My Favourite Articles and Links This Week

When it comes to following your passion, you don’t have to choose. Keep all your pieces in play.

This had me laughing- how long can you stay in your pyjamas???

A Brief History of Félicette, the First Cat in Space. A stray cat from Paris trains to be a catstronaut- how is this not a Disney movie?!!

The 100 most nutritious foods, ranked. I’ve never even heard of #2, and now my mission in 2019 is to find one and eat it.

What deep breathing does for your body.

My Favourite Pins This Week

This easy one pot chicken and dirty rice meal is sooo good- and I had no trouble skipping the sausage and just doing chicken and rice, and adding some chopped spinach to the rice to boost the veg content. It seems like there are a lot of ingredients, but most of that is just spices and seasoning, which you probably already have in your cupboard. Plus, SO yummy! Pinterest link is here, and the full recipe is right here.

If you are anything like me, you are probably trying to wean yourself off the daily cookies and chocolate (I finally ate all the Terry’s Chocolate Oranges in my house so it’s definitely time for me to resume normal eating habits). but it’s hard. Change is hard. Giving up daily treats is hard. But the humble rice krispy treat is here to help! This is a healthier take on a peanut butter and chocolate rice krispie treat, for easing yourself off of sugar… which is what I’m trying to do. And failing.  Anyway, these are are tasty. Pinterest link is here, and the full recipe can be found here.

I love giving strangers compliments because it will probably make their day, and why wouldn’t I want to make someone’s day a little brighter? A compliment, especially from someone you don’t know and likely will never see again often feels like a no-strings-attached gift. Because they don’t want anything from you- they just want to tell you that your dress/hair/laugh is wonderful. Because it is.  Who’s with me on giving out more compliments in 2019?! Pinterest link is here, and you can read the whole post here.

If you’d like to do something special with all those Instagram photos, what about making a printable calendar? This is a great guide with a template (the template is a .psd file for photoshop, but for those of us that don’t have photoshop, here is a link to a similar one. Pinterest link is here, and the full tutorial can be found here.

I’m really feeling this quote lately. Maybe it resonates with you too? Pinterest link is here, and the original source is here somewhere, but they have some sort of newsletter signup and it’s hard to get past it.

Have a fantastic weekend, everyone!