Once again, I don’t know how another month has passed. Since my last update, I’ve been jet-setting around the world and providing more frequent updates on my Instagram page. However, I’m also behind on that at this point ๐ . So let’s see what I’ve been up to!
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Let me paint you a picture. It’s 2016, Young Purple is a year and change into her journey to financial independence – and subsequently a year into writing on this blog ๐ . I went to a bonfire on the beach in Seattle with some friends and had a lovely time. At some point during the night, my glasses were knocked off and lost to the bonfire gods. Continue reading “Review: Zenni Optical – Affordable Eyeglasses That I Love”
Somehow we’re less than a month from the fall solstice and I’m not ready ๐ . Luckily at that time, I’ll be flipping the seasons upside down by flying to the Southern Hemisphere ๐ . But for now, let’s see what I got up to during the month of August!
Shockingly, I’m still a runner ๐ . I’ve gone from despising running more than anything to completing a couch to 5K program twice and now I have been running regularly for 2 years straight. Life is wild ๐ .
If someone wants to know the most surprising thing about retirement – this is it. I never would have dreamed I could go from loathing something to loving it after discovering I’ve been doing it wrong my whole life, but here we are. So let’s see how I’ve improved and what I’ve learned about running in the last year.
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And with that, it’s August and summer is winding down. Time makes no sense ๐ . While I grapple with that, let’s see what I got up to during the month of July!
And with that 2023 was half over…Wow. My mind still says 2022 sometimes so I’m all out of whack ๐ . So let’s see what I got up to in June!
Somehow May is over and once again my first question is: How?!? ๐ Time continues to fly over here. This month I went back to my ‘home’ of Seattle after a lovely month exploring California and expanded my housesitting capabilities while seeing what it’s like to care for someone else’s home and hot tub ๐ . So let’s see what I got up to!
A third of 2023 is over and I must politely ask: What the fuck ๐ ? Time is barreling forward because (I assume?) I’m having too much fun. So let’s see what I got up to in the fourth month of the year.
Continue reading “The Month Of California: April 2023 Recap”