On Christmas Eve of 2020, I went for a run along a 5 mile trail with my friend. Now, mind you, I’ve never ran 5 miles before. But there were to be no Christmas parties for the both of us due to Covid and with such limited indoor activities, we decided to go on this trail to run. I can’t remember much about what happened during this run. I do know for a fact that I couldn’t even run the…
November was a very draining month. I just didn’t have the energy to do anything else once this month ended hence the late post. Work has been crazy busy with end-of-year deadlines approaching so mentally I’ve been drained every time I get off work. I also went out of town almost every weekend in November which definitely further drained my energy (not to mention my gas budget) driving 5-6 hours each week back and forth. Plus, I felt like I…
October was a blast and I’m not surprised at all! Historically speaking, October has been my milestone month for the past 2 years. I climbed out of negative net worth in October 2019 to officially have $0 net worth. I followed it up by hitting $100k net worth in October 2020. So I had quite a bit of an expectation for this October. While October of this year did not bring any financial milestones, it was full of fun. I especially got…
A little late on this net worth and home update but I still wanted to do it. Happy to say I’ve made a recovery since the last quarter. The current screenshot I took was supposed to be this quarter’s (Jul-Sept) net worth growth. However, when I compared that to my June 2021 net worth update, I realized that I ended June 30th with $137,927 and started July 1st with $147,963. June 2021 Net Worth: $137,927 Sep 2021 Net Worth: $168,258…
Wow what a month September was. I can’t say I’m looking forward to reviewing my spending for September which is why I’m late in posting this update. I went on two vacations merely 3 weeks apart which made the month go by so fast. Although it felt a bit rushed, it was far from a bad month. I will however predict that it’s likely to be a spendy month when I assess my spending in my budget section. I just…
I’m out of control. I need to stop. Lifestyle inflation has come for me. I knew this month’s update was not going to look good but reviewing my budget really hit me in the face just how much I’ve overspent in August. Earlier this month, I decided to join my friend on a last minute road trip which was a huge money drain. But I must say it was well worth it as this is a friend who is going…
Welcome to my May 2021 updates! If you are new here, every month I post the progress I’ve made on paying off my student loans and on my savings. I’ve done this since I first started paying down my loans in July 2017 and it has been so worth it. Student debt paid this month: $880.77 Student debt remaining: $42,327.50 I house every month’s debt progress from the very beginning here if you want to check out the progress so…
In February of this year, I made 5 running goals when deciding to re-attempt the Couch to 5K program I had failed twice at. I’m proud to announce that I can check off two more goals: completing a 5k nonstop and 5 miles nonstop run! Here’s a snippet of the 5 running goals I made for this year: My running goals in order of completion: 1. Finish a 5K non-stop run 2. Run 5 miles in under 1 hour 3….
Welcome to my March 2021 updates! If you are new here, every month I post the progress I’ve made on paying off my student loans and on my savings. I’ve done this since I first started paying down my loans in July 2017 and it has been so worth it. Student debt paid this month: $880.77 Student debt remaining: $43,945.22 I house every month’s debt progress from the very beginning here if you want to check out the progress so…
I don’t like to toot my own horn, but I really do think I have great intuition. Call it a hunch, woman’s intuition, whatever you may, I think I have it. Honestly though, I’m just trying to look on the bright side of things to make myself feel better because I had a pretty devastating day today. This whole week, I couldn’t get the nagging feeling that everything in my life was going great, too great, and that something was…