Reflecting on a Year of Blogging: Updates, Life, and What’s Next

It’s Been a While…

It’s been a while since I’ve written my thoughts on this blog. I’ve been focused on adding some value lately through value investing and how readers can benefit from this analysis and strategy that is often seen through the old guard—meaning older investors like Warren, the late Charlie Munger, and those who came before and a bit after them.

But in doing so, I realize that sometimes I can get caught up in providing value, indexing, and all the things that come with running a blog that I forget to let the human side come through so you can connect with me—even though anonymously. Still, I never want to get to the place where I lose integrity with blog writing with the help of A.I. or where suddenly these posts seem out of touch because I am no longer writing about living as a broke college student and only about investing strategies.

I understand that some of you don’t come for one or the other, and I respect that.

Life Lately: Juggling Blogging, College, and a New Website

Balancing Responsibilities

Life has been a bit tough—not in the sense that things are going wrong or bad, but just that I haven’t been getting the time I need to breathe and recalibrate. My days off are spent working on this blog, running errands, or spending time with the teen.

We also started working on a website together. I told the teen that if it becomes financially successful, we will split the profits, so he has been eager to work on that each day and contribute his research and knowledge skills.

So far, we have about six articles up, and it’s looking promising. I found a couple of other sites in the niche—one is running a bunch of ads, and another is doing it for fun with no ads in sight. Two extremes. We hope to be the middle—a bit of ads for some revenue but never too much where the reader is inundated with ads on top of ads to the point where the content gets lost.

My Last Quarter of Community College

Another update—next month will be my last month of community college. I am not sure how I feel about it yet. At times, I think it is going to hit me, and then it doesn’t because my time and attention are being called elsewhere.

The deadlines for assignments and class projects have been brutal. But we are getting them done, even if I find myself going through the emotions.

It’s been snowing over this way as well which has probably been affecting my energy levels, as it’s so cold at times I don’t want to get out of bed in the mornings, however, once I am walking to the bus I feel good and ready to start the day.

The Fairlife Strawberry Milk Obsession

While on campus, I’ve been falling for the siren song of these Fairlife strawberry milks. I have probably spent close to $30 on them, which you know is not something I normally do, but the teen and I like them so much.

However, this last time on campus, I passed them up and made a promise to myself that we would get a couple of them when I leave campus for the last time as a way to celebrate the end of a chapter.

Of course, I will end up celebrating with more than just some strawberry milks—I’ll probably do a fun downtown Seattle trip or something. But in the meantime, it’s the only deal I could make with myself to keep from spending more money on these delicious strawberry milks.

One Year of Blogging: Stats & Reflections

For now, this is the update I have. My head has been hurting all day—I’ve been dealing with a headache since waking up—but I wanted to add a bit of a personal touch to this blog as it is now close to reaching its one-year anniversary on March 5th.

Blog Stats

• 158 blog posts published (this one will make it 159).
• 142,842 words published (this post will make it 143,733).
• 31 countries.
• 622 visitors (some of those visits were mine, so I am not so invested in this number).

Looking Ahead

With that said, here’s to another year of writing on here while transitioning to being a university student full time while navigating life with the loss of a dear friend who should have been on this journey with me, she wanted it bad for me if not more than me at times, but I know she is now up there looking over my shoulder and that gives me some piece of comfort knowing I have another person looking out for me on a broader scale.