This weekend I opened not one, but two mutual funds :-) That was one of my goals for this year because I was tired of leaving a bulk of my money in a money market account that really earns nothing for me. I couldn't decide on the risk level for my investments, so I just opened two accounts, one that is high risk and one that is a little lower. I want to take some chances to potentially earn good money but at the same time I'd like to know that I can reliably earn a little bit of money so that when we need it (read: when there are babies and houses and new cars involved) it's there. I made sure to leave a few month's salary in the money market though, just in case I/we have an emergency.
With the exception of our vacation, I have been running more than 20 miles a week, but on our trip I did get a lot of exercise walking up some monster hills. I have only done full-body weight lifting 3 times this year, so obviously not keeping up with that goal but I have just been just lifting some free weights at home every few days.
Since being accepted to present in England we have starting planning our trip a little bit. We've booked flights and then we booked the hotel for the conference, but soon we'll need to start booking hotels for the vacation portion of the trip :-)
I've also read several books for pleasure and submitted all the paperwork for getting my Master's this spring! Set a date, booked a conference room and everything! I'm about 75% finished writing my thesis, which is good because it's due in 2.5 weeks, eeee.
My savings at the grocery store have also been really good; in January I averaged 25.4% savings over the month and in February I averaged 29.2% so I'm doing really well in that area. I'm not sure that I'll be able to save $900 this year but I was never sure that was totally feasible.
Anyway, those are the high points for now!
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