I’ve decided to start a blog post about my perfect day, just like discussed on Smart Cookies. I’m trying to sort out my goals, and by describing my perfect day,
It’s early Friday morning, the sun is shining, I feel the warmth streaming in the window. I roll over, cuddle closer to my husband and slowly we wake up.  We don’t yet have kids, but one is coming soon. I work pretty early, so I get up, grab a coffee – I now drink decaf, shower get ready for work and sit down and grab a quick breakfast with my husband and we head out the door to work. We live near the city centre and are making our home in Vancouver. We own a townhouse or a condo right now and plan to move into a detached house before the baby arrives.
It’s a reasonably short ride to work at the moment, though once we move into a detached house, we’ll be in the suburbs, at which point we’ll carpool at least as often as we can. I’ll be working a more flexible work schedule so that I can do childcare at least part time. But for right now, we live in the city, I cycle to work.
When I arrive at work, I quickly shower and dress. I wear stylish business clothes and am at the peak of my fitness – or I was before I became pregnant.  I’m maintaining my fitness, with yoga, bootcamp, dancing and running but there are modifications as the months go by.  I work in healthcare or biotech management. I’m in a stable growing sector and work in a medium size company or as a manager of a government regulatory affairs team.
As I leave work, I go workout – sometimes it’s a run, sometimes it’s yoga, sometimes it’s bootcamp.  Usually I workout alone, but not always. It’s a great time to relax but running is often with my running group.  After working out I get home, my husband and I will take turns cooking, or sometimes we’ll cook together. Tonight we’re having some friends over for a pre-blues dance dinner party.
Dinner is a healthy meal, some of it was prepared ahead of time (my baking), but my husband and I cooked the rest together. The meal has food bought from the Granville Island Public Market or Farmers Markets and some is from our balcony container garden.  As the final preparations are being made I go upstairs to our bedroom and into our en suite. I enjoy a quick bubble bath to unwind and then get ready. Our house has beautiful flowers on our table, and it’s organized and was cleaned the night before.  I’m dressed in casual but elegant clothes, great for dancing, but nice enough for an evening’s dinner.
After dinner, we go to the dance, arriving a little late. This particular week I’m not teaching the drop in class, so we just get to dance with each other and our friends.  As the night wraps up we make our way home to enjoy the beginnings of a great weekend that will involve hiking and camping in the summer, or perhaps relaxing at our cottage by the water. As always, running plays a role and there will be lots of time spent with friends and family.
Questions & Exercises:
1. Answer these Questions:

a) What three activities on your Perfect Day bring you the most joy?

i. My husband and I hosting a dinner party and then dancing that includes close friends.

ii. Getting a good workout in.

iii. Spending time in my home with my husband.

b) What are three things in your Perfect Day that you don’t have now?

i. Husband

ii. Townhouse/condo

iii. The opportunity to teach dancing.

2. Take each item and activity and estimate the cost to purchase or enjoy.

a) Activity:

i. Dinner Party then Dancing: $300.00 (random number off the top of my head, more? less? Depends on how things play out with my perfect day)

ii. Workout: $300.00/4 weeks (bootcamp or yoga)

iii. Relaxing at home with husband: $0.00 (though the husband part may have a cost depending on how much longer my counseling will need to continue)

b) Item

i. Husband: ????

ii. Townhouse/Condo: $300,000.00 (for a first condo in Kitsilano, total)

Downpayment: $15,000.00 – $30,000.00 –> $625.00 — $1,250.00/month for 24 months.

iii. Lots of Dance Classes, privates, Herrang: $400.00/month