May 2025
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I’ll open this by saying: this ended up more expensive than I thought it would. I’m not really sure why I thought it would be cheaper, considering the impetus for going on this trip was spending $2000 on plane tickets, but here we are. Nonetheless, once you take out the big categories of airfare and…
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Mexico City! Much like Québec City last year, Mexico City has been on my husband’s bucket list for many years. It is the largest city in North America, with approximately 22 million people in the metropolitan area, but somehow tends gets lost in the fog of misunderstandings about what Mexico has to offer. Similar to…
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Not the most inspired month, I’ll admit. We did lots of the same repeats that I’ve already shared, plus some that don’t actually have an online recipe. Someday I’ll type out some of those, but not this month. Still, I tried to make sure to try a few new recipes along the way. New Recipes…
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It’s the one year anniversary of Violet Sky! I had a few goals when I created this blog, which I don’t think I ever really articulated. I go through spells with my use of social media, where I feel upset, or guilty, or irresolute, or whatever, because I can tell that I experience negative effects…
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I have to admit, when, at the peak in February, our investments reached $1,071,XXX, I thought to myself, “We’re probably safely above a million now.” I’m a fairly superstitious person, but I am pretty sure that I didn’t knock on wood, and April made me regret it. I don’t usually show the monthly chart of…
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