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Getaclewis

I'm a ghostwriter and book editor - there are a lot of amazing and inspirational stories that deserve and need to be told... so I help shape and polish the writing first!

I'm a mom of two teenagers and the wife of an amazing man and, at heart, a loner who doesn't like to be alone. Some days, I want to jump on the bed and laugh joyously and, other times, I can barely suppress the temptation to crawl under the bed and hide from the world. Bi-polar? Nope... just a girl!...

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Atwitter about Twitter

So I’ve been following the skirt!team’s advance through Texas via their Twitter comments on the skirt! home page and they are cracking me up. Somehow their sporadic, zany updates are bringing me right alongside them on their madcap trip to expansion...

Twitter? What the heck is Twitter?

Well I’d heard of it, sure, but figured it was yet another search engine or social networking site or some such. I had no idea that it was MADE for me, the immediate-gratification guru. Evidently, it’s just snippets, soundbites of life, chopped up grape bits for baby consumption. I mean c’mon, who doesn’t have time to read 140 random characters or less about someone’s day?

Yes, I know it’s just a bit more blah blah blah in our already oversaturated tech lives, but I love it! There’s just something about peering into the minutiae of Someone I Admire’s brain stem ramblings that intrigues me and helps me feel I know them that tiny bit more.

I guess you could say I, too, am all atwitter about this new discovery.

I’ve only watched the introductory video on the twitter.com site and so I have no idea whether, in function, it’s something I’ll actually use. I mean who ARE those folks out there that are supposedly interested in whether I’m cleaning out the rabbit cage or shaving my legs or sitting on my couch, wrestling with my choice between stumbling toward a blog posting (since this IS Monday, after all, and I have no idea yet what I’d like to write) or shuffling through the offerings on my big screen TV?

(I’ve already investigated and discovered that, though it was showing on the pay-per-view in my Chicago hotel room last week, “Sex and the City- The Movie” is not, in fact, on DirecTV’s PPV, yet.

Dang. Rather than shell out $12.99 for a hotel viewing, I waited to see it in my pj’s on my own leather splat mat… um… sofa. I’m in said pj’s, though it’s nearly noon. I could, in fact, pop popcorn and cozy up for some belated girl time.

Yesterday was definitely NOT about pampering myself. I helped my husband and friends tear down an old barn, for crying out loud, so we could salvage the wood for our “new” cabin and my hands are properly scuffed up and my back is weary and I am SAVORING the emptiness of our big-city house right now and its air conditioning and cushy furniture and running water… and at-a-push-of-a-button easy programming… and now my chick flick is not heeeeeeeeeeeeere…

Dang. Where are my girlfriends when I need ‘em?)

How’s that for a truly long “But I digress…?”

I guess that’s the point of Twitter. I can say all that… or at least “Staring at plasma, willing Carrie Bradshaw and Big to appear” … and add all the road bumps of my day along the way… and see the same from my best buds’ life bites.

Anybody in my skirt!world wanna exchange day nibbles?

My url (does that make it a twitturl?) is http://twitter.com/getaclewis so, if you’re already Twittering, lemme know! J