5/31/15

1. Seeing the Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts with AS. Very cool to see a lot of the context and the preparatory sketches behind the eventual murals!
2. Fitting in running back to the exhibit’s gift shop when I found the store Frida closed, getting a Coney dog from Lafayette Coney Island, and meeting Mama G for the street art tour.
3. Really enjoying the giant and brightly colored murals around the city.
4. Driving by the DIA again before dinner and noticing that Frida was now open, so talked Mama G into going in. 
5. Picking up several cute waterproof clutches!
6. Empty middle seat next to me on the plane.

A year ago today.

5/30/15

1. Waking up really early at 5 but hanging out in my room on the internet, buying candidates for summer sandals and such.
2. Emotional, raw, brave keynote by Brianna Wu.
3. Being at a front table when Brianna Wu came to hang out after her keynote and getting to talk to her for another 45 minutes!!
4. Dropping in on a hallway conversation about TV shows and pushing The Americans.
5. Conference organizers having the brilliant idea of holding a Q&A with Brianna Wu over lunch.
6. Getting to know AS and immensely enjoying her talk.

A year ago today.

5/29/15

1. Being the only passenger on the shuttle from the airport.
2. Being able to check in to the hotel really early by switching out for a room with two doubles instead of a king, so I could take a shower yesssss.
3. My talk going well! The untested new sections went over ok, hit just around 40 minutes, and got positive feedback from people whose work I respect, like CAE/KM/JS.
4. Taking a 2 hour nap in the afternoon.
5. Dinner at Slow's BBQ with a cool mix of other women attending the conference.
6. Going to sleep at 10pm.

A year ago today.

5/28/15

1. Making use of my early wakeup time (4am!) to get bunch of small tasks done.
2. Caprese waffle and pork belly at Off the Waffle with CB/PB.
3. Announcement about my team change going out!
4. Making pretty good progress on fixing up my slides.
5. Dinner at Screen Door with Dan/CB/PB.
6. Running into my hair stylist in the seat RIGHT NEXT TO ME on the flight to Detroit!!

A year ago today.

5/27/15

1. Getting a shoutout in Sandi Metz's email newsletter!!
2. Illuminating project meeting about async.
3. Booking my trip to Berlin!
4. Fun time shopping for supplies at and taking a sewing class at Modern Domestic.
5. Dan coming to pick me up from the sewing class.
6. Going to bed early.

A year ago today.

5/26/15

1. Fitting all my stuff I needed to return onto my bike.
2. Getting feedback in from the last practice run of my talk before my second practice run.
3. Moving over into our new area, where I have a motorized standing desk still but this one with presets.
4. Getting LA's help on photographing my homesewn projects that I'm getting rid of.
5. Completing all my errands, from going to the tailor to Penzey's to Powell's to the fancy olive oil/vinegars store to Banana Republic to Nordstrom to Sephora before the stores closed.
6. Biking home before it was completely dark out.

A year ago today.

5/25/15

1. Making fried eggs with avocado and jalapeno jelly on olive bread toast for breakfast.
2. Getting the strawberry jam made and canned pretty quickly in the morning.
3. Shiny clean apartment thanks to housekeeping service.
4. Dan cleaning up his bookshelves.
5. Finishing all my errands in time before Portland Nursery closed.
6. Getting the second planter box set up with two tomato starters and their cages.

A year ago today.

5/24/15

1. Figuring out how we could plug the fridge in to another working outlet in the kitchen.
2. Wearing my green/white chevron maxi dress with a 3/4 sleeve black top underneath and my leather jacket out.
3. Everyone being pleased with dinner at Grassa.
4. Thai iced tea and Mexican chocolate ice cream from Ruby Jewel.
5. Delightful documentary about Iris Apfel.
6. Finally finishing the whole KonMari decluttering (well, except for souvenir boxes/photos, but including the kitchen pantry!)

A year ago today.

5/23/15

1. Not raining on Sauvie Island.
2. Picking several pints of strawberries with AQ/JG/MD.
3. Lunch at Nong's Khao Man Gai, with chicken livers and fried chicken skin.
4. Making a strawberry-rhubarb pie and strawberry/lime/black pepper popsicles.
5. Making Swiss chard (from the garden!), fried egg, Havarti cheese, and jalapeno jelly on olive bread sandwiches for dinner.
6. Finishing knitting my gray wool vest and being satisfied with the shawl collar.

A year ago today.

5/22/15

1. Having breakfast during the weekly demo.
2. Lunch with KL to discuss code school experiences for her book.
3. My practice talk clocking in at around 29.5 minutes, so workable for the conference next week.
4. Picking up a book on Mexican popsicles (Paletas) at Powell's using some of the credit I got recently for selling books to them.
5. Going home to drop off all my stuff and have a bit of dinner.
6. Getting myself to go back out to the gym.

A year ago today.

5/21/15

1. Berlin trip might happen!
2. JR coming by to give me kudos on my contributions to the intern training.
3. People taking some of the craft books/supplies I was going to donate.
4. New opportunity at work!
5. Successfully making it to drop off the rest of the craft supplies at Goodwill, back home to drop off my laptop and pick up the second bag of books, and then over to Powell's to sell them.
6. Not having to stay up too late to finish working on my slides for a practice talk tomorrow.

A year ago today.

5/20/15

1. Watering my plants quickly before heading out.
2. Getting myself to the gym!
3. Code review being canceled so it didn't matter that I was a bit late coming in after the gym.
4. Lunch with KL and ZK to talk about how to prepare for the talks they're going to be giving.
5. Beautiful light out for my bike ride home.
6. Stopping by the library to pick up a book on hold.

A year ago today.

5/19/15

1. Dan giving me a ride to Twisted in the morning to pick up some replacement yarn for a project I lost.
2. Bus coming just a few minutes after I was done at Twisted.
3. No technical issues this week at Tech Talk Lunch.
4. Taking a couple photos of my newest knitting project with natural light nearby and the gray background of a table serving as a nice backdrop.
5. Actually getting the reading for tomorrow's book club done a day early, also for next week's work book club meeting, and finally finishing on an older book.
6. Biking home.

A year ago today.

5/18/15

1. Biking in to work for the first time in many weeks!
2. Other people coming to book club with finished solutions to the week's programming challenge, bailing me out.
3. LU coming to bar trivia for the first time.
4. Unraveling my swatch to make do and use as waste yarn for a provisional cast-on.
5. Pretty quick night for bar trivia, got home not too long after 10.
6. Watching the Mad Men series finale after we got home.

A year ago today.

5/17/15

1. Going through all my craft supplies and cookbooks and clearing out even more space.
2. My grandma being delighted that I called her.
3. Having a great squat session at the gym, really engaged my core significantly!
4. Taking my bike to shop to finally get the flat fixed, only 10 minutes and $10.
5. Picking up two loaves of kalamata olive bread at Grand Central.
6. Harvesting a large bowl of broccoli rabe to incorporate into my lunch for the week.

A year ago today.

5/16/15

1. Wasn't an issue that I didn't make a phone reservation on top of the Groupon for the Mount Hood Railroad.
2. Finishing reading the Marie Kondo book on the train ride, as well as the comics JG had lent me.
3. Amazing views of Mount Hood.
4. Randomly picking up some vermiculite and peat moss at the hardware store in Parkdale.
5. Quickly throwing together roast chicken with mashed potatoes and green beans for dinner, in time before Dan had to leave for music practice.
6. Going through all of my clothes, as well as DVDs and non-cookbook books, with the KonMari method, clearing out so much space that everything can be out all at once!

A year ago today.

5/15/15

1. Having breakfast during the weekly demo.
2. Having a late lunch and finishing off the lamb/potatoes I had at work.
3. Getting some coding done to be able to open a couple pull requests.
4. Spending the evening knitting and watching Once Upon a Time.
5. Finishing my orange-red honey cowl!
6. Going to bed early.

A year ago today.

5/14/15

1. Lamb shanks much more tender after another night in the slow cooker.
2. Running outside quickly to clip some cilantro to go with my lunch.
3. Making it onto the 9:34 bus to get to the office in time for 10am meeting.
4. First stitching lunch in awhile.
5. Selling back the copy of The King's Shield I'd bought just last week from Powell's, picking up some books on hold, and thumbing through a copy of Marie Kondo's book.
6. Starting and finishing the FreakAngels comic series.

A year ago today.

5/13/15

1. Catching early enough buses to get to my appointment right on time.
2. First massage in several months, with new moves I hadn't seen before to try to alleviate the soreness in my right lower back.
3. Calling an Uber to get to the office at least 30 minutes before I would've gotten there on the bus.
4. Getting my eyebrows done.
5. Having just enough time to finish the reading before the start of the PDX.rb book club.
6. Getting myself to the gym finally.

A year ago today.

5/12/15

1. Dan giving me a ride downtime after the bus I needed just randomly...didn't come.
2. Having a really fun time doing a panel with LA for a CS class at an all-girls high school.
3. Great attendance at the first Tech Talks Lunch that I'd organized.
4. Pairing with JG and making good progress in the afternoon.
5. Not missing RB's practice talk entirely.
6. Getting the lamb shanks into the slow cooker to cook overnight.

A year ago today.

5/11/15

1. Remembering to turn back to get my work laptop before making it too far out to the bus stop.
2. Finally dropping off a bunch of books due at the library.
3. Making a bunch of phone calls before lunch.
4. Leftover pork chops/green beans/mashed potatoes working well for lunch.
5. Remembering the leftover lamb mole burrito I had from Friday.
6. Winning at bar trivia!

A year ago today.

5/10/15

1. Sleeping in again.
2. Finishing reading Banner of the Damned.
3. Dan making risotto for dinner.
4. Catching up on Once Upon a Time and Call the Midwife.
5. Finishing the bulk of the knitting for the back panel on my wool vest.
6. Unpacking from the Boston trip.

A year ago today.

5/9/15

1. Sleeping in fully.
2. Kindle version of Banner of the Damned available from the library.
3. Making a double batch of granola.
4. Making pork chops/mashed potatoes/green beans for dinner.
5. Catching up on Mad Men.
6. Getting myself to sleep without having finished the book.

A year ago today.

5/8/15

1. Dan giving me a ride to work.
2. Getting through the weekly demo pretty quickly.
3. Getting a burrito for lunch at Mi Mero Mole.
4. Hanging out with people in the lunch room.
5. Library staying open a few extra minutes due to some other stragglers so I could run in and pick up Treason's Shore.
6. Watering my plants and doing the first harvest of broccoli rabe!

A year ago today.

5/7/16

1. Not having my 1:1 in the morning.
2. Team lunch at Shigezo.
3. BZ totally getting the questions I was asking about doing the UX research.
4. Getting to Madewell and Blick both before they closed.
5. Stayed light out while I ran my errands.
6. Missing any effect on the bus from Obama's visit.

A year ago today.

5/6/15

1. Running out in time to catch the bus in 4 minutes.
2. Lunch at Mi Mero Mole with ND visiting and other ladies at the office.
3. Getting PDX.rb book club reading done.
4. Still sunny out by the time I got home.
5. Pasta fagioli for dinner.
6. Reading Inda The Fox.

A year ago today.

5/5/15

1. Catching up with MF’s big life changes.
2. Delicious Italian food for lunch in the North End.
3. Finding some rocking chairs in one of the terminal connector areas.
4. Wifi at Logan Airport actually being quite good.
5. TP covering a late evening issue for me.
6. Dan coming to the airport to pick me up.

A year ago today.

5/4/15

1. BM being on the train right after me to sign me in as a visitor.
2. Hot breakfast at the Google Boston office.
3. Getting most people to follow CC’s plan for entering the Olympics tickets lottery.
4. Lunch and catching up with old DCLKers!
5. Good Indian food for dinner.
6. DC figuring out her wifi password.

A year ago today.

5/3/15

1. Going back to sleep for an extra hour after first waking up around 9.
2. Getting good dim sum with EN in Chinatown.
3. Blackberry lemonade ice pop really hitting the spot.
4. Going shopping in Harvard Square with EN and DC.
5. CC taking on doing the research and planning for us entering the Olympics tickets lottery.
6. Enjoying the energy of the crowd at the Red Sox-Yankees game at Fenway.

A year ago today.

5/2/15

1. Getting into the MFA for free with the Bank of America Museums On Us first weekend of the month.
2. Accidentally timing it well to attend a curator talk on a scroll painting at the Hokusai exhibit.
3. Beautifully sunny day out to walk and sit in the Boston Common/Public Gardens areas.
4. Making a very well-appreciated dinner for EN/LW/DC.
5. Hanging out, drinking wine, laughing.
6. Watching Divergent from beginning to end.

A year ago today.

5/1/15

1. Better lunch at the Google office than yesterday.
2. Dialing in to watch EH’s really cool demo.
3. Randomly running into NF and CP getting off BART.
4. Making it to the airport about 45 minutes before departure time.
5. Having an empty seat next to me on the plane.
6. Reading The Martian start-to-finish in the first few hours of the flight.

A year ago today.