Twittified

Are you on Twitter?  I'm finding how much I like it. I've just set up a separate account @samandcoffee65, to accompany my blog only new e-mail, samandcoffee65@Gmail and to better sort through and catagorize the endless realms of possible people, companies and organizations to follow. I've had a personal Twitter account for several years, personal in a sense in that it ties to organizations for my family, political or charitable sites, and I used a lot for my work, for pushing out advocacy agenda's.  My new job is very "neutral", apolitical, bi/multipartisan. I use the old account to follow people that are part of my everyday life, and while there might be crossover, there are distinctions. For this new account, while I will enter in a few hashtags on political issues to read the latest buzz, I'm not subscribing to those @samandcoffee65. I haven't ruled it out if I find relelvance to my blogging project.

How am I using this tool?  One, I'm trying to make sure I send my blog posts out via Twitter.  I like that I can give a few words of intro, and then the link appears. I've been following a lot of frugality feeds and cooking feeds. Most use the same option I am doing, with a brief statement and then the link to the more detailed post, news article, or magazine or web feature. I've also signed on to follow some bloggers via Twitter that I might not be interested in reading everyday, but depending on what they Tweet, I'll click the link to learn more. Some of these subjects are minimalism, entrepreneurship, and inspiration.  I like one guy Jesse Torres, @jstorres, while a bit hokey, he has multiple inspirational quotes, memes, and info graphs that give me a little pick me up during the day. I follow a whole bunch of accounts on London living, Angliphiles, relocating, and working from home all basically to help me keep my dreaming alive and active. I like knowing all the trendy, free and low cost , and new things to do in London on a weekends. I do also follow similar accounts for my own communities as well, in case you think I have gone off the edge, but do that with the other account.

There is a darker side of Twitter that a few I follow have found.  Like blogs, there are malicious trolls that just jump into the Twitter conversation to be rude or spark confrontation.I've been sucked in a little from time to time, but passively by favoring the original Tweet of the person being cyber bullied, or retweaeing or quoting them. Cyber world is a great place for bully's to hide, isn't it?

So what about you?  Who else is on Twitter?  If you are, give me a follow @samandcoffee65 and I will follow you back.  I won't even be hurt if you decide to unfollow me later, but trolls be gone. 

Life Happens When You're Making Other Plans

To paraphrase John Lennon-I planned and life kept on rolling. This was a week that both the hands on the clock and the pages of a joke a day calendar flew by me without so much as a wink. Soccer, school, car pools then work, family, sleep- not enough of the latter, filled my days. Not many words made it to the post this week but I did manage to get both a new e-mail and Twitter acount set up.  I needed to seperate out blog world and  personal world.  I was getting confused and mixing up messages. Apologies Julie at homefornow for sending you my kids soccer schedule when you asked about my pasta fagiole fake it recipe. I have found though updating Twitter and seperating  topics I follow that align with my blog goals around simplicity, intentionality, and frugality is keeping me challenged in thinking beyond my current daily grind.  Sam3kids needs to know if the soccer fields are rained out, the upcoming events at church, and the random thoughts of my friends and family, or topics I follow for work.  Samandcoffee65 needs to be inspired with tales of tiny house living, upcycling, creative culinary without the fuss,  entrepreneurialism, and minimalism.   If you do Twitter, come follow me and give me recommendations @samandcoffee65. I've already found some new voices I look forward to hearing.   Why Samandcoffee65? Well, I'm embracing my age and hitting the midcentury mark.  That's where the 65, the year of my birth, comes in. I'll end with another paraphrased quote from anonymous.  "Coffee and wine are like my life coaches.  Coffee says get up! You can do it.  Wine says, things will be better tomorrow." Here's a toast to the coffee side of me.