Unlike my previous end of the year blog post summary with a full month to month recap, for my look back at 2019 I want to talk about five categories that happened to me in 2019; finance, travel, goals, health and last but not the least my relationships.
F I N A N C E :
In the first half of my year, I was fortunate to have two incomes since I was working two steady jobs at that time. However, it took a toll on my health and I became more of a spender than a saver type of person. I was reckless about how I spend my money on things. I became aware of my reckless spending habits after I made the decision to quit my part-time job due to the fact I had to go to physical therapy for my ongoing carpal tunnel syndrome. At the end of the year, I managed to regain slowly my financial stability again before it was too late. I know last year I was really proud of myself for paying off two of my credit cards which I ended up using again and paying it off again at the end of 2019. Phew!
T R A V E L :
In 2019, I was lucky that I had a chance once again to time to travel not once but three times. The first trip I had was with my hubby bear, little brother-in-law, where we headed to Utah and Las Vegas to visit my sister-in-law's family. This trip was definitely different from all the trips I ever had. I appreciate my life more here in the Bay Area after my trip to Utah. Also, the cold weather is definitely not for me. On the bright side, I had fun in Las Vegas even though it was a short time I had the chance to go around and do some sighting seeing with my hubby bear. I even bought some Hawaiian cookies to bring back home.
Then around summertime, it was my second trip of the year with my husband's whole family. We went on a road trip to Los Angeles to go to Universal Studios. We stop by at the Old town Chinatown of Los Angeles, ate some authentic Korean BBQ in K-town, Los Angeles and last but not least we ate a lot of Chinese food around the city. The trip was exhausting but we manage to do a lot of things in a short time we stayed there.
As for the 3rd and last trip I had for 2019, it was my hubby bear and I anniversary trip to Seattle, WA. By far this trip was my favorite of all the trips to took for 2019 because it was only my hubby bear and I traveling on this trip. We went to a lot of food lover's spots such as Pike's Place, Starbuck's Reserve, and Seafood Guys. We even had the chance to go to Seattle Aquarium, Chinatown, Chihuly Garden, and Glass Museum and Space Needle.
Then around summertime, it was my second trip of the year with my husband's whole family. We went on a road trip to Los Angeles to go to Universal Studios. We stop by at the Old town Chinatown of Los Angeles, ate some authentic Korean BBQ in K-town, Los Angeles and last but not least we ate a lot of Chinese food around the city. The trip was exhausting but we manage to do a lot of things in a short time we stayed there.
As for the 3rd and last trip I had for 2019, it was my hubby bear and I anniversary trip to Seattle, WA. By far this trip was my favorite of all the trips to took for 2019 because it was only my hubby bear and I traveling on this trip. We went to a lot of food lover's spots such as Pike's Place, Starbuck's Reserve, and Seafood Guys. We even had the chance to go to Seattle Aquarium, Chinatown, Chihuly Garden, and Glass Museum and Space Needle.
G O A L S :
One of my main goals in 2019 was to try to lower three of my remaining credit cards to half while saving some money on the side for some unexpected expenses. However, I became reckless on how I used to spend my money around summertime due to the fact I had two jobs at the beginning of the year and I recklessly did some impulse buying online and it really impacted my debt to ratio to higher and I was not being aware of my actions. Nevertheless, I tried to be consistent with my payments towards the end of the year and that helped me so much to decrease my debt.
On the bright side, I fully paid off my car payments around May of 2019. I was so happy that I accomplished this goal without any missing payment due. I was so happy to receive the title of the car from the DMV. After I paid my car, I used that remaining money I set aside for my car payment to pay off some of the amounts on my credit cards.
The second of my list of goals in 2019 was to deal with my dental problems. My end goal was to get braces in 2019, but somehow I had a lot of procedures that I needed to do first before I even get the chance to braces on my teeth. I had two of my wisdom tooth and one broken tooth pulled out. Then I had to have some deep cleaning and root canal procedure as well. Although I envision myself to get my braces in 2019, at least I finished all the procedures I needed to in order for me to move on to the next step towards me getting braces.
Third on my goal list in 2019 was constant blogging, new content and revamp my blog. When I look at my blog list of 2019, in the beginning, I felt like I did my job on being consistent about my blog posts. Then around summertime, I saw that I was slacking off and did not post frequently that I should. I find myself having a blogger's block moment sometimes and it's hard for me to get back at writing again because I do not know where to begin or get motivated again to start writing again. As of the new content, I tried my best to do some review blog posts such as reviewing some restaurant I tried for the first time in 2019, and beauty products that I bought and liked. I shared some currently loving products, tv-shows, playlist, and books that I read in 2019.
H E A L T H :
In 2019, my hubby bear and I joined a gym to get ourselves in health state again. We started two times a week and I did some three times a week. Over the holidays seems like we felt off the grid and find ourselves not motivated to go to the gym. To be honest, we did make a lot of excuses on why we were not able to go to regularly and I admit it was partly my fault because I have been slacking off and unmotivated to do anything at all.
R E L A T I O N S H I P S:
The last part about my look back in 2019 was my relationships. All the relationships I have towards other people whether it is my family, friends and myself. Let's start with the priority in my life, me myself and I. My goal to myself in 2019 was to have more me-time day for myself, which I did. Sometimes I enjoyed days that I am doing things by myself such as grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning the house, and reading books. I made sure that I do not over exhaust myself and overthink about unnecessary things that came to my life.
The second relationship I want to talk about is my hubby bear and me's relationship. 2019 was the first year of our marriage and we went through a lot of ups and downs. However we never really have a major problem that we could not solve. We just had a lot of misunderstandings and miscommunication with one other. Our love for each other is still the same. Our senses of humor and our playfulness to each other made us more connected and just thankful that we survived the first of our marriage. I am always grateful to my hubby bear because of him I am not who I am today.
As for my parents, in 2019 our relationship was a little bit better now. I visit them once a week with my hubby bear and celebrated holidays with them. Particularly my relationship with my mother before was really toxic. It was not healthy for a mental state to be near her before. Nowadays, we keep it casual and I try to be more understanding to my parents. Just like me getting old, I am aware that my parents are getting older too. I try to make up some time with them especially my dad who is showing more illness as he aged over time. Even though my family is not good at showing affection to one other, I try my best to be there for them when they need me.
Regarding my friendship in 2019, all I can say is that I lose some and I gain some. Over the past few years, I felt like I try so hard to protect some one-side love friendships that I have with some people that known for years, and it was difficult for me to accept it that those friends are not worth it to be fighting for. I became less worried about maintaining and trying to reconnect with some friends because I know that they will never the same thing for me. I am finally come to term that to myself that I am okay with that. Friendship does not need to end with bad blood with each other, sometimes people grow apart as we get older and we cannot fix that. I am just solely focusing on people that are active in my life. Friends that want to see me and want to know what I am doing lately. However, 2019 was not just losing some friendship but gaining some new friends as well. I was fortunate to gain some awesome friends from a previous job that I had in 2019, and they gave me things to look forward to in life.
R E L A T I O N S H I P S:
The last part about my look back in 2019 was my relationships. All the relationships I have towards other people whether it is my family, friends and myself. Let's start with the priority in my life, me myself and I. My goal to myself in 2019 was to have more me-time day for myself, which I did. Sometimes I enjoyed days that I am doing things by myself such as grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning the house, and reading books. I made sure that I do not over exhaust myself and overthink about unnecessary things that came to my life.
As for my parents, in 2019 our relationship was a little bit better now. I visit them once a week with my hubby bear and celebrated holidays with them. Particularly my relationship with my mother before was really toxic. It was not healthy for a mental state to be near her before. Nowadays, we keep it casual and I try to be more understanding to my parents. Just like me getting old, I am aware that my parents are getting older too. I try to make up some time with them especially my dad who is showing more illness as he aged over time. Even though my family is not good at showing affection to one other, I try my best to be there for them when they need me.
Regarding my friendship in 2019, all I can say is that I lose some and I gain some. Over the past few years, I felt like I try so hard to protect some one-side love friendships that I have with some people that known for years, and it was difficult for me to accept it that those friends are not worth it to be fighting for. I became less worried about maintaining and trying to reconnect with some friends because I know that they will never the same thing for me. I am finally come to term that to myself that I am okay with that. Friendship does not need to end with bad blood with each other, sometimes people grow apart as we get older and we cannot fix that. I am just solely focusing on people that are active in my life. Friends that want to see me and want to know what I am doing lately. However, 2019 was not just losing some friendship but gaining some new friends as well. I was fortunate to gain some awesome friends from a previous job that I had in 2019, and they gave me things to look forward to in life.
Well, that's all for the year 2019...
2019 taught me the value of communication, priorities your mental state and your health,work on breaking habits, and it's never too late to start over again.
I know it's 23 days later but, Happy New Year Guys!
Until next time,
2019 taught me the value of communication, priorities your mental state and your health,work on breaking habits, and it's never too late to start over again.
I know it's 23 days later but, Happy New Year Guys!
Until next time,
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