2025 is 1/3 over and time is dumb 🙂 . The month absolutely flew by for reasons I’ll explain below, but in general it was nice to be back Stateside after spending the first few months of the year on the other side of the world. It was also lovely to land when spring had sprung in one of my favorite cities in the world. Let’s see what I got up to in April!
Category: Hobbies
The Month Of Sakura: March 2025 Recap
And with that, March 2025 is over and 1/4 of 2025 is complete. Literally, how dare time 🙂 ? But I feel like I complain about how fast time seems to be flying every month instead of focusing on the fact that it’s partially doing that because I’m having so much fun. So let’s see what fun things I did in March and focus on the positives instead.
The Month Of Auckland: February 2025 Recap
Hello and welcome to this month’s edition of Where In The World Is Purple 😉 ! This month I’m writing this while looking at local New Zealand birds frolicking in the leaves of thousand year old trees. The world is wild y’all 🙂 . So let’s get into what I got up to this month!
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The Best Video Games I Played In 2024
Over the last few years I’ve written the below posts to accumulate all of the knowledge I gained playing some awesome video games. Hilariously, I often look back at them to remember those tips when it’s been a while since I last picked up one of those games. Continue reading “The Best Video Games I Played In 2024”
How I Read 220 Books For $93 In 2024
My time in retirement has been put to good use. I read more now than ever as you can see from my posts below.
- How I Read 250 Books For $8 In 2023
- How I Read 100 Books For Free In 2022
- How I Read 52 Non-Fiction Books In 52 Weeks
However, given my voracious reading appetite, I was curious if this pastime would start to cost me bank.. But like most things I love in life, I found a way 🙂 . Continue reading “How I Read 220 Books For $93 In 2024”
The Month Of Yuki Matsuri: January 2025 Recap
Welcome to 2025! I’m currently writing this while marveling at the beauty of freshly fallen snow and hoping that this calm environment will help me write more for this very blog (I’m very behind schedule🤣). So let’s get into it!
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10 Years Into My FIRE Journey: From $53K To $912K
January 2025 marks 10 years into my FIRE journey and also 10 years of writing this blog to document said journey. It’s absolutely wild how much can change in a decade so I wanted to take the time to reflect on the last 10 years and what happened. Continue reading “10 Years Into My FIRE Journey: From $53K To $912K”
Lessons Learned From A Decade Of Blog Writing
Somehow it’s been 10 years since I first typed words for this blog. That means that writing this blog has officially become my longest running hobby ever 🙂 . It’s the longest I’ve done anything actually – longer than my working career (9 years), longer than college (4 years) and way longer than my previous NaNoWriMo winning streak (2 years) before I boycotted them. Continue reading “Lessons Learned From A Decade Of Blog Writing”