Skip to content

Violet Sky

  • About
  • Links
  • Archives
  • Tags
  • Recipe Roundup: May

    Jun 8, 2025
    recipe roundup
    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…

    Read more…

  • 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…

    Read more…

  • Trip Financials: Mexico City

    May 26, 2025
    trip financials
    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…

    Read more…

  • Trip Report: Mexico City

    May 19, 2025
    trip report
    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…

    Read more…

  • Recipe Roundup: April

    May 13, 2025
    recipe roundup
    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…

    Read more…

  • Blog anniversary!

    May 7, 2025
    Uncategorized
    blog, blog anniversary, blogging, life, writing
    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…

    Read more…

  • Net Worth Update: May 2025

    May 3, 2025
    net worth
    finance, financial independence, fire, investing, money, net worth, personal-finance, retire early, retirement, retirement saving, retirement savings
    Net Worth Update: May 2025

    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…

    Read more…

  • My Journey through Oregon State’s Post-Bacc Computer Science Degree

    Apr 22, 2025
    oregon state university computer science
    computer science, education, oregon state university, post-bacc, post-baccalaureate
    My Journey through Oregon State’s Post-Bacc Computer Science Degree

    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…

    Read more…

  • It’s tax day!

    Apr 15, 2025
    taxes
    finance, money, personal-finance, taxes
    It’s tax day!

    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…

    Read more…

  • Recipe Roundup: March

    Apr 9, 2025
    recipe roundup
    cooking, recipe roundup, recipes
    Recipe Roundup: March

    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…

    Read more…

←Previous Page Next Page→

Blog at WordPress.com.

  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Violet Sky
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Violet Sky
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar