YTD Income for FT Work: $81,931.17 (take-home) YTD Income for Side Hustles: $4,339.14 YTD Interest/Dividends: $7,425.93 YTD Expenditures (not including funding savings/investments): $66,169 (averaging over $7k a month in spending seems so insane to me. I’ll keep trying to find ways to pull this down, but it’s expensive to exist these days…) YTD Net Worth…
A Journey Towards Coast FI
A few months ago, I was coasting along (not financially independent coasting, though). My job is flexible, pays well, and doesn’t include a lot of responsibility. Things were a far cry from 2021 when I was waking up in a cold sweat anticipating the workday ahead running of fumes because I was so burnt out….
So……
I realize it has been a while since my last update. What I didn’t realize was just how much of a while it’s been. In a nutshell, goals I laid out back in January are on track. The only thing that has really changed is our strategy on paying off the house. We recently decided…
2025 – Let’s Go!
Time for an update, it seems! From the personal life side of the house– I have been moved back home for the last year after an off-and-on year-long separation. Life has been good, and it’s been fun making future plans as partners again. In 2024, I established a really consistent yoga practice, started yoga teacher…
Life These Days and My Thoughts on FIRE
No major life-altering events to report, and that makes me pretty happy. All in all, I have just been pretty happy. A lot of realizations have come out of the last two years between a major career shift and an unexpected marital separation. I don’t recommend the latter if you can avoid it, but I…
2024 Beginning Financial Status
Hello, again. I have officially moved back home after 13 months. Things were a little stressy in December and January, but I finally feel settled and refocused to continue moving through life back in this direction with my husband. I am beyond grateful things worked out– we’ve put in a lot of work, and I…
A Big Update Moving Into 2024
Plot twist. I’m moving home?! I’m teetering between elation and caution because 2023 tried to do me in, and I’m a little gun-shy. But, as it turned out, my husband and I were able to sort some things out. Those things are not what I would consider completely sorted, but they’re well on their way,…
On Other Recent Changes
There have been a few new shifts in my life this week– not necessarily regarding marriage things, but also not completely unrelated– that I thought I might discuss here. First things first: my habits with technology need to change. As a kid in the 90s, my mother would have to set limits on my TV…