mannequins? They all turn into replicas of Bay-Lee, They fall down, They disappear

Now for the MOST important question. This will determine our winner.
7. What is your favorite paranormal/fantasy trope and why?

QUESTIONS??

5/28/2024

I don't want to write a blog. There isn't enough time in the day for me to come up with new topics all the time, and when I get a chance to write, I want to write on my books. So if you have any questions about my books or whatever, leave them here and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

New SUPERNATURAL Addition

12/8/2023

Jensen Ackles (Dean) and Jared Padalecki (Sam) have been hinting that Supernatural isn't quite over yet. Fans are going nuts. SPOILERS AHEAD (if you haven't watched Season 15, you may not want to read on.)

Since it ended with Season 15 and both brothers dead, people have wanted a revival. Well, hold on to your seats. It might just be coming your way. I for one cannot wait. The ending to Supernatural disappointed me. They killed off Dean during a run-of-the-mill hunt. After he had been killed in such interesting and spectacular ways like being blown away, hit by a car, and killed by an angel with a grudge, we were expecting a better ending for him.

Honestly, I don't think it should have been Dean that died. Sam fans are going to hate me for saying this, but I think it would have made more since for him to go than Dean. Sam used to want a normal life, but he'd changed his mind over the years. He was a hunter and going to stay that way. It was Dean who longed for a real family. He got a taste of it when Sam was in Hell, but as soon as Sam returned, things changed for Dean. He couldn't have a normal life anymore.

Dean had been looking out for his younger brother since their father handed Sam to Dean as a baby and told him to take him outside. The house was on fire. So Dean ran out the door with Sam and has been protecting him ever since. Sam doesn't seem to appreciate it or understand it.

Of course, Dean wasn't the perfect brother. We get glimpses of him leaving Sam in the motel room alone while he plays video games, and he used to leave him at a game zone type place infested with clowns. But Dean does take his job to protect Sammy very seriously. We see that when Sam dies at the end of season 2. Dean weeps over his brother's dead body and accuses himself of screwing up the one job that he had to do: take care of Sam. Keep him alive.

If one brother has to die while the other goes on without him, I think it should be Sam. Dean would be free to live his life if Sam wasn't around and he didn't have to protect him. He could have returned to Lisa and Ben. Maybe they could have had children.

Of course, we have no way of knowing what a reboot of the show would mean. Personally, I always thought they should die, go to heaven, and meet up with their father. John Winchester throws a gun into the trunk of his old car (Dean's current ride) and says, "We have work to do."

I would like it if they ended it with the boy continuing the hunt in some way.

I Was Blindsided

12/1/2023

Did you watch the Golden Bachelor? I wasn't going to because I didn't want to see old people making out in hot tubs, but I eventually gave it a try. I was glad I did... until the finale. WTH?? Leslie (the favorite to win) says she was blindsided, and she wasn't the only one.

On their overnight fantasy dates, Gerry said things to her that made it seem like he'd made up his mind and she was the one. Not only did he tell Leslie that he loved her, he waxed poetic about her, saying something about wanting hers to be the last face he sees every night and the first he sees in the morning. What was she supposed to think? I didn't hear him say anything like that to the other woman.

Speaking of the other woman, her name is Theresa, and he chose her in the end. But I don't think that was his original plan. If you go back and watch all of the episodes, you will notice he treats Leslie differently from the other women. She even said he slipped a sweet note into her pocket on a group date. He even admitted to thinking about her when he was with Theresa.

Another thing he did was whisper, "You're my girl," into Leslie's ear more that once. It seemed as though he'd made up his mind and she was the one. If I was her, I would already have my wedding planned out at that point. He made it sound like he was in love with her and already knew he was going to propose to her.

When he and Leslie were riding ATVs, he kept worrying about her and was constantly looking back to check on her. But when he rose horses with Theresa, he just called over his shoulder once, "You good back there?"

Personally, I think he made the final decision with his head instead of his heart. He seemed like a man in love when he grabbed Leslie on their final date and held her close for a long time. He cried. She cried. It was like he didn't want to let her go. Then he told her he was in love with the other woman.

WHAT?! I could not believe my ears. More than once he had called Theresa the 'safe choice.' I guess he decided he wanted to be safe and comfortable (another word he used while talking about her.)

He gave us a hint on the Live show when he said everything changed on their fantasy suite date. Apparently, Theresa told him about her marriage. Just like him, she'd lost her spouse after decades of marriage. So they had a lot in common. He said he realized she knew what it took to make a marriage work, and that's why he chose her. Leslie had been divorced twice. Naturally, he would be worried about marrying someone who hadn't had a long-lasting relationship.

I think she also shot herself in the foot when she met his daughters. They asked her if she would say yes to a proposal. She admitted to having anxiety over it and mentioned she'd never been able to commit. Red flag!

Gerry probably made the right decision, but we'll never really know. My mother had been divorced four times when she met my current stepfather. His spouse had died after years together, like Gerry. And like Gerry, he was worried about marrying someone who hadn't had a successful relationship.

Well, they are together more than twenty years later. Turns out my mother just needed to find a man who wouldn't cheat. Every single man before him had cheated on her. I'm glad my stepfather gave her a chance and didn't do a Gerry. :)

Sad News: Billy Miller Died on Friday

9/19/2023

I'm not doing Top Ten Tuesday today because I am so upset at the passing of Billy Miller. If you didn't know him, he was on Y&R for awhile as Billy Abbott and on GH as Jason Morgan/Drew Cain. He did such a great job on there, but they let him go. After giving him the part of Jason Morgan, they asked the original actor Steve Burton to return to the role. That left Billy hanging. He said it was okay because they offered to let him help create his new character, but they never went anywhere with it. They stuck him behind a desk so he was just playing Billy Abbott again. Worse yet, they took away his on-screen wife Sam McCall even though both actors thought they should stay in a relationship. They had her throw him over for Jason. Eventually, they put him in an elevator never to be seen again. The characters mention he died in a plane crash, but no one seems to give a crap! This upset me so much that I had trouble watching the show after that.

Now they have another actor in the role of Drew Cain, and they had no problem at all giving him a lover and a storyline. That just burns me. No one on there seemed to care when Drew Cain supposedly died, but when he resurfaces with a new actor playing him, these same characters are gushing over him and acting like they care. Oh please. Eye-roll.

Billy Miller's mother sent out a statement to let everyone know that her son was in a deep depression and couldn't go on. That is so terribly sad. If someone with a great career, money, and tons of people that loved him couldn't go on, what about the rest of us?

Top Ten Worst Moms on TV

9/12/2023

Now these are my top ten personal worst moms list. I haven't seen every show out there. So if I missed one or forgot somebody, let me know. These are the ten bad moms to pop into my mind first. What do you think?

1. Peggy Biggs: This is Mike's mom from Mike & Molly. If you've never seen the show, she is a cranky, manipulative shrew. She hates Molly and doesn't try to pretend that she doesn't. In fact, I think she'd prefer it if her son lived with her forever and grew old without finding love. Peggy acts like she loves her dog more than her son. That's pretty funny.

2. Marie Barone: from Everybody Loves Raymond, this is Ray's mom. She lives across the street from Ray and his wife Debra. This location makes perfect sense because she likes to drop in whenever she wants. When Debra wants to make her husband his favorite dinner from childhood, Marie gives her the recipe. She even gives Debra the spices to make it. Of course, she has given her one wrong spice on purpose and put a fake label over the top. Marie is a genius when it comes to keeping her family in line and getting what she wants.

3. Peggy Bundy: This Peggy is on Married with Children. She has no respect for her husband and trades barbs with him in front of the kids. They seem to hate each other. I don't think she has much love for her kids either.

4. Evelyn Harper: This mom is on Two and a Half Men. She is good at twisting the knife of guilt when it comes to her two children. Her favorite thing is telling her sons what disappointments they are to her and how they ruined her figure and her life. She manipulates them into doing things they don't want. Money seems to be the number one thing on her mind.

5. Dr. Beverly Hofstader: She drops in once in a while to insult her son Leonard. I think this woman only had children so she could experiment on them and write books. She's a child psychologist and wrote the best selling "Needy Baby, Greedy Baby." LOL. Unlike some of the other mothers on this list, she always makes me laugh.

6. Frankie Heck: Some people might be surprised to see this one on the list because they love The Middle and think she's a good mom. I don't, and here's why. Frankie lies to her children more often that she tells the truth. She is delusional and comes up with crazy plans that will never work. When she finds a good parenting strategy, she quickly abandons it because she's tired. She also steals from work, and her entire family knows about it. Her kids will probably go to prison someday for stealing or killing someone during a road rage accident. If this was real life, Frankie would already be in jail for at least one of those things.

I could probably write a whole blog post on this woman and the horrible things she does. She chased her son across the yard and knocked him down because she didn't like the socks he was wearing. (He was 18 and going to graduation) She threatens a small child and endangers countless others through the series. Enough said. She's horrible and maybe I will write a whole blog post about her soon.

7. Roseanne: I saw lists of TV bad moms and Roseann's mother is on the list, but she isn't. I used to think her parenting style was funny. As an adult, I don't. Why? Because she leans towards being funny rather than being a good mom. She lets her kids do pretty much what they want when they're little. Then she wonders why they're so rebellious when they are adults.

8. Ellis Grey: This is the MC's mom, and we see her in flashbacks. She was a horrible mother. She shamed Meredith and griped at her and told Meredith that she was a disappointment to her. Ellis pushed Meredith to 'be great' and not ordinary. Loved it when McDreamy stood up for Meredith and told her mother that she IS extraordinary.

9. Beverly Goldberg: Almost forgot this one. She was the mom on The Goldbergs. This woman is so overbearing. She tries to control every single aspect of her children's lives... and succeeds most of the time. If they won't do what she wants, she writes them 18 page letters with fake tears on them.

10. This last one will have to be a shared one because there are SO many terrible TV moms, and I've run out of numbers. How about both moms on the show Mom? They are both alcoholics/drug addicts who put their children through hell. The main character hates her mother for how she raised her, but she has done the same thing to her children. She doesn't want to forgive her mom and constantly needles her for her bad choices. But then she acts shocked and hurt when her daughter treats her that way.

Anyway, that is my list. Join me for another Top Ten Tuesday next week.

Top Ten Disaster Movies

9/5/2023

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday!

I don't know about you, but I love, Love, LOVE disaster movies. To me, a disaster movie can be a natural disaster, a monster tearing up the town, or people on a dangerous quest. Here are my top ten favorites in different categories.

1. Favorite Meteor Disaster: DEEP IMPACT. This movie has a lot going for it. There are several characters with their own stories going on. We have a pushy reporter, a teenager in love, and POTUS, among others. I loved following them and seeing who would live and who would die. It's usually easy for me to figure this out ahead of time, but not in this movie.
And the special effects were INCREDIBLE!! Do yourself a favor if you watch it and bring some tissues. It makes me cry every time.
Runner Up: Armageddon

2. Favorite Alien Disaster: INDEPENDENCE DAY. I can watch this again and again. SO good. Once again we follow a lot of characters with their own personal stories. Love Will Smith as a pilot fighting aliens, but Jeff Goldsworthy was my favorite. He played a funny 'cable guy.' LOL.
And let's not forget Randy Quaid as the nutty guy insisting he was abducted by aliens years ago.
There are just too many great characters in this movie. If you haven't watched it, do it. You'll thank me later.
The special effects are unbelievable. We get to see NY, LA, and the White House blown to bits.
Runner Up: Signs

3. Favorite Shark Disaster: THE MEG. I wasn't sure about this one, because I also really loved Deep Blue Sea. I went back and forth. What puts The Meg out there in the lead for me? There is a romance between the muscular male lead and the brilliant female lead. The woman's little daughter is a scene-stealer, for sure.
Also loved seeing Dwight from The Office as an eccentric billionaire.
Runner Up: Deep Blue Sea

4. Favorite Ocean Cruise Disaster: POSEIDON. I know, I know. You probably expected to hear me say Titanic. I thought about it, but Titanic spent SO much time showing off the ship. It took forever to get to the disaster.
The Poseidon has some great characters including the former mayor of NY City (played by Kurt Russell) and a sexy gambler (played by Josh Lucas) and a cute young couple. She is Russell's daughter and is hiding the fact she is engaged to her young man.
I just love watching people crawl through vents filling with water for some reason. I know, weird, huh?
Runner Up: Titanic

5. Favorite Monster Disaster: CLOVERFIELD. This is one of the most unique and awesome movies I have ever seen. They shoot the whole thing from the perspective of someone with a video camera. The characters are two brothers, their girlfriends, and closest friends at a party when the movie begins. A Godzilla-like monster attacks the city. Watching them try to get out of the city is so much fun.
Special effects are incredible.
Runner Up: Cloverfield Lane

6. Favorite Tornado Disaster: TWISTER. I first saw this in the theater. When we went inside, the skies were clear. When we came out, we were under a tornado watch. I kept expecting to see a twister coming at us through the darkness. That was scary, but the movie was great. I enjoyed it because of the relationship between the two leads. They are divorced. Well, he is trying to get a divorce, but she doesn't want to sign the papers. She's stalling. Before he knows it, he is chasing tornadoes with them.
Runner Up: Into the Storm

7. Favorite Climate Change Disaster: The Day After Tomorrow. This is a good one. It's a little preachy, but I enjoyed watching Dennis Quaid doing whatever he had to do to save his son who is trapped in NY City.
Runner Up: I don't have one for this category.

8. Favorite World Ending Disaster: 2012. Wow! Hard to believe it 2012 was so long ago. I remember watching this for the first time and wondering what the future would hold. John Cusack is in it, I think. Always love movies with him. His little girl on here is a cute scene-stealer. The movie has funny moments and some awesome special effects.
Runner Up: The Core

9. Favorite Earthquake Disaster: San Andreas. It doesn't get any better than watching Dwayne The Rock Johnson rescuing people. In this one, he is trying to get to San Francisco to save his daughter. And the fact he has his ex-wife with him makes this movie a lot of fun.
Runner Up: Earthquake

10. Favorite Zombie Disaster: World War Z. I don't like zombies, but this was good. Hey, Brad Pitt is in it. That alone made it worth watching.

Did I miss any awesome disaster movies that you love? Let me know in the comments.

Top Ten Buffy Episodes

8/28/2023

I remember the night I discovered Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was actually two o'clock in the morning, and I couldn't sleep. I turned the TV on and saw a young girl get hit with a jolt of electricity while skulking around in the boys' locker room at night. Giles (didn't know who he was yet) came running in to see if she was okay. She said something like, "How does my hair look? Is my hair okay?"

And I was hooked.

Here is a list of my ten favorite episodes.

1. Welcome to the Hellmouth: This is the first episode and sets everything up. We meet Willow (and find out she is a nerd that gets pushed around) and Xander (and find out he is goofy) and Giles (the new librarian who knows all about vampires.) Buffy wants nothing to do with Giles or fanged creatures. She isn't very good at reading people and strikes up a friendship with Cordelia. Glad that didn't last.

2. The Pack: I have to include this one on my list because Xander shows another side of himself. He gets cursed at the local zoo and hooks up with a bad gang of kids. The cool thing is he becomes their leader, and there is something about him. I didn't like Xander before this. The actor is good. I thought, this is a Xander I can get onboard with.

3. I Only Have Eyes for You: This one is definitely in my top ten. Ghosts of a teen boy and the teacher he was in love with inhabit the bodies of anyone around at the end of the school day. It leads to death each time until the ghosts possess Buffy and Angelus. LOVE it that there is a gender mix-up and the boy takes over Buffy while the woman takes Angelus. It ends in a kiss between Buffy and her former lover... until Angelus realizes what he's doing. He thrusts her away from him with an angry growl.

4. Band Candy: Have to put this here because Giles and Buffy's mom get their hands on band candy. It takes away their inhibitions and they start acting like teens again. Giles is a rebel without a clue, but kind of sexy. Buffy has to keep her eyes on them, but she doesn't do a very good job. They have relations on a police car. LOL. They are so embarrassed later that they can't even look at each other.

5. The Zeppo: I am adding this one because we follow Xander instead of the gang. They are dealing with something big, and he's just trying to stay alive. The others think they have to protect Xander, so they warn him to stay away and won't listen when he tries to tell them about the trouble he is in. Xander winds up saving the day (and the world), but I don't think anyone ever finds out.

6. Hush: One of the best. Monsters steal the voices of everyone in Sunnydale. Love the way the gang still manages to communicate. I could tell (most of the time) what they wanted to say by their expressions. Good work, guys.

7. Something Blue: Willow accidentally puts a spell on everyone. Spike and Buffy think they are in love and want to get married. That made this episode one of the funniest I have seen.

8. The Body: Sort of hate this one, but it was so well done, so hard not to watch. Buffy comes home and finds her mother done. Sarah Michelle Gellar shows what a phenomenal actress she is right here. "Mom? Mom? MOM?" Then she cries, "Mommy!?"

9. Once More with Feeling: They sing! Some of them aren't that good, but Spike was unbelievably good. Buffy had some good tunes. I really enjoyed this one. Got a good laugh when Xander thought he was going to have to marry a demon. Haha.

10. Tabula Rasa: Willow accidentally steals their memories away. All of them. Such a funny episode. Spike and Giles think they are father and son. Buffy doesn't know who she is, so she picks the name Rose. Anya and Giles think they are married. Demons attack and all hell breaks loose. But I was laughing the whole time.

When I looked over the list of Buffy episodes, I was torn. There are SO many good ones, so many that I love watching. I had to leave out when Spike first appeared and when Buffy killed Angel and when Anya looked like she got killed. I also didn't include the ending, which I loved, because I ran out of room.

What are your favorite episodes?

Top Ten Presents I Have Received

8/15/2023

Next week it's my birthday, so I won't be posting on that day. I'll have enough to do with celebrating my special day AND the release of my new book. It got me to thinking about celebrations and presents. So today I am going to list my top ten favorite gifts (birthday and otherwise) that I have received to date. Here we go.

1. Supernatural Script: a friend gave me a copy of a Supernatural script years ago. It is SO awesome. If you don't know, Supernatural is my favorite show of all-time. The script is for Asylum. They got it on Ebay.

2. My Sweet Sixteen Cake: Okay. It isn't actually a present. The thing is, my family was going through something bad, and we had just moved to another state. To make matters worse, we were WAY out in the country, far away from the nearest town. None of my friends could come to my house for my birthday. I expected it to be a sad, lonely time. But then my mother brought home a surprise cake. It was the prettiest cake I ever saw with teens piped on in colorful icing and little plastic things like a phone, a Coke bottle, and a record player. I'll never forget it. That cake made my birthday.

3. Cat Puzzle: I got an amazing puzzle for Christmas one year. After I put it together, I had it framed, and it's on my wall to this very day. It was a hard puzzle, too.

4. A stereo: When I was a kid, my parents surprised me at Christmas with a really nice stereo.

5. Music Box: When I was a tween, we didn't have very much money, and it was Christmas. My stepfather didn't have a job, and my mom didn't make much at hers. So I wasn't expecting to have a good Christmas. We barely had enough food in the house. Then someone signed us up to get help from a local church. They gave us some food and gave me and my brother both a present. Mine was a music box, the kind with the twirling ballerina that you give to little kids because real jewelry wouldn't fit in there. My mom didn't think I would want it, but I loved it. I still have it, and it still works. It reminds me to be grateful for everything, reminds me that there are good people in this world that care, and reminds me that I need to be generous when I am prospering so that maybe I can make someone else feel the way that I felt that year.

6. Supernatural Keychain: Awesome gift! Love to get presents based on the show.

7. Supernatural Bracelets: Okay, one more Supernatural item. I admit that I bought these two things for myself and picked out each charm. One has a D for Dean and things like a pie slice, the Impala, an airplane (because he doesn't like to fly) and a sign that reads: Saving People. Hunting Things. The Family Business. The other has an S for Sam, a clown, a cute tiny bottle of salt, and a sign that says: Salt n Burn.

8. Dragon Journal: someone gave me a journal that is black with a bright red design that looks like a red flower that is losing a petal. I call it my Dragon Journal because I'm writing about my dragon book in it.

9. A Horse Blanket: No, it isn't a blanket that goes on a horse. It has a horse ON it. This has been my favorite blanket for about 30 years. It was given to me when I was a kid, and it still reminds me of my grandmother's house. Unfortunately, it is falling apart. I'm still looking for a replacement.

10. Grandmother's Jewelry Box: My grandfather gave it my grandmother before they were married, and she gave it to me before she died. It's beautiful, shiny black with a painted garden scene on top and a secret compartment inside. Reminds me of her, so it is one of my favorite things.

I won't be back for Top Ten Tuesday next week because it will be my birthday, but I will see you a week later. Remember to return. I think the next Top Ten will be about Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Top Ten Hilarious Church Signs

8/7/2023

I love funny church signs. Here are my favorite ten. Hope they make you laugh. Or at least give you something to think about.

1. The fact that there is a highway to hell and only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the expected traffic.
2. No SPF needed to spend time with the Son.
3. God recycles. He made you from dust.
4. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
5. Need a lifeguard? Jesus walks on water.
6. Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
7. Can't sleep? Talk to the shepherd.
8. We have a prophet sharing plan.
9. Jesus said, "I'll be back," long before Arnold did.
10. We are not Dairy Queen, but we do have great Sundays.

There you have it, my top ten list for awesome church signs. I still had a few left over, so here are some bonus ones.

1. Feeling warm? This church is prayer-conditioned.
2. God wants full custody, not just weekend visits.
3. If God is your co-pilot, you need to switch seats.
4. This is your sign to come to church.
5. Church parking only. Violators will be baptized.
6. The best vitamin for a believer is B1.
7. Our sign broke. Come inside for the message.
8. Jesus is our Get-Out-of-Hell-Free card.

If you know of any funny ones that I missed or thought-provoking ones, leave it in the comments. Thank you.

And remember to return next week for another Top Ten Tuesday.

Kasi Blake

My superpower? I can figure out what's going to happen in a movie/show sometimes before opening credits. My record was the time I guessed the surprise ending by just watching the scenes. Sadly, my friends don't appreciate my superpower.

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