I love polenta so when this Amy’s meal was on sale the other day I snapped it up! It’s no where close to restaurant polenta or the polenta wedges I had at my wedding (!) but I enjoy me some corn-y meal so it worked 
Actually, it just worked as a snack – this has less calories than a Luna bar!
So, this means I had plenty of room for dessert…
I found this leftover icing in my fridge the other day from when I made my brother cupcakes for his birthday. 
If the entire cupcakes were at my house I would have eaten them all, but solo icing isn’t as exciting.
Well, until today when I wanted dessert and slathered the icing on the last of the banana muffin tops I massacred on Sunday.
It is hot here. 
We’ve been very lucky to have a pretty mild summer up until recently. Okay, okay, it’s awesome here all the time but it has been hot this week. I finally caved and turned on the AC yesterday for an hour and today.
I mostly did it because Vegas was crying about how I was cooking him alive!
I received a question for Ask a Monican about a quick Twitter tutorial
Hi Monica!
After being a long time reader I just recently started a blog of my own. I’m quickly realizing that there are many aspects of social media that I have yet to figure out…namely Twitter. There are so many symbols and abbreviations that I have no clue what’s going on or how to properly compose a tweet (RT? #? @?) I was hoping you could do an Ask A Monican with a brief ‘Twitter for dummies’ lesson. I need the must-know basics to help me and anyone else who might be late in jumping on the Twitter bandwagon.
Thanks!
Kerry
I think it would be easier to just give you a quick blurb here since it’s a visual thing and saying “@” in a vlog might be unclear…
1. You can tweet whatever you want up to 140 characters by just composing it and pressing tweet. That’s all you.
2. If you want to tweet something to a certain person put “@” in front of their twitter handle. Ex. If you want to tweet me you’d put
@RunEatRepeat You’re way too obsessed with watermelon!
*Even if someone does not follow you they can read what people are tweeting to them.
3. # – is a hashtag. It’s like a hot topic people are talking about (or you can use make them up). If you click on the hashtag you can see all the tweets with those keywords.
Ex. Lately I’ve been tweeting…
I didn’t bonk on my run this morning! #INGClassof2012 <- because that’s the hashtag for the NYC Mary Class of 2012
4. If you “follow” people you see all their tweets in your twitter stream. If they follow you, they can read yours. You can follow anyone on twitter that has an open profile – this includes celebs and fancy peeps! Cool huh.
Question: Got twitter questions? Or insights to share?
My tip is retweets (or RT’s) – you can grab something cool someone else posted and show it to everyone who follows you by retweeting – and it’s also a great way to show love to your favorite tweeters!
Yes! Good tip!!
I am so glad you posted this Tweet Tutorial, I just got a Twitter account too and while I am super excited to be on another social network, I really have no idea what the heck I am doing and it can be a little overwhelming lol
Follow me @SouthGirlRun if you want!!! Love your blog!
Twitter is overwhelming at first but it doesn’t take long to get the hang of it.
I just got on twitter myself about 2 weeks ago and I think I’m finally starting to get the hang of it a little bit!
I loved this post! I am comfortable with all kinds of social media, except for twitter! For some reason I just can’t get used to it, especially hashtags! Like when do I use it, when do I not? Do I make up my own or look for others that exist and piggyback off of them? So thank you for your twitter tutorial!
I was so scared to use hashtags at first! But my #NUUNKTOB #Ragnarrelay teammates thought this was hilarious, and teased me until I gave in and tried it. After about two hashtags I felt better and confident in using them! Twitter is very strange when you’re still getting used to it!
I have to admit – I have no idea what polenta is. I guess I could google it, but I’m too lazy today.
It’s a grain-like substance made from ground up cornmeal. The texture is too weird for me personally, but you can cook it up in a whole lot of different ways.
It’s just cornmeal cooked up. It can be served “soft” like grits or packed and made into wedges like this meal.
Thanks I also was having problems with the symbols now it is resolved thanks to you.
This was perfect: Short, sweet, to the point. I now feel more prepared to tackle the world of tweets. Thanks Monica!
Not Twitter related, but just wanted to say that I made the oatmeal pancakes tonight for dinner and they were great!! I was going to make regular pancakes, but then I realized I had no milk. I didn’t have any flavored oatmeal packs either (grocery store time!) so I just used plain instant oatmeal. Even my kiddos liked them! Way easier than regular pancakes too! Also, I really like seeing your realistic finger nail polish in the picture 🙂
Ha! My sad nail polish…
Hey, how did you get started on Twitter?
I have to admit, I get a thrill every time you tweet me back. #stalker
🙂
I love explaining Twitter and having people ask what the “number sign” or “pound symbol” means. Hash-freakin-tag, people 😉