What's the secret to happiness?

No true secret to happiness, it comes in small doses, as in that GREAT cup of coffee you got earlier, or that Vegan burger that was just right...♥ Only when you fully understand that it's in all the lil' things in life and all around us, only then can one fine true "happiness"! ㋡

Ask me anything BUT if its ignorant fuck off

UPDATE: What do you feel the true meaning of happiness is? *To: The Reader. ☻ 

What was your favorite book as a child?

The Giving Tree - By Shel Silverstein♥ & I still own that book & The Light in the Attic, both have my name in crayon & his name in PEN considering I ran into him in Philly couple years back & was able to have him autograph them for me & bought some other books of course, lol! Funny this was asked because I was JUST reading these two books to my youngest Jacob. *Giggles* This is like the 5th Ironic thing that happened to me today/tonight♥

Ask me anything BUT if its ignorant fuck off

So what was your favorite reading book as a child?? *To: The Reader. ☻

Everyone remembers when Lady Gaga and Kim Kardashian did the, Say Goodbye to Twitter for Charity right? Well here is just 1 of the photos from a shoot.....

Here is the main link to the charity #BuyLife ........


Here is an Article for those who have not heard of this.....






All I have to say about THIS is it is a GREAT cause BUT, did they seriously have to take it THAT far by taking that picture below.......how disgusting & being apart of Hollyweird she better be careful now, lol! I can just SMELL conspiracies all around this shot just brewing away! *Giggles* So really though what are your thoughts on this? Not the Charity of course ...*Smiles* Comment below & thanks for reading.

Do YOU know where Black Friday got it's name??

November 22 - November 30 TOP ACTIONS THIS WEEK Help Women in Pakistan Become Community Health Workers by Sight Savers International Sign the Petition » Pledge To Support An End To Breast Cancer by National Breast Cancer Coalition Sign the Petition » Don’t Let Clean Energy Jobs Go to China by Alliance for Climate Protection Sign the Petition » THIS WEEK on CHANGE.ORG Change.org's 2010 Holiday Gift Guide Plus: For the Educator • For the Environmentalist • For the Modern-Day Abolitionist • For the Animal Lover • For the Foodie Do you know where "Black Friday" got its name? It refers both to retailers being "in the black" and the mass disruption, chaos, and in some years even deaths that have resulted from the buying stampede on the day after Thanksgiving. Whether or not you sat this Black Friday out, we've got the cure for the holiday shopper disenchanted with the darker side of American materialism: gifts that advance social change. Welcome to Change.org's 2010 Holiday Gift Guide. Across the Change.org network, we're featuring great gift ideas that advance the causes you and those close to you are passionate about. While the holidays can be a time of excessive consumption, they can equally be a time to use our resources to do a lot of good. For a sampling of gift ideas for positive change, see the list below. For the full Change.org 2010 Holiday Gift Guide, click here. For the Educator in EDUCATION Give a gift card through DonorsChoose.org, where teachers across the country can ask for classroom supplies and gadgets that they can't afford on their own, and your love ones can choose a specific project to fund. Read more » For the Environmentalist in ENVIRONMENT Want a junk-free mailbox? Precycle will remove a name from most junk mailing lists for a mere $10. Not only will your gift reduce someone's junk mail by at least 80%, it will save some of the 93.5 million trees destroyed each year to create all that clutter. Read more » For the Modern-Day Abolitionist in END HUMAN TRAFFICKING Made By Survivors sells beautiful, handcrafted jewelry, bags, and home goods made by survivors of human trafficking in India and Nepal. This type of craft, traditionally developed by men, gives female survivors an empowering skill to keep them out of slavery and generate income to rescue and protect others.  Read more » For the Animal Lover in ANIMALS Want to support animals this holiday? Consider adopting a virtual pet from Defenders of Wildlife or National Wildlife Federation, which offer virtual adoptions of wildlife with kits including photos, certificates, stuffed animals and more. It's the perfect way to honor your pet or animal-loving friend.  Read more » For the Foodie in SUSTAINABLE FOOD Sign up for a Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) membership. A CSA entitles members to a regular delivery or pick-up of fresh, seasonal produce from a farm near them - a healthy choice for consumers and for the planet. To find a CSA near you or your loved ones, use LocalHarvest's online CSA locator.  Read more » Want more gift ideas, including guides for the gay rights activist, the outdoors lover, or the feminist in your family? Check out our full gift guide here. Happy holidays everyone!! & Thank you for visiting! ♥

Working on my design......Update: Design/Blog is finished....for now.....♥

It actually is NOT as bad as I 

thought it would be!

*The editing I am referring too!

:)) Anywho that is all now

I am back to work!!!

UPDATE: My BLOG is now updated!!  
Please let me know below what you think
& Thank you. 


I am using their options (pictures for background)  for now but so far it will do, I didn't feel like searching thru my tons and tons of pictures right now it's pretty late and I was working on this earlier but then fell asleep, so had to jump back on and finish it...so please LEAVE me suggestions/thoughts below & again thank you♥!

 

ACLU Bill of Rights Dinner.......& YOU (Any supporter) are invited!! *Giggles* x)~

 

Join the ACLU of Pennsylvania for our annual Bill of Rights Dinner!

Dear ACLU Supporter,

Wednesday, December 15 American Philosophical Society’s Benjamin Franklin Hall Chestnut Street (between 3rd and 4th Streets) Philadelphia Buy your tickets now! The deadline for purchasing tickets is next Tuesday, December 7.

This year at the Bill of Rights Dinner we are honoring Edward M. Posner (pictured), a partner at Drinker Biddle and Reath LLP and a stalwart supporter of civil liberties.

In addition, the evening’s program will include a discussion of the state secrets doctrine with attorneys Wilson Brown III from Drinker Biddle and Reath LLP and Ben Wizner from the ACLU’s National Security Project. Wilson Brown’s efforts to vindicate three families victimized by the government’s improper claim of state secrets privilege in United States v. Reynolds are the subject of Pulitzer Prize-winner Barry Siegel’s 2008 book Claim of Privilege.

Ben Wizner has litigated several post-9/11 civil liberties cases in which the government has invoked the state secrets privilege, including Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., a suit against a private aviation services company for facilitating the CIA's rendition to torture of five Muslim men.

I hope that you will join us for this celebration!

ACLU Important ANNOUNMENT!!! & IT GETS BETTER PROJECT!

A Parent’s Nightmare A Parent’s Nightmare Read more about Elizabeth and Alex's ordeal on our website. Today Isabella is a happy and healthy six-month-old living with her parents. New parents Elizabeth Mort and Alex Rodriguez thought the most difficult thing facing them when they arrived home from the hospital with their newborn daughter Isabella would be the sleepless nights. Instead, they were faced with the unthinkable – having their three-day-old daughter taken from them for five days by Lawrence County Children and Youth services because of Elizabeth’s false positive drug test performed by the hospital where Isabella was born. Elizabeth, who was eventually cleared of illegal drug use, had eaten an “everything” bagel with poppy seeds two hours before being admitted to the hospital, causing the inaccurate test result. “When Isabella was gone, our family was just at a loss of words,” said Elizabeth. “I couldn't stop crying. Alex just didn't even know how to be himself. It felt like our heart was ripped in pieces. The most important person was missing, and we didn't know when we would see her again.” The ACLU of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit yesterday, October 28th, to stop this from happening to other new mothers in Lawrence County. Find out more about Elizabeth and Alex’s case on our website. American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania www.aclupa.org

Help us continue to defend the Bill of Rights — become a member of the ACLU today! Follow us on Twitter and visit our Facebook page. Also, check out the ACLU of Pennsylvania blog Speaking Freely.

"Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers killed themselves. The only way im wearin it for them is if they all commit suicide." These were the words posted on Facebook by Clint McCance, a school board member in the Midland School District in Independence Country, Arkansas late last week. Quickly upon learning of McCance's actions, we called on our project's nearly 100,000 Facebook supporters to petition him to resign immediately.  And just one day later, live on CNN, Mr. McCance bowed to the pressure. Check out the segment here, then share your thoughts with us: Our project is about more than a collection of heartfelt videos, it's about creating awareness and calling out the Clint McCance's of the world and shining a light on their bigotry and hate.   It's about making our schools and communities a safer place by inspiring students, teachers, parents and community members from all walks of life to come together to advocate for change all across the country.  And it's about holding people like Clint McCance -- people who are making things worse -- accountable. It has been just over a month since our project began and we're seeing an impact, not just in Arkansas, but also in New Jersey where just last week lawmakers introduced an "anti-bullying bill of rights."  You've helped create an international issue out of something that was tragically ignored for far too long. http://www.ItGetsBetterProject.com/YourMovement Stay tuned in the days ahead for more videos and many more opportunities to act in your area. Thank you for reading!

DESIGN a T-Shirt for ONE.Org it's all for good causes. ♥

Last week ONE asked people to submit designs for "ONE’s Next Top T-Shirt", and I must say, I'm impressed by some of the excellent designs I've seen. But I know that sometimes true greatness doesn't come easy. So to make sure all of you have time to create something fantastic, we're extending our submission deadline to Monday, October 25th at 12:00 PM ET. So what are you waiting for?

After Monday's deadline, we'll narrow down all of the submissions to the top three and ask ONE members to choose their favorite. The winning design will then be printed on 100% organic cotton, African-made shirts and promoted to our over 2 million members around the world. Pretty cool, huh?

We've accomplished some truly remarkable things this year. We helped cancel Haiti's long-standing debt after the devastating earthquake. We helped pass the Cardin-Lugar Transparency amendment and helped secure more essential funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Designing a shirt might seem like small potatoes compared to all of that, but when we wear our ONE shirts, we show the world in a very public way that we’re proud to stand together in the fight against extreme poverty – and we hope that they’ll ask questions about our shirts and join the cause, too.

I can't wait to see what you guys come up with.

http://www.one.org/us/tshirt/?id=2005-5253255-JKS8LFx&t=2

Good luck,

ONE.org

The 1st photo from Breaking Dawn: The Twilight Saga♥

The first photo from 'Breaking Dawn' is here! Director Bill Condon gave 'Twilight' fans something very special to be thankful for by tweeting the picture to the Official Twilight Twitter account. It appears to be a taste of the anticipated honeymoon scene - meant to imply ecstasy without revealing anything explicit. Mission accomplished! Just one feather-clutching hand is enough to convey all manners of sexiness!

'Breaking Dawn' finds Bella and Edward finally getting married, and through the violent birth of their daughter, Renesmee, whose birth creates new trouble for the couple as the Volturi scrutinize her possible status as an 'immortal child' - strictly forbidden in the vampire world.

& please please please let ME know what you think of this first glimpse in the comments! 

Take Action for Vietnam Vets & everyone knows MY DADDY was one, may he RIP!♥

Take action to support the Vietnam veterans who were once spit upon rather than welcomed home.

Today is Veterans Day - a day to honor those who have bravely sacrificed so much for our country.

Top of mind are those who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past decade. But often forgotten are those veterans who made it home from the Vietnam War 35 years ago.

Upon return, Vietnam veterans encountered no cheering crowds, no speeches, and no parades. Those who sacrificed so much in a brutal war zone not of their choosing were instead spit upon, and bore the brunt of a divided nation.

Veterans Day is our chance to remember and honor the sacrifices of all soldiers, regardless of how we feel about the wars themselves.

That's why we're supporting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and asking Change.org members to remember and honor those warriors who served during the Vietnam War and finally tell them "Welcome home."

During the long conflict in Vietnam, three million Americans served and 58,193 died. More than 150,000 were wounded and at least 21,000 were permanently disabled.

We must never forget these soldiers, who did everything their country asked of them despite the bitter controversy about the war back home.

Today, on Veteran's Day, give Vietnam veterans the "welcome home" they never received.

The number of surviving Vietnam veterans is becoming fewer each year. With every generation, the memories and lessons of Vietnam fade. It's important we take every opportunity to reach out to those still with us today and tell them we honor their sacrifice.

Thank you for lending your voice,

The Change.org Team

TSA wants to see you naked

Dear ACLU Supporter,

Tell Secretary Napolitano to implement security measures that ensure passenger privacy.

Planning to fly this holiday season? You've probably already braced yourself for long lines, delays and extra fees just to check your luggage.

Unfortunately, you can also expect another hassle at the airport this year. 70 airports around the country are now using controversial body scanners—also known as "naked scanners." These machines use low-dose radiation to produce strikingly graphic images of passengers' bodies, essentially taking a naked picture as passengers pass through security checkpoints.

Yes, authorities at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) say you can opt out of the naked scan. But doing so will subject you to new and highly invasive manual searches of your body, including your breasts, buttocks and inner thighs.

All of us have a right to travel without such crude invasions of our privacy. Tell DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano to put in place security measures that respect passengers' privacy rights.

The government is also violating travelers' privacy in another way: by searching and seizing the laptops and other electronic devices of international travelers. Never before in history have customs officers been able to routinely pour through a lifetime's worth of letters, photographs, purchase records and other data. This enormous invasion of privacy peers into people's lives in a way that has never been done before.

There's already an outcry building over all of these new searches. In fact, travelers and the ACLU have pushed back before against invasive screening, and the TSA quietly retreated back to a lighter touch. But if we want to stop these invasive practices, we've got to put our voices together.

Tell DHS to rein in these invasive, out-of-control searches and to implement security measures that ensure passenger privacy.

The ACLU has prepared a useful guide to help you navigate your options at the airport. It details ways to protect your privacy during air travel. It also describes how to file official complaints about any TSA trouble you encounter. View it here.

If you think your rights have been violated while you're traveling, please let us know about it. Just fill out this form online to share your story.

You shouldn't have to check your rights when you check your luggage. With the holiday travel season fast approaching, we need to make sure that security measures are in place that actually make us more secure without compromising passenger privacy.

Please write Secretary Napolitano today.

Thanks for speaking out,

Anthony D. Romero Executive Director ACLU

© ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004

GOOD NEWS!!!

FINALLY I got off my butt and headed over to the car lot, in not even 20 minutes I got a BRAND NEW DODGE CARAVAN!!!!!!! And my Hubz I am BUYING him a WHITE WORK VAN, its GORGEOUS!!!!!! STILL will only have one car payment BOTH are going to be smashed together (I know the guy-he is awesome and hookin us up) so my payments monthly will be 380. but I put down my one car so thats 12000 onto the payment and the next two jobs are HUGE I will be makin at least 10k so I can either PAY them off orrr just GO CHRISTMAS shopping !!!! Which sounds like the best PLAN, get it OVER and DONE with! & the funny thing is I brought my mother and Jim with me and my mom saw this one VAN and OMG she FELL IN LOVE and is NOW TRADING HER CAR IN TOO & getting that one! AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I told her we can consider them EARLY Xmas presents!! *Giggles* I am sooooooooo happy now !


:( O and get some FOLLOWERS over here from my other blogs/social sites, that has to happen STAT but other then that man, it's just soooooo funny how shit plays out! Especially w/my stalker , ha HOW is the GHETTO doing?? BOUT TIME you went were you BELONG. YOU & EVERYONE ELSE KNEW (Why you had no friends and the neighbors hated you) THAT you were NEVER BUILT to live in an area of CLASS! HA, Told ya KARMA was a bitch! *Giggles*  -and to everyone else (NOT THE STALKER) Remember : HOW PEOPLE TREAT YOU is THEIR KARMA, HOW YOU REACT is YOURS!!!! 




Anywho that's all I can think of for now, I am just soooooooo damn stoked and so happy all this is coming together, O O O AND MY NEW HOUSE!!! WILL BE READY in 3 MORE WKS!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh CANT WAIT!!!! Finally EVERYTHING falls into place, FINALLY and let me tell you it feels damn good! * I am right where I NEED and LOVE to be * ♥ Gawd, how I love this ALLL TOO PERFECT AND CRAZY LIFE!