Have you heard of Twitter? Are you on Twitter? We are - are you following us? Or following me? Or Ally or Jody?

I find Twitter to be a great way to share my thoughts, update everyone on my life, learn from others and as you can see, vent a little.

Rather than blog about my past two weeks of fun, I thought I’d post some of my tweets here instead - with explanations, since sometimes I can be a touch, um sarcastic. The #symbol indicates a thread that you are contributing to - but I often make up my own, as you will see. Can you tell that my kids went back to school this week? I may or may not be just a teeny bit excited.  And I might need to scale down my caffeine intake just a hair.

I’ll bet you can guess what kind of a summer I had with my newly minted public school 14 year old.  Freedom from polyester plaid jumpers, green knee socks and brown loafers escalated my life to an entirely NEW level of fun.

I have actually been to FIFTEEN back to school nights. Apparently going to back to school night is no indication of being able to count. I think, though, that I could lead back to school night in my sleep - and yet, I attend every year because I’m CONVINCED I’ll miss something.  And guess what…I never do.

Chores, chores, chores. Many of my tweets are about my kids and how mean I am to them. It never grows old.

I have NO idea who planned to throw a birthday party for my daughter at the same time as a baby shower for a friend - the day before school started. There actually was alcohol served - a delightful champagne punch, so classy - and yet, I did not imbibe due to the taking of migraine medication at said 12 year old birthday party.

I tweeted this from my van while sitting in the parking lot immediately after dismissal. (Of COURSE I do not text while driving.  Of course not.  Only in the parking lot.) You know that moment when everyone is so so so happy to see you and they all talk at once and everyone needs to tell you the MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER.  And then scream over each other? Yeah, this was that moment. Some days, it makes my ears bleed.

I think that this tweet is self explanatory. Also - UGH.

This, too, is self explanatory. I have a child with recently diagnosed learning differences, and I was dreading the first teacher email. Now that THAT’S out of the way, I guess I have nothing more to worry about, right?

I wasn’t much of a Twitterer (did I make that word up??) until I learned about Uber Twitter, a BlackBerry application. Now I lean more towards OVERSHARING - in case you didn’t notice.

What about you? Do you use Twitter? What do you think of it?  What’s your twitter name?  What’s your favorite tweet?  If you don’t use Twitter, tell us why not?