Monthly Archives: May 2010

What Will your Life be Like in Ten Years?

May 30, 2010 Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized
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Your Life Will Be Calm in Ten Years

You’re the type of person who takes things as they come, and you do your best not to worry.
You know that there’s a lot in this world that you can’t change – and you’re not about to try to change it.
You are confident and content. You don’t feel like you need to push too hard.
Try to break out of your comfort zone every now and then, though. Have an adventure! You are risking complacency.

Never Going to be the Polished Professional Type

May 30, 2010 Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized
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Slept in for Sunday. Or least didn’t get up in any hurry. Read awhile. Played cards with my Mom for about an hour, still haven’t gotten dressed and it is already after noon. The Queen would not approve. 

Now I have K.D. Lang on the CD player. Mom says none of the US people in the Florida trailer park would believe K.D. Lang wasn’t a man when they saw her at the Olympics this year. Maybe she sounds like a very young boy but she sounds much more like a woman, however she dresses. 
Not much else going on today. I have mystery allergies. Resisting taking any allergy pills. Surely it will go away, any hour now. 
I want to work on my directory today. Should also login at BOTW and add links I have found for that one too. Need to write for the network with Deanna, I am a couple of months behind on that one. 
Zack wants to hear the web radio show I did with Bev for Elemental Musings. At least I don’t think I said anything I wouldn’t want him to hear. I am never going to be the polished professional type though. 

TW1TT3R ART (thatgrrl) on Twitter

May 21, 2010 Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized
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TW1TT3R ART (thatgrrl) on Twitter

This is ASCII art in 140 characters for Twitter. I think it’s great. I’ve missed ASCII art and now it has a new forum!
It’s not all ASCII art actually. Some is what we would have called ANSI art, text art using more than the standard keyboard characters.

Rumblr (alpha)

May 20, 2010 Posted by ThatGrrl at StumbleUpon under Writing
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http://rumblr.org/

Battle of the Tumblrs.

Do you Have Imagination?

May 13, 2010 Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized
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You Have an Extremely Active Imagination

Your mind is vivid, lively, and colorful. There is a lot going on in your head.
You have the ability to make pictures and movies in your mind. You are extremely visual.
Your creativity knows no bounds. You don’t put restrictions or limits on your thoughts.
You have a gift that other people wish they had. So exercise that imagination as much as you want!

Chocolate Cream Pots from Laura Calder

May 10, 2010 Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized
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Chocolate Cream Pots

Ingredients
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 ounces bittersweet chocolate
6 egg yolks
1/4 cup sugar (optional)

Directions
Heat the oven to 325ºF/160°C. Heat the cream, milk, and vanilla. Melt the chocolate over a bain-marie. Whisk the melted chocolate into the yolks in a bowl, then whisk in milk. Strain. Pour into 6 ramekins and bake in a bain-marie until set at the edges, but slightly jiggly still in the centre, 20 minutes. Remove. Cool. Wrap and refrigerate several hours before serving.

This comes from the Food Network site for Laura Calder’s French Food at Home TV series. She has stick figure grrl drawings on her site too. I don’t know if she draws them herself or not.

How’s Your Day Going?

May 8, 2010 Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized
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I’m writing a post about building and maintaining your own web directory on my Word Grrls blog. I started my own web directory, which I had been wanting to do for ages. Took me quite awhile to find software that I could get to work myself. I am still not 100% with it but it is up there and I have begun adding my sites to it. 

I still haven’t met the guy from Toronto. But we still talk online about once a month. I think I am feeling discouraged about it but not quite giving up. I had considered going downtown to Toronto myself this month but after paying the bills I don’t really have enough left that I could afford the travel fare for the local bus (TTC) and the GO bus from here to Newmarket and then Toronto. It would be about $20 each way. Then more for a lunch, or at least a coffee or two. I’d be too poor for groceries the rest of this month. 
My nephew, Zack, and I went to see a movie last week. It was one Zack wanted to see and I had seen the commercial and thought it would be fun. It wasn’t what I had expected at all, very violent. Shocked me and I considered walking out and getting my ticket refunded so I could see something else. But, Zack had wanted to see it and knew it was going to be… what it was. At least I guess he did. He’s 14, an age when they want to see stuff like that. I’m 45, an age when I’d rather think better of the world and it’s peoples. 
I’m having a bleh day today. Lacking in ambition and I’m cold. I just turned the heat on in the house. I have it set at 20 C. I don’t know what most people keep their heat set at but 20 is what I got used to over the winter. It was down to 18 C. I wouldn’t think 2 degrees would really make such a difference in how it feels.