tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58952336907648588562024-03-13T14:36:03.136-07:00The Naked TruthAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17044597511704709625noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5895233690764858856.post-7675435100574263402019-01-13T08:30:00.000-08:002019-01-13T08:30:03.131-08:00Nashville Crazy is a .99 Featured Deal on Bookbub today!<br />
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I have to say, this is probably my favorite Nashville book of the series. I was able to inject more humor into the story and I love, love, love it when my characters get a second chance at love. <a href="https://www.bookbub.com/books/nashville-crazy-by-bethany-michaels" target="_blank">Here's the link</a> and here's an excerpt:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“Well…you burned
down his house.”</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Her hair hung in
reddish brown clumps around her face and when she breathed in deeply, the old
smoke trapped in the strands filled her nostrils. It wasn’t the scent of steaks
on the grill she’d smelled—it was the odor of what was left of her career going
up in smoke.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“The record label
is not happy. And neither is Diva Cosmetics. They’re threatening to pull
sponsorship for your tour.” Mel didn’t have to mention that the tour had been
on shaky ground anyway. They’d already had to cancel shows due to poor ticket
sales. Harper had already been one scandal away from playing Branson in the off
season…and she may have just bought her ticket to Missouri with this latest
debacle.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Oh, God. What had
she done last night? She remembered telling Chad what a jerk he was. And there
had been candles burning...the rat bastard had taken the reality slut back to
his house, where he’d had a romantic scene all laid out. The same scene he’d used
the first time he’d invited Harper back to his pad, come to think of it. </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Harper’s fuzzy
memory of the night suddenly sharpened into crystal clear focus. Fire trucks.
Lights flashing. Flames shooting out of the roof.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“Shit.” Fear rolled
through her. Some judges liked to throw the book at celebrities, just to make
an example of them. “Was anyone hurt?” </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“Chad’s got a few
bumps and bruises he claims are from your fight. Chad’s attorney has already
filed for a restraining order.”</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Harper’s head began
to pound. “It was an accident.”</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Harper remembered
throwing a vase of roses—part of the seduction set-up—at Chad’s head, missing,
and knocking over some of the candles, which had ignited the papier-mâché
sculpture of two rabbits copulating Chad tried to pass off as “art”. And then
the curtains had caught fire before any of them could react, because apparently
the glue the idiot used was highly flammable. The little reality bimbo had run
outside screaming, wearing nothing but her bra and panties, and Harper and Chad
had screamed at each other until they’d realized that the small fire had
quickly become a big fire. By the time the fire department had arrived, Chad
had been telling everybody that Harper was a crazy bitch and an arsonist. </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“What do I do?” Mel
had been with her since she’d moved to LA, watching out for her, smoothing her
way, cleaning up the destruction she’d left behind. The past couple years had
been one long party and to be honest, Harper didn’t remember most of it. Chad
had just been the latest in a long line of very bad decisions. She’d been on
top of the world and had everything she’d ever wanted. How had it come crashing
down so quickly? Somewhere in the rush of parties and big checks and adoring
fans, lonely nights in hotels and always wondering what someone wanted from
her, she’d lost track of who she was and what she wanted. Some days she just
wanted to curl up in the corner and pretend she was still the wanna-be with the
guitar just playing the local honky<u>tonks </u>and
hoping someone would like what they heard. But you can’t go back. You can never
go back.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“I think you need
to lay low, Harper. Get out of town for a while until Robert and I can clear
this up.” He paused and Harper knew she wasn’t going to like what came out of
his mouth next. “I think it’s time you went home.”</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Cold lead settled
in the pit of her stomach. “No. No, way.” </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">She’d burned so
many bridges between Tennessee and California she wasn’t sure there was a way
back.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Harper grabbed for
the remote and switched on the entertainment channel. Mel kept chattering in
her ear but she was no longer paying attention. She had a screen crawl. That
was bad. And then Chad came on the screen telling TMZ’s crew what a crazy bitch
she was and how he'd be talking to his attorney about pressing criminal charges as soon as possible.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“You turned on the
TV, didn’t you? Damn it, Harper!”</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Oh goody, someone
got some smartphone footage of Harper stumbling out of the smoky house. Her
makeup was smeared, her hair was a mess and her clothes were ripped and dirty.
How many pounds of crazy did the camera add, anyway? And there was the bimbo
streaking around the yard like her skinny ass was on fire, showing off in her
underwear for the cameras.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">OK, Tennessee
didn’t sound so bad compared to an orange jumpsuit.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Harper swallowed
down her fear. “Is the farmhouse livable?”</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“I don’t know what
kind of condition it’s in. Harper. It’s been what—five years at least?” </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“Six.” Plus three
months and…eight days.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“And the roof was
bad, then.”</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“Yeah.” She hadn’t
cared when Mel had told her the place needed work since she never intended to
set foot in it again. She’d had all the old memories cleared out and hadn’t planned
to return. She couldn’t bring herself to sell it, though. Never in a million
years had she imagined the place would become a refuge.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“I’ll hire someone
to do repairs but with all the stuff going on, we’ll have to be careful. He’ll
sell you out in a heartbeat and all the tabloids will be on your doorstep. Too
much bad press and you can forget the tour. No sponsor will touch it.”</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Harper closed her eyes. The pain in her gut moved to her heart. “I know someone.”</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“A handyman? In
Nashville?”</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“Yeah.” God. She
didn’t want to do this. But she really had no choice. No matter what had happened
between them, she knew he was the one guy who wouldn’t sell her out. If he’d
wanted to do that, he would have years ago. She needed to get out of town and
lie low where the paparazzi wouldn’t find her. The house was in her name, but
it would still take time for them to track her down. And by the time they did,
maybe this whole mess would be in the past. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">If the house had
gotten as bad as Mel had said, she needed someone she could trust to do the
work for her, since swinging a hammer wasn’t exactly her forte. Swinging a vase
of roses, on the other hand…</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Harper took a deep
breath. “His name is Dan Bryan. I'll text
you the number.”</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j8QFGexy6_Y/XDe0_5NChaI/AAAAAAAAAMs/TKO4CaLtxg0V5Q8FWkBkpVEbSL6LO4cmQCLcBGAs/s1600/AdobeStock_119456651.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j8QFGexy6_Y/XDe0_5NChaI/AAAAAAAAAMs/TKO4CaLtxg0V5Q8FWkBkpVEbSL6LO4cmQCLcBGAs/s400/AdobeStock_119456651.jpeg" width="400" /></a>Yesterday I told you I’d done something drastic to
motivate myself into losing weight and living the active lifestyle I want to
have. Motivating yourself through little prizes is classic advice—lose 10 lbs,
you tell yourself, and you get to splurge on that cute pair of shoes your
frugal side says is too expensive. It might work for some, but I just end up
failing, feeling bad about myself, then buying the shoes anyway to make myself
feel better. Then I’m still fat, in more credit card debt, and stuck with a
pair of shoes that didn’t come in wide sizes, making my chubby feet feel like
they’ve been locked in an iron maiden after 10 minutes of wearing them. <br />
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That sucks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This time, though, I think I’ve found something
that might work for me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of my twins went to Costa Rica with a school group
last summer and loved it. He told me, that as a nature-lover, I HAD to go. His
favorite part was seeing real sloths hanging in branches over his head. He didn’t
touch them, though, saying they had lice, and they bite and scratch. </div>
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Good call.
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He was also a fan of the monkeys that
would break into your hotel room if you didn’t lock the doors. He would wake up
in the morning to the sight of a gaggle of shady monkeys peering at him from a
tree right outside his window, just waiting for him to mess up and forget to
flip the lock so they could grab his iPhone and Pop Tarts. The worst part, he
says, were the “weird loud birds” that would wake him up in the morning and
taunt him as he hiked through the rainforest. <br />
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I don’t know what those birds were. Maybe they were some weird species of South
American<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>buzzards that pluck out your
eyeballs and eat them for breakfast while you’re distracted by the sloths…thus allowing
the monkeys to pick-pocket your corpse for Tic-Tacs and spare change. <br />
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Circle of life, yo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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So in
August, my other son came home from school saying there was another group going
in 2020 for an “active” version of the trip. He wanted to go and said he
wouldn’t mind if I tagged along, too. There will be hiking, zip-lining,
white-water rafting, snorkeling, swimming and general walking around looking at
stuff. I want to do ALL of that. I want to hear the weird noisy birds and see
the lice-ridden sloths and tangle with the felonious monkeys. ALL of it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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didn’t want to be somebody’s chubby, out of shape mom waiting at the bottom of
the mountain, holding everybody’s phone while they zip through the forest
treetop suspended by a piece of dental floss. No, I want to be the one vomiting
my way through the canopy. I don’t want to sit on the beach in a big hat and tent-sized
cover-up doling out sunscreen and posting proof-of-life photos to Facebook for
the parents who are at home chilling in the AC. I want to feel comfortable,
even in the presence of a bunch of firm, fit, stretch-mark free 16-19 year old bodies,
while wearing a swimsuit and wading into the ocean to confront another fear of
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I know that’s weird. Spiders, bats, bugs, snakes…no problem. But
a fish? OMG. They freak me out. FREAK. ME. OUT. The thought of purposely going into the water, where these demons live, <i>on purpose</i>, makes my blood pressure spike. Just the picture on this post makes me shudder. (The name of this phobia is <o:p></o:p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ichthyophobia, if you were wondering.)</span></span></div>
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But I'm not going to worry about that now. I'll worry about that as I'm putting on my flippers and mask in about 18 months, trying not to hyper-ventilate and making myself confront my fear 1) because I hate being afraid of things and 2) I don't want to look like a wimp in front of my son. <br />
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Anecdotally, the last time I did something to avoid looking like a wimp in front of one of my kids, I plunged down one of those stupid tall high-speed water slides...I'm not certain even now, years later, that I've extracted all the bits of swimwear from my crevices. Let's hope that doesn't happen while snorkeling.</div>
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So, I’m going to Costa Rica. I'm doing all the stuff on the trip itinerary, even the stuff that scares me. And that requires me
to quit screwing around and get serious about getting fit. I have 18 months to lose
100 lbs or so, get fit enough to hike up a mountain in crazy humidity without dying,
gain enough confidence to wear a swimsuit, in front of a bunch of strangers IN
PUBLIC and overcome a life-long phobia of fish.<br />
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