Monthly Archives: August 2011
Link from Zelda for Halloween
| August 25, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Illustration and Art |
Zack wants to be Link from Legends of Zelda for Halloween. I was looking at the ears tonight so I could figure out how to make them.
This is Your Life
| August 18, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Creative Fat Grrl |
This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often. If you don’t like something, change it. If you don’t like your job, quit. If you don’t have enough time, stop watching TV. If you are looking for the love of your life, stop. They will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love. Stop over analyzing. All emotions are beautiful. When you eat, appreciate every last bite. Life is simple. Open your mind, arms and heart to new things and people, we are united in our differences. Ask the next person you see what their passion is, and share you inspiring dream with them. Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself. Some opportunities only come once, seize them. Life is about the people you meet, and the things you create with them so go out and start creating. Life is short. Live your dream and share your passion.
Mad Dragon Warning
| August 18, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Creative Fat Grrl |
Begin Each Day as if it Were on Purpose
| August 17, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Creative Fat Grrl |
“Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.” Mary Anne Radmacher
My Funny Cinderfella
| August 16, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Creative Fat Grrl |
No one left these on my front steps but… I’d like to find the kind of guy who would wear them. Just like the Prince with the glass slipper looking for his Cinderella.
How Does This Sound?
| August 15, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under The Internet Unplugged |
I applied for a job as a Social Media Assistant for a women’s site in the US.
I can bring experience, creative ideas, ingenuity and pretty great spelling to the New Women’s Guide.
I’ve been working with social media since before it had a name. My own sites have been through many learning lessons, trial and error, with me. I’ve found what works, what does not and what might be worth a try. I enjoy trying something new, I’m often an early adopter for new sites and technology. When I find something that really works I’m loyal to it and glad to pass it along and help a good site grow. The best thing about doing it yourself is making all the mistakes first hand and then learning from them. I began writing online in 1998, I’ve explored, made those mistakes, had a great time doing it all and I learned a lot!
I’m not a social butterfly, using social media just to fill up space or as a secondary RSS feed for blog posts. I’d rather contribute something real, make a difference in someone’s day or at least not seem boring or trivial. My posts are social and have something to say whether I’m sharing an idea, a link to a site or exchanging information and building a community. It’s too easy to feel you are drowning in social media with it’s SEO advice, reposted links and commercialism. While I do use social media to post my own links I also make a point of giving something real of myself and my experience.
My resume is posted to Google Documents: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1-S4PiKl4t0PJyI-oiIuw2kGhAFZMnDvYWVWeJxprUT8
Death, Dying and the Whole Afterwards
| August 12, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Creative Fat Grrl |
I think my only excuse is that I’ve been having an odd couple of weeks with odd things going on. Here is my comment to Ken’s post Remembering Liam.
Liam sounds like someone worth remembering and great to have known.
We had a family funeral this week and my Mother seems never to be far from the topic of death, dying and afterwards. This month I decided I do not believe in god. So that’s given her something new to talk about. But she’s not a firm church-goer. Just from the generation where that’s what you do and how you think. Last night Stephen Hawkings was on TV, a new show on Discover called Curiousity. It was about god and did god create the universe. Hawking, as you might guess, says no about the god issue.
It’s interesting how things all come together at the same time, isn’t it? I haven’t though about god, death, dying, and afterwards for a long time other than an interest in old and neglected graveyards/ cemeteries. But here and now it seems the issue is all over my world. Even in your Irish rover of a blog.
Your tribute to Liam was lovely to read, especially the golf part where you painted him as human after all. When I die… I will leave no one behind (no children, just a brother and sisters and maybe my Mother if I beat her to it). At the funeral this past week I listened to my cousin’s daughter talk about her. It was lovely, sentimental and a good tribute to a Mother lost. My Mother likes what I wrote as a speech about my Father when he died a few years ago. I didn’t even like him as a person.
What will anyone say about me. No one here really knows me. They think they do. I think, in the end, I’d like nothing. I’d like to be in a building that blows up or lost in a shipwreck. No body. Then, maybe, I won’t give in to the temptation to see what thy say about me. Maybe if you’ve been blown up you can’t ghost around afterwards. That’s my little misguided theory. Anyway, once you decide you don’t believe in god, it’s interesting to see what you do have left to believe in about the whole afterwards.
I still believe in reincarnation but now you have to wonder who’s behind it all, who guides the process along and makes the decisions. This is a windy and twisted comment. Should keep you busy a minute and a half, if nothing else.
Disney Steampunk
| August 6, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Illustration and Art |
I tried to find who had done these but kept getting from one site to the next without getting anywhere. But then I got lucky… see more work by Zuthell on Deviant Art.
Exercise Regime
| August 6, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
MY NEW EXERCISE REGIME:
Begin with a 5-lb potato bag in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Each day you’ll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer.
After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato bags.
Then try 50-lb potato bags and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb potato bag in each hand. (I’m at this level.)
After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag.
Found on Facebook.
Love Letter Fired from a Cannon
| August 3, 2011 | Posted by thatgrrl under Illustration and Art |
