Monthly Archives: November 2008
Ruby Gloom
| November 16, 2008 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
What’s Your Muffin?
| November 14, 2008 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
You Are a Lemon Poppy Seed Muffin |
 You are smart, sophisticated, and savvy. You love taking risks, and you are the first to know about new trends. You are curious about the world and tend to have many interests. You also are very talented. It sometimes seems like you are good at everything. You are very social and inclusive. You’ll be friends with anyone. Even though you’re very cultured, you’re not a snob. |
This was on In My Kitchen.
What Your Ideal Wedding Dress Says About You |
 Your Personal Style: Classic and elegant. You prefer to make a statement with a few quality pieces. Your Ideal Wedding: Traditional and formal, but not tacky. You think the most beautiful weddings are understated. Your Philosophy on Marriage: It’s a serious commitment, and the couple entering it should be ready to work for their relationship. Your Perfect Marriage: Is calm, stable, deep, and meaningful. |
What the House Test Says About You |
 You are happy with who you are, and you don’t have an inflated sense of self importance. You do your own thing quietly. You don’t take up a lot of space. You can’t stand community oriented people and annoying “buy local” campaigns. You prefer to live the best life possible, and that doesn’t really involve many other people. You are a social, friendly, and giving person. You like to bring people together and make them feel happy. You look attractive, but mostly because your rely on your natural good looks to get by. You are moved by what’s exotic and unique. You often have the mentality of a traveler, even when you’re not traveling. |
Dragging a Corpse Around for Fun
| November 12, 2008 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
I give the impression of a living person quite well. But I’m actually brain dead. I picked up something not very nice from my little nieces when babysitting and helping with the birthday for the 4 year old on the weekend. Now the back of my head is sliding down my neck, or I wish it would so I could get rid of this dragging head ache. Not that I’m whining, much.
I’m having a lot of fun and adventure with the communications here too. Last week I was offline due to a modem being fried. I changed to Rogers. Now I have everything possible hooked up in my bedroom with wires and cables all over the fricking desk and floor space and even running right in front of the TV screen. I don’t think it is right that I am paying $150 a month for this fricking mess. I hate the clutter.
Also, I do not see how the phone line was working before Rogers arrived and by the time they left only one phone jack works in the whole flipping house! Of course it is the phone jack in my bedroom. I started with two power bars which let me have space for the computer and TV and radio to be hooked up here. Extra space was there so I didn’t feel I was sitting in the middle of a fire hazard. Now, it is so plugged up wtih stuff that I had to move my radio and not have it at all. That is just not right. Bloody Rogers.
Now I have to phone and bitch, Bitch I mean – with a capital B. That is not easy for me. I’m nice. I am understanding. I don’t bitch.
So unfair. I have to be up at dawn to see if I can get into a workshop which was already booked up. If someone doesn’t show up I can attend. But I feel dreadful and don’t even want to move my dead brain and body into the shower.
On the bright side… I did get WordGrrls.com pulled together, mostly. I just want to do something else with the blog skin. Need to figure out the code to convert blog skins to the code for b2evolution. Or just customize one of the skins I’ve already found and test driven. I am liking b2e though. I think it is not hugely different from working with Blogger once you get over the different dashboard look.
Must drag my corpse into the shower now.
Worldwide Women Artists
| November 12, 2008 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
Howard Gardner’s Eight Types of Intelligence Test
| November 11, 2008 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
Your result for Howard Gardner’s Eight Types of Intelligence Test…
Linguistic
27% Logical, 29% Spatial, 37% Linguistic, 29% Intrapersonal, 33% Interpersonal, 22% Musical, 22% Bodily-Kinesthetic and 31% Naturalistic!
“Verbal-linguistic intelligence has to do with words, spoken or written. People with verbal-linguistic intelligence display a facility with words and languages. They are typically good at reading, writing, telling stories and memorizing words and dates. They tend to learn best by reading, taking notes, listening to lectures, and via discussion and debate. They are also frequently skilled at explaining, teaching and oration or persuasive speaking. Those with verbal-linguistic intelligence learn foreign languages very easily as they have high verbal memory and recall, and an ability to understand and manipulate syntax and structure.
Careers which suit those with this intelligence include writers, lawyers, philosophers, journalists, politicians and teachers.” (Wikipedia)
Take Howard Gardner’s Eight Types of Intelligence Test at HelloQuizzy
The Game is Afoot!
| November 9, 2008 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
I got this in email but it’s kind of fun. You could do it in blog comments. Everyone makes a one word comment and then posts the game to their own blog for everyone to comment there too. If you carry on the game add a note to your one word post so we can follow to your blog. Kind of like visiting all the neighbours.
The Game is on!!! And you’re IT! Describe ME in one word.
Just one single word, be honest if you are going to respond. Send it to me and to me only.
Then send this message to all your friends and see how many strange & interesting things they say about you.
This is really fun. Here’s how to play:
1.) Hit the reply key and send one word. 2.) Then return to this message, and forward it to your friends (including me) and see what people say about you when limited to one word!!!
Words sent to me so far (in email):
talented
curious
creative
Find Your Name
| November 8, 2008 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
I found the NameListings Network. A social network based on your first name.
From Behind the Name:
LauraUsage: English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, Slovene, Scandinavian, German, Dutch
Pronounced: LAWR-? (English), LOW-rah (Spanish, Italian, Polish, German, Dutch) [key]
Feminine form of the Late Latin name Laurus, which meant “laurel”. This meaning was favourable, since in ancient Rome the leaves of laurel trees were used to create victors’ garlands. The name was borne by the 9th-century Spanish martyr Saint Laura, who was a nun thrown into a vat of molten lead by the Moors. It was also the name of the subject of poems by the 14th-century Italian poet Petrarch.As an English name, Laura has been used since the 13th century. A famous bearer was Laura Secord (1775-1868), a Canadian heroine during the War of 1812.
Back Online Again
| November 7, 2008 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
I’m back. I had no Internet this week. My modem fried and Bell can’t replace it at any of their offices, though there are several in town. So I changed to Rogers and had to wait till today to be set up again. If the modem dies you can take it to a Rogers office and get it replaced that day. Seems stupid for Bell to have offices to just sell cell phones instead of letting people replace equipment too.
Nice to be back online I missed being able to look up bits of things and checking my bank account. Funny how little things stand out more than the bigger things. But, I could have been due a mini break to refresh and get new ideas.
Bad Boy Memes
| November 1, 2008 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
Ben has a post about memes. Ten reasons why memes are wicked and unwanted and undesirable. If memes were men we would all want one at this point. Isn’t that kind of ironic?
I posted a comment sticking up for the lowly meme. Add your thoughts about the life of the meme to Ben’s blog.
I do memes if they are interesting or if someone I regularly read tags me with one. I pass on most of them because they are repetitive. It’s easy to jump all over memes and be part of the “in” crowd. But my blog is personal and having traffic is interesting but not the reason I keep a blog. I do a meme if I want to. Answering the questions are fun if you don’t take them seriously. No one needs to know your first pet’s name but you don’t have to take it seriously and give a real answer. Instead of writing a pet’s name write the name you called your last boyfriend when you played naughty games. That’s far more fun than reading anything real or true.
I wrote a confession to being a nose picker once and had loads of comments, most laughing about my post. One posted about how unsanitary that is and blab, blab, blab. It didn’t matter. The post was fun to write and it still gets traffic even though it’s well buried in my archives now.
Last of all, you’re making a mistake if you write a blog to please your readers. You lose something when you write for an audience. It’s much more interesting to step inside a blog when someone is writing just to please themselves. You take more chances and are far more likely to be unique and original. Anything less is just following the crowd and then you’re just one more blog in the swamp.
