Daily 5 Revisited - Day 19 & 20

Yesterday's Daily 5:

1. a quiet day at home
2. making a favorite quinoa recipe with a turkey burger for dinner
3. enjoying the luxury of a bubble bath in mom and dad's soaker tub
4. some positive news
5. knowing that the morning commute would be a bit easier since I crashed at mom and dad's

Today's Daily 5:

1. a work shift that started three hours earlier than usual, but was relatively painless when it had the potential to be really bad
2. catching up with a school friend I hadn't seen in a while
3. a helpful (if super intense and long) first day of a review course for my nursing licensing exam
4. eating leftover quinoa and baked chicken with mom
5. hershey's kisses
6. another bubble bath
7. reading a slightly trashy novel to decompress and turn my brain off at the end of an intense day
8. knowing that I don't have to be up at 5am tomorrow
9. tylenol cold medicine
10. magic bags on achy muscles

Daily 5 Revisited - Day 18

Today's Daily 5:

1. a quiet day at home since I'm fighting yet another sinus cold
2. kiwi fruit tango green smoothie for day 9 of the 30 day challenge
3. amooza string cheese
4. reading a good book on transit
5. a decent conversation in an unexpected moment

Daily 5 Revisited - Day 17

Today's Daily 5:

1. a good phone conversation this morning pertaining to nursing
2. still loving the green smoothie challenge (day 8 today)
3. a bubble bath at mom and dad's
4. dropping birthday cards in the mail for a couple good friends
5. peanut butter and raspberry jam on warm naan bread

Daily 5 Revisited - Day 16

Today's Daily 5:

1. a mostly restful night of sleep
2. a really tasty green smoothie on the 7th day of my green smoothie challenge
3. tackling the making of vegetable stock from scratch
4. enjoying a bit of a lazy day
5. a long skype date with a dear friend who really gets me

Daily 5 Revisited - Day 15

Today's Daily 5:

1. a new (natural) coconut lipbalm that was a Christmas gift from a friend
2. commiserating with a friend via text
3. working a list to create success on a day when it felt like life was defeating me
4. some positive news
5. the way exercise can help with mood (even if this reality annoys me, as someone who thinks exercise is quite awful)
6. doing a few errands with mom - getting out of grandma's basement is helpful for my sanity these days
7. a bacon portobello mushroom melt burger from Wendy's
8. settling in for a cup of rooibos de provence from David's Tea and watching an episode of Downton Abbey
9. twinkling of a tea light across the room
10. a bit of chocolate to end the night (love me some ferrero rocher)