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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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Miami is not a cheap city. Miami-Dade is not a cheap county. Florida is, increasingly, not a cheap state, if the many headlines about areas with the fastest-growing real estate prices are any indication. So we went on this vacation looking to cut costs where we could, while still being able to enjoy what we…
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New Recipes Chimichurri – At our local farmers market, there’s a lady who shows up approximately twice a month and sells some really delicious fresh chimichurri. Unfortunately, since her attendance is so sporadic, we often run out of chimchurri in the interim. This past month, we went on a quest to reproduce her chimichurri as…
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This month felt a lot like I was holding my breath, waiting for things to happen. February is our first stock vest of the year, so there’s always the anticipation of waiting for the earnings announcement, followed by the anticipation (and anxiety!) of watching what the stock price does in between earnings and the next…
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