Comments on: Flossy, flossy http://electrolicious.com/2007/05/flossy_flossy Daily affirmations of a word mercenary Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:56:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: emily http://electrolicious.com/2007/05/flossy_flossy#comment-8016 emily Tue, 15 May 2007 18:35:44 +0000 #comment-8016 Work. You're an author, a writer. It only appears you have a lot of fun shit going on out there, Ariel. Especially to me, here in Iowa, SAHM, three kids. Traveling to BC, SF, simply LIVING in Seattle for god's sake provides great images of freedom, but not glamor. Your sprig of greens here to my right could be a metaphor for the grass being greener... Realizing people have the right to label me however they will without defending or explaining myself is a great power of confidence. p.s. I love reading your blog. Appreciate your writing style - what's it called in writing when you write like you talk? Checking your pictures. Work. You’re an author, a writer. It only appears you have a lot of fun shit going on out there, Ariel. Especially to me, here in Iowa, SAHM, three kids. Traveling to BC, SF, simply LIVING in Seattle for god’s sake provides great images of freedom, but not glamor. Your sprig of greens here to my right could be a metaphor for the grass being greener…

Realizing people have the right to label me however they will without defending or explaining myself is a great power of confidence.

p.s. I love reading your blog. Appreciate your writing style - what’s it called in writing when you write like you talk? Checking your pictures.

]]> By: rosie http://electrolicious.com/2007/05/flossy_flossy#comment-8017 rosie Tue, 15 May 2007 16:57:49 +0000 #comment-8017 I so hear you (re: comment above) - that's the most difficult thing about blogging for me. Based on a few paragraphs published online, people think they have you all figured out. It's like, you don't want to be all peaches and sunshine on the blog all the time, because that feels fake, but then the second you write about feeling shitty, everyone suddenly assumes you've gone deep into the depths of despair, and bring on the prozac! The ups and downs....that's just straight up LIFE. But I constantly feel like I have to justify myself too. I so hear you (re: comment above) - that’s the most difficult thing about blogging for me. Based on a few paragraphs published online, people think they have you all figured out. It’s like, you don’t want to be all peaches and sunshine on the blog all the time, because that feels fake, but then the second you write about feeling shitty, everyone suddenly assumes you’ve gone deep into the depths of despair, and bring on the prozac!

The ups and downs….that’s just straight up LIFE. But I constantly feel like I have to justify myself too.

]]> By: Ariel http://electrolicious.com/2007/05/flossy_flossy#comment-8018 Ariel Tue, 15 May 2007 03:15:14 +0000 #comment-8018 Heather, the motivation wasn't justifying myself -- it was more just calibrating other's projections about what my life is like, based on what they read on Electrolicious. I realized that since I only share the most positive aspects of my life, people get a slightly warped picture of it ... assuming that it's all good, when in actuality this spring has been incredibly difficult for me. There are a lot of things going on in my life that I don't write about on my blog, and since I only give people a positive keyhole into my life, I feel like sometimes I need to make sure people understand the dark realities beneath the self-promotional, publicly facing exterior that is this blog. Heather, the motivation wasn’t justifying myself — it was more just calibrating other’s projections about what my life is like, based on what they read on Electrolicious. I realized that since I only share the most positive aspects of my life, people get a slightly warped picture of it … assuming that it’s all good, when in actuality this spring has been incredibly difficult for me. There are a lot of things going on in my life that I don’t write about on my blog, and since I only give people a positive keyhole into my life, I feel like sometimes I need to make sure people understand the dark realities beneath the self-promotional, publicly facing exterior that is this blog.

]]> By: heather http://electrolicious.com/2007/05/flossy_flossy#comment-8019 heather Tue, 15 May 2007 03:09:32 +0000 #comment-8019 <p>i've always loved reading your blog, and will continue to do so.. </p> <p>but i am confused as to why you thought you had to justify yourself by making it clear that things are still difficult for you.. i know i would still respect you regardless - doing well and being successful is not a bad thing. you don't have to show that things are still "hard" for you to be a good person.</p> i’ve always loved reading your blog, and will continue to do so..

but i am confused as to why you thought you had to justify yourself by making it clear that things are still difficult for you.. i know i would still respect you regardless - doing well and being successful is not a bad thing. you don’t have to show that things are still “hard” for you to be a good person.

]]> By: Brodie http://electrolicious.com/2007/05/flossy_flossy#comment-8023 Brodie Mon, 14 May 2007 22:45:55 +0000 #comment-8023 First, great post. Moving in fact. The reason I have read your blog since, well, forever. I want to clarify one simple point. Glamorous wasn't a reference to your pocketbook or level of affluence. I've read along enough to note that isn't the case with you or your writing. It was more a relative comparison, I suppose. My life = not glamorous. Yours=more than mine. I read your blog because you two live an aspect of life that is not present in mine. Travel! Seattle! Hip Furniture! Book Authoring! Circus classes! Bali! Canada! (ok, maybe Canada doesn't need an exclamation mark...) Regardless of money and bling-bling, yours is a FUN life to read about. Maybe someday I'll start once again with my own blog, but until that time comes, I'll take a bit of vicarious thrill in the lives of some strangers up in the NW. First, great post. Moving in fact. The reason I have read your blog since, well, forever. I want to clarify one simple point. Glamorous wasn’t a reference to your pocketbook or level of affluence. I’ve read along enough to note that isn’t the case with you or your writing. It was more a relative comparison, I suppose. My life = not glamorous. Yours=more than mine. I read your blog because you two live an aspect of life that is not present in mine. Travel! Seattle! Hip Furniture! Book Authoring! Circus classes! Bali! Canada! (ok, maybe Canada doesn’t need an exclamation mark…) Regardless of money and bling-bling, yours is a FUN life to read about. Maybe someday I’ll start once again with my own blog, but until that time comes, I’ll take a bit of vicarious thrill in the lives of some strangers up in the NW.

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