Don't worry be happy!

I am back. I have a million things to do and what a better way to avoid them then to blog about all the things I have to do. Seriously though, this blog post is about managing stress and trusting in the universe.

I would like to start off by saying I may have booked myself a little tight for June. I will just give you a little glimpse into my upcoming month. Today I am headed to Toronto for a meeting, then celebrating with friends who just bought their first business, tomorrow is early Father's day, Wednesday I leave for a week to Pittsfield Vermont to help crew for a friend who is racing a truly insane race, then that Sunday I am moving out of my house and briefly living with my folks, 3 days later I leave for Rothbury to attend an amazing music festival for 5 days, when I return I get the keys to my new house, start painting, that weekend I move in, and then the following weekend I do my 100 km walk. Somewhere in there I need to pack for my move, pack for both my trips, raise $250 more dollars for my walk, workout 3 days a week, run once a week and somewhere in there try to keep to a budget and eat healthy. None of this is including the fact that we are launching a huge new project at work and I have a new/old boss. I would like to note that I am fully aware that I booked all of this in and LOVE it.

Well here is where the actually "stressful" part kicks in. I have been having trouble nailing down a contractor to give my a quote on renovating the basement of my new house. I need to get it before I move so I can have that amount rolled into my mortgage. I also need that done so I can have a rental unit and be able to afford the house I bought. I have had a tough start with this, which I thought had passed once I had someone through last week to give me a quote. Very nice guy, was actually very excited that the other ones hadn't come through because he seemed like the perfect person for the job. Now he is not returning my calls. Did I mention I leave for a trip out of the country Wednesday?

Anyways I have lots of choices at this point. I can stress out, cry, break down, try to push my stress onto others, be grumpy or on the flip side I can roll with it.  I am not going to lie a month ago this all stressed me out, I cried and had a melt down. Luckily my realtor is also an amazing friend of mine who coached me wonderfully through my moment of weakness. Today I have decided not to let this get to me. It will all work out. Maybe it will turn into a huge mess but that mess must be something I need or the universe wouldn't have ordered that up for me. If I can get through this month everything from here out should seem like a breeze right?

Trusting in the universe is hard. There will be times when you will confuse that trust with giving up or not taking action. Don't let this doubt fool you. Do what you can and let go of the rest. By the way I am not saying do nothing, I am saying take ownership of all the things you can control and trust that the rest will take care of itself.

Now I am off to enjoy my crazy busy life :)

My Best Life - Day 30

Well it is the last day of the challenge.... SAD FACE. 30 days went by so quickly, it is hard to believe. First off I need to say thank you to anyone who followed this project, sent me thoughtful encouraging notes, liked my fb posts, or even read this blog without me knowing. Out of all the challenges I took on for thirty days this is the only one I stuck to religiously and it is because so many people held me accountable to this. It was an awesomely wonderful experience. HAHA... this blog sounds like I am accepting an award. I am a nerd.

Welp this picture today is of my back yard. Can you believe it is February in Canada? Like seriously, it looks like Spring. I am on the fence about whether to love or hate it. Obviously the warm weather is great but I am just wondering at what cost?

Moving right along as I mentioned in yesterday's blog I am starting a new picture challenge for the month of February and posting it to Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. I am really excited about it because so many people have joined in with me to do it :). Life is better when shared.

That being said I am sure I will be on here once a week maybe doing a weekly round up of some sort. Maybe just the highlights. A lot of people asked me if I liked this project or if it was stressful to add another thing to my "to do" list everyday. To be honest, I loved writing it and the hard part for me was to find something to write about every day. As much as I get a kick out of having my coffee order right and getting a piece for fruit that is at it's peak taste it probably isn't much of a topic that people are going to want to read about daily. My mother has honestly always told me that I get great joy out of the littlest things in life and it is absolutely true.

Cheers! Chat ya soon.

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My Best Life - Day 29

Well a lot of goodness happened today so I think I will just make a list of all things awesome. Then you can kind of get an idea of why I am happy a lot. It is the little things in life that make it great.

1. I am on a good coffee streak. Tim Hortons usually serves me weird burnt coffee but the last 2 days in a row have been actually decent.... in comparison to what I am usually served.

2. We had lots of phone calls today at work. I take this as a really good sign for future things to come.

3. I got really great service today at Meat Land, they even held the door open for me. (I buy two pounds of bacon from there every week Mmmmmm.)

4. I realized a couple things that I didn't acknowledged people for recently and sent out thank yous! Appreciating people always feels good.

5. It was outrageously warm for January.

6. I found a shirt I really liked on Etsy and turns out they had it on sale for $14.99 because it had a little make-up stain on it that will wash out. It has a weird looking werewolf on it. I think what excited me most about this is that I think I have really started to find a style for myself. I love buying stuff that you can't get at the mall.

7. I made a date with my friend Beth at Manhattans. They had a wag jag where you get two steak dinners and desserts for $37. Ummmm that is just plain awesome.

8. I went to the gym and PR'd my clean and jerk, 110 pounds. Body weight, here I come! I also didn't do as good as I wanted on the wod but everyone really cheered me on which was soooo great. I love my crossfit family. My post wod pic of me about to walk home is the picture today. Love my new socks and boots.... very stylish combo if you ask me.

9. My drunk kitchen came out today and it was soooo good. Watch it here. Seriously hilarious.

10. A bunch of my friends agreed to do this challenge with me.

11. Ohhh I found out when the Chamber dinner awards are here and I am very pumped to go to those. I want to meet more people in the area and I get to dress up. Win/win.

12. I bought some organic meat from a local farm today. Yummmy. Had amazing service too. Check them out online. Well I ordered it, I buy it Thursday. 

13. I ate half a bag of chocolate chips today as a side dish with dinner.... with chicken. Weird and yummy.

14. I got some really nice messages today about my blog, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! :)

15. I remembered it is exactly two weeks away until front row City and Colour. Also it is two weeks away from us finding out if our newspaper was nominated for any awards. I submitted an ad that I am really hoping gets nominated and Editorial submitted lots of other nice projects we did this year. Fingers crossed.

Well so I can think of 15 things off hand, pretty awesome day if you ask me :)! I know more then a few of those involved buying things but I got everything on sale, even the organic meat. I don't like to pay full price for things. So this is a day in my life..... my best life! Ohhhh cheesy...

My Best Life - Day 28

Awwwww..... only 2 days left. Maybe I will do a weekly round up of awesome after my 30 days. I haven't decided yet what I am going to do with it.

Anyways, I love taking baths in the winter. It is my favourite thing. Sometimes I even eat my dinner in the tub. Kayla and I have an ongoing joke that I need to hire a butler who will make and serve me dinner in the bath. How great would that be? I also love having the temperature so hot that it makes me sweat. Nothing like sitting in a pool of water mixed with sweat for an hour and then eating in it. I should probably just purchase a hot tub at some point. It seems less creepy to eat in a hot tub for some reason.

My Best Life - Day 27

If you don't watch Californication.... YOU NEED TO. Don't start in this season though, start at episode 1 of season 1. It is the best show going, period. Needless to say I watched the latest episode last night, HILARIOUS.

If you get offended easily and don't like a lot of sexual content maybe just disregard everything I said above....

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My Bert Life - Day 26

What can I say? I have the most awesomest friends on the planet! I was so sad when I moved to Midland (Ya I whole 45 minutes away, big deal) because I thought that I wouldn't get to see them very much. Turns out I see them pretty much every weekend, which is great! Weeeeeeeeeee. Anyways I don't know what I would do without these peeps. XO

PS..... Can you guys finish the challenge soon so we can have a real party? THANKS :)

My Best Life - Day 25

I love being me. Lots of people find it really awkward to go out in public places by themselves but I actually love it. Today I took myself out on a date. I wore my favourite outfit and even shaved my legs so I could take myself out for dinner and drinks. I went to see Brett Caswell on a recommendation from a friend and it was fantastic. I highly recommend you catch him next time he is in town. It boggles my mind that I can catch such great talent FOR FREE. Anyways I have to get up in 4 hours but the point is I am comfortable enough in my own skin to hang out by myself and I think that rocks. For Valentines Day I bought myself a front row ticket to City and Colour and took the day off work so I could catch up with myself and see what's up. I think it does the soul some good. :) Good Night!

My Best Life - Day 24

I know I touched on this subject before but haven't actually taken a picture of it. Solo. Dance. Parties. I love them. They are vital to my survival. Here is a list of things that add awesomeness to dancing by yourself:

1. If you are about to go out with friends and do something fun, they are automatically more awesome.

2. If you have started predrinking by yourself.

3. If you are wearing the least amount of clothing possible without actually being naked (let's face it, your bits don't look hot when you dance naked and things shake that you wish didn't).

4. If there is a really large mirror and can see how bad your own dancing is or maybe how good it is.

5. If you have your iPod on shuffle and a really great song like bootylicious randomly comes on (guilty pleasure).

6. If you have just worked out and looked more toned then you do normally.

7. If you have a random piece of furniture to dance on top of like you are a stripper or like you are on stage at a club.

So there it is. I like to dance on my ottoman in front of a really large mirror in my living room. Sometimes my neighbours look in when I forget to close the curtains and are slightly mortified. This is what I was dancing too tonight. It is currently my favourite song... Woooooo that's good!

My Best Life - Day 23

I had a conversation with a friend yesterday that went something like this:

Me: I have like a 1000 books I need to read right now.

Friend: Oh ya. What books.

Me: The Road Less Travelled, the new Seth Godin, Stumbling on Happiness, the new Robin Sharma.... (thoughts: okay maybe not 1000)

Friend: Awesome. You should read them then.

Me: Ya but I am in the middle of Stumbling on Happiness and I just can't get into it.

Friend: Then stop reading it and start reading something else.

Me: Ya but I really want to finish.

Friend: uhhhhh *blank stare*

Oh there was also some sort of ramblings about how I want to read them I don't have to read them etc..... but since this happened in the past and I don't remember all the details you get the new version that my head created. I am not sure if my version, the real version, or the version my friend remembers makes me appear less ridiculous soooo we will just go with my version for now.

So needless to say I started reading The Road Less Travelled today and I think it is going to be a game changer. Seems great. The first chapter already made me feel lazy and I cleaned half my house and have plans to continue to the other half tomorrow. Win. As a side note if you haven't been to the crazy used book store downtown Midland you should probably go. I feel like it is actually another dimension and would like to discuss further with friends :).

My Best Life - Day 22

I will go ahead and put today in the awesome category. I wasn't on a beach, or at a concert and nothing really out of the ordinary happened but the little things about today are what made it so good.

I got to go to the Packet for a meeting this morning, which is great because most of my friends happen to work there. Getting paid to hang out at the P & T brings me great joy. Actually the last few years of working there were unreal. I didn't fully appreciate it at the time but I miss it... a lot!

Obviously being in Orillia I made a pit stop at Mariposa  Market for a French roast coffee. It is the best coffee I have ever had. Okay that is a lie, the best coffee I ever had was on the beach every morning in Costa Rica. It is the second best coffee I have ever had. Any time I have the opportunity to stop in and grab a cup I totally take advantage of it. You would be surprised how good you can feel just from having a cup of coffee.

So this meeting I attended was with all the publishers and ad managers in the region and they have worked in the company for a long time. They know more then me and were much more prepared for this meeting then I was. My first instinct was to feel embarrassed at my unpreparedness but I realized that this was a great learning experience for me. Having these meetings will make me better at my job. I need to stop worrying about not knowing everything and just start learning from my mistakes.

After the meeting I got to stop in and visit a friend for 20 minutes, win! He made me a delicious latte. It was so good that I even took the last sip and for the record I don't take the last sip of anything (random weird fact about me). It grosses me out but I was too involved in how good it was to notice.

Getting to the picture, I went to crossfit tonight and finally after a month or so of not really being into it finally got my groove back. I lifted the 24 kg kettlebell for the first time today.... 100 times. It wasn't pretty and I need to work on them for sure but I did it. I also did 100 pull-ups and 200 double unders. In the last round my hand shredded and skin flew off my hands, it was spectacular.

So all in all, it was pretty much what I do everyday with a twist. I feel so lucky that my everyday life makes me this happy. Cheers!

My Best Life - Day 21

So incase you missed it today my friend Trace wrote a really nice blog about me and I didn't even pay her. Win. It is like a mini profile of how great I am. How awesome is that? So my first instinct when receiving a compliment is to always counter act it with bad things about myself, trust me my inner monologue found a lot of things. Instead I am going to spare it and just say THANK YOU instead because this was the most excellent way to start off my week :)

My Best Life - Day 20

Wow day 20 already. Crazy. Well Sunday is family day for me so as usual the best part of my Sunday is hanging out with family. Here is a picture of my dad and nephew, isn't my nephew so cute? Yep, he is. He is trying not to laugh at my dad being well my dad haha! As much as we all try to deny it my dad is pretty funny. Love my family to bits xoxo

My Best Life - Day 19

I know a lot of my blogs are about food but I really like to eat. Not to mention I got bed sores from the amount of time I spent in bed today. I have this really quirky thing that I can't get out of bed until I decide what I am going to do all day and in which order I am going to do them. Obviously only on the weekends. This is better when I stay at other people's houses and they bring me coffee or breakfast to bed until I have decided or until they kick me out. I didn't get much done today that is for sure. Briefly I did get out of bed to eat though.

Today I made eggs over easy and got the perfect flip. Nothing curled, nothing broke, it was awesome. See picture to the left. They were cooked to perfection too.

My Best Life - Day 18

There is nothing better then capping off the work week with a work out and a good meal. Best Life for sure. Honestly though, I barely worked out today. I did however enjoy lots of delicious food including dessert and this coffee martini. Mmmm. The best part of the night though was getting to hang out with awesome friends. I am super lucky in that I have found such amazing people to hang out with in Midland. The food was soooo good, the company was fantastic and the server was pretty hilarious. All and all I don't think there is any better way to spend a Friday night. Now I am curled up in bed and going to sleep smiling. :)

My Best Life - Day 17

I got a little excited today and forgot to take a picture until just now. I assure you lots of awesome things happened but I was so in the midst of everything that I forgot to snap a pic for my blog. Not to worry though something great did just happen.... I turned my heating blanket on! Yes this is a picture of the controller for my heating blanket. For years when I lived at home I wasn't allowed to have one for fear that I would leave it on and burn the house down. Now that I am living on my own, my parents bought me one for Christmas. I guess it is okay if I burn my own house down. Makes sense. I am always freezing so this was like the best present ever. I refuse to turn it off before falling asleep so every night I wake up nauseous in a pile of sweat (soooo hot, in both ways). So that's my story about how great my heating blanket is. I highly recommend them.

My Best Life - Day 16

Ummmm so sometimes I am not the brightest person on earth and these are some of my favourite moments. I get to stop what I am doing, sit back, and laugh at myself. A few weeks ago I found an egg holder in my cupboard and got really excited that I could have soft boiled eggs, I get excited easily (that's what she said). Anyways, today I figured I would bust it out and have eggs for lunch. Well turns out that egg holder is actually an espresso cup? Or maybe it is a shot glass? Either way, it didn't work. By the time I grabbed my phone and took this picture my bacon had stared to smoke and the fire alarm was going off. Turns out that the bottom two fire alarms in my house are just for show, and only the one on the third floor works. So I ran frantically around my house opening every window and fanning the oven mit under the alarm which went off again 6 times. Needless to say I smelled like over cooked bacon for the rest of the day which made me laugh every time I could smell it. I love when I have moments like this and a simple task turns into a shit show of my own creation. So funny.

My Best Life Day 15

This is a horrible quality picture. Sorry. Yesterday my friend John made a steak that was blog worthy. You can't see it in this picture but it was cooked to perfection. About 2mm of brown around the outside with delicious raw meat on the inside, soooo good! Not to mention that it was covered in delicious spices. Yum. This followed by the new season of Californication = pure awesomeness. If you don't watch that show, I highly recommend you do. Start at season 1 though, it is pure brilliance.

My Best Life - Day 14

This is a picture of my shrivelled up hands. I fell asleep in the bathtub for an hour. Oops. So good though. I couldn't really think of any other appropriate images to show you of how relaxing taking a bath is, so you are stuck with this. I think it speaks for itself :)

My Best Life - Day 13

Bam.... Almost two weeks in. Fun. This will be a short one. To be honest, I slept in like crazy today and then did some minor things and now I am back in bed. Getting up late and going to bed early are amazing but kind of boring. This picture was taken at approximately 5:45 pm on my way back to Midland. You know what that means? The days are getting longer. Before you know it we will be getting a full 1 hour before and after work of daylight. This is amazing. It also means that the chances of me seeing more sunsets and sunrises have become significantly higher! Love it, and you know you do too!

My Best Life - Day 12

There was so much awesomeness happening yesterday that I didn't get a chance to blog. My day started at 4:30 am and ended around 2 am this morning. Warning: I am super tired so this may not be top quality. My awesome friend Kayla, pictured to the left here, has decided to compete in one event every month for 2012. These events range from crossfit competitions to runs to duathlons and everything in between. For January she picked a crossfit competition and I am sooooo excited to say that she invited me to compete in this event with her. Did I mention she came in 4th place and did a double body weight deadlift? Oh ya, she did! One of my absolute favourite things in life is when someone shares an event with you that you know is super important to them. So needless to say this also meant a lot to me.  :) You killed Kayla, congrats!

As a side note because I think this is totally awesome, my friend John is also doing an event every month for 2012! I have wicked bad ass friends who are doing some pretty amazing stuff in 2012. So inspiring.

My Best Life - Day 11

Okay so I get a little giddy about decorating my house. If you follow my on Facebook then you know that I have been wanting this picture forever.... well it is finally all mine. Did I mention it looks so great with my couch and the amazing cushions that my mom made me for Christmas? Did I also mention that it fit in the exact spot as the picture that was already there? Oh annnnd that the other picture happens to look amazing over my bed? Yep, all those things are true. You can't see how great it really looks in this picture because the couch and the cushions are what really make it fab but you get the idea! Now I need to have some company over :)

Weeeeee...... it's also Friday.... what isn't good about that?!

My Best Life - Day 10

The pose doesn't begin until you want to quit.


I went to hot yoga tonight and as always, when it was  finished, I felt absolutely blissful. The only way I can describe the feeling is to compare it to first few minutes after a really fantastic orgasm. Today's practice was especially great for me because I have had some chatter going on in my head that I needed to accept and let go of. I also had some great adjustments from the teacher, which I have always craved. Usually because I have a rod in my back teachers shy away from adjusting me and helping my form. I have always felt like I was missing out because I would never know what I was doing wrong. Finally, someone with some balls, I like this teacher!

Anyways now I am going to do what any rational person would do after a really great orgasm, roll over and go to sleep! ;)

PS..... In my blissful state I may have bought this really rad tank top.

My Best Life - Day 9

Confession, I am not a very good cook. I can bake anything but my cooking is very questionable. I can make four things really good: sandwiches, eggs, steak and chicken. If you want something that isn't that we should probably eat out. Since I started living alone I have attempted to cook some fun meals because if it tastes like shit I would be happy just to eat a protein bar and call it a day. I am not going to lie, that has happened on more then one occasion. Sometimes though I cook something that tastes really good, like the photo shown to the left here. I made spaghetti squash tonight and although I didn't make the sauce from scratch I added lots of yummy things into the sauce to make it more awesome. I have been eating paleo so I had to buy the most boring sauce they offer in the organics aisle at the grocery store. This was pretty much restaurant quality, just saying :). Weeeeeeeee. Also I should note that it kind of looks unappealing in this picture but I never claimed to be a food stylist, I swear it was delicious!

My Best Life - Day 8

I relearned a really good lesson today about how expectations can really take away from great experiences. I was expecting a package in the mail today that really meant a lot to me, I had planned my whole day around how awesome it was going to be to open it. I had planned the picture I was going to take, the blog I was going to write and all the people I was going to send messages to...... and then it never came. Well at least not to me, Canada Post has successfully delivered it somewhere. So when 5 pm hit and I didn't get it, I was bummed. Even though I don't write really long blogs on here everyday I do put a lot of thought into what I am going to write. Plus this mystery item was going to be the start of a fun adventure for me.

What was even more of a bummer was that I spent all day so caught up in this that I missed all the great things that happened. Today one of my employees bought me a coffee out of the blue and I really, really appreciated that but took it for granted. I also had a random convo at lunch with someone I think is really awesome. Too bad I missed it all in the moment. I didn't give it my full presence at the time, my mind was somewhere else. Note to self: it is really fun to have things to look forward too as long as they don't take away from experiencing all the amazing things that are happening right now.

I did manage to catch one really epic thing on camera, me taking a much needed nap. Naps seem to be a really rare occurrence in my life these days so this was great. I gave up going to the gym but it was totally worth it :)!

My Best Life - Day 7

In my blog I try to steer my posts away from anything superficial. Money, looks and even health can be gone in an instant. That being said feeling good about yourself can make a regular day turn into a fantastic day. Yesterday I bought a new pair of pants for work, I dread buying work clothes, specifically pants. My thigh, to butt, to waist ratio is all out of whack and as my friend Nicole will tell you, or me in the change room at Guess, I have a really awful body shape. For the record I LOVE this story, she is hilarious and I appreciate her honesty times a thousand. I am still laughing about it as I type it out.

So today I got up for work, put my new outfit on and proceeded to my mirror to give myself the final approval before walking out the door. Wow.... these pants make my butt look good, WIN! Boys may not know this but when your butt looks really good it gives you super powers. It is very similar to the super powers you get from a good hair day but slightly more sexual. Your confidence has instantly doubled and people can tell. Bad things can happen to you on this day and it doesn’t matter because while they are happening you have a really fabulous ass. For the record, it is hard to get a good picture of your own butt. I swear it looked better in real.

I really hesitated about the topic of this post but I think we can relate to a day where something about our appearance seemed better then usual and that made our day!

*for the record it wasn’t lululemon good but it was pretty freaking good.

My Best Life - Day 6

So I will fully admit that today I was not in the best of moods when I woke up this morning. I thought I would mention that just because I feel that some people get the impression that I am freak never has a blah moment. I do, not often, but I do. I decided to get out of bed and have a dance party to cure myself. If I owned a video camera and a tripod this picture would actually be video of my awful dance moves to skillex this morning while holding a fruit shake. It was exactly what I needed to start my day off in a better mood.

Anyways clearly none of that has to do with this out of focus picture of a crossword puzzle in today's blog. A few years back my dad and I randomly decided that we wanted to start doing crossword puzzles so everyday we did the one in the Packet and Times (our local newspaper). It was fun mostly because we would spend the whole time making fun of each other. For those who don't know my dad, he is quite funny, even though I hate to admit it. Now that I have moved out every Sunday I go over to my parents house and today my dad had saved up this crossword for me out of the Toronto Star. It was a small gesture that turned into great fun. We spent probably an hour laughing while we attempted to complete this puzzle. Best part of my whole day :). Thanks Dad!

My Best Life - Day 5

So what was great about today? Well for the first time since I can remember I had a whole entire day without any commitments. Amazing. I decided to have some really good coffee, and work on a little project that I am doing. Didn't have to look at the clock once and decided to have a second cup. Slowing down is hard for me so this was really relaxing but still productive.

After I took this picture I realized how long my hair is getting as well, double win! :)

Cheers!

My Best LIfe - Day 4

So I am going to start off this blog by telling you something really kind of unappealing about myself. Every time I go to the dentist for a check up I get told that I suck at dental hygiene. This cartoon blog pretty much sums up my flossing habits. I usually get a speech something like this, "We both know you don't floss and you aren't going to start so you better start coming in and at least getting a scaling in between visits". Not to mention that I have had my fair share of cavities. Today, after 28 years, victory is mine! The dentist actually said, "you are doing a really great job maintaining your teeth". WTF? When I moved out of my parents house did I suddenly stop brushing my teeth like an 8 year old boy? Who knows, but I loved it! So in honour of this day here is an awkward picture of my clean teeth! HA HA.

I would like to note that a close runner up for today was the balmy 8 degree weather we are having here in the metropolis of Midland. I went out today in capris, hoodie and shoe sandals.... AMAZING!

A close second runner up was the fact that I wore my underwear inside out by accident. I have no idea why but I always love when I do that, it brings me great joy.

My Best Life - Day 3

Sometimes working at the paper I get to drive out and check on routes, it is actually one of my favourite things to do at my job. I get to leave the office for half an hour or so and have my tunes cranked! The even better part is that the Midland and Penetang area are surrounded with gorgeous views of the water. Today while I was out checking a route I saw this beautiful view so I parked my car and ran out onto what would be a small beach and took this shot. It was blissful. I stood there for a few minutes just breathing and taking in the view. For those who use instagram (I highly recommend it) you know that I love taking pictures of sunsets, trees and any other nature. I really like this one a lot because it is dark and dreary but also beautiful.

So far I can honestly say that I love this project. It seems simplistic but it is such an eye opener. I always enjoy the little parts of my day but it makes you stop for a few minutes and really just take it all in. Then at the end of every day you get to cap it off buy reliving it. Perfect.

My Best Life - Day 2

I know that this technically is not a photograph, it is a screen shot of my computer but seriously this was the highlight of my day. I can't believe how many great friends I have that continue to support me from near and far. I know I say this a lot, and I hope that it doesn't lose its meaning, but I feel so lucky to be surround by so many amazing people. Lots of crazy things happened for me in 2011 and I know a lot of that wouldn't have been possible without some key people in my life <3. I don't want to babble any longer because I can honestly say that I cried while typing this. I have become an emotional freak in my old age :)!

My Best Life - Day 1

So about two weeks ago I came across this awesome blog post by my favourite bloggers Marc and Angel and decided I wanted to take part in the 30 days of growth. One of the challenges I picked was to do a picture blog for 30 days marking a standout experience from everyday. I love this challenge because you get to express so much gratitude for all the small things in life and take pictures, two things that I love. I will warn you that I have horrible grammar, so deal with it. Maybe next month one of the challenges I pick will be to learn proper grammar but until then you get this horrible version of the English language that is written exactly like how I speak.

So today's picture is of the bulletin board in my office. I cleaned it off and put up all my favourite things that I have done since I started this job. I made that shop locally ad in the middle today and that is what prompted this random act of cleaning. I was so nerdily excited about how nice it looked I needed a clean space to showcase it. I still still get max excited when ads turn out the way I imagined, win.

That's it, day 1 complete!  Thanks for reading, if you enjoy this random babbling I will be doing this everyday for the next 29 days.