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I love stories of romance, of how people find each other and fall in love against all odds. The first look, the first kiss, that first touch, the caress that follows........
Rachel Rainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010540179228363289noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305684741848894245.post-31872035221805668272014-12-31T22:34:00.001-06:002014-12-31T22:34:31.046-06:00HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red;"><b><i>I wanted to wish you and your family a Happy New Year. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><i>May all your dreams and wishes come true in the new year.</i></b></span></div>
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A note from Cookie monster AKA Jasmine,</div>
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When you go out to your Christmas parties make sure you wear your Christmas sweater</div>
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<br />Rachel Rainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010540179228363289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305684741848894245.post-19084647843464689712014-07-11T13:09:00.001-05:002014-07-11T13:12:35.004-05:00Update on Jasmine-AKA-Cookie Monster<span style="font-size: large;">Sorry I have not updated sooner. I not really good at posting things online. I don't even have a Facebook or Twitter account. My sisters are always telling me I need to be on Facebook, I ask why I have your phone numbers and I know where you live I will just call or come over when I want to talk or spend time with you. I am a little old school on that, so I am not real good at keeping up with posting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jasmine is doing really well. She has turned into a spoiled diva. Who really likes her dog biscuits(we call them cookies) when she eats them she is always covered in crumbs and so is her bedding, which is the reason I call her Cookie Monster. She is no longer scared of us, in fact she uses my husband as a chew toy. She is still scared of other people, but she is getting much better since we have been able to take her on walks for a while now. She is even getting better around other animals, she has been terrified of other animals since we brought her home. We think she was attacked while on the streets, she has scars on her that look like bite marks. Our vet said just take baby steps with her because she was very traumatized while she was living on the streets. She has now been chipped and is up to date on all her shots etc, her weight is much better now. In fact the vet said she went from being under weight to being slightly over weight. The vet said that she is a Great Dane as we thought but they are not sure if she might be a mix with maybe a Black Lab or her growth was stunted from being on the streets. Here is a picture of her on a walk:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you can see she is not the size of a Great Dane at 2 to 2 1/2 years old. But that is all right with us we like her just the way she is. </span></div>
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<br />Rachel Rainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010540179228363289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305684741848894245.post-53602443582784434142014-05-24T14:26:00.000-05:002014-05-24T14:26:21.840-05:00Started the weekend with JourneyLast night me, one of my sisters and some friends went to see Journey, the Steve Miller Band opened for them. Both bands were great. My husband gave me the tickets as part of my Valentine's. <br />
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We had a blast. Steve Perry is no longer the lead singer, but the new singer did a great job once he remembered what city he was in. Poor guy thought he was in Dallas at first.<br />
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<br />Rachel Rainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010540179228363289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305684741848894245.post-60293797908756092572014-05-11T12:43:00.002-05:002014-05-11T12:43:32.658-05:00HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!!Happy Mothers Day to mothers all over the world. I hope you're day is filled with just sitting back and relaxing and spending time with family and friends.<br />
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I wanted to share a picture of my flowers that my husband gave me<br />
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My washer broke over there weekend so I'm at the laundry mat. As I sit here watching my clothes, I am trying to find inspriation to write, all I can think though is, when will my clothes be done and I can't wait until Thursday when someone can come fix my washer. We get spoilt to our conveniences don't we.<br />
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Sorry I have not been posting in a while we all got sick in April and my husband is still getting over his.<br />
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I'm off to fold clothes now.Rachel Rainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010540179228363289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305684741848894245.post-6694624086569617452014-03-21T13:29:00.001-05:002014-03-21T13:29:21.921-05:00Covered in Pollen <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It's official the Sony Reader Store is closed. I'm sad to see it close. I loved buying ebooks from them, in fact my reader is a Sony Reader. I thought since they were the first ebook store I bought from and from what I understand one of the pioneer's in the ebook industry I wanted to take a moment and say farewell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Monday night 3-10-14; me, one of my sisters and some of my friends went to see Reo Speedwagon at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. My husband got the tickets for me so we could have a girls night out, thank you so much honey. We had so much fun, the band still played as good as they did back in the 70's and 80's. Here is some pictures from the concert. In the last picture you can see how many people were at the concert, there was a lot. I tried to upload a video but ran into some problems. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you ever have a chance to come to our rodeo do try, there are tons of things to see and do. You can go to a carnival, eat tons of different food including of course bar-b-q, buy tons of different items including western wear, cowboy hats and boots, look at the animals kids have raised, watch cowboys ride bulls, horses, rope calf's, watch a concert and so much more. </span></div>
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Rachel Rainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010540179228363289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305684741848894245.post-88488453833762769012014-01-28T12:58:00.000-06:002014-01-28T13:02:25.242-06:00Its COLD OUTSIDE!!!!!!! Meet my snowman<span style="font-size: large;">It is cold here in Houston, TX. I hope were you live you are keeping warm. Here is what I did since we had ice/snow on our car, I made a two inch snowman of course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And here is the Snowman/Iceman I made on the back of our car:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its a good time to curl up with a Romance book. </span>Rachel Rainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010540179228363289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305684741848894245.post-38362490799986996412014-01-07T16:56:00.000-06:002014-01-07T17:02:44.706-06:00I have my own Fantastic Fiction page!!!!!!!!!<span style="font-size: large;">I just found myself on Fantastic Fiction, this is so exciting!!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Rachel Rainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010540179228363289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305684741848894245.post-49225531083394421122013-12-18T12:57:00.000-06:002013-12-18T12:57:37.631-06:00Merry Christmas 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am sorry its been a while since I posted. We have had a lot of medical things going on with Jasmine. She is doing better, but still has a ways to go. She is getting better around people, all the trips to the vet have helped with that. The staff at the vet has been helping us work with her, to get her over being so scared. We are very happy with that.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wanted to send out greetings to y'all, with some beautiful Christmas pictures I found online:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I would post some of my Christmas morning pictures, but they usually involve PJ's and hair sticking out in fifty different directions. Not a pretty sight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope you and all your friends and family have a happy, safe, wonderful, Christmas and an exciting New Year.</span>Rachel Rainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010540179228363289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305684741848894245.post-63158770869247004462013-09-24T03:08:00.000-05:002013-09-25T11:41:50.613-05:00Bringing Jasmine home<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i><span style="font-size: large;">As summer ends and fall begins so does a new chapter in our lives, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Hi guys. I know I have not been posting lately and I am sorry but life has been a bit busy. One thing that has kept us busy has been our new dog, Jasmine. She was a rescue dog, she had been living on the streets here in Houston at a Home Depot. My husband had seen her a while back and had been feeding her but she had always ran from him, so he had not been able to catch her. He contacted a rescue organization here that helped us catch her, so we could bring her home. She has been here for a few weeks and is doing well but still needs to put on more weight. She has started showing signs of being a puppy wanting to play etc... We are so happy to see that, when she first came to us she would jump and start to hide in our back yard if we walked out the backdoor. Now she comes up to us wanting attention, nudging us with her head, licking our hands etc... She is still scared of being just in front of our house, she does well in our back yard though. It will take time before we can even take her for walks. Right now our focus is on getting her to feel that this is home now, and she is safe. </span></i></div>
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<br />Rachel Rainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010540179228363289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305684741848894245.post-9584558202930917892013-09-11T01:26:00.000-05:002013-09-11T01:39:49.627-05:00September 11, 2001<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>I still remember what I was doing the morning that the USA as we knew was changed. It makes me wonder now was that how everyone felt when Pearl Harbor was attacked? The uncertainty of what will come next? Just the day before we were all certain of our self's of the world around us. Then in a heart beat everything changed forever. </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Walking out of my kitchen plate in one hand piled with eggs and toast; glass of juice in my other hand, I made my way to our living room to watch TV while eating breakfast. My husband was at work, our son at school. Turning on Good Morning America as I sat down in my chair I watched as the news broke that an airplane had hit one of the Twin Towers. I can't say I remember who called who first but I was on the phone with my mom not a minute later. At first we like everyone else in the country thought it had been an accident. Then we watched as the second tower was hit, we did not speak as we listened to everything going on somehow knowing our world was changing right before our eyes and would not be the same. I remember the first tower falling to the ground in a pile of metal, dust and debris. Thinking the whole time "Oh my God there are people in that building". Then the second tower fell, and I thought "who would do this horrible thing". I forgot that I was holding the phone with my mother on the other end until she spoke just three words "Oh my God". I knew how she felt I just did not know what to say. We each sat in our living rooms watching holding our phones not speaking for some time trying to come to grips with what we were seeing. When the Pentagon was hit, all I could think was I have to go get our son from school. I called my husband right as he was calling me we both had the same thought, I made sure he was ok, he was making sure I was alright; then I left to go get our son. To this day I don't remember if I ate my breakfast, all I remember are the lives we lost on that day, lives of people I never knew. They were moms, daughters, fathers, sons, aunts, uncles, grandsons, granddaughters, grandfathers, grandmothers, nieces, nephews, brothers and sisters. And though I never knew them they will always be a part of me, always be in my heart and their families will always be in my prayers. </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>So today I ask that all of us take a minute to hug our family and friends and remember the day our great county lost so many of our family and friends. And when you see a person in the military, a fireman, or a policeman take a minute to say thank you, for they watch our backs on the home front and abroad. </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>I know what it is like to wonder if your husband will come back home to you, if this time the fire will win; for my husband was a firefighter for fourteen years. It is not easy to let them walk out the door knowing it may be the last time you see their smile, the last time you feel their arms around you, the last time you touch their face as they kiss you. But you know that they are helping people and that helps you get through. </b></i></span></div>
Rachel Rainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010540179228363289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305684741848894245.post-13322593090701320362013-08-30T12:57:00.000-05:002013-08-30T12:57:26.330-05:00Happy Labor Day<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope everyone has a relaxing Labor Day weekend, with lots of family, friends, food and of course great Romance books.</span><br />
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<br />Rachel Rainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010540179228363289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305684741848894245.post-8723706130332796892013-08-27T15:57:00.000-05:002013-08-27T16:20:41.144-05:00Writing Advice <span style="font-size: large;">Over the weekend, me and my husband went to a Best Buy. While there I meet two ladies and we started talking about my book and writing, they were asking me about how to write etc.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I told them I don't have a lot of experience. But I found tons of help online and from writing magazines etc....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So this got me to thinking, why not give a list so that maybe it can help other writers. So here is a list of the places that I "went to" for help, I hope this helps with any and all writers out there, you will see a lot of Romance references because I write Romance. Some are magazines that I have subscriptions to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Writer Digest web site you can buy books that help with writing as well, really great books. Here are just a few that I own:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">**<a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Write-Romance-Novels">How to Write Romance Novels (with Examples) - wikiHow</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I hope that all that have read "CHANGING THE RULES" enjoyed it.</span>Rachel Rainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010540179228363289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305684741848894245.post-87165715765216844852013-08-13T16:35:00.002-05:002013-08-13T16:36:51.995-05:00Hot Romance reads for Hot Summer days<span style="font-size: large;">I just finished Johanna Lindsey's "ONE HEART TO WIN" </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now I am reading Julie Garwood's "HOTSHOT" </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What are the Romance reads you are reading to stay out of the heat? </span>Rachel Rainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010540179228363289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305684741848894245.post-47292644605313358122013-08-03T23:53:00.001-05:002013-08-05T17:20:43.660-05:00Train concert<span style="font-size: large;">My wonderful husband bought me and some friends tickets to go see Train. This is the third time I have seen Train in concert and they always put on a great show. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the second picture the band threw balls into the crowd and if you look closely you can see the balls flying around over the crowd. Look at how many people were there. There were tons of people there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I took a short video, but forgot to unplug my ear piece when taking the video. So the sound is just this horrible noise, that sounds like something out of a horror movie. </span></div>
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Rachel Rainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010540179228363289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305684741848894245.post-51525995728908264202013-07-23T16:53:00.002-05:002013-07-29T14:30:26.320-05:00The Name Game<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I know many of you think I am talking about the Royal baby born just yesterday. Congrats by the way to the Royal family!!! What a happy time for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But I am referring to author pen names. Rachel Rain is my pen name. Many of you that know me already know this of coarse and know where the name came from. The dilemma I am trying to work out is do I use this pen name for all my Romance writing or just for my spicier Romances? I love the name and it has a special meaning to me. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">But I would love to get feed back on what readers think. Would you expect all my Romances to follow along the same genre or would it matter as long as they are "labeled" so you know what they are? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I know that some Romance authors use different pen names for the different Romance genres they write in and some write under the same name for all there different genres. So I was wondering if I should come up with a different pen name. All of my stories are Romance but some are Romantic suspense, some are Paranormal Romance, some Contemporary Romance, etc.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Or should I just keep writing everything under Rachel Rain? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My next story that I am working on is a Romantic Suspense I am over 32,000 words into it so I am trying to figure out what name I should put it under. I am pushing to finish it by October. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today I had jury duty, I was not picked to serve on the jury but on my way home I saw just a few things that I think make Houston a cool place. So I took a few pictures to show you guys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First Houston has some really great buildings, some date back to the eighteen hundreds. I don't know if the buildings I took a picture of do but they are really cool to look at. I love old buildings, they have so much character. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This picture is The Houston Cotton Exchange building, when I took the picture today I did not know what it was. I had turned myself around in downtown(which has happened more than once) and was trying to figure out how to leave downtown when I pulled up to this building and I loved the look of it, so I took a picture. Then I did some looking online for historical buildings in downtown Houston and this picture came up. </span></div>
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