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Are you ready for Cyber Monday?

Even though I’ll be at the office, I’m sure we’ll be popping online to Amazon and some of the other cyber stores to check the kick ass deals that’ll be happening.

I totally prefer shopping this way than dealing with the long ass lines and rude people.

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. . . Anyway, I had so much fun finding cool and unique gifts for the last post I wrote, I thought I’d do another one.

I’m helping you take the guess work out of what the hell to buy so and so who is hard to shop for.

1.) This is a unique and popular gift for cigar lovers. It’s a portable cigar humidor case.

How cool is that?

Years ago, I worked at a newsstand that sold cigars and had a huge humidor room just for them. I used to love going into that room because the smell in there was awesome.

2.) This EzRoller Classic Ride On is a neat gift for a kid and the lime green is a great color.

3.) I’m a brandy drinker. I have one or two shots a night—sometimes three. This is a great gift to give someone like me. The bottom line says: Good day. The middle line says: Bad Day. The top line says: What Day?

Love it.

It’s a 11oz. rocks glass.

Who loves to star gaze?

I do.

4.) The Laser Twilight Light is a neat gift.

5.) This laptop backpack is really cool. I bought my first laptop this year and would appreciate this water-resistant anti-theft backpack. It even has a USB charging port.

You can also use it as a hiking daypack.

6.) I bought a hammock last summer for when we are full-time travelers. I wish I would have known about this Winner Outfitters Double Hammock. It’s the #1 best seller in camping hammocks. This will make a great gift for people who love to camp.

7.) This snow cone maker is a fun gift to get. Your kid(s) will love it. When we were kids, my sister had the Snoopy snow cone maker.

Remember the Snoopy snow cone maker?

This snow cone maker can be a family gift that everyone will enjoy.

8.) An airfryer is super popular now. I tried chicken nuggets that were air fried, and they turned out great. If you’re a fried food lover like me but want to eat healthier, you’ll want to get an air fryer.

9.) This is a cool gift for beer lovers. It’s a home beer brewing kit where you can make your own beer. 🍺

How cool is that?

There you have it. Nine cool gifts to get this holiday season.

Cheers! 🥂

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Christmas is almost here.

Can you believe it?

This Friday is a HUGE shopping day.

This coming Monday is Cyber Monday, which is another MAGA shopping day, but from the comforts of our home.

I prefer that one over dealing with the crowds.

Don’t you?

. . . Anyway, I’m going to be sharing some cool gift ideas that'll help you during this gift giving season.

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1.) Savvy Infusion Water Bottles are a hot item right now, and I just might have to get me one.

2.) Okay, you guys. I don’t give a flying flip what anyone says, this product here is a cool ass gift to give a guy . . . or anyone who would enjoy infusing their booze. It’s the SPIRIT INFUSION KIT. You can make flavored vodka. 🍸

3.) Speaking of alcohol. This next gift idea is a good one to give a guy who loves beer. It’s beer chiller sticks. Check it out.

4.) Lagunamoon Essential Oils is a best selling item. I love essential oils and have been seriously debating on selling them.

Don’tcha hate trying to figure out what to make for supper? I know I’m always trying to think of what to make that night or the next day.

. . . Well, here’s a fun gift to get for yourself or for someone else you know who would get a kick out of this.

5.) It’s a cookbook entitled: What the F*@# Should I Make For Dinner?: The Answers to Life’s Everyday Questions (in 50 F*@#ing Recipes) 😂

6.) Another popular item I’ve been seeing that's super cool is Himalayan Sea Salt Lamps. They’re gorgeous and creates a soothing glow.

7.) Bath bombs are still hot and has been voted as the #1 gift for the holidays. I really like this bath bomb set because it’s all natural and the essential oil and vegan part caught my attention as well.

8.) Do you know anyone who loves to garden? Here’s a cool gift to give them. Exotic vegetables grow kit. It comes with 5 unique plants to grow from seed.

Wrapping it up (no pun intended).

I enjoyed discovering these cool and unique gift ideas to tell you about. Hopefully, I saved you time and stress on what the hell you’re going to get Aunt Mae who has everything under the sun or your friend who's on a diet and doesn’t like to drink plain, boring water.

Cheers!

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Kevin came up with an idea that I’m not sure about. I’ll show you in a minute what it is.

-But I’ll begin here . . .

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Yesterday we were able to paint some more of the inside of the RV. I thought it would only take us an hour to finish painting.

Not.

However, all we have left—as far as I know—is behind the couch, the wall next to the driver’s side, and touching up parts we already painted.

I’m guilty of slapping the paint on too thin.

My bad.

. . . So, there are a few places I have to put a second coat on.

My grandpa is probably rolling in his grave because he was a professional painter when he was alive and clearly, I didn’t inherit that gene.

Hey, at least I’m trying, right?

That’s how we learn.

Kevin came up with a creative idea to do to our bedroom walls.

His idea is to make the wall look like it has wallpaper showing through the paint, and then decorating it with cool album covers, flyers, whatever—sort of like a scrap book wall.

Before I show you pictures of what we did, check out this cool ass book we discovered.

Here’s the link if you want to check it out: https://amzn.to/2CA2rWL

We’ve used a lot of pages from this book to help decorate inside of our RV.

Kevin did a decoupage between the cabinets that used to be blue velvet.

He created a patchwork collage on the living room wall, using pages from this gem of a book.

. . . And incorporated his idea for our bedroom wall, using once again, pages from this awesome book.

He stuck pieces he torn up to different parts of the wall. Then I painted around them.

As of this moment, here’s what his wall and mine looks like in our bedroom.

I don’t know how I feel about it.

Maybe after we do the touch ups, I’ll dig it then.

-Anyway, our RV renovation is coming along. I suspect when we put the flooring in, it’s going to be a pain in the ass.

I could be wrong.

I hope I’m wrong.

. . . But I have a feeling cutting up pieces of the flooring to fit awkward places is going to be a bitch and time consuming.

Of course, I’ll keep you up-to-date.

Renovating an RV is both trying and rewarding at the same time.

It's a lot of work and tends to be frustrating.

However, we’re creating a home-on-wheels.

. . . And in the end, it’ll be all good.

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I was interviewed and asked how I came up with my story idea for my Beyond the Eyes trilogy.

I was told it's a unique concept and should be made into a movie or TV series.

Wouldn't that be nice? LOL

I think all authors daydream about that.

The concept is there are humans born without a soul and dark spirits can inhabit them and by doing so, they can experience whatever they desire while being in the flesh.

It’s pretty cool.

How did I come up with the concept?

Well, I'd always wondered if there were people who didn't have a soul because I'd seen more than a few peeps in my life that when I looked into their eyes there was no spark, no life, zero, zilch, nada. What really spooked me was when I was working at a pediatric clinic. A mother brought in her baby. He was sitting in one of those car carriers. She sat it on the floor so she could pay her co-pay. I looked into her child's eyes, and they were empty.

Freaky.

So the idea of my trilogy and the world I created derives from me wondering if there are soulless people among us.

Do you believe there are humans born without a soul?

I wonder.

Let's say there are and take it one step further. What if there are dark spirits and they can possess these empty shells of a human being?

The once vacant eyes now has life in them, and you have no idea you're conversing with a dark entity.

Kinda creepy, eh.

If you want to delve deeper into this concept of mine and the premises I created for my stories that drive them forward. You can pick up Beyond the Eyes for free here––> http://amzn.to/178oQFt

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This bag of coins was more than half full before I took this picture. They’re coins from all around the world, and Kevin wanted to throw them away.

Why?

He thought it was much better to throw them in the trash than to try to figure out what to do with them.

You see we’re not all about materialistic things. In fact, we’re in the process of becoming minimalist—to only keep the things that serve us or has a sentimental value.

So I understood where he was coming from. The coins had no value to us. However, I took the bag from him and stashed it in the drawer of my desk.

“You’re not throwing away smiles,” I told him.

What I meant by that was if a kid found some of those coins on the ground, he or she would smile, thinking it was cool. I remember as a child finding loose change in the grass, and it most certainly made me smile.

Last Friday night, Kevin and I took a walk around our town. At the beginning of our walk, he tossed something on the ground. I turned to see what it was, and he told me not to look, to keep walking. I then realized he just dropped one of those coins on the ground.

I had totally forgotten I was going to do that, but he didn’t and took it upon himself to hand out smiles. I then asked him to give me some, and he did. We strolled through the park where there were kids playing and covertly released coins throughout the playground.

“This is fun,” Kevin said to me. “I’m glad you kept these coins.”

It was fun, and then on Saturday night, we finished tossing the rest of the change around town where we knew kids would find them.

This afternoon, we took another walk around town (we love to walk) and saw an adult male with a metal detector in the park we dropped the coins at. We couldn’t help but laugh and smile, thinking we might have created some gossip around our small town (this town loves to gossip) that would be centered on the mysterious worldly coins. So the smiles those coins created weren’t only reserved for the children like I thought, they were for everyone, including ourselves.