I meant to post sooner but I've been super busy. This is a close to mid-year Mint dot com screen shot of net worth:



The stock market has been pretty even keel and up just a tad. I've made some extra money playing poker. My wife and I have both been working like normal plus acting reasonably responsible with our money, too. We have actually had several expenses come up that have kept us back a bit more than we would like. For example, we are adopting a 4 year old girl whose mother (a friend of my wife) has terminal cancer. The lawyer fees and home study fees are significant although it would be a LOT more if we were adopting someone we didn't know through an agency. Also, one of our dogs has had some health issues and we paid for a couple of surgeries that weren't exactly cheap either. But, so far (knock on wood), he's doing well now, so it was DEFINITELY worth the money.

We're up about ~$40k from when we started less than 6 months ago, so I'd say that's pretty darn good. The plan is to keep doing what we've been doing and hopefully build up more cash and deter Murphy from knocking on our door as much as we can.