Mr: I’ve had these thoughts on death. If I ever blogged, it would be a post. I think death is necessary because “….” What do you think, honey?
Mrs: Nod. Hmmm.
Mr: So can I guest blog on your site?
Mrs: Without missing a beat. Nope.
Mr: What did you say?
Mrs: Nope. (Writing’s not exactly his forté, as good as he is at everything else.)
Mr: Well, with the WordPress password you’ll be giving me, when you die I’m going to put up all sorts of poorly written posts with bad grammar.
*PROGRAM UPDATE*
So no one’s getting my password. I’d rather die and leave A Holistic Journey a sealed vault of aspiration than let anyone spill a careless word in it. If you don’t hear from me for three months, know that I’ve been dining with CS Lewis. I’ll be looking over your shoulder as you blog. Keep those standards up or I’ll get mad and rattle your window.
Related post Ode to My Readers
LOL, you better stick around just in case.
LOLOLOL Better not chance it, huh?
lololo
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laughing……..perfect ❤
He he
PERfect is what I’m after on this blog, in my own (imperfect) way.
Are you really taking a break?
Does it look like I am?
*laughing*
Will prolly sometime later this wk. I’ll see if I last two wks not posting.
Oh no you said you were going to be with CS Lewis for 3 weeks so I thought you meant you were taking a break! Me being tired!
I said three months. Lewis has long been with our Lord. That’s what I meant. Yah, the words blurred for you.
Get off this blog and get some rest.
=)
You are so cute! Have a super week!
We were writing each other, one eye shut in sleep. Please don’t open my posts when it’s time for your beauty sleep. =) You rock.
OK you are so cute! I opened it again with the other eye opened and coffee cup in hand. Reading my daily devotion! I love my morning time! Have a super day! (✿◠‿◠)
Love the pic! 🙂
Ha ha
This is very funny. I am definitely not a grammar nazi but I am a bit anal with punctuations… Nothing makes me more irate than a wrongly placed apostrophe.
*chuckle*
That’s why you were able to work with me and keep from wanting to choke me.
I think. ^^
I hope to have read enough of your posts long before that time ever arrives, so that I’ll never be fooled, not even by a master who knows you so well. But if you should see Mr. Lewis would you please tell him I loved, “The Screwtape Letters”. : )
LOLOLOL
I most certainly will pass on the commendation, D.
I’m real good with ap’os’trop’he’s
*chuckle* I can tell.
LOL. May it be a long time before you get to rattle anyone’s cage!
Hear, hear. =)
Too cute!! I wonder if I can go more than 2 days without blogging…but I think I will give my password to two bloggers here in case…cos I have a lot of stuff here and well, some of it is not too bad…not sure my kids would be interested, my mom has dementia, most of my friends are all French speaking…yep, another blogger for sure.
=) It IS something to think about, the safeguards. We pour so much into our blogging.
C.S. Lewis is definitely one of the few people you could dine with every day for three months without running out of conversation topics. However, I do hope you will postpone the restaurant reservation for as long as possible.
Ha ha ha ha ha I would certainly have everything to talk about with my dear hero. Yes, I really don’t mind coming up with conversation topics to spin with you guys in the meantime. =)
Good on you hahaha
HA
If things carry on as they are, someone will be hired to write the next C S Lewis book and endorsed by the estate.
Ha. Except for the small fact that he remains inimitable. =)
Stay safe! ❤
LOL Will try, thanks.
Ha ha! Thank you for looking out for yr readers.
Always. In this life and the next.
Ha ha ha about not giving up your password, and I love the grammar pic 🙂
He he.
(Only problem is I need to write it down and NOT LOSE IT. Earlier this year, I couldn’t remember it to input into new computer. I went !@#!!!@! Took a gazillions tries.)
He he heee that was pretty funny!
The thing is, I meant it. =)
We’ll know the instant it’s not you.
*Really laughing* Gosh, J, I appreciate that. Oh, it would just KILL me up there to watch anyone vandalize this place LOL,
I’m taking my password with me.
lol
Good girl;)
HA (And welcome back from the travels.)
Thank ye kindly:)
Diane, I love your humor! And I know that you are dead serious about the topic.
You are so funny: yep, exactly it. Am DEAD serious, in the fun. ^^
Xxxx
DianA
I had forgotten that blogs had passwords. I wonder where I put mine? 😉
I just told a reader here I forgot mine earlier this year. Not pretty. I was in the middle of a series and had to put up a guest post. Finally figured it out.
I hate passwords.
Be kind to him, it can be difficult living with a grammar Nazi! Their always two worried about how too write without they’re sentences having to many mistakes. Than there to worried too write anything other then they’re name. I two, can relate. (hehe)
*Fingering pistol*
^^
My Mother is a retired English teacher. I had a very difficult time writing that, and an even more difficult one reading it back to myself! I promise to be good. Please holster the pistol!
You spawn from a teacher of venerable language.
*shake hand*
“I had a very difficult time writing that, and an even more difficult one reading it back to myself!”
LOL
It’d be like drinking poison for me to write something like that LOL. Thanks for the fun.
*shudders
My husband with my password.
*shudders again….
LOL
Interesting how the password brought up boundaries, love (or NOT!), relationships…
ha ha ha
Actually, I don’t even log out of my WP on the lap top. I must REALLY trust him.
Actually, I just know he couldn’t sit still long enough to do any real damage 🙂
Have a great week, Diana!!
Now that was awesome!
Ha ha ha ha. Great. Glad you liked.
Clever and fun Diana. Thanks for the laughs. I’m glad you’re not my editor. Or maybe I wish you were to push me to greatness. 🙂
“glad you’re not my editor” You don’t want to guest post here, then. =) Quite a ride for them, and I mean the months leading up to the publish. =)
I confess: I did think of you in those last lines of the post. LOL (Come on, Brad. I mean well.)
And oh, I gave you the last word on the last post. =) In case you didn’t notice. *wink*
Outclassed and outwitted again. Thanks for keeping me humble Diana. XD
Blasted! Trying to give you the last word but you leave me wanting to refute your humble claims…and having my say!
So funny Diana, you are such a good writer. x
So sweet. Always. Thank you.
First I have read from you. This was hilarious. Good writing. Also thanks for visiting me on my treasure hunt blog. I haven’t posted there since the last hunt, but post in two other blogs. We will be treasure hunting again this summer. I’m sure we will have as much fun as we did the last time! It’s all about getting out in the woods and doing things you normally would not think of doing….like approaching a herd of bison!
HA – we’re about to have bison tonight. That is very cool, what you do. =) Thanks for connecting, Sharron. And I appreciate the kind word.
Diana
Always a memorable and/or humorous read, Diana. My dining partner would be G.K. Chesterton. If only to have him explain some of which he wrote in his books that went right over my head!
-Alan
Ha ha ha. We WILL know in full then, won’t we? =)
haha! No one gets the key; not one gets the password. It dies with me. Oh, your husband is so funny. “Of course you can totally screw it up, honey! bahahaha!!!”
Funny, the things we want to preserve, eh?
=)
(Only my dignity)
My wife already owns me, I have nothing to fear or loose, when I am gone, I will be beyond caring, but I’ll leave the password for her so my thoughts can still be with her!
So sweet. =) Hope you shared this comment with her.
Diana don’t worry if for some reason he breaks your code and we see a post that looks a little more like a first draft. We will instantly know it’s not you. You have your own sassy style, that no one can match.
Ha ha ha. Assuring to know you guys will know I’ve been hijacked. And yeah. Actually, sassy he’s not. He’s a sweetie. (His face fell at the ready NOPE.) lol
Hehe, I’m honoured to have worked with you while you’re still in the physical. 😉 One of my favourite t-shirts features a doc with a stethoscope and reads ‘Bad grammar makes me [sic]’. My girlfriend and I each had one. We were going to start a band called The Ellipses, but we couldn’t find a third member. Lol xo Aleya
LOL I think the Ellipses endeavor would’ve been too sophisticated for the masses, Aleya. You know, a grammar T would be GREAT ha ha ha. And congratulations. Maybe I should put out a button for those who’ve survived the Grammar Mafia (I know the cartoon says Nazi but I’m the designated Mafia out here). Anyways, kudos to you lol. You more than survived, in fact. You thrived here. =)
Lol Diana, and I believe you mean it! 🙂
Why, of course.
You need to stay. Your superpowers can do plenty of good. And for everyone’s sake, I hope you have a real difficult password. Maybe something grammatically incorrect? hehe;)
LOL!! “a real difficult password. Maybe something grammatically incorrect?” Brilliant, Nida. Oh, that would pain me – to be ungrammatical even in secret LOL.
As to the superpowers, I dunno…see my spelling there…it’s bedtime. Better turn in before I turn into a pumpkin.
Thx for the luv n encouragemt.
Xxxx
Love that quote Diana. 🙂 Perhaps your husband can draw, do photography, poems?
Take out the words – and yes, he can do it and do it very well. =) A jack of all trades. Rides a unicycle, builds steeldrums (the instrument popular in Jamaica), fixes everything I break, you name it. =)
Haha! 😀 that is quite something
-)
Whut about me? Could I du a guest blogg on you’re sight?
Know, it duznt look like u kan, duz it?
Aww, cum on!
LOL… your husband’s funny, Diana. I guess he will have to content himself with occasionally being featured in segments like this. 🙂 xo
Yeah, take what you can get, right? lol Actually, he wasn’t too thrilled to feature as he did on this one. Title and all.
Reblogged this on Paul Karam Kassab 1.
D, the sealed vault of aspiration…is this something reserved only for your blog? Or do you apply this high set of standards to other aspects in your life? I just posted on this topic with regards to parenting + perfectionism. I’m curious to know if, when + how you bring this into play with your son. -EL
I look fwd to your post. I had planned to describe in a future post (when I can eke out the time!) another area where my perfectionism applies (as a consumer). I know it doesn’t categorically command all things, as the mess we call House testifies. I’ll just die if I try to do it all. But you tapped something big and that’s neat you picked up on the implications we can take into the parenting. You raise the ques I ask myself virtually everyday so I have no brilliant answer for anyone. This ques I had started to ask a few yrs back in the homeschooling planning (T was 3.5) evolved – after something like 120 drafts – into an article in a Christian homeschooling magazine.
Did you catch my post Genius this month?
So that was all to say I continue to wrestle with my obsessions in the parenting. But you know, the fact that I relocated to CA makes all the difference in how I parent and how I live. I’d be more of a tiger mom in NYC. My best friend, still out there, wondered the other day if she should encourage her son to take the entrance exams for the top high schools. I went to Stuyvesant, she Brooklyn Tech. He’s been busy with bball after school – he’s very good. I was surprised to find even Korean tiger moms in CA care so much that their kids keep up the golf (for both leisure and skill). Sports is more important out here. I realized it’s a healthier way to live, as I know you understand. Working the brain all hours of the clock and keeping kids sedentary obviously is asking for trouble, and yet that is the default approach to success where I grew up – esp among Asian-Americans. Not that NYers aren’t physically active, but it’s the academic culture, so intense. I told my friend that if I were there it’d be hard to push against the grain and not have him go for the test when all his friends were taking it.
Hope you hung in there with the ramble. You opened Pandora’s Box. =)
Interesting point you make about the CA lifestyle…it is more relaxed! I’ve heard about that intense academic pressure in NY, but fortunately we are not a part of that world. My son does, however, play sports which can be quite rigorous in terms of the expectations. The good news is that I’m not so sporty–it’s pretty easy for me to leave that area alone in regards to applying pressure. But homeschooling– You must be made of patience! This is one quality I severely lack. I look forward to reading your Genius post.
To spare you the searching if you haven’t gotten to it:
https://holisticwayfarer.com/2014/10/23/genius/
Don’t mean to push a post on you but since it ties in to your ques. =)
Hahaha. A holistic journey indeed. Or is it the holistic wayfaring husband? If I see that tagline anywhere here… I’ll know, and laugh. Well, it is comedy, right? RIGHT?!
*chuckle*
While I am not anxious to see you shed this mortal coil, I can think of few things more engaging or delightful than dining with the late Mr. Lewis in the afterlife. An amazing man.
=)
Indeed!
Very funny
You know, I did something right – this coming from you ha ha ha ha.
-) Glad I tickled.
Lmao! “There, Their, They’re.” 😀
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This is too funny! I suppose it is nice to have help with the blog setup, but then you may have nightmares about someone ruining it if he has total control. 😉 “Gotta’ love ’em anyway! ❤
I have had nightmares for other reasons. #1 nobody cares or encourages me to blog–an obvious reaction to poor blogging maybe? #2 nobody reads my articles these days because I was derailed with Gravatar issues for such a long time. I really could have used help–good professional help, but I was blessed to figure it out by myself.
The Peanuts cartoon was such an appropriate ending to the whole post!
Ha ha ha I forgot I’ve had plenty of technical help! Go figure, right? EXCEPT HE’s not the one to have provided most of it. It was a mutual friend.
So thEre. =)
Sorry you’ve had to fly solo.
Can be hard. I still don’t get things sometimes. *All these buttons* (muttering)
I almost gave up blogging at one point. I even wrote the support group and asked for professional help and told them I would pay. Well, the “pro” wrote with the idea of making big bucks. Since I don’t have any, that idea went down the tube. After the initial contact I could not seem to get rid of the constant advertising. Finally I managed that issue too.
Maybe my birth name is poking its head up again–at least the headstrong part of me has survived.
That part of you sure has, oh dear. For what it’s worth, I loved the switch-over on your avatar. =)
The “switch over” for my Gravatar was a fluke discovery. You know I do not believe in chance, but most would describe what happened that way. One day when I was at my wit’s end, I happened to see that both my Gravatars had the same email address and I knew that could not be right. I was constantly bothered that I would respond to an article on some blog and my Gravatar would change unexpectedly. I very painstakingly went back to be sure which email address was associated with which blog and then made my Gravatar match the right blogs. That never should have happened in the first place, but it had. At least I am freed from that frustration now. Who would ever dream such a simple mistake would cause me so much trouble?
I say “hold your ground” even when you are in the ground.
ROAR!!!! You know what, Allen? That is so me. Oh my goodness. I’ll be looking down, insisting on our Lord that I be allowed to DO something LOL.
Told my husband what you said LOL.
*muttering, shaking head*
“I tell you, it’s so me.”
That is so funny! He could always start his own blog…
ACtually, he has talked of it. Several times. LOL!! Apparently he’s been inspired to, following my blog.
Ha ha ha ha.
(He’d better not ask for reblogs.)
Oh that’s funny! I did think myself about the passwords and me dying, but have no firm opinion yet:)
Oh dear, you’ve thought about that. =)
Diana
LoL … too funny! 😀 ♥ ❤ Had to pin it @ http://www.pinterest.com/pin/12596073933556766/
Ha ha thank you, Jackie. Appreciate all the support.
Diana
At least your husband supports you in your writing – mine doesn’t, so I write in spite of him. 🙂
Oh! SAAad.
There should a ‘dislike’ option here! Agree!
You might be surprised just how many mates are not only “non-supportive” but who actively work against the mates who write.
Ohhhh…
Really?? I shouldn’t say it’s good to know, but it really is! 😉
Marriage has always been tough. I’m not married now, but it doesn’t look like it’s getting any easier. Just the other day I was thinking that marriage shouldn’t be hard work; maybe just one more thing that needs tending to, but not something that we should dread, but like I said, I’m not married right now. Anyway, thanks for your support and God Bless Both of You. 🙂
I can hear the stories under your comment, Robert. Thank you so much for sharing.
Diana
LOL.
You got it. =)