A Hidden Fire - An Elemental Mystery

I finished reading this book earlier this week and it's pretty good!  It's called "A Hidden Fire - An Elemental Mystery" by Elizabeth Hunter.  Check it out you might like it...

A Hidden Fire - An Elemental Mystery

Please Don't Touch Me!

There's this woman I know.  I don't particularly like her because I can sense her falseness.  And you know the saying birds of a feather so I keep away from anyone who is friendly with her.  Anyways, the whole point as to why I'm writing about her, because normally I wouldn't give her the time of day, is that she always touches me when she passes me.  My skin crawls whenever she is in the vicinity and for her to actually touch me is disgusting, I am always biting my tongue trying not to outright tell her to "Please Do Not Touch Me!".  That would be considered rude right?  Why does she have to touch me anyways?

Adara's First All Hollows Eve - A Short Story

Adara's First All Hollows Eve - A Short Story

Adara's New School - A Short Story

Published my first short story last week.  I hope you all check it out.  I'll be publishing the second book this week.  Enjoy!!!

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/218739?ref=AlleneAngelica

Man Save's Drowning Dog

This is a sweet story.  It's the first I've seen it.  It's from 2009.

http://www.bigredkev.com/2009/08/man-jumps-off-pier-to-save-drowning-dog.html

I created these two photos using my photo editor (the pictures were originally in black and white from the web that I grabbed, edited and added my own words to them).  I'll probably be doing a lot more of these.  It helps to keep me motivated with my workouts plus it fuels my creative side.  Eventually I'll use my own model (I'm trying to talk my daughter into it :) ) so we'll see...
I've been fairly consistent with my workouts and I have lost weight which makes me even more determined to carry on.  :)

I Hope I Can Keep This Up

I haven't been on my blog for a while, I know, I know, terrible of me.  Unfortunately I'm suffering from a really bad case of allergies again this year and the eczema has tried to pop it's nasty little head again but I managed to get it under control within a few days by using my handy dandy Red LED Light treatments.  I am so glad I discovered it, if you haven't read my previous blogs on the Red LED Light treatments and you are interested please refer to my older posts.  I wouldn't know what to do without it!  In deep do-do probably.

I'm back on the fitness kick.  I'm such a yo-yo, not dieter, but when it comes to working out and keeping in shape.  I'll start something get really pumped up and then the excitement fizzles and I'm back to lounging around reading and basically doing nothing.  I love reading there's no way I'm stopping that but I need to be more physically active.  This isn't good for me or for anybody.  This time I'm really back though.  I've been finding ways to motivate myself every day whether through inspiring pictures, quotes or music, every day I'm searching for inspiration to keep me on track.  It's a daily struggle but I'm going to keep at it.  Woohoo!!!

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*Allene Angelica*

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A Murder In My Past

You couldn't believe my surprise when while surfing the web I found something...a portion of a court transcript.  A case that is a part of my past.  A past I don't recall, a murder of a woman I don't remember but related to by blood....

It's strange to see it in print.  Of course I've heard the stories and rumors but to see it in black and white for the whole world to see gives it a very surreal feeling...  I wonder now how she must have felt.  A tiny little thing.  She couldn't protect herself from the violence visited on her.  The children she left behind.  Some of whom have at least some memory of her, a smile, a look...  Some who can't recall her at all no matter how hard they try.  I've attached what I've found I've blacked out names and dates to protect the families, my family...

Please Don't Come in Here

She sat on her bed, her short pixie hair sticking up in places they shouldn't be, chewing on her already ragged nails. She recalled yesterday's events. She was walking down First Street doing some window shopping. The streets were lined with shops, restaurants and cafes. She liked coming here on her days off. She couldn't really afford to buy anything but walking here and looking in shop windows relaxed her, helped her think. Sometimes after a day on First Street she would drive home with a feeling of hope. But yesterday was different. She was walking along, her mind a thousand miles away, just present enough to navigate through the throngs of people that day. The last thought on her mind was "Is there some sort of sale today or something?" before she saw him. He looked exactly the same tall, well proportioned slim muscular body, his dark brown wavy hair cut short and he was looking down smiling at a cute petite woman listening intently to what she was saying, holding her hand. She was frozen staring, her heart thundering in her chest and perspiration layered her forehead. Someone bumped her and woke her out of her stupor. She looked around for an escape and ran through the nearest store entrance. Please don't come in here. Please don't come in here. Please don't come in here. She repeated over and over her palms sweating, lungs heaving but felt they weren't actually getting any oxygen. She stared out the store window watching them walk by. No one else in their world existed but them was the sense she got as they passed. She waited until she felt the coast was completely clear, left the shop and walked gingerly to her car looking in all directions paranoid she would bump into the happy couple. Once in her car she felt safe, cacooned in her private sanctuary, she started it up and drove home tears flowing freely.

*Allene Angelica*
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Sent from my iPad

Sunday Morning

I woke up to sounds of my boyfriend in the shower getting ready for work and the song "Like A G6" playing on the radio. I jumped up on my bed and started dancing, pretending I was "Alex" from Flashdance and my dog Talon was Grunt watching me with his head cocked in a questioning angle. What a way to start my day...my blood pumping and a slight sheen of perspiration on my forehead.

*Allene Angelica*
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Sent from my iPad

Trying To Get Back On Track

Here I sit a dripping sweaty mess, gulping down Gatorade and trying to stretch this body that no longer wants to cooperate. I jogged/walked, well mostly walked if truth be known, a little over a mile and a half tonight. It is a warm night...whew! A lot of people in the neighborhood are taking advantage of the weather and are out and about strolling here and there and basically getting in my way. It's time for me to get back on the working out bandwagon. Being hospitalized twice within six months of each other is no longer a feasible excuse to lay around on my rotund derrière and then there is the Summer season quickly approaching. Enough said. I do have the tendency to be my own worst enemy. I can derail myself from my goals so easily. I need focus. Focus Allene Focus!

*Allene Angelica*
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Sent from my iPad

A Song I've Been Humming Since Sunday...

For some reason I woke up Sunday morning with this song swimming around in my head.  I hadn't heard this song in years so I looked it up on You Tube and watched the video and I've been humming this song ever since...it's so sexy.  Watching the video I was surprised to see a very young JLo.  I had forgotten she was in this video.

Caffeine Overdose

Thanks to the amount of caffeine I've had today, I am up at 2:08 am revising yet again the first chapter of my book. Ughhhh...when will it ever end!!!

*Allene Angelica*
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Sent from my iPad

Parking Space Thief

There is nothing more irritating than coming home after a long day at work and finding someone else parked in your parking space. All the way home after work I was imagining my nice warm bed and my cozy flannel pj's but no I'm at a coffee shop down the street trying to calm myself because all I want to do is throw a fucking boulder through the damn windshield of that stupid car!!!

*Allene Angelica*
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Sent from my iPad

iPad FYI...

For all of you who aren't aware...this happened to me this week and of course typical of me, I freaked out.  I have the iPad2 3G and earlier this week my iPad could no longer read my SIM card.  On the top left hand corner where it should be showing the signal bars and AT&T it showed "NO SIM".  That's it "NO SIM".  So I went into my settings and tried to access cellular data but it was grayed out, no longer in bold black letters.  Access Denied!    So what's a girl to do?  Well this girl called her brother freaking out...and he calmly told me to go to the Apple Store and have them check it, they will either repair it or replace it, it's still under warranty.  Off I went last night to the next nearest Apple Store because the nearest is closed for remodel.  Today I woke up with the sun shining and the birds singing a beautiful song, with my brand spanking new iPad tucked safely in my purse as I went off to work humming a happy tune.  The End.

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*Allene Angelica*

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