That Time I Nailed It...

 

That Time I Rode a Roller Coaster on a Cruise Ship...

Guest column: Riding Bolt, the First Roller Coaster on a Cruise Ship

And I also have a video on YouTube! (Watch it now! I mean it! NOW! or don't... that's okay too...)

On my cruise on the Mardi Gras, I was so excited to ride the onboard roller coaster. Until I found out that it cost $15 per person and per ride. I was ready to boycott it due to the price, but decided to do it JUST SO I COULD MAKE YOU A VIDEO AND TELL YOU ABOUT IT... and get to go on it also.

I did actually love it and just wish it was a bit more affordable. Check out my video above and/or ready about it on Cruise Radio.

More on cruising :)

That Time I Made Pumpkin Pie Parfaits...

For Christmas last year, I decided I wanted to make a dessert with my parfait cups I'd specifically picked out to replace different parfait cups I had that took up too much room in my cabinet... and then never used. I held off on posting this until this fall, because it would be an excellent mini-dessert for Thanksgiving or this Xmas.

And, no. I'm not going to make you scroll past paragraphs and paragraphs of I-don't-even-know-what sprinkled with photos and ads, making your phone practically freeze from all the memory use it takes, till you get to the recipe (I may have a beef with recipe bloggers who do that. They are the worst.)...

That Time I Had Funtimes on Carnival's Mardi Gras...

Here are all the daily schedules for Carnivals' Modified 7-Day Eastern Caribbean Mardi Gras cruises (San Juan, Amber Cove, Nassau)....

That Time I Cruised on the Mardi Gras...

You may have noticed that I don't write in here a lot anymore... Sorry about that.

But, I did make some videos on my cruise! So that's kind of the same right? 

Click for playlist!

Enjoy!

That Time I Tried Bright Cellars...

I did it again. I fell for a box subscription promo.

This time it was Bright Cellars which is a wine subscription and I fell for it because of a YouTuber's promo code for $50 off. (Good news: because I became a customer, I now have a code I can share with YOU too!)...

That Time I Tried Dunkaroos Cereal...

I can't stop buying weird cereals.

Like some of the other cerals I've tried, I found this in my grocery store's clearance section...

That Time You Subscribed to My Blog...

 ...or didn't. But if you were subscribed, the product that was sending you emails won't be working soon (or already, but I just today found a new solution), so you'll want to subscribe again to keep getting emails of my posts! 

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That Time I Went on a Staycation...

I'm not actually sure if it counts as a staycation as we went to a different city, but the majority of our plans included being at our hotel, which feels like a staycation to me.

The main goal of our trip was literally just to stay at the hotel for a series of days without it costing a lot of money. This is officially my new favorite thing to do...

  

That Time I Made a Carnival Melting Chocolate Cake

If there's one thing that everyone misses from Carnival cruises, it's the chocolate melting cake.

Carnival has the recipe online, and it always sounded easy enough, but I never took the time/effort to try it...

That Time I Cruised With A Group...

Booking multiple cabins with your friends or family is not automatically "booking as a group" on a cruise. There are additional steps, but then you get some extra stuff if you have enough cabins booked. 

The extra stuff and requirements to get it are different for every cruise line, so that's why I wanted to make this post!...

That Time I Unboxed My Misfits Market Produce...

It's here! Well, it was here Saturday. But today I'm telling you about it!  

My Misfits Market box has arrived. Let's crack it open!...

That Time I Bought My Produce From Misfits Market...

I decided to try out Misfits Market over the summer. It's is a subscription box service that sends less-than-perfect produce to you which reduces food waste. They use almost all non-plastic packaging which makes it even more appealing to me. 

(Click to get $10 off your first box!)

And I was generally happy with it. I did start to eliminate certain products from my selections based on how they held up during shipping...

That Time I Got Married... Again...

You may recall from a previous post that I selected "Leap Day" for my wedding anniversary date, but got married on a non-leap year. With those decisions, Husband and I booked a vow renewal on the Carnival Pride for Leap Day 2020, at which time our anniversary date would officially not be March 1 and would instead be Feb 29. 

Unlike this post, we were very fortunate to not have our renewal canceled by COVID (my heart goes out to everyone who did in 2020)...

That Time I Grove-d...

Okay, Grove, you got me. 

I'm never interested in these box subscription services, but Grove put out a commercial about all of the plastic-free products they have (ones that I had yet to successfully replace in my home) and I had to check it out. 

They really got me with their "get a bunch of free stuff with your first order!!!" promo...