I started my Saturday off, as I often do, with breakfast at a favorite little diner just outside of downtown. I hadn't been there in about a month--partly because of the "snowcrete" mountains that we have had on most of our side streets since the big storm on January 24 and partly because the last time I was there, the waitress who I've dealt with most of the time during the past year, Emily, said that it was her last day. Emily, it turns out, owns a diner of her own about 10 miles away, that had been closed down for the past year because of smoke damage from a fire, and she was re-opening.
So it was with great delight that I walked in to find that Lisa, the waitress who had been there from the time I started going to this diner during the pandemic until a year ago, was back. It was great to see her and catch up.
Then I went and did my grocery shopping (it was 8:30 am so I beat the worst of the crowds since we are expecting another snowstorm to hit tomorrow) and filled up my gas tank. I dropped the groceries off at home and then went to the office and attended a live virtual exercise class. [I do the majority of my exercise at the office, either in the office itself or at the gym upstairs. We have a big open-area office that gives me room to run in circles in a safe, temperature-controlled environment, and I often just wait until my co-workers leave for the day and do my jogging in the office then.] Then I went to my hairdresser, Stephanie--another woman whom I've had a friendly relationship with for about a decade.
I'll do a little work and some more exercise while I'm at the office, then at 5 pm I have an online chat scheduled with my friend Jim who lives in New Mexico. He moved this past week to an assisted living center so I am eager to hear how he is doing.
I also updated my accounts and was pleased to note that I hit another net worth milestone--1.2 million now, hoping for at least 1.25 million by year-end and for 1.5 million by retirement.
It's lovely and sunny right now with the temp in the low 40s, so even if we do get more snow tomorrow (the forecast is for 3-6" being most likely) it should melt a lot faster than the January storm did. While the worst of the big piles from the January storm are finally gone, we still have piles of snow all over the place.
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I also personally like to go grocery shop in the mornings. It’s the least crowded.
February 22nd, 2026 at 09:09 pm 1771794593
Congratulations on your net worth milestone! Hope it continues to grow!