Hey everyone! Happy Monday. The weekend went by too quickly, yet again. Hope all of you fathers enjoyed Father’s Day!
We took our engagement photos on Thursday night, and it went well! I was super nervous but our photographer was awesome. My sister helped us out and watched the dogs so that we could take some photos with them and photos without. We should be getting the photos either this week or next, so be on the lookout for them!
Who watched TrueBlood last night? Who is very confused?! This season definitely seems like a weird one. I’m not sure what to think.
I have my annual review at my work today, wish me luck!
We are still looking for a potential dream house and have been searching every single day. Haven’t found anything that we LOVE, which is probably good since our current house isn’t for sale yet. However, if the PERFECT one did come up, we will probably put an offer on it.
Also, we’ve decided that we will most likely sell our current house. We have been thinking about it, and if we were looking for a house to buy in order to rent out, we most likely wouldn’t do that with this one since we could definitely buy something cheaper and more “basic” and get a higher return from it.
Don’t forget that 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 will be gone this month! WOOHOOO! I’ll be making an update post on this soon. This feeling is awesome and I can’t believe that I am this close.
Spending
I don’t think we spent too much in the past week. I can’t really think of anything. We did of course spend money on our engagement photos and those were around $400. Well worth it to me though! I’m sure W would say otherwise… 🙂
Extra Income (does not include income from our main jobs)
Extra income was great last week. I finally collected some very overdue payments which helped increase my weekly income, but I am still waiting on a few more. Estimated taxes are due, and let me tell you, that is never any fun to pay… Lets please not even talk about how much I will pay altogether this year!
I launched my new blog last weekend. Diversified Finances is live! This blog will be all about how I’m trying to diversify my finances and eventually become financially independent. The newest post on there is all about passive income.
Being healthy
I haven’t been the healthiest this past week, and I will say it’s because I’ve been busy, but it’s partly been laziness as well. Working out has definitely gone downhill, but oh well. We have been eating very healthy though. That is one thing that we have got going for us! Both of us want to lose weight and look/feel better…
Have you been doing well with your extra income, spending and being healthy?
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Thanks Angella!
Yeah for no more student loans. I remember how amazing it felt when mine were gone. Even though I’ve had two vacations back to back I’ve been doing really good on my spending. Mainly because I cut down big time on shopping. I was getting outta control. Good job as usual on all of your extra income. The healthy part will come!!!
Awesome income week!
Testing, Testing!
Good week for income. I would not stretch to buying a new house without selling the old one to start with. That could leave you exposed if tenants fell through. Build a cushion first.
We feed straight from the TMP – it’s the easiest way to do it. Using third parties just complicates the issue, particularly if the feeder changes policy. But then we don’t have too many people taking feeds. If we did then I would set up our own feeder system – it isn’t that difficult. Either way you can monitor things.
Luckily our current house has a pretty low mortgage, so it wouldn’t really affect us too much if it took a little bit to sell 🙂
I hope your review went well! Glad to hear the photo session went nicely. $400 does seem reasonable for pictures you’ll cherish forever. I think you’re making a smart move regarding the possibility of having a rental property. I’m still in denial about google reader 🙁 I’ve been using Feedly but it’s just not the same.
I’m in denial also! I hope they change their mind at the last second haha
Thanks!
Haha thanks!
Cute dress & dogs! My extra income is finally starting to increase whoohoo. I just hope that one day I will be able to reach the level you are at!
Thanks Alexa! And I definitely think you will be 🙂
woo hoo for finishing off the student loans. Paying off mine really was a life changing moment (well memorable and exciting to say the least). I don’t know what engagement photos cost but $400 seems really reasonable to me. As for google reader, I’m trying to get used to “The Old Reader” but am not loving it and might try something else.
I can’t wait!
I hope google changes their minds, too! I’ve been trying Feedly, but I’m not nuts about it. I keep saying I need to set up bloglovin and give it a shot, but I always seem to enjoy reading the posts more than setting up RSS feeds! =)
Haha wouldn’t it be awesome if they changed their minds?
Congrats on the engagement photos! I hope your work review goes well for you but I’m sure you don’t need any luck in that department since you are so brilliant. Good to hear you are both eating healthy and continue to have that goal to lose weight. You will get there with the same determination you put into your blogs… I know you will!! Cheers
Thanks! And yes my work review went very well. And haha you are too nice!
Maybe it’s because I’m a guy, but I just don’t understand the point of engagement photos. Seems like something the photographers came up with to make some extra money!
Haha well I really just wanted photos with our dogs, that was the main reason 🙂
I’m really liking BlogLovin. The only thing that I don’t like is that the format changes on mobile phones and my iPad, and replies aren’t under the post being referenced. If you read GRS for instance, there are 100 posts with people talking to each other, and you can’t follow the conversation at all. As long as it’s read on a computer, it’s good.
Hmm I didn’t even try to look at it on my phone. Good to know!
Good to know! Thanks girl.
That’s a great week of EXTRA income! Annualized, that’s a solid income, but extra is off the charts!