Saturday…..and read for the poll……I’m thinking you may need this as much as I did!!! 😉

I know my friends that my promise of my funnier anecdote at being a patient rather than a nurse is long overdue. Believe me, it is almost ready for publishing. (I wouldn’t want to offend anyone with my random drop of the multiple f-bombs I seem to have dropped while writing it!) :1)


I also have be wrapped in the tangled avenues of having my fur baby attacked by the coyote and All The CRAP you deal with after. (Ummmm yes health department, he is 7 years old. He’s had ALL his shots. He is 6 pounds that coyote was 60……go track HIS issues. Sheesh!) Oh, and don’t worry, in case you aren’t rattled enough, worried beyond belief, pay crazy amounts of money to a vet (what the he$l do they get paid so much for when YOU do the work?!?! …..no offense any vet friends just bad week,) the lovely health department assures you they will KEEP CALLING BACK. What?!?! Is this a commercial?!?! Can you hear me now?!?!


Anyhoo my lovelies! I also have a few (hundred) book reviews I was to post so it’s been that kind of week. So my plans for today are sunny, sunny, and sunny, with a strong chance of sea air blowing on the beach, while using my time to read (of course), relax (what’s that), and hopefully finish up a few posts that will make me (and hopefully you) giggle! 


I do believe I MAY be able to get my totally silly post out soon…… And I mean gut splitting, OMG I am gonna die, that’s fan-freaking-tastic post out today IF you guys need a laugh! So all in favor……..comment below! ( And please check all sensitivities at the door) 🙂 

~ J 


Rage!

I’ve always heard of red hot rage, but that goes against my nursing Instincts. I am not upset when patients yell at me in the ER. Or curse. Or even throw things. They are sick, and sick people feel miserable. I just love them more and pay more attention to their needs. Well last night, as always, my 6 pound Chihuahua went out to potty and play, and he was attacked by a COYOTE! Who in the holy sh*t would expect a COYOTE at the beach where there are so many people?!?!


So, I have now experienced that red vision rage. Where you want to rip apart a creature with your bare hands. Where you don’t care what society thinks. 

Here’s the culprit. 



I  offer a bounty, however I’m hoping the shame on social media will ruin his chances of EVER getting a wife or having friends. 

Meanwhile, my sweet baby has a puncture wound, had to get a rabies booster, antibiotics, and pain meds. 



I am still rage red. I’m hoping it subsides. I’ll be sure to post the humorous post soon. In the meantime SPREAD THE WORD!!! Let’s ban together and SHAME THIS COYOTE ON SOCIAL MEDIA! Really!? I think he missed his turnoff somewhere. 

So this regarded coyote has officially earned the “I’m the stupidest creature alive” award from me. I have my possee assembled here. Now, let’s roast this idiot coyote on social media! DOWN WITH THE DUMB A$$ COYOTES THAT MISSED THEIR TURN AND HIT THE BEACH. Should have kept going. 

Until later ………

~J

So, reflecting is a b*tch!

Reflections suck. Have you ever said “what if!?” Have you ever wanted to just blink back in time and smack the sh*t out of your young self??? I have this post written, it’s almost finished, but sometimes those reflections come back and smack YOU in the face. So again, my friends, it will be a bit longer as I sort through ashes and then look at that bridge, and decide whether to allow a small person to walk through. Who knows. When you face dilemma, what’s your first thing you do??! Run? Talk too much? Burn that bridge to the ground? Breach that door like a boss??  I’m curious. Please let me know!

~J


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Reflection

Today, I am finishing up my “Lovely Blogging Awards,” while writing a few book reviews, and thinking of how to word a post about healthcare seen now from both sides of the fence. It amazes me that there should even BE this fence, but much like everything in life you don’t understand, it just IS. So while I am reflecting (and may end up with more than one post today) I think about my ER, Trauma, and Flight Nursing brethren and sisters, as well as everyone everywhere that just needed a way to smile today as once again I post just a small daily inspiration in all of your honors!


Be well my friends! We all need a laugh now and then. Walk with doubt this morning !

~J

The Wolf Road

The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis

I was surprisingly absolutely blown away by this book. When first reading the description I was unsure of what I would be in for, but author Beth Lewis took me on an incredible journey that I am not soon to forget.

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This book is set in post apocalyptic days after Russians “accidentally” drop bombs that kill off most all of humanity while destroying wildlife and vegetation. This breathtaking novel starts at the end of the main characters “old self,” and reverts back to tell her story leading up to that first fateful encounter. (You’ll just have to read what happens, I don’t want to spoil any part of the fantastic finale for you!)

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When we first meet Elka, the main character, she is 18 years old and living as part of the “wild” with a man she calls “Trapper.” Her real parents left her with her Nana to seek fortune in the Northern country when gold reappears in the land after the bombs have created new geographic designs. When a thunderhead blows through and literally blows Elka, age 7, away “Trapper” finds her and fills in a “Daddy” roll for her, even if she doesn’t tell him.

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While learning to live off the land, she no longer interacts with other people. Through the years she learns to become one with nature, hunting and trapping as effectively and efficiently as “Trapper.” Life is good for Elka. She is desperate for a “Mommy,” and breaks one of “Trapper’s” rules in speaking to a woman she finds out in the forest. Elka finds kindness in Missy, and wants her to be her new mommy. “Trapper” returns to find another woman in the cabin and is angry with Elka. When “Trapper” leaves to take the woman in the forest home, fate drops its hand in happiness and Elka finds out that “Trapper” is really a dangerous murderer named “Kreager Hallet.” With her cabin set aflame, the law now after “Kreager” and Elka, she decides to travel North and find her real parents to find a home.

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So, what do a lone wolf pup, a prissy uptight girl, and a wild child, literally, have in common? Why an epic journey of course!

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Elka’s adventures span far and wide, and this book is written as if Elka herself is speaking to you in her uneducated, wild and fierce voice. Elka makes you feel like a friend that is along for all of the madness, danger, pursuits, narrow escapes, hunts, hidden truths, and all the healing this book could pack in. It was so harrowing and breathtaking that at times I could not put the book down for fear of not being there for Elka as she braves crossing treacherous rivers to save the prissy Penelope from her big city ways, or narrowly escape the hands of the “Dandy Man” who crates and ships girls off to the madam’s in the brothels. Were Elka and Penelope doomed to fall prey, or would the law or “Kreager Hallet” reach them first? Could Penelope be as tough as the wild and Elka and the wolf, or would the intense climate changes be the end of poor Penelope? What secrets lie hidden between them?

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I definitely give this book a 5 out of 5 stars for the unique language used, as well as for the way the story sucks you in from the beginning and just won’t let you go. Author Beth Lewis did an amazing job with this intense, action and drama filled novel. If I were you, I would go immediately and purchase “The Wolf Road” by Beth Lewis right now, and find the answers to these and many more intense interactions, including an unforeseen turn of events before the novel is through!

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Well, why are you still sitting there? Go! Now! Read it!

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 As always, until next time….Happy Reading to you all!!!

~J

***I was extremely lucky to receive an ARC copy for review from Blogging for Books and Crown Publishing, as well as the fantastic author Beth Lewis in exchange for my honest review. “The Wolf Road” is author Beth Lewis ‘s first novel. I look forward to her future publications! Thank you to all for this amazing opportunity!***

Amazing Things Indeed…..

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Duplicity

Duplicity, you see, is what divides the whole of me. I realized I have been away a bit from my posts…….well, dear readers, it’s because of my head full of ghosts…

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Spinning and turning their webs and their snares, watching to see if you know I’m not there. Wanting to twist and tie up my words. Wanting my voice not to be heard.

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Don’t worry my friends, I have a bunch of gifts I want to give. Keep your eye on the page for the fun to begin. Alas, my friends, though they try to force me down, I laugh as I know this girl can’t be held down. 

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No need to send rescue, or look through the trees, my reviews will float back to your ears with the breeze.

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Tales for you I have of books and of things, of journeys, and thoughts, and things that you need. So keep watching, dear friends, as I light up the show; my thoughts and my words have no where left to go. 

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Bent, not broken, my words still will be……written by just little ole me………

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I’ll see you REAL soon……

~J

 

 

Uprooted

       “From Root to Flower..”

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Uprooted by Naomi Novik was such a gem to find! I don’t usually read this particular kind of fantasy book, however once my journey into this fantastic story had begun, I could not put the book down.

The story begins talking about Agnieszka, the main character, and the small town she lives in. Her town is bordered by corrupted woods that harbor creatures that lurk in dark shadows and capture the villagers that wander in too far to the woods. In order to hold the woods back from taking the entire village, every ten years a female must be given to the powerful wizard known as “The Dragon,” to serve him without question.

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Agnieszka and Kasia are best friends and both know they will be in the dragons line up this year. They both know that the Dragon will be taking Kasia from their village, and Kasia’s family has made her spend her whole life training for when the Dragon would take her to his tower overshadowing the woods. wizard_s_tower_by_jcbarquet-d5mc33w

As the girls from the village line up, the Dragon walks coldly, assessing each as if picking the ripest fruit from the vine. As Agnieszka and Kaisa stand near each other, knowing that this will be the separation of their friendship for a decade to come, suddenly the Dragon stops, and life for Agneiska is forever changed as she has become the chosen one. Before there can be a stunned cry, Agnieszka is whisked off by the Dragon to his tower by a transport spell, and Agnesika is left sobbing and unsure and alone in the Dragon’s tower.

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What Agnieszka finds is a cold, hardened wizard that sees her as she is, a clumsy, untrained, defiant girl. She drops things, and is always dirty from a spill or from wandering lost in her thoughts, all of which angers the Dragon. What Agnieszka did not know prior to being taken is that she is a powerful witch, just untrained and stubbornly willful. When her best friend Kaisa is taken by a creature from the woods, Agnieszka will do anything, including leaving the Dragon to save her childhood friend. 

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What results from this seemingly innocent gesture is a war that Agnieszka could not have foreseen setting off. From giant praying mantis like creatures, to “walkers”, to the evil in the wood using each captured soul as a means to gain power, a battle ensues for keeping the woods at bay. Throw in a captured Queen and her son now grown and looking to rescue her, and black “corruption” seething and worming through the bodies of those who enter the woods, and a power push for control of lands, you now have an EPIC fantasy read.

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Being naive has a price, but can an all powerful wizard and the clumsy, hard headed witch he is trying to train be enough to fight the armies amassing all around them? What if the Queen, ensnared in a heart tree over 20 years, then rescued is no longer a Queen, but an extension of the woods? How did the woods become so corrupt? Can Agneiszka manage to stop warring countries as well as hold off the woods all while dealing with the grumpy, insensitive, brash wizard she is meant to live ten years with?

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This is a definite must read fantasy book. This was such a refreshing change and the writing is absolutely amazing! This was definitely a 5 out of 5 star novel for me, and this was not my usual genre or preference.  I am so glad I took the chance and read this novel by Naomi Novik and am going to look into her other dragon series and will let you know how that goes as well!

But for now my friends, go take a walk in the woods with Naomi Novik, and hope you too can get out Uprooted!

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Tread lightly and carefully my friends and enjoy your journey reading Uprooted!

~J