Every now and then, we all need a reminder.

1. Spring flowers hitting the grocery store.

2. My first article in the Globe & Mail, BOOM!

3. Then turning around and selling them on a second one days later. Double BOOM! Lol.

4. Finally hitting up a class at One Cycle. Long time coming, but now I’ve felt that endorphin rush, I think I will be back soon.

5. Nesting. Costs a bit, but it’s worth it to feel like my pad is finally coming together. After Europe it’s time to start saving up for a big girl couch. That’s right my futon crashing friends, it’s almost the end of an era.

6. Beer, sunshine, and desserts after my first time snowshoeing at Mt. Engadine Lodge. I never thought I was a snow activity kind of girl, but turns out I dig them under the right circumstances.

7. Injuries healing. Turns out leaving them alone…as in not using the limbs they reside in…really is the only way to stop the pain.

8. Dry brushing.

9. Sugar detoxing. Ok, the actual lack of sugar is not so much fun, but the challenge certainly presents one of those shake my head and smile kind of situations. No pain, no gain…or something like that, right?

10. Face Time. It is seriously like living in the The Jetsons people! The future is now!

1. Timber-week on Jimmy Fallon. I don’t have cable, so I’m a week late, but sweet baby Jebus, I LOVE that boy. I just sit there beaming at him. Whether he’s performing his tunes, doing skits or just shooting the breeze with Fallon, I’m full-on captivated by him.

2. Good food. Plain, simple, delicious ingredients, thrown together in beautiful accidents. Glorious.

3. Chatting with Jillian Michaels. Just an insanely genuine and passionate woman. I always found her pretty interesting, but I’m a true fan after that interview.

4. Workout buddy Richy. What a pleasant surprise that he a.) was in Calgary on Tuesday, b.) that he actually brought workout clothes and c.) that he was finally willing to come to one of trainer boy’s classes. I wish he could fly in weekly cause that was genuine fun like I haven’t experienced in a while.

5. Grapefruit Perrier. I’m a sucker for those citrus bubbles.

6. Baby Kale. It was like Christmas morning when I spotted them in the salad section the other day.

7. Coffee dates at Analog Cafe. Totally made me feel like we were hanging in Cali or Seattle, not good old C-town. An attractive Aussi dude making my coffee didn’t hurt either.

8. Deadlines. The word itself is not a smile-inducing one, but without them I would likely accomplish nothing.

9. New opportunities. I’m just loving what the Universe is sending my way these days. Keep ‘em coming please…

10. Papaya. I don’t know why it took me until my 28th year on this planet to discover it, but now I’m never letting this, frankly, kind of odd fruit, go.

Sometimes, when we are in the midst of it, we can’t recognize all the amazing opportunities that are coming our way. Or even see all the small achievements that are slowly adding up to our goals being accomplished. This is not one of those times. March has been exceptionally great to me in terms of progress and chances and I’m taking note with the hopes that April, May, June and beyond will continue bestowing the blessings. 

1. Window sitting, movie watching, snowed in blizzard days.

2. Unexpected Richard Bailey visits to Calgary.

3. Champagne cocktails.

4. Ed Sheeran sing-a-longs.

5. The 12 hours of sleep that has to follow the night that involves numbers 2 through 4.

6. That moment when I tell someone about one of my dreams…a pretty normal one by my standards, in fact….and having them respond with, “Holy shit you have some crazy-ass dreams.” I really do. My unconscious mind is slightly out of control.

7. Getting chatty.

8. That moment during a leg day workout when you realize there is an extremely good chance that you aren’t going to be able to walk tomorrow. Ok, it’s more of a grimace, but it still counts as one of those good/bad feelings.

9. The moment that comes later that night when you are trying to foam roll some of the impending pain away and you can’t remember the last time you vacuumed. Yah, I’m gross.

10. Seeing a potentially GREAT few months laying ahead. Having things to look forward to again is a grand feeling.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, 

because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;

who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly….

~Theodore Roosevelt

1. Granted, I didn’t see the Academy Awards themselves, but this post-ceremony press conference with Jennifer Lawrence was the highlight of the whole event I’m sure. She is so awkwardly hilarious. Here’s hoping they never train her up properly for media events.

2. This comment from one of my local baristas: “I love how you always look really hard at the boards as though you are going to order something different, like a super sugary drink or something, and then you order the same Americano Misto every time.” I love how she takes the time to notice me contemplating those delicious sugary drinks. Lol.

3. Severe muscle pain. It has been waaaay too long since my lower body has felt annihilated.

4. Airline tickets booked.

5. Tuesday. Don’t know why exactly, but it was a good energy day.

6. Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Netflix. Just can’t get enough. And if I remember correctly Buffy and Spike are about to have one epic throw down…the sexy kind….not the battle kind.

7. Breaking patterns.

8. The fresh squeezed by-products of the juicer. Cleaning the juicer afterwards, however, not so much with the smiles.

9. Conquering fears. Public speaking: don’t love it, but I dod it nevertheless.

10. Community drum circles. Pretty seriously out of my comfort zone, but kind of loved every energetic, rhythmic minute of it.