I’m way over due for a ROAD TRIP!! Yep, that’s right, I’m one of those crazy people that love to be on the open road with great music and adventure looming in the immediate future.

Thursday I headed on over to Tulsa, Oklahoma and participated in the National Mom’s Night Out with some of my favorite bloggers, OK style.

Melanie, Shannon, and several others hosted the event. I’ve been wanting to meet Melanie from Blogging Basics 101 for quite a while now. We’ve become great blog friends and we will also be doing a new project together headed up by Alli Worthington this year.

For those and many other reasons, I jumped at the chance to spend 24 hours “me” time and go meet Melanie, Shannon, and the gang.

I also got a chance to meet Shannon from Rocks in my Dryer. {{squeal in delight}} Melanie & Shannon were amazing hosts and handled all the attention and eager fans so graciously. They made me feel right at ease and welcome.

I was delighted to see Christine (who I know in real life) and enjoyed eating dinner with her, Courtney, and Aubree. Dinner was good even though we had to wait for-ev-er for the “pizza of the gods” which was a fav and completely worth the wait.

Leanna and I were instant friends and obviously share the same taste in frilly shirts. She was the life of the party and really livened up the night.

Leanna & Dawn together are crazy fun! (You can see more pictures over at Dawn’s blog.)

I met Joy for the first time that evening and also became instant friends. She’s a doll!

Friday morning before I left, Melanie & Shannon met me at Starbucks and we chatted about life, blogging, and WordPress. I certainly didn’t expect the one-on-one time especially considering that Melanie was leaving for Disney the next morning. However, it really made my trip worth while. I feel such a camaraderie with these women and it was amazing to be able to spend some quality time with them on a more personal level.

I realized on the way home that this was the first time I slept in a hotel and navigated my way in and out of Texas all by myself. (Well, Candy the navigation system really helped.)

It was just what I needed as I jammed out to my own music, ate junk food, and enjoyed the green rolling hills along the way.

The best part of the drive was that Jason hooked up my iPhone to the car speakers, so I could rock out LOUD!

Ahhh, good times.

Last night I participated in a virtual girls night out on Twitter! Basically, you head over to Mom It Forward and leave your Twitter Address so people can follow you. Next, head on over to Tweet Grind and participate in the fun.

I haven’t participated in a chat room, but I’ve heard it explained that it’s very similar. The person in charge will ask questions to get the converstations going and then you simply compliment, reply, and send links to tutorials to other women. {{fabulous}}

This is what Tweet Grind looks like. As new tweets come in, it adds in little boxes of converstations. I’ll be honest, it took me a little bit to get used to. I’m not acustomed to so much information hitting me all at once, but it was a BLAST and I quickly felt like one of the gang.

The topic last night was crafting so as you can imagine, I was all over it! It made me realize that I need to plan one afternoon a week to finishing up my current favorite project. Anyone want to come over and craft with me!?!

Anyway, I hope you’ll check out #GNO every Tuesday night at 8pm central on Twitter. Need a tutorial on How to Twitter? No problem, I’ve totally got your back.

I’ve been asked to host #GNO in a couple weeks, so I’ll be sure to Tweet ya and let you know the date. {{wink}}

You Are Pigtails

You are fun loving, sweet, and cute. You radiate happiness and pure joy. Your idea of style is wearing the things you love most. And you love colorful, happy things. At your best, you are optimistic and open hearted. You find the good in everything. At your worst, you refuse to grow up. You are very prone to daydreaming and fantasizing.

Imagine my shock and surprise when I was asked to be a contributor to the Creative Bliss channel for Blissfully Domestic online magazine.

I would consider my creative writing to be below standard and my grammar and spelling to be atrocious! Shhh… It looks like we’ll have to keep that our little secret. {{wink}}

Now that life is normal and I’m healthy again, I have been able to resume my contributor status over at Creative Bliss. Here are a couple of my latest articles:

Handmade Mother’s Day Gifts

Beautiful Wall Collages

Organize & Containerize

Unforgettable Birthday Parties

The Best Baby Shower Themes

Yep, I’m doing what I love to do which is collect fabulous ideas and promote the creative women behind them. I have several articles in the queue awaiting their debut. I hope you’ll join me over at Creative Bliss and be apart of such an amazingly talented group of women.

I also interviewed the beauty & brains behind Blissfully Domestic, Alli Worthington. She e-mailed it to me at 1am. Girlfriend is dedicated! No wonder she was listed as one of the 50 of the Most Powerful and Influential Women in Social Media. {{fabulous}}

She has 5 young boys and has many of the same passions that I do. So it was great getting to pick her brain and get to know her a bit more.