Monthly Archives: April 2011
Are you Charming?
| April 30, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Creative Fat Grrl |
You Are Extremely Charming |
 When someone talks to you, they feel like they are the most interesting person in the world. And for you in that moment, they actually are. You truly care about the people you’re around, and it’s obvious to everyone who meets you.You are open, warm, friendly, and welcoming. You epitomize charm. |
The Colour Quiz
| April 29, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Creative Fat Grrl |
My results from The Color Quiz
Your Existing Situation
“Creative and emotional, looking for ways to further expand those qualities. Looking for a partner who enjoys the same activities. Seeking adventure and new and unusual activities.”
Your Stress Sources
Feeling empty and isolated from others and trying to bridge the gap between herself and others. Wants to live life to the fullest and experience as much as possible. she cannot stand any restrictions or obstacles put in her way and only longs to be free.
Your Restrained Characteristics
“Finds satisfaction in sexual activity, but is emotionally detached which prevents her from becoming too involved.”
Current situations force her into compromise and placing her own hopes and desires on hold for the time being.
Is feeling emotionally drained from stressful and tense situations. she is in need of peace and quiet in order to overcome her lack of energy and may become irritable if she does not recover.
“He is able to find satisfaction through sexual activity, but can be restless and emotionally distant so she never really gets too involved with others.”
Current situations force her into compromise and placing her own hopes and desires on hold for the time being.
Your Desired Objective
Very active imagination and may be prone to fantasies and daydreaming. Always dreaming of interesting and exciting things to happen to her. Is a charmer and wants to be admired for that.
Your Actual Problem
“Feeling held back and restricted from moving forward, looking for a solution that will give her more freedom and less obstacles.”
Your Actual Problem #2
“Fears she will be held back from achieving things she really wants, leading her to search endlessly for satisfaction and become involved in activities which are pointless.”
Best Wishes Will and Kate!
| April 29, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
I’m watching the Royal Wedding. Switching between CTV and CBC, both are talking about different things but CTV seems to be keeping it more in the present rather than rehashing everything and anything. It was nice to see Diana a bit in old news though. Poor Mom, wouldn’t she love to be here, meeting Kate and wishing them well.
Am I the only one having a bit of a cry? Two young people with so much ahead of them, so much extra pressure for them too. I hope all goes well with the wedding, I don’t see why it wouldn’t. I bet it is planned and checked to within an inch of it’s life. There is probably very little room for error, or surprises.
Cinnamon Bun Cookies
| April 24, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Creative Arts and Crafts |
I want to try these. I need to get stocked up on butter and I’m nearly out of milk too. But, don’t these make you crave cinnamon buns? Take a look at the photos on Claudia’s blog.
Would it really be too much to dip these in chocolate? Maybe it the chocolate isn’t overly sweet. It would look pretty good.
Cinnabon Cookie Recipe
From Claudia’s kitchen @What’s Cookin Italian Cuisine
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, room temperature
1/2 cup confectionery sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Cinnamon Mixture 
2 cups sugar
mixed with 5 3/4 teaspoons cinnamon)
Mix all ingredients in a heavy duty mixing bowl, until a soft ball forms.
On a floured board, roll into short 3 inch ropes, roll the ropes into a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. Roll the rope into rounded circles, bake at 350 degree oven, till brown. Frost them by making a thin frosting.
Frosting
2 cups confectionery sugar
milk to make a thin consistency
1 tablespoon of softened butter
In a bowl mix sugar butter and a little milk beat till smooth, continue adding milk for spreading consistency to be thin. Place cookies on wax paper, spoon a teaspoon of frosting on each cookie. Dry.
Oddly Weird Personality Test
| April 22, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Creative Fat Grrl |
Bev posted this personality test on Facebook.
You have a poetic sensibility and an ability to see beyond the day to day. You often seem to be living in a higher realm, or to be not-of-this-earth. Occasionally you imagine interior lives for friends and associates that are near-complete fabrications based on your fears or hopes for the future. You are often not aware of your own feelings. You have a strong sense of right and wrong, and because of this are often disappointed. Despite what can sometimes be a destructive inward-turning anger, you are very gentle. You are sometimes a bit out of touch with the ebb and flow of modern life. If your behavior is out of synch with your moral values, a severe psychic disturbance can result. Because connectivity is so important to you, you can become quiet and sulky if you feel that others around do not understand your point of view.
Marilyn Says…
| April 21, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. – Marilyn Monroe
I’ve been going through a form of madness the past few days. About a month or so ago my MS Windows had to be killed. After disposing of the body (not all that hard when you don’t get a CD when you buy a new PC any more) I began to do it myself. Fixing the computer myself. I started with Ubuntu Linux. I will save you the process but it took a few days of installing, reinstalling, trying other versions and looking for help online. Tonight I have loaded up Xubuntu and so far it is ok. So far… Crossing my eyes, toes and fingers that I can still say that tomorrow and the next day and the week after that.
Found Quotations
| April 17, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.” – Sophia Loren
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” – Patanjali
“One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.” – Denis Waitley
“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.” – Wayne Dyer
“Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don’t merely dream — but create! - Robert Collier
“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.” – Paul Goodman
“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take – choose the bolder.” – W.J. Slim
I found these quotes with some ASCII art on an old Tripod personal site. It even had two of my own ASCII art pictures, but my initials were gone.
Snow in Ontario Today!
| April 17, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Creative Fat Grrl |
We have snow here in Ontario. Might not have it in Toronto but I’m in Barrie. Lots of snow coming down here. Started a couple of hours ago and still going steady. I’m kind of liking it. I was missing the snow last week. Things look so grubby in early Spring. Yeah snow!
Isn’t this a pretty picture? I don’t know who created it. I found it on a blog about some barely related topic with no credit given to whoever made the illustration.
To Write Love on Her Arms
| April 14, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Creative Fat Grrl |
Something I found while wandering around online today. It’s probably for younger people by the look of the site. The link is worth passing along.
The Mission Statement:
To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.
VISION:
The vision is that we actually believe these things…
You were created to love and be loved. You were meant to live life in relationship with other people, to know and be known. You need to know that your story is important and that you’re part of a bigger story. You need to know that your life matters.
We live in a difficult world, a broken world. My friend Byron is very smart – he says that life is hard for most people most of the time. We believe that everyone can relate to pain, that all of us live with questions, and all of us get stuck in moments. You need to know that you’re not alone in the places you feel stuck.
We all wake to the human condition. We wake to mystery and beauty but also to tragedy and loss. Millions of people live with problems of pain. Millions of homes are filled with questions – moments and seasons and cycles that come as thieves and aim to stay. We know that pain is very real. It is our privilege to suggest that hope is real, and that help is real.
You need to know that rescue is possible, that freedom is possible, that God is still in the business of redemption. We’re seeing it happen. We’re seeing lives change as people get the help they need. People sitting across from a counselor for the first time. People stepping into treatment. In desperate moments, people calling a suicide hotline. We know that the first step to recovery is the hardest to take. We want to say here that it’s worth it, that your life is worth fighting for, that it’s possible to change.
Beyond treatment, we believe that community is essential, that people need other people, that we were never meant to do life alone.
The vision is that community and hope and help would replace secrets and silence.
The vision is people putting down guns and blades and bottles.
The vision is that we can reduce the suicide rate in America and around the world.
The vision is that we would learn what it means to love our friends, and that we would love ourselves enough to get the help we need.
The vision is better endings. The vision is the restoration of broken families and broken relationships. The vision is people finding life, finding freedom, finding love. The vision is graduation, a Super Bowl, a wedding, a child, a sunrise. The vision is people becoming incredible parents, people breaking cycles, making change.
The vision is the possibility that your best days are ahead.
The vision is the possibility that we’re more loved than we’ll ever know.
The vision is hope, and hope is real.
You are not alone, and this is not the end of your story.
Adipositivity – Dude Week
| April 14, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Creative Fat Grrl |
Adipositivity - (Twitter link).
The Adipositivity Project aims to promote size acceptance, not by listing the merits of big people, or detailing examples of excellence (these things are easily seen all around us), but rather, through a visual display of fat physicality. The sort that’s normally unseen.
The hope is to widen definitions of physical beauty. Literally.
The photographs here are close details of the fat female form, without the inclusion of faces. One reason for this is to coax observers into imagining they’re looking at the fat women in their own lives, ideally then accepting them as having aesthetic appeal which, for better or worse, often translates into more complete forms of acceptance.
The women you see in these images are educators, executives, mothers, musicians, professionals, performers, artists, activists, clerks, and writers. They are perhaps even the women you’ve clucked at on the subway, rolled your eyes at in the market, or joked about with your friends.
This is what they look like with their clothes off.
Some are showing you their bodies proudly. Others timidly. And some quite reluctantly. But they all share a determination in altering commonly accepted notions of a narrow and specific beauty ideal.
Bookmark adipositivity.com and check back often, as new photographs are added regularly(ish). And please help spread the message. The Adipositivity Project: Changing attitudes about the aesthetic validity of big women, one fat fanny at a time.
I looked at a lot of photos on the site. But, I loved this one best of them all.
