Hey everyone! Happy Monday. We are leaving St. Thomas today and we had so much fun. I’m sad that my vacation is over, but I’m honestly ready to go home. I miss my dogs, oh yeah and I miss W 🙂 It was a vacation with my sister and it was much needed!
A couple of you have asked me to do a full St. Thomas recap since you will be going on vacation there soon, so look forward to that! We both took tons of pictures. We spent a lot of time at the beach, got really sun burned, SUPed (for the first time!), went kayaking, and went parasailing (first time for this also). We didn’t leave the resort once in the whole 5 days but had tons of fun. Usually I explore the area where I go on a vacation to, but we decided to just stay and have a relaxing time at the resort.
I announced the winner to my Novica giveaway but haven’t heard back yet. If your name is Erika, please check the Facebook post where I announced the giveaway so that you can see if it’s you. I want to give you your certificate code! 🙂
Oh yeah, and go congratulate my sister, she is now a personal trainer! AND this is my birthday month so you all better be super nice to me for the rest of May. I kid, I kid, you should be nice to me all the time 🙂 I definitely know what I want for my birthday, and that is a stand-up paddle board.
Spending
I don’t think we did any spending outside of the vacation budget. Earlier in May, our dryer did break though. Luckily we had a gift card that was good at Lowes which covered the whole purchase. It made having to replace the dryer not hurt our budget at all.
Extra Income (does not include income from our main jobs)
Extra income has been good for this month so far. I’m expecting a couple of payments this week. Affiliate income is still doing awesome. It’s nice to know that when I was on vacation, that you awesome readers were still clicking on my affiliate links. Of course I don’t count that as income until I actually receive it (usually 45 to 60 days after you click on the link), but it is still nice to know that future income has been made.
Not sure if this should be included in my Extra Income section, but I did win $85 to Starbucks last week. WOOHOO! I haven’t spent money at Starbucks in what seems like forever because I seem to constantly win Starbucks gift cards from giveaways.
Food – Clean Eating!
We are still doing good with our food spending, but it’s hard to say because I’ve been gone for 5 days and W can’t cook to save his life (I have no idea what/if he’s been eating while I’ve been gone). But this is a new week and I know we will do awesome! What’s on your meal plan? Share any links, recipes, pictures and so on in the comments below.
Being healthy
I’m still doing great with being healthy. Our hotel room was on the 7th floor and we took the stairs nearly every single time (except for when we had luggage), which means something! We also worked out at the gym here. It was only one time, but seriously those stairs killed us. After we went down the 7 floors, it was also another 98 (maybe 96?) steps down to the pool and beach area, and we walked that EVERY single time as well. I should have killer legs now.
Have you been doing well with your extra income, spending and being healthy?
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Sounds like you had a lovely holiday! I would love to get to some of the islands next year but there are no good packages from Guatemala, compared to the super cheap deals from the US!
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Thanks Pauline! It was a lot of fun.
I like the stairs approach to working out. A few months ago I started parking further away from my office, the store, or wherever I was going just so I could get a little bit more walking into my day. It feels a little silly, but I feel like our lives can get so sedentary and every little bit helps. Glad to hear the vacation was fun!
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I park further away from everything now too and it does help!
I hope that you had fun in St. Thomas!!! That is one place that is on my list to go.
Yup I loved it there! This was my second visit.
Glad you enjoyed your vacation and made a ton of money while you were there 🙂 I need to kick up my game!
Thanks lance!
Gotta love those gift card giveaways 😉 We are finally starting to sell some of the stuff we have won. I'm trying out Ebay for the first time this week or next, hopefully get the hang of it pretty quick (shipping is the biggest barrier for me, I just know so little about how much it costs to ship things as well as which shipping option is the best). Definitely would like to start making $500+ a month in giveaway winnings (gift cards + selling stuff I win + cash winnings). But anyway definitely looking at affiliate income more as well! Looks like you had a great time in St. Thomas!
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How much do you win from giveaways right now? I need to start entering more!
haha "you better be nice to me" 🙂 Sounds like you had a blast!
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Hahahah thanks rachel!
So glad you liked St. Thomas. Next time I hope you get out to explore the rest of the US Virgin Islands. It's so easy because there are water taxis that go from island to island and they're all worth seeing. I love St. John – most of the island is a national forest but there's a great little town to enjoy. My family has done bare boat charters there several times and I never tire of it.
Happy Birthday and I hope your wish comes true!
Thanks! I went to st Thomas and St John in December of 2012 and explored the islands then, so this visit was more of a relaxing one 🙂
Holy stairs!! I've been doing the 30 day squat challenge. After the first week (when I walked like a pregnant penguin), the pain starts to go away and it's easier to do the increasing number of squats!
Happy birthday month!
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Yes there were tons of stairs everywhere!
Congrats on the vacation, I think the entire carribean is an amazing place to visit. I am interested to know how your sister became a personal trainer.
Thanks! And she has a couple of posts on her blog about how she became a personal trainer. I would check them out 🙂
Haha LA is still awesome of course!
I've never done a boot camp but I need to!
St. Thomas sounds really beautiful. Sister trips are great for relaxing. If my husband went, we would be on the go the whole time. Is your sister going to put you through the ringer now that she's a trainer?
It was our first sister trip and it went great! And yes she wants to practice training on me. We did some ab workouts on the vacation and my stomach is already killing me haha 🙂
Sounds like it was a great trip! Every time I got to the Caribbean I can picture myself living there, or at the very least sailing around form island to island. Now only if I can convince my job to transfer me down there…
Haha I feel the same way Brian.
I'm still jealous. It's freezing here in MI right now. That sun and beach look so great. Glad to hear you had a good time!
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Thanks! 🙂
Sounds like you're doing so well on the extra income – not much there for me right now..sigh..
Aww I'm sure you'll get there soon! 🙂