Author: Terri

Little Things for Which I am Thankful

Terri
My cool dude, Sebastian
My boy, Sebastian, as modified within the photo app, Snapseed.

I am trying something new this week and writing this post as the week goes along so that I don’t miss something. It’s kind of like a gratitude journals of sorts.  Read more →

Getting Serious about my Debt, Part 1

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Every little bit helps
Saving Pennies and Everything Else

I think that most people know and understand that it is much easier to pay off debt if you are married or in a relationship than when you are single.  When you are married, you have that second income to fall back on. At least, that’s the way it was for me until about three years ago.  Read more →

Little Things for which I am Thankful

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This makes me glad to be alive.
This makes me glad to be alive.

I intended for this post to be written last week but it was crazy busy and it just didn’t get done. I’m going to try to get into the habit of writing a lot on the weekends and early mornings before the days get away from me. I’ve got a major thing to be thankful for over the past week, and it involves my brother.  Read more →

Little Things for which I am Thankful

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Tookie in his new home
Tookie, my former foster kitty, happy in his new home with his new friend, Po.

This post was supposed to have been published on Friday morning but clearly something didn’t work out. So, I am publishing it today. 

One of my goals for this blog will be to remind myself, as I go about trying to attain my dreams, to also stay in the present and be thankful for life as it is now. The cold reality is that I could walk across the street tomorrow or even this evening and get hit by a bus, so it’s important to stop, look around and observe things as they are right now. So, without further adieu….

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Focus…..focus…..FOCUS!!!!

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Grand Cayman
I definitely have a problem with focusing myself sometimes. Even with this blog, I originally reserved the domain name with the thought that this would be a blog about my digging myself out of my seemingly never-ending student loan debt. I had just finished reading Joe Mihalic’s account of how he had dug himself out of $90,000 in student loans in 9 months. (He graduated from Harvard with an MBA and there are definitely differences in our financial situations to start, but still, his story motivated me. His blog is called No More Harvard Debt.) Read more →

Epic Ride

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My brother after running Boston for at least the 3rd time.
My brother after running Boston for at least the 3rd time. Note the finisher’s medal!

This coming holiday weekend, my younger brother has an epic road trip planned. He lives in NYC, and wants to come visit me. However, he doesn’t like the bus because he feels cramped (he’s about 6 feet tall.) So, he has decided to get here under (mainly) his own power. Yes, he’s going to ride here on his bike. And no, it’s not a scooter or a motorcycle. I mean, a real bicycle…… Read more →

Little Things for Which I am Grateful

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Osito - How Cute is She??
My baby girl, Osito, adopted from the Animal Rescue League of Boston’s Dedham location. She’s 12 and blind, and just the sweetest thing.

I have been reading/following Josh Becker of Becoming Minimalist, for some time now. He has been posting many infographics on facebook lately that have given me pause.

So, this morning I was thinking of what I am grateful for, and thought maybe I should do it as a weekly Friday post (that will be my goal anyway).  So, here are a few, in no particular order. Read more →

Things are not Always as They Seem

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Feet in the Sand
Feet in the Sand

Up until a few weeks ago, I thought one of my dreams was to move to a state in the south with a man I loved. We had just gone to Grand Cayman for a week while I was sent there for a conference for the first few days. Everything was great, or so I thought. I still look at this photo of our feet standing together in the sand, from time to time, as well as others that I have of him. I still feel sadness for what could have been, but I am learning to deal with it, cope, and move forward. If I don’t, I’ll just be stuck in place. And I don’t want to be stuck. Read more →

My student loans are so old, they could be getting ready to go to the prom.

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In fact, one of them could be getting ready to go off to college. The youngest could be shopping for back to school clothes for fifth grade and the middle “kids” would have just gone to their first prom a few months ago. No, really.  I have to say, I am ready to have “empty nest syndrome” where my student loans are concerned. Read more →

It’s Simple, Really

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Solitude

If you had asked me even a few weeks ago what my dreams were, I think I would have answered you much differently than I would today.  I had even started drafting a few different blog posts but none of them really sat “right” with me and I wasn’t even sure I would start this blog. After all, I had stopped blogging over at Middle-of-the-Pack-Girl a few years ago when I felt like I wanted things in my life to go back to being more private. Why start up again? Read more →