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Monster Meet and Greet Mash

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1halloween84I was working
on my blog,
late one night
When my eyes
beheld
an eerie sight
For my post
from its slab,
began to rise
And suddenly
to my surprise
It did the mash,
it did the Monster Meet and Greet Mash!
A monster blogger mash, it was a graveyard smash!
It did the mash, it caught on in a flash…
It did the mash, it did the monster blog mash!
The zombies and bloggers were having fun,
The blog party had just begun…
The scene was rockin’, we were digging the shares,
Some were commenting, well, those who dared
So add your link and des-crypt-ion, girls and guys,
Then suddenly to your surprise…
You can mash, you can monster blogger mash!

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While I often say the best part of blogging is ‘meeting’ other bloggers, readers, etc., it’s been too long since we hung together, so welcome to the party, please, feel free to leave your blog name, a link to your blog or favourite post(s), and a des-crypt-ion. And pass it on: Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Reddit, Tumblr, Google+, LinkIn, or reblog, so others can dig it too…

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For some special treats, drop by some of the other blogs and Suzie’s Blog Party on Halloween http://suzie81speaks.com (fabulous British blogger and creator of Twitter’s popular #SundayBlogShare). I’ll check back, enjoy the snacks, but I have some busy times ahead, including preparing something completely different…Hopefully I haven’t bitten off more than I can chew-ie and end up as blaster fodder. May The Force be with me.

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Yes, It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
People dressing as ghosts, goblins, and ghouls,
Celebrities, minions, villains, and fools
Filled with fun, food, and fear
It’s the most wonderful time of the year

It’s the hap-happiest season of all
With trick or treat greetings and candy meetings
Friends and strangers coming to call
It’s the hap-happiest season of all

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My happiness project is kinda sputtering, as it turns out, a year is a really, really loooong time. Here’s where it all began: https://yadadarcyyada.com/2015/06/03/dont-worry-be-happy/
https://yadadarcyyada.com/2015/06/09/to-blog-or-not-to-blog/
https://yadadarcyyada.com/2015/06/15/rock-me-amadeus/
https://yadadarcyyada.com/2015/06/25/in-my-life-i-loved-them-all/
https://yadadarcyyada.com/2015/07/03/how-to-be-good-to-one-another/
https://yadadarcyyada.com/2015/09/20/if-i-had-a-million-dollars/

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And more…Week 18
I don’t have to keep track of every little thing to be happy.

Week 19
I finally fully understand more but better…maybe.

Week 20
Too tired to decide if actually happy, or merely exhaustedly happy.

1halloween63Week 21
September gone? October started? I want a recount.

Week 22
Internally screaming could become real screaming if I keep hearing about how many weeks until Christmas, before we’ve had Halloween and in Canada, Remembrance Day! Aaaarrrggh!  https://yadadarcyyada.com/2013/11/02/christmas-comes-after-remembrance-day/ https://yadadarcyyada.com/2014/11/03/lest-we-forget-to-shop/

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Week 23
Annual library book sale! Books! My precious! They sold you to me!

Week 24
You think the storm will never pass, but it does. Until then, enjoy the show.

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Week 25
1. Turns out, weight loss isn’t one size fits all.

2. Still waiting for my own epic-everytime-I-enter-a-room-music-a-la-John-Williams.

3. Rewatched Edward Scissorhands https://yadadarcyyada.com/2013/10/31/edward-scissorhands/ and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown https://yadadarcyyada.com/2013/10/29/stuff-i-learned-from-its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown/
https://yadadarcyyada.com/2014/10/19/religion-politics-and-the-great-pumpkin/ Now that’s entertainment.

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4. Black cat crossed my path. Way too adorable to be bad luck, um, right?

5. Since Christmas is bleeding into Halloween anyway, why not combine the music – Carol of the Hells?

6. Maybe I’ll dress up as an author for Halloween. Treat or trick, publish my book! 😉

7. Halloween over for another year, you know what that means…chocolate on sale!

Keep calm and blog on…

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    1. Thank you, Cher and thanks for dropping by and Happy Birthday!!! Wishing you a day as wonderful as you (wow, that would be some wonderful day!!!). All the best today and every single day ever. 🙂 Big hugs from The Great Not Yet White But Cold North, dear friend!!! 🙂 xo

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      1. Thank you, thank you, dear Donna!! You are such an amazing soul; bless you my dear!!! It’s a rainy one here in Chicago; but I’m drinking a huge cup of coffee dreaming of Tim Hortons so it makes the day much warmer! Big hugs to you my dear, Cher xo

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      2. The rain started here somewhere in the night and it’s keeping up it’s rhythm like it thinks it’s in a dance contest. Awww, still quite Canadian even in America, hope you have an amazing birthday (sounds like a good start). 🙂
        Big hugs xo

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      3. Well I think we are having a CanAmera dance contest my dear! Can’t take that Canuck out of me, that’s for sure!! Yeay!! Big hugs and thanks my dear, Cher xo

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    1. Thank you for dropping by my party!
      And you proved the point about the best part is ‘meeting’ other bloggers because we found each other in this giant virtual haystack! 🙂
      Hope this day treats you kindly. 🙂

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  10. hahaha love the idea of the Monster Meet and Greet Mash! 🙂
    I’m Rosie, founder of Everything’s Coming Up Rosie. I don’t have it all together. I don’t have all the answers. But, if we are going to impact the world, we need to share our stories. Here’s mine about life of happiness, single parenthood, and following my dreams. If I can do it, you can too.
    http://ecurosie.com/blog/

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  12. Hiya Donna! The Wolf’s Moon and The River are FREE on October 29, 30, 31, 2015 to celebrate!! Website is http://www.thelindenchronicles.com and The Wolf’s Moon is http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0077F0DFI and The River is http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0157GPKCE so TRICK R TREAT!!! Great post and reblogged! FB is http://www.facebook.com/thewolfsmoon1 and Twitter is http://www.twitter.com/patrickjones56 and pinterest is http://www.pinterest.com/thewolfsmoon if everyone likes 🙂 Have a great week everyone!

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    1. Did I hear ‘Free’…is that in Canada too because we get forgotten up here a lot lol 😉
      Well, you certainly left us lots of treats, wait, where’s the tricks? 😉
      Hope this week is being good to you so far. 🙂

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      1. Thanks Donna! The day is going well and I’ve finally returned to the party to give other fellow Monster Masher’s blogs the love mines received since I put up the link. Found some cool sites and stories!

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  15. My dear, I hope you don’t mind that I am posting again, but I just realized I didn’t leave a link or anything! Yep, it is my birthday because obviously I am getting OLD!!!! Thank you for hosting this great meet-and-greet-mash! Brilliant idea, Donna! I’m Cher and I write a blog called, “The Chicago Files (a Canuck living south of the 49th)! Thank you, Donna! Here is a link to a post about synchronicity, empathy, and compassion: http://wp.me/p4doQv-SH

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    1. And I don’t know about you, but as soon as I hear it or sing it or even hum it, I want to dance to it. 😉
      Thanks for getting in the spirit, Sue! 🙂
      Hope this day treats you kindly. 🙂

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  18. Party! Ghosts! Cake…? I’d love to join if that’s ok! Thanks for hosting.

    My blog (aloadabobbins.wordpress.com) is a mixture of food, photos and fads!

    Here’s a suitably spooky post from a couple of weeks ago : A guide to (my) paranormal activity! Hope you enjoy…

    http://wp.me/p6j1i2-vf

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      1. You’re welcome! I just loved the poem (song now stuck in head!). Days off from school are always grand, thanks – even if torrential rain stopped our adventuring plans.

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      2. I love earworms because they just replace other earworms. 😉
        Yes, I’m off to build a boat now, just to be prepared…there might be an adventure after all, just unplanned. 😉

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  21. I love meet and greets so thanks for hosting this monster one but I will now have Monster Mash stuck in my head for the rest of the day 🙂
    I was thinking I didn’t have any posts to fit the Halloween theme but my latest post does include a truly terrifying attempt by me to draw Yoda on a white board, lol, and a mummy veggie dip I made for a work potluck! https://daisy9979.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/interview-update-bad-drawings-and-a-pinterest-win/ Hope everyone has a lovely day! 😀

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    1. Thank you kindly for the reblog! So glad you could drop by the party and share your blog with others and really get into the spirit of it. 😉
      Hope this day is treating you well. 🙂

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      1. Had to go all the way to The Dead Sea to get the ingredients, at first I couldn’t wrap my head around the recipe, but I didn’t want to get too wound up about it. Guaranteed yummy or your mummy back! 😉

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  22. Reblogged this on Transitions in my Life and commented:
    It’s a Monster Meet and Greet over at yadadarcyyarda, one of my favoritest blogs! This blog inspires me to use more gifs, seriously she finds some of the best ones. I love it! Check out the blog and leave a link while you’re there….Happy Wednesday!! 😀

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  24. Thanks for a fabulous Halloween party, Donna!!!! I love Halloween best of all. Great “cover” of the Monster Mash song.
    As for the “recount” I want one of Aug, Sept, AND Oct — oh heck make it the whole fleeting year… (I was supposed to be living in the southwest by October — and it’s been that way every October for the past 3 years! 😦 )
    And Carol of the Hells? Surely one of your best! Mega hugs my friend. Mega Halloween Hugs!

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    1. Thanks for popping by, Teagan, to get into the spirit of the season!!!
      Where has this year gone? Maybe move the month, would that help? 😉
      Thank you, as always, dear one, but I see you’re falling into your non-shameless self-promoting bloghussy ways – where’s your link or links? Come back and promote your awesome blog and/or book – all of the wonders of Teagan! 🙂
      Mega monster Halloween hugs with extra candy!!! 😉

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      1. In total multi-tasking mode (break at work). Hussy mode later. 😀
        Thank you so very much for your kind words. A coworker was reading your wonderful review post earlier — yep — i really did plaster it all over my office wall. 😉

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      2. Can’t wait for hussy mode, wait, that sounded bad, let’s try again, hope work is going well and you have a relaxing evening, in hussy mode. 😉
        Your work should be plastered everywhere, but in a good way. 😉
        Megahugs!!!!

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  26. Thanks for the scairific Blog Party invitation Donna! It’s a Hallowrifeen idea and the ghost treats are spookalicious!

    I’ve reblogged/linked on the following two websites and here are links to stories that are pecululiarly (yes, that’s the right word) and frighteningly entertaining.

    ‘Why Is There A Roach In My Hair?’ posted on Two on a Rant
    ( https://rantingalong.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/why-is-there-a-roach-in-my-hair/ ) gives proof that an aerial attack by a cockroach of monolithic proportions can really ruin a girl’s day.

    ‘How I Survived A Drive-by Shooting’ posted on Where Do I Go From Here?
    ( https://kayuk.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/how-i-survived-a-drive-by-shooting/ ), a terrifying story of a truck pulling a horse trailer while dodging speeding bullets on back roads of Florida.

    By the way, both stories are true, so does that make me a walking every-day Halloween party??

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    1. Wow, those are particularly frightening, thank you for scaring us in time for Halloween.
      I think you qualify as a walking every-day Halloween party, all by yourself.
      Thanks again for the reblog and for sharing these shiver-inducing posts! 🙂
      Hope this day is better than those. 😉

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      1. Thanks for the invitation! I love your blog, it’s an eerily invigorating experience every time you post. Great idea to have a Blog Party, too! and I’m having fun checking out the other links as I get into the heightened Halloweenish spirit.

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  30. Hello and thank you for hosting your monster mash! I’m Lisa from Life of an El Paso Woman. I plan on writing more Halloween posts in the next couple of days. Last night I wrote a post of my top favorite 10 Halloween movies. I don’t like scary movies too much so my list includes some fun, family oriented type. Feel free to stop by at my blog anytime! Thanks again for the great party! 😀
    http://lifeofanelpasowoman.com/2015/10/27/my-list-of-top-10-halloween-movies/

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    1. Thanks so much for reblogging this and dropping by the Monster Blogging Mash so others can find your lovely blog!!! 🙂
      Looking forward to more Halloween hijinks on your blog – loved the Top 10 Halloween movie list, I guess this means I have to watch some of those movies yet again (ok not a hardship at all).
      Hope this week is being good to you so far. 🙂

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    1. So glad you’re here, welcome to the party!!! 🙂
      Thanks for leaving your link so others can hook up with your blog (ok, I went there), I’ll blame Halloween. 😉
      Hope this day is treating you kindly, Rosie. 🙂

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    1. Thanks so much Josh, for dropping by and leaving your link so others can find your blog. 🙂
      Thanks for sharing and oh, a reblog, too, you’re really getting into the spirit of the season. 😉
      Hope this week is being good to you so far. 🙂

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      3. No way. It’s an inappropriate Halloween costume party. I will spare you the horrors of the inappropriateness.

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    1. Oh please, come in, we’ll get some Halloween doggy treats for Choppy. 🙂
      Glad you could come and play, hopefully others will travel over to visit you and Choppy as well, I know it’s always a treat for me. 🙂
      Hope this day is being good to you. 🙂

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  39. It was gone in a flash (Sept and Oct) I too demand a recount! Think they’ll listen? Nah. Have a great Halloween and thanks for the invite!

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  40. Love a link up, love Halloween, and I know you threw in some sexy Dean just for ME 🙂 hehehehehe. Then you followed it up with some Spooky Mulder! Oh man, is X-Files going to air for y’all in January, too… I never know if it’s delayed or not… you know, like it takes the signal longer to travel up North!

    My post is all about left over Halloween candy! 🙂
    https://didthatjusthappenblog.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/what-leftover-halloween-candy/

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    1. It’s Halloween, where would we be without Supernatural and X-Files? Yes, we get it at the same time as you. In fact, The X-Files was filmed here in Canada, this time too. 🙂
      Thanks for leaving a link, Kate, I’m so glad you could drop by and I made it worth you while with all the eye candy. 😉
      Hope this week is being good to you. 🙂

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    1. This party is going on all week while I, well, have too many things to do, anyway, my blog door is always open for you. 🙂
      Oh good, this post, I read it yesterday, cool. 🙂
      I’m the ghostess hostess with the mostess? That’s a lot of ‘s’es, clearly I’m tired. 😉
      Hope this day is treating you well, thanks for dropping by and being part of the party! 🙂

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  44. Reblogged this on Smorgasbord – Variety is the spice of life and commented:
    We don’t really do Halloween here in Spain in a big way so we have to go out into the garden with all the lights off and scare ourselves silly as the bats fly down to investigate (yes we have bats) then it is a dash inside for the treat part of the exercise. A margherita or two.. guaranteed to keep all vampires away.. If you are stuck for entertainment this Hallows week then head over to Donna’s and join the party.

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    1. Sally, your version of Halloween sounds awesome and way scarier/cooler than ours in many ways. Thanks so much for reblogging this, you’re just amazing! 🙂
      Hope this week is being good to you so far. 🙂

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  45. Reblogged this on My Friday Blog and commented:
    It’s a blog party! All of the party, without those pesky noise complaints, drunken brawls, and vomit to clean up! Go check it out, and all the links. Meet new blogs, get off the wall and mingle!

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    1. I’m glad you enjoyed it, I was singing it too as I reworked it (and there was dancing involved, luckily no video, well, that I know of). 😉
      That’s awesome, wow, Girl Scouts, I’m glad it was a sweet memory (and now sweet is making me thin of Girl Scout cookies, oh oh). 😉
      My blog door is always open for you and no, the party will be going on for days. 🙂
      Thank you for dropping by and for leaving a link so others can find your blog. 🙂

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    1. Thank you so much for sharing this, very kind of you. 🙂
      And you’ve proved the point that the best part of blogging is meeting others and here we are, finding each other in this giant virtual haystack! 🙂
      Hope this week is treating you well. 🙂

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    1. Thank you for joining the party, I always try to be respectful of people and their blogs. 🙂
      Thank you for sharing this thoughtful post. 🙂
      I hope this week is treating you well so far. 🙂

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    1. Joan, thank you not only for this reblog, but your awesome recommendation. 🙂
      You’ve showed that meeting people is the best part of blogging is so true! 🙂
      So happy you found my blog and now I’ve found yours and I love it.
      Hope this week is treating you kindly. 🙂

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      2. WordPress!!!! Yes and the last few days the posts I Like don’t always stay Liked, they’ve done this before, but it’s annoying. WordPress – if it ain’t broke, fix it an break it. 😉

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      3. I have done about 50 posts calling for revolutions every time they do a change we don’t want… that is where the flaming beaver flag came from… wait, that is a Canadian thing, not a… uh… anything else thing.

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      4. Um, in the 1600s and 1700s, Europeans loved stuff made out of beaver pelts, guess you could say they had beaver fever (poor little beavers, bullied because of their dental issues), especially hats, really, really into hats – imagine how those smelled in the summer? At any rate, in 1678, HBC, then known as The Hudson’s Bay Company used the image of beavers on the shield of its coat of arms. Then a coin, named the ‘buck’ was made that equaled the value of exactly one male beaver pelt (one size fits all?), but it wasn’t until 1975 when Pierre Elliot Trudeau was Prime Minister that the beaver became an official emblem of Canada, eh. October 19th, 2015 Trudeau’s son, Justin Trudeau became our 23rd Prime Minister of Canada. I don’t recall any flaming beaver flags, but Canadian history gets pretty wild, so who knows?

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      5. It started of when the famous Canadian, Trent Lewin, my head minion, claimed that Canada had an elite force of beaver commandos that would light themselves on fire… and I made a flag for one of our revolutions… and the rest is history… and silliness

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      6. Though usually known as peacekeepers, diplomats, poutine-makers, and brilliant people, nope, the idea of an elite force of beaver commandos that would light themselves on fire…yeah, yeah, just total silliness, no truth to it whatsoever, not at all, the very idea, completely ridiculous, totally…where did you hear that again? 😉

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  56. What I mean is, if I am not too much of a computer moron… and that link up there works… it will take you to a post I did that has over 44,000 comments… we tried to break the record… we think we did… but the wordpress overlords claim that is the one statistic they don’t keep track of.

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      8. I’m acting it out too, it’s sort of like interpretive dance, but-in-an-awkward-you’d-wish-you’d-never-agreed-to-go-to-the-opening-night-of-your-friends-play-way. 😉

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      12. The aliens in your book are wild and when I saw book, I thought bindary as in book binding, what and then I thought, I may have lost to much blood to that pumpkin so goodnight. 😉

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  57. Oh, the biggest comment competition we could even find was a post by some lady who said that any woman who has a kid is throwing her life away, and she got 20,000 comments… almost all of them telling her she was stupid. Ours is done with love. We have reunions, we write stories and poems, people go in there to rant or just be silly. And you can meet some of the coolest bloggers in the world if you go in and randomly reply to old comments… so… yeah.

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      10. Can we just Scooby-Doo everything cause it’s Halloween tomorrow, rorry…wait, what are you sorry for…I’ve lost total track of these comments. lol 😉

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    1. Wow, thanks so much for sharing this, Joanne, and for leaving your link – way to get into the Halloween spirit. 😉
      Hope this day is treating you kindly, all the best, always. 🙂

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  59. Thanks for throwing a meet and greet bash! My blog is Top of JC’s Mind and its tagline is “eclectic, like me.” I post about a lot of different topics – family, health, politics, the environment, religion, poetry, current events, travel, or whatever else is at the top of my mind. The post I’m sharing here is on the perceived “confidence gap” between men and women in the workplace: https://topofjcsmind.wordpress.com/2015/10/11/the-confidence-gap/; it’s one of my most read this month. I hope you’ll drop by sometime!

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    1. I love eclectic, it’s my middle name, well, not literally, but figuratively. So glad you could come by Joanne and get into the spirit of this Halloween blog party and share a link so others can be lucky enough to find your blog! 🙂
      Hope this day is treating you kindly. 🙂

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      1. Thanks for the opportunity, D! Your party is an embarrassment of riches for finding new blogs. And I’m sure we will be bobbing for apples at some point, too. What’s a Halloween bash without apples? 😉

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    1. Putting our feet in the dirt would have a whole other meaning for Halloween!!! lol 😉
      Thank you so much for reblogging this, Michelle (I always want to add, my belle, you probably get that a lot).
      Glad you could get into the spirit of the season by joining the party!
      Hope this day is treating you kindly. 🙂

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  64. It was the Mash, it was blogger mash! Ha, ha, ha glorious, Donna, what fun! The first time I ever heard this song I was at my cousins house on Halloween in 1962. Cool stuff. Okay, well my blog https://inmyclutteredattic.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/the-trick-of-eating-treats-filled-with-halloween-woe/ is billed as the happiest most impossible to find blog on the entire internet. These days, its becoming—even more impossible to find. However, I think Donna may be working on that. Thank you Donna for another fun post, and also for the get together. :O)

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    1. I found you or did you find me then I found you or will we wake up and find it was all a dream? Either way, now hopefully others will as well. 🙂
      Thanks for dropping by the party and hope this day is being good to you. 🙂

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    1. Thank you kindly for dropping by, Maja, and joining the party! 🙂
      Love your tagline, ‘Enter At Own Risk’, so cool and appropriate for this time of year. 🙂
      I’m going to pop by your blog again later because WordPress is having that glitch where the posts I ‘Like’ don’t stay ‘Liked’. Frustrating, but it does make sense why ‘Likes’ are down this week on people’s posts. 🙂
      Hope this day is treating you well. 🙂

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    1. Thanks for getting into the spirit of the party, Terri (I noticed before the haunting you had Zombie Plants Attack!) 🙂
      Hope his week is treating you well and welcome back anytime! Take care. 🙂

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    1. So glad you could make it to the party, Debby, I’ll have to pop over to see Janice too, she’s lovely to link my party, really getting into the spirit of the season. 😉
      These parties always get scarier as time goes on… 😉
      Thanks for leaving your link so others can be lucky enough to find your blog. 🙂
      Hope this week is being good to you so far. 🙂

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  75. Reblogged this on ' Ace Social & Media News ' and commented:
    Well nearly that night again and is All Hallows’ Eve so better post than a #Donnamazing post called the monster mash – this is tremendous stuff really eye catching added to that so relevant to tomorrow when all the 😈 s and 👻 s come out to play the 👹 Mash and like this post it will truly be a 😱 Smash lots of hugs and plenty of 🍫 and 🍭 with lots of 💕

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