So do we start a write-in campaign or what? You’ve had my vote for all these 3 1/2 years. When you hit the big-time, I can say I’ve been following you from the start! I particularly enjoyed The Enchantments part 1. Those pesky mountain goats! –Aunt Christy
Ha, well I do appreciate your support all these years! As for the write-in campaign, my tech-savvy friend, Ferg, just used twitter to grab the attention of whomever might listen to see if we can’t make it happen. Nothing like a little (appropriate) creativity on the internet right?
Haha, you’re so funny! I just started a few months ago, and I haven’t reached 100 hits yet. Sad. 😦 But I hope someday, WordPress would choose me too. I oftenly write in Filipino, though. 😦 I hope they choose my posts although this is so. 😀
Congratulations on being FP! Thank you for making me laugh this morning (and before I’ve even had my coffee, now that’s a feat! ;)) I’ll have to look at your other posts about Alaska (after coffee :)). If you don’t mind my asking, what is “fun-employed?” 🙂
Great blog and congrats! Creative and pure genius. I noticed, this week, that a couple of blogs seem to get “freshly pressed” on occasion. I wonder how they go about selecting which sites are going to be featured.
there are some awesome blogs and poets on here who do such great things yet are never featured. I wonder as well what the criteria are. Congrats on getting FP!!!!
I am most definitely thanking my friend Andrew (aka: Ferg), with brownies actually, at his request. I see I was only on Freshly Pressed main page for a few hours, but I’m grateful! Enough for hundreds of comments, thousands of hits, and plenty of new followers. THANKS! 🙂
It worked! Good for you! That was really cute.
I was convinced that being Freshly Pressed was like playing the lotto. Maybe they actually do read some posts.
Way to go!
I don’t even know you, but you are absolutely precious! This is the first time FP has ever appealed to me. You so rock! Blessings. (Guess who’s gonna check out your blog now? [[And I don’t even like fishing… :P]] )
Ha, this is too cute, and you totally met your goal! You are Freshly Pressed, congratulations! Love the picture with you with your car and how you named it, mine is named Snowball and it’s a trusty little transporter.
Well done on the clever post:). I’ve just started my first ever national tour of south Africa, driving all the way in my lovely and trusted francesca and playing gigs as as I go. Sorry if my punctuation isn’t 100%, I did not study English 😉
I’m glad you ended up being featured because I never would have come across your blog otherwise. You really have a way with writing about your experiences!
Hi Liz, I´m impressed of your travel pics..how do you manage to do so many trips? beatiful landscape there in Alaska, reminds me of Scandinavia, Sweden and Norway! greets from bergleben.de
I see you on Freshly Pressed this morning. Congratulatons! It does look like a great blog, and I am excited to read some of your other posts. Nice job on the appeal- glad to see it worked!
I am very impressed. What a cool and creative way to get recognized. I will make it a point to read through more of your blog and even add you to my blogroll.
I myself have not been blogging as much lately so my readership has dropped some but I intend to get back into the thick of things. If my blog’s name offends you and you would rather me not feature your adventures on my blogroll, let me know.
I’m terribly sorry to have caused any anxiety! I feel similarly every time I see the “10 items or less” sign at the grocery store. FEWER! Ten items or fewer!
Recently I have been contemplating doing a post about not being freshly pressed too. It wouldn’t have been as creative as yours though, more whiny I think. I didn’t do it as I wasn’t sure it would get the results I had hoped for, I suspected I would be quietly placed on the NEVER TO BE FP list! You may have started something here, perhaps one day the theme of the FP will be a variety of posts bemoaning their inability to be on that very page….. Congratulations!
This is just lovely!
I agree, what do you have to do to make to FP?
10,000 hits is uber-impressive.
Newly to your site through FP but glad to find this. I love your sense of humour.
You go girl.
I don’t know you, but it caught my attention. Awesome work there, and I will check out your blog it seems cool. Wishing you well in your endeavors. Stay positive. 🙂
I am so proud of you!!! I have been feeling the same way for over almost a year. I think…”oh my gosh, this blog kicks it!” and “maybe they will pick it this week”…but alas, I sadly am still an FP virgin. 🙂 But, I will continue to blog, after all, I am almost at 5,000 hits and that only has taken 18 months….kinda like losing weight and keeping it off. Slow and steady win the race! You get an A+++++ for creativity and imagination! Way to put yourself on the map!!!! Congrats. I will be anxious to see how fast you get to 20,000! 🙂 Have a fantastic weekend. Me and all the other FP wanna-bees are celebrating with you!!!!! AmberLena
Congratulations, Liz…you made it onto Freshly Pressed! Very creative and cute photos. Congrats on the 10,000 hits, too! Keep on blogging. I’m proud of you, and I’m not even a member of your family, ex-anything or paid to say so! 😉
This is excellent! I love the that your blog doesn’t follow the usual trend. BTW, you made it on Freshly Pressed! That’s how I found you. So, you have cool travels with your car, too? I love cars and take them where no car has traveled before…
Haha, hilarious! Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed! Very funny and clever, great job! Wouldn’t we all love to be featured on Freshly Pressed sometime. Congrats again that you managed it! 😀
Well, I see that worked. Very clever and congratulations for making it to Freshly Pressed. It’s certainly fun and a great way for your blog to get a boost. I don’t see an “about” page on your blog, and everyone who is reading your FP post is going to be looking for it, so you might want to think about adding that today. After all, you are famous now!
Great job! Love it. I’m jealous that you live in Alaska. And you reminded me that it is “fun-employed” – enjoy and congratulations on being Freshly Pressed. Sweet.
That’s very cute. Congratulations on FP! I soooo want to be on FP, too. I have almost 67,000 hits after 2.5 years of regular blogging, complete with quality photos and good writing. Sigh, you’re living my dream…Good job!
This is so fantastic! Congratulations! I hold my breath everyday to see if I have been freshly pressed but alas, I am still patiently waiting. Great job! With creativity like that, you can consider yourself “followed” (but not in a creepy stalker way, in a nice, I admire your talent and am reading your blog kind of way)!
graet post. so cute. I’d do the same thing if I wasn’t afraid of cracking the lense. This is my second go at making a comment so fingers crossexd here goes OH and congrats on FP
Absolutely brilliant! Your Freshly Pressed post was the first thing that caught my eye!! Come on over and visit Keziahcarie when you have a little free time. 🙂
Congrats, such a cute idea. Good job on creativity. I soooo want to be on FP, too, and with 2.5 years of regular, quality blogging with good photos and almost 67,000 hits, you’d think I’d make it. You’re living my dream!
I rarely comment on blogs that belong to people I don’t know, but I had to with this one. I love everything about this post! I imagine your friends already thought you were awesome, you parents were proud, and ex-boyfriends wished they were still with you. Best wishes for finding a fabulous job that’s even more fun than fun-employment 😉
Love it! Especially the editing part as a fellow English major! Now if only I could think of something creative to get WordPress to freshly press my blog too!
Whoa! thanks for this very creative and funny post my darling. My God you are an anger I mean ‘angel’ sent from above. You just save me from my worst day of my life (I suck with relationships, I suck on my blogs) but thanks God I’m so happy you got freshly pressed, answered prayers indeed. Thanks for putting this big smile on my face. Love yah!
I always wonder how people get Freshly Pressed?! I don’t let it bother me (too much) that I haven’t been “picked” by the powers that be . . . then I wonder if it could go back to the beginning when I was a newbie and added my blog link at the bottom of my comments naively and incorrectly and was admonished by the administrators at FP’d not to do that . . . I then kind of sent a snarky reply? Perhaps I am on the DO NOT EVER PUBLISH list? Yeah, that’s it . . .
Congrats on your success with your appeal. Cute and funny! I do get hits & views on my own! Ha!
Omg, this made my day. I am dying to be on Freshly Pressed as well. I think if I were I’d scream out loud.
Follow up post please on your reaction, and your stats hit too!
That’s was very clever and witty! I’m still smiling typing that:) You have a talent for acting, I think. Your face expressions are very charismatic – I could here the intonation while reading.
I got very interested in your blog – sunsets and fishing sounds like a lot of fun. I’ll be following you and congrats on a really great post!
You were blogging for over 3 years and only got 10,000? Wow, you did need to get freshly pressed! Also – try tweeting about your posts, and making connections on here and other social networks! The pics are cute, but what do you normally write about?
Gotta love your attitude! (And we English graduates have to stick together!) And I always have loved that Bob Dylan video for Subterranean Homesick Blues that may have been your inspiration? Or maybe it’s just your own pure genius! Keep on blogging!
Congrats on being featured! This was super creative. I do the same editing dance, like, well, if I were reading this instead of writing it how would it sound? And then I move a comma 50 times…
Ha! Seriously, I was thinking, is there a space on a resume where you can put “Featured on Freshly Pressed?” Maybe that’s a little much, but perhaps an employer would take note?
This was cute, cuter then I thought it would be –
I wonder if you have to buy the priceier themes
before they post you?
I invite anyone who is interested to check out
my eerie suspence fantasy Rust – or the other
illistrated fictions and Art articles I have posted
on all things wierd and funney.
This is FABULOUS! From one English major, grammar Nazi, word nerd to another, well done! 🙂 Maybe I’ll be Freshly Pressed one day, too! Good luck on your quest for gainful employment.
I loved that degree gag. I was going to “tut” at you naming your car Joey but I’ve been recently reminded that I’ve given our dog four extra names – Merry is his first name, but I’ve seen fit to refer to him as Wolfie, cos, you know, he looks like a wolf (in that he has a jaw full of teeth), Wolfuss (in case he’s looking particularly more Eastern European than usual on any given day), Wolfuss The Third when he’s looking regal and English (this name’s only applicable when the daylight shows his grey hairs), and finally Sergeant Noodles… just… cos. Anyway I’ve got to get back to my own fun-employment and see if anyone will hire me as a web developer, or failing that, IT helpdesk support. You gotta pay the bills somehow…
AWESOME! A fantastic idea — and it worked! I like the photo of you editing the text. Great to see another English major! And you caught a big fish! Sweet!
Just joined the community and yours is the very first blog I’ve checked out from Freshly Pressed. Congrats on the accomplishment! Hope it contributes to your chances of becoming a pleasant old person 🙂
I LOVE this … you must be an entrepreneur … thinking outside the box! I have shared it on my blog and hope it inspires those in my area too …great job! ;-D
Brilliant! (I’m jealous!) I wish WordPress would go back and look at old posts. (I know there would have to be an army of people to do this.) Because some of my best posts got missed and I know I can write posts as good as those in the future, but what are the chances that my great posts get seen? I mean what if the WordPress readers have been reading my posts when they are pedantic at best. Blast.
Maybe WordPress should write a blog about the odds of a post getting picked from the fray in order to give a me a little perspective and keep me from feeling disappointed that it’s never been me.
THIS IS THE BEST!!!! YOU HAVE SINGLE HANDEDLY MADE MY DAY!!!! I was all smiles as I read your post.
You see I have a five years old son who is Autistic. Most days are good, but for some reason today it’s been all about having melt-downs after meltdowns in the supermarket, pharmacy and all hell broke loosewhen he asked for Ferro Rocher chocolate ball (the coconut covered ones) and I said no.
lol.. really cool post.. i have thought about making a campaign as well to be freshly pressed, you beat me to it and yours is pretty amazing.. mine sucked.. 😀
I love the idea, how you used the white board and pictures to get your message out.
Someday I hope to be like you thinking outside the box to reach my goals.
Rock On
Tim
Loved it!! It was great. I’m new to WP so I see I def have to bring my A-Game to get on FP. You’ve inspired me to keep writing reguarly. I hope to see 10K hits….one day. : ) Thank you!
This is the smartest post I have seen so far. I am glad it caught WordPress’ attention. Actually, I tried the more conventional route to get Freshly Pressed. I submitted three of my posts to the editor. Boring, I know, but it worked in April when I was Freshly Pressed. Congratulations!!! (Too many exclamation points?)
Thanks for your support, Joe! I have no idea how people get on FP, I’ve tried analyzing it for clues, but ultimately settled for a little fun with a camera and a whiteboard on a Thursday afternoon. Good luck with your blog!
So…. I just did a google search for photos of “the enchantments” posted in the last week and what shows up but your blog talking about making your ex-boyfriend jealous. AWESOME!
Yah, I will be up there from Thursday – Sunday next week. We have a core permit. Just flipped through your Flickr stream from your hike last weekend. Looked amazing, loved the silhouettes between the rocks. Want to have lunch on Monday and walk me through your packing list?
Shoot me a text, its too hard to find this comment thread among the thousands of others.
Great campaign! The first picture caught my attention and the next thing that caught my attention is the quote on the banner it’s so true. That’s what I love about adventures, you learn something from every new experience. Congratulations on the 10,000 hits. Am going to start reading about your adventures now 🙂
You made it! Hahaha, yay! I trust your family’s proud. I just met a guy earlier this morning who handed me a business card – his title read “Fun Employed Founder and Director” – LOL
Okay, I didn’t know what it was going to be like seeing an appeal to WordPress… but this was really cute and funny. Congrats! I’m going to check out the rest of your blog now, as I too have been fishing in Alaska 🙂
Is that all it takes? And here I have been writing funny, sarcastic and witty articles based on real news items. I guess I’ll go buy a whiteboard tomorrow. http://lastexittoreality.wordpress.com/
Very cool post! I live in Washington state and am “fun-employed” myself–with a degree in English and amazing editing abilities:) Alas, my blog is only 5 months old, so I will have to wait awhile for my 10,000 hits and my own plea to be “Freshly Pressed.”
Congrats! The comma part was brilliant. I’m also glad to see that I’m not the only one who names their car. Mine’s Princess Leia. it is, after all, a Toyota. (ba-dum-psh).
At first I thought, oh, how lame, just ask for FP and you get it? Then I checked out your post, and you won me over! This totally deserves the status it asked for.
This is completely adorable! Congratulations on your Freshly Pressed screen debut, with admiration from one English major (Oberlin) to another. — Marci Rich, aka The Midlife Second Wife
It’s just like how Dumbledore said to Harry that those who ask for help will receive it. I imagine the Freshly Pressed people are ardent fans of Dumbledore’s advice since you got what you asked for.
Liz – I am so glad you insisted on showing up topside. What a tremendous encouragement your post is. I really appreciate your creativity. Best to you in all your endeavors. God bless.
This is the only one of your blogs I’ve read but am prepared to dive in and enjoy based on what I’ve just seen. Love the idea. Can I steal it? I’ve only been blogging for about a month, have maybe 50 hits and 3 followers. But I’m 63 years old. I may not have three and a half years to wait to hit the big time.
Love it! You are a funny lady! I made freshly pressed yesterday for the first time and it made my year!! So I know you must be extremely happy right now! Enjoy every moment, you deserve it!
So I’m thinking you may have leaped past your 10,000 hits mark…possibly 10,000 just on this post? Inquiring minds want to know. Congrats on getting freshly pressed!
After 3.5 years you finally did what you should have done all along – make an appeal, lol. Well done…I’m truly inspired (and hope that I’ll be FP’ed someday).
Heyyyy super funny and inspirational in a way 😉 (Patience pays off…..)
I am sure you are on the FP, not because you appealed for it, but every bit of your post deserves to be on the top of the site. Your photos and the expressions are classy.
Congratulation for being on the FP and congratulationd for 10000 hits…. Good luck….
Excellent blog. I love te “attention getter” and it obviously worked. I have never been to Alaska, but like to imagine being in the mountains or the wilderness. I love the views, the fishing and the hunting. I will be following your blog from now on.
I almost peed my pants laughing as I read your post, Liz! So unique! I also wonder why there are repeats on freshly pressed…and yet, I’m just NOT getting posted. I’ve been blogging since 2005, was with Windows Live Spaces and then got ‘transported’ to Word Press, so, it was like taking baby steps all over again. (I lost all of my photo albums to boot…grrrr). And…heck if I know if my former ‘hits’ and statistics got transferred here. Long story-short, your approach brought humour to the situation. I loved your post! And now I’m going to go and see what else you have written about. Have a beautiful autumn!
Cute! I loved this post! And Congrats for making it to FP!!!!
I LOVED the photos, the expressions, the title, EVERYTHING!!! Simply WOW!
I wish someday, I make it to there too!
omg! that was the best post I’ve ever read! Fantastic job girl. I don’t even know you and I am proud of you! And You did it, you are the first post on fp!-that should come with an award right? lol-anyway congratz, you earned it with this original idea!
This is one of the best… hummm… let me rephrase that: this is THE best and funniest blog post I have ever come across. Bravo to you!!! I love it and I’m sharing…
i have been trying to do this myself. I run a music/classic rock blog called the wild heart and I have 4,000 hits and I have been up and running since late january. They didn’t even choose my post about Stevie Nicks’s latest album, her concert which I attended, or my how to guesstimate your vinyl. Blarg! WordPress, please pick mine too!
btw mine would go: Dear wordpress,
I love your blogging/web design platform. I live and die by you at work and at home. However, I think you are missing one thing from your freshly pressed site: me; aka “The wild heart.”
So here is a list of things that qualify me:
-I write compelling content: I have a few examples for my compelling content that you may want to look at which include my letter to mtv on its 30th anniversary, why klol should return to Houston airwaves, ANY of my stevie nicks/fleetwood mac articles (they all seem to do VERY well for some reason so I keep covering her – people love Stevie apparently!), me getting pulled over and my plea for autobahns within Houston.
-I blog nearly every single day.
-my ratings have been down a bit lately sure. But that is because I changed my domain! Also I havent covered any coverbands lately. However, I do have 4 subscribers and 22 facebook fans counting me. Also people like my stuff on facebook quite often.
-I edit my own stuff. I’m a journalist what do you expect?
Nice and cool and different. WordPress was actually forced to think if this girl is been neglected this time, she would have started a campaign against WP!!
I red many blogs here in wordpress and I found your blog as one of the best. I like this post.Really much! Keep writing. http://letscriticize.wordpress.com
You go, girl! I’ve only been blogging for 3 1/2 weeks and was starting to lose hope. It looks like I have a long way to go. Thanks for the inspiration!
I can bet that this post was the MOST hilarious and innovative post, I have ever seen on wordpress. One thing is for sure now I am following your blog….
I like this – it is not aggressive way of protesting. 🙂 I think you deserved it for taking your time and doing the whole effort! And so I found you – at FP-Site 😀
Good work!
Liz! You have a great great blog, I absolutely love it! I’m a longtime writer, recent blogger… my blog is Melissa’s 100 List if you want to check it out. I also work for a website, I’d love to run an idea by you- you can email me at melissa@empirecovers.com if you’d be interested in getting some free stuff for Joey!
A clever, cute and creative way to say what you want. And it worked! Congrats! Loved this post of yours. Here’s to more great posts and future features on Freshly Pressed. Have an awesome day, you fun-employed person. (Do my comments need editing?)
I made a comment (actually more than one as there was a glitch) here on your post the other day and lamented that I had been blogging for 2.5 years and almost at 68,000 hits and hadn’t made FP. Well, today I made it! I wonder if they read comments.
Wow, 10,000 hits, that’s great and a huge amount of comments. I know I won’t go nearly that high but I’m excited to have made the bigtime. This is the post I made it on and it’s over a month old now.
I just loved how you put all those signs down and went hiking in the mountains with a tripod, then took the picture of yourself, and then came back! I’m guessing from the chairs that you went to the Adirondacks? I wouldn’t have had the guts to do that, or any of the other gross internal body parts. It was brilliant!
Well they are Adirondack chairs, but I’m not in the Adirondacks! Washington, actually. And yes, travel has just gotten so easy these days, amazing how that works 😉
Terrific move, congratulations on a very effective approach! You might want to post that resume; I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that you’ve been contacted for a new job — marketing, advertising, something along those lines.
Outstandingly helpful appreciate it, It is my opinion your current readers could quite possibly want a whole lot more well written articles like this keep up the excellent effort.
Hahahaha!!! this post is very humorous!! I also want to be featured in FP, but I guess I’m not as creative as you are (“fun-employed”) lols.. And I like Auntie Christy being the first who comment. haha.. Pls do continue to make us laugh..
Is funny, this blog-post. I especially like the ones where you edited the board. Don’t be disheartened about your English degree not getting you exciting jobs right away; I have an English degree from 1977 and have been employed in factory or retail work pretty much since graduating. I find the degree helpful when doing crosswords at break time and such. It’s as least as good a degree to have as, say, Art History or Philosophy.
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So do we start a write-in campaign or what? You’ve had my vote for all these 3 1/2 years. When you hit the big-time, I can say I’ve been following you from the start! I particularly enjoyed The Enchantments part 1. Those pesky mountain goats! –Aunt Christy
Ha, well I do appreciate your support all these years! As for the write-in campaign, my tech-savvy friend, Ferg, just used twitter to grab the attention of whomever might listen to see if we can’t make it happen. Nothing like a little (appropriate) creativity on the internet right?
must’ve worked – I found you via freshly pressed
Lol, now THAT’S funny! Great job.
I second this – congrats on making it!
Cute post and it worked! This is a life lesson…..Congratulations on being FP!
Yeah, Amazing way to post. Love it. 🙂
Somebody listened!! Congratulations!! 🙂
Girl, you are too too funny! Great post! Reminds me of that man that post a skit on Youtube to get a job – and got one too! Love it! You inspire me.
Good for you! Congrats!
Haha, you’re so funny! I just started a few months ago, and I haven’t reached 100 hits yet. Sad. 😦 But I hope someday, WordPress would choose me too. I oftenly write in Filipino, though. 😦 I hope they choose my posts although this is so. 😀
Congratulations on being FP! Thank you for making me laugh this morning (and before I’ve even had my coffee, now that’s a feat! ;)) I’ll have to look at your other posts about Alaska (after coffee :)). If you don’t mind my asking, what is “fun-employed?” 🙂
“fun-employed” is an optimistic outlook on being “unemployed!” 🙂
“fun-employed” was my favorite part! That, and your editing skills!! This is an AWESOME post! Congrats on being FP! 🙂
I’m fun-employeed too, I suppose. Great phrase! (oh, and congrats on getting featured, I hope to be Fresh Pressed some day too).
Great blog and congrats! Creative and pure genius. I noticed, this week, that a couple of blogs seem to get “freshly pressed” on occasion. I wonder how they go about selecting which sites are going to be featured.
I still have no idea how it works!
there are some awesome blogs and poets on here who do such great things yet are never featured. I wonder as well what the criteria are. Congrats on getting FP!!!!
We try to find good posts pretty much the way anyone would. In this case, you have your friend Andrew to thank 🙂
https://twitter.com/#!/AndrewFerguson/statuses/117097641279631360
His tweet made its way around one of our internal blogs and we thought the post was awesome.
I am most definitely thanking my friend Andrew (aka: Ferg), with brownies actually, at his request. I see I was only on Freshly Pressed main page for a few hours, but I’m grateful! Enough for hundreds of comments, thousands of hits, and plenty of new followers. THANKS! 🙂
It worked! Good for you! That was really cute.
I was convinced that being Freshly Pressed was like playing the lotto. Maybe they actually do read some posts.
Way to go!
This is so cute. Congratulations! Enjoy the tsunami of hits.
Tsunami, indeed! Thanks so much!
One of the best posts, ever. Clever!!
Ah hahaha!!! nicely done 🙂
Very Clever! Looks like it worked! Congrats!
Congrats on making FP. Very creative! I enjoyed it. Well done.
This is very funny
Fun! And hey, you made it! I saw this on the front page 🙂 Good job!
This is really classy. Maybe done before in a different way… a different tone… BUT alas! Regardless. Quite impressive. (grin)
congratulations
Super cute post. Glad you made it!
Great and congrats!
Nicely done. Very entertaining.
I don’t even know you, but you are absolutely precious! This is the first time FP has ever appealed to me. You so rock! Blessings. (Guess who’s gonna check out your blog now? [[And I don’t even like fishing… :P]] )
Why thank you! I promise I will write about more than just fishing!
You’ve hit the big time!! You’ve been featured, that’s how I found you!
Ah! I loved this post. When you “edited” with the comma I was so happy, because I was an English major, too!
I’ll start following your blog– I think Alaska is gorgeous so I’ll definately enjoy looking at all of those pictures!
p.s. congrats– looks like FP took up your suggestion 🙂
Ha, this is too cute, and you totally met your goal! You are Freshly Pressed, congratulations! Love the picture with you with your car and how you named it, mine is named Snowball and it’s a trusty little transporter.
Some people don’t understand the “car-driver bond,” but I’m glad you do! Hope you and Snowball have many more adventures!
Well done on the clever post:). I’ve just started my first ever national tour of south Africa, driving all the way in my lovely and trusted francesca and playing gigs as as I go. Sorry if my punctuation isn’t 100%, I did not study English 😉
I’m glad you ended up being featured because I never would have come across your blog otherwise. You really have a way with writing about your experiences!
Thank you very much, I appreciate your encouragement about my writing!
Hi Liz, I´m impressed of your travel pics..how do you manage to do so many trips? beatiful landscape there in Alaska, reminds me of Scandinavia, Sweden and Norway! greets from bergleben.de
I see you on Freshly Pressed this morning. Congratulatons! It does look like a great blog, and I am excited to read some of your other posts. Nice job on the appeal- glad to see it worked!
great post! creative and well-deserved FP!!!
I loved it. And I came here because I saw your post in the Freshly Pressed!!!
Well done!
Kiss, from Brazil.
I am very impressed. What a cool and creative way to get recognized. I will make it a point to read through more of your blog and even add you to my blogroll.
I myself have not been blogging as much lately so my readership has dropped some but I intend to get back into the thick of things. If my blog’s name offends you and you would rather me not feature your adventures on my blogroll, let me know.
Great post. Very funny too.
I wanna be “fun-employed”! 🙂
Liz, congrats! And thanks for inserting the comma. Honestly, I was left anxious, briefly.
I’m terribly sorry to have caused any anxiety! I feel similarly every time I see the “10 items or less” sign at the grocery store. FEWER! Ten items or fewer!
hahaha this is brilliant!! and it worked!!
well gosh! I’d say after that adorable post, how could they NOT?! Very creative! Congrats 🙂
Ingenious, creative and I might add, inspiring!
This is so funny! Congratulations on being featured on freshly pressed! Very cute and creative idea.
Well, I’ve never read your blog before, but it was right on top of the FP list and here I am. Great job!
Love, love, love your creativity! Be blessed and I’ll pray you find a new job soon. 🙂
Congratulations! You’ve been freshly pressed!
You’re awesome!
Recently I have been contemplating doing a post about not being freshly pressed too. It wouldn’t have been as creative as yours though, more whiny I think. I didn’t do it as I wasn’t sure it would get the results I had hoped for, I suspected I would be quietly placed on the NEVER TO BE FP list! You may have started something here, perhaps one day the theme of the FP will be a variety of posts bemoaning their inability to be on that very page….. Congratulations!
Oh my gosh, so cute. Well done!
Love it! Congratulations on capturing the attention of the gods of Freshly Pressed in a very original and completely irresistible way : )
This is just lovely!
I agree, what do you have to do to make to FP?
10,000 hits is uber-impressive.
Newly to your site through FP but glad to find this. I love your sense of humour.
You go girl.
Jactherat
http://jactherat.wordpress.com/
funny! see, you made it!!!
I don’t know you, but it caught my attention. Awesome work there, and I will check out your blog it seems cool. Wishing you well in your endeavors. Stay positive. 🙂
Ha! Well done! I guess it worked!!!!!
perhaps i should do the same for my blog to be featured in FP.. heheh
This is so creative! Congratulations on being freshly pressed! 😉
Congratulations on being freshly pressed! I loved your humour, after all. 🙂
Hilarious! Very clever. Congrats on getting featured.
Leanne
I am so proud of you!!! I have been feeling the same way for over almost a year. I think…”oh my gosh, this blog kicks it!” and “maybe they will pick it this week”…but alas, I sadly am still an FP virgin. 🙂 But, I will continue to blog, after all, I am almost at 5,000 hits and that only has taken 18 months….kinda like losing weight and keeping it off. Slow and steady win the race! You get an A+++++ for creativity and imagination! Way to put yourself on the map!!!! Congrats. I will be anxious to see how fast you get to 20,000! 🙂 Have a fantastic weekend. Me and all the other FP wanna-bees are celebrating with you!!!!! AmberLena
When I clicked “Freshly Pressed” a few minutes ago your blog was the first link, nice work!!!
Congratulations, Liz…you made it onto Freshly Pressed! Very creative and cute photos. Congrats on the 10,000 hits, too! Keep on blogging. I’m proud of you, and I’m not even a member of your family, ex-anything or paid to say so! 😉
Very clever! Love it. I am new to the blog world and trying to get ideas. Looking forward to reading your blog.
This is excellent! I love the that your blog doesn’t follow the usual trend. BTW, you made it on Freshly Pressed! That’s how I found you. So, you have cool travels with your car, too? I love cars and take them where no car has traveled before…
Great post…quite creative!
This is beyond brilliant. You’re definitely creative and funny enough to get on Freshly Pressed.
Hilarious!
Thanks for bringing a smile to my face. I just started blogging regularly and sites like yours (3 and 1/2 years!) are an inspiration. =)
Congratulations! Fun post and creative use of a white board. Wishing you continued success with your blog!
Love you post!
Suppose you got your wish :).
Adorable! I love whiteboards.
Welcome to the club that keeps me out!
Sincerely,
Looking in from the outside
This is so cute. Congratulations on getting featured! 🙂
I LOVE this! So clever and well deserved. I’ll stay tuned for how you choose to thank WordPress.
Great post! It worked! 🙂
hehe nice idea and blog.
Haha, hilarious! Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed! Very funny and clever, great job! Wouldn’t we all love to be featured on Freshly Pressed sometime. Congrats again that you managed it! 😀
LOL! This is one of the most fun and funny post I have read! 🙂 I’ve been smiling as I scroll down. How creative! Congrats for being Freshly Pressed!
Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed! It seems they were reading after all! :]
BRAVO!!!!
Very cute idea! I love that you got the spot! Off to check you out. 🙂
Bridget
Cute! I like your attitude very much….and ‘envy’ (in a good way 😉 ) you your adventures with Joey. You’re living my dream in a sense I guess 🙂 🙂
congrats….you did it!
LOL.
You made it 🙂
Well done!!!!
Hope the ‘fun employment’ status changes soon.
All the best…
lwtc247 (who saw you on ‘Freshly Pressed’)
Third from the last pic is by far the best. Can’t forget that comma!
I love it! You go girl!
Congratulations! I love your mom’s advice, too!
you’ll be happy to know i found this on freshly pressed. you got you’re wish!
If you don’t deserve it, who does?! 😀
Well played 😉
Brilliant. Touche, Liz!
I love it!
Great! your post is GREAT! 🙂
Nice work! And cute coat! http://www.itsnotakidney.com
Success! You seem like a really fun, witty gal. Good luck with the fun-employment 🙂
Great idea!
Yay, it worked! Congratulations! This is so funny and original (pace Bob Dylan) – you deserve your moment of fame. 🙂
I saw this in “Freshly Pressed”, and I must say this is very impressive! 🙂
Absolutely shameless! Trolling for traffic like that! I am embarrassed for you. Geez…
Wish I had thought of it.
hilarious. well-done! i may have to follow your example….
You did good. Congratulations, and go far! Maintain the dream and continue on toward your personal ledgend.
Darlene
WELL DONE!!!! The post is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO!
Well, I see that worked. Very clever and congratulations for making it to Freshly Pressed. It’s certainly fun and a great way for your blog to get a boost. I don’t see an “about” page on your blog, and everyone who is reading your FP post is going to be looking for it, so you might want to think about adding that today. After all, you are famous now!
This is beyond awesome! Congratulations on Freshly Pressed! It is well-deserved. 🙂
I LOVE IT…..so funny! Congrats!
Great site!
Patience is a virtue. Everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame these days. (You do have to wait in line though.)
LOL! This was hilarious and very well done. Glad you got your wish 🙂 Congrats.
hey
nice post. well done!
I’m sure many will do “photo-posting” after you !
😉
You – this initiative is brilliant! & your mom is clever.Last but not least, don’t ever settle foe less!
Very cleaver! Worthy of Fresh Press… and a new subscriber!
Nice!
Hahaha! Very creative. Now…can you get me FP’d?? 😉
Genius! It’s that kind of thinking that gets people amazing jobs out of nowhere. Hopefully this will be the case for you.
Very nicely done Liz and congratulations on being freshly pressed.
Congratulations! Very smart idea and excellently done 🙂
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! I am so happy for you!! Keep blogging 🙂
Best post I’ve seen on Freshly Pressed 🙂 Subscribed!
Well played. love the quote from your Mom in the banner.
She does have some wise words every so often! 😉
Shameful…
Shamefully BRILLIANT.
BEST FRESHLY PRESSED EVER!!! Congrats you did it and in an original way.
Nice job!
Congratulations!!!! 🙂
What a great post!!! I so love it and will follow such a creative and bold blogger. 🙂
Congratulations for being on the FP. I enjoy reading your blog. especially this one. I hope i would be on the FP too.
Great job! Love it. I’m jealous that you live in Alaska. And you reminded me that it is “fun-employed” – enjoy and congratulations on being Freshly Pressed. Sweet.
WIN!! enjoyed this one. 🙂
That’s very cute. Congratulations on FP! I soooo want to be on FP, too. I have almost 67,000 hits after 2.5 years of regular blogging, complete with quality photos and good writing. Sigh, you’re living my dream…Good job!
67,000 hits and no FP yet?! WOW. Surely it will happen soon!
Can I do this too?
Congratulations!
Best ever way, and the most creative, to be Freshly Pressed!!
Thats the sweetest blog! I’d do the same thing but I would crack the lense LOL. congrats on FP
This is so fantastic! Congratulations! I hold my breath everyday to see if I have been freshly pressed but alas, I am still patiently waiting. Great job! With creativity like that, you can consider yourself “followed” (but not in a creepy stalker way, in a nice, I admire your talent and am reading your blog kind of way)!
Thank you for the distinction of being “followed,” I do appreciate the latter! :-p
graet post. so cute. I’d do the same thing if I wasn’t afraid of cracking the lense. This is my second go at making a comment so fingers crossexd here goes OH and congrats on FP
This is soo cute! You made my day Liz!
This is awesome – glad I finally saw you on FP!!
Your post is super impressive! and Congrats because I saw this on FP =))
I don’t normally click on the Freshly Pressed links, but I had to click on this one… absolutely brilliant and creative, loved it ^_^
Awesome! Congrats on being FP! lol
Your FP is one of the BEST I have ever read and laughed at, It is simple and shows a creative funny quicky read. Good for you and congrats.
Absolutely brilliant! Your Freshly Pressed post was the first thing that caught my eye!! Come on over and visit Keziahcarie when you have a little free time. 🙂
Congrats, such a cute idea. Good job on creativity. I soooo want to be on FP, too, and with 2.5 years of regular, quality blogging with good photos and almost 67,000 hits, you’d think I’d make it. You’re living my dream!
How creative! I really enjoyed this. Congratulations!
So glad they got the message. This is awesome. 🙂 Congrats!
cute and fun. Did this help you reach the 10,000 hits? Keep putting the “fun” in unemployed.
Oh yes, well over 10,000 hits now! I am very grateful 🙂
I rarely comment on blogs that belong to people I don’t know, but I had to with this one. I love everything about this post! I imagine your friends already thought you were awesome, you parents were proud, and ex-boyfriends wished they were still with you. Best wishes for finding a fabulous job that’s even more fun than fun-employment 😉
Sorry I posted twice but there was a glitch and it looks like it happened to the commenter above my 2nd comment, too.
Best Freshly Pressed I’ve ever read!
AWESOME! I love your courage and humor, congratulations, it sounds like you really have deserved this 🙂
Congratulations! You have a great life ahead of you! 🙂
Love it! Especially the editing part as a fellow English major! Now if only I could think of something creative to get WordPress to freshly press my blog too!
This was a great read! Hahaha! I loved it! Keep up the great work and CONGRATULATIONS on being Freshly Pressed at last!
So so so cute and funny. Enjoy your FP!!!:)
So cool and well done for being featured! Super jealous but it’s well earnt!
Hahaha. This put a smile on my face. I’m glad Fresh thinking made Freshly Pressed. Congrats! (How many hits do you have NOW?!)
Excellent post! 🙂
Whoa! thanks for this very creative and funny post my darling. My God you are an anger I mean ‘angel’ sent from above. You just save me from my worst day of my life (I suck with relationships, I suck on my blogs) but thanks God I’m so happy you got freshly pressed, answered prayers indeed. Thanks for putting this big smile on my face. Love yah!
I always wonder how people get Freshly Pressed?! I don’t let it bother me (too much) that I haven’t been “picked” by the powers that be . . . then I wonder if it could go back to the beginning when I was a newbie and added my blog link at the bottom of my comments naively and incorrectly and was admonished by the administrators at FP’d not to do that . . . I then kind of sent a snarky reply? Perhaps I am on the DO NOT EVER PUBLISH list? Yeah, that’s it . . .
Congrats on your success with your appeal. Cute and funny! I do get hits & views on my own! Ha!
I Love It!
LOL, looks like WP listened! 😉
Good work!
http://tehcatspajamas.wordpress.com/
love your mom’s advice about living a life of adventure! i’ll make sure to follow that! congrats on being freshly pressed! =D
Omg, this made my day. I am dying to be on Freshly Pressed as well. I think if I were I’d scream out loud.
Follow up post please on your reaction, and your stats hit too!
I’ll definitely give a reaction post, I’m totally amazed, and have many thanks to give! Hope you get on FP soon!
AWESOME!
Great acting, wonderful idea. Now you have to deal with the effects…
That’s was very clever and witty! I’m still smiling typing that:) You have a talent for acting, I think. Your face expressions are very charismatic – I could here the intonation while reading.
I got very interested in your blog – sunsets and fishing sounds like a lot of fun. I’ll be following you and congrats on a really great post!
You were blogging for over 3 years and only got 10,000? Wow, you did need to get freshly pressed! Also – try tweeting about your posts, and making connections on here and other social networks! The pics are cute, but what do you normally write about?
Cuuuuuuuttttee! Now what will I do to get on FP? The bar has officially been raised.
Love this. Made me smile! 🙂
Oh Dog! I gotta try that!
Gotta love your attitude! (And we English graduates have to stick together!) And I always have loved that Bob Dylan video for Subterranean Homesick Blues that may have been your inspiration? Or maybe it’s just your own pure genius! Keep on blogging!
You are adorable. Will you be my friend?
Totally!
Brava!
boom! well done you!
That’s too funny! I love it, glad you did get featured so that I found your blog!! I’ll be off to read some of your other posts! 🙂
Nice.
clever and entertaining
who could ask for anything more?
VERY funny post! haha – I don’t usually read FP – but your chosen pic and blog title were very drawing. God bless you!
ps. NICE FISH!
yeah! nice one. xxx
Oh my hell, you rock!
Thank you for putting a smile on my face 🙂
so cute! 😀
Now this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in quite a while.
I didn’t miss a comma?… Did I?
Uh-oh, I hope not! But I wouldn’t put it past me!
Clever. Reminded me very much of http://www.andrewmcdonald.net.au/a-pictorial-guide-to-avoiding-camera-loss/
Well deserved!! Now on to read your previous posts!!
Love that it finally happened for you – great post to get noticed 😀
Congrats on being featured! This was super creative. I do the same editing dance, like, well, if I were reading this instead of writing it how would it sound? And then I move a comma 50 times…
i know how you feel! i have four blogs on WordPress now for 3 years and not once freshly pressed!
Way to go, Liz! Very creative! 🙂
Ask and you shall receive! Congratulations on Freshly Pressed it’s certainly one to add to the resume 🙂
Ha! Seriously, I was thinking, is there a space on a resume where you can put “Featured on Freshly Pressed?” Maybe that’s a little much, but perhaps an employer would take note?
Amazing… that is all! 🙂
Adorable!!! Creative!!! Excited for you!!!!
This was cute, cuter then I thought it would be –
I wonder if you have to buy the priceier themes
before they post you?
I invite anyone who is interested to check out
my eerie suspence fantasy Rust – or the other
illistrated fictions and Art articles I have posted
on all things wierd and funney.
Haha! This definitely made me laugh, and you have well-earned your place on Freshly Pressed!
http://pjmgfashionn11.wordpress.com/
That is cute! Congrats on being FP!
This is so cute! Congrats…you made it! 🙂
L-O-V-E… I-T!!!
Pretty funny! Good for you! 🙂
Good Going Liz!! Love the creativity!! :-))!
This is FABULOUS! From one English major, grammar Nazi, word nerd to another, well done! 🙂 Maybe I’ll be Freshly Pressed one day, too! Good luck on your quest for gainful employment.
I loved that degree gag. I was going to “tut” at you naming your car Joey but I’ve been recently reminded that I’ve given our dog four extra names – Merry is his first name, but I’ve seen fit to refer to him as Wolfie, cos, you know, he looks like a wolf (in that he has a jaw full of teeth), Wolfuss (in case he’s looking particularly more Eastern European than usual on any given day), Wolfuss The Third when he’s looking regal and English (this name’s only applicable when the daylight shows his grey hairs), and finally Sergeant Noodles… just… cos. Anyway I’ve got to get back to my own fun-employment and see if anyone will hire me as a web developer, or failing that, IT helpdesk support. You gotta pay the bills somehow…
congrats!!! luks like it worked!!! the whole idea reminds me of old cartoons!!!
Very nicely done. Congrats! Your facial expressions are priceless.
Hilarious! Loved your appeal!!
i LOVE this, and you have just been added to my (short) list of blogs that i follow. congrats on a very successful campaign!
thegroundofmyheart.com
Haha you are so funny and cute. I didn’t know we can appeal to WordPress to put us on freshly pressed. Lol
That was a very creative and fun post:) Congrats!
This was great! Thanks for the laugh, and congrats.
Wow I needed a laugh this morning! Apparently WordPress got the message. Cool points for creative marketing!
Genius. It is a shame it won´t work again for me…you had to come up with the idea and be the first…oh, well…such is life.
This is fabulous! I am glad to have discovered you! (Should I edit out one of the exclamation points?)
AWESOME! A fantastic idea — and it worked! I like the photo of you editing the text. Great to see another English major! And you caught a big fish! Sweet!
Great job! Just goes to show you that if you ask, you can receive! Will carry that lesson with me today.
Thanks!
Aw, so cool. I love the creative effort you put into this 🙂 You deserve the freshly pressed. Congrats!
This made my week! WordPress got it right by featuring you on Freshly Pressed. I’m excited to read about your future adventures. 🙂
This is brilliant!
soooooooo cute 🙂
This just made my morning! I love it!
Very clever – and congrats on (most likely) hitting 10,000 by now!
Very cute, and congrats! Alaska sounds like so much fun, much better than Florida… Lol.
most innovative way i have ever seen. love your expressions!
Perfect! I laughed all the way through this!
Shit, this is awesome!
Good work, nice to see you on FP. Definitely caught my eye 🙂
I love it! And congrats — it worked!
You got my vote too! Good Job!
Not only did you make it, you provided the best Freshly Pressed post ever. 😀
I LOVE IT! Yes, I was shouting! Going to take a look around at what you do!
Just joined the community and yours is the very first blog I’ve checked out from Freshly Pressed. Congrats on the accomplishment! Hope it contributes to your chances of becoming a pleasant old person 🙂
Great, never read you but now I feel like I must. Glad you made the cut ..lol…
Haha, I loved this! So original. I’m glad wordpress listened up. =)
You totally deserved to feature on FP with this article 🙂 Well done.
I LOVE this … you must be an entrepreneur … thinking outside the box! I have shared it on my blog and hope it inspires those in my area too …great job! ;-D
Go girl. Very funny….
Love from Norway
Brilliant! (I’m jealous!) I wish WordPress would go back and look at old posts. (I know there would have to be an army of people to do this.) Because some of my best posts got missed and I know I can write posts as good as those in the future, but what are the chances that my great posts get seen? I mean what if the WordPress readers have been reading my posts when they are pedantic at best. Blast.
Maybe WordPress should write a blog about the odds of a post getting picked from the fray in order to give a me a little perspective and keep me from feeling disappointed that it’s never been me.
Congrats.
Crystal
Thanks for making me laugh – awesome and clever!!
THIS IS THE BEST!!!! YOU HAVE SINGLE HANDEDLY MADE MY DAY!!!! I was all smiles as I read your post.
You see I have a five years old son who is Autistic. Most days are good, but for some reason today it’s been all about having melt-downs after meltdowns in the supermarket, pharmacy and all hell broke loosewhen he asked for Ferro Rocher chocolate ball (the coconut covered ones) and I said no.
Thanks for the post and congrats on FP.
http://jacquirose17.wordpress.com (Autism through poems as seen thru the eyes of my son).
Awesome! Just awesome!
Well done!
Well played Liz… well played. 🙂
hahaha. Very clever!
Awesome!!
I laughed. Quite worthy of FP. I wonder if I could make them some cookies.
Congrats! Your appeal has been granted. 🙂
LOL… exactly how I feel! What’s up with all the popular peeps. Us normals have something to say. Totally cool idea! Big CONGRATS!
Way to go, woman! You did what I always wanted to do. You deserve every hit you get on this blog today!
You’re awesome! I was grinning the entire way through reading this. Congrats!!
lol.. really cool post.. i have thought about making a campaign as well to be freshly pressed, you beat me to it and yours is pretty amazing.. mine sucked.. 😀
good idea!and it worked!=)
This was really cute! Congrats that you made FP!
Well Done ! Asking for what you want = results… Theory proven True !
So Cute! So Fun! So Creative! Congrats on making freshly pressed!
I’ve been trying to appeal to them for awhile and it never works….
Way to go!
Freaking HILARIOUS! I’m fun-employed too (glad to have something else to call it than “total loser”.
Keep it up.
Suzanne
I love the idea, how you used the white board and pictures to get your message out.
Someday I hope to be like you thinking outside the box to reach my goals.
Rock On
Tim
Great Blog Idea! I’m going to steal this…. maybe even make it into an animated GIF…. yeah that’s the ticket.
Keep up the great work.
I love this! Made me laugh! Good luck! 🙂
Loved it!! It was great. I’m new to WP so I see I def have to bring my A-Game to get on FP. You’ve inspired me to keep writing reguarly. I hope to see 10K hits….one day. : ) Thank you!
That is hilarious… and now I miss Alaska. I hope your happy.
Congrats! Love your plea to Word Press!
This is the smartest post I have seen so far. I am glad it caught WordPress’ attention. Actually, I tried the more conventional route to get Freshly Pressed. I submitted three of my posts to the editor. Boring, I know, but it worked in April when I was Freshly Pressed. Congratulations!!! (Too many exclamation points?)
Definitely not too many exclamation points! 😉 Submissions to the editor, good call! Glad it worked and you made it on FP as well.
Found you via Freshly Pressed and I am insanely jealous!!! Loved this post. Super cute and creative. Congrats!!
This was awesome. Following you now…
Liz, what an awesome post. I always wonder why I never get FP and so many crappy posts do…WTF!! I guess I’m just jealous.
Really, why did you not get featured for over three years? Some people get posted their first month! With a crap article!
This is just so creative. You’ll probably get 1000 comments, and will deserve every one! Congrats…
Thanks for your support, Joe! I have no idea how people get on FP, I’ve tried analyzing it for clues, but ultimately settled for a little fun with a camera and a whiteboard on a Thursday afternoon. Good luck with your blog!
Haha, loved your post. Now maybe you can talk to your new friends at WordPress and get me on Freshly Pressed!
Props, girl!
so i guess this is what i have to do to get EMBRACE YOU on freshly pressed…so cool. Congrats to finally getting there! your hard work paid off.
English degree ftw! Thoroughly enjoyed reading this FP, congrats!!
I super love this post. You are so cute! 🙂 Good job in finally landing on the Freshly Pressed at last 🙂
Fantastic! I’m glad it worked. Your post grabbed my attention as soon as I looked at FP. Well done.
So…. I just did a google search for photos of “the enchantments” posted in the last week and what shows up but your blog talking about making your ex-boyfriend jealous. AWESOME!
Ok, that’s seriously hilarious. Are you going to hike the Enchantments soon?
Yah, I will be up there from Thursday – Sunday next week. We have a core permit. Just flipped through your Flickr stream from your hike last weekend. Looked amazing, loved the silhouettes between the rocks. Want to have lunch on Monday and walk me through your packing list?
Shoot me a text, its too hard to find this comment thread among the thousands of others.
I’m not going to read every single one of those comments — this is so freaking BRILLIANT and FUUUUNNNNYYY!!! And you made my day!! Yippee for you!!!
This is so funny and SO cute! Congrats on getting on it! 😀
That’s hysterical! So creative. I might have to steal your idea just to get myself freshly pressed. 😉 Thanks for the laughs!
Great campaign! The first picture caught my attention and the next thing that caught my attention is the quote on the banner it’s so true. That’s what I love about adventures, you learn something from every new experience. Congratulations on the 10,000 hits. Am going to start reading about your adventures now 🙂
Yay!! It worked!! Congratulations on FINALLY being Freshly Pressed! 😀
By the way, absolutely LOVED this post!
must have worked ..they listen now hehe
You made it! Hahaha, yay! I trust your family’s proud. I just met a guy earlier this morning who handed me a business card – his title read “Fun Employed Founder and Director” – LOL
So does that mean that the “Fun Employed Founder and Director” is actually my boss right now? I should probably check-in with him!
Yay, you’re on Freshly Pressed! This post is so funny! But you may inspire copy cats to do the same so they can get on FP as well.
Don’t do it, people! Hard work always pays off!
Okay, I didn’t know what it was going to be like seeing an appeal to WordPress… but this was really cute and funny. Congrats! I’m going to check out the rest of your blog now, as I too have been fishing in Alaska 🙂
Hilarious post! And fun blog!
How clever!! Congrats on being freshly pressed 🙂
Too cute! Congrats on being FP! 😀
Funny, I tried the same thing a couple of months back and couldn’t get WordPress to look at my blog. Good job though.
Lol. love the idea.
What’s that old saying? “It can’t hurt to ask.” Good for you…and very cute!
LOL. Cute! :))
Awesome…wish I had the idea first. 😉 Congrats!
That’s all it takes?!?! Dammit. I’ve been doing it wrong.
Is that all it takes? And here I have been writing funny, sarcastic and witty articles based on real news items. I guess I’ll go buy a whiteboard tomorrow.
http://lastexittoreality.wordpress.com/
Back to basics!
I guess…. I suppose I should write a story on how amazing wordpress is and how it changed my life!
Fun!
Cool post (hey, it looked like it worked, congrats for being on FP!)
http://www.thecameraangle.wordpress.com
Totally adorable post! 🙂 Congratulations on getting your plea heard and being Freshly Pressed finally, after a long wait of 3 1/2 years! 😀
Fantastic job! You had me laughing the whole way through. Congrats on getting Freshly Pressed 🙂
Lovely …. congratulations…just had to add to your stats!
Congratulations! This is so funny. 🙂
I tried to find a subscribe button/window, so I just checked “Notify me of new posts via email.”
Love it! Especially the “fun-employed” part. I know your pain…
Nice blog!
Very cool post! I live in Washington state and am “fun-employed” myself–with a degree in English and amazing editing abilities:) Alas, my blog is only 5 months old, so I will have to wait awhile for my 10,000 hits and my own plea to be “Freshly Pressed.”
Very nice blog!!
Congrats! The comma part was brilliant. I’m also glad to see that I’m not the only one who names their car. Mine’s Princess Leia. it is, after all, a Toyota. (ba-dum-psh).
So cute!!! Amazed at why your blog didn’t make it FP before~
Hope to learn from your creativity!
So cute!!! Amazed at why your blog didn’t make it to FP before~
Hope to learn from your creativity!
Awesome. Very creative, and congratulations! I found you via Freshly Pressed!!
ugh.. Grammatical error in my previous comment.. killed me.. T__T
Excellent post and I really liked the way you have chosen to express. Very nice. 🙂
nice…wish I could get on freshly pressed too! been blogging my daily adventures across the USA for a year!
hilarious.
I would have never thought of this. I think my blog is good, too, Please, WordPress, Fresh Press mine, too. Connie
http://7thandvine.wordpress.com/
First…Congrats. That is one of the best posts I’ve seen since I started my blog. Very funny…great job, that was awesome.
The best Freshly Pressed blogged I’ve ever seen, well done.
Brilliant! I hope your page views go through the roof!
P.S. The ex-boyfriends didn’t deserve you!
Way to go, Liz. This made my day!
Absolutely hilarious post. Love this. hahaha
That was just brilliant. Well done.
Totally worked! That’s awesome!
So creative. I just love all your fun facial expressions! Congratulations on being a FP choice!
It is totally a dream of mine to someday be on FP. Nicely done, quite hilarious. I bet your stats are EXPLODING!
Congrats!! Love the approach – inspiring to a new blogger (and writing teacher) like me.
http://whatstrueformetodayis.wordpress.com/
Seriously, well done!
At first I thought, oh, how lame, just ask for FP and you get it? Then I checked out your post, and you won me over! This totally deserves the status it asked for.
Congratulations! This was one of the best FP’d I have ever seen. Brilliant.
This is awesome. The most creative post I’ve seen so far! Feel free to edit my grammar 😉
This is so cool! Why didn’t I think of this? But then, I blog about makeup, so no one wants to read about that. LOL.
Congrats, Liz! 🙂
This is completely adorable! Congratulations on your Freshly Pressed screen debut, with admiration from one English major (Oberlin) to another. — Marci Rich, aka The Midlife Second Wife
This is the cutest blog post ever!!! I love it! Now I have to go read your other posts! (P.s. this will bump you over 10,000 for sure!!)
What a delightful hoot! Total, creative genius – it worked! May your blogging days be long and fruitful.
It’s just like how Dumbledore said to Harry that those who ask for help will receive it. I imagine the Freshly Pressed people are ardent fans of Dumbledore’s advice since you got what you asked for.
Very cute and adorable and I am not being sarcastic…good luck on your “freshly pressed” stasis ..keep up the good work and much success
Love it, love it! I am still smiling! Love it!
AWESOME. I enjoyed this.
Liz – I am so glad you insisted on showing up topside. What a tremendous encouragement your post is. I really appreciate your creativity. Best to you in all your endeavors. God bless.
Genius. Entertaining, hysterical, genius. 🙂
This is awesome! Loved the post… 🙂
I certainly hope you’ve exceeded 10,000 by now! :o)
Inspiring, well done!
What a unique and well-executed idea.
This is so charming and very well done! LOL. Congrats on being freshly pressed! 🙂
Brilliant, well done! I love that you edited and added the comma!
Interesting. =)
Wow, very cool! Loved your post!
This is awesome in so many ways. Patience pays off, yes? And of course having legions of loyal supporters.
haha love the post, well done, a classic
Very sneaky…………..I love it!!
Brilliant.
Awesome!
hahahahahahahaahahahaahahahahahahaha! I love your facial expressions- and that comma correction? Hilarious. 🙂
This is the only one of your blogs I’ve read but am prepared to dive in and enjoy based on what I’ve just seen. Love the idea. Can I steal it? I’ve only been blogging for about a month, have maybe 50 hits and 3 followers. But I’m 63 years old. I may not have three and a half years to wait to hit the big time.
That was the most brilliant idea i have seen on a blog in a while. Congratulations, that was genius and it worked.
hahaha love this! Glad to see you were freshly pressed. 😉 GREAT JOB!
Very creative and funny – congrats for getting FP’ed!
Super Creative -:) You deserve to be pressed. One of the most enjoyable post’s I’ve read in a long time.
As an editor, I’d just like to say: great comma insertion. 😉 I’ll add to the praise, too. Very clever post!
Love it! You are a funny lady! I made freshly pressed yesterday for the first time and it made my year!! So I know you must be extremely happy right now! Enjoy every moment, you deserve it!
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Ha, glad to know I’m not the only one who is ridiculously excited by FP! Glad yours made it too 🙂
Hahahahaha 🙂 This made me laugh so hard. Seriously.
Love this! And congrats on (finally) being freshly pressed!
Hahaha! Now I wonder how many wordpressers actually do shameless plugging to be on freshly press. This oughtta be the best and most convincing one.
It’s the dream of us all!! Excellent campaign! Very funny! Good luck to you!
Great post.. It kept me all smiles from the first bit till the last.
Congratulations. You got what you asked for. =)
Congrats on freshly pressed! Your appeal was very catchy! Best of luck!
Very creative congrulations!
HAHA! thanks for making morning 🙂
i meant MY morning 🙂
So I’m thinking you may have leaped past your 10,000 hits mark…possibly 10,000 just on this post? Inquiring minds want to know. Congrats on getting freshly pressed!
5,000 hits today. Unbelievable!
Awesome, I LOVE IT!
After 3.5 years you finally did what you should have done all along – make an appeal, lol. Well done…I’m truly inspired (and hope that I’ll be FP’ed someday).
Heyyyy super funny and inspirational in a way 😉 (Patience pays off…..)
I am sure you are on the FP, not because you appealed for it, but every bit of your post deserves to be on the top of the site. Your photos and the expressions are classy.
Congratulation for being on the FP and congratulationd for 10000 hits…. Good luck….
Liz –
Bravo! Welcome to the front page my friend!
– Ryan
Congratulations! Icecream is a treat – so too is your blog, so I’m awarding you the icecream award.
No obligation to do anything except accept it. Pass it on at any time if you like.
I got one today, but hadn’t heard of it before. I think you deserve it!
Congratulations to you!
very creative!! good job – you’ve hit the jackpot!
Excellent blog. I love te “attention getter” and it obviously worked. I have never been to Alaska, but like to imagine being in the mountains or the wilderness. I love the views, the fishing and the hunting. I will be following your blog from now on.
Thank you and God bless.
Lol you had me at “fun-employed”
This is so clever! I love it! Congratulations! 😀
Absolutely brilliant! And hilarious! You did say EX-boyfriends right?
This post just put a smile on my face and it made me laugh lol! Congrats, you’ve just won a new follower 😀
Really cute and creative idea — and rock on, my fellow English major!
This is by far one of the best and most amusing posts I’ve seen, good job! I’m so happy wordpress caved in (;
I almost peed my pants laughing as I read your post, Liz! So unique! I also wonder why there are repeats on freshly pressed…and yet, I’m just NOT getting posted. I’ve been blogging since 2005, was with Windows Live Spaces and then got ‘transported’ to Word Press, so, it was like taking baby steps all over again. (I lost all of my photo albums to boot…grrrr). And…heck if I know if my former ‘hits’ and statistics got transferred here. Long story-short, your approach brought humour to the situation. I loved your post! And now I’m going to go and see what else you have written about. Have a beautiful autumn!
Perhaps there is a book in the making of blogger woes such as yours! Hmm . . .
ha! i really enjoyed that. you reached your goal in style.
Congratulations! It worked for you!!!
I’ll never be ‘Pressed’ but I’m happy to have seen YOURS~!! You are full of energy & this is a delight!
Awesome!
haha… hilarious! you have a new follower 🙂
Cute! I loved this post! And Congrats for making it to FP!!!!
I LOVED the photos, the expressions, the title, EVERYTHING!!! Simply WOW!
I wish someday, I make it to there too!
oh gosh, that’s funny.
cool
Hey, that’s so cool 😀
And it worked!
Wicked post! Made me laugh – just what i needed 😀
Wish I’d thought of it first. Great post. Hat tip to the camera person.
I second you!
Just awesome!
omg! that was the best post I’ve ever read! Fantastic job girl. I don’t even know you and I am proud of you! And You did it, you are the first post on fp!-that should come with an award right? lol-anyway congratz, you earned it with this original idea!
This is one of the best… hummm… let me rephrase that: this is THE best and funniest blog post I have ever come across. Bravo to you!!! I love it and I’m sharing…
i love this, congrats on making it onto FP! 😀
When you really, really want something you need to ask loud and clear… she asked and WordPress listened… sweet!
i have been trying to do this myself. I run a music/classic rock blog called the wild heart and I have 4,000 hits and I have been up and running since late january. They didn’t even choose my post about Stevie Nicks’s latest album, her concert which I attended, or my how to guesstimate your vinyl. Blarg! WordPress, please pick mine too!
btw mine would go: Dear wordpress,
I love your blogging/web design platform. I live and die by you at work and at home. However, I think you are missing one thing from your freshly pressed site: me; aka “The wild heart.”
So here is a list of things that qualify me:
-I write compelling content: I have a few examples for my compelling content that you may want to look at which include my letter to mtv on its 30th anniversary, why klol should return to Houston airwaves, ANY of my stevie nicks/fleetwood mac articles (they all seem to do VERY well for some reason so I keep covering her – people love Stevie apparently!), me getting pulled over and my plea for autobahns within Houston.
-I blog nearly every single day.
-my ratings have been down a bit lately sure. But that is because I changed my domain! Also I havent covered any coverbands lately. However, I do have 4 subscribers and 22 facebook fans counting me. Also people like my stuff on facebook quite often.
-I edit my own stuff. I’m a journalist what do you expect?
So wordpress please help me!
love christina!
fun pics
It is also a dream for me to be on FP
Good luck for me 🙂
You are damn expressive !!!
I am so excited that I actually know you! Maybe, through our friendship, my ex-boyfriends will regret not being with me, too!
(I think you are very funny and precious and smart, too! Congrats!)
Good job! You’ve made it on FP. I enjoyed your post.
Nice and cool and different. WordPress was actually forced to think if this girl is been neglected this time, she would have started a campaign against WP!!
Very cute.
Great post, the style is unique!
This is brilliant, I love it 🙂
Congrats, see it can be the littlest voice that makes a loud rumble!
Cute and brilliant
I red many blogs here in wordpress and I found your blog as one of the best. I like this post.Really much! Keep writing.
http://letscriticize.wordpress.com
Perfection. I wonder the same thing.
This is awesome. Nice job! I’m glad they finally picked your blog!
WOOOOOO YOU’RE ON FRESH PRESSED!!!
YEAHHHHHH!
CONGRATS.
Seriously, this is adorable. Do you live in Alaska? I used to live in Alaska.
I miss Alaska.
I lived in Alaska for the last year and recently returned to Seattle. I was in Sitka, where in AK did you live?
I love this! Congrats!
Nicely done. It looks like you had a lot of fun making this. It sure made me laugh – especially the bit about editing your posts.
Good on ya.
Wow! What a way to get featured onto Freshly Pressed. 😀
Bravo, well done. Played for and got!
A very creative post and it worked! Congrats 🙂
– lisaalinh.WordPress.com
You go, girl! I’ve only been blogging for 3 1/2 weeks and was starting to lose hope. It looks like I have a long way to go. Thanks for the inspiration!
Um, spectacular much? Yes please!
Well done!
Congratulations! And this was a great idea.
lol… too funny!
You are my hero!
Love your creativity, girl.
🙂 cheers!
Nice photos!
Super cute idea 🙂 well executed as well. Congrats!
Super cute way of grabbing some apparent much needed attention lol congrats
I ❤ creativity and this is the definition of it. Very nice!
Good for you! This post made me smile! And gave me new blog to follow.
More than Anything, I like your espressions! 🙂
I can almost never hide what I’m thinking or feeling from appearing on my face. I’m glad it came in handy at least once!
aww I loved your post! I read it to my boyfriend over the phone and we both had a good laugh! 😀
Adorable!!! You def. know how to get WP’s attention. I know your stats have gone through the roof.
Congrats!!!
Smooches
I can bet that this post was the MOST hilarious and innovative post, I have ever seen on wordpress. One thing is for sure now I am following your blog….
This is definitely the first witty post I ever read here in FP! =)) Congratz! You made it! Awesome! 🙂
I like this – it is not aggressive way of protesting. 🙂 I think you deserved it for taking your time and doing the whole effort! And so I found you – at FP-Site 😀
Good work!
p.s. and now i am going to check your blog 😀
Glad this worked for you …. some of the FP’d people have only been blogging for only a month or two at most! Great post too!
Very clever, well done!
Liz! You have a great great blog, I absolutely love it! I’m a longtime writer, recent blogger… my blog is Melissa’s 100 List if you want to check it out. I also work for a website, I’d love to run an idea by you- you can email me at melissa@empirecovers.com if you’d be interested in getting some free stuff for Joey!
Very clever. Excellent job and I loved every clip of photo you used. 🙂 Congrats on your feature on FP!
Brilliant!!! I had fun reading this!!! Keep up the good work 🙂 i also aspire to be ‘freshly pressed’ one day!!
That was fun! Glad it was featured 🙂
I especially liked the editing part! ha!
That was awesome! I bet you’re gonna get some writers copying that after your Freshly Pressed. Great idea…and it worked!
HAHA! Great post and congratulations on getting on freshly pressed lol
A clever, cute and creative way to say what you want. And it worked! Congrats! Loved this post of yours. Here’s to more great posts and future features on Freshly Pressed. Have an awesome day, you fun-employed person. (Do my comments need editing?)
Too many comments to edit, so don’t worry, I won’t be tackling them for grammar, spelling, or punctuation!
I made a comment (actually more than one as there was a glitch) here on your post the other day and lamented that I had been blogging for 2.5 years and almost at 68,000 hits and hadn’t made FP. Well, today I made it! I wonder if they read comments.
Wow, 10,000 hits, that’s great and a huge amount of comments. I know I won’t go nearly that high but I’m excited to have made the bigtime. This is the post I made it on and it’s over a month old now.
I just loved how you put all those signs down and went hiking in the mountains with a tripod, then took the picture of yourself, and then came back! I’m guessing from the chairs that you went to the Adirondacks? I wouldn’t have had the guts to do that, or any of the other gross internal body parts. It was brilliant!
Well they are Adirondack chairs, but I’m not in the Adirondacks! Washington, actually. And yes, travel has just gotten so easy these days, amazing how that works 😉
Brilliant. Like literally, brilliant.
Fantastic. And you are cute as a button. And clever. Yay you. 😉
Off to check out some of your other stuff.
Oh, sheer genius. It worked! Congratulations!
Excellent idea. Glad it worked for you and I enjoyed following your reasoning.
And I was wondering how to hit “Freshly Pressed”!!
“Congratulations”! I know your fingers were wore out,but you surely enjoyed the comments.
Terrific move, congratulations on a very effective approach! You might want to post that resume; I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that you’ve been contacted for a new job — marketing, advertising, something along those lines.
Apparently, the squeaky wheel got the grease! Congrats on being Freshly Pressed, this was a very creative and well-thought out post.
Cute!!!!!
Outstandingly helpful appreciate it, It is my opinion your current readers could quite possibly want a whole lot more well written articles like this keep up the excellent effort.
Congrats!
Wow… 600 some odd likes over the course of, what, a week? Makes your 10,000 views over 3 1/2 years feel a little wimpy, doesn’t it?
Super cute idea! Congratulations on being ‘freshly pressed’!!!!
Ha! Brilliant.
Hahahaha!!! this post is very humorous!! I also want to be featured in FP, but I guess I’m not as creative as you are (“fun-employed”) lols.. And I like Auntie Christy being the first who comment. haha.. Pls do continue to make us laugh..
Congratulations!!! I’ll subscribe indeed.
“Fun-employed” 🙂 Love it!
Is funny, this blog-post. I especially like the ones where you edited the board. Don’t be disheartened about your English degree not getting you exciting jobs right away; I have an English degree from 1977 and have been employed in factory or retail work pretty much since graduating. I find the degree helpful when doing crosswords at break time and such. It’s as least as good a degree to have as, say, Art History or Philosophy.