Welcome to my April 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…
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….
Say what? I’m becoming a Day Trader and quitting my job? No, not so fast now. I guess you can say the title is a bit misleading. No, I’m not quitting my day job and throwing all my savings into Gamestop, YOLO! But I am very interested in day trading or rather swing trading. I guess you can call this my commitment post where I will attempt to keep myself accountable by putting my goal out into the world as…
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…
Welcome to my February 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: $44,751.86 I house every month’s debt progress from the very beginning here if you want to check out the progress so…
About 2 weeks ago, I wrote about my goal of restarting and finishing the Couch to 5K program. Along with that goal, I posted 4 other goals in relation to running that I made for 2021. Well, it’s surprising how making your goals public can really boost accountability. And how some things come when you least expect it. I surprised myself in my “long run” today by finishing my 5 mile run in 1 hour and therefore finishing goal #2!…
It’s not a surprise that like most financial bloggers, I am aware of the FIRE (financial independence/retire early) movement. What may be a surprise is how incredibly obsessed I am with FIRE since it’s not something I’ve ever mentioned before. My focus has always been on eliminating my student loans and increasing my net worth. But that is all part of the greater plan of FIRE and quitting my job in the future. At the center of FIRE is the…
The last time I wrote about the Couch to 5K program was back in 2019. I had shockingly just passed the dreaded Week 5 Day 3 where the program goes from alternative walking/running to a complete 20 minute run. Now, I’m sad to announce I’m restarting C25K all over again. I am almost ashamed to say that post was made in August of 2019. As of today, I have yet to actually complete a 5K. I say almost because I…
Welcome to my January 2021 financial progress report, the first of the year! 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: $45,557.03 I house every month’s debt progress from the very beginning here if you…