I’ve been eagerly waiting for a parcel to come. I don’t know if I mentioned it or not, but I ordered more blog books at the end of January. They shipped quickly, but the estimated delivery date was FAR off, and apparently, because they shipped via Canada Post, they were deemed untrackable. Had I known that in advance, I would’ve just put my house number and had them couriered. Regardless, I checked the mail yesterday on the way into the city, and they had arrived!!! Five big beautiful beefy blog books to add to my collection! I now have 14!
Except. *sigh*
Upon just flipping through them and examining them quickly, I found BIG errors. MY errors. I am SO disappointed.
The one saving grace is that the biggest errors are all on the same book, so likely, when I have more books to order, I’ll fix and reorder this one. I am SO choked.
I don’t mean just basic grammatical/spelling errors in the blogs. I left those in. To go back through the books page by page would be a nightmare. I tried with the first one and I wanted to rewrite everything smoother and “better” and thats just not what this is all about. There are plenty of errors in there that I’m ok with.
Except on one book, I made a spelling error on the spine. Which is SO frustrating!!! I am SO careful to look over the exterior of the book before I order it, so no titles or dates are messed up. I can’t believe the spine is messed up. I’m so embarrassed.
Also, in just flipping the pages in my hands, I came across the story of Waverly’s birth, complete with pictures and details. A very important post, into which I dumped a LOT of effort. And somehow, I had overlapped photos on top of text, and lost about half of a page of her story. Of ALL posts! And this one, I came across so quickly, who knows how many more places I made that mistake?! But seriously, of all posts, Wavy’s bday post! I am just sick about it 😔
The sooner I can reprint that book, the better. But I still have all of last year’s posts to save, and a laptop with only half of a working keyboard. (I’ve been blogging on my iPad for quite some time now, and the program I use for the blog books won’t work on it.) I think I’m at a bit of a standstill, and thats really discouraging.
But, for now, I am content that I have such a beautiful stack of my books staring at me. I feel so happy to have these years recorded for my family to read someday, if they so desire.