Jacki's Tricks and Treats

Halloween is one of my absolute FAVORITE holidays of the year, so I'm doing a special blog just for today. It's a list of the current tricks and treats in my life.

Before we get to the list of my current tricks and treats, a quick
announcement. I'm also running a special HALLOWEEN CONTEST. The gory details:

I'm running a one-day-only contest where you can win a signed Jacki
King story.

Simply go to my website at ReadJackiKing.com and check out my
excerpts. Then email me (xJackiKing@aol.com) with the subject
"Halloween Contest." In the email, put the name of the story that
you'd like to win.

I'll print out each one and do a random drawing for up to 3 winners.
(Legalese: You must be 18 years of age to enter)

TREAT
I recently saw a Comedy Central special with one of the funniest comediennes I have ever seen: Tammy Pescatelli. You may remember her from Season 2 of Last Comic Standing, but her special (currently on OnDemand) was my first exposure to her.

Her story about the day her family got kicked out of Disneyland, in addition to her social reform agenda of the "Save-a-Ho" project had me in stitches! Check her out!


TRICK
Britney Spears. Clearly your already-questionable creativity got sucked out of you in "rehab." You're borrowing from the Madonna playbook of "religious controversy = good press + comeback." Enough already. As my good friend Misty Simon likes to say, "Stop yourself!"


TREAT
Halloween candy--gimme, gimme, gimme! :-)


TRICK
Between-season sniffles. I think I've already used up 2 boxes of Kleenex/Puffs this week. I love this holiday, but I hate this transition. (note to self: buy stock in Kleenex).


TREAT
A brand new snuggly blanket. I recently hit Linens and Things for the best snuggly blanket I've ever had. It's just the right size, and I got to test it out last night while I was relaxing before bed and watching TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (I just love that movie, but should I be concerned that I can actually nap to it instead of being kept awake by all the gunfire and violence?)


TRICK
The New Bionic Woman. There was absolutely NO reason to keep the heroine's name, especially when they already CHANGED THE SPELLING! They have changed EVERYTHING else about this show except the body parts she had replaced. No Oscar. No Rudy. No Steve Austin. No sweet little classroom of waifs on a reservation in Ojai, CA. They added another bionic woman, even (FAB choice in casting the chick who played Starbuck from the new Battlestar Galactica).

I really, really, REALLY was looking forward to this show, and I just feel cheated by several of the choices they've made.

TREAT
Family, friends, and fans.......I have the greatest, and I adore you all...Happy Halloween!!!

PS, for those of you keeping score at home, here are my current stats:

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