Hi, my name is HonieBriggs. I was Freshly Pressed for Confessions of a Constant Commenter. It’s been one week since I was famous.
Even though I am healthy enough to engage new followers, it’s only fair that I admit to experiencing a little performance anxiety when over one hundred new followers appeared after my post was featured on Freshly Pressed. It may be normal to ask if I’m blogger enough to keep them satisfied, but I’m at an age when I know what I’m made of and it didn’t occur to me that stiff competition might make it harder to focus on the task at hand. Readers do have thousands of other blogs from which to choose. So, lying down on the job is not an option.
I began to notice getting up in the morning was more difficult than usual. I tried to convince myself it was all in my head, but clearly it was time to take action. Procrastination only works if you have something else to do, and since my NaNoWriMo project has completely stalled and I can’t get anyone to buy into my idea of printable clothing, there’s only the laundry and blogging. I was about to give up my sanity altogether, fall prostrate on the sofa and watch episodes of Preppers on NatGeo when along came this exciting offer for mood enhancing blog bling that aroused my desire to stand and deliver.
Thanks to Freshly DePressed, now I know if my blog starts to go flat or if I experience a sudden loss of vision while trying to keep it up, I should seek immediate help from awesome bloggers who are ready to offer support. When the idea came along to join a support group for bloggers feeling Freshly DePressed, I knew the time was right.
***The Fine Print***An opportunity to guest post on Freshly DePressed is too good to pass up. Side effects may include awesomeness that won’t go away.What more could a blogger want when their 15 minutes of fame is over?
Honie – have you been taking freshly pressed performance enhancement drugs since?
Popping those suckers like M&Ms. You betcha! My calf muscles are huge.
Freshly Depressed, Love it! Mine’s *Post Traumatic Pressed Disorder* Definition coming soon…
Adam, We’d love for you to write a post for Freshly DePressed. Check out our home page for submission info and shoot your post to us when it’s complete. Bloggers everywhere will read about your experience and say to themselves, “Damn he’s awesome! I want to be awesome too.” Yours Truly, Freshly DePressed
Congrats on being FP! I found this post very “stimulating!”
Hopefully you’ll keep coming back for more!
wink wink 
Thanks! Ha, stimulating, Ha! I’m a little slow on the uptake, but I got it!
Loved this post!
Honie did a great job kicking things off for us!
My stats never recovered from being Freshly P’d a year ago. They always suck in comparison. Sigh.
Very funny post1
It’s so true – but are the stats where it’s really at?
Let me see how many hits I got today and then I’ll answer!
LOL – you should write a post for FDeP!
Strangely, I DID check my stats and they are high today — and I haven’t posted anything. Perhaps it is your reflected glory.
Oh – that must be it!
Wait — are you saying that folks reward me when I DON’T post? Hey, you don’t even know me!
Oh no – I was certain it was our reflected glory!
Have you ever wondered how WordPress Days are divided? It seems stats fall into the day before or after for some reason. It’s all a mystery and your stats are richly deserved – it must be your own reflected glory from that last awesome post!
There are so many things I don’t understand about WordPress. And about life. And about commenting when I can’t see the entire comment I’m responding to and I’m too tired to look further ….
I’ve been there – sorry for being so verbose.
No, no, no. Don’t be DePressedly-ish. I didn’t mean that. I just keep trying to answer comments in these WP bubbles — I lose the train of thought, the comment vanishes and I go mildly crazy. CraziER. That’s all I meant. You weren’t verbose. Or we both were. Or something. I’m hitting repl…
Who decided these bubbles should be too small to read the whole comment and why do they just disappear if your mouse moves the wrong way? It makes me crazy too.
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Have you been Freshly Pressed and been left feeling a little down. Check out Honie’s post on Freshly Depressed.
So maybe hiding out here in the weeds isn’t so bad after all. Although, this post further demonstrates why you were Freshly Pressed to begin with.
I can’t say that being FP’d didn’t thrill me; it did. In fact, it knocked my socks off. It left me wondering, what now? Is that it? The fun came and went. The end seemed a little premature. Thank you for the nice compliment.
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Always read the fine print. Enjoy!