I finished the writing class I started a few months ago. Some of the assignments/exercises were fun, while others I sort of skipped through. The final assignment was a 500-word piece. The instructor didn’t seem to love it, although I had to edit it down to get under the 500 word limit, and one of her comments was that she would have liked to ( Read more... )

I had a pretty uneventful weekend, but it was enjoyable and relaxing ( Read more... )

I am caught up with my on-line writing class. There are new lessons posted on Wednesdays and Fridays, and when I enrolled, there were already 2 lessons posted, so I was starting a little late, but now I have finished everything that's up there. Not that it matters a whole lot. It's really a self-paced, keep yourself motivated kind of thing. I ( Read more... )

I am trying to catch up on LJ posting- I don't want to start off the New Year behind! So, here is a recap of last week's holiday cruise ( Read more... )

-I contributed an article to the Cruise Source blog. Guide to Kid-Free Cruising. I am now an Internet-known cruise expert!

-coffeejedi, thanks for the heads-up about Ringorang. I'm enjoying it so far, and have even managed to crack the Top 20 a couple of times.

-Tomorrow night is "Dixie's Tupperware Party". Several people I know have already been, and, ( Read more... )

Tonight I watched 2 hours of cruise-related TV programming. First we saw a new episode of "Great Cruises" from the Travel Channel. It followed 2 groups, a family from NC and 3 female friends from GA, as they cruised on RCCL's Brilliance of the Seas in the Mediterranean. It was basically an hour-long Royal Caribbean commercial, but I'm not ( Read more... )

Tagged by ladypyrate. She gave me a list of 5 items she associates with me.

CruisingMy first cruise was actually when I was 13, on a cruise line that no longer exists, and most of the time when I'm listing my past cruises, I don't even include it. But I loved it and thought I would go on tons more. I ended not going on another one for over 20 years, but ( Read more... )

Monday we left for Miami; it was very similar our last trip- same airline (American), same type of plane (small regional jets), same landing area (out away from the terminal, having to take a little bus to get inside), but this flight left a few hours later, meaning we didn't have to leave for the airport at ungodly hour, and we also didn't have to ( Read more... )

We are home. I am happy to be back with my kitties, but otherwise would love to return to the ship, or any other ship, really! The Norwegian Sky was great. It was formerly the Pride of Aloha, doing Hawaii-only routes, and got re-assigned and re-named, but still has the Hawaiian theme throughout the ship. I loved the NCL Freestyle concept, and am ( Read more... )

It's almost that time! We are about to head to the airport, bound for Miami and then, later, sailing to the Bahamas. I will probably send a few updates via text message to Twitter if you want to keep up with me today, but at some point I'll turn my phone off until Friday.

Have a great week, everyone!