Get Incensed

Otherwise people will laugh at you…

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Sure, you could just stop by, enjoy all the blogtestants in Project Blog who are writing their little hearts out and go on your merry way this holiday season.

While you bask in the warmth of your palatial mansion with crystal chandeliers,French doors and a string quartet playing in your living room, we’ll still be here — blogging — in tattered, fingerless gloves, trying to stay warm and begging for some gruel from Google.

We’ll type out quality content as a tear trickles down our collective cheeks and freezes in the icy cold, simultaneously, through the magic of split-screen editing.

But you know what would be really great? If you actually did some of your holiday shopping with some of our sponsors. It would make for a great story and a memorable holiday gift.

Why shop with some faceless corporation in the mall when you can get a great gift from people who have donated prizes to support something or somebody you enjoy?

So, please … won’t you vote smart (”Mark” would be my personal choice).

And while you’re at it, shop smart. Click on one of the links below and show a child blogger you care.

It’s either that or Sally Struthers will be forced to have another piece of pound cake.

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IT’S TIME FOR PROJECT BLOG! In case you’ve not been staying up to date with your Reality on Bravo news, Project Blog is the blogger’s answer to Project Runway. We’ve got the best of the best in bloggers ready to go head to head in weekly competitions for the grand prize:

• An autographed picture of Jackie Warner, courtesy of Sky Sport and Spa (Jackie Warner’s gym from Work Out)
• A pair of shoes from the newest line from Jonathan Kayne (one of my favorite Project Runway Alums)
• A Soffe college hoodie, courtesy ofBCS Frenzy
• Gold-plated earrings from Aurora at Between the Sheets
• A pet portrait, courtesy of Intricate Art
• A set of bud vases from Top Design’s Jonathan Adler

And as a reader here are Reality on Bravo, YOU CAN WIN TOO! Every week, Reality on Bravo is teaming up with some awesome sponsors to offer prizes for lucky readers. Anyone who leaves a comment on Monday’s post or on the voting post (which will go live on Thursday) will be automatically entered to win the super-awesome prize - a astrological reading from Beth at Astrology Explored!

As for the competition, you have a say in that too! Every week after Project Runway, Allison over at Reality on Bravo will announce the weekly challenge and our 10 however many competitors are left will scurry away to write some amazing posts. Read them, and on Friday through Tuesday, vote for your favorites. Your votes, along with the opinions of our amazing judges, Bethany (the winner of the RoB “Create Your Own Reality Show” contest) and April (an extraordinary professional writer and blogger), determine who stays and who “goes home”

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE:

On this week’s episode of Project Runway, contestants created outfits for women who had achieved an amazing goal - losing a TON of weight. Some of them had lost over 100 pounds! This week, your challenge is fairly easy - write about a goal you have for 2008. The New Year is arriving quickly! Your goal can be about blogging (”I want to post 1000 entries in 2008!”), about your blog topic (”I want to meet and interview Heidi Klum in 2008!), or just about your personal life (”I want to run a triathlon in 2008!”). It can be as crazy or as realistic as you want…just show us your passion. Make us cheer for you. Give us the motivation to set our own goals for the year!

Check Allison’s weekly post for a complete list of posts from our blogtestants, and don’t forget to vote on your favorite! Oh, and if anyone else out there wants to play along, send Allison the link to your post and she’ll include it on the list - you won’t be eligible for the grand prize, but you will get a little link love.

Good luck, bloggers!

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Here’s the rundown of the blogtestants in Week 5 of Project Blog:

1. Winnie, Watching the View: “I can almost picture it now…”
2. Kate, Babylune: “Here’s to a Slower 2008″
3. Sally, Style Fix: “Hunger Pains Drive My Goals for 2008″
4. Jodie, “Big (Dinner) Plans for 2008″
5. Kara, Colorado Review: “2008 - Bring it On!”
6. Mark, Get Incensed: “The One Habit of a Moderately Successful Person”

You can VOTE HERE daily until Tuesday at noon. And if you have your eye on that free astrology reading by Beth, leave a comment after you vote!