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  • Recipe Roundup: June

    Jul 9, 2025
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    Recipe Roundup: June

    New Greek pasta salad – My husband loves pasta salads. I, on the other hand, do not, and apparently have been subtly resisting any meal plan suggestions that veered into that territory. I must have been oddly receptive this month, as I, myself, suggested this recipe, after seeing it on Budget Bytes. With the chicken

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  • Net Worth Update: July 2025

    Jul 2, 2025
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    finance, financial independence, investing, money, net worth, personal-finance, retire early
    Net Worth Update: July 2025

    One foot in front of the other this month. It felt like the first two weeks sped by, then everything ground down to a much slower pace. It was also one of those annoying months where my semi-monthly pay schedule had my first paycheck arriving on a Sunday, which moved it to Friday the 13th

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  • Race Report: Top Down Trail Half Marathon

    Jun 23, 2025
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    Race Report: Top Down Trail Half Marathon

    Back in 2019, I decided to sign up for a trail half marathon to give myself a new challenge. I picked the Tulip Trail Run in Woodburn, Oregon, which was set to be run in late March of 2020. I started training twelve weeks in advance, and dutifully progressed through the training in the cold

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  • A nice weekend

    Jun 15, 2025
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    A nice weekend

    Recently, I had a nice weekend. It was a long weekend, which meant that myself and my youngest child had the day off. My husband and my daughter also had the day off, but since it was a Monday, that’s less notable for them – my husband works Tuesday through Friday, and my daughter doesn’t

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  • Recipe Roundup: May

    Jun 8, 2025
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    food, new recipes, recipe, recipe blog, recipe roundup, recipes
    Recipe Roundup: May

    Lots of new recipes this month, some hits, and some misses. I’ve been getting the itch to do some more baking beyond my weekly (usually multiple times a week) sourdough, so I’ll have to make more of an effort to find some new baking recipes as well. New Shrimp and grits – I’ve made shrimp

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  • Net Worth Update: June 2025

    Jun 1, 2025
    net worth
    finance, investing, money, net worth, personal-finance
    Net Worth Update: June 2025

    Well, on a month where the stock market went up over 6% and I vested another tranche of RSUs, it’s not a surprise that everything is looking green this month. Our cars even marginally increased in value, somehow. Of course, the whims of the market and a certain hair-trigger head of state make this feel

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  • Trip Financials: Mexico City

    May 26, 2025
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    mexico, mexico city, money, personal-finance, tourism, travel, travel blog
    Trip Financials: Mexico City

    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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  • Trip Report: Mexico City

    May 19, 2025
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    cdmx, food, mexico, mexico city, tourism, travel, travel blog, trip report
    Trip Report: Mexico City

    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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  • Recipe Roundup: April

    May 13, 2025
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    baking, food, new recipes, recipe, recipe blog, recipe roundup, recipes
    Recipe Roundup: April

    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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  • Blog anniversary!

    May 7, 2025
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    Blog anniversary!

    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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