Hello and welcome to very amusing, your one-stop shop for the stories, secrets, and

shenanigans of a popcorn-fueled theme park journalist. I'm Carly Wiesel, and while my voice is not completely back, yeah, it's been a month, if you've been counting. It has been a month since I lost my voice. I don't love it. I don't love it. There is some sort of steroid I can go on, but like I don't want to take a whole steroid and affect my whole body because my voice isn't back in. I want it to heal things naturally, but we may have to bite the bolt and do it. Anyway,

my voice is not back, but we are back. We are back. Like, my voice is back like 75%, but we are back

100% because it is 2026 and I am so excited to bring you, the first episode of the new year. We have so much in store this year,

especially our very first group event. Our group trip to Disney World and Musa Palooza is

literally days away. I'm looking at a to-do list written down on paper and on a whiteboard.

Things are moving. Things are happening.

I am as we speak.

I am waiting for a new phone number that I purchased.

I signed up for a cell phone plan, okay?

I signed up for a new cell phone plan to be able to set up a WhatsApp group chat for everyone going to the event, but they dedicated phone number exclusively for a Musaalooza. Like, there's a lot happening. I'm ordering merch. I'm getting things done. There's maybe even a little craft. There's so much happening. So if you were not able to go to this one, for which I still feel, um, boulders worth of guilt, just truly I'm just like bogged down by the guild I feel for people who wanted to go and couldn't.

If you were not able to get in, which was my fault, and I apologize deeply for, if you couldn't make it to this one because of timing, money, travel, schedule, et cetera. We will have more in the future, I hope, I pray. Things seem to be going great right now. So stay tuned for more. 2026 is going to be a huge year, which is why we are doing a bucket list episode. We did one of these last year, and there are so many more things that I just want to raise a little vacation flag about and be like, maybe you should travel here. Maybe we should all travel here. Oh, my God, maybe future group trip. To a bucketless location. That would be wild.

Anyway, stick around. I hope your new years and holidays were great.

Mine were great. I went to Colorado. My child skied for the first time. That was cool.

She was scared of snow, which is shocking for someone who watches frozen and consumes frozen

content 24-7. Did not think she would be scared of snow considering her passionate love for Elsa, and yet it happened. She also went on her first roller coaster. She went on, I almost called her Barnstormer, but at Disneyland it's Gadgets Go-coaster. She went on, was not scared. I was not scared. Sat down and I kept being like,

okay, we're going to go up, up, up,

expecting her to lose her mind when we got up there.

No, she loved it. We got off and she said, again, again, again. I want to go again. My child loves a thrill. She loves a popcorn. She loves a theme park. What can I say?

She is my flesh on blood.

And then when else she went to a football game?

I went back to the final night of the holidays made here activation

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