Moving Forward

[avphibes]

 There comes a time when the only thing to do is throw out your old life and start fresh.

Several years back, my whole fake-famous,/attention-whore schtick turned on me and suddenly the idea of people out there in the world and internetland knowing about me, combined with the fact that so much of my persona was a fragile maquette constructed to

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[rivetpepsquad]

Oh gee, look who got caught up in stupid shit and failed to notice your last entry :)

I resonate lots with this post, lady. Also with being yet another LJ-ing grandma. Sigh.

[avphibes]

I know, right? I feel so silly telling people "seriously, all the cool people were on lj 8 years ago!"

[rivetpepsquad]

FB is.....well, I'm on it, to catch up with people, but it's just not doing it for me.

I've always enjoyed good writers on el jay, and you have always been one of them. No matter what kind of shenanigans you were into.

[beeswing]

Looking forward to reading! Life goes on; we grow up...

Glad to have you back!

[shoutingboy]

Looking forward to swapping Cranium war stories.

[esjay]

I second! I wish I thought to say that first :)

I found your lj through your artwork and it was a a double-feature that I enjoyed your writing too (loved the epic commentary on "Twilight"). I'm excited to see what evolves from all this. LJ certainly isn't in its heyday anymore, but some of us still stick around :)

[mediavixen]

I am proud of you.
I will be 35 in October and have been having this debate with myself for awhile.
When is it time to "grow up" and stop caring about being "cool".
Now sounds like a good time.

I have always thought you were cool.
I like that your recent posts are like "Hey, here's me in jeans and no makeup with my boyfriend on vacation...we like to eat delicious food"
Not "Here's me with pink hair in an awesome vintage dress and listen to my adventures in meeting hot dudes at a rockabilly show"

That was AV PHIBES the personality...the character you played for a long time.

The girl in the t shirt and jeans who loves her cat and her boyfriend and has real day to day issues...that's Alia.
and I like her a lot.

So, welcome to LJ Alia.
I look forward to hearing from you.

xo-
Bex

[avphibes]

Yeah, the hardest part of life sometimes is just figuring out what you want.

It has helped that Richard is not really into scenester tomfoolery. I remember when we started going out, I'd take him to things and it would be like:

Richard: Why are we here?
Me: Because it gives me "cred."
Richard: What do you need "cred" for?
Me: Uh.......

"yes, this!" say the girl in (painfully uncool) slovenia

[olamina]

ha ha. i need to just print up some "Team Richard" shirts. long overdue project.