October conjures images of:
Fall leaves, crisp nights… pumpkins and pumpkin spice…Halloween, candy, black cats…sexy Hunger Games costumes, yeah, I’ve stopped asking why at this point…
Apparently, scary is definitely different for different people.
For some scary is:
The dark – where all the known and unknown creep.
Horror movies that make people hide their eyes, but have to peak.
The price of groceries or hydro (both terrifying).
Trying on bathing suits (could turn your hair white).
Dating, parenting, love…
Loss of those we love.
Christmas or any holidays with in-laws.
Elections, wars, politicians.
Loss of cellphone reception (The horror! The horror!).
Running out of chocolate (now that’s horror!).
Liars, vampires, aliens, monsters, sparkly vampires, zombies…
I started blogging to relax, reignite my love of writing, and to be rich/famous (not necessarily in that order) – 555 posts later, well, two out of three ain’t bad. No one warned it could be so scary!
Life doesn’t come with instructions, we have to grope our way through this at times terrifying funhouse – long strips of goodness, gooey badness, melty magnificence, and squishy horrors – blogging is pretty much the same.
It was a dark and stormy night…Start a blog they said. It’ll be fun they said.
1. You want the blog truth, you can’t handle the blog truth! By the flickering computer light and hum, something wicked this way comes…really, Shakespeare how would thou deal with: endless emails, trolls, glitches, and ghosts in the machine?
2. First, you find your way through the woods (aka the internet) to an old mansion (aka WordPress) where you start your blog. Soon, strange things start happening – stuff moves by itself, stuff disappears, and you find yourself alone, in the dark, and still, you hear the click, click, click of the keyboard…
3. Come up with a cunning plan, overly elaborate with, as a random example, a dog with a speech impediment; a drug-addled vegetarian with a groovy van; narcissistic metrosexual; frumpy geek girl who needs contacts; and constantly kidnapped drama queen.
4. Your loved ones look at you oddly as you repeatedly type: All work and no play makes Donna a dull girl…They complain you’re hunched over your shining computer, or using them for…inspiration.
5. Read aloud from online posts, only to realize, you’ve freed some ancient vengeful Babylonian deity…or worse, a telemarketer! Who you gonna call?
6. Invited to Bloggers Bash at a spooky mansion, you accept, bloggers are fun, right?
7. Pop over to Pinterest for a ‘minute’ to find an image or inspiration…later you’re found wandering through the desert and learn you’ve been missing for 7 years and still didn’t find the right meme.
8. Fall asleep at your computer and wake up in a dream where a serial killer is hunting you, or worse, you’ve lost all your followers!
9. You decide to take a break from writing and take a bath or shower, you know better, but it’s been a long day.
10. You ask for books to review, but then …One, two, writers are coming for you. Three, four, publishers knock at your door. Five, six, who do you pick? Seven, eight, accept your fate. Nine, ten, never sleep again.
11. You turn to run from the glowing ooze on your keyboard, but there’s a evil clown or worse, housework behind you…your furniture is moving on it’s own, but it’s not getting dusted…Why? Oh why?
12. Through a series of unfortunate events, you find out your blog is built on an old cemetery and an ancient burial ground where rituals were performed. You could run to another platform, but that’s a lot of work.
13. So I will think of blogging not as a horror movie, but more like a community garden. We all work together to grow something remarkable. There will be ups and downs, but in the end, we’ll all be part of something amazing…as long as nothing comes alive to eat us.
I wish I’d been told about the burial ground in advance, y’ know
I know, they should put that right on the homepage and let us decide if we want to take the chance. 😉
creepy this blogging truth, but of course, funny! 🙂
Thank you kindly…hope I don’t scare off any new bloggers. 😉
Hope this day treats you kindly. 🙂
😀 Great post 😀
cate
Thank you so much, Cate, hope this weekend treats you kindly. 🙂
and you also 😀
🙂
The most scary? Realising what you’ve just posted instead of saved makes you look like an incontinent loon with a dodgy back story, an unhealthy obsession with Kathleen Turner and not enough magnesium in your diet. Plus you can’t spell sympathee for toffy and you’re grammar suck’s. And your wife is the only person who comments and she just wants to know why you put the car keys in the freezer. Again.
That’s an oddly specific example, but just a completely random oddly specific example, right? Again. 😉
And what really constitutes an ‘unhealthy’ obsession with Kathleen Turner? 😉
Hope this day treats you way better than that scary example of blogging horrors!!! 🙂
Thanks Donna. My KT medication ran out which perhaps explain the return of the obsession. As to how it manifests itself that’s between me and therapy. Have a lovely day
Who hasn’t seen ‘Romancing The Stone’ and thought that KT was obsessible? 🙂
Don’t…. *swoons*
I think I know what I’m watching tonight. 🙂
Love it – especially the Scooby reference.
You got that, and I thought I was being subtle, Allie lol ;
Hope this weekend treats you kindly. 🙂
Oh… thank goodness. I was so caught up in the story you told (so real and so much my own), that I had trouble making the transition to the “community garden” idea. But then you subtly reminded me of Little Shop of Horrors and i felt normal again. 😀
Donna, I don’t know how you do it. Magnificent! Oh, and loved the picture of the Scoobies — their expression was perfect for what you had just said! 😀 Mega hugs!
Teagan, glad you got caught up in the story and now I’m going to songs from ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ in my head…so ‘Grow For Me’, ‘Feed me (Git It)’, and sigh, ‘Dentist’ it is. 😉
Just wanted to remind everyone blogging is supposed to be fun, not scary despite the fact that it is scary sometimes. 🙂
Hope this day and the weekend treat you kindly, Teagan, hope the writing is going well…I’m almost done rereading your glorious ‘Atonement, Tennessee’ again so no pressure, but, um, sequel? 😉
Megahugs and all the best, dear one. 🙂
Must write! Must write! But seriously, you’re too kind. Sending email with a short to tide you over. 😉
Oh goodie!!! You made my day, thank you soooo much, you’re too good to me (don’t stop). 🙂
Megahugs and all the best. 🙂
*standing ovation* The creativity, the word play…its scary how well you do that ;-).
Awww shucks, thank you kindly. Just reminding us blogging should be fun, even if it’s scary sometimes. 🙂
Hope this day is treating you well. 🙂
That was amazing, and frightening how much was truth. So I stopped by read your post and even commented. Got to go now and write or I will miss my opportunity for fame and riches 😭😭😭💗
Thank you kindly, I’m so glad you stopped by, you’re welcome anytime. Best part, I popped over to you blog – you had me at cream cheese icing, but then I went on to read more (while still thinking of cream cheese icing, of course) and there’s a lot of great information and fun. Now go and write, I don’t want anyone to miss out on any opportunities. 😉 Hope this weekend treats you well. 🙂
Thanks D! Love what your doing. Enjoy your weekend too. I plan to not write but I will confess I am always taking pictures and jotting down ideas lol no rest for the weary 😚
I think truly don’t think creativity can be stopped, it just keeps creeping up and we’re best to just give in to it! 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing my blogging ‘horror’ story. 🙂
Hope this day is treating you kindly. 🙂
This blogging thing doesn’t turn off either, Donna. Last night I dreamt my Halloween post. It’s like a horror movie – I’m living a cliche!
One, two, blogging’s coming for you…go live that cliche to the fullest! 😉
LOL! Yeah, um, pretty spot on! Like get-out-of-my-head accurate! I’ve been taking some time to decide, okay, I’ve been taking months and months to decide my goals and direction, but I keep coming back, so it’s still enough good to outweigh the creepy!
Love this one – have a great day Donna!
Yes, Kate, the good does outweigh the creepy and I’m so glad you keep coming back! 🙂
All the best with the goals and direction, I think you’re finding your way just fine! 🙂
Reblogged this on perfectlyfadeddelusions.
Wow, thank you so much for reblogging my strange blogging ‘horror’ story. 🙂
Hope this weekend treats you well. 🙂
You know, I have noticed a few blogs I like and follow sudden;y disappear. Maybe they weren’t familiar with these truths…
Any thoughts on how you got your blog to go so big (8000+ followers) and DIDN’T want to quit like they did?
I think the most important thing to do is have fun and everyone will have fun with you. 🙂
Thank you so much, Angie, for sharing my blogging ‘horror’ story. 😉
Hope this day is treating you kindly. 🙂
OMG…I’m sticking with Feelin fine. Maybe I’ll plant myself in the Community Garden. But, I’m staying outa the scary basement. Geez, Donna! How to put this blogging stuff in a scary perspective. 👻 Loved it! Chryssa
As scary as it gets, we’ve got to keep remembering the fun and what we’re growing together. 🙂
Hope this day treats you kindly, Chryssa, so far, I’m feelin’ fine. 😉
Haha, You are so amazing! This post is just awesome!!! I looooove your humor and skills how you convey that all. I was bursting when reading about Pinterest… haha! Whatever I read from you was fantastic!
Oh, and your scary list is amazing. Most of all that one: “Christmas or any holidays with in-laws.”
Thank you so much, Erika…I hope I didn’t scare off any new bloggers, but I thought, it’s Friday, people needed some fun, and to remember, blogging is supposed to be fun.
Hope this day is treating you well so far and have a great weekend. 🙂
I cannot imagine that it scared off. It is so funny! I admire you. I wish you a wonderful day and weekend too, dear! 😀
I hope it and thank you so much, I guess this is the part I was trying to get to (eventually), the community garden we’re all adding to, thank goodness you’re a part of it, Erika. 🙂
Awh, that was so nice, thank you bunches 🙂 I am happy too that I may be a part of this wonderful community! As you say it so well: a garden! And we all are gardener. Big hugs to you 💖
And in the case of blogging, we never want to be a secret garden. 😉
Haha… that wouldn’t be very supportive for sure 😀
🙂
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These are my thoughts exactly! Love this! <3
Thank you so much for the reblog and for sharing my blogging ‘horror’ story. 🙂
So pleased people liked it and hearing it made them laugh and smile made my day. 🙂
Hope this weekend treats you kindly. 🙂
My friends and I decided, back in the day, to have a practical joke contest. The winner was the person who could make the most people either run away screaming and/or vomit. I won. I think I did posts about it. Also, I am now banned for life from doing practical jokes… sigh…
Oh you’re one of those people… 😉
well… yeah
Well, at least they are ‘practical’ jokes, not frivolous ones. 😉
well… uh…
hu uh ha
yeah ha
🙂
smileyface
Yes, you are. 🙂
ha
ah
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
um, yeah
yum
o-k, er…
porker
That’s Parker (keepers of parks) with an ‘a’… 😉
whoops… sorry
I’m in a forgiving mood because I’m so happy. 😉
It was just a play on what you typed… not calling you a pig
I know…and I did a play on my name. 😉
Anyway, I’ve been called worse. 😉
if you say so
say so you
so say all of us
so say we all
so… what… ha
But, I mean, I did it with style and cleverness… unless you aren’t talking about the practical jokes, but rather making a snide comment on the fact that I shamelessly go to other people’s blogs and use their comment section to try to lure people to my blog… because I am totally one of those people… HA!
I’m sure you did and I wasn’t, but now that you mention it…It’s ok, you’re luring us for non-creepy reasons (mostly), although wait, there was that post about thinking of princesses in the shower. 😉
yeah… I might do that again… only… well… never mind…
I really don’t want to know… 😉
no… you do not… especially if Disney princesses are involved…
Stop, you’re scarying me! 😉
halloweenie
Frankenblog
can’t top that
unless it’s a race to the bottom
uh… I don’t have one of those anymore…
I’m not touching that line with a 39 and a half foot pole… 😉
nor should you
Exactly. 🙂
ha
teehee
tee pee
You silly poo. 😉
ha
Brilliant! Scary but all too true too!
Thank you kindly! 🙂
Hope this weekend treats you well. 🙂
I am dying. This is an amazing post. Cheers to being one of the lucky ones! 🙂
Hopefully only figuratively…I’m glad you’re dying, again, figuratively, that means I made you laugh, yahoo!!! 🙂
Hope this weekend treats you kindly! 🙂
You as well!!! Happy almost Halloween!
We’ll just go with it’s Halloween month. 😉
Perfect for my Halloween storytime! Those innocent kids will never venture into the land of blog again…
lol Poor little mites! Their blogging futures torn asunder by a blogging horror story! 😉
Lol – you’re right – I can’t handle the blogging truth!
I tried to warn you! 😉
Hope this weekend treats you kindly Jan! 🙂
Fun post filled with lots of truths and laughs — I concur with the community garden aspect~~ utter joy. 🙂
Thank you kindly and I’m so glad you’re part of the garden! 🙂
A bloggers bash at a spooky mansion!!! That had me laughing, loads. 🙂
lol That’s what I was going for, Marje. 😉
:)))
🙂
Another fun post. Thanks.
I’m glad you liked it, thanks for dropping by and I hope this weekend treats you kindly. 🙂
Thanks. You as well.
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Love this, Donna!
Thank you kindly! 🙂
Hope this weekend treats you well. 🙂
ha Ha! What a great post. Blogging most certainly is pretty scary at times, 🙂
Thank you kindly. It is, but worth it. 😉
Hope this weekend treats you well. 🙂
Thank you, Have a lovely weekend 🙂
You as well. 🙂
I always have so much fun reading your posts, Donna, and most of the time–this should be frightening for you–I feel like we’re on a similar wavelength, so I get most of your cultural and musical references. 🙂 Anyway, it’s probably better to be overwhelmed in the blogosphere than underwhelmed. So, anyhow, enjoy your weekend (hope you had a great Thanksgiving recently). Don’t know about your location farther north, but fall is finally in full swing here in middle USA.
I don’t find it frightening at all, I love that we’re on the same wavelength (I don’t know about you, but some days it’s a bit wavier than others). 🙂
Yes, I’d rather be here and a little spooked. 🙂
I’m actually pretty much in the States I’m so South where I live, except it’s still Canada (map humour). Yup, Fall is knocking at our door and gasp, the weatherman said the ‘s’ word today (snow), but I hope he’s wrong…even if he isn’t, it will be short-lived this early. 🙂
Hope this weekend treats you kindly, Leigh and see you on the next wave. 😉
Brilliant, especially spending 7 years lost in Pinterest. And Scooby and… All of it, really.
Thank you kindly, Mary, hope this weekend treats you well…and if you visit Pinterest, see you in 7 years. 😉
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The reason why people blog as l have found out in the last 7 Years going from blogger to WordPress is a number of reasons, boredom, illness or wanting to share.
Mine was all three needing to do something while my mother was ill and drying and wanting to share my knowledge with other people – who are now my fellow bloggers and like you my friend/friends.
You posts are story and l know more about you by what you write, what l read and what l now understand than ever before.
Thanks for sharing you have a nice weekend and may your life be filled with all the good things 🌟🎂🍷👸🌹and of course not forgetting 🍫
Like this post is #Donnamazing as always. Ian X with ❤️
Thank you, Ian, not only for the reblog, but for sharing yourself and being part of this community blogging garden. You’re right, the reasons are all different, but in the end the reasons we stay are probably more similar, for each other. 🙂
While I’m sorry for the troubles that may have brought you here, I’m glad you’re here. 🙂
Take care and hope this weekend is treating you kindly. 🙂
This is so hysterical! I was laughing all the way thru!
It’s true- wp IS a haunted mansion!!!
Thanks, Donna for the good medicine today.
Just call me Doctor Donna (oh and that makes me think of Doctor Who and reminds me I have to go catch up, but I digress…), so very glad my laughter prescription is doing it’s work. 🙂
Hope this weekend treats you kindly. 🙂
hee hee, The weekend was good, thanks.
Great to hear, hope this week is treating you well, so far. 🙂
Oh yes, the blogging wheel turns on and on and everything you say is true. A perfect reminder of the pitfalls and horrors which lie within. 😀 😀 😀 Timely for this time of year. Mwahaha.
I thought everyone could use some laughter on this Friday (rainy Friday here and they said the ‘s’ word, snow, gasp). 😉
Hope this weekend treats you kindly, Tess, all the best, always. 🙂
I LOVE #13. That’s it – that’s why we do it. 🙂
That’s exactly it and I’m glad you’re part of the garden. 🙂
Fantastic. And oh, so true…I’ve heard the movie version of this post will be out soon 😉
Thank you kindly. 🙂
You’re all invited to the premiere, of course. 😉
Hope this weekend treats you well, Olga. 🙂
Many on your list are my worst nightmares, D. I loved the beginning photo clip of the Addams family Mortician snd hubby Aldo Scooby-Doo cartoon. Mystery and fun go together except when you fall asleep at your computer and a real scary episode begins to haunt you, D. Shriek!!
Yes, blogging can be scary…but there are so many good things I guess they counterbalance, well, mostly. 😉
What a wonderful take on blogging, but with a scary Halloween theme. Fun stuff, Donna. :O)
Boo! 😉
Hope this weekend is treating you well. 🙂
LOL Thanks Donna, and you. :O)
🙂
Love your description of the Scooby lot …
That was just a completely random example… 😉 Completely. 😉
You make me laugh so much, it’s just not right!
That makes me happy to hear. 🙂
Hope this weekend is being good to you. 🙂
So far so good 🙂 you too!
So awesome, to hear that! 😉
Thanks for braving the spooky world of the internet for our entertainment. I like your blog a lot.
Hey, I gotta make the world safe for bloggers; off to the basement, I’ll be ok I’m sure… 😉
Your blog is hilarious Donna, with a whole lotta clever! I too get very frightened by my hydro bill and the price of groceries. Canada is becoming an expensive place to live! 🙂
Thank you kindly. 🙂
Yes, I love Canada, but these days she’s high maintenance. 😉
🙂
This was entertaining to read. Thanks
So glad to hear that, hope this day is treating you well. 🙂
It is, thank you. May you be blessed as well.
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What a great post! Susie sent me here 🙂
Thank you kindly and thank you Susie (isn’t she amazing?). Glad we all found each other. 🙂
Hope this week treats you kindly. 🙂
The image of me in a bathing suit would terrify most people.
Maybe we’re looking too hard for Halloween costumes, maybe bathing suits would do the trick… 😉
Hope this week treats you well. 🙂
So so true! Amazing post, oh famous one haha xx
Thank you kindly, hope I didn’t scare anyone too much! 😉
Wow, thank you for the kind words and the mentions. You made my day! 🙂 Hope your day is treating you well. 🙂
I can’t tell you how thrilled I was when I read this and then reread it (too tired, apparently my reading comprehension is lowered or I was just too excited). 🙂 Thank you so much. 🙂
You are so funny! This is one way to put fear and spooks and goblins in perspective!
Marcey
I’m always happy to hear I can make people laugh, Marcey, thanks for dropping by, you’re welcome anytime, especially if you say had pumpkin muffins or black beans brownies with you (hint hint). 😉
So glad you and Jim liked this, Marcey…I hope I didn’t scare away any new bloggers. 😉
And I’ve been on your blog wandering around, drooling at the recipes; having a streusel pumpkin muffin craving now…I don’t think my pumpkins are going to make it through the night! 😉
Brillant post. LOL and so true 🙂
Thank you kindly, Anna, hope this day is treating you well. 🙂
Oh yes I had a good work day and the evening is so far good too 🙂 have a good day you too 😀
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I simply love your posts. The memes, the gifs and what you write about. Awesome 🙂
I’m just glad they make people smile and laugh. 🙂
Outstanding post and glad you included Charlie Brown!! The shower skeleton GIF is hilarious!
Have you seen the Simpson’s halloween episode where Homer recites the Edgar Allen Poe “The Raven” It is brilliant.
Thanks…there’s always room for Charlie Brown. 😉
I am proudly and sheepishly admit I’ve seen most of The Simpsons episodes and all Treehouse of Horror, um, more than once…as a Poe fan I was thrilled. 🙂
Treehouse of Horror rocks this time of year. Poe’s was our favorite!
I hope Kang and Kodos are back this year… 😉
Ha! The perfect meal and menu!
🙂
I don’t think WordPress will be along to eat us, I get the feeling we’ve already been spat out by them. But this is a scary world populated by phantom hackers and spiteful spammers, people who want to criticise and argue instead of accepting views differ.
Don’t get scared though Donna,there are plenty of us to hold your hand though in fairness since some of us may be reluctant to let go, that could be scary too.
xxx Sending Humongous Hugs xxx
Oh David, the best question is why are we staying in this spooky mansion? I guess we’re choosing to ignore the weird goings-on and creaks and groans…for now. 😉
Thank you, glad to hold hands with you…there’s some creepy stuff out there. 🙂
Hope this week is treating you well so far and hope you enjoy your break, you certainly deserve it. 🙂
Wishing Reuben a wonderful Halloween! 🙂
Take care and massive hugs. 🙂
This was a riot! The horrors of writing a post have never been funnier. 🙂
Thank you kindly, glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
I’ve sometimes wondered if my blog might be built on an ancient pop-mathematics graveyard, come to think of it.
Don’t panic, remember, math is our friend. 😉
The “They says” always get you in trouble, right? Who are the “They’s” anyway?
lol I know who they are and they were wrong, but so so right. 😉
I love the way you incorporated scary into the downside of blogging! Halloween is my favorite holiday and fall is my favorite season. This drew me in and now I have to read more. I found you on #blogsharelearn
I’m so glad you liked it. 🙂
Oh, you popped over from Elena’s lovely blog, isn’t she amazing?
I love Halloween and Fall too and I’m so glad we found each other – thanks again Elena!!! 🙂
Yeah I live the blog share. It has allowed me to find more bloggers. You’re blog is great. I love your humor. So glad I found ya!
Glad we found each other in this giant virtual haystack, hope we can virtually visit often. 🙂
Me too! I have your blog bookmarked and I have subscribed.
Thank you, same here. 🙂
Love, LOVE this analogy of blogging to a haunted house/horror film. Brilliant.
Thank you kindly. 🙂
Yes, it’s scary, but still we keep going in. 😉
I just love how you put it all..:) and with such humour. Thank you. My thoughts of blogging is the ‘scary’ like caring for a baby. At this time when I read your post, I thought of the baby duckling we adopted which we can’t leave alone because it cries and tries to follow – literally and in our thoughts, you have to attend to it and feed it and check it. I hope that makes sense…LOL
It makes perfect sense, it’s a great description of a blog actually and it certainly needs a lot more care and feeding and love than I imagined, but I think I’m more imprinted on it than it on me (if that makes sense). 😉
Hope this day is just ducky. 😉
Hahahaha. Enjoy your day too.
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I love you! Your posts always have me chuckling.
Thank you, that’s what I like to hear! 🙂
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This is so funny because its true
Thank you so much for the reblog and the kind words. 🙂
Hope this weekend treats you well. 🙂
And you 🙂
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Superb post! Your exaggerations (or truths!) are so funny ! I love the way you’ve constructed it with such appropriate illustrations. You’ve made me think a lot about what actually goes into ‘blogging’ and your final summary (13) is perfect. 😀
Thank you kindly and I’m so glad you’re in my garden. 🙂
Hope this weekend treats you well. 🙂
Thank you for allowing me into your fascinating garden! Have a wonderful weekend yourself. 🙂
🙂
Yes, where has this week gone, it just zoomed by. I hope the same doesn’t happen to the weekend. 🙂
Thank you kindly for including me in your wonderful list, it’s a double treat, I get to be on and find other blogs at the same time – bonus! 🙂
Hope this weekend is filled with wonder. 🙂
Thank you for a great post, and thank you for following my blog!
Thank you as well, glad we found each other in this giant virtual haystack! 😉
This was hilarious! And I’d have to re-think my childhood with that Scooby Doo description. I always find Peanuts to be, somehow, the unofficial mascot for blogging. I often use them for my posts, and the strips make everything better when you are feeling low.
lol I hope you don’t rethink it too much. 😉
I think it’s because as writers we see ourselves in Snoopy and you’re right, they cheer us up. 🙂
Did you get a chance to pop by the Meet and Greet, it’s ongoing, a great place to leave some links to your posts and find other bloggers as well. 🙂
http://yadadarcyyada.com/2015/10/28/monster-meet-and-greet-mash/
Hope this day treats you kindly. 🙂
Thank you! I will. I just love your blog name. I recently fell in love with Matthew Macfadyen’s Darcy, when I didn’t really get what he tried to do with it in the last ten years. At least Elizabeth Bennet was sooner in seeing it!
Thank you, I sort of combined the Seinfeld joke (yada yada) and my love of Darcy. 😉
lol I love so many versions, I love his scene in the rain. 🙂
I’ve had a total change from my “first impressions”. I used to be such a purist, I hated the whole idea of that scene in the rain! I’ve always adored MM in other things, but never this. I still feel he isn’t the Darcy of the book (and he said he never read the book), but what he made of the character is simply breath-taking. I feel Austen would have re-written Darcy if she saw it.
I haven’t seen all the versions. My favourite “Darcy” is actually Richard Armitage’s Thornton from North and South. That story is like an industrial Pride and Prejudice anyway, and Armitage was divine in it!
Colin Firth is still always Darcy to me, but I can’t believe it’s been 20 years since I first saw it!
Yes, Richard Armitage is wonderful in ‘North and South’, I actually did a post about it, and you can tell by the title my fav scene http://yadadarcyyada.com/2014/09/01/look-back-at-me/ 🙂
Great post and fantastic analogy of the downside of Social Media and blogging – thanks for linking with #ShowcaseTuesday
Thank you for stopping by and for the kind words. 🙂
Hope this week is treating you well. 🙂
I love your post and your writing style but I have to admit that all of the moving pictures are a little distracting. Of course I am ADD so focus is not my strength. Still, they want stop me from coming back. 🙂
Tony R
Sorry to hear that Tony.
“Pop over to Pinterest for a ‘minute’ to find an image or inspiration…later you’re found wandering through the desert and learn you’ve been missing for 7 years and still didn’t find the right meme.”
Are you peeping through my web cam at me? ha ha ha! Absolutely brilliant post! Sharing EVERYWHERE! Thanks for partying with us on #FridayFrivolity
So many of us have obviously had that same experience, Audrey, time has no meaning on Pinterest! lol 😉
Thanks so much for sharing, I just love #FridayFrivolity so much fun, hope more and more people find it. 🙂
Hope you have a wonderful week and if we don’t see you at the next #FridayFrivolity we’ll know you went on Pinterest, maybe they should set up an SOS signal we can press! 😉
This post was so awesome I am featuring it tonight on Friday Frivolity. Thanks for the laughs.
Wow, thank you so much, Audrey, I’m so thrilled and honoured. Can’t wait! Love #FridayFrivolity and excited to be part of it and featured too! 🙂
Hope you have a wonderful weekend. 🙂
That’s for the lovely shout-out!!! Visiting here always makes me smile! My son loved TMNTs (and pizza) when he was young and lucky for me I liked them both too! Booyakasha, this post was totally radical! Thanks again for the feature and for all your wonderful ladies do each week here at #FridayFrivolity – making us giggle and connecting bloggers in this giant virtual haystack. Hope you have an awesome weekend. Cowabunga!!!
It’s always best to tell, know the truth, no matter how very scary! M’wah to you! Genius! xoxox
I prefer the truth, even if I don’t like it at least I know what I don’t like. 😉
Hope you have an awesome weekend, Lisa!!! xoxox
What a spooktacular post. Thanks for an entertaining and scary look at the realities of blogging. It’s all good though right?
Thank you kindly! 🙂
Yes, it’s all good, I just wish I had more energy, but I keep coming back to blogging! 🙂
Hi Donna,
That face of Jack Nicholson is still classic though he made the Shining years ago. Thanks for reminding us.
Great to see you! Thanks for coming to the Blogger’s Pit Stop Linky Party last week.
Janice, Pit Stop Crew.
He’s a classic and always, always happy to be over at #BloggersPitStop – it truly is a wonder! 🙂
Uh, Okay. Blogging is very different for me. Most of my posts write themselves. I have stuff to say.
Glad to hear it, I think it’s different for everyone.
D great story telling thanks for sharing with us over at Traffic Jam 🙂
Thank you kindly, so glad to be there!!!
Hope this weekend treats you well. 🙂
I love these posts of yours, they’re so fun! So happy you shared it on #FridayFrivolity this week!
Fun should always, always be shared! Thank you for having me! 🙂
Hi Donna,
Always love seeing your Adams Family memes.
Thanks for sharing your Halloween posts at Blogger’s Pit Stop last week.
Janice, Pit Stop Crew
They sure know how to have a good time and so does everyone at #BloggersPitStop – I’ll see you there soon. 🙂
Hehe, that Pinterest line totally got me – the hours I’ve lost to Pinterest, it’s like a black hole! 😀 Thanks so much for sharing over at Friday Frivolity.
It really is, you wander in and then time seems to stop. lol
Hope this week is being good to you so far. 🙂