Oh Toliet Brush, How I Do Love Thee
As I was cleaning my bathrooms yesterday, it struck me how thankul I am that I no longer have to use my hands to clean the toilet bowl. I remembered how as a kid I hated sticking my fingers into that cold, nasty water.
But now I have my trusty toilet brush. Swish, swish and I'm done. No mess, little effort.
Thanks to computers, writing is easier too. No more whiteout in the typewriter, just a beautiful delete button. Then there's control F. And most recently I discovered page breaks. I'm sure there's lots of other cool tools.
What's your favorite word processing tool? House-cleaning tool? What do you wish would be invented?
But now I have my trusty toilet brush. Swish, swish and I'm done. No mess, little effort.
Thanks to computers, writing is easier too. No more whiteout in the typewriter, just a beautiful delete button. Then there's control F. And most recently I discovered page breaks. I'm sure there's lots of other cool tools.
What's your favorite word processing tool? House-cleaning tool? What do you wish would be invented?
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But I wish someone would invent an iron that did the ironing for you :)
Favorite computer tool is "Save"!!!! It saves my writing and my life! So many times I forgotten to use it and lost so much!
Fave computer tool: Track Changes; love putting in those comments
Fave house cleaning tool: dishwasher; saves MOUNDS of time on handwashing dishes
Invention wish: a roboticized me that could chauffeur the kids around, clean house, make meals, and grocery shop, while the REAL me writes all day non-stop. Heh. Of course, the real me would stop for fun things, such as hanging out with the kiddos and family, date nights with hubbie, going to church, and exercising.
I don't ask for much, do I? ;-P
And I really can't imagine writing a book by hand or on a typewriter. I probably wouldn't have started the attempt. I am in awe of people who can write that way.
Not sure if this is considered a word processing tool, but I love being able to connect to the internet through wireless. Then I can just tote my laptop to whichever place in my house is quietest at the moment.
My favorite house cleaning tool is the washing machine! I cannot imagine having to use a washing board- that doesn't even sound sanitary!
The laptop my husband got me for Valentine's Day is my favorite writing tool. He is so sweet!
Happy writing...
My fav. computer tool is the little undo arrow; I use it more than any other!
I wish someone would invent a machine that pulls me out of bed and throws me into the closet and puts my clothes on. Like Wallace in the cartoons "Wallace and Grommet." Too funny!
Control F? What does that do? Must go try it!
Anyway, I'm with you; I do love my delete button and CTR F. But I rely on SHFT+F7 (the THESAURUS) a lot too.
Donna, I've forgotten to save stuff too. That can be very annoying and painful. The good thing about dinosaur typewriters is that nothing was lost if we didn't "save". LOL
Anita, I'm with you on your requests! Actually, isn't there some movie coming out about people sending out robot thems to do stuff while the real person stays at home? Did you hear about that one? I thought it looked pretty interesting.
Sarah, I don't have wireless at my house, but I think it's the coolest thing ever! I can drive my car down to the gas station and get wireless if my hubby is on our computer. Really neat.
Tamika, yeah, I can't imagine a scrubbing board. That would be really weird, and imagine what our hands would like like? Ouch.
Angela, Control F is a word search. It finds a certain word in your document. It's really helpful for me when I'm looking for a scene and don't know where it is, but you can also use it on the internet. Like if you're looking for a name in a post or something. :-)
Eeek! Linda, you've never heard of doing it by hand? LOL! Thanks for sharing shift f7. I didn't know that was the thesaurus! Awesome.
My favorite wordprocessing tool: search and replace! And thesaurus!
Hope you're having a great week, Jessica!
Angeli, I like the tab too, but you know what? My crit partner showed me a way where I format my manuscript so that tab isn't used. Now when I press enter it just indents. I'm not sure if that's industry standard or not though.
LOL Julie! I'm sure I'm spoiled too. Heh. Can't imagine writing by hand anymore.
My laptop is a dream! I can take it with me anywhere! Even the bathroom when I'm hiding from family. ;)
Yeah, I'm starting to miss my dishwasher too. I hear you on the shower spray. I never even use mine because it doesn't seem to do anything.
I like spell check even though it like to have temper tantrums sometimes.
~ Wendy
Hi Wendy, you funny lady! If you don't, I wouldn't blame you. I plan on passing the toilet cleaning to my kids as soon as they're old enough. Ha!
I love those dust cloths you throw away:)) LOVE THEM!
I also love manipulating the header and footer. Did you know you can create templates using headers and footers? It's awesome.
Cleaning supplies? The maid service. Heehee.
I agree with Jeanette. We had toilet bowl brushes when I was a kid, and I'm considerably older than you.
My favorite household convenience is the dishwasher. It's the first thing my husband installed after we were married. (He always ate out, so never required one.)
My favorite WP features involve the ease of correcting errors. I remember the days of icky carbon paper, manual typewriters, and ink erasers with that little brush on the end. We thought it a big deal when the correction tape was invented.
Blessings,
Susan :)
And my favorite house hold tool is the dishwasher. I would be happy to never wash a dish by hand ever again!
MaryBeth, now I need to discover what ctrl z does. LOL
Karen, I'm SO glad you mentioned that! I think ctrl f might have that option, but not sure. Nice to know there's a control button for specifically doing that.
Hi Katie, remembering grosses me out. LOL
Susan, I'm beginning to think my mom made me suffer on purpose! So there were toilet brushes and I didn't know about it? Seems extremely unfair. LOL
Hi Stephanie, I don't think I've heard of those before. Sounds good to me since I'm always trying to hide the toilet brush from my two year old. He's such a mischief maker. Heh.
Gwen, there's a grade level scale? LOL! I want one of those.
Wow, so maybe I'm the only one who had to use my hands and a washcloth to clean the toilet? Ewww!
Janna, I don't know what those are. Unless are they those thingies for laundry, where you make stains disappear?
What does control F do???
My favorite word processing "tool" is the thesaurus. Maybe it makes me a little lazy, but, um, I sure like how it helps me keep wording interesting.
And house-cleaning tool? Uh, besides my kids, I guess I like my new vacuum the best. *grin*
Favorite word processing tool? The edit tracker thingy. Love it.
But right now, I'm hating computers. :(
On that note, I still hate cleaning the toilet. My husband has accepted that it's "his job"... haha.
Favorite Word Processing tool: Cut and Paste. :)
Wow, your husband does it Faith? What a man! LOL
Eileen, I need to get one of those. I just tried cleaning my fans and it wasn't pretty or productive. Heh.
Favorite word-processing tool is cut and paste. I love it. :)
Jessie, there's so much cool stuff that I don't know yet either!
Jill, you're telling me people had to use code to get something on the screen? I had NO clue. Wow.
In my computer? hmmm...being able to open up multiple windows at once using that "tab" thing in vista or certain windows features :)
Oh yeah, I just discovered the multiple windows for editing and it's awesome!
As for writing. I love Word's comment function. Love, love, love.
My favorite word processing tool is the auto correct, except when it corrects my words incorrectly. Did that make sense?
I love the spelling check! Can't live without it;)
LOL Heather! Yes, you make perfect sense about autofix. Grrr... :-)
Kara, spelling check has saved a lot of writers. :-) I like spelling but I still need to use mine.
Angie, I don't think you're lazy at all, but WOW on the hubby. Talk about heroic. :-)