Sarcastic Song Shuffle ~ October 2015 Edition

We listen to music all the time in our house so we thought it would be fun to share some of the music we love with you in a blog post every month.  Get ready, because everyone is grabbing their iPods and then...

WE ARE GOING TO HIT SHUFFLE!

Coconut

Female ~ Age: 10

Favorite music groups/artists:  One Direction, Justin Bieber, 

Cody Simpson, Austin Mahone

Coconut's Playlist

1. Frozen Heart ~ Frozen Soundtrack
2. Rebel Beat ~ The Goo Goo Dolls
3. What Makes You Beautiful ~ One Direction
4. Up ~ Justin Bieber
5. Any Way You Want It ~ Pitch Perfect 2 Soundtrack
6. Hello ~ Cody Simpson
7. Bigger Than Us ~ Hannah Montana
8. This Kiss ~ Carly Rae Jepsen
9. Down To Earth ~ Justin Bieber
10. Starships ~ Pentatonix

Toucan

Female ~ Age: 14

Favorite Music Groups/Artists :  One Direction, 5 Seconds of Summer, Shawn Mendes, Jack and Jack

Likes to listen to Top 40 Radio Hits.

Toucan's Playlist

1. Billboard (If I'm Honest) ~ Jacob Whitesides
2. Wonderland ~ Taylor Swift
3. What Dreams Are Made Of ~ Hilary Duff
4. Take a Pitcure ~ Carly Rae Jepsen
5. Where Do We Go ~ David Cook
6. BEAT ~ Ricky Dillon
7. C'mon, C'mon ~ One Direction 
8. Now You Know ~ Jonah Green
9. With You Around ~ Yellowcard
10. Love Myself ~ Hailee Steinfeld

Flamingo

Female ~ Age: Adult

Favorite Music Group: Bon Jovi

She will pretty much listen to and enjoy anything.

Flamingo's Playlist

1. Titanium ~ David Guetta featuring Sia
2. Everything About You ~ One Direction
3. How Many Words ~ Blake Lewis
4. Bad Medicine ~ Bon Jovi
5. Just Dance ~ Lady GaGa
6. Maybe It Was Memphis ~ Pam Tillis
7. One Less Lonely Girl ~ Justin Bieber
8. Miss You In A Heartbeat ~ Def Leppard
9. How Long ~ Hinder
10. Have A Nice Day ~ Bon Jovi

Banana

Male ~ Age:17 

Likes to listen to pretty much any kind of music.  

Doesn't have a favorite Artist.

Banana's Playlist

1. Love Me Like You ~ Little Mix
2. Curiosity ~ Carly Rae Jepsen
3. Stupid Hoe ~ Nicki Minaj
4. Music Again ~ Adam Lambert
5. The Tide is High (Get the Feeling) ~ The Lizzie McGuire Movie Soundtrack
6. Gasoline ~ Karmin
7. Meltdown ~ The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I Soundtrack
8. How Ya Doin'? - Little Mix feat. Missy Elliot
9. Electric Chapel ~ Lady Gaga
10. Renegade ~ Daughtry

Do you want to join us in the Sarcastic Song Shuffle?  We love finding new music and would love to know what you are listening to as well.  From now on, Sarcastic Song Shuffle is going to be a blog hop!  Grab the Sarcastic Song Shuffle sticker at the top of this post and join the linky so we can see what you are listening to as well.  We will be doing this on the FIRST SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH so put it on your schedule now and join us in the Sarcastic Song Shuffle!  

(If you would like a monthly reminder email about the Sarcastic Song Shuffle, contact me at sarcasticpalmtrees@gmail.com)

Summer Crush Blitz

Summer Crush
by Sasha Hibbs, S.D. Wasley, Melissa Frost, Diana Stager, Deanna Dee, Bridie Hall

Evernight Teen
272 pages

Summer Crush: A wonderfully romantic boxed set of Upper YA short stories by today's hottest authors. 

Summer is the time for lazy days at the beach, sun-kissed hair, flip-flops, and sizzling nights with a new crush. Those stolen glances and first kisses can quickly spark a flame. However, the road to love isn’t always a smooth ride.

Every Summer has a story, whether it’s a second chance on love, seeing a friend in a different light, or taking a step in a new direction with someone special. Love and long days create endless possibilities, but can a summer crush really last?

Sutton Summer by Sasha Hibbs: After breaking Dylan's heart last year, McKenzie returns to Sutton Lake for another summer. McKenzie realizes love was in front of her the entire time, but is it too late for Dylan to forgive her?

Exquisite Torture by S.D. Wasley 16 year old Ryan thinks he's in for the summer from hell, stuck at his Gran's farm in a remote town ... until he meets the adorable Connie. But why is she so cagey about her past?

Forbidden by Melissa Frost: The new guy in town has a bad reputation and a bad boy demeanor to go with it. Even so, Olivia can’t help feeling drawn to Gavin. Can she convince her mother he’s not the delinquent everyone believes, or will his past tear them apart?

Taking the Plunge by Diana Stager: Overwhelmed and alone, Jessica is a teenage mother struggling to give her son the best possible life. Erik, a lifeguard at the local pool, never expected the girl of his dreams to have baby in tow. They have issues, but will it keep them from pursing the relationship, or are they willing to take the plunge?

Boarderline Love by Deanna Dee: Nearly drowning wasn’t part of Dalya’s vacation plans. Neither was being rescued by a guy with a perfect six pack and a haunted look in his eyes. Mason reminds Dalya too much of her over-protective older brother, but when he offers to teach her to surf, she can’t say no. Can Dalya get past her frustration with her brother to realize how much Mason means to her?

An Ocean of Their Own by Bridie Hall: Lola spends her days trawling the sand dunes in search of the perfect subject for her art. She finds it in a solitary, beautiful girl. Sarah doesn’t just fill the pages in her sketchbook, she enchants Lola’s heart too. But how can Lola tell her family about Sarah?

About the Author

By age 5, Sasha Hibbs' favorite movie was Gone With the Wind. By age 12, she completed her 7th grade book report on the sequel, Scarlett. By 18, she met and married her very own Mr. Rhett Butler and as it turns out, she never had to worry about going back to Tara to win the love of her life back. Fortunately, he stuck with her.  

With a love of all things paranormal, the ambiance of the South with its gigantic antebellum mansions and canopies of Spanish moss, and a love for her husband’s rich storytelling of blacksmiths and the mythology surrounding their origins, it wasn’t long until the world of her debut novel, Black Amaranth, was born.

When not working her day job as a nurse, you can find Sasha dreaming of her next beach trip, reading the latest YA novel, and drinking more white chocolate mocha than she should.  

Sasha lives in mountainous West Virginia with her husband, Tim, and their two daughters, Aeliza and Ava. She is currently hard at work on her next novel in The Vulcan Legacies series.

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Author Twitter Links:

Sasha Hibbs @SashaHibbs

S.D. Wasley : @SDWasleyAuthor

Bridie Hall: @BridieHall13

Melissa Frost: @MelissaHosack

Diana Stager: @DianaStager

Deanna Dee @desantismt

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#TGIT Recap Season 2 ~ Week 1

To see last week's recap click here.

Shondaland's Thursday lineup has come back full force, and it's only gaining speed from here!  Here's the recap for this week just in case you missed it (which is an OMG moment itself) or just need to remember what happened.

Life is Good Again!

Grey's Anatomy

Sledgehammer

Grey's Anatomy without Derek is extremely weird, which is to be expected.  However, life goes on, and everyone has to keep going.  Meredith wakes up to a bunch of banging downstairs which turns out to be Amelia busting the wall open!  Why would she do that? Because Meredith was joking about it the night before whilst she was drunk.  This leads to the two complaining to Maggie the whole time about the other and she finally makes them talk to each other at the end of the episode.

Other Important Things:

• Bailey was intimidated by the other candidate for Chief of Surgery, but she ended up fighting for the position and now it's hers! 
• April comes back and wants to talk to Jackson, but he in't in the mood to talk, so they're still working things out
• On the bright side, Jo and Alex have their little studio apartment and things are going well, even if Alex talks about his depressing experiences of being a bullied fat kid
• Arizona is looking for a new roommate, but nobody has picked her up on her offer (she was so desperate that she actually tore one of the things off her flyer!) until one of the new guys at the hospital asks about it 
• Callie gets a little too involved with the big case of the week, involving two teenage girls who jump in front of a train because they can't be together (Maggie ended up punching the mother of one of the victims in the face though, and it was awesome!)

They're Exposed... Finally!

Scandal

Heavy is the Head

 This episode followed the case of Princess Emily, who was a normal Iowa girl until she married her prince.  She has lived a life in the spotlight ever since and there was a lot of parallels between her relationship and Olitz (if they were to be exposed).  By the end of the episode, Olivia tells Fitz what she learned from this case, that they won't be able to make it in the public eye if they don't fix their issues first.  What happens right after this beautifully well written and executed monologue?  Everyone's favorite character Sally Langston has incriminating pictures exposing their relationship.  The big question now is, now that they're out to the public, will they be able to make their relationship work this time around?

Other Important Things:

• Huck asks Olivia to fix him but she tells him that she doesn't know how to, so he goes to Jake
• Fitz gave Mellie divorce papers!
• On a better note, Mellie is sworn in as Senator of Virginia
• Lizzie Bear has officially become Elizabeth North, Chief of Staff, which makes Abby nervous because she is waiting to be fired and Liz doesn't act the same way as Cyrus
• If you thought Liz and Mellie were ever going to work together again, you're 100% wrong
• Wondering where Quinn is?  She's still at OPA and told Huck not to come back until he tells Olivia what he did and fixes his problems
• In case you were wondering, the Queen had the Princess assassinated because she was cheating on the Prince (with her bodyguard) and got pregnant

As if it wasn't already too much...

How to Get Away with Murder

It's Time to Move On

If you had any doubts about whether this season would be good or not, they should've gone away after last night! Just remember that, statistically, you're going to be murdered by someone you know! 

The case of the week follow two siblings who are accused of murdering their filthy rich parents.  Annalise earns her way to being their lawyer by tricking the other lawyer into presenting false evindence in the trial.  In the end of the episode, we flash forward two months at their house in the middle of the night.  There's a gunshot, then someone runs out, and it's Wes!  We go back to inside the house and see Annalise bleeding out on the floor, but she's still alive!  But the big question is if he did shoot her, why did he do it!?

Other Important Things:

• Frank took care of Rebecca's dead body and he tries to prove Wes did it, but 
• Bonnie was the one who killed Rebecca (by suffocation) because she didn't trust her
• Everyone thinks Rebecca ran away until Laurel figures it out because she's awesome like that!
• Annalise's ex girlfriend, Eve (who she left for Sam), comes for a visit because she's the lawyer Annalise told Nate to call at the end of last season.  She originally is against it, but ends up going for it in the end.
• Michaela texted Eggs 911 on her phone at at the end of the episode, while she's clubbin' with the rest of the Keating Crew, she gets a reply, but doesn't see it.

Ready?  Now you're ready to watch #TGIT tonight starting at 8/7c on ABC! DO NOT MISS IT!