Crust:
2 tablespoons butter
1 1/2 cups chocolate graham cracker crumbs
about 2 tablespoons sugar

Filling:
3 packages cream cheese, room temperature
3 eggs
apprx 2 cups sugar
4 tablespoons cocoa powder unsweetened

Using a Springform pan, melt about 2 tablespoons of butter, add about 1 1/2 cups of chocolate graham cracker crumbs, and mix in 2 tablespoons sugar. Stir well with a fork and press into the bottom of the pan.

With an electric mixer, mix three packages cream cheese, with three eggs and about 2 cups of sugar. Add cocoa powder. Pour this into the pan, on top of the crust and bake at 350 for 50 to 60 minutes. Its pretty much done when a toothpick inserted in it comes out clean, but I like to leave it in about five to ten minutes
longer because the cheesecake takes on a wonderful fudge brownie-like consistency on the top layer. The center will be a bit wiggly but will firm up as it cools. Let it cool and remove the form from the pan.

Also, If you put a pan of water in the oven, on the bottom rack, while the cheesecake is baking, the cheesecake is much less likely to crack.

(You can add the Halloween flare by using some orange icing or sprinkling a few candy corns on top.)

Enjoy!

Scary man with chainsaw

Are you all nice and rested today?
Good, now listen….

I want you to think long and hard about the online dating profile you have posted.

I want you to think about the type of person that you want to meet, and how great it will feel when they do contact you after seeing your profile.

Now I want you to go and rewrite the description of the person you’d like to meet so that it better refelcts what you were just thinking.

And to go along with this edit I also want you to post this headline for today:
“You should see me in my XXX costume”, and replace XXX with the costume that you wore for Halloween, and be sure to post a picture in your profile photo section too.

Have a great day!
Boo!

My Halloween Special Lady

I chose this picture because I want you to have a Halloween goal, a destination of character, and makeup, to aim for.

Halloween isn’t just about ringing doorbells and getting bribed with candy to not crack open pumpkins on the person’s car, it’s about disguising yourself from evil and enjoying the freedom of anonymity, to a degree.

Dance, yell, meet a friendly vampire and talk a while with the bride of Frankenstein. The night is yours… just as this oddly dead/alive/zombie girl has her own night of the friendly and fancy dead and dancing friends.

Halloween is when you need to be tuned to the fun, right with the decorated atmosphere and ready with some great lines to say to the weird and wonderful costumed people you’ll meet at all the Halloween parties you be going to.

So, whether you’re dressed up as one of these costume picks or you are the costume as you are, here are some pickup and introduction lines for you:

Vampire
- I want to suck your blood
- Can I show you my coffin
- Let’s move out of this light into a space more private
- Juts a little taste?

Werewolf
- Is it a full moon tonight?
- I’m not normally this hairy
- I hate this time of month

Frankenstein
- Meet woman!
- Have you seen my doctor?
- I wish I had a better head choice

Angel
- Is this heaven?
- My wings are much smaller down here
- This is my first time down here, you?

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