If there's one thing that I still struggle with as a freelancer, it's keeping myself on a personal budget. In my mind, there are too many "what if" scenarios to really say for sure how much money will go where every month. I'd rather have the flexibility to take advantage of cool opportunities that come
After a busy month of nonstop travel in July, I was looking forward to enjoying several weeks home in Seattle for the month of August. I had found out in late July of my grandmother's passing and had plans to spend the last week of August in Hawaii for her memorial service. But other than
If it isn't already obvious, I love to travel and I do it often. With that being said, even I'm a bit mind boggled by the amount of travel I did in July. I spent 21 days on the road visiting a total of 8 different cities. The reasons were a mix of both fun
I was initially going to begin this post by lamenting that June was a pretty slow month due to this week feeling low key and uneventful. It's certainly feeling that way lately, probably due to sunshine and 90 degree weather that makes you want to kick back with an ice cold drink and do nothing
May was one hell of a ride with a multi-day music festival, film festival, political conference, and LOTS of food photos. It was also a highly nostalgic month, as it marked the end of my first car and third laptop, and entering into the last year of my twenties. That was pretty much how the
A few weeks ago, I did something I never thought I'd do: buy a brand new car in cash. Actually, it wasn't just me, it was my boyfriend and our joint-venture business, Gemini Connect. There is a really worthwhile story behind how we built up enough cash with our business to buy a car, but that is
Happy first of May! It's hard to believe that May Day (or Lei Day if you're in Hawaii) is already here once again. Besides being a sure sign that summer is right around the corner, the end of April was significant for this blogger because it marked the first full month that I captured full
Last month before I went on vacation, I wrote a post about spring cleaning your workspace by making it more ergonomic and organized. That post was all about the physical clutter, and in my promised followup, I'll now go over some strategies for spring cleaning the virtual parts of your workspace. Physical spring cleaning is
Post-vacation blues. They're pretty much inevitable, whether it means you're sitting at your desk wishing you were still on vacation, or simply finding it hard to refocus and get back into your pre-vacation routine. Luckily, my post-vacation blues now take the form of the latter rather than the former. I truly love the work I
When I think back to the 18+ years I spent in various forms of school, my main memories involve the many breaks we would enjoy each year. From the family-oriented fall and winter breaks, to the much livelier spring break and of course the much-loved summer break, schools get one thing right: giving students several
