Sleep!! GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is from “Does this Blog make us look fat?” This just cracked me up!! Enjoy!!

Experts say lack of sleep can contribute to weight gain. In addition it can make losing weight even more difficult. It’s not even about will power it’s about your hormones trying to make up for the lack of sleep by forcing you to eat things like peanut butter and jelly and what not.

So how do you get more sleep? You’ve got work, the kids, the dishwasher is full, and Real Housewives comes on at ten p.m. Hello – this all cuts into our sleepy time. SO we’re going to take a look at how to add more zzzzzs. Follow these steps to increase the amount of non-medicated sleep you get each night.

1. Quit your job. Those people don’t appreciate you anyway. When you quit you’ll have more opportunity to sleep in. In addition you don’t have to worry about that “big project.”

2. Sell your children. (This is how you make up for the no income as a result of Step. 1) Those people don’t appreciate you anyway. PLUS imagine the nice new bedding you can purchase with the money. If you sell the kids you can get more sleep and money. We’re not sure why more people don’t figure this one out.

3. Re-do your whole bedroom. It is supposed to be an Oprah-style sanctuary not the laundry wadded dust pile. Sure you’ll lose a little sleep at first while you’re organizing the pile of books you haven’t read that are next to your bed – but that’s temporary.

4. Read “The Corrections” – seriously this book made us very sleepy. Great literature often does. You also might try reading the manual to your cell phone or microwave oven. Many people advise you NOT to read before bed but if you pick dull books you’ll fall asleep faster.

5. Tense every muscle in your body until you see spots and lose consciousness. This is a meditation technique or maybe it’s what a tw0-year old does. We forget.

6. Avoid thinking about death, illness, the great void, or whether or not the people you sold the kids to are remembering one of them is allergic to strawberries. This stuff will inhibit your rest. Instead think about CSPAN or maybe the quadratic equation.

I’m Dusting Off Old Posts So Google Notices Me Again

You know that awkward moment when you run into someone you used to talk to every day and they clearly don’t remember your name? That’s basically my relationship with Google right now. So I’m fixing it. 🧹

Lately, I’ve been wandering through my older blog posts like a librarian with a red pen, updating headlines, polishing keywords, and gently reminding Google that yes, I’m still here and still weirdly productive. Updating old posts for SEO is like changing the batteries in your smoke detector. Nothing flashy, but suddenly everything works better.

I’m tightening things up, adding clearer headings, improving readability, and sprinkling in relevant links where they actually make sense. Not keyword soup. Not robotic nonsense. Just good content wearing better shoes.

Speaking of links, if you’re curious why this matters, Google itself has a surprisingly helpful guide on how search works. It’s worth a peek if you like knowing how the internet’s brain ticks.

And while you’re clicking around, this is also me casually pointing you to an internal post or two that needed a glow-up anyway. Old posts deserve love. And traffic. Mostly traffic.

Oh, and if you spot mentions of my monthly $50 Your Way giveaway, that’s not an accident. You’ll find that happy little temptation living in the sidebar. PayPal, Venmo, or gift card. Your choice. Every month. 🎉

So if things look a bit fresher around here, that’s me courting Google with better SEO and a side of charm. Wish me luck. And maybe click something while you’re here.