Run Now! It’s Wine 0’Clock in WDW…Cupcakes Gone W&D16

[lovingeire]

Total Amount Earned for Trip: $512.59

You're almost halfway there! You earn a ton on Swagbucks! I don't earn near that much! I need to take some lessons from you!

Do you redeem for Target gift cards or PayPal payouts or????

Jumping ahead a little...

Sorry, I get a little excited about grapefruit beer! Just forget I said anything until Friday!

Depending on how many shots Gretchen as us doing we may have some pretty funky chicken dancing.

Or grapefruit beer! (Shoot, there I go again!)
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[momabaarjo]

You're almost halfway there! You earn a ton on Swagbucks! I don't earn near that much! I need to take some lessons from you!

Do you redeem for Target gift cards or PayPal payouts or????

So relieved to be ahead of my goals right now to pay for this trip. I really want to pay for it using "FREE" money and not my house budget.

I have a little routine that I use...

1. I wake up usually about the time Swagbucks resets (around 2 am CST) and I start my apps going...first Lifestyle, then for morning Sportly, then EnterianNow and finally SBTV. Usually depending on my sleeping habits by the time I leave at 7:30 I have made it through all the apps and earned a few bonus rounds for around 40-60 swagbucks. I have also created short video playlists...SBTV and Lifestyle under HOme & Garden I always add any 10 second tips to my playlist. I think I have 20 that I play each morning. Then on the other 2 I have cycled through noting times and favorite any less than 20 seconds. So each morning I am only doing favorite playlists.

2. I get on the computer about 7:15 and do daily crave, daily poll and daily offers. If I have time I do TankTopGirl, ngage or Laptop Guy/bluemen as much as time or the link allows.

When I leave house I usually have half of my goal made most days...some days all of my goal if I wake up early and have time to get on computer.

When I get home while I am making dinner I start trying for a survey. Most nights I am able to hit 1 survey that makes the rest of my goal for the day...I think I am in a pretty good demographic that makes me get at least a survey a night. There are some nights though when I can't get one so i do the following...

then if I have anytime in the evening I try for other surveys or do TankTopGirl, ngage or Laptop Guy/bluemen or run videos if we are just vegging.

I make it a goal every day to make my daily goal...don't always make my bonus goal every day and that is okay. Just making the daily goal gets me about 1000 bonus SB at the end of the month. I really do not put a lot of effort into SB and I am always learning from the DIS group over on the budget board.

Then I wait to cash out at the beginning of each month...wait for 2300 SB target card $25 sale and then usually buy another $25 or $50 target card. I use the target cards because I am least likely to spend them on other things but Disney. Target is clear across town and I am not a huge target fan anyway. That way my gift cards are safe for Disney...LOL

Hope this helps.

 

[lovingeire]

I wake up usually about the time Swagbucks resets (around 2 am CST)

Holy cow that is early! I am sleeping then...and I am in the CST!

.first Lifestyle, then for morning Sportly, then EnterianNow

If I have time I do TankTopGirl, ngage or Laptop Guy/bluemen

No clue what any of these are so I guess I need to fiture that out! I do do the poll, ncrave and offers daily.

Then I wait to cash out at the beginning of each month...wait for 2300 SB target card $25 sale and then usually buy another $25 or $50 target card. I use the target cards because I am least likely to spend them on other things but Disney. Target is clear across town and I am not a huge target fan anyway. That way my gift cards are safe for Disney...LOL

That's what I've been doing as well. Like that I get a little break on the cards and it does hold me accountable to only using them for Disney, although I do shop at Target for diapers (and I use the gift cards I get from buying those towards Disney GC as well) and other little things, but not regular grocery shopping. I feel like I need to do better though and keep track more out of curiosity's sake.

 

[momabaarjo]

No clue what any of these are so I guess I need to figure that out! I do do the poll, ncrave and offers daily.

That's what I've been doing as well. Like that I get a little break on the cards and it does hold me accountable to only using them for Disney, although I do shop at Target for diapers (and I use the gift cards I get from buying those towards Disney GC as well) and other little things, but not regular grocery shopping. I feel like I need to do better though and keep track more out of curiosity's sake.

TTG (Tank Top Girl)...picture of girl in white tank top with friends around her
nCrave
nGage...usually a lady on a desktop computer
Blue Men...blue stick men with a red guy thrown in
Lap Top Guy...cute guy on a laptop

These are all found in EASY WAYS TO EARN or MOST POPULAR WAYS TO EARN on your main SB page...you click a few times and you get easy SB points. Sometimes you can use them a lot during the day and sometimes the offer only pops up once. Every time I see one of these I sit down and do them until they run out of offers. There are times with them that you can earn 100 SB in an hour. Right now on Tank Top Girl is a Disney ad.

SBTV
Lifestylz
EntertainNow
Sportfly
Indymusic (Have but not used)
????(there is one more/dont use)

Are all video apps that play on your phone or tablet. You just push play and let them run...sometimes they will get hung up on an ad and you have have to close out the ad or close the app and restart it. You can make about 10-20 SB daily with each app. I have only really learned how to work 4 of them with playlists. I need to learn the other 2 apps.
Jennifer taught me about making playlists on Lifestylz and SBTV...if you look in HOme & Garden there are 10 sec videos that you swipe left to favorite. That puts that into favorite and when you start your videos, just click favorite and it will loop the short videos. The other 2 are a lot harder, you have to hunt for short videos by watching them and keeping a list of short ones then when you are done go back and favorite them. I have about 10 in each playlist...once I made my favorite playlist I dont mess with finding more videos...I dont want or listen to them (On mute) and I just let them play in a loop.

Something else I do is now make sure I have the swagbutton on when I do any online shopping...so I get swagbucks. I dont do a lot of online shopping, but last month I purchased through Disney store and earned 100 points for Cammy's baby gift, booked my hotel through hotels.com (earned not only for hotels.com but almost 1000 swagbucks) and used travelocity for my car rental (another 1000 swagbucks). I also get SB when using ebay, walmart and target online. Really easy to so and I am buying anyway.

IF A SURVEY POPS UP ON YOUR MAIN PAGE...somewhere in POPULAR WAYS, open it...usually when it appears there you are pretty much going to qualify for it unless it has already been filled. That is where I find most of my surveys. But I work myself through them each day until I find one on gold, peanut, then partner. If the survey has an i next to it...I dont even bother. I usually save partner surveys till last...I have more luck in peanut. Also, I try not to do surveys over 20 minutes unless I am desperate to find one. They are a pain to constantly give the same info over and over...but normally I just sit on laptop while the boys are watching tv when I am desperate.

My best suggestion is goto DIS Thread on the budget board for SWAGBUCKS

http://www.disboards.com/threads/those-using-swagbucks.3222525/page-328#post-55511629

And start reading about 100 pages back. That is where I have learned most of my information. Kafi is a great resource too!

When my insomnia or restless legs acts up I get on Swagbucks...like this morning I was qualified for my first survey and bam 100 points and my first goal was toast by 4 am. Anything else I earn is a bonus today.

I made a goal for myself to earn $50 a month with swagbucks so that is about 4800 SB needed which translates to roughly 160 SB a day...I dont get that most days, but when you hit your goal that SB sets usually 85-120 points you get a big bonus at the beginning of each month which is what pushes me to that 4800 points for $50

One thing I will not do is sign up for products and cancel them...I see a lot of people doing that and I think it is unethical, personally.

 

[momabaarjo]

Holy cow that is early! I am sleeping then...and I am in the CST!.

I dont wake up for good at the time...usually its the bathroom, the cat wanting out or my restless legs decide to go another round!

LOL But days like today I woke up at 3 am with my legs and could not get them to settle down after a round in the hot tub....so I am on my computer earning Swagbucks. Got to earn that Disney money in ways that dont take from my family or make me sit and dedicate a lot of time to it.

Usually after an hour of sitting I can go back to bed for a couple hours....but I am usually up at 5:15 in the morning anyway.

 

[momabaarjo]

Okay Gretchen you now can chime in....

 

[momabaarjo]

It’s 5 O’clock Friday
in Germany

ONLY 30 MORE FRIDAYS!

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In order to pass the time away, instead of Cupcake Friday’s we are going to take a look at cocktails around the world…since we are partly fueled by cocktails. Maybe we can find them a little more readily then the cupcake disappointment we experienced on our PHM Cupcake Crawl! Following in line with Whet your Appetite Wednesday, let’s begin to focus on F&W and our Eat & Drink Crawl around the World that we are planning for Sunday after the race (Rules and Logistics to come later).


This Friday we are stumbling our way to the country that devotes an entire month to drinking in the fall and in Epcot all year, so raise your stein to

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Now I am not much of a beer person but I do LOVE me some German Wine (in fact you used to google Germany Epcot Wine and look in pictures you would find someone familiar to me enjoying a wine flight) so I think that I should happen to find something I can enjoy in Deutschland.

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Germany F&W Booth (scroll down in Alphabetical Order)
http://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2015-epcot-food-and-wine-festival-booths-menus-and-food-photos/

Sommerfest
http://allears.net/dining/menu/sommerfest/lunch-dinner

Weinkeller
http://diningatdisney.com/the-weinkeller-in-the-germany-pavilion-at-epcot/


So bartender…

Pour me somethin' tall an' strong;
Make it a Schofferhofer or Schmitt Sohne
It's only half-past twelve but I don't care.
It's five o'clock somewhere.​

Schofferhofer Pink Grapefruit Hefeweizen

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I just got done saying that I don’t drink beer but this grapefruit thingy has certainly been on my radar. In fact I have almost bought it several times in stores around here, but I have been saving the experience to try in Epcot! I can't wait since apparently Gretchen is in love with it.


Schmitt Sohne Eiswein

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Love me some sweet wine…this is very sweet and high acidity, medium/full bodied that is made from grapes which are picked frozen from the vine!


What are you having?

 

[lovingeire]

My best suggestion is goto DIS Thread on the budget board for SWAGBUCKS

http://www.disboards.com/threads/those-using-swagbucks.3222525/page-328#post-55511629

And start reading about 100 pages back. That is where I have learned most of my information. Kafi is a great resource too!

Thank you! I will check out that thread to see what I can learn.

IF A SURVEY POPS UP ON YOUR MAIN PAGE...somewhere in POPULAR WAYS, open it...usually when it appears there you are pretty much going to qualify for it unless it has already been filled.

SBTV
Lifestylz
EntertainNow
Sportfly
Indymusic (Have but not used)

I do run SBTV most days and get the 10 SB from it, and sometimes I earn a bonus if I'm not paying attention to how many SBs I've earned, but will look into the other aps as well.

TTG (Tank Top Girl)...picture of girl in white tank top with friends around her
nCrave
nGage...usually a lady on a desktop computer
Blue Men...blue stick men with a red guy thrown in
Lap Top Guy...cute guy on a laptop

I did tank top girl today, although mine was in a black shirt! LOL! And I did nGage and nCrave I think. I also did a survey, which I don't normally do and that got me 75 points, but it took a couple of the ones advertised to get me one that I could actually cmoplete and get the points for.

I made a goal for myself to earn $50 a month with swagbucks so that is about 4800 SB needed which translates to roughly 160 SB a day...I dont get that most days, but when you hit your goal that SB sets usually 85-120 points you get a big bonus at the beginning of each month which is what pushes me to that 4800 points for $50

I never broke it down I guess to how many SBs to earn a day to earn a reward each month, but that makes sense. My daily goal is normally only around 30-40, with the bonus around 100 so clearly I need to be earning more SBs than what I was aiming for.

LOL But days like today I woke up at 3 am with my legs and could not get them to settle down after a round in the hot tub....so I am on my computer earning Swagbucks. Got to earn that Disney money in ways that dont take from my family or make me sit and dedicate a lot of time to it.

I think that's the key for me. I already do some work from home with small kids and feel like my time is divided from what I'd like to focus most on so I want to make sure it's not distracting me from the little people who need me.

 

[Dis_Yoda]

I realize I'm totally just copying and pasting from old trip reports but here we go!

Germany Enjoyments!

It was then off to the Brewer’s Collection where we ran into some issues with our picks as they were out of the Pilsner already and when they were pouring one of our beers, the keg didn’t want to let them have the beer. I told her it was close enough to filled for us as we knew we would be drinking more if we wanted anyway & losing an ounce of beer wasn’t a big deal. The lesser filled beer did turn out to be our favorite of the two though!

BraufactuM Palor & BraufactuM Colonia


Needing to get that awful wine taste out of our mouths, we went to Germany to get wine we actually knew we would like. They were all basic sweet rieslings. The 2nd one was my favorite!

Riesling Flight


At Brewer’s Collection my dehydration was really hitting me and while my husband was enjoying his beer, I had a Sparkling Lemon Water to try to get more water in me.

Norbertus Special Hefeweizen


The rain was not letting up so I decided on yet another alcoholic beverage while at the wine shoppe in Germany so that I could pass the time. My cider despite being called "Pure" was apparently evil as it rang up as exactly $6.66

Evil Cider



I tend to drink in Germany a lot it seems...not really eat

 

[lovingeire]

Okay Gretchen you now can chime in....

Yippee!!!!!! Can we talk about my love of grapefruit beer for a minute! We first tried it as prt of the German beer sampler at Biergarten. And it was love at first sip! I'm not a huge beer drinker and I don't like grapefruit, but apparently when you combine the two, it's heaven in a glass!

Grapefruit beer with my hubby after Wine & Dine last year!


And a little grapefruit beer treat Princess Half Weekend!


Now I think we need a cupcake grapefruit beer picture at this years Wine & Dine! It is seriously so refreshing! You don't want to miss out!

 

[SarahDisney]

I think I'd have to follow the crowd and go with the grapefruit beer. I'm not a huge grapefruit juice person (although I do like grapefruit, it just doesn't always agree with my stomach), but this thing has such a huge following that I have to try it!

 

[rteetz]

Well I'll be having an iced tea here...

 

[momabaarjo]

I realize I'm totally just copying and pasting from old trip reports but here we go!

Needing to get that awful wine taste out of our mouths, we went to Germany to get wine we actually knew we would like. They were all basic sweet rieslings. The 2nd one was my favorite!

Riesling Flight

I tend to drink in Germany a lot it seems...not really eat

Oh the Riesling Flight sounds divine...Germans are good at the drinking part!

And a little grapefruit beer treat Princess Half Weekend!
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Now I think we need a cupcake grapefruit beer picture at this years Wine & Dine! It is seriously so refreshing! You don't want to miss out!

Gretchen you are so pretty in this picture (not that you aren't always that way). I think a grapefruit beer cupcake picture is in order if we can all meet up at the same time. And look there is Jan in your sunglasses....

I think I'd have to follow the crowd and go with the grapefruit beer. I'm not a huge grapefruit juice person (although I do like grapefruit, it just doesn't always agree with my stomach), but this thing has such a huge following that I have to try it!

I like grapefruit, I dont like beer...

Well I'll be having an iced tea here...

We will make you another sweet tea...

 

[momabaarjo]

How about a few more pages from last weeks Mousescrappers.com speed scrap marathon...

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[rteetz]

Those are awesome!

 

[lovingeire]

Gretchen you are so pretty in this picture (not that you aren't always that way). I think a grapefruit beer cupcake picture is in order if we can all meet up at the same time. And look there is Jan in your sunglasses....

Awww, thank you my friend!

And I love your pages! Maybe I should start doing digital pages. Because Lord knows I have 2 paper pages books that are unfinished!

 

[SarahDisney]

I love these pages! You definitely captured the Frozen part of the Frozen 5K (I still haven't entirely forgiven Elsa for that one, and I ran a rain-soaked 10K in January!)
I think the AKL page is my favorite ... that background is perfect!

 

[Tinker326]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE your pages!!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

love the pages!!!!! My digital pages look awful compared to yours.

 

[momabaarjo]

Whet Your Appetite Wednesday: Italy
Pre Planning Our Eat & Drink Around the World Crawl
(or by the end of the night teetering and rolling around the world) ​

Trying to find ways to pass the next 203 days, so Wednesday is going to be officially called “Whet Your Appetite Wednesday” because Cupcakes like eating and most of this trip will be focused around Food & Wine (and yes running). Since the menus for F&W are not available for 2016 until the midSpring and we have pretty much covered favorite dining experiences and foods from around WDW…let’s start pre-planning some our Post Race Sunday Eat & Drink Crawl Around the World (information, rules and requirements later) by circling the World Showcase in search of the best snacks…

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Anyone who has followed PHM PTR & TR I have a thing for cute Italian boys so our next country on our binge fest is one I can’t wait to visit. LOL!

Italy F&W Booth 2015
–Ravioli alla caprese: Cheese ravioli, tomato sauce, mozzarella, parmesan and basil
–Filetto di pollo, con funghi al marsala: Chicken tenderloin, cremini mushrooms, marsala sauce and ciabatta bread
–Cannoli al cioccolato: Chocolate-covered cannoli filled with sweet ricotta, chocolate and candied fruit

Italian Gelato
http://allears.net/dining/menu/italian-gelato-kiosk/snacks

Via Napoli
http://allears.net/dining/menu/via-napoli/lunch-dinner



Here are my selections to share (or not)…

Let’s just say that while we were in Rome a few years ago our apartment was literally 10 yards from one of the best gelato places in Rome…and we ate it for breakfast, lunch and dinner on some days. So I have to of course check out the gelato in the Italy Pavilion. If they have Gelato al Bacio (“the kiss”-chocolate hazelnut), that will be what I am having! If not I guess I will settle for…

Coppa Del Nonno
Vanilla, Cookies & Cream and Chocolate gelato topped with chocolate sauce, whipped cream and amaretto cookies​

One of our ADR plans has to include the traditional pre marathon Carb Loading (although I don’t subscribe to the theory of carbs the night before a race) with cute Italian boys.

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That’s what I my eyes are having anyway!!! For the tummy, it has to be....

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Family Style House Salad- Served Exclusively with Pizza leaf lettuces, diced tomato, cucumber, peppers, marinated mushrooms, olives, peperoncini, red wine vinaigrette

Proof that I do eat some good things for me while at WDW!!!!​

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And a Pizza Pie Napoletana Style (not really picky on the toppings



Followed by a dessert of Cute Italian boys with a side of Tiramisu.​

What looks good for a snack for you? Sweet or savory it does not matter.