Saw this on someone's blog. LOVED IT!!!
1) You accidentally enter your password on a microwave.
2) You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3) The real reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they don't have a screen name.
4) You'd rather look all over the house for the remote instead of just pushing the button on the tv.
6) Your boss doesnt even have the ability to do your job.
7) You read this list, & keep nodding and smiling
8) As you read this list, you think about sending it to all your
friends
9) And.. you were to busy to notice number 5.
10) You actually scrolled back up to check that there was no 5.
11) And now you're laughing at your stupidity
Put this on your blog/xanga if you fell for it.
Anyway.... it got me thinking, what are the most endangered speices out there? And how can we help them? And why are the endangered?
Now I didn't answer the why and only somewhat of the how. But here is the what:
Sincerely,
Allan Barkin, Principal
ExtraValue Network
If you would like to add your wildlife link with a brief description not to exceed 10 words to our site, we would be glad to recipricate the gesture, if you would link from your site to our
World's Top 10 Most Endangered Species; complete guide.
Miss. Mint
Top Ten Books of '06
ABSURDISTAN
By Gary Shteyngart. Random House, $24.95.
Shteyngart's scruffy, exuberant second novel, equal parts Gogol and Borat, is immodest on every level - it's long, crude, manic and has cheap vodka on its breath. It also happens to be smart, funny and, in the end, extraordinarily rich and moving. "Absurdistan" introduces Misha Vainberg, the rap-music-obsessed, grossly overweight son of the 1,238th richest man in Russia. After attending college in the United States, he is now stuck in St. Petersburg, scrambling for an American visa that may never arrive. Caught between worlds, and mired in his own prejudices and thwarted desires, Vainberg just may be an antihero for our times.
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF AMY HEMPEL
Scribner, $27.50.
A quietly powerful presence in American fiction during the past two decades, Hempel has demonstrated unusual discipline in assembling her urbane, pointillistic and wickedly funny short stories. Since the publication of her first collection, "Reasons to Live," in 1985, only three more slim volumes have appeared - a total of some 15,000 sentences, and nearly every one of them has a crisp, distinctive bite. These collected stories show the true scale of Hempel's achievement. Her compact fictions, populated by smart, neurotic, somewhat damaged narrators, speak grandly to the longings and insecurities in all of us, and in a voice that is bracingly direct and sneakily profound.
THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN
By Claire Messud. Alfred A. Knopf, $25.
This superbly intelligent, keenly observed comedy of manners, set amid the glitter of cultural Manhattan in 2001, also looks unsparingly, though sympathetically, at a privileged class unwittingly poised, in its insularity, for the catastrophe of 9/11. Messud gracefully intertwines the stories of three friends, attractive, entitled 30-ish Brown graduates "torn between Big Ideas and a party" but falling behind in the contest for public rewards and losing the struggle for personal contentment. The vibrant supporting cast includes a deliciously drawn literary seducer ("without question, a great man") and two ambitious interlopers, teeming with malign energy, whose arrival on the scene propels the action forward.
THE LAY OF THE LAND
By Richard Ford. Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95.
The third installment, following "The Sportswriter" (1986) and "Independence Day" (1995), in the serial epic of Frank Bascombe - flawed husband, fuddled dad, writer turned real estate agent and voluble first-person narrator. Once again the action revolves around a holiday. This time it's Thanksgiving 2000: the Florida recount grinds toward its predictable outcome, and Bascombe, now 55, battles prostate cancer and copes with a strange turn in his second marriage. The story, which unfolds over three days, is filled with incidents, some of them violent, but as ever the drama is rooted in the interior world of its authentically life-size hero, as he logs long hours on the highways and back roads of New Jersey, taking expansive stock of middle-age defeats and registering the erosions of a brilliantly evoked landscape of suburbs, strip malls and ocean towns.
SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS
By Marisha Pessl. Viking, $25.95.
The antic ghost of Nabokov hovers over this buoyantly literate first novel, a murder mystery narrated by a teenager enamored of her own precocity but also in thrall to her father, an enigmatic itinerant professor, and to the charismatic female teacher whose death is announced on the first page. Each of the 36 chapters is titled for a classic (by authors ranging from Shakespeare to Carlo Emilio Gadda), and the plot snakes ingeniously toward a revelation capped by a clever "final exam." All this is beguiling, but the most solid pleasures of this book originate in the freshness of Pessl's voice and in the purity of her storytelling gift.
NONFICTION
FALLING THROUGH THE EARTH
A Memoir.
By Danielle Trussoni. Henry Holt & Company, $23.
This intense, at times searing memoir revisits the author's rough-and-tumble Wisconsin girlhood, spent on the wrong side of the tracks in the company of her father, a Vietnam vet who began his tour as "a cocksure country boy" but returned "wild and haunted," unfit for family life and driven to extremes of philandering, alcoholism and violence. Trussoni mixes these memories with spellbinding versions of the war stories her father reluctantly dredged up and with reflections on her own journey to Vietnam, undertaken in an attempt to recapture, and come to terms with, her father's experiences as a "tunnel rat" who volunteered for the harrowing duty of scouring underground labyrinths in search of an elusive and deadly enemy.
THE LOOMING TOWER
Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.
By Lawrence Wright. Alfred A. Knopf, $27.95.
In the fullest account yet of the events that led to the fateful day, Wright unmasks the secret world of Osama bin Laden and his collaborators and also chronicles the efforts of a handful of American intelligence officers alert to the approaching danger but frustrated, time and again, in their efforts to stop it. Wright, a staff writer for The New Yorker, builds his heart-stopping narrative through the patient and meticulous accumulation of details and through vivid portraits of Al Qaeda's leaders. Most memorably, he tells the story of John O'Neill, the tormented F.B.I. agent who worked frantically to prevent the impending terrorist attack, only to die in the World Trade Center.
MAYFLOWER
A Story of Courage, Community, and War.
By Nathaniel Philbrick. Viking, $29.95.
This absorbing history of the Plymouth Colony is a model of revisionism. Philbrick impressively recreates the pilgrims' dismal 1620 voyage, bringing to life passengers and crew, and then relates the events of the settlement and its first contacts with the native inhabitants of Massachusetts. Most striking are the parallels he subtly draws with the present, particularly in his account of how Plymouth's leaders, including Miles Standish, rejected diplomatic overtures toward the Indians, successful though they'd been, and instead pursued a "dehumanizing" policy of violent aggression that led to the needless bloodshed of King Philip's War.
THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA
A Natural History of Four Meals.
By Michael Pollan. The Penguin Press, $26.95.
"When you can eat just about anything nature has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety," Pollan writes in this supple and probing book. He gracefully navigates within these anxieties as he traces the origins of four meals - from a fast-food dinner to a "hunter-gatherer" feast - and makes us see, with remarkable clarity, exactly how what we eat affects both our bodies and the planet. Pollan is the perfect tour guide: his prose is incisive and alive, and pointed without being tendentious. In an uncommonly good year for American food writing, this is a book that stands out.
THE PLACES IN BETWEEN
By Rory Stewart. Harvest/Harcourt, Paper, $14.
"You are the first tourist in Afghanistan," Stewart, a young Scotsman, was warned by an Afghan official before commencing the journey recounted in this splendid book. "It is mid-winter - there are three meters of snow on the high passes, there are wolves, and this is a war. You will die, I can guarantee." Stewart, thankfully, did not die, and his report on his adventures - walking across Afghanistan in January of 2002, shortly after the fall of the Taliban - belongs with the masterpieces of the travel genre. Stewart may be foolhardy, but on the page he is a terrific companion: smart, compassionate and human. His book cracks open a fascinating, blasted world miles away from the newspaper headlines.
ALL FROM:
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/review/20061210tenbestbooks.html
HAVE YOU READ ANY OF THESE?
Miss. Mint
I know the number is different today
but I want to reconize:
But also I want to thank everyone out there that reads my blog. I thank everyone that writes comments, votes on the pole, and does something to help the world.
Thank you all.
Now for my note.
Lately I have been seeing a lot of Advice Blogs. It is truely amazing how many people want to help others. But I have to tell you, I am not going to accept advice unless you've experienced it, or know a lot about it.
For example: Many people say that if they were ever to smoke they would quit. But it isn't as easy as they say. Nicotine is drug that makes people addictive to it. The body gets used to it, and then, when they try quitting, the body resist. Headaches, stomach-aches, vomiting, and other things are the hardships of quitting.
anyway, if you are going to have an advice blog, article, or webpage, do it on things you know or have experienced.
That was my ADVICE for the day,
Miss. Mint
Just thought everyone would like to know that Sunday, December the 10th @ 7:00 (our time here on the east coast) the time differs per time zone around the world. there will be a worldwide candle lighting service. for one hour you light a candle in rememberance of all the children that have died so young. Many churches are participating in this event but you can too, right at home. light a candle at 7:00 to in honor of the children and others who have died so young. think about their lives, many die of aids, murder, famine, and health issues.
I think that everyone should light a candle. It is a great idea....
I'm doing it
are you.
Miss. Mint
Recently I have gone through an event of not being picked for something that I deeply wanted. I was quickly depressed and almost full of tears. But I did a few things to help me get over my disappointment.
1. Occupy yourself. Read, watch T.V., sing a song, go to the mall, something to keep your mind off of it.
2. When your mind does wander to the disappointment, think of hte bad things that would have happened if you were picked. And think of the good things that have come of you not being picked.
3. do something to get you really tired and relaxed. Go work out for a while then come back and take a soothing bath. That way, when you are in bed, you wont have to think of it.
4. Stand in the mirror and talk to yourself. Sternly tell you that you were not picked for a reason, but instead you will find something better to fill your time.
5. talk to someone who will help you. Your parents, your best friend, your sibling. Make sure that they are people that know you and love you.
6. Do not eat unless you are ungry. Nine out of ten times people tend to eat (and I mean extreme eating) when they are disappointed or depressed.
7. If your depression continues, talk to a doctor. Sometimes a professional is needed to help you.
I hope this helps anyone out there.
I know these helped me....
Miss. Mint
update**** I was reading comments and for sweatpky
here is your comment.
you are wierd
I have to tell you, sweatpky. That if you are going to call me something via writing, make sure you spell it right. LOL!!!
it's weird, by the way.
I have been so caught up in my own doings that I have forgotten about you!! I am so sorry, please forgive me. anyway I want to say:
Happy
Thanksgiving!!!!!
where did you go for thanksgiving?
What was your favorite meal?
do you celebate it as a dinner or a lunch, or a linner?
for me I stayed home, had my favorite pumpkin bread budding, and we just had it at 1:00, like a lunch.
Miss. Mint
Just finished this (or well the third):
Aloshaby Christopher Pike | ||||
 From the Publisher-
Every young girl dreams that she's secretly a princess of a far-off land and that someday her true parents will come to claim her and usher her into a life of luxury, an fabulous existence where she might even have magical powers and be swept off her feet by a handsome prince.
Teenager Ali Warner has reason to cling to such a fantasy. Her mother died in a car accident a year ago. Her father, a trucker determined to work through his grief, hasn't acknowledged Ali's burgeoning figure or complicated emotions. Her friends still aren't sure how to talk about her mother's death. And the Southern California forest that has always been Ali's refuge is about to be ravaged by logging. Ali is about to discover that she is a princess-a fairy princess. And that she has to save the world. For real. To claim her fairy powers, Ali must overcome seven potentially lethal challenges. Then she must scale a mountain and confront the King of the Dwarves and the King of the Elves, whose armies are poised to invade Earth. With her bemused 21st century friends, a sly leprechaun, and an extremely loyal, extremely ugly, troll by her side, Ali begins the most momentous journey of her young life, a journey during which she will learn much about herself and the past she thought she knew. She will conquer fire and water, earth and air, and even time itself. She will be both betrayer and betrayed, will see death close at hand, and will snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Ali Warner is Alosha. Welcome to her world... ***
From Miss. Mint
 This amazing story has everything!
J.K. Rowling, C.S. Lewis, Tamora Pierce. It will swipe you off your feet.
At first you think you can guess the story, it seems so regular. But oh---no!!! It has so many twists and turns you will be second guessing yourself.
UNBELIEVABLE!!!
Must READ!!
for ages 10-17 at best.
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As most of you know yesterday was the National Voting Day. And it seems that most Democrats won. This is very interesting news, since most of the time it is republican. Hmm... Now with things to think about I must admit it has been a crazy week. Loads of birthdays, X-mas shopping, and more. Oh well i think I will.
Now I want feedback from everyone.
PLEASE TELL ME YOUR STATE AND WETHER DEMOCRAT OR A REPUBLICAIN!!!!! Please no names, or extra info. If need be, I will delete what is said.
THANKS!!!!
Miss. Mint
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