Random follow #126 - @Miss33

I saw a quote today shared by a friend that said "Surround yourself with positive people".  That truth is as much the same in real life as it is for your twitter life.  Those who you choose to follow and surround yourself with will influence you and your outlook.

@miss33 is somebody who will help you take a different look at the world.  Her tweets will lift your perspective away from yourself and will make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.  Such as -

"Fixed my watch. Found another split in the strap. Fixed that. Found another one. I need a new watch."

@miss33 is the first person on the RKT blog who I have profiled who is from Taupo.  And tbh I only know of one other pure Taupoian (is that even a word) who is on twitter.  So ladies and gentlemen please sit up and take notice of this heartland tweeter.

As always to make the RKT list you need to funny or be able to perceive the world in a way that others don't.  Because seriously if we were all the same there wouldn't much point would there?  @miss33 is able to do just that -

"5mins before agreed meeting time is about right? I'm not used to meeting people who don't know I'm always 15mins early..."

@miss33 is a one of a kind stylee chick.  She doesn't muck around too much with time wasters and yet she is still a lovely lass.  If anything she carves her own way through life and won't take no for an answer.  She is also proud of her heritage - being Australian and all.  

I also like the fact that she is prepared to go out of her way to meet and interact with genuine people.  She is a people person and someone who is willing to take a risk to make new friends.  When we put ourselves out there we take a risk of being hurt if people misunderstand us.  So if you do decide to follow @miss33 please play nice.  Or else!

She is also very smart and not to be trifled with - 

"That thing I was bitching about yesterday? I MADE IT WORK!! YEAH BITCHES I'M A GENIUS!!"

And she also has impeccable taste for good music - 

"My Top 5 Pink Floyd Songs - 1. Coming Back To Life 2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond 3. Dogs 4. Comfortably Numb 5. Time #Clay5"

One thing I find interesting is how someone who tweets so often and provides such good content can have so few followers.  In all seriousness I am thinking a minimum of 4 or 5 hundred would be how many but no not quite.  @miss33 is yet to break through the 200 barrier.  So come on tweeters - help a girl out!  Please.

"Come and bring me new followers....."

Random follow #114 - @run2beatcancer

It takes some kind of dedication to run.  Not just to run but to run well.  It takes someone really special with all sorts of dedication, determination and desperation to set a goal so lofty and so high that many people sit back and marvel at the sheer thought of it.

@run2beatcancer is setting out to undertake a run that is simply mind blowing in its size and scale.  Travelling by foot from one coast of the United States to the other in an effort to both raise funds as well as awareness of the disease called cancer.  That is a total of about 2,800 miles which is roughly 4,510 kilometers.  

That is some kind of awesome right there.  But when you sit back and consider all the people whom you may know that have been taken by, are battling with or have beaten cancer it is a very scary number.  And cancer is a very scary disease.  It attacks anyone and everyone.  It is a silent killer that stalks the streets looking for its prey anywhere and everywhere people are.

And a journey like this can't be done completely alone.  There are support people, friends and hopefully the various running communities across the United States who will share their homes, their stories and maybe even a few miles with Alison as she runs.

One thing I do know is that she is saving the hills to last.  Just before you get to California there are a whole bunch of mountains you have to cross so in a month or two's time Alison is going to need some real support to get herself through those final stages and over the finish line.  This journey really is the ultimate coast to coast.

@run2beatcancer has started on her journey already and is about two days in now.  This is going to be a long trip and journey that will test her spirit, fortitude and ability to stay sane.  At the moment the twitter account only has a handful of followers.  So I encourage you to get on board and join the adventure now so you can one day say "I was part of something truly awesome".

You can find out more information if you check out her website - http://run2fightcancer.webstarts.com/index.html.

I love this tweet here because it totally captures the spirit of the journey and Alison herself.  Humble, unstated and going to give it everything that she has - 

"Here goes nothing!"