What Can I Make With This?
The Dear Wonderful Hubby came home yesterday with SIX 8 ounce/250 g blocks of cream cheese. The grocery store was selling each block for $1 as they were near their best before date. They are usually north of $4 a block.
We are two people. We tend to go through one block a month using it as spreads.
So we have an opportunity to get creative.
Yesterday, I made fudge using one of the blocks. It was pretty dang good. And the fudge can be stored in the freezer.
I might use up two more blocks that way, freezing the fudge.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby is planning to make a cheesecake.
We might also make some dips. Or stuffed pasta. Or other things.
We’re having fun with this. (smiles) And we’re eating well.
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Why Are So Many Celebrities Dying?
When I feel down in the dumps about so many celebrities I know dying,
I remind myself
that this is because I’m fortunate to KNOW of a lot of celebrities.
My grandparents might have known only one hundred or so celebrities. Those were mostly movie stars, TV stars, singers, political leaders and sports folks.
I know of THOUSANDS of celebrities. There are the movie stars, TV stars, singers, political leaders and sports folks, yes, but there are MANY more of them.
My grandma had ONE TV channel.
I have a thousand or more TV channels.
She listened to ONE radio station.
I have thousands of radio stations featuring artists from all over the world.
Being Canadian, she knew the name of the President of the US and that was about it.
I know of Senators and Congress people.
I also know of streaming stars, YouTube stars, influencers, and so many other people.
My world is much bigger.
And I know of a LOT of people. So, of course, I will lose a LOT of people.
This is still sad but it is a fortunate place to be.
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Throwback Thursday – Dark Fire
Dare, the hero of Dark Fire, is a dragon…of sorts. His species can shift into a still humanoid form that has scales and can breathe smoke and fire. Oh, and he has retractable claws!
This makes Dare a formidable warrior.
But it also means he requires a mate sturdy enough to handle him.
The mate he receives is Faylee, a small delicate-looking human.
Dark Fire
What the Beast wants, the Beast gets.
Dare’s savage nature has made him an outcast among his kind. The silver-scaled Dracheon warrior can’t control his inner beast. It’s too strong. When his primitive instincts told him his destined mate was on Carinae E, he had no choice. He had to travel to the outlaw planet. There, he hoped to meet a female powerful enough to survive his Drache.
He finds Faylee, a delicate little human.
Faylee is the best thief on the planet. Everyone she encounters mistakes her for a young boy…except for a tall, shiny warrior from off-planet. When she gazes into Dare’s flame-filled eyes, he makes her feel, for the first time, like a desirable female. The fire-breathing male has her yearning for hot kisses, fierce embraces, and a future filled with love. She doesn’t realize mating with him might be the last thing she ever does.
Dare’s beast isn’t the only danger on the planet. An enemy from the past has returned and he’s determined to stop Dare and Faylee…permanently. They’ll need luck and the assistance of every warrior in the Refuge to stay alive.
Dark Fire is a STANDALONE SciFi Romance set in a gritty, dark world.
Buy Today:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Fire-Refuge-Book-4-ebook/dp/B07CW2Y8B7/
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Fire-Refuge-Book-4-ebook/dp/B07CW2Y8B7/
Amazon AUS: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B07CW2Y8B7
Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/dark-fire/id1381353384
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dark-fire-22
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/824382
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Gardening – What Went Right This Season?
It is nearing the end of the growing season here in Toronto, Canada, and one of the things I like to do at this time of year is think about everything that went right this season.
Some successes were planned.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I focused on adding perennials to the garden and most of them did very well. They are adding a base of plant life that will return every year, whether we tend to them or not. I can see how this will build to create a fuller and more resilient garden.
Some things were happy accidents, however.
A butternut squash volunteer grew in a place I hadn’t thought of adding one to. And it covered up a bare unsightly strip of ground that had been bothering me for years. We will definitely plant another butternut squash there purposefully next year!
What went right for you this gardening season?
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You Can Stop
If something, that in the past you were doing because it gave you joy, no longer gives you joy, you can stop doing that something.
If something, that in the past you were doing because it earned you much needed cash, no longer earns you much needed cash, you can stop doing that something also.
You don’t have to read an entire book series. You don’t have to spend your entire working life at the same job. You don’t have to finish a movie. You don’t have to eat the whole cake. (Yes, I heard that gasp. – grins) You don’t have to continue a side hustle. You don’t have to separate lights and darks while doing the laundry this week.
If it no longer serves you (makes you happy or earns you an income or…), you can stop. You have that ability.
Stopping that action will also free up your time and energy for something else. Which is an awesome gift to yourself!
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Muse Food – Judging Intelligence
We often talk about discovering intelligent life.
But what is intelligence?
Is someone who can memorize 1,000 facts more intelligent than someone who can take apart an engine and figure out how it works? Is a species that creates art while destroying their home more intelligent than a species that focuses on obtaining food while remaining in balance with the world around them? Is someone who can do complex math more intelligent than someone who easily learns languages?
What do YOUR characters believe intelligence is? And, by their own definition, are THEY intelligent?
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Cynthia Sax Weekly Update – October 4
I have completed the first draft of the 9th installment of the Super Secret Project. Woot! I am also now almost halfway done the second draft. Yep, it is flying. (smiles)
Have a wonderful week, my friends. (big hugs) This is Halloween month for many of us. Wear something orange or black or both. (grins) Read a paranormal romance with a hunky wolf shifter or monster hero or heroine. Let the spiders have their cobwebs. Celebrate this spooky month!
Cyborg Sizzle Escape Omnibus
Half Man. Half Machine. All Theirs.
* * *
While these cyborg warriors battle to escape their cruel manufacturers, they find the human females they are destined to love for all eternity.
This omnibus includes the first seven stories in the Cyborg Sizzle series: Releasing Rage, Breathing Vapor, Being Green, Crash And Burn, Defying Death, Chasing Mayhem and Jumping Barrel.
All of these Cyborg Romances are set in a dark, gritty, often violent universe.
Releasing Rage
Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals–kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.
Breathing Vapor
Vapor is the most advanced cyborg the Humanoid Alliance has ever developed. He’s a finely honed weapon, a warrior without parallel, half man and half machine. No lock can contain him. No being can stop him. Whatever he wants, he takes.
He wants Mira Breazeal, the Designer’s daughter.
Being Green
Green, a cyborg warrior, cares for one being—his plant Windy. When Windy becomes sick, he’ll do anything to heal her, even venture across the universe to visit a worlds-renowned plant doctor.
He doesn’t expect to find love.
Crash And Burn
Crash was manufactured to be one of the best warriors in the universe. The cyborg has spent many human lifespans fighting the enemy. But, unlike his battle-loving brethren, he doesn’t enjoy killing. When he escapes the Humanoid Alliance, he vows to never end another life.
Then he meets Safyre, an infuriating human female, and he considers breaking his vow.
Defying Death
Cyborgs don’t show emotion. Death learned that lesson early in his long lifespan. To survive, he hides his fierce passions behind a stoic wall. He calls no warrior friend. He never admits to caring for any being.
Even the human female he’s destined to love.
Chasing Mayhem
Mayhem has spent his lengthy lifespan obeying the Humanoid Alliance’s rules. Finally free from their cruel control, the cyborg warrior plans to cause chaos. He infiltrates a remote settlement, provokes the savage locals until they want him dead, and allows himself to be captured by the sexiest little Retriever he has ever laid his mechanically-enhanced eyes on.
Jumping Barrel
Barrel requires an Expert for the Tau Cetian orphans. He’s looking for a female who is willing to commit to a lifespan-long role, who is comfortable with moving off planet, and who, preferably, has the ability to speak the offsprings’ first language.
His female, however, is looking for a hero.
Buy Now:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Amazon Canada:
https://www.amazon.ca/Cyborg-Sizzle-Escape-Omnibus-Continuum-ebook/dp/B081VFHF1S
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/cyborg-sizzle-escape-omnibus/id1488934271
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cyborg-sizzle-escape-omnibus
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/992060
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Give Others A Chance
We have a tradition in our neighborhood.
If we have a large item for garbage pick up and it might, just might be, of use to someone else (like the scrap metal collectors), we put it out at the curb the day before pick up, often with a sign stating why it is being trashed.
And 8 out of 10 times, someone else CAN use it.
If it doesn’t hurt you in any way, give others a chance. Leave that already-read romance novel in the Little Free Library. Put out that potted plant you no longer want on the curb with a sign saying ‘Free to a good home.’ Let the traveler rushing to make their connecting flight exit the plane before you.
Give them a chance. Put that good energy out into the world.
(smiles)
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If You’re On The Wrong Path
If you’re trekking along a path (this could be a career path or a life path or an actual physical path)
and you realize the path isn’t for you,
maybe it leads to a place you no longer want to go or it is too rough or it’s too long or something else,
stop and turn around!
Backtracking is ALWAYS an option.
Sometimes we discover awesome things (about the world or ourselves) when we backtrack.
Heck, I backtrack in writing all the time. I’ll delete entire chapters and take my characters in another direction.
Life is an adventure. And adventure is NEVER a straight line OR all forward movement. It winds. It loops back. It backtracks.
You can do this too!
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Throwback Thursday – Defying Death
I think it is extremely fitting that the first story I’m featuring on this site in October, a month I associate with ghosts and spooky things, has a cyborg hero who named himself Death.
(grins)
Death does view himself as a bringer of death. He was manufactured to kill and that is all he believes he can do.
Until he meets a curvaceous human medic. She is intent on healing everyone around her…including Death himself.
Defying Death
He’ll risk it all for one moment of happiness.
Cyborgs don’t show emotion. Death learned that lesson early in his long lifespan. To survive, he hides his fierce passions behind a stoic wall. He calls no warrior friend. He never admits to caring for any being.
Even the human female he’s destined to love.
Tifara is Death’s obsession, his sole opportunity for happiness, to express the all-consuming passion burning brightly inside him. He’ll do anything to obtain the curvaceous medic: defy a direct order, abduct Tifara from her battle station, and wage war on his fellow cyborgs.
To earn her love, he’ll have to risk much, much more.
Buy Now:
Amazon US:
http://www.amazon.com/Defying-Death-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B01D6OUQS2/
Amazon UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Defying-Death-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B01D6OUQS2/
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Defying-Death-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B01D6OUQS2/
Amazon Canada:
https://www.amazon.ca/Defying-Death-Cyborg-Sizzle-Book-ebook/dp/B01D6OUQS2/
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/defying-death/id1095072277
Kobo:
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/defying-death-2
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