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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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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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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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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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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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You know, I can’t really remember if I ever wrote an introduction of any sort. I have a thin blurb on the About part of this blog, and I may have alluded at some point to my profession, but I think I’ve really been just yapping into the void with no preamble. So, hi, I’m…
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