Lantern Festival and Glutinous Rice Ball Soup

Related to celebrating my birthday, I thought it would be fun to do a couple of new things. One, make glutinous rice ball soup (aka Tang Yuan) and two, attend a local Lantern Festival celebration. Ever since I saw the rice ball soup recipe in the game (which is easily…

It’s My Birthday!

Yay! 🎉 Yin Zhen brought me a cake and some other goodies. I’m all dressed up in peach blossoms and got my handy dandy pipa. Cue the serenading. My home and palace are celebrating with some fireworks! 💥 We are going all out partying today. 🤣  I guess I should go open…

The Current Obsession with Partner Skins

So the “Spring in the Capitol” dress that is currently available during second part of the LNY event kind of got me thinking about this. I’ve found the current trend of spending loads of event points for a minimum return kind of strange. It was first introduced at an…

I Finally Made Mooncakes!

I literally woke up one morning and decided to reorder the molds and lye water. They came the following day, and then I revisited the recipe I chose to try out to refresh myself on how long the process would take. (I’ll post a link to the recipe I…

UPDATE!

First off, I apologize for being MIA. Between the holidays, kids, and writing I got a little behind in posting. Anyway, moving along. I've done a lot of since my last post, such as actually making mooncakes, failing at a third attempt for Dominant, and dropping my F2P account. Stay…

Why is LOP FOMO a Thing?

I'm going to be honest, I haven't had this urge to buy everything since the Qixi Festival (aka Lanling event) earlier this year. But I'm definitely aware that the desire to grab everything in a special event is still a struggle for me at times. However, I think I finally…

What I Feel I Cannot Afford

In anticipation for the first CS server Dom/Favored on the F2P account, I’m beginning to wonder if multi cycle hoarding is worth it in general for F2P. Maybe I’m just getting antsy or just concerned that if I don’t level up now it could be detrimental…