Insight Timer: The Best Free Meditation App

by A Purple Life, posted in Hobbies

So I’ve read a few books about meditation and thought that diving into it fully could be one of my goals for 2025. However, like running and even financial independence, my Partner roped me in 🙂 . Instead of waiting for the fairly arbitrary start of the next year, I dove in and have been meditating almost every day for a few months now.

Previously in addition to reading those books, I’ve only dabbled in a weekly guided meditation that my 5th job (which I talk about in the post below) offered during the workday.

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Trainer Armour: How I Prevent Running Shoe Toe Holes

by A Purple Life, posted in Fitness, Hobbies, Reviews

I’m currently on a break from running because I doubled my mileage and as a result, one of my knees wasn’t happy with me. So I’m resting, icing and doing all kinds of stretches and exercises that y’all recommended to get back in tip top shape.

However, I miss running 🙂 . So today I thought it might be fun to talk about one of the things that have made my running a lot more enjoyable this last year. Continue reading “Trainer Armour: How I Prevent Running Shoe Toe Holes” →

Review: Greyhound – Montréal, Canada to Boston, MA

by A Purple Life, posted in Reviews, Travel, Travel Reviews

As you may know, I had a less than stellar experience riding a ‘Greyhound’ bus to Canada last month that turned out to be an uncomfortable FlixBus and was also 1.5 hours late. It was a last minute trip that we booked a month beforehand because our Amtrak tickets that I had reserved about a year before, no longer existed. If you want all those details I wrote about them here: Continue reading “Review: Greyhound – Montréal, Canada to Boston, MA” →

The Month Of Canada: August 2024 Recap

by A Purple Life, posted in Blogging, Early Retirement, Early Retirement Updates, Film, Finance, Fitness, Food, Hobbies, Investing, Keto, Net Worth Update, Spending, Travel

What do you mean 2024 is 2/3 over? Time is made up and I give up trying to understand it 🙂 . So let’s see what I got up to in August 2024.

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Review: 33 Hours In Singapore Air Business Class – $7,734 of Flights for $75 [Part 2]

by A Purple Life, posted in Reviews, Travel, Travel Hacking, Travel Reviews

This is the second part of a very long post about my experience flying 33 hours in Singapore Air Business Class. It was a long and convoluted road that led me and my Mom to this surprisingly long, but enjoyable adventure. In case you want all those details, the first post is here:

So let’s get back into it! When I left off, I had just landed in Frankfurt, Germany from Singapore. Continue reading “Review: 33 Hours In Singapore Air Business Class – $7,734 of Flights for $75 [Part 2]” →

Review: 33 Hours In Singapore Air Business Class – $7,734 of Flights for $75 [Part 1]

by A Purple Life, posted in Reviews, Travel, Travel Hacking, Travel Reviews

A series of unfortunate events happened to my Mom and my Singapore Air flights to and from Australia/New Zealand in the fall of 2023.

As I mentioned in previous posts, we had planned to enjoy 24+ hours in the wild Singapore Air A380 First Class Suites, but instead, because of changes to Singapore’s fleet, we experienced their First Class for the first time, had a shorter visit in the First Class Suites and then experienced this fascinating 33 hour itinerary in Business Class. Continue reading “Review: 33 Hours In Singapore Air Business Class – $7,734 of Flights for $75 [Part 1]” →

Celebrating 3 Years Of Running: My Progress and Revelations

by A Purple Life, posted in Fitness, Hobbies, Spending

In a surprise to everyone and me in particular, I’m still a runner and still loving it! I went from despising running more than anything, to finishing a couch to 5K program twice and now I have been running regularly for 3 years straight. Absolutely ridiculous 🙂 . Continue reading “Celebrating 3 Years Of Running: My Progress and Revelations” →

The Month Of Montréal: July 2024 Recap

by A Purple Life, posted in Blogging, Early Retirement, Early Retirement Updates, Film, Finance, Fitness, Food, Hobbies, Investing, Keto, Net Worth Update, Relationships, Travel

This month my Partner and I headed back to Montréal! We visited last summer for a month and loved it so much we wanted to come back and visit again for longer this year. So let’s see what I got up to during this month in Montréal, Canada!

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