Monthly Archives: July 2007
Abandoned Along Hwy #59
| July 28, 2007 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
More photos on Flickr. Takes a bigger chunk of free time to update the blog but I’ll get there too.
Indie Bloggers #23 – Hole to China
| July 27, 2007 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
Indie Blogger Weekly Challenge #23
Up to 250 words regarding: As a sewer inspector in Milwaukee, you’re used to roaches, rats, the occasional alligator. You’re a pro. But today was different. 135 feet into a 3×5 tunnel, alone, you find:
That famous (infamous?) hole to China which kids have been trying to dig for countless generations. I always expected to find it on some beach, in a garden or backyard. Last place I would have expected to see someone had finally succeeded in digging a hole to China would be in the sewers.
I jumped in. It was a long drop, I did wonder about the landing but once I was falling it was too late to really worry much about it. Halfway down it got unbearably hot and humid. I think I passed out for part of the trip then. I woke up and I was there, in China.
I did get a great Chinese food lunch. Getting back turned out to be really tough. I couldn’t find any Chinese kids who had dug a hole to Canada yet.
Thrift Store Jungle
| July 19, 2007 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
Be careful while poking around in that thrift store. You never know what might be on the next shelf, chair or prowling unsuspected on the floor.
Damned Coffee Pirate Grrls
| July 19, 2007 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
There they go again. Stealing my coffee.
Zoned Out, Literally
| July 18, 2007 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
The road has been changed since I last visited this house. Now it has been cut off, almost it’s own island. It will become something that used to be there, under the parking lot of something else.
The house itself wasn’t a lot different. Windows were freshly boarded up which were not before. A lot more vegetation climbing over half of the house, trying to bury it before it’s plowed under. Almost some new form of composting.
I will miss that house, soon I think.
Squashed Fat is Still There
| July 16, 2007 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
If you sit for a long time, until you feel your butt has become flat. Why does it always seem to spring back once you stand up again? It’s really disappointing. Think how great it would be if you could just squish your fat off. Roll down a hill and get rid of most of those other annoying rolls. Sit down with a coffee and flatten out that giant butt. Give a few hugs and get rid of all that arm fat. Have your kid sit on your lap and walk away with thinned out thighs.
Why doesn’t it work that way? Think how much more affection everyone would share if you could squish off/ away your fat cells.
Eight Random Facts About Me
| July 16, 2007 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
You know you’ve been tagged when… You’re sitting in front of a blank screen trying to remember something about yourself, other than your name. OMyWord tagged me. Go read her eight things first and leave a comment. If you live close enough invite her over to do your ironing. She likes my little doll photos. I like her way of looking at life.
Thing One: According to the latest psycho babble I read at my sister’s house, I am an underachiever. We put a lot of energy into being mediocre. I can see how this does describe me. It’s not a complimentary thing so I choose just not to discuss it.
Thing Two: I need to phone all the usual services: phone, hydro, etc and change them over for the new place. It is complicated though. We want to have them on at the old house and the new house at the same time and yet not together.
Thing Three: Even I can get tired of drinking the same coffee after several months. As ok as the vanilla instant coffee was, I am really wishing for a change. I just can’t find where I packed my coffee filter thing. I did buy new coffee. I just can’t use it without the plastic filter thing.
Thing Four: I can count. I just can’t do it very quickly. I will never love math but I have learned to cope. I just had to grow more fingers and toes.
Thing Five: I can read. I have the evidence all stacked up in masses of heavy boxes which I have now moved more times than I care to count.
Thing Six: I know of at least five other places I want to get for more rural exploration photos. One of them is right here in town, pretty much.
Thing Seven: I am phone phobic. That’s the real reason I have not yet begun to make all those calls to the essential services to change things over for the new house.
Thing Eight: I think it’s very egotistical sounding to begin each sentence in this thing Thing with I.
Now, onto the list of tagees:
Should you choose to accept this random challenge…
LatteGirl, cause I missed meeting her. Maybe she just took that fingers and toes counting thing too seriously.
Leigh at Thoughtprints. I love that new photo of the train tracks at the beach. I’d like to step out there and feel the sand between my toes.
I will also pick on Bev, just because I haven’t talked to her for ages and wonder if she still reads her blog.
Next is Lady Banana. I don’t have a good reason, I just am. Let’s just say it’s because she’s yellow and has to be imported.
What is Your Strongest Desire?
| July 16, 2007 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
“The Strongest Human Desire is the Desire to Live.” – T.R., 2007
Taken from a blog which died (went 404). Nice quote.
Tumblr
| July 16, 2007 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
Is it something like StumbleUpon? I thought it was interesting enough to join and try it.
Just To Do It
| July 16, 2007 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
Amelia Earhart – “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
