Tag: writing

Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn Ya…

~ JodiLea ~ 3 Comments

Every morning I post the current Threat Level. When I arrive at work, I assess the situation and post the days level prominently on my office door. This threat level has nothing to do with terrorists.

It’s all about me.

I have really good mornings most of the time. Today was not one of them. I normally use the real color-coded threat level sign. But that seemed too ordinary to express the condition I had elevated to in the 3 hours between getting out of bed and starting to work. Every joint in my body hurt, my fasting blood glucose was 314, meaning two injections instead of one. I felt feverish, sweaty and grumpy. My skin itched and crawled.

I did not want to go to work. I wanted to scream, throw a tantrum, and go back to bed. But being the dedicated employee that I am, I sucked it up and went to the office. Where I found more crap to irritate me, just reading my email.

 Evil Child  <—Today’s Threat Level 

Someone said “A picture is worth 1,000 words”.  I have no clue who this little girl is, but she looks how I felt today. And still feel tonight, so I am sending my grumpy ass to bed now.

Thanks for listening 😉

The Cookbook: Formatting Nightmares

~ JodiLea

Future Cookbook

I am at the last section now – desserts!  I thought I would format the document while taking a break from writing recipes. OMG!!  What a mess I have made.

There are 126 “sections” in the manuscript because I used one and two column sections, for the ingredient list for each recipe. It looks really nice on the page, but now I can’t get the page numbering OR the footers working. Just when I get it started going right, I notice there are 2 odd-numbered header/footers in a row. Then 2 even-numbered sections in a row. All the even-numbered pages say “Page 2”, and all the odd-numbered ones disappear after the first 20 sections.  I do not know how this happens.

If I had a secretary, or an assistant, I could make them do this. Since I have to wear those hats during this point in my career, I must suck it up and learn how to format a many sectioned document. I have had MS Word training. I’m a woman, so I can (and do) ask for directions from “Help”.

There are many help pages on how to format a long document. There are no pages for help with fixing a messed up one. Perhaps Microsoft does not think people could mess up this bad.  Well, they do.

I need to know how to “hide” sections that I don’t want to count. I only want TWO real sections. Not 126 sections I can’t “link to previous” with, or make sense of.  Sigh. It looks like I need to sign up for more ^&*#@! training…

The Princess of Passive Voice

~ JodiLea

My daily post will be late today because I’m involved in a writing exercise..

BEFORE:

I have been called worse.

My posts are returned from the grammar checker full of green underlined phrases . There are red underlines popping up too, but those are expected, because I can’t spell while I write. My muse can’t be bothered with semantics. It must be allowed to flow unencumbered by such mundane things like grammar.

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AFTER:

I’ve been called worse.

My posts return from the grammar checker full of green underlined phrases . Red underlines also pop up, but I expect those, because I can’t spell while I write. My muse isn’t bothered with semantics. It wants to flow, unencumbered by such mundane things like grammar.