Hey everyone! Happy Monday. I hope you all had an awesome weekend. I still can’t believe that it’s June. The year is just flying by.
We didn’t do a whole ton this weekend, just did a lot of relaxing and some side hustle work.
This week I have Thursday off and we are taking our engagement photos. W isn’t too happy because he doesn’t like photos. I honestly just want pictures of us and the dogs haha… I hope they turn out great! I really don’t want the normal cheesy looking photos where everything is posed. I want them as natural looking as possible. I’ll share some photos with you all as soon as I get them.
I wanted to share something funny with you all – well at least it’s funny to me. The other day I received an email from a reader, and she was telling me that my blog is helpful. We then started talking back and forth and she actually went to the same high school as me, and she lives in the same town as me! Small world, right?
Also, don’t forget but Google Reader shuts down in a couple of weeks. Don’t forget to switch your reader over to something else. I’ve come to love Bloglovin, so I recommend trying that out. What are you switching to?
Student Loan Update
My student loans are ALMOST GONE. That’s so nice to say. I will definitely have them paid off by the end of this month. I know that I’ve had some delays, but I am still of course very happy with my progress. Also, not putting thousands of dollars (my minimum payment was less than $500 but I’ve been throwing a lot of extra money towards the loans) towards student loans every single month will feel awesome!
Spending
We did do some spending in the past week. We bought W some new clothes for the engagement photos but I believe that was all. Spent around $200 but he could use the clothes anyway, so it was worth it.
Extra Income (does not include income from our main jobs)
Extra income was good last week, but I’m still waiting on quite a few payments. Hopefully these will FINALLY be collected this week because some are so old that they were due when I was on vacation in St. Thomas early last month.
I also finally launched my new blog this weekend. Diversified Finances is live! There isn’t much on it right now. I was going to wait to share it with you all, but I’m not much of a secret keeper and wanted to share it immediately. This blog will be all about how I’m trying to diversify my finances and eventually become financially independent.
Some of you might be wondering WHY I started a second blog. Well, I figured I wanted to bring Making Sense of Cents back to all things personal finance, and not talk 100% about my side hustles.
I went through my past posts recently, and pretty much 99% of them are about my side hustles. I have a ton of ideas for side hustles posts for the future (like over 50), and decided that since I like to talk so much, a second blog would probably be a better idea. I don’t think I will be posting too, too often on Diversified Finances, but maybe 2 to 3 times per week.
So what does this mean for my extra income posts? I’m still not sure. What would you rather I do? Should I post my monthly extra income posts on this blog or the other one? It would fit on the other blog better, but it seems to be such a big staple on Making Sense of Cents! Let me know what you think in the comments below.
Being healthy
I have actually been doing AWESOME with being more healthy. I did eat unhealthy yesterday, but for the most part I have been eating pretty healthy and working out a good amount.
I’ve been trying to run/walk at least a mile each dog with our dog (the other dog doesn’t go for walks – the joys of having a French Bulldog runt). I’ve also been trying to run around 4 miles every other day along with working out each day. It’s so nice having a gym in our basement and a cute pup to run with. I think I’m going to make it a monthly goal to run/walk at least 100 miles each month. It’s a lot, but I definitely that that it is doable.
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A big congrats on starting the new site! I will visit it very shortly.
Thanks 🙂
I am not a huge fan of having my photos taken either. We did 6 month photos for our daughter this weekend and I must admit it was pretty fun. We were outside and the weather was perfect. Much better than being in a studio somewhere.
That’s good to hear! We’re taking them at W’s grandparents 🙂
Wow, Michelle. Don’t know when you sleep at night. I have thought of getting another blog but I can barely do it with just one LOL. Good luck!
Haha thanks!
Oh, can’t wait to see the engagement pictures! 🙂 Congrats on a new blog!
Thanks Lena 🙂
True. I’m still undecided!
Yes it was so weird! She graduated a couple of years before me, so we didn’t actually know each other. But our high school was pretty small (around 300 kids in each grad usually), so I was shocked!
Thanks!
Hmmm I’ll have to look into that!
Thanks girl! Haha I hope my dogs listen to us. If they don’t, I guess that means that we will just have super interesting pictures haha
Thanks Tanner!
Awesome! I’m off to check out your new site…
Thanks Nick 🙂
These numbers are exceptional! Thank you for sharing what you’re doing to make this side income. It’s inspiring my work and website.
Keep up the great work!
-Sam
Thanks Sam!
Yay new blog! I think your plan of having more “personal finance” things on here, and putting your side hustles on the new blog, is a good one. I will definitely read both!
My boyfriend and I both hate taking pictures. I think he is photogenic but he disagrees, and I am my own worst critic. I would be so nervous! I’m sure your pictures will turn out great; a good photographer will let you guys be yourselves and have fun with it.
Thanks! I’m glad no one thinks it was stupid to start a second. Things were just getting too focused on hustles on MSOC, so a second blog was pretty much a NEED!
And haha I hate taking pictures too. I always seem to make the weirdest face.
Congrats for the new blog! Seriously, you are awesome!
Thanks!
My husband always wants family photos right after I’ve had a baby and am approximately the size of a Buick. I think the new edition makes him sentimental, but I don’t really agree with the timing!
Haha that is funny Jenny!