True (Five Minute Friday)

It is time for Five Minute Friday! Where we stop, set the timer, and pour out whatever is inside for 5 minutes. This week, the word is TRUE. Everyone's sharing a true story.

The quick rules of FMF:
1. write for 5 minutes. No editing, backtracking, overthinking
2. link up over here with Lisa-Jo and the gang
3. Visit the post (or two or a bunch) before you, and leave them a little encouragement. That's the whole heart of the community at FMF.

So, come and share your thoughts with us.

TRUE
The true story of how I came to twitter, and where it brought me. A friend told me that this guy I was seeing was on twitter, and pretty funny. (I knew about the humor, was CLUELESS about Twitter). So I built a handle and off we were. As of today, two years later, the guy is well out of the picture (different story for a different day) but Twitter stayed. I started playing around with it a little bit more. Thanks to Lisa-Jo and some of the other FMF lovelies. Loved to read you all. Loved to see what you were doing. Didn't love to write. Until I got brave in January (on the end of my OneWord365 for 2012) and then I started linking up. Which encouraged me to meet some of the internet friends (in)RL. And that made me less afraid of reaching out to others.

Turns out there's a GREAT little (not so little) Twitter community around my Nats. And thanks to the wonder of the hashtag or whatnot, I found a few of them. And so the baseball talk began.

Took several months before I met any of them in person. But one day we did (and I am so glad we did!) And then those folks introduced me to a few others. And now I know quite a crowd.

My favorite part of these Nats folks (well, besides tweeting through all the games we're not at together) is how they can take THIS:

and turn it into THIS:

and THIS!

Talk about a little online community that made real life awesome. Because a rain delay is ALWAYS better shared with friends.