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January was one of the most professionally chaotic months of my life – that I managed to stay employed for, at least. As a result, I barely paid attention to the stock market (not that I’ve been hanging on its every word, lately) and so as I’m sitting here writing this up, I’m finding myself
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Ah, another high spend year. This is my second year tracking our spending in u/BloomingFinances excellent spreadsheet, which makes writing up this report particularly easy. As I noted to a friend while writing up this post, each year I seem to look at our spending and say, “Wow! That’s a lot!” and then make almost
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Awkward. Not only did I not make a new dish in December, despite professing that I would work some into the rotation, but I also didn’t take any pictures of the food I did make, other than this ciabatta that bubbled up nicely for some mortadella sandwiches we had. Maybe this month will be the
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Well, it’s a new year, and while 2025 was apparently a great year for the stock market, it ended its last week on a slump. Being up 16% for the year obviously makes up for it, but overall, it hasn’t been a very relaxing year with the stock market, nor one in general, so it
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The financials of this trip are a little different than previous trips, since I had a medical event during the trip and also the purpose was celebrating my friend’s birthday. I ended up deciding to exclude the medical and celebratory costs from the vacation spending, since they fall outside normal vacation behavior for me, but
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As I’m looking at what we ate in November, I’m realizing that I did not make a single dinner that I had not made before. Something to think about for December, though we’re now 12 days into it and the year is clearly getting away from me. On the plus side, I made challah for
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The stock market was largely flat this past month, so the growth out of this net worth update was derived primarily from the cash that showed up with the last stock vest of the year. I continue to monitor the market much more lightly than I have in the past, and I’m curious to see
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Continuing on our now three year tradition of traveling to the rust belt in fall, which is actually entirely coincidental up until this point, we took a long weekend trip to Detroit, Michigan to visit my friend for her 40th birthday. I’ve always been interested in seeing Detroit – its rise to being an economic
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The month of October got away from me! Usually I have a post a week queued up, and I work on this recipe roundup post throughout the month as I’m making the meal plan each week or executing some of the dishes and want to jot my thoughts down on them. But here it is,
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Another month has flown by, and as I’ve continued to avoid paying too much attention to the stock market, it’s up another 2% and some change. Work has been pretty consuming, so dwelling on money movements has been less appealing than usual. I continue to be suspicious about the growth we’re experiencing, but as usual,
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