2/29/12

1. Making it in early with plenty of time to spare for an 8:30 call with SH (7:30 her time).
2. Feeling a lot better after talking to SH.
3. Getting lunch with some people for the first time in awhile instead of skipping or just eating at my desk: EM, ST, and BL.
4. Leaving work a little early since I'd gotten in earlier than usual.
5. Dan helping me figure out photos from our semester abroad in Melbourne, Australia.
6. Putting together my first photobook with MyPicTales using the first code from the giveaway that I had won!

Leap day!

2/28/12

1. Finishing reading Getting More at breakfast.
2. Personal branding workshop led by EN. She's even more awesome than I thought she was!
3. SH getting back to me despite being on vacation and letting me set up a call with her tomorrow.
4. Dinner with AJ and catching up.
5. Getting Turkey trip photos from DC!
6. Backing up some photo files onto my old external hard drive.

A year ago today.

2/27/12

1. Getting in in time for breakfast in the morning.
2. Few meetings across the day.
3. Leaving work early to go get a book for Dan from the Mid-Manhattan library.
4. Telling Dan about my day.
5. Leftover chicken pot pie heating up well for dinner.
6. Going to the gym even after their open gym hours for the day and succeeding at 3x5x55lb. overhead press with lots of rest between sets.

A year ago today.

2/26/12

1. Dusting and vacuuming the apartment so that it was no longer a dustbowl.
2. Being really welcomed by and hanging out with KS and ES at the family event.
3. Having my Kindle to read while waiting in the car for Dan to accomplish errands.
4. Chicken pot pie with savory crumble (cheese and pepper) topping recipe by Cook's Illustrated coming out really well, I thought.
5. Dan forgiving me after I'd had an inappropriately loud outburst over him deliberately stepping on my foot to troll me.
6. Watching the rest of Luther series 1 episodes on Netflix.

A year ago today.

2/25/12

1. Fried eggs on English muffins for breakfast.
2. Going out for lunch at Zafra's with RC, AB, and LW and finding the food to be quite good and for good value too.
3. Dan going with me to the framing shop to bring home framed souvenirs from the honeymoon and the last Springsteen concert we went to.
4. Finishing watching the rest of the Please Vote For Me documentary on Netflix.
5. Rousing myself of the couch to drop off a dress at the drycleaner's.
6. Getting by on apples and sunflower butter for dinner.

A year ago today.

2/24/12

1. Getting to the room before the class started.
2. Doing pretty well in my negotiations class, I thought.
3. Going over to see EM after my class to get some advice alleviating wrist pain during lifting.
4. Good call with SP and SP on their client situation.
5. Getting dinner at Shake Shack after returning some clothes to Ann Taylor.
6. Putting in a Madewell order.

A year ago today.

2/23/12

1. Bright, sunny day (up to 60 degrees).
2. Nothing required of me at a client meeting.
3. Checking off a good number of tasks today with few meetings going on.
4. Got home with plenty of time to relax a bit and have some food before going to the gym.
5. Coming close to but not quite failing at the workout tonight.
6. Indulging in some cheesecake for dessert.

A year ago today.

2/22/12

1. Wearing new brown Hue leggings and finding them to be quite comfortable and smooth, not too loose. A bit long is all.
2. Making it in time for breakfast in the morning.
3. Dan approving of an email exchange I forwarded to him.
4. Picking up an interlibrary loan book on filmmaking from the library.
5. Cooking up another burger for dinner.
6. Relaxing by watching TV.

A year ago today.

2/21/12

1. Grabbing a quick early lunch with AJ.
2. Meetings the afternoon getting canceled to free up more time.
3. Cooking up a bacon burger on a rack to let more of the fat drain out.
4. Time to eat dinner before getting to the gym.
5. Making it an additional rep on the last set of overhead presses before failing.
6. Finishing workout pretty quickly.

A year ago today.

2/20/12

1. Discovering that Nordstrom does cash back returns, so I could return things but still have them count towards the spending limit I'm trying to hit on my Chase Sapphire card.
2. Driving past our old house in Hazlet with my parents.
3. Organizing a pile of receipts and categorizing items in Mint.
4. Dan making dinner for celebrating Valentine's Day, with some awesome cheesecake.
5. Watching a perfect season finale for Downton Abbey on DVR.
6. Calling EN to catch up.

A year ago today.

2/19/12

1. Dan making me breakfast of eggs and the remaining chorizo.
2. Having plenty of time to finish today's workout at the gym with a fundamentals class coming in at 12 so they didn't kick me right out then.
3. Dan being patient with me while I was slow getting ready to leave.
4. Napping and taking in some sun as Dan drove me down to Holmdel.
5. Accompanying my mom as she ran some errands.
6. Watching TV with my mom in the evening.

A year ago today.

2/18/12

1. Big breakfast with chorizo, eggs, avocado, sunflower butter toast.
2. Using our Groupon for a couples massage class that focused on the shoulders and neck, where I get  really tight.
3. Buying light rail tickets separately to rack up transactions on my Provident card for the month.
4. Crispy and delicious potato pancakes at the beer garden.
5. Rain staying pretty light so we were fine going back and forth without an umbrella.
6. Watching bad TV throughout the day, including Ghost Rider after we got home.

A year ago today.

2/17/12

1. Catching AJ and MG at the tail end of their lunch.
2. Having leftovers from lunch for dinner.
3. Running over to pick up some burgers and chorizo from Dickson's Farm Stand for the weekend.
4. Greek yogurt with a generous amount of honey for a snack at home.
5. Reading American Gods in the evening.
6. Going to sleep instead of staying up to finish reading.

A year ago today.

2/16/12

1. Core team being pleased with my progress on the project plan sheet for client usage data.
2. First chair massage with AS in awhile.
3. Figuring out a way to get to the meeting room AJ had booked, which required traversing across several floors to get to the right place.
4. Getting some info from AJ to help me stop a trainwreck.
5. Helping the product team bat around ideas while they were in town.
6. Finishing tonight's workout pretty quickly.

A year ago today.

2/15/12

1. EM complimenting me on my floral navy blue 40s dress that I haven't worn in awhile.
2. Getting lunch with EM in Chelsea market before the event began.
3. Not too much email coming in during the afternoon.
4. Having a free room to do some last minute practice of my demo.
5. Demo going pretty smoothly and getting an "ooo" moment despite some unexpected questions.
6. Going home and escaping the cocktail hour after feeling tired from the day.

A year ago today.

2/14/12

1. Succinct and sweet card from Dan in the morning for Valentine's Day.
2. MB being cool about rescheduling our meeting when I was late in the morning.
3. Clearing up most of my meeting obligations for the day to keep working on my demo script.
4. Having some time between getting home and going to the gym to have some food.
5. Getting to the gym and finishing workout in time.
6. Finishing reading Neverwhere.

A year ago today.

2/13/12

1. Got in on time for 9:30am meeting.
2. DRW in town! Had lunch with him.
3. Fleshing out my presentation outline further.
4. Figuring out the equipment in the conference room in Chelsea with CL.
5. Having my backpack with me when I went to pick up a large number of books from the library.
6. Watching Jeopardy with Dan.

A year ago today.

2/12/12

1. Starting the new strength training program designed for me by EM.
2. Lunch of scrambled eggs on toast with avocado, cheese, and apples.
3. Vacuuming up the apartment pretty quickly (easier to be less fussy when it's dark out and it's harder to see all the dust bunnies as much.
4. Doing a couple loads of laundry, lots of clean underwear and socks again.
5. Lots of TV vegging today, both the usual Sunday night shows and other random stuff on TV.
6. Fixing my coat pockets that were coming apart and a button on a pair of Dan's pants.

A year ago today.

2/11/12

1. Having some of Dan's pumpkin oatmeal with maple syrup in the morning for breakfast.
2. Watching DVRed shows with Dan in the morning.
3. Getting to the Cheese Store for the mozzarella making demonstration led by someone with a good grasp of the science and learning a few new things about organic milk.
4. Replenishing my stock of cheese with some Midnight Moon and gruyere and breaking into the Midnight Moon before I'd even got back home with it.
5. Dan helping me take photos for making a croquis.
6. Grilled cheese with apples and basil sandwiches.

A year ago today.

2/10/12

1. Having a good time giving feedback and ideas to LW and her developers for this party planning site they're starting up.
2. Leaving the office a bit earlier than usual.
3. Browsing in the vintage shops along 17th St. on my way home.
4. Getting bibimbap delivered for dinner.
5. Dan swinging by Trader Joe's for groceries and still getting home faster than expected.
6. Going to bed by 9.

A year ago today.

2/9/12

1. MF not being annoyed at me for being 30 minutes late to our 30 minutes hangout that I scheduled and still having time free afterwards to hang out and catch up a bit.
2. My team when they're very patient with me for forwarding them emails to be like wtf?!
3. Getting just enough done on a presentation outline before the meeting about it in the afternoon.
4. Sunlight streaming in to a conference room in a meeting in the afternoon.
5. Fun dinner conversation with witty banter with DF and EM.
6. Getting home not too long after Project Runway had started.

A year ago today.

2/8/12

1. Turning off both alarms and sleeping in a bit in the morning after I woke up really groggy (dreams of being stuck in work meetings forever).
2. SG joining our pod meeting and sharing information on how we approach similar challenges.
3. Wrapping up a few small tasks that had been lingering for a few days.
4. Writing up long personal email responses.
5. Energetic conversation with AB late in the evening.
6. Watching Jeopardy! with Dan and seeing our favorite of this group move to the next round.

A year ago today.

2/7/12

1. Thinking to wear my black suede boots to pull together an outfit with the red paisley shirt.
2. Getting to the planning meeting right on time.
3. Mostly free afternoon thanks to many meetings getting canceled.
4. Putting together a spreadsheet for a strength-training program for myself as coached by EM.
5. Discovering that the couch by the support team's area is incredibly comfortable.
6. Catching up with SP in the evening.

A year ago today.

2/6/12

1. Getting in in time to get breakfast before the 9am review meeting started.
2. Pretty productive day at work overall, we were all a little punchy and laughing a lot in our weekly meeting in the afternoon.
3. Sending my NY tax return by mail to be truly done with all that.
4. Bringing over a Springsteen concert handkerchief and some souvenirs from the honeymoon to get framed.
5. Back squat work at the gym tonight, plus getting through a burpee and sit-ups workout.
6. Leftover pork shoulder roast with broccoli for dinner, the pork has a great dark meat taste to it.

A year ago today.

2/5/12

1. Making sweet potato latkes for brunch and eating leftovers for dinner because they were so good.
2. Officially filing our taxes, hurrah.
3. Dan vacuuming up the apartment, it gets gross enough for even him to notice it after 2 weeks.
4. Finishing reading In the Woods and starting and finishing Faithful Place.
5. Dan coming home to watch the second half of the Superbowl with me, with the Giants winning!
6. Having the DVR record Downton Abbey for later viewing.

A year ago today.

2/4/12

1. Putting in a few online purchases to try to get some rewards miles, but then also finding several kelly green coats that would be great spring coats, discovering that Marc Jacobs has bags now in a "cherry red" color that looks wonderful, and finding that a certain style of jeans I thought I'd lost out on was back in stock in my size and on even deeper discount.
2. LW calling and catching up for awhile on a wide variety of topics.
3. Slow-roasted pork shoulder roast coming out really well, as did these collard greens with bacon.
4. Getting rid of a ton of papers that I've been moving around with me for awhile.
5. Going through our finances for January and doing better than I had expected.
6. Sitting down with Dan to review our taxes as I've filed them in TurboTax.

A year ago today.

2/3/12

1. Grabbing JE in the morning to sit down and power through 30+ items in the feature request inbox.
2. EM and AJ still at lunch when I was finally able to join them.
3. Crossing off one item on my shopping list with a black rayon slip that fit really well. It has some holes in the back unfortunately but I should be able to patch it.
4. Finding a gorgeous seafoam green coat for $50.
5. Getting a vendor to agree to let me pay the balance on the coat to her later over Paypal because the show's credit card machine was down.
6. Really tasty duck breast dinner at Greensquare Tavern with Dan.

A year ago today.

2/2/12

1. Lunch with EM, LM, and KV.
2. Getting my new phone activated pretty quickly at the Verizon store.
3. Playing around with the new phone and finding it to be more responsive and slicker, which makes up a bit for the fact that it's a bit unwieldy in my small hands.
4. Blurb photobooks getting delivered. They're smaller than I expected but it's still nice to have the physical photos in my hands.
5. Using the DVR to start watching Project Runway a bit after it had started but able to skip all the commercials.
6. Finding some energy to get started on our taxes.

A year ago today.

2/1/12

1. Taking a bit of time to do the dishes in the morning before leaving for work.
2. A stranger complimenting me on my houndstooth coat in the morning.
3. Such a balmy day! Highs in the 60s, in February. Weird but welcome.
4. Random outbreak of hives subsiding after I took a loratidine pill.
5. Delicious baked potato bar at work for dinner.
6. Dan talking me into going into the gym so I'd feel better afterwards, which I did.

A year ago today.

1/31/12

1. Making it in to the office time to get a full breakfast with scrambled eggs, avocado, roasted butternut squash cubes, and potato knishes.
2. After knocking over my glass of OJ from the OJ jugs that were running a bit low and then trying to find napkins to mop it up with, I came back to find that the guy next me had started re-filling my glass of OJ for me.
3. Working out of the 5th floor library in the morning for a change of scenery and getting some sunlight from that. 
4. Productive planning meeting with CL and BG.
5. Taking a break with JW to share the best parts of our days so far as a work destresser.
6. Picking up all the necessary supplies for my wedding card bookbinding project from the Utrecht art supplies store.

A year ago today.

1/30/12

1. PA interpreting correctly my fundamental desire behind wanting more buffer times in dates given to clients.
2. Calling a client and finding her easier to talk than I had expected.
3. Asking for and getting a pep talk from SH.
4. Coming home and talking Dan into taking a break from his reading to watch DVRed Jeopardy with me and then talking to him about feeling stressed about work.
5. Dan belting out the Weird Al parodies "The Saga Begins" and "Amish Paradise."
6. Going to bed by 10 to catch up on sleep.

A year ago today.

1/29/12

1. Dan making me scrambled eggs for breakfast.
2. Dan going out to get more groceries.
3. Spending the afternoon moving some more bookmarks from Google Bookmarks over to Pinterest and re-arranging my boards to be better categorized and more visually appealing.
4. I apparently had some heartburn but it eased up in the evening.
5. Dan reminding me to watch Once Upon a Time and Downton Abbey.
6. Narrowing down from 130+ favorites to top 50 photos for our wedding album!

A year ago today.

1/28/12

1. Bright, sunny day out.
2. Realizing I was just finishing up the welfare book as I got off at 9th St., so I hung around to finish the last few pages and return it to the Jefferson Market library right there before heading over to Brooklyn. Good thing too, I found out later that the book was already overdue.
3. Delicious omelet and excellent home fries at brunch with JB, MG, EM, and AJ.
4. Getting APW books and Yay New York tote bag signed by Meg!
5. Meeting Robin from Hitchdied! As well as all sorts of other fun APW people, as always, and hanging out with KP too.
6. Finishing organizing up the craft supply shelf after getting rid of lots of stuff and putting the rest into additional storage bins purchased from the Container Store. Looks loads neater now.

A year ago today.

1/27/12

1. Getting a peer bonus from EM for stepping in to cover a call for her in the morning, which turned out to be quite pleasant anyway since the client was really nice and had constructive things to say.
2. Winning a year-long photobook giveaway!!!
3. Going through the feature request inbox and clearing it faster than I expected to at the end of the day.
4. Finding all the storage bins I was looking for from the Container Store.
5. Discovering that I could in fact fit two of the cheaper and structured bins side-by-side on the craft supplies bookshelf, which meant I could return the more expensive soft baskets.
6. Making a mound of cheese quesadillas for dinner.

A year ago today.

1/26/12

1. Got in early enough to get breakfast so I wasn't too hungry when we had to skip lunch for a long meeting.
2. Sharing snarky comments via ping with other people in real-time.
3. Warming up from the damp weather with a cup of really hot tea before the class began.
4. Redeeming a Groupon for a macaroon class with MG and finding the class to be quite well-run and informative.
5. Though it was drizzling outside, stayed pretty dry on my way home.
6. Dan DVR-ing Project Runway All Stars for me.

A year ago today.

1/25/12

1. JC backing me up during the pipeline meeting, which I appreciated.
2. Finally getting back to the Spotted Pig to get their burger and the amazing shoestring fries with fried garlic and rosemary!
3. SH ordering the hard cider along with me, which ended up being more like sparkling wine crossed with the normal kind of hard cider.
4. Gossiping with JM and SH over the dinner.
5. Staying for a ginger cake dessert instead of leaving early to get to the barbell class.
6. Getting home pretty early still since we'd had dinner so early.

A year ago today.