Feeling Charitable?

Your favorite charity...may need money. And...there may be a way to give it to them without actually drawing money out of your weekly shopping allowance.

What if your favorite charity earned a penny every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support our cause? Well, now it can!

GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up!

GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 37 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause! Hundreds of great stores including (and definately not limited to) American Eagle, Pac Sun, Hot Topic, Best Buy, J. Crew, ebay, Macy's and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you’ll be supporting your favorite cause.

Just go to www.goodsearch.com for more information and be sure to enter your favorite charity as the charity you want to support. And, be sure to spread the word!

Still got doubts? There are tons of places to read more about GoodSearch: the NY Times, Oprah Magazine, CNN, ABC News and the Wall Street Journal.

Off to raise money and finish homework,
Little Star

Sqeesh...putty for sale!

Well, I guess Ask Little Star has now become one of those blogs that make you want to buy stuff!

How many of you have ever owned/wanted that Putty in an egg?! What about heat sensitive putty?? Well, for only five bucks, you can get one bag of Squeesh, the ultimate putty fun! One bag creates a ball of putty about the size of an egg - it will fit in the average child/teen's palm!!!

What can you do with Squeesh? Well, if your hands get cramps when you type or write, then Squeesh will help. Squeesh is great for strengthening muscles in your hands that don't usually get a workout when you hit the gym...assuming you even have time to hit the gym. Squeesh is great for on-the-go people, you can pop the bag full of Squeesh into your coat pocket, purse, or pants pocket.

For a limited time only, heat sensitive Squeesh is available. When you mold this lavender putty in your hands, it turns a bright pink! Buy your Squeesh from Little Star right now!

NOTE: Squeesh will stain your clothes and fabric. If Squeesh gets stuck, use another piece of putty to pull off (Squeesh adheres to itself easily).

If interested in buying a bag of Squeesh please contact Little Star!

Little Star is currently selling Squeesh, however, there are limited quantities!!!

First Snow of the Season!!!!

Well, it's my birthday tomorrow and I got the best gift one day early! Today, starting around 6:00 we got snow!!!!
However, the schools didn't close and we still had to get up. We were all standing around in the falling snow at the bus stop. When the bus did arrive, a few minutes later than usual, we hopped on and warmed up. After the last stop, we headed to the school...but ran into MAJOR traffic along the way. What usually takes about 30 minutes to an hour in the mornings around 7 to 8 on most days, took us about 3 and a half hours today. There were crashes, back-ups, and horrible traffic due to the snow. Our bus passed a news camera set up at the side of the road. We didn't know if it was recording or not, but upon seeing it, out the window goes the sam kid's head and arms. After passing it and waving frantically, the sam kid confided, "I considered shouting SOS!"
An hour and a half or two into the ride, we started hearing comments such as, "I have got to go pee so bad!" After pulling into a local Sunoco gas station to hear the dispatch office's dispatches, the bus driver responded, "It took 2 hours to move the distance usually covered in about 5 minutes, I've got kids needing to PEE, and we are nowhere near the school!" The whole bus started to crack up because of the blatant finger-pointing *cough*sam kid*cough*
The sam kid begged, "Just let me run into the Sunoco's bathroom really, really fast!"
Finally, I joked, "Let's go outside and start caroling as we wait for the bus to move another three inches!"
After a couple more card games, a tiny bit of homework and studying, and a really small bit of sleeping, we reached the school. The girls bombarded the office to get the late passes then headed for the bathrooms. Ah, relief at last!
Later, after talking to some kids on other buses who got there around the same time as we did, I found out that one bus had made a bathroom break at a McDonald's they had passed!!!
After getting to school about 2 and a half hours later than we usually did, we left school about 2 hours early to ensure that we were able to get home. :)

So, the best birthday present you could get (snow and a possible day off from school) plus some really great gifts that you opened the day before your actual birthday because you are too busy on your actual birthdate, made for one of the best days in the year/season/school year!!!!

Going out to enjoy the snow before it melts,
Little Star

Black Friday....

BLACK FRIDAY!
This is a shopper's fantasy, everything on sale!! Can you imagine it! This year, I was able to go! I stayed up until Friday morning and at 1:00 AM, I was SHOPPING!!! Yes, it was a lot of fun, but man, was it cold! I went to an outdoor mall, so I didn't have the luxury of staying warm, however, all of that aside, it was a great experience. I still haven't gotten over that little adrenaline rush!
The next holidays coming up, the WINTER HOLIDAYS!! A time for giving, caring, loving, and recieving. Don't forget the nights full of parties and food!!!

Ways to make this year memorable...

> Write a comment saying what your best gift was...

> Participate in a Secret Santa (if you have to ask what this is, try google-ing it to get proper instructions)...

> Save up your money to MAKE someone a gift...

> Don't forget, some of the best gifts come in small packages - make a few mini treats

or mini gifts to give away to your friends...

> Get a group of friends/family together to go caroling, or stay at home

and sing some carols together...

> Remember, volunteer to spread the holiday spirit!

Making a gift for someone special,
Little Star

Bus 682: Day ???

Well, no clue what day it is, but on Bus 682, who cares? Life is a party...except for when we all have biology, math, and computer science quizzes/tests/quests (it falls between a quiz and a test - a big quiz or a little test-depends on how you see it) and papers due. Then, we are all asleep or studying or a little bit of both.
So even though tomorrow is the day before the day where we all pig out and eat WAY too much (AKA Thanksgiving), we still have to get up before the sun...
:(

Oh well, for me at least, it beats having to clean the entire house from top to bottom!

Got to go study for a quiz/test/quest,
Little Star