First off – I want to welcome all the new people that have started following my blog and thank all my blogging friends that kept encouraging me – even when I’d whine “Will I EVER become Freshly Pressed???” Yes, I’m a lamenter at times..
Also a big THANK YOU to the Freshly Pressed people – I’m honored and completely floored that my post Doublplusungood was deemed ‘press-able’. I have been floating around on a cloud since Wednesday. It must be great to have a job where you make 10 people a day overjoyed!
So anyway, this Friday has been amazing and crazy ~ I hope I was able to respond to everyone’s comments. The outpouring of kindness made my heart (and probably my head) swell with joy (and possibly ‘ego’).
It’s 10PM – my brain is mush and all the new nifty words I’ve been reading about are hiding in my memory. They’ll come out tomorrow. But for now – my clever is all gone…however, my feelings of gratitude for everyone that visits and reads my work are more than I can express.
Time for sleep ~ Saturday (the day you’ll read this) is my husband’s birthday – HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SCOTT!! I have big weekend of baking and parties…WHOO HOO!!!
So I would like to leave you with this song by The White Stripes
The Mercenary Researcher 
Congratulations!! I’m listening to the song, before I travel over to the actual post itself to catch up on what everyone else is talking about! Wow, and just a month ago? I’d still be on the high if I were you!
It’s crazy – I still get people going to that posting – and I’m pretty ecstatic!! Thank you ~ hope you enjoyed the song!
Congratulations. It is always good to be freshly pressed. 🙂
Thank you – I gotta agree with you on that one! I’m still excited
Really happy for you, and yeah, I knew you even longer. Tee hee. But Karen knew you longest, so I won’t gloat too much.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, HEY, hey, HEY HEY HEY HEY!
Hey, that could be my favorite word. That and awesome. And catapult and cantankerous and persnickety and luscious and serene and sassafras and Farkle and and and….
Farkle… hee hee…
Thank you! I love the word “HEY!” too 🙂
Yes, Karen has known me since I was just a wee lass in high school…
Congrats! You’ve arrived. 😀
Hee hee….Whoo hoo….
Double plus well done on being Freshly Pressed.
Danke Curmudgeon!
Great work, my old friend! Sorry i don’t have more time to visit, but keep up the good – and Pressable – work!
Thank you – I can’t imagine how people with HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS of followers can even keep up with it all – thanks or coming!!
So happy you got pressed! Very well deserved 🙂
Thanks Jen – I’m still amazed!
Finally got over here . . . WOOT. Always glad to see another librarian get some! Attention. Of course. Good job.
Thank you – it’s been fun – but CRAZY …. Librarians like some, eh?
Hmmm. For some reason I want to watch Napoleon Dynamite now. I lie. I always want to watch Napoleon Dynamite. That FP badge looks great on your blog!
Thanks –
I love that movie every time I watch it and I always forget how much I love it until I watch it again!
Congrats again! It’s funny because I wish there were some other way to say it, but I can’t think of anything… Back to the thesaurus I go.
BTW, did Jack Johnson cover White Stipes or vice versa? Hmmmmm.
Hmm…I know not – I’ve only just started listening to The White Stripes~
And thank you!!!
I’m glad I got into the cool club before you were made (officially) famous. I think we all knew it was going to happen. You are too hip to just pass by.
Ha! HARDLY… you all are way cooler – I’m just cool by association!
Love your taste in music, Denise, even if it’s not mine. And I, too, knew you when…FP is quite the wild ride, isn’t it? Fortunately, when mine was posted I was off work for the day so I had the time to answer all those comments. Didn’t sleep that well the night before or after, however – just too jazzed!
I actually thought – YIKES, I need to take the day off!
Thanks – I’m pretty sure most people don’t have the same taste in music – but there’s so much of it – that we can all love our own music and appreciate what others love too!
Thank you!
Congrats! I really like that song too. It reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite.
thanks! I love that song too
I was so happy to see you up there. And I agree with rossmurray, I’m happy to have known you before you got famous!
Happy to have known YOU as well ~ Thanks!
I feel like such a hipster: “Yeah, I was, like, so-o-o-o-o following Mercenary Researcher before it was cool, even though she thought I was a girl.”
Ha ha – you are a hipster – rosemary…
Ha! I feel like saying the same thing! Oh god hipsters…
But serious congrats Denise!!
Thanks – hipster away ~