"I Don't Drink Vine, And I Don't Smoke Chit"

Um....no.

What Your Halloween Habits Say About You

A bit of an introvert, you like the special occasions just as much as everyone else. You just have your own unique way of celebrating Halloween. You often feel invisible when you're in public. And it's a shame, because you're really quite a character. Your inner child is stubborn and a bit bossy. Your fears are irrational and varied. It's hard to predict what you may be afraid of on any given day. You're prone to be quite emotional and over dramatic. Deep down, you enjoy being scared out of your mind... even if you don't admit it. You are a traditionalist with most aspects of your life. You like your Halloween costume to be basic, well made, and conventional enough to wear another year.

What's Your Halloween Personality?

If I could be an Anne Rice Vampire I'd do it :P

You Could Be a Vampire... If You Had To

Like most people, the thought of being a vampire has crossed your mind. But you're not sure if you'd do it, even if you could. Living forever doesn't sound half bad, if you could live forever with the people you love the most. But do vampires even love? And would the vampire version of you even be you? It's all too much to contemplate. Luckily, the chances of you ever becoming a vampire are astronomically low. What you would like best about being a vampire: Living forever What you would like least about being a vampire: Blood stained teeth

Could You Be a Vampire?

Perfect!

Your Vampire Name Is...

Jezebell of the Ghastly

What's Your Vampire Name?

Ok but I wanna be like Imelda Marcos and have a lot of shoes, ok?

Your Monster Profile

Insane Dictator You Feast On: Grass You Lurk Around In: Movie Theaters You Especially Like to Torment: Pop Stars

What's Your Monster Name?

"It puts the lotion on it's skin or else it get's the hose!"

See, THAT is creepy. I am just mildly off :P

You Are Creepy

Serial killers would run away from you in a flash.

How Scary Are You?

Again, just NO! Try Twix. Kit Kat. The Classic Hershey! The only thing Butterfingery about me (gross, I know) is my ability to drop shit.

Butterfinger

They call you sticky fingers for a reason!

What Kind of Candy Are You?

The Jubilee Act

Here is the latest on the Jubilee Act from One.org. Please, take a moment and email your representative and ask them to support this important bill. Rather than email 4 people I am putting the challenge out to you guys to take 2 minutes and make a difference.

" If you've ever fallen behind on your bills or watched a friend struggle to make the monthly payment on a credit card, you know how devastating debt can be. Now imagine entire countries in the developing world—countries already struggling to lift their people out of extreme poverty—facing mountains of debt they didn't ask for and can't afford to pay.

Across the developing world, from Haiti to Lesotho, countries that should be distributing AIDS drugs, building schools and fighting hunger are trapped by billions of dollars of debt—debt often racked up by corrupt rulers who used the money to enrich themselves and used the future of their terrorized people as collateral.

A bill in Congress would cancel that debt for countries that commit to using the savings for poverty reduction, giving dozens of nations and millions of people a real chance at a better future. That bill is the Jubilee Act, and there is man who is dying to get it passed.

Reverend David Duncombe is taking 40 days off from his day job to walk the halls of Congress, asking our elected officials to support debt cancellation and the Jubilee Act. For 40 days, he's stretching his body to the very limits of human survival to pressure Congress to cancel the debt. And we can help him.

His 40 day fast ends October 17th on the Global Day of Action Against Poverty. That gives us one week to back up his fast with our voices. Let's all take action and send 40,000 letters to the U.S. House of Representatives—1,000 letters for each day of the fast—asking for support for the Jubilee Act and an end to the debt trap.

Debt is the kind of crisis that can hold back an entire continent. Sub-Saharan Africa pays $13 billion in debt service to wealthy nations and financial institutions every year, almost enough to pay for life-saving drugs to reverse the AIDS crisis that claims 7,000 lives each day.

And in 2000, when Tanzania's debt was cancelled, that government was able to eliminate school fees, sending 1.5 million children to school almost overnight.

For 40 days, Reverend Duncombe is fasting and telling our elected officials about the promise debt relief holds for people who are as hungry as he is. We can add 40,000 voices to his by asking our Representatives to support the Jubilee Act and lead on debt cancellation.

On October 17th, as anti-poverty advocates, we're supposed to Stand Up! for the Global Day of Action Against Poverty. Rev. Duncombe may be too weak to physically take to his feet that day. But by sending 40,000 letters we can stand up for him and send the message that debt cancellation is a smart way to fight poverty and a clear example of America's leadership in the world.

ONE by ONE, thousand by thousand, we can give strength to Rev. Duncombe's fast for the Jubilee Act, even as his strength runs out. 40,000 of us can stand up and tell Congress to pass the Jubilee Act and end the cycle of debt and poverty in the developing world.

Thank you for your voice,

Josh Peck, ONE.org

P.S. Believe in what Reverend Duncombe is doing? Want to help us reach our goal of 40,000 letters in support of his 40 day fast? Take a minute to forward this email to four friends and ask them to support the Jubilee Act, too."



You can help this important bill move forward by taking action here: The 40 Day Fast for the Jubilee Act.

Then go learn more about Stand Up Speak Out Against Poverty.

Thanks!

Hallmark Joins The RED Family

There are some great Product RED items available at Hallmark now. Just in time for Christmas, you can get wrapping paper that will do more than ended up wadded up in the garbage!

HALLMARK RED

Books, Glorious Books!

ETS has a book Meme up on her site that I felt COMPELLED to play along with. Feel free to play and let me know if you do!! And a shout out to Amy for her guest post adding this and MissZoot for getting the ball rolling!

The Rules

Bold those you’ve read. (I shrunk the ones I have not as it was just not easy to read!)
Italicize books you have started but couldn’t finish.
Add an asterisk* to those you have read more than once.
Underline those on your To Be Read list.

*** For Fun I have highlighted the ones I currently own.

Travis I am looking at you on this one!


Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Crime and Punishment*
Catch-22*
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights*
The Silmarillion*
Life of Pi: A Novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote*
Moby Dick*
Ulysses*
Madame Bovary*
The Odyssey*
Pride and Prejudice*
Jane Eyre*
A Tale of Two Cities*
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace*
Vanity Fair*
The Time Traveller’s Wife
The Iliad*
Emma*
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner*
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations*
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged*
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha*
Middlesex *
Quicksilver
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West *
The Canterbury Tales *
The Historian *
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man *
Love in the Time of Cholera *
Brave New World *
The Fountainhead *
Foucault’s Pendulum *
Middlemarch *
Frankenstein *
The Count of Monte Cristo *
Dracula *
A Clockwork Orange *
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King *
The Grapes of Wrath *
The Poisonwood Bible * (hated it!)
1984 *
Angels & Demons *
The Inferno *
The Satanic Verses *
Sense and Sensibility *
The Picture of Dorian Gray *
Mansfield Park *
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest *
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles *
Oliver Twist *
Gulliver’s Travels *
Les Misérables *
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince *
The Sound and the Fury *
Angela’s Ashes *
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present
Cryptonomicon *
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces *
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being *
Beloved *
Slaughterhouse-Five *
The Scarlet Letter *
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon *
Oryx and Crake
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita *
Persuasion *
Northanger Abbey *
The Catcher in the Rye *
On the Road *
The Hunchback of Notre Dame *
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance *
The Aeneid *
Watership Down *
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit *
In Cold Blood*
White Teeth
Treasure Island *
David Copperfield *
The Three Musketeers *

Underline is not being my friend but count on the fact that if it is on the list and I have not read it...I will be looking into it!

My Secret For Youthful Good Looks?

Desert pointed this one out to me and I LOVE IT! From over at 2K Blogger and I am rolling! My comments in blue ;)



Starrlight (I didn’t find her real name) (cause Starr ain't that crazy) is a gothy (just don't call me Emo) chick who takes pride in having been kicked out of the girl scouts at twelve. Her blog is called “Here comes the storm - in the form of a girl“, so I am guessing she isn’t really out of puberty yet. (Hey! Those are song lyrics. Poor Courtney, she is not resonating to a large audience these days. And here I thought it was the Oil of Olay that kept me so young and peppy rather than delayed puberty ;0) Her blog is hip and trendy and looks a lot like a myspace page. For those of you who are in this for the fun and occasionally freaky, (Hail to the kink, baby) the Storm’s the place. Oh, by the way, Starr also loves two of my fave television shows: weeds and Dexter. I admit to deep feelings of love for Showtime. (Do The Brick Dance!)

All joking aside, a big "Thanks!" to the folks over at 2K, which to my mind is one of the coolest blog projects ever. Go check it out. I see Matt Man and Bond on the picture selection for today.