Monday, July 17, 2023

World Emoji Day

Happy World Emoji!

Do you know why we celebrate World Emoji Day on July 17th?

It's because on the original calendar emoji, the date shown was July 17th! This is what I get when I search for a calendar emoji:

But the typical calendar emoji we can insert easily is more vague: 📆

If I had to pick a favorite emoji, it would probably be 😈

In my youth, I spent a lot of time in chat rooms (I'm showing my middle-age) and we used emojis before they actually existed. >:-) was my favorite then, and that has continued into adult-hood. But now that we have the pineapple🍍, it might take the favorite slot for me now. My husband and I used it so much that he named me Pineapple in his phone and all of our rooms have pineapples everywhere!

What is your favorite emoji? Drop it in the comments!

Monday, May 15, 2023

A to Z 2023 Road Trip Is Here!

It's time for the Post A to Z Road Trip 2023! This is a great opportunity to catch up on the many blogs you would have liked to have spent more time visiting, but didn't during the Challenge, and a chance to visit the blogs of people who did the Challenge that you never got to. And, if you're one of those people who did the Challenge but didn't get a lot of visitors, this is a way to let people know that you'd appreciate a visit.

Here's what you do:

Sign up for the Road Trip. There's a place where you can put in the URL of a post that you would like visitors to read first. Then, grab a copy of the Road Trip badge from the graphics page (if you want) for your home page to use as a "bumper sticker."
Get copies of both the Road Trip List and the Master List. Both will be useful.
Start with the Road Trip list and visit the blogs of the people who signed up there. Take some time to read their blog and their Challenge entries. Leave comments where you feel led to do so, and make sure you identify yourself as a Road Trip participant. Leave a link to your blog so they can return the favor.
Then, if you have the time and inclination to do so, visit some of the blogs on the Master List that you didn't get the chance to visit. Even if they didn't sign up for the Road Trip, I'm sure they'd appreciate a visit.

There's no set time limit to the Road Trip (i.e. no specific end date), so if you wanted to, you could visit everyone who was part of this year's Challenge between now and the start of next year's Challenge. If that's what you want to do, go for it! Most importantly, have fun!

Happy Motoring!

Monday, May 1, 2023

Did You Win! Tell Us About It! Reflections #AtoZChallenge 2023

If you managed to make it to the end of the alphabet in the 2023 April Blogging from A to Z Challenge then you've earned bragging rights. Go ahead and grab a winner's badge to slap on your own blog page to show everybody that you did it. Thanks to our graphics star for providing us a handsome trophy to brighten our blog pages.

And Congratulations to all of our A to Z Winners!

Now grab a badge and move on down the page to the next little hop.

Winner Badge

Reflections

Ever since the very first A to Z Challenge in 2010 there has been a tradition of sharing a "Reflections" post to tell of our own experiences and what we gained from them. It's a good time to remind readers of what you posted in April and to find out what great posts you might have missed and will want to go back to check on. After all, A to Z ain't over until you think it's over and for some of us it's an all the time way of thinking.

We're hoping that each A to Z participant will tell us how this past April went for them. Let us know what was good as well as any recommendations to make the Challenge better in the years to come. We would especially like to know if the posts with the lists were useful to you. Is there anything you'd change? Anything you'd advocate keeping? How can our team keep you coming back for more and get you to invite friends to this blogging community? Please, give us your thoughts as part of your A to Z Reflections Post. You can use the badge below to adorn that post.

>>> Drop the direct link to your Reflections Post here and hop to the responses here. <<<

Thank you to all!