Good Morning! Happy Sunday. Sorry I’m late. I was up until after midnight reading Blaze of Memory by Nalini Singh and I BAWLED through the last 1/4 of the book! (if you’re on Twitter you know I’m on a reading BINGE – 8 BOOKS in the last two weeks! all by Nalini Singh.) Anyway, so I’m sure you want the winners, LOL!
The winner of Friday’s Jungle Madness / Janelle’s Birthday Contest, a $25 Amazon Gift Card is:
# 18 – Stacy!
Congratulations, Stacy! Email me at: carly phillips @ mac . com no spaces to confirm your email so I can send your prize!
and
The winner of Saturday’s One Thing with Karen Hawkins, a signed copy of a backlist title! She’s awesome so congrats again is:
# 24 Barbara Elness
Woo Hoo! Barbara, please email Julie at: julie @ julie leto . com (no spaces) to arrange your prize!
And lastly – I promised 3 winners of LOVE ME IF YOU DARE – of those people who sent book club questions! The winners are:
Patricia Sinclair
Denise Sutton :applause
Bella Franco
Congratulations! Email me at: carly phillips @ mac . com no spaces to confirm your email so I can send your prize!
See you at BOOK CLUB Tuesday!
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And now for today’s funny:
The Obedient Italian Wife!
There was an Italian immigrant man who had worked all his life, had saved all of his money, and was a real “miser” when it came to his money.
Just before he died, he said to his Italian wife…”When I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the after life with me.”
And so he got his wife to promise him, with all of her heart, that when he died, she would put all of the money into the casket with him.
Well, he died. He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was sitting there – dressed in black, (what else), and her best friend was sitting next to her.
When they finished the ceremony, and just before the undertaker got ready to close the casket, the wife said, “Wait just a moment!”
She had a small metal box with her; she came overwith the box and put it in the casket.
Then the undertaker locked the casket down and they rolled it away. So her friend said, “Girl, I know you were not fool enough to put all that money in there with your husband.”
The loyal wife replied, “Listen, I’m an Italian Catholic & I cannot go back on my word. I promised him that I was going to put that money in the casket with him..”
You mean to tell me you put that money in the casket with him??”
“I sure did,” said the wife. “I got it all together, put it into my account, I wrote him a check…. If he can cash it, then he can spend it.” AMEN!
Send this to every clever Italian female you know and others, and to every man who thinks they are smarter than Italian women!!!
CIAO TUTTI
Carly Phillips would like to take 100% credit for all her stories but the truth is, Carly’s strength is writing family, emotion, funky elderly people and animals. She couldn’t plot her way out of a paper bag, which is why she smartly found her plotmonkey pals early on in her writing career. Thanks to their support, Carly is now a NYT Bestselling author of 23 plus novels. Because writing doesn’t keep her busy enough, Carly is also a wife, a mother of one preteen and one teenage daughter, the primary care giver of her soft coated Wheaten terrier and an expert carpool mom.
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Congrats to the winners!
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Thanks for the great funny, Carly! I know a few Italian woman that I just have to pass this on to.
Have a fabulous Sunday everyone.
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Congrats to all of the winners!!!
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Congratulations to the winners. Enjoy!
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Congrats to all the winners!
Love the funny, Carly!
Hope everyone is having an awesome weekend!
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Congrats to all the winners. I hope you all enjoy your prizes.
Peace and love,
Paula R.
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Oh wow, thanx! I’m so excited :) You guys are the best!!!
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LOL!
funny joke
yay! thanks Carly
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btw, I
reading Nalini’s series all in a row too! I just got Bonds of Justice this week too 
eesh, Mockingjay and Bonds of Justice AND first week of classes….no wonder Im sleep deprived