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Physician in Numbers
Christmas 2025
Author: IM-PCP
Wednesday W #17
I’ve started Wednesday W’s as a way to give short updates of how I use my (new) extra day off per week. I am curious about what I will do with that extra day, and think blogging about it might prompt me to make sure I take advantage of it.
Continue reading “Wednesday W #17”Cutting Costs To Travel More
About this time last year, I wrote about increasing our yearly budget for travel. We had taken a last-minute trip abroad after Mr. PiN’s father died, and I was looking at a vacation rental for a winter trip to warmer weather, but these were going to be much more expensive than our usual trips.
Since our finances seemed okay, this sounded like a good time to loosen the purse strings for something Mr. PiN and I both enjoy.
We decided to travel more, and with less concern for costs, in 2025.
This year saw us taking more trips than we have in some time: 3 vacations and 2 meetings together, 2 solo trips for me to see my mom, and 1 solo trip for Mr. PiN to visit an uncle. The vacations have been higher end than we have done before. It’s been fun.
Although I haven’t quite made myself add everything up (I will do that at the end of the month), I am pretty sure we have spent more in one year on travel than we ever have before.
I realize that travel after COVID is just more expensive. Also, inflation is a thing, and keeping our travel budget the same as in 2010 means we are effectively spending less. So it’s okay to spend more on travel. Nevertheless, I am thinking it’s time for me to review ways to spend less on travel for 2026. I already have 4 trips half-planned, and it would be nice to save a little money to splurge on 1 or 2 more.
I’ve written about saving money on travel before, but I think it would be good for me to go over some of those tips again.
Continue reading “Cutting Costs To Travel More”Fitness Log #370, And Friday Fabulousness
I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 7 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 #370, And Friday Fabulousness”Wednesday W #16
I’ve started Wednesday W’s as a way to give short updates of how I use my (new) extra day off per week. I am curious about what I will do with that extra day, and think blogging about it might prompt me to make sure I take advantage of it.
Continue reading “Wednesday W #16”Future Me, December 2025
I started this series early in my blog, when I cut my hours and wanted to make sure I used my time wisely. I started with lots of big goals, but I knew that I couldn’t follow all those dreams all at once.
I’m now trying to prepare for retirement in earnest. I’ve cut my hours even further, and finding purpose when I stop working seems more pressing.
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 September 2025. This is a good time to review how well I have been pursuing those goals, especially given my additional time out of the office.
Continue reading “Future Me, December 2025”Fitness Log #369, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness
I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 7 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 #369, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”Wednesday W#15
I’ve started Wednesday W’s as a way to give short updates of how I use my (new) extra day off per week. I am curious about what I will do with that extra day, and think blogging about it might prompt me to make sure I take advantage of it.
Continue reading “Wednesday W#15”A Geyser Of Consumption
After a very busy period of work, I finally had a little time this weekend to catch up on the rest of my life.
Since it’s early December, and I’m not so good about unsubscribing to advertising emails from companies I like, I had many, many emails imploring me to save money by buying something.
And so, this weekend I did. I bought many somethings.
Continue reading “A Geyser Of Consumption”Fitness Log #368, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness
I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 7 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 #368, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”