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2025 Ins & Outs
I haven’t made New Year’s Resolutions in years. Actually, I don’t really like resolutions anyway. I spent the new year stuffing 12 grapes down my throat at midnight while FaceTiming my bestie. I realized even though I’m playing the role of an emo adult who doesn’t care about holidays or goals or resolutions, I had…
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$146,142.85
That, my friends, (based on today’s numbers) is how much I need to make as a starting base salary + bonus in 2026 to live a comfortable life. Of course, my definition of comfortable is very privileged. I don’t want a roommate and I am assuming I’ll continue traveling to new, great places. That is…
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A travel year in review (2024)
I spent $13,000 plus 304,800 miles on travel in 2024. I saved about $3,048 by using miles (which I earned since 2022 from travel hacking) to cover some of the flights I booked throughout the year. My two words to summarize this year for me were change and unseriousness. Hey Siri, play “Night Changes” by…
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Check In/ Financial plan update
Yo yo yo my good homies! It has been a while. Life has been hectic. I’m writing this instead of sleeping because I messed up my sleep schedule by procrastinating instead of studying for my finals next week. School has been busy and I’m one week away from this semester being over. I wrote some…
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Worldview and Workview
TW: potential mental health triggers A few months ago, I was talking with one of my best friends about how I became more and more aware of my existence. We’ll call it an existential crisis. I didn’t have any life threatening moments or brushes with death. I just realized that shit, I’m gonna die one…
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Solo in Seoul (Part 2)
Wassup homies! In this post, I am gonna talk about the surprises and lessons I learned from my 2 week trip to South Korea. First, I’ll share surprises: Smoking: I didn’t know there was a heavy smoking culture here. I went to a club in Hongdae and left with all my clothes and hair smelling…
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Solo in Seoul (Part 1)
I just got back from a 2 week solo trip to South Korea. I’m so sad writing this because I had an amazing time & I can’t believe it’s over. During my visit, I stayed in 2 neighborhoods in Seoul (Itaewon & Gangnam), Jeju City & Incheon. In my first 5 days, I stayed in…
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In the lonely hour
In honor of the 10 year anniversary of Sam Smith’s album, ‘In the Lonely Hour’, I have decided to write about the loneliest experiences I have while listening to extremely sad love songs. Now there’s a difference between being lonely and being at peace in solitude, but in these moments I feel truly lonely: Traveling at…
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A pity party in Mexico
TL;DR I spent $1742 in Mexico & I have a few regrets. I am writing this straight from the balcony of my Airbnb with amazing views of the ocean, living my blogger girl dreams. First of all, I want to start this blog by saying that my trip to Mexico was absolutely fabulous. I stayed…
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Disaster Day in Atlanta
I mentioned that I was visiting Atlanta for a conference in my last post – Tea at the Park. Boy oh boy did plans change. I arrived at 11am on a Saturday and we learned that there was a city wide issue.There was no water. Like, at all. Unfortunately, there was a major main break…
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