A female primary care physician opines on money, travel, fitness, and other topics to be determined
I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 6 years, and plan to continue doing so.
Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #325, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”I read many blog posts each day. They mostly focus on personal finance, but also on minimalism and travel . This January I was more taken with personal updates than general posts. Here are the posts I spent a lot of time thinking about, even after I finished reading.
Continue reading “My Favorite Posts By Other People, January 2025”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 6 years, and plan to continue doing so.
Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #324, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”A few weeks ago, I read a post by Michelle at Wise & Shine about a Curious List.
A Curious List is NOT a bucket list. It’s not a collection of things to cross off before…well… you kick the bucket.
It’s more of a list of things that intrigue you–things to try, but maybe you don’t have to “complete.” Or maybe you lose interest before you actually get to it, which is fine.
I feel a little more pressure to think about putting together a list, as I might be changing up my job. Hitting FI means I feel freer to consider what I might do with my time if I don’t spend it all working.
Continue reading “What Might My Curious List Look Like?”Not long after the start of this blog, I cut my hours very slightly, and wanted to make sure I didn’t waste the extra time I was paying dearly for. I had started reading about preparing for retirement in non-financial ways, and I realized that it was time to start (re-) building a life that didn’t revolve solely around medicine.
I started this series of posts at the end of October 2018 with lots of big goals, but even at the beginning, knew that I couldn’t follow all those dreams all at once.
Every few months, I try to look at what I have accomplished, and see if I can adjust course to focus my free time in the directions I wish I would go: increasing fitness, building (or maintaining) connections with friends, family and community, engaging with the arts, and, lately, keeping up with financial tasks.
My last update was in May 2024.
Life got pretty crazy since then, and I apparently failed to update my progress for over 7 months.
Not only is it time to review how well I have been pursuing those goals (probably not all that well…), but there is a little more urgency to reconsider what I want. I will be meeting with (one of) my bosses soon, to discuss how I envision my clinical goals going forward.
It’s hard to ask for what you want, when you haven’t really considered the question.
Continue reading “Future Me, January 2025”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 6 years, and plan to continue doing so.
Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #323, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”As I figured out in my last post, I think the PiN household is financially independent (FI).
This leads to the next question: will I retire early(-ish), the RE in FIRE?
Although I wasn’t sure about financial independence until I calculated our numbers for 2024, I have had a strong suspicion since the spring of 2024, when my taxable investment account hit, and then blew by, a very interesting round number. For several months, I have been kicking around the idea of stopping work vs. cutting back vs. continuing as I am.
With the financial excuses for why I can’t retire yet out of the way (mostly), I now have to seriously consider whether what I get out of work is worth what I give up to practice medicine.
Continue reading “If I’m FI, Now What?”As I have written many times before, I spend the time around New Year’s going through the spending for the past year. I also calculate my (our) net worth, which has been much more exciting in the past few years.
It’s mid-January, and I have, in fact, gone over the household spending and net worth.
Even though I waited until the very end of 2024 to review our 2023 spending, I thought I’d go through my thoughts on our 2024 spending and finances a little sooner.
How did we do?
Continue reading “Thoughts On Our 2024 Finances”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 6 years, and plan to continue doing so.
Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #322, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”I may have mentioned that my father in law passed away in 2024.
Between one thing and another, Mr. PiN and I are dealing with settling the estate. This is made more difficult by the fact that Mr. PiN’s dad was unable to keep up with paperwork and financial tasks for several years before his death.
I recently spent a day off going through the last seven years of statements online. The goal was to look for payments related to his tax returns, but I found plenty of other interesting details.
Continue reading “Finances Of The Very Elderly”