{Flat} TidyMom kissed Harry Connick Jr.!!!!!

Flat TidyMom with Amy & Cathe

I may have missed the Blissdom conference this past weekend.........

but FLAT TidyMom had the time of her life,

thanks to Cathe Holden , Amy Locurto, Angie Arthur and many other fantastic bloggers!!

UPDATE: If you have a hard time following or understanding the tweets posted below, PLEASE go read Angie's recap of what happened! CLICK HERE TO READ IT!

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Thursday I started getting tweets like this:

TNLocavore

Just took my picture with @tidymom - wish u were here! #blissdom



MelaKamin

http://twitpic.com/11k8sr - saw @TidyMom at lunch today!

racheltayse

Flat @tidymom at #blissdom lunch http://twitgoo.com/d7crq. What a fabulous idea @catheholden! brandyellen

@CatheHolden Now that is toooo funny!!!!! How dare @Tidymom use all the hot water! ROFL #blissdom

catheholden

@Tidymom missing you, wish you were here in the flesh @Blissdom but love that you're here as our #FlatFriend though.

Then Friday night.......things got EXCITING!

livinglocurto

Omg! @tidymom is so excited to see Harry Connick jr!!!!http://yfrog.com/1e2sbwj

RobynOHSH

She's gonna rock it! RT @livinglocurto: Omg! @tidymom is so excited to see Harry Connick jr!!!!http://yfrog.com/1e2sbwj

livinglocurto

Simmer down @tidymom!!!! No pinching booty. Go Harry go! http://yfrog.com/3gkqqj #blissdom

livinglocurto

@Tidymom we miss you!!!


Then they got REALLY EXCITING when THIS Happened......

DomesticChicky

@tidymom just got kissed on stage by harry connick jr ...pics to come

ExtraordMommy

@tidymom omg omg harry connick just kissed vflat cheryl I have it on video!! #blissdom

livinglocurto

Harry just KISSED flat @tidymom!!! #blissdom and he called me weird. (swoon) lol!!!


SouthrnFriedGal

@Tidymom You are so cute! Flat friend was an awesome idea!!!

livinglocurto

@Tidymom the whole place went crazy!

LadyAnne525

@tidymom That is too funny! Harry's such a great sport!!! (And soooo cute!)

bakeat350tweets

@Tidymom Oh, I think that might be even better than being there in person! ;)

AmazingGreis

@Tidymom he LURVES you!!!

WhitneyCaroline

@Tidymom Oh my gosh! I can't believe Harry C. Jr. kissed you!!!

theecklife

@Tidymom ahhhh! just saw you lip locked with Harry! lucky girl! lol!

catheholden

@Tidymom it was the BEST! BTW, you were wearing an official HCJr Concert Tshirt!!

faithfamilyfibr

@catheholden @TidyMom I love this. Wishing someone took me flat to #blissdom! #HarryConnickJr http://bit.ly/9WNBuD

remodelthislife

http://twitpic.com/11ondp - harry connick jr kissing @tidymom



Thriftydecor

@Tidymom OMG Cheryl -- that picture was the BEST!!!!

alliworthington

@tidymom I love you. #blissdom http://twitpic.com/11qc2o

theinspiredroom

@Tidymom I witnessed the kiss. You lucky girl. LOL. :-) #blissdom

What can I say??????

You girls made me feel like I was there!!
Thanks for an AWESOME FABULOUS night!

To see more pictures of Flat TidyMom in Nashville at Blissdom, click here.

Want to see what else went on at Blissdom? I've linked this post to Musing's of a Housewife's Blissdom Link up party.

Angie of The Arthur Clan and co-founder of i heart faces gives a HILARIOUS recap of how THE KISS went down!! HAHAHA! LOVE you guys! ♥
Check it out

Twitter=Help Desk

Did you know Twitter can be used for a lot more than socializing or following your favorite celeb?

Many companies have placed Customer Support on Twitter. They filter tweets with the company name and are there to jump in with a helping hand with just a tweet of their name!

Last week I had contacted Charter to upgrade our service by adding a DVR. Yes, we have been living in the Stone Age and only watching live TV and, GASP.....occasionally recording a "can't miss show" on a VCR that I used so rarely, I usually couldn't set it up to record at a later time!LOL

I'm on Twitter, most week days. Last Thursday I happened to Tweet "Woohooo! Charter is here with my DVR". Within 4 mins. I got a Tweet from UMatter2Chtr saying " @Tidymom Great to hear! Let us know how the appointment goes."

You REALLY don't want to know how the next 12 hours went, but it wasn't pretty, with phone calls on hold for up to an hour, getting disconnected and numerous promises to send someone back out that same day, by 9pm I was told they could send someone back out on TUESDAY! That was 5 DAYS AWAY!.....

I got up the following morning and a little before 8am I Tweeted this "Charter did not fail to disappoint me! Not only do I have a non working DVR but no one ever showed up to fix it! THANKS!" -

Well, let me tell you...that ONE LITTLE TWEET did more than ANY phone call did!

In less than one minute I received this Tweet from UMatter2Chtr and then this Tweet....and, well, you get the idea. Do you know by 10am there was a tech at my door, and by 11am my DVR and cable was all working!!

So last week, while I was able to use Twitter for help with a recipe (click here to see how that went), I was also able to get the Customer Service that I needed.

Just a few more reasons to LOVE TWITTER!.............and now my new love for DVR♥

Have you used Twitter for Customer Support?

Head over to Musings of a Housewife and see what other's learned this week!

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How to use Twitter

I'm sure by now, most all of you have heard of Twitter.

But I also know, many people don't know HOW to USE Twitter. I'm asked several times a day "What's Twitter?" "What do you do there?" "How do you use Twitter?"

My friend Jo-Lynne of Musings of a Housewife has written a great little "how to" post about Twitter.

If you're not on Twitter, or your new to Twitter and don't really understand it, Jo-Lynne explains it really well! Click here to read her post on How to USE Twitter!

If you're ready to give Twitter a try, and follow me Tidymom on Twitter and Jo-Lynne on Twitter - you wont want to miss the video tutorial I did a while back on how you can enjoy Twitter with an easy desktop application called Twhirl -click here for my video tutorial.

I made this little guy to put in my sidebar for easy access to these tutorials

Hooked on Twitter and Twilight

Do you hang out with ALL of your FRIENDS
ALL of the TIME? LOL

I ran across this great video and had to share



and you KNOW I'm going to Tweet about this to
all of my Tweeps!! LOL



Tonight is the night many of us Twilightaholics have been waiting for......

Way back on
January 10
I preordered our copy of the Twilight DVD,
that arrival date is now drawing near!!

We have been waiting patiently to WELCOME you to our home!

It would be an SLIGHT exaggeration to say that my daughters and I are RIDICULOUSLY excited to hold you in our arms and whisper sweet nothings to your plastic coated case, but be prepared, our first days together, will be like no other!

..........until we meet at the mailbox

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

I'm hooked on Twitter and Twilight!

Head over to Hooked on Houses to see what others are hooked on this week!!

I'd love to hear how many of my readers are getting a copy of Twilight this weekend!

and if you're on Twitter - please follow me, and I'll follow you!!

Do you Twhirl with Twitter?

If you haven't heard, Twitter is the new tool for social media
and all of the cool kids are using it!!

You can find bloggers such as The Nester, Melissa from The Inspired Room, Julia from Hooked On Houses, Kimba, or heck, even The Pioneer Woman is on Twitter! Oh yeah, and ME......Tidymom

If you aren't familiar with Twitter, Jo-Lynne at Musings of a Housewife has written a nice post about Twitter, just click here to read her post.

When you first sign up for Twitter, you may be less than impressed. It may seem like a very useful service, but since you basically have to visit your profile page and refresh the web browser to get updates you may be quickly turned off.

That's where Twhirl steps in!! Twhirl is a desktop application that works with Twitter in real time. That means if you have Twhirl open on your desktop, you will receive every tweet as it's posted, without being "intrusive". It is one less browser window to have to keep open, and the alerts are not annoying.

I've been telling so many other people Tweeps about Twhirl, I thought I'd write a post explaining it just a bit. Now you have to remember, I am not a techie.....this is just my simple terms of what a great app Twhirl is and how much more you will enjoy Twitter if you use it!

Twhirl BASICS - Tidymom style:

Go to Twhirl to download the application. Follow their easy set up instructions

Here is a shot of how Twhirl looks on my desktop - see it doesn't take up much screen space
(yes, I'm still obsessed with Twilight LOL)

After downloading, you may want to tweak some of the basic settingsIf you PROMISE not to LAUGH at ME...

I'll show you a video I made with my camera
vlogging how I use Twhirl

Now REMEMBER
don't laugh at how I sound or
how I stumble for words. LOL


This is the first time I've video taped a "tutorial" and I used my digital camera
- so the quality isn't fantastic, but I think you can follow it pretty good.


Twhirl with Twitter from Cheryl Tidymom on Vimeo.

Recap - to see messages to you click the following icons
@'s are TO YOU and everyone can see
DM's are Direct Messages to you that only YOU can see


I forgot to show you in the video
how to get to someone's actual Twitter page
when on Twhirl





for lots of GREAT Twitter Tips and "how- to's" check out this blog
TwiTip