Deja Vu – All Over Again

~ JodiLea

OK. My post-a-day has turned into post-a-week-at-the-most and I am really feeling like a looser these days. Especially with people actually reading my posts now.

This morning when my coffee kicked in I thought of a solution for all of us involved in Not Pretending. Re-runs. Before I had any subscribers, or even people liking my posts, I had some pretty fun posts. At least they were fun for me at the time.

So… since my brain is damn near useless this month, I will re-post  my favorite posts from last year. I hope you enjoy reading them!

This post was one of my first ones, I think I have improved over time!

Not Armed But Still Dangerous

Proverb For The Day

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The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small
stones.
    — Chinese proverb

I tend to lose sight of this message and find myself overwhelmed and immobilized by what seem to be mountainous tasks ahead of me. I should really put this proverb on my fridge at home and my bulletin board at work. I need to lower the stress levels that I have reached lately in both places.

But first, I’m going to take a nap.

Me vs. MS Word

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Future Cookbook

You know you’re in trouble when the Help menu – doesn’t.

I have taken MS Word classes and I have gone crawling to the Help menu many times.

I still cannot get my cookbook’s headers and footers to format correctly. Instead of doing a “work-around” (modern word for what my grandpa called jerry-rigging), I refuse to move on to Plan B. Which means I’m stubbornly frustrating the crap out of myself. I hate it when I do this. Yet here I am.

As soon as I heard about the NaNoWriMo thing (National Novel Writing Month), I got excited because this could really get me moving. Unfortunately, I also got blocked. I have not been able to think of any ideas to write about in my blog, so how could I write a novel?  My confidence is shot, and I blame MS Word for this because I am spending way too much of my writing time surfing the web for forums, articles, anything that will explain to me how I can fix this mess I call a Cookbook.

Hope your weekend has been more productive.   At least the 49er’s were productive this morning and we are 7-1 now! Maybe I’ll sneak in a nap now while hubby and buddy are hogging the TV watching NASCAR (YUCK!), and maybe I’ll dream about something good to write a novel about.  It could happen.  Either way I need the sleep…

😉