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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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Happy tax day to all seven of us who celebrate! My condolences to the rest of America. I’m one of those weirdos who really enjoys doing taxes. I’ve been doing our family’s taxes myself for the last 17 years or so, having started in the slimy grips of TurboTax but graduating more recently to FreeTaxUSA…
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New Recipes Zucchini pasta – We couldn’t find basil for this recipe, and thus it was kind of a bust. Not the worst thing to eat, but nobody particularly loved it. I’m keeping it around for summer, when I’ll be growing both basil and zucchini. Mongolian beef ramen noodles – I have a bad habit…
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I don’t think my cover images are ever particularly subtle, but this one is probably the least subtle yet. We seem to have returned to a tariffs era, for better or for worse (at present, “worse” seems like the more obvious outcome), during a time when we’re still struggling with inflation and weirdly, the price…
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As I write this, we are halfway through the month of March. Our investments are down $28,105.19 since the start of the month, despite contributing $4,902. This is not the first time I’ve watched our account balances go down, and in fact not even the worst two week stretch I’ve watched in recent history, but…
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