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Do we honestly need any more social media time vacuums?  DO WE???

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<strong>My First Pinterest "Invitation" from Valori:</strong>  July 2nd, 2011.

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<strong>My Second Pinterest "Invitation" from Yovani:</strong>  December 6th, 2011.

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<strong>Day I Joined Pinterest:</strong>  March 20th, 2012.

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<strong>First Pin:</strong>  April 7th, 2012.

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<span style="font-size: medium; color: #008000;"><strong>And that's when all hell broke loose.</strong></span>

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On Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.

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I did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.

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And then I remembered, "Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media time vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is about to make my head explode."

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Humbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.

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I pinned John.

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<div style="padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;"><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/" target="_blank"><img src="https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="515" border="0" /></a></div>
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<p style="font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;">Source: <a style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;" href="http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;" href="http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/" target="_blank">Michelle</a> on <a style="text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;" href="http://pinterest.com" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></p>

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The Pinterest floodgates opened.

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Within what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people "repinned" me, and 5 more "liked" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)

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<span style="font-size: medium; color: #008000;"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>

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<em>What will people think if I've only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>

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Do I havta?

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<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>

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But I'm social in Real Life!

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<em>That doesn't count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it's like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>

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Does this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?

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<em>Hell, no!  <a href="http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/" target="_blank"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don't havta.</em>

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Well . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can't this weekend.  I have <strong><a href="http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/" target="_blank">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.

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<em>That's easy.  Play with yourself.</em>

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Yo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!

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<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>

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Oh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I'm a bit . . . . distracted.

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And this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.

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Since many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href="http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/" target="_blank"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since I was "distracted", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href="http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/" target="_blank">"It's time, darling."</a></strong>

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Ladies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.

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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>Javier, if you or your clone</strong></span> </span>(Listen, I'm the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope)<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="color: #008000;"><strong>entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.</strong></span></span>

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Don't expect much from my <a href="https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/" target="_blank"><strong>Pinterest page,</strong></a> my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won't be disappointed <a href="https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/" target="_blank"><strong>here.</strong> </a>

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Can I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....

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Now.  Back to that screenplay!

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Are you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!

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