November was one of the best months I’ve had in a while. I went on my last trip of the year and it was so relaxing. I definitely went into it with the mindset that I wanted to have a really relaxing tropical vacation after the year I’ve had so while I did some planning, it was a pretty laid back trip. Mid-November, my team also finished up a huge project for work and since then, if I’m being completely…
I’m super late for my October updates, because I’ve been busy since the start of this month. First, right after coming back from my Europe trip, I went straight back to work. It was a lot of catching up at work especially as my PTO was back to back with my manager’s PTO. So not only was I catching up, I also had extra work as her back up. On top of that, my friend really wanted to go on…
I’m overdue for my October 2022 updates but before I get to my financial updates on a different post, I figured I’d recap my trip to Europe! I’ve wanted to go to Europe for as long as I can remember. For one reason or another, it just never happened till now. 2020 was the closest I got to a definite plan but everything went sideways with COVID. So for two agonizing years, I’ve been waiting to go. I was initially…
If I thought May was bad, well, June did not get any better. It has been absolutely full of madness. I’m so glad I have this 4th of July long weekend to take a breather. Work has been absolutely crazy. You really don’t know the consequences of what you wish for until you get it. What I thought was just a transition into the new team doing what I was already doing turned out to be much more. Somehow I…
Ah, I can’t believe it’s already mid-June. I don’t think I’ve ever been this late in doing my monthly updates. May was just a non-stop busy month, starting with closing on my home, buying appliances, and starting with the move-in process. Then I went on my pre-planned week-long vacation at the end of May which was a much needed break. The day I came back to work, I was met with the news I’d been wanting, which is a transition…
My home buying experience was a very memorable one for me as this is my first home so I wanted to do a recap to capture the entire journey. Surprisingly, this is not the first time I will be living in a new build home. The first time I stepped foot in a brand new building was my second year of college when my residential building had just finished being built and luckily my year would be the first to…
Ahh! I’m writing this post as I am currently waiting for the keys to my new home! In a matter of hours, I will officially be a homeowner! I’ll make a separate post on everything about my home-buying experience (spoiler alert: after my down payment went through, I’m sad to announce, I now have under $100k net worth). It is bittersweet to say, this is the end of a chapter in my life and this will be the last month…
Ah! March was such a hectic, anxiety-inducing month that I pretty much lost all motivation to keep the blog updated. The first two weeks of March were actually fine. I even started writing my recap of my first 5K, the training I did, and my future running goals but didn’t end up finishing it when things went crazy all of a sudden. I might still post that but a lot has changed since. I was hit with major hives of…
Goodbye 2021, hello 2022! As I look back on the past year and contemplated the theme of 2021, I realized that The Year of Waiting was the most fitting. I started 2021 with excitement as I do every year, anticipating the year that would come with every ounce of optimism. Unfortunately most of the waiting ended up in disappointment, but that’s just life sometimes. A Diminishing Excitement At the start of 2021, I was most excited to get the newly…
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…