Hobbies Archives — https://mrsmillennial.com/category/hobbies/ Lessons on Food, Travel, Money, and Marriage from a 21st-Century Broad. Thu, 31 Dec 2020 03:14:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://i0.wp.com/mrsmillennial.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cropped-untitled-drawing-4.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Hobbies Archives — https://mrsmillennial.com/category/hobbies/ 32 32 128573520 2020, A Year in Review https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/12/31/2020-a-year-in-review/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/12/31/2020-a-year-in-review/#respond Thu, 31 Dec 2020 03:14:21 +0000 https://mrsmillennial.com/?p=10453 Holy hell, what a year.  In January, we started off the year with an absolutely lovely trip to Puerto Rico. I can’t even begin to express how wonderful this trip would have been in a normal year, but in the year that this turned out to be, I’ve been so very glad we were able […]

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]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/12/31/2020-a-year-in-review/feed/ 0 10453 Biden won. Now what? https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/11/07/biden-won-now-what/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/11/07/biden-won-now-what/#respond Sat, 07 Nov 2020 16:51:43 +0000 https://mrsmillennial.com/?p=10447 I’ve been so impressed with the many ways my politically active friends and neighbors stepped up to help ensure a Biden victory: from writing letters and postcards to phone banking to serving as election workers and poll monitors. It’s been inspiring! So now that the Orange One will be leaving the White House, all is […]

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]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/11/07/biden-won-now-what/feed/ 0 10447 5 Things I’ll Be Watching For On Amazon Prime Day https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/10/12/5-things-ill-be-watching-for-on-amazon-prime-day/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/10/12/5-things-ill-be-watching-for-on-amazon-prime-day/#respond Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:19:57 +0000 https://mrsmillennial.com/?p=10435 This post may contain affiliate links. See our privacy policy for more details. In case you haven’t heard, tomorrow, October 13th, is Amazon’s annual Prime Day. The special annual sale was delayed from the usual summer date because of Covid. But, the sale must go on, and so the annual purchasing-palooza kicks off at midnight […]

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]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/10/12/5-things-ill-be-watching-for-on-amazon-prime-day/feed/ 0 10435 10 Ways You Can Carry on RBG’s Legacy https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/09/19/10-ways-you-can-carry-on-rbgs-legacy/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/09/19/10-ways-you-can-carry-on-rbgs-legacy/#respond Sat, 19 Sep 2020 17:05:22 +0000 https://mrsmillennial.com/?p=10420 “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg If you’re like me, when you heard the news of RBG’s passing on Friday evening, you felt Dread. Fear. Despair. You realized that one of the only things that had been standing between […]

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]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/09/19/10-ways-you-can-carry-on-rbgs-legacy/feed/ 0 10420 8 Completely Unnecessary Things on Amazon That Will Make Your Quarantine Better for Less Than $30 https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/08/14/8-completely-unnecessary-things-on-amazon-that-will-make-your-quarantine-better-for-less-than-30/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/08/14/8-completely-unnecessary-things-on-amazon-that-will-make-your-quarantine-better-for-less-than-30/#respond Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:09:45 +0000 https://mrsmillennial.com/?p=10408 This post may contain affiliate links. So, it’s late August. And the ‘rona still rages. So we stay in our homes and take advantage of the one indulgence life still affords us: retail therapy from Amazon. Below, you’ll find 8 things that we’ve ordered recently on Amazon that are both completely unnecessary and yet utterly […]

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]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/08/14/8-completely-unnecessary-things-on-amazon-that-will-make-your-quarantine-better-for-less-than-30/feed/ 0 10408 35 *NEW* Ways to Entertain Yourself in Quarantine https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/06/30/35-new-ways-to-entertain-yourself-in-quarantine/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/06/30/35-new-ways-to-entertain-yourself-in-quarantine/#respond Tue, 30 Jun 2020 23:47:04 +0000 https://mrsmillennial.com/?p=10359 This post may contain affiliate links. So, we’ve all now been “locked down” in most of the US for just over three months. And while some people and some states (like Texas) decided to “re-open” months ago, that foolishness is now paying off in the form of the highest daily numbers of new COVID infections […]

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]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2020/06/30/35-new-ways-to-entertain-yourself-in-quarantine/feed/ 0 10359 My New Favorite Sharing Economy Service: Gwynnie Bee https://mrsmillennial.com/2019/07/14/my-new-favorite-sharing-economy-service-gwynnie-bee/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2019/07/14/my-new-favorite-sharing-economy-service-gwynnie-bee/#respond Sun, 14 Jul 2019 14:55:01 +0000 https://mrsmillennial.com/?p=10040 As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve recently started a new job. That job is in a new, somewhat more “formal” city, and my position is more senior as well. That translates to one depressing reality: the t-shirt-and-jeans uniform that I rocked for years in the tech world was just not going to cut […]

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]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2019/07/14/my-new-favorite-sharing-economy-service-gwynnie-bee/feed/ 0 10040 A Gym Hater’s Review of Orangetheory Fitness https://mrsmillennial.com/2019/03/19/a-gym-haters-review-of-orangetheory-fitness/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2019/03/19/a-gym-haters-review-of-orangetheory-fitness/#respond Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:38:26 +0000 https://mrsmillennial.com/?p=9889 A few posts ago, I blamed my recent absence from blogging this past fall on my job. While that was partially true, the other reason I wasn’t posting as much this past fall is a new hobby I’ve taken up: Orangetheory Fitness. Orangetheory, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a class-based […]

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]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2019/03/19/a-gym-haters-review-of-orangetheory-fitness/feed/ 0 9889 How To: Honey Roasted Pecans & Pecan Pralines https://mrsmillennial.com/2019/02/13/honey-roasted-pecans-pecan-pralines/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2019/02/13/honey-roasted-pecans-pecan-pralines/#respond Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:04:08 +0000 https://mrsmillennial.com/?p=9881 This year, we once again decided to make homemade Christmas gifts for our family and friends, and with a bumper pecan crop, pecans became one of the dominant focuses of our gifts. You see, right in our front yard, we have a MONSTER pecan tree. The tree is taller than our two-story house. And every […]

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]]> https://mrsmillennial.com/2019/02/13/honey-roasted-pecans-pecan-pralines/feed/ 0 9881 50 Things You Can Do To Support Progressive Change After the Midterms https://mrsmillennial.com/2018/11/07/50-things-you-can-do-to-support-progressive-change-after-the-midterms/ https://mrsmillennial.com/2018/11/07/50-things-you-can-do-to-support-progressive-change-after-the-midterms/#respond Wed, 07 Nov 2018 18:17:24 +0000 https://mrsmillennial.com/?p=9847 Yesterday were the 2018 midterm elections, and for Democrats, it was kind of a mixed bag. Dems retook the House, but lost some seats in the Senate, and at least in my home state of Texas, things stayed pretty Red overall. But there’s a lot of reason for hope — and out of hope comes […]

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