"btw, i hope that your starting $75 wasn't your 10NL BR....?"

No, I worked $75 up to $125 playing full ring 0.25/0.50 limit. Worked $125 up to $176 playing 10NL FR and proceeded to donkify myself by tilting. AAvsKK AIPF a couple times (that cost me about two buyins, all-ins preflop I won 1/4 of the hands). Paying off donk2pairs (63,J4,K5) with good top pairs, lost a 2 buyin hand with AA against a flopped set by TT. Lost another buyin overshoving a raise on a T-high dry board in a raised pot preflop with 66 (same TT guy) villian instacalled with AA. Lost a couple other really big pots with AA to suckouts, had AA at both the tables I was 2tabling within 2 minutes of each other and lost stacks in both hands. They were heads up too. So a fair deal of bad variance, also a good amount of bad preflop play OOP. Being a little overeager from the button (I'm a 5.5 buy-in loser from the button over 6000 hands). Maybe I'm cbetting when it's checked around too much.

So I picked a few bad spots to get my money in, got unlucky a few times. Like I've said my game is 3-4 post flop leaks and 2 MAJOR preflop leaks away from being solid enough to move up quickly IMHO.