Photo Blogging #Challenge May 2015 theme: #Spring #photoblog

May 2015

May’s theme for the photo blogging challenge hosted by http://hoohaablog.com was Spring.

I did a lot in the month of May. So again, the hardest part about this was deciding which pictures to use. Enjoy! I welcome your comments 🙂

Photo #1
Every May, there is a golf tournament that is held in our community. It is part of the Symentra tour and the ladies participate to be able to get a card on the LPGA tour. I volunteer for help because it is a fun event. Plus, a portion of the proceeds go to local non-profits that promote women’s health issues. I worked at the scoring tent and was able to meet the golfers as they were finishing their round. Since they were finished for the day, they were more relaxed and talked more freely.

Photo #2
We went to Belize for a family reunion. My grandmother was born in Belize City and wanted us to get to know our extended family still living there. It was an awesome trip (future post about that). This is a view at the pool at our hotel Best Western Belize Biltmore Plaza. Great hotel! I enjoyed taking in some sun. When it got too hot, I would dip into the pool. 🙂

Photo #3
My aunt and I went to Caye Caulker to go to the beach. This is a picture of sand on one of the tables that was at a restaurant. The table was in the water with an umbrella. We had our drinks while enjoying being in the water at the same time. I really liked the color contrast of the sand and the table, so I took the picture.

Photo #4
On Memorial day weekend, the hubs and I went camping. This trip was planned since January so that we could get the spot we wanted at the campground. We went fishing. This is the first time for me in the last 20 years. I could this little bugger. He ate my worm but was too small to keep. We threw him back.

Photo #5
On the same camping trip, we went for a nature hike. This was one of the views we saw. The lake has only been in existence for about 40 years when the dam was built. The dead trees shown were there before the area was flooded and turned into a lake. I did not know that. Hubs explained the history. Random thought: I love the sky in this picture.

BONUS picture!!!
This is a picture of our glowing campfire coals. I am mesmerized by hot coals because you can see the heat emanating from them. Plus, I want to touch even though I know it would burn my skin off.

I had a fun month and cannot wait to see what June will bring 🙂

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Accidental Abduction – Blood, Boobs, and Carnage #Blogfest #bloodboobscarnage

May18

I am participating in a blogfest called Blood, Boobs, and Carnage

The terms were simple- choose a movie, book, or television show that fits the theme. It can be any genre that fits the bill – fantasy, science fiction, action, adventure, western, thriller, etc. This Blogfest is hosted by Alex J Cavanaugh andHeather Gardner.

I chose the book Accidental Abduction

Synopsis
Tren is an alien that thought he was beaming up some fish from earth to sell on the universal market. He didn’t mean to abduct the human female too, but now that he has her, he wonders what to do with her.

Megan was drowning in the ocean after her boyfriend pushed her off a boat. Instead of dying, she is beamed up on to a space ship. While she knows she should be more subdued, she cannot resist being mouthy.

Tren prides himself in staying in control of his emotions and actions, but Megan pushes all his buttons and ignites his baser instincts. When she is kidnapped on purpose, he will stop at nothing to get her back.

Opinion
This book. Where do I even start? I guess I should explain why I chose it for the challenge.

Blood

When Tren decides that he is not going to deny how he feels, his enemies see kidnapping Megan as a way to manipulate him. THAT does not go well for them. He has no mercy when it comes to eliminating his enemies. Funny thing, Megan is gets a guilty thrill on the fact that he killing all these aliens to save her. She is trying to be shocked, but at the same time, she is like

Boobs

It is a romance.
Tren has no nipples!
And he says she is weird for only having two breasts.

Carnage

There is a line of entrails from evil villains that tried to kidnap Megan, but failed miserably. It is the wild, wild west in the universe and no one messes with Tren’s mate and gets away with it. She gets kidnapped twice and both times Tren is like

Overall, the book made me laugh. Tren was not trying to pick up a human to be his mate, it just happened. Megan was cheeky, brazen, bold, and audacious as ever. Tren tried to intimidate her, but she had nothing to lose. To be fair, he did keep threatening to sell her. She was just calling his bluffs. With all that sexual tension going on, there was only one way it was really going to go.

Book details
Accidental Abduction (Alien Abduction Book 1)
Length: 142 pages

Day 11 – 30 day #livelovesimple blog challenge

May11

I am doing this blog challenge in support of my friend and fellow blogger Sarah from Not Your Average Sardines . Check out her blog too.

10 Favorite Foods

I love to eat. It was hard to narrow down my 10 favorite foods. In the end, I tried to think of foods do I eat the most regularly because I think they are super tasty.

1 Bacon (this goes without saying)

2 French Fries (I like the shoestring skinny fries the best, especially when paired with malt vinegar)
3 Strawberries (I had some fresh picked strawberries the other day, and YUM)
4 Chicken (chicken nuggets or strips or fried or BBQ or grilled- all good to me)
5 Avocado (with a sprinkle of salt and squeeze of lime- makes a great snack)
6 Chocolate (salted chocolate caramels…need I say more?)

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7 Fried Rice (when done right is addictive-ly delicious)
8 Ice cream (I believe I do not a single person who does not like ice cream)
9 Lamb chops (when I like to splurge)
10 Salad (if none of the above available 🙂 )

Day 7 – 30 day #livelovesimple blog challenge

May8

I am doing this blog challenge in support of my friend and fellow blogger Sarah from Not Your Average Sardines . Check out her blog too.

5 Favorite Songs

1 Satellite – Dave Matthews Band
2 At Last – Etta James
3 Kal Ho Naa Ho – Shakruk Khan, Saif, Preity
4 Breathe Me – Sia
5 Chasing Pavements – Adele

Kal Ho Naa Ho (English: There May Or May Not Be A Tomorrow) is such a sad song but it is so pretty. I listened to it before I even knew what it meant because I liked the melody. Then when I saw it with English subtitles and read the synopsis of the movie with the same name, I fell in love with this song. I am not usually a person who likes love triangles, but it seems that in Bollywood, that is a common plot line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal_Ho_Naa_Ho

Day 4 – 30 day #livelovesimple blog challenge

May7

I am doing this blog challenge in support of my friend and fellow blogger Sarah from Not Your Average Sardines . Check out her blog too.

My Dream Job

I would love to get paid to travel all over the world and try new adventures. I would have a TV show and it would be top rated because everyone loved to see where I was going and what new thing I was trying. Pretty much, if I could get paid enough to live and pay my bills by writing reviews of all my adventures on my blog, that would be a dream come true.

Maybe one day, I will get there.