Hi, my name is @orangegirlnz

I heart @TeamXero

I tweet @Xero

Recently the company made a promo video and asked Tweet4yourtee wearers to join them in Wellington to take part – of course I couldn’t be there and was so disappointed, but have always sent them photos of me wearing my t-shirts (from both sides of the globe it turns out!) and if I could’ve joined them I would’ve!

However, I got a really nice surprise today when the promo video promo was released as a teaser …

Then the real video was released a few hours later

Famous me! Am getting a spot up the front when they do it in a year – I wonder how many tweeting t-shirts will be around by then?

It’s still orange & it’s had a few questions posted to it already; I’m nervously keeping watch over it trying to answer the questions as best I can but I am further removed from this product than Xero Business that I wrote most of the Help Centre for. I really hope it grows into a big community site like some others I’ve seen where eventually we can hook up a blog, the @XeroPersonal Twitter feed & stuff like that. And maybe even extend it to our business product. Early days!

When I found that Intelligentsia in New York was in fact on Broadway just down from where we were working we went off-NY Times coffee list one day to try them – only to find that it wasn’t a walk-in place or cafe – it was a training lab.

Then when looking for good coffee places in Chicago I came across it there as well – and an actual cafe version of it! As soon as we were left alone in the city we rushed for it, also to make sure I knew where it was for my upcoming first-time meeting with my Orange Friend from Chicago (was starting to feel rather nervous so didn’t want to worry about not being able to find the cafe!). We found it – a very trendy corner space, with an orange bike outside, orange bags of coffee behind the counter, a line up of individually dripped coffee for those not wanting drinks with an espresso base and selection of baked goods.

Obviously I was pretty excited about the orange theme, especially as in a couple of days we’d be meeting my Orange Friend there, and OMG the coffee and brioche were so good.

On the way out I noticed the hours were Mon-Fri 7am-5pm … WAAAA … the meeting was on Sunday! So we rushed back in just to double-check and ask the guy if there was anywhere else in Chicago where we could get coffee just as good. Why yes, their other store a few blocks away. And that’s where we met and enjoyed our coffee outdoors on Sunday.

Until we meet again Jo (and tell your Mister that all that orange is not so bad, mine said he could’ve carried on chatting for hours)!!

Tweet 4 Your Tee have changed their homepage to recognise me for a day! I’ve only ordered 4 t-shirts from them, some posted all the way over here, some hiccups when I got a man size instead of a girl size, not to mention the SPECIAL treatment that allowed me to have my Twitter username written in orange!

I feel very special today. And strangely compelled to buy another t-shirt!

Have just looked back to see how long since we met online and it was around August or September 2007 – nearly 3 years ago! I that time we’ve exchanged knitting, baking, cards, gifts and many emails.

It’s so tiny and so lovely and orange. Generally it’s the same operation as our existing camera so not too much to learn and apparently The Mister will take better photos with it because it has an image stabilizer!

I think it has a design flaw though, because it’s so thin and slightly rounded (to fit comfortably in your pocket one assumes) it isn’t very stable standing by itself with the lens extended, which is very important for the self-timer that we use quite a lot!