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 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 #373, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”I read many blog posts each day. They mostly focus on personal finance, but also on minimalism and travel . Here are some of my favorite posts I read in December.
Continue reading “My Favorite Posts By Other People, December 2025”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 #372, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”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 #18”We have just a few days until 2025 is over, and I figure it’s time to review 2025 and look ahead to 2026.
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 #371, Friday Firsts, Fabulousness, And Monthly Goals”
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Physician in Numbers
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”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”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”