Thursday 13: Some Favorite Past A to Z Postings

Colleen at The Thursday 13 holds a weekly blogging prompt where bloggers make a list of 13 things on Thursdays. The topic is for you to choose. The blog host doesn't have any official graphics to display on the Thursday 13 posts, so I decided to whip one up myself. 🙂  

After posting my theme reveal for A to Z Blogging 2025 this past Sunday, I immediately began drafting my posts. I got to thinking about some of my previous A to Z challenges. Here are some of my favorite posts from previous challenges. I've only been doing it since 2021, even though the event has been around since 2010. I was still new to blogging then and wasn't wore of the A to Z until around 2014 until I saw it on a now-defunct blog  that I read regularly. I spent years looking at blogs of others who participated and wondered if I'd ever be one of them. I finally decided to take the plunge. This year will be my fifth.

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My past themes:

2021: Life During 2020

2022: Forgotten TV Shows

2023: Childhood Memories

2024: Barbie

1. 2021  Toilet Paper, Telephone appointments, Twitter, Texting, Trump Hating, Tok Tok, Tiger King. Now: no more phone appointment at Behavioral Health, but still meeting via Zoom. And another new doctor. And I won't get started on the Citrus Clown being back in office. It feels like we've stepped back in time! Haven't give up on Twitter since it became X under the Perfume Man; been on too long to want to leave. But I'm also at Bluesky now. And it's been five years since the day toilet paper began disappearing from store shelves. I can still see this in my mind. 
2. 2022: Angie. I wasn't too surprised that no one seemed to remember this show. Some knew the theme song, which was a Top 40 hit.
3. 2023 R for... How many of these do you remember? Did any one have a Rubik's Cube, whether is was the actual cube or a generic knockoff, or the mail-in offer from Chex Cereal shown in this post?
4. 2024 S: Shani  Not many people seem to remember this sister-line to Barbie. I was in my 20s when this came out, thus was past toy age. had I been younger when it came out, I would have wanted it. 
5. 2023: T for... Who remembers reading teen romances, mainly those shown in this post? And Top 40 countdowns? I'm sure more than one of you had a Twinkie at some point in time :)
6. 2024: M: Midge I was surprised to learn how many people barely learned about Midge from the movie. I knew about Midge's Happy Family line when it came out in 2002, and I won't even say how old I was then! 
7. 2022: C: The Cross-Wits I was not too surprised about the reactions to this one. No one seemed to remember this game show. I've asked people I know who are older than I am, and none of them seem to remember either. Just how did the first run of this show last five years with almost no one remembering it?
8. 2023: L for... Did you have a favorite lunch box in grade school? Remember the library card catalogs? So few I've asked in person seem to remember Live Aid (this summer will be the 40th anniversary), and no one commented on that part of this post. One person, however, mentioned loving Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats (Geldof was organizer of the big benefit concert).
9. 2021: C: Cooking, Cleaning, Corona, CNN Here we are five years later. No more watching CNN in my house; it's now MSNBC. Not a lot of fancy cooking recently (I don't seem to have a lot of energy!) A lot of cleaning currently happening at home. Still hearing about the Coronavirus five years after the beginning of the pandemic shutdown.
10. 2022: H: Harper Valley PTA Again, I was not surprised that very few people, if any, remembered this show. Many did remember the hit song on which the show was based, however. I expected that.
11. 2021" X: X Titles, eXhausted, Drawing an X  Right now, I'm feeling a little exhausted because of the time change and the gloomy, rainy weather we've been having in my neck of the woods. It's expected to last until Saturday, then start again next week! And finding a title for X is as challenging as ever. I still need a book title and author name for Alphabet Soup reading challenges this year. And of course, a title for this year's A to Z blogging.
12. 2024: A: Alan Many did not know about Alan until the movie. 
13. 2022: Z:Zoom The PBS kids' show from the 1970s. Only a few seemed to remember this. It came up on Facebook in 2020, when people began using Zoom, the meeting app, at the start of the shutdown. Zoom (the app) and came up during A to Z 2021, along with Zoom (the show).