What's All The ‘…” Funky Format About?
If you read this blog regularly (and I thank you!) you might wonder at the funny looking symbols that look like this ‘…”. That, dear friends is funky formatting. Word files don't 'cut and paste' very well into blogger. In fact, any '... or " has to be deleted and re-typed if you want it to come out readable.
As everyone sends me their blog posts (thank you, THANK YOU! or I would have to do them all myself - and nobody wants that!) I cut and paste them into blogger, edit every punctuation and save them as a draft or schedule them to post. Now, I try very hard to catch every '..." out there - but inevitably I miss one or two. So, I get up at 6:00 every NOT SLEEPING ANYMORE morning (and if you read this blog before 6:00 am - I know a good therapist I can recommend!!) Anyway, I get up, log onto my computer and check out the blog that I have set to post at 12:01 am (it does not post at that time - I have no idea when it posts because I refuse to stay up and try to figure it out - don't ask me why, but the whole 'time' thing under my posting options does not work, so I fudge it the best I can and so far - it's been there at 6:00 am when I post it for 12:01 am - go figure). So, I drag myself (did I mention I am NOT a morning person? - IMO 'morning' should really start somewhere around 1:00 or 2:00 pm ) Anyway, I've dragged myself out of bed moaning, groaning, and just generally grumpy, log onto my computer (sitting in my recliner with my lap top I can sometimes grab a few more 'winks' of sleep) waiting for everything to power up (those Google gadgets are fun - but they sure take their time waking up - like me : )
So I'm up at 6:00 AM people - checking out this blog for funky formatting - because who likes to see ‘…” anytime, let alone at 6:00 AM IN THE MORNING. I try, really I try. Every morning I pry my eyelids open with toothpicks and look at this blog. I fix the ‘…” I see as well as spacing, grammar (not really!) and spelling (I'm my own spell-checker so I miss a few of those, too.) But inevitably - AS HARD AS I TRY - when I check the blog later in the day (because I'm persnickity, that's why! - don't use that 'p' word with me - no perfectionists live in this household!) I keep finding ‘…”.
So here's the deal. I will continue to get up at 6:00 AM NOT PM in the morning and check the blog. I will do my very best to make it right, with no ‘…” or any other unsightliness if you, dear reader, will forgive those times I fail.
There, I've said it. Those dreaded words have come out of my mouth (or more accurately, rolled off my fingertips and sounded in your ear - which makes one ponder, does your 'inner voice' sound like your verbal voice? - deep questions for another time...) Failure. Dreaded. Hated. Never-want-to-admit-it - failure.
I watched my blinking cursor after I wrote that and - you know what? No bombs went off. I didn't disintegrate. No loud, shouting voices with pointing, accusing fingers - I not only survived the admission of not being, you know, perfect, I found out it's okay! God's mercies are 'new every morning' - If I goof up (okay, fail) God gives me another chance. I hope you will, too.
Signed,
Little Miss Not Perfect (and no longer trying to be!)
All for Him,
Missy
As everyone sends me their blog posts (thank you, THANK YOU! or I would have to do them all myself - and nobody wants that!) I cut and paste them into blogger, edit every punctuation and save them as a draft or schedule them to post. Now, I try very hard to catch every '..." out there - but inevitably I miss one or two. So, I get up at 6:00 every NOT SLEEPING ANYMORE morning (and if you read this blog before 6:00 am - I know a good therapist I can recommend!!) Anyway, I get up, log onto my computer and check out the blog that I have set to post at 12:01 am (it does not post at that time - I have no idea when it posts because I refuse to stay up and try to figure it out - don't ask me why, but the whole 'time' thing under my posting options does not work, so I fudge it the best I can and so far - it's been there at 6:00 am when I post it for 12:01 am - go figure). So, I drag myself (did I mention I am NOT a morning person? - IMO 'morning' should really start somewhere around 1:00 or 2:00 pm ) Anyway, I've dragged myself out of bed moaning, groaning, and just generally grumpy, log onto my computer (sitting in my recliner with my lap top I can sometimes grab a few more 'winks' of sleep) waiting for everything to power up (those Google gadgets are fun - but they sure take their time waking up - like me : )
So I'm up at 6:00 AM people - checking out this blog for funky formatting - because who likes to see ‘…” anytime, let alone at 6:00 AM IN THE MORNING. I try, really I try. Every morning I pry my eyelids open with toothpicks and look at this blog. I fix the ‘…” I see as well as spacing, grammar (not really!) and spelling (I'm my own spell-checker so I miss a few of those, too.) But inevitably - AS HARD AS I TRY - when I check the blog later in the day (because I'm persnickity, that's why! - don't use that 'p' word with me - no perfectionists live in this household!) I keep finding ‘…”.
So here's the deal. I will continue to get up at 6:00 AM NOT PM in the morning and check the blog. I will do my very best to make it right, with no ‘…” or any other unsightliness if you, dear reader, will forgive those times I fail.
There, I've said it. Those dreaded words have come out of my mouth (or more accurately, rolled off my fingertips and sounded in your ear - which makes one ponder, does your 'inner voice' sound like your verbal voice? - deep questions for another time...) Failure. Dreaded. Hated. Never-want-to-admit-it - failure.
I watched my blinking cursor after I wrote that and - you know what? No bombs went off. I didn't disintegrate. No loud, shouting voices with pointing, accusing fingers - I not only survived the admission of not being, you know, perfect, I found out it's okay! God's mercies are 'new every morning' - If I goof up (okay, fail) God gives me another chance. I hope you will, too.
Signed,
Little Miss Not Perfect (and no longer trying to be!)
All for Him,
Missy
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