Accountability: June 2023

Profile I am thirty eight years old and I’m a digital event producer and very occasional freelance stage manager. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with, though work has been very slow this year. I work a variety of small side hustles and am a full time student working on a…

19.) I will be careful about who I date and open with my finances with them when it gets serious – so that we can come up with good money plans for our future together.

19.) I will be careful about who I date and open with my finances with them when it gets serious – so that we can come up with good money plans for our future together.

For those just joining us here, a decade ago, I wrote a Money Manifesto and I have been going through each declaration that 29 year old me confidently declared to see how valid they’ve wound up being. Welp, this one will be a short update. This one has been pretty easy. I mean, it would…

Accountability: April 2023

Profile I am thirty eight years old and I’m a digital event producer and very occasional freelance stage manager. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I work a variety of small side hustles and am a full time student working on a PhD in Drama. Spending & Saving Work is…

Accountability: March 2023

Profile I am thirty eight years old and I’m a digital event producer and very occasional freelance stage manager. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I work a variety of small side hustles and am a full time student working on a PhD in Drama. Spending & Saving So things…

18.) So I will always have good health insurance. And any other reasonable insurance to keep from bankrupting myself because of an accident or an act of god or a drunken lunatic driving a car into the living room of my house.

18.) So I will always have good health insurance. And any other reasonable insurance to keep from bankrupting myself because of an accident or an act of god or a drunken lunatic driving a car into the living room of my house.

This series looks at a list of rules I made 10 years ago when I first started this blog regarding how I intended to approach money and life.  Well. I have largely failed at this. I have had health insurance the majority (though not all) of the time since starting this blog but my goodness,…

At the Limits of My Motivation

At the Limits of My Motivation

I have seen something somewhere along the lines of you can prioritize your relationships, your job, your health or your social life and generally you can manage two of these but probably not more. The first time I saw this stuck with me because there is a phrase most people who do any production management…

Accountability: February 2023

Profile I am thirty eight years old and I’m a digital event producer and very occasional freelance stage manager. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I work a variety of small side hustles and am a full time student working on a PhD in Drama. Spending & Saving Guys. I…

Accountability: January 2023

Profile I am thirty eight years old and I’m a digital event producer and very occasional freelance stage manager. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I work a variety of small side hustles and am a full time student working on a PhD in Drama. Spending & Saving I have…

Accountability: December 2022

Profile I am thirty eight years old and I’m a digital event producer and very occasional freelance stage manager. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I work a variety of small side hustles and am a full time student working on a PhD in Drama. Spending & Saving The highlight…

Accountability: November 2022

Profile I am thirty eight years old and I’m a digital event producer and very occasional freelance stage manager. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I work a variety of small side hustles and am a full time student working on a PhD in Drama. Spending & Saving November just…

Accountability: October 2022

Profile I am thirty eight years old and I’m a digital event producer and very occasional freelance stage manager. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I work a variety of small side hustles and am a full time student working on a PhD in Drama. Spending & Saving Alright, October.…

Accountability: September 2022

Profile I am thirty eight years old and I’m a digital event producer and very occasional freelance stage manager. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I work a variety of small side hustles and am a full time student working on a PhD in Drama. Spending & Saving Nothing like…

Accountability: August 2022

Profile I am thirty eight years old and I’m a digital event producer and very occasional freelance stage manager. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I work a variety of small side hustles and am also a full time student working on a PhD in Drama. Spending & Saving So…

Accountability: July 2022

Profile I am thirty eight years old and I’m a digital event producer and very occasional freelance stage manager. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I work a variety of small side hustles and am also a full time student working on a PhD in Drama. Spending & Saving I…

Some Thoughts on Nine Years of Blogging

Some Thoughts on Nine Years of Blogging

N.I.N.E. years. My blog is hands down the longest relationship I’ve ever been in. My blog’s birthday and mine are very close to each other, so I feel a strong passing of time towards the end of July every year. When I started this in 2013, I had no idea what I was doing, only…

Accountability: June 2022

Profile I am thirty seven years old and I’m a freelance stage manager and digital event producer. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I work a variety of small side hustles, and am also a full time student working on a PhD in Drama. Spending & Saving I feel a…

Accountability: May 2022

Profile I am thirty seven years old and I’m a freelance stage manager and digital event producer. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I work a variety of small side hustles, and am also a full time student working on a PhD in Drama. Spending & Saving Oof, what an…

Accountability: April 2022

Profile I am thirty seven years old and I’m a freelance stage manager and digital event producer. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I also work a variety of small side hustles. I am also a full time student working on a PhD in Drama. Spending & Saving So, I’ve…

The Boring Middle

A few weeks ago, I read a really great post about how lousy a lot of personal finance blogs are and how we all follow pretty much the same arc of get interested in personal finance, write a bunch of posts as we try to sort out our own thoughts about money, learn about side…

Accountability: March 2022

Profile I am thirty seven years old and I’m a freelance stage manager and digital event producer. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I also work a variety of small side hustles. I am also a full time student working on a PhD in Drama. I have also been staying…

Accountability: February 2022

Profile I am thirty seven years old and I’m a freelance stage manager and digital event producer. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I also work a variety of small side hustles. I am still at my dad’s house living the very grateful financially but endlessly mentally draining no rent…

2.) I will tithe 10%

2.) I will tithe 10%

I will stay that, for me, reviewing my Money Manifesto, this was one of the things that stood out to me and made me think a lot about how my relationship with religion has changed since 2014. I am still hardcore Team Jesus but the state of organized religion is fairly terrifying. The thing that…

Accountability: January 2022

Profile I am thirty seven years old and I’m a freelance stage manager and digital event producer. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I also work a variety of small side hustles. I have been living at my dad’s house rent free since July 2020 (thanks, ‘Rona), which definitely has…

Accountability: December 2021

Profile I am thirty seven years old and I’m a freelance stage manager and digital event producer. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with. I worked as a stagehand a lot this month. I also do an assortment of other little side hustles. I have been living at my dad’s house…