Monthly Archives: March 2009
Just Another Ordinary Miracle
| March 21, 2009 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
I love that song. So many of Sarah McLachlan’s songs are beautiful in that simple kind of way. Sometimes I wait for them to put out a ‘best of’ album cause I don’t want to spend the money OR start another collection of any kind of stuff, including CDs or DVDs for music or movies. But, in this case I might see what I can find next time I’m in Zellers. Would be lovely to listen to her at home while I’m writing.
Sarah McLachlan – Ordinary Miracle LyricsIt’s not that usual when everything is beautiful
It’s just another ordinary miracle todayThe sky knows when its time to snow
You don’t need to teach a seed to grow
It’s just another ordinary miracle todayLife is like a gift they say
Wrapped up for you everyday
Open up and find a way
To give some of your ownIsn’t it remarkable?
Like every time a raindrop falls
It’s just another ordinary miracle todayBirds in winter have their fling
And always make it home by spring
It’s just another ordinary miracle todayWhen you wake up everyday
Please don’t throw your dreams away
Hold them close to your heart
Cause we are all a part
Of the ordinary miracleOrdinary miracle
Do you want to see a miracle?Its seems so exceptional
Things just work out after all
It’s just another ordinary miracle todayThe sun comes up and shines so bright
It disappears again at night
It’s just another ordinary miracle todayIt’s just another ordinary miracle today
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| March 20, 2009 | Posted by ThatGrrl at StumbleUpon under Writing |
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I had no idea there was a stinking version. This is the first of my favourite spring flowers to bloom. Won’t be so much longer now. I hope the new plantings I did last year all survived. Really looking forward to this more than a lot of other things. ![]()

Lightly Wicked
| March 20, 2009 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
There is a side, well more like a facet really as sides seems so limited in number, anyway, there is a facet to me which I don’t talk about much in this blog. I used to talk about it more often. But, I haven’t had anything new to say. Not the Witch stuff but the kinky stuff. Yes, the ever naughty sounding BDSM. If you have to ask what the initials mean, go ask your Mother. Ask her anyway, just to see what she says. My Mother would give me that kind of disappointed look and wonder how I can be so old fashioned on one hand and yet like something which to her is so alien and just, bad, for lack of a better or shorter word. A lot of people think BDSM is bad, just wicked, evil stuff for yet more of the devil worshipers who are all going to hell anyway. Sometimes it really is convenient not to believe in hell.
Having blabbed all that. Mainly just to give you some space before pulling out the big guns… I have met someone who actually is interesting. Yes, I’ve said that a time or twelve. But this time it isn’t someone who replied to my ad, penis in hand (often literally I think). I replied to his ad. So we have not met face to face yet. This weekend he has plans to be sledding with friends so it won’t happen right away. We met because he is looking for someone who likes kinkiness. He isn’t looking for a relationship and that is fine with me. I don’t really want anything so serious and heavy. I don’t want to make promises or be expected to use the big L word any time soon. I’m kind of fed up with the dating plan.
So I will just enjoy a man. I don’t know if I have ever done that, not since my husband when things were still pretty new between us. Before immigration, jobs and other stuff complicated things.
I don’t know how many women have ever dominated a man. In any kind of way, not just a sensual way. It is a LOT of fun. I’m not some butchy, demoness, bitch type. People usually describe me as sweet and nice and all that other stuff. I like being that way, not so much what it does for my reputation but I’d rather be nice than the other option. But, when it comes to dominating a man in this way, you really do have to try it, at least once in your life. There is such a power in it. Such a thrill and a charge of energy in leading him around and having him behave at the end of your stick. Not that I am into anything harsh or messy in a yucky way. Water and oils are about the only liquid substance involved.
Of course it helps a lot that I’ve seen a photo of him and he is lovely looking, a kind, nice face and tall. He even says he is kind of shy. That just works along so well with my wicked, evil plans.
Anyway, I am undecided about how much to post here. Not everyone wants to read about sensuality and wickedness, even if it is fun. Still, this is my blog and I do think women would really enjoy this if they weren’t set against it just because their Mother’s told them it was bad, disgusting, and downright yucky.
I will say that it is not about sex itself. I think people who spurn it on principle imagine orgies and whips and a lot of really casual sex. It isn’t that unless the people involved do all of that. Mostly it is about foreplay, for some it is lifestyle as they live it rather than think of it as something they do leading to sex. I’m somewhere in there. I don’t plan to have sex with someone I have just met on a first date but I may make him squirm a little. Just for fun, for the power of being able to do so if I choose to be wicked.
To All the Smokers I Have Known and Lost
| March 19, 2009 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
I wrote this as letter to the editor for our local newspaper. It was a reply/ rebuttal to another letter which talked on and on about the freedom and rights smokers should have. I know it is a long and tired argument but it isn’t often that smokers talk about anyone but themselves when they argue for smoking. I thought it was time someone pointed that out. Maybe it will make a difference, likely not. But it was said. Time will tell, time is a blabberwort that way.
Regarding Steve West’s defense of smokers and their rights… Why is the smoker’s lament always “my rights”, “my choice”, me me me.
Let’s think about other people first for a moment. The downside of smoking related health problems are pretty well documented. Health and health care for smoking related illnesses and those caused by second hand smoke. Also, smoking puts people at risk for other health problems, other kinds of cancers for one. It even affects those not born yet. If we could eliminate smoking as a health problem our economy would benefit too. There could be more money available for research or cures for other illnesses which are not self-inflicted. Governments and other organizations could put their resources into more essential things like daycare, eldercare, etc. There could even be more resources to really help people stop smoking rather than trying to convince them it would be a good idea to try.
Then there is the environment. Smoking causes a visible pollution in the air, it deposits a film of grime on surfaces like car windows and walls inside homes. Smokers choose to flick their cigarette butts on our sidewalks, in public parks, at bus stops, outside of shopping malls and restaurants. That’s called littering yet it is overlooked. If each cigarette butt were a pop can, coffee cup, plastic bag, water bottle or pet poop would it be overlooked then? Do smokers even notice butts piled up in places where children tend to pick things up?
Now lets talk about you. Have you looked at your teeth lately? Have you smelt your breath? Unless you use a pretty strong whitening toothpaste (which isn’t helping the durability of your tooth enamel) your teeth are grungy looking. Kissing you is like kissing an ashtray. Sitting next to you in public place is stinky business. I can smell it on your clothes, in your hair. When you sit next to me I come away smelling like smoke too and it bothers me all day, until I get home and shower. It’s not doing your clothes any favours either is it? Do you have that hacking cough in the morning? My smoking relatives do. Sounds awful, like they are struggling to cough their lungs out so they can breathe again. How much fun is that?
Now lets get to me. I am a non-smoker. I have asthma. I have a physical reaction to your smoking. It makes it hard for me to breathe. I’m not just asking for you to put out your cancer stick because I don’t like it. I don’t like not being able to breathe the air. It’s a habit I’ve grown into. Much like your own habit except I started a lot younger and really do think I should have the right, the freedom and the choice to continue doing so.
I forgot to add about the extra cleansers needed to clean up smoking grime, how those are all extra detergents and chemicals being added to our water, our ecosystem.
Spring Obsessed
| March 18, 2009 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
I started using Paint for trimming my scanned drawings. Recommended by Calpurnius. Tricky to learn a new program but I’ve found most of the stuff I usually need. Didn’t read the tutorial, of course. Much easier to do it the hard way.
I’ll spend my golden years in Alliston, Ontario
| March 17, 2009 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
Annie’s Seashells
| March 17, 2009 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
Amazing amount of shells on a beach. So many I thought they were all pebbles in the thumbnail I first saw of this photo.
Crochet Lucky Clovers and Shamrocks
| March 17, 2009 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
These were in a Knotty Generation, a crochet blog.
Itty Bitty Shamrock
H-8 (5mm) crochet hook
any green worsted weight yarnStart: ch 3, join with a sl st to 1st ch to form circle.
For petals: [ch 3, 1 trc, 1 dc, 1 trc, ch 3, slip stitch into circle] repeat 3 times total.
For stem: ch 5, sc in 2nd ch from hook, sl st rem ch sts. Fasten off and weave in ends.4 Leaf Clover
H-8 (5mm) crochet hook
any green worsted weight yarnStart: ch 4, join with a sl st to 1st ch to form circle.
For petals: [ch 3, 1 trc, 1 dc, 1 trc, ch 3, slip stitch into circle] repeat 4 times total.
For stem: ch 6, hdc in 2nd ch from hook, sc rem ch sts. Fasten off and weave in ends.
Scribble Pad: Life Without TV
| March 17, 2009 | Posted by ThatGrrl at StumbleUpon under Writing |
http://delightedscribbler.blogspot.com/2009/02/life-without-tv.html
What happens if you turn off the TV and just leave it off? Are the programs you actually want to watch really worth the chunk of your pay cheque you donate to the cable company each month?











