Happiness

I rolled over in bed and thought, what time is it? The sound machine had turned off, that means I have between 0 and 15 minutes until my alarm goes off and it’s time to start my Monday. I’d had a really nice weekend, one of the best in a while. Saturday was a hygge day, it was filled with baking bread, cooking, and playing co-op games with my wife. On Sunday, I wrote Savings Report #65 and we hiked for 2 hours to a lonesome lake on top of a trail. We talked about our future in the United States. ...

We arrived…over a month ago! I wrote a post within the first couple of weeks here but it just felt very forced and rambling, not great at all. I’ve then not had the motivation to write anything, it doesn’t help that I’ve become obsessed with ‘Jane The Virgin’ and have been job hunting. So here’s a TL;DR of my other post - We had a lot of issues with shipping our boxes, right up to the day before they were collected. 3 days before we were due to set off we had to come up with a travelling plan B as my dad (who was driving us to Germany) was getting cold feet due to COVID. There were cat issues throughout the journey as well as issues with my parents motorhome. The exciting sauna and pool on the ferry were closed due to COVID (how did we not foresee this??) and an electric scooter accident on our 2nd day in Sweden resulted in me having a ginormous bruise and swelling on my chin and a very banged up knee that still hurts now! ...

The Ninja household is going to be changed forever. Something happened which was so unexpected, so alien, and yet so perfectly aligned to the current and future goals that I’ve mused about on this very blog. So, strap in and brace yourselves for…the news. One blustery morning 3 months ago I was contacted out of the blue by an internal recruiter for a certain company. Said company was one of those companies, you know, one of the companies that I’ve been training for . No, no, no, it wasn’t the actual Google, but they get pretty close to Google in fame, world-wide offices, and difficult interview notoriety. ...

“Are you not having a drink?” John asked me as we huddled into the crowded upstairs room of a fancy pub. We were there for the November installment of the ‘side-hustle’ meet up, hosted by the venerable Financial Independence London group. The room was filled with over 100 bustling FIRE advocates, sipping on expensive £12 white wines and £6 pints of beer. “I’ll stick with tap water and ice, thank you,” I said with a pang of envy. ...

Simon contacted me whilst I was on my honeymoon with an artfully drawn Ninja shuriken and asked if he could guest post on Saving Ninja. So, of course, I had to say yes! This marks the first-ever Saving Ninja guest post, so I’ve created a new subcategory called ‘Guest Post’, and if anyone else would like to contribute, hit me up over on the Contact page. Simon runs his own personal finance blog over at Financial Expert which he created back in 2010. He’s based out of Yorkshire and quit his accountancy career once he became Financially Independent last May at the young ol’ age of 30! ...