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  • Trip Report: Pittsburgh

    Nov 20, 2024
    trip report
    pennsylvania, pittsburgh, pittsburgh-pirates, tourism, travel, travel blog, trip report
    Trip Report: Pittsburgh

    Last spring, my husband approached me and asked, “Would you rather go to Cleveland or Pittsburgh?” One of his favorite bands, Opeth, was going on tour, but wasn’t going to be coming to the west coast at all for the tour. Since we visited Cincinnati last fall and I hadn’t yet been to Pennsylvania, I

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  • Recipe Roundup: October

    Nov 10, 2024
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    baking, new recipes, recipe roundup, recipes, sourdough, what’s for dinner
    Recipe Roundup: October

    Another month of mostly new bread recipes. I promise I will eventually get off this bread kick and back to experimenting with more non-baking recipes, but for now, I’m really enjoying being able to provide fresh bread for my family each week. I’m also on a mission to perfect the cinnamon swirl sourdough loaf from

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  • Net Worth Update: November 2024

    Nov 2, 2024
    net worth
    finance, investing, money, net worth, personal-finance
    Net Worth Update: November 2024

    Well, the tide has receded from the high water mark of earlier this month (at its peak, I think our invested assets reached $1.08MM) and we’re back under a million in invested assets again. This leaves us open to celebrating a second (or third! or fourth!) time as we cross over that number, so it’s

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  • Race Report: Girlfriends Run for the Cure

    Oct 18, 2024
    race report
    10k race, fitness, race report, running
    Race Report: Girlfriends Run for the Cure

    For my third quarter 10k (remembering that one of my New Year’s resolutions was to run an organized 10k every quarter), I had to sort of stretch the definition of Q3. We had a lot of travel during the summer, so while I technically should have run this race in July, August, or September, I’m

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  • $1,000,000!

    Oct 12, 2024
    milestone, retirement savings
    budgeting, debt, finance, investing, money, personal-finance
    $1,000,000!

    I’m sure this won’t be the first time we cross this milestone, but we hit $1,000,000 in invested assets accounts today! Periodically on Reddit, someone will ask, “What did it feel like when you crossed a million dollars in invested assets?” Similarly, “What did it feel like when you crossed a million dollars in net

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  • Recipe Roundup: September

    Oct 8, 2024
    recipe roundup
    baking, new recipes, recipe roundup, recipes, sourdough, what’s for dinner
    Recipe Roundup: September

    I’m introducing a new category of posts to this blog, inspired by my weekly scroll through our recipe spreadsheet (yes, even my cooking is organized by spreadsheet) and realizing that it now has over 300 line items in it. I spend a lot of time making favorites of the family, but I also spend a

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  • Net Worth Update: October 2024

    Oct 1, 2024
    net worth
    finance, investing, money, net worth, personal-finance
    Net Worth Update: October 2024

    I have a confession to make. A timely confession, given that this is being written on October 1st, after the close of the stock market. When recording my monthly net worth statement, I always start by entering the values as they stand on the last day of the month. I don’t “lock” those values in,

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  • Trip Financials: Quebec City

    Sep 16, 2024
    trip financials
    budget, canada, money, personal-finance, tourism, travel, travel blog, travel expenses, travel-planning
    Trip Financials: Quebec City

    Oddly, I was less motivated to do this accounting. Sure, I had gone through Monarch already and categorized everything as Travel, and I had even created the tab for this account in my vacation expenses spreadsheet before we took the trip, but something about this was less interesting than our Ireland trip. Maybe because that

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  • Trip Report: Québec City

    Sep 8, 2024
    trip report
    quebec, quebec city, tourism, travel, travel blog
    Trip Report: Québec City

    At the time of writing this blog entry, I have 67 Google Flights alerts set to email me when prices change. If they ever start limiting the number of alerts you can set, I’ll be really, really sad, but for now, I keep loading them up with aspirational and planned trips to keep track of

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  • Net Worth Update: September 2024

    Sep 1, 2024
    net worth
    finance, investing, money, net worth, personal-finance
    Net Worth Update: September 2024

    Well, we finally made it through fog of August and came out over $1.4MM officially. The stock vest I referenced in the last net worth update recovered almost $10/share by the time the actual vest event occurred, which was thrilling. My strategy is, and has always been, to sell immediately upon vest (as in –

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