A to Z Challenge: Zzzzzz....

This post is part of the April A-Z Blogging Challenge. This year my theme is simply, "things I know." Some posts will be informational, some about life lessons, some about things I've learned as an author/blogger.

Zzzzz..... Getting enough sleep is SO important! And between A-Z and everything else this April has (most helpfully) thrown my way, I haven't been doing much sleeping. Eek. But now we're finished! May starts tomorrow, and I'm off work for the rest of the week as my family is visiting. A lovely reward for surviving April :)

For those of you who finished with me, make sure to visit the A-Z Blogging homepage to get your sweet survivor badge!

And on that note, I bid this year's April A-Z adieu! Thanks for playing everyone :) I'm so glad to have met so many of you. It's been an awesome ride as a co-host but you can hear more about that during May 5th's Reflections post!

Goodnight! ZZZzzzzzzz......

A to Z Challenge: Yogurt!

This post is part of the April A-Z Blogging Challenge. This year my theme is simply, "things I know." Some posts will be informational, some about life lessons, some about things I've learned as an author/blogger.

It's been a couple days since a food post!

Yogurt is one of the best creations in the world. And, cultures (haha, ha) from all over the world have their own kinds of yogurt, which makes it not only wonderful, but also universal. I believe that everyone should find some kind of yogurt that they enjoy. It's great for your gut and tasty in many contexts - plain with pb and raisins, in cucumber dressing, baked into muffins... Mmm...

Is there a food you believe everyone should eat?

A to Z Challenge: X-mas

This post is part of the April A-Z Blogging Challenge. This year my theme is simply, "things I know." Some posts will be informational, some about life lessons, some about things I've learned as an author/blogger.

A mini-rant for you, because it's the end of A-Z, and I'm kind of tired, and this is something that really bothers me.

X-mas is a perfectly ok abbreviation for Christmas.

When I use it, it's not in an effort to take Christ out of Christmas, or to impose some atheist/secular beliefs on others (you have to have them to impose them on others), or to participate in the "War on Christmas." It's mostly because I'm lazy. But also, this qualifies in my 'things I know' category because actually, Xmas started as an abbreviation used BY Christians. The X represents the Greek letter chi, which is the first part of Christ's name when written in Greek. So, ha. In the game of semantics, I win.

I could say that that's why I use it, but really, really people, it's because I'm lazy. And I think that's why most people do it. So please let's stop arguing about it! The effort to explain this negates the energy I saved by being lazy and not typing out the whole beginning of the word in the first place. 

So there's my mini-rant. I'll come up with something nicer for Y tomorrow :)

What are you feeling rant'y about?