Just a little further note on yesterday’s entry about how important wording is in
the resale and consignment word: Spelling is vital, too. As per the following example.
I SWEAR to you that I DID NOT make this up. Here’s a blog entry I just happened to run across two years ago. I saved it for just such an occasion as this.
Last year my goal was to try new things. I think I was very successful in that Goal.
This year my goal is to Celibate me!! I hope to discover new things about me and to learn to love all the parts of Jennifer even the parts I dislike.
Really. That’s what she said. I couldn’t make something this good up.
Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 
Having known Dear Jennifer for better than a decade – and being the one who outed the funny “celibate” comment – I can tell you that despite her spelling, Jennifer is FLAWLESS! She is graceful, caring and incredibly talented. For those who went there only to laugh at her spelling, take my advice and stick around, you could learn a lot from her. Jennifer bears her heart and soul on that blog, shares her crafts and sewing hints and talks about her families blessings and trials – all with a grace thats envious. I hope that you all learn to love her like those who know her have – spelling and all!
Fortunately, Donna, spelling isn’t one of those things we all particularly care about in a friend, and the reason I noticed Jennifer’s comment was because I follow and enjoy her blog. Speaking as one who is far from flawless, and who bears her fully-dressed heart through thick and thin, I applaud any and everyone who contributes to the great conversation known as Life! (Or is it Liphe?)
Reading this cracks me up. I am positive I make an occacional spelling error in public writings (web site or FB). I try to correct immediately upon discovering. I too get emails from others saying: “I know you would want to correct this…” sometimes they write “Knowing YOU”. lol
To me, it is along the same lines as telling a stranger that their shirt is buttoned up wrong…..we women have to watch out for each other!
It can easily be said with humor “Am I going to have to dress you now?”
I once purchased coffee (with those little plasic dribble lids) on my way to work, finished most of it, looked down an hour or so later to see the front of my white blouse splattered with dried coffee stains! Had seen many MEN during that hour and not a one of them said a thing! I mean – come on – it was so freaking obvious it wasn’t funny.
I think Jennifer took it all very well. 🙂
Jan, I make ’em too. Without SEVERAL people proofing everything there’s always going to be errors…which are forgivable of course in casual use like Twitter or a blog, but I do need to emphasize that on one’s business web site or broadcast email, they should be corrected….
I have received, over the years, voluminous listings of typographical errors both on my consignment murder mystery, The Picker Who Perished (although everyone missed the whole sentence I left in by mistake that was part of another way to solve the murder!) and TGtbT The Manual. These I treasure and have carefully kept with the current printing of both books so I can correct them next time they are printed! (Thanks RIck and Michelle!)
Auntie Kate,
Here I thought all this time I was getting between 200 to 800 hits a day because of my craftiness , instead I now find out it’s to see what silly spelling mistake I made. LOL
I also have to point out hardly any of my readers or friends caught the mistake until my friend pointed it out. Then when I reread what I wrote I couldn’t stop laughing..
It was definitely one of my finer moments..
I miss spell all the time it’s an unfortunate side affect of being dyslexia.. If I let little things like spelling errors stop me from writing I would never write. Fortunately Blogging has helped me a lot in fact it’s been very therapeutic for me. If you really look at my blog and my writing the is many grammatical errors. I would be lying if I say it never bothers me but there’s not much I can do about it but try and improve..
I was just thinking technically you can’t call this a spelling mistake right?
The word wasn’t spelt wrong it was just the wrong word..
I am definitely blogging about you busting me tomorrow.. This is too good not.
PS Tracy there is no way I am celibate or is is it celebrate.. LOL
Hey Jenny!
As long as you celebrate every day…that’s what counts. I once went to a seminar about appreciating our lives and the speaker was handing out buttons randomly. The one I got was “NEVER POSTPONE JOY.” I figured that was a message from the spheres, or above, or wherever. So I try to live life that way.
On the other hand, another lecturer gave me a button (hi Shirley!) that read “It’s MY fault” which seems to suit my actual life better. (In fact, that is the secret behind our multi-decade relationship, says my DuH…that we long ago “agreed” that everything WAS my fault.)
I clicked on the link and read the whole entry. Kate, she may have been telling the truth. If you read her “About Me” it says her and her Super Hot Man are trying to populate the world single handedly. But they stopped at 8. That could be because of her New Years Resolution! lol!