Let’s see what I got up to this year:
No team – full autonomy
+$20,000 Raise
Travel
Got my wanderlust out there for a bit – saw so many people I haven’t for a long time
Skills
Finance/Investing (ever increasing: helping others with it, teaching my partner’s family with a Google Doc we created and helping his parents with their finances)
Travel Hacking
Hair Bleaching
Sous Vide (Chemical cooking/experimentation)
Photography
Hiking (1 mountain)
Sailing (1 stressful lesson)
Rock Climbing (still don’t like heights)
Craigslist Selling/ Learned eBay Selling
Gift Card Selling
Increasing Long Distance Friendships: Weekly Argentina friend Skype + Apprentice, Weekly sister-in-law Skypes
Traveled
Vietnam – First Time
San Fran – On a sleeper train with a movie theater!
NYC – 1 week with everything, realize move was the right choice
Boston/New Hampshire Aunt’s 60th BDay Celebration
Erie, PA – Wedding, Cabin lake side
Albany – July 4th Wedding<
ATL x2 (incl. 2 weeks with Mom in summer, 1 week at Christmas)
HF for Christmas - First Time
St. Louis - Visit friend, first time and found friends there to spend Thanksgiving with
Phoenix
Firsts
Friendsgiving – First Time Real One (with other families)/Thanksgiving in Home City – First Time
Family Christmas
Own a Bike
eBay Selling
Travel Reimbursement from Chase
Read
Simple Path to Wealth (JL Collins)
Millionaire Teacher
Enough (Jack Bogle)
How It Ends
50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality
Travel the World on $50 A Day
Little Book of Common Sense Investing
Bogleheads Guide to Investing
Warren Buffet’s Investment Philosophy
Irrational Exuberance
Black Swan
New Blogs
Millennial Revolution
Podcasts
Afford Anything Podcast
Mad FIentist
Watched
The Big Short ****
The Retirement Gamble
Food Choice
Europa Report
Room 237
Contact
The Wave ***
Ali Wong: Baby Cobra *****
Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room *****
Man Up ***
Ip Man
Welcome to the Punch
In Theaters
Arrival – PHENOMENAL!
The Accountant – FANTASTIC!
Dr. Strange
Deadpool – GREAT!
Classics
The Shining
Usual Suspects
Starship Troopers
The Devil’s Advocate
Shows
Hannibal
Elementary
Lovesick/Scrotal Recall
Black Mirror
Tiny House Hunters
Penny Dreadful
Zoo
Happy Endings
Luther (S4)
Human Planet
It’s Always Sunny (New season)
Galavant
Brooklyn Nine Nine
New Girl
House of Cards (S1/S2/some S3 again)