FREE FOR ALL IS IN EFFECT UNTIL JANUARY 2ND

that's right, chickens.  so make with the campfires!

we'll be announcing the winner of the ugly sweater contest and winner of the 100 USD sephora gift card later on today.

stay tuned for the next contest with fabulous prizes!

now.  i'm up at a terrifically early hour on this rainy sunday because i'm going shopping.  D: D: D:  long story short: i'm done with my christmas shopping.  my mother is not and needs help buying her grandchildren clothes.  sigh

what're you up to today?

some hilarity fyt:

there's a joke about dumbledore putting a ring on it somewhere in there

So I'm bored, in my snow covered house, trying to write an article on the use of phenytoin during pregnancy, as you can tell it's not going well.

What I want to know, as the people in this forest are so very talented, is do you write original fiction?

If so do you post it anywhere? Fictionpress? Wordpress? On your own blog? Livejournal?

What stories do you write if you do post it, and give us links and pimp like it's going out of fashion.

Are you published? If so how did you do it? Lets have a bit of an advice thing going

Did you take part in NaNoWriMo and write Original fiction, if so are planning to publish it?

I just want to know about all you talented writers out there, and hope you can cure my boredom :)

Mine'll be in the comments.

ALSO! Self Publishing? using Creatspace or amazons Direct Text publishing, or Lulu, or blurb.com...what do you think of these? Are they any good, or is it just one massive waste of time?

So, I am not feeling very Christmas-y this year.  So instead of shopping or baking or like, I put together a desk while watching episode after episode of Inside the Actors Studio.  And James Lipton is always so pretentious it is fantastic!  This is such a good show, and the questions at the end are always my favorite part.

So, I thought in order to not be so stalkerish and get to know you lovely ladies I would ask you how you would answer James Liptons interview questions.

Here they are:

1. What is your favorite word?

2. What is your least favorite word?

3. What turns you on?

4. What turns you off?

5. What sound do you love?

6. What sound do you hate?

7. What is your favorite curse word?

8. What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?

9. What profession would you not like to do?

10. If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?

My answers are inside....come on in and play!

Ok so Struckatthesky now has a Twitter.  BUT she's too shy to say something so..

follow her at

@struckatthesky

The things I do for my friends.... lol.

EDITED :  If anyone else wants to toss their hat into this ring, (there have been a bazillion Twitter fires already today) Please join in!

I need to feel the love, peeps. I've had a shitty week.

We had a death in the family last Monday and it has bought out the best and the worst in everyone. Unfortunately, in my family, there is more of the latter to go around. I've had to see people I cut out of my life a long time ago and am feeling a particular brand of crap. I don't think I've even started to grieve my Uncle yet.

With Christmas coming up, it is just making everything feel worse.

Please, post something to cheer me up? Give me your best pics of the Twi cast on set, inbetween takes. I do love that. I stalk Rob like that.

i'm bored.

and procrastinating. 

Go to your ipod/itunes/zune/whatever and shuffle your songs and give me the first 15 that come up.

no cheating. idc if it's a horribly embarrassing song. 

NO SKIPPING

omg...i'm totally fishing for new songs to DL

I'll start. 

1. The Impression That I Get - Mighty Mighty Bosstones

2. Geek Stink Breath - Green Day

3. Silhouettes - Smile Empty Soul 

4. Dance, Dance - Fall Out Boy

5. Like a Knife - Secondhand Serenade

6. It's Not Your Fault - New Found Glory

7. Picture - Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow

8. Tighten Up - The Black Keys

9. Little Smirk - Theory of a Deadman

10. She's Crafty - Beastie Boys

11. Blue Orchid - White Stripes 

12. All or Nothing - Theory of a Deadman

13. Time Bomb - Rancid

14. My Immortal - Evanescence

15. 6th Avenue Heartache - The Wallflowers

lol there are at least two songs on there that i consider slightly embarrassing.

your turn!

Why yes!

This time, I'd like to do some happehs.

I wanna see your Christmas tree. (if you celebrate) 

Pretty tree pictures are an acceptable substitute.

 Here's ours.(Note the elf under the tree)

My sweet  eldest child informed me that she is lonely on Twitter. O_o

I replied that if she actually used it once in awhle she'd prolly see more going on.

The Midget asked "Tinkerbell's wings twitter. Is she on the internet?"

*facepalm*

So, campers, you can follow The Offspring if you so choose.

@sammyanddean

Carry On.

I just wanted to say..

I love my husband, I love the fire he has going for me, and I love that I have all of you.

I am in the holiday spirit!

Thanks to all of you at ADF that I enjoy...

What are YOU enjoing this evening?

One of my besties was searching the net for unique cook books.

I am...omg  

 (It's inside)

What is the most bizarre (and real) cook book you've found?

Edited to add:  The content is disturbing. Don't click the link if you are eating something, ok?

Today we are having a very special presentation of The Shining in honor of the Sar in Sarla aka Sarah (ssarrahha1) birthday! (her actual birthday isn't until Dec. 20 so make sure to send her some bday wishes!)

Come join me in watching Sarah's favorite horror movie and one of the most iconic horror movies of all time!

I'll be hosting the watchalong on gchat 7 PM Eastern time (which is about 30 minutes from now) and the movie should be over around 9-ish.
 
*You can PM us your email to make sure you join us in the conversations, or to ask for links!
However if you choose to do neither, you can still comment here on the campfire.
 
Special thanks go to BeanFlikn247 for making our awesome banner!
and
GAW for the permission :D
 

Hi!

I'm in need of a beta! I don't think i suck so much, but if you disagree i'd gladly hear it. Well, not gladly, but i wouldn't cry. Much.

Anyway, you can check out the first 12 chapters of my story, they're already beta'ed and posted. It's just that i took a reeeeeaaaally long time to upate this time and my previous (awesome) beta had too much on her plate, so now i'm beta'less.

You should know that english is not my first language but i've been studying English Literature for three years now at the university and i try my hardest. I accept all kinds of criticism and do not get offended. Unless you call me names.

Thank you :)

 http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4804142/1/No_Emotion

It's an Edward/Bella, All human, M rated story!

9 min

REMOTE CAMPING

I'M STARTING THIS CAMPFIRE FROM MY G1 ANDROID PHONE. (yes, it can be done.)

I've noticed the Forest is a bit quiet today, so I am guessing a lot of Campers are out and about: shopping, weekending, baking cookies, etc.

POST FROM WHEREVER YOU ARE.

Just check in with me for the hell of it. If you've never posted from your mobile device, now's your time to figure it out!

(by the way, from the G1, you have to hit SOURCE in the comment box in order to type. I then type in html, but if you don't know any html, you can just type in English, and even though the formatting of your phrases will be shit, we'll still get the drift.)

And if you manage to post a pic of whatever you're doing right now, you'll make me EXTRA happy!!

see more from me inside.

Questions!?

1. How did you get your user name?

2. If you could change your name to anything, what would it be and why?

3. If you could go back in time and give your younger self advice, what would it be and why?

4. What did you want to be when you were little?

5. What do you order at starbucks?

6. If you could play any musical instrument, which would it be and why? ?

7. What's your favorite thing to do when you're upset??

8. What's your favorite movie??

9. What's one food you can not live without?

10. Would you rather have the superpower to read minds, or the superpower to be invisible?

I love cooking "fun" stuff from time to time, but honestly I'm a crap cook and we usually end getting take out...which inevitably just goes bad in the fridge.

...So, I was wondering, do you guys have any recipes/ideas for leftovers?

Share whatever ideas you have!

...in particular Cinnabuns? My husband got like 8 HUGE ones and they're just sitting in the fridge...

ETA: Low-fat pasta recipes WELCOME!

Ok...since we've exhausted all 140 character on twitter over this fic...let's discuss the epicness of The Plan by QuantumFizzx

Wanna catch up? It will probably only take 30 minutes to read all the short little chappies...

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6550419/1/

Hey guys.

I just started using my twitter again - it's been a LONG time.

Looking for some followers :P

If you follow me - I garentee a follow back :)

Thank youuu so much!

caitlintaylorr is my name.

http://twitter.com/caitlintaylorrr

also - sorry, if i'm volating rules. Wait, it's friday, right? That makes it okay, doesn't it?!? 

I told you it's been a while :(

your mission, dear campers, should you choose to accept it:

find the ugliest holiday sweater the internet has to offer & post a picture of it in this campfire, but here's the twist: it requires a caption.  the rangers will choose the best one-two combo that makes us laugh the hardest: ugliest effin' sweater of all time, combined with the perfect commentary.

one lucky camper will win a $100 gift card to my favorite store on the planet- sephora!

so, think you got what it takes?  if i could win, my entry would look something like this^^

Gimme the corn cob pipe first so i can bust like a bubble

Compton and Aspen together, know you know you in trouble

Ain't nuthin' but a snow thang, baby

Two loc'ed-out frosties goin' crazy

Different Forest is the website that pays me

Unmeltable, so please don't try to melt me

details: -one sweater and one caption per camper- no sharesies on the sweaters

-we need both sweater and caption.  you forget one, you're out. (again-if you don't have a caption with your sweater-you are disqualified)

-winner will be selected by a jury of your peers the rangers.

-go to the sephora website for an incentive to win

-if you have a question, feel free to ask in this campfire

-campers are encouraged to comment on the submissions

-good luck

CONTEST OVER AS OF 10:24PM EST.  WEINERS ANNOUNCED TOMORROW!  STAY TUNED FOR MORE FRIVOLITY AND CONTESTS, COURTESY OF YOUR FRIENDLY FOREST RANGERS!

This was TOUGH. Really really TOUGH! We cried, we swooned, we gasped and we laughed. I, along with all of the Rangers, want to thank everyone who participated and took time out of their lives to write and put their work out there. We are honored and grateful that you paticipated in our bit of fun.

There are ten more contests to go-one of which will be announced......TONIGHT!

Ok-I am rambling

THE WINNER OF A CANON CHRISTMAS IS

Foi Pur! We have posted her story in the comments

Congratulations! Come on down and collect your $100 Amazon gift certificate.

Let's all celebrate together!