12/30/10

1. Finishing reading the whole Dark is Rising series.
2. Getting Korean fried chicken delivered for lunch.
3. Catching up on Glee episodes.
4. Finally cutting down the one fabric-covered window that was already up and putting up another two in bedroom windows.
5. Putting in the waistbands on my two unfinished skirts from the skirt class.
6. Discovering that I did buy some light-colored cotton fabric, originally for lining my dress from the Make workshop class (that I think I'm going to just tear apart), that I've decided to use as underlining for the Crepe dress sew-along instead.

A year ago today.

12/29/10

1. Still getting an avocado on bagel for breakfast despite arriving at 9:40 because the cafe workers were a bit slower in putting things away and pulled out the dish of avocado for themselves as well.
2. Quiet day at work.
3. Lunch with ES and EM discussing favorite childhood books and going over the Newberry Medal winners list afterwards.
4. Long-awaited hour-long massage with Maurice. Excellent.
5. Dropping by the library to return some books and reading bits of Flowers in the Attic and picking up a compilation of the entire Dark is Rising series.
6. Getting my Droid back as my phone!! Went to the Verizon store to switch my number back to the Droid from the awful Moto-Q with its water damage spot.

A year ago today.

12/28/10

1. New purple snow boots acquitting themselves excellently, kept my feet warm and dry as I scaled the small mountains of snow and puddles.
2. After watching two totally packed PATH trains go by, a mostly empty one finally came in and didn't have to elbow someone's eye out in order to get on it.
3. Queues at work cleaning up pretty quickly, lots were just spam.
4. Taking the plunge and buying the serger, yay!!!
5. One of the avocados I bought last week finally ripe enough to cut into.
6. Achieving my goal of getting out the first wedding blog post since the last post from Dan over a month and a half ago.

A year ago today.

12/27/10

1. Winter wonderland outside our windows.
2. Dan's office closing so he could stay home with me today.
3. Breakfast/lunch of quinoa, poached eggs, special olive oil, spinach, and chives.
4. Munching on Dan's grandma's cookies throughout the day.
5. Watching more movies on TV, most notably the end of Made of Honor and all of Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
6. Finishing the maroon dress from my dressmaking class!! Now just need to take it to the drycleaner's to get properly pressed.

A year ago today.

12/26/10

1. Dad driving me back to the apartment just as the blizzard was starting.
2. Dan having braved the elements and hordes of other shoppers to pick up OJ for me from Shop Rite.
3. Leftover lasagna from Dan's aunt to supply us with meals.
4. Starting a pair of armwarmers (first knitting project in a long long while) from my ball of tiger self-striping yarn.
5. Finishing watching the disc of Project Runway that I'd had out since before the cruise. Season 2 was pretty awesome.
6. Dan keeping me company as I watched bits of 27 Dresses through to its delightfully cheesy end.

A year ago today.

12/25/10

1. Getting some money for Christmas from my aunt that I may put towards getting a serger.
2. Stopping by Dan's mother's side family Christmas and helping out with their turkey.
3. Hanging out with JW, catching up with her, discussing her wedding planning thus far.
4. Yummy homemade salted caramels from JW.
5. Putting together the same Times Square panorama puzzle as last year.
6. Watching a special extended edition of Jim Carrey's The Grinch on ABC Family, after we failed to find our DVD of it.

A year ago today.

12/24/10

1. Getting to the bank to deposit a large sum riiight before they closed for the holiday.
2. Dan sweetly having saved me a piece of the coveted pepperoni bread that his grandmother makes.
3. Having a blast playing Cranium with Dan, his sisters, cousin, and dad. My team won due to our superior die-rolling and pictionary skills.
4. Feeling really welcomed into their family.
5. Getting a copy of the CDs with his grandmother's recipes on there.
6. Getting Google Reader unread items from 1000+ to under 100.

A year ago today.

12/23/10

1. Fairly quiet day at work to close out the week.
2. Dinner of a cheddar and fig jam sandwich from Lucy's Whey plus coconut water (it's better than the last time I sampled this, I'll be picking this out more often now).
3. Getting to the hockey game right on time despite my detour to pick up a sandwich.
4. Dan bringing me key stuff I forgot to the hockey game for me (like my phone).
5. Though the Devils played horribly, at least there were multiple fights for the spectacle.
6. Finishing Intuitive Eating on the train and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake later in the night.

A year ago today.

12/22/10

1. Dan finding and bringing the other two suit jackets with him to work, even though it made him late for his usual train.
2. Mentoring discussion with MF on how to talk about career development with my manager and how to bring up concerns about a project I'm not at all involved in.
3. Bringing Dan's suit jacket to the tailor and finding the cost of alterations to be less than previously expected.
4. Getting honey roasted peanut butter from Manhattan Fruit Exchange for EM and for myself. Omg, best peanut butter I've had in my life.
5. Dan continuing to accompany me on running errands, including picking up library books.
6. Using up the last of my Wageworks card money to get epsom salts for when I start Crossfit and get incredibly sore again and first aid tape.

A year ago today.

12/21/10

1. Early morning meeting that I wasn't entirely prepped for getting rescheduled to tomorrow.
2. The really good kind of working out shoulder/neck soreness during my chair massage.
3. Discussing MF's serger with her boyfriend after seeing the same model in today's Gilt sale, but it's cheaper and comes with free shipping on Amazon.
4. Successfully setting in the sleeves on my dress on the first try in class!
5. Another student lingering in class long enough for me to be able to finish most seams on the serger.
6. Dan letting me have his grandmother's pasta fagioli for dinner.

A year ago today.

12/20/10

1. Morning not being too busy, which was nice for this first full week of all hands on deck for phones.
2. Getting in an escalation before leaving the office.
3. Much of the work day taken up by the volunteaming event we went on, volunteering at the NY Food Bank's warehouse in the Bronx.
4. Got to the library in time to pick up a couple books on hold.
5. Dan being a fan of the risotto leftovers for dinner as well.
6. Getting into a total sewing groove and getting a lot done (at the cost of staying up until 3...), including getting the invisible zipper in on the first try.

A year ago today.

12/19/10

1. Apartment to myself for most of the day with Dan at his dad's for the game.
2. Making a big brunch for myself, with eggs, roasted peppers, and my favorite type of home fries.
3. Getting two big loads of laundry done, though it took 3 hours with the dryers being used by someone else and having to run multiple loads.
4. Cleaning the apartment in between doing laundry.
5. Getting handsewing mending done on some of my dresses while watching shows on Netflix.
6. Risotto holding up quite well as leftovers, since the texture thickened further.

A year ago today.

12/18/10

1. Catching up on sorely needed sleep after the holiday party late night.
2. Spending most of the day on the couch.
3. Making this tomato and sausage risotto, which has a whole bag of spinach in it.
4. Roasted red peppers coming out really well.
5. Discovering that just baking stale bread in the oven and sprinkling some spices on it was pretty much sufficient for decent croutons to munch on.
6. Watching Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and having related dreams afterwards.

A year ago today.

12/17/10

1. Finding out that EM got herself home ok. Should've gone to the bathroom to look for her, but I'd figured she'd slipped out quietly (rather than taking a brief nap on the tile floor...)
2. Everyone sitting around going over silliness at the holiday party last night.
3. Getting the fun event for next quarter to specifically note a non-drinking fun event.
4. Manager coming by and expressing his pride that we all made it in (unlike many of the other teams on our floor) but then also urging us to go home a bit early if we could.
5. First knowledge transfer from SL.
6. Mom coming by to drop off temporary replacement phone.

A year ago today.

12/16/10

1. Unnecessary meetings getting canceled.
2. Goat cheese sandwich from Amy's Bread for dinner, spotted by BB.
3. Getting ready for holiday party at MG's with AJ and BB, chatting and gossiping away.
4. Dancing the night away at the work holiday party.
5. Excellent hors d'oeuvres, including mini po boys and gourmet mac & cheese.
6. Eventually getting home despite PATH train taking forever and successfully pulling my vintage dress over my head without ripping it.

A year ago today.

12/15/10

1. Grabbing avocado and bagel for breakfast.
2. Getting my list of accomplishments done in the morning.
3. Accompanied by BJ and DM to pick up some alcohol for the evening festivities.
4. Goodbye party for SL, though slightly awkward, was still sweet.
5. Grabbing dinner with EM and DM.
6. Trying on my party dress for tomorrow night and eventually successfully took it off on my own as well without tearing anything (not much give)

A year ago today.

12/14/10

1. Doubling up on leggings and breaking out the fur coat for the first time this winter being effective in combating the cold.
2. Avocado and bagels still out at breakfast at 9:30.
3. Further catching up on work email and such, getting things under control again.
4. Lunch with BB and MG.
5. Getting through sewing class just fine (even serged the side seams on the dress) even though I'm pretty far behind.
6. Discovering a little bit of spinach at the back of the fridge to throw into the soba noodle dinner.

A year ago today.

12/13/10

1. Only one call during phone shift and essentially just a transfer at that.
2. Long stretches of time in the morning and afternoon for catching up while sitting in the massage chair.
3. Mostly clearing out work and personal email inboxes.
4. Watching this HP fan video sent to me by AL and getting tingles up and down my spine.
5. Enjoying hanging around the apartment not doing much except watching Bones, even though I really should have done some sewing homework for the class tomorrow night.
6. Dan telling me about the Leonard Leap, which is the best thing I've seen in my life.

A year ago today.

12/12/10

1. Dan agreeing it's cold enough to run the heater.
2. Giving myself permission to just laze around and watch TV instead of being productive.
3. Dan reminding me to bring an umbrella with me, which came in handy.
4. Making it to MG's right on time even though the Verizon Wireless line was rather long when I went to go get my phone checked out.
5. Birthday dinner at MG's with AJ to catch up.
6. Really lovely and adorable sewing-themed birthday card from AJ.

A year ago today.

12/11/10

1. Beautiful, perfect 70s weather in Miami.
2. Seeing the FL apartment for the first time since it was being renovated. It's huge and really nice!
3. Vietnamese pho for lunch.
4. Hanging out at Starbucks on our own computers.
5. Dan making gingerbread as a birthday/"welcome home" present.
6. Finishing watching Star Trek with Dan.

A year ago today.

12/10/10

1. Boat docking at noon, so didn't have to wake up early to get off immediately.
2. Mom getting us a taxi to Paradise Island beach in an effort for me to go try parasailing.
3. Sheltered areas on glass bottom boat tour to protect from intermittent showers.
4. Seeing a rainbow through the mist.
5. Browsing through a local craft stand row on my own.
6. Stand up comedian being self-aware enough to poke fun at the ship's own ridiculousness, despite being part of the staff.

A year ago today.

12/9/10

1. Parents letting me sleep in while they went to breakfast.
2. Getting dinner at the French restaurant on board, which has excellent service. Foie gras for appetizer, duc du canard for entree.
3. Ordering a kir royale to go with dinner.
4. Amazingly rich hazelnut chocolate cake dessert thing.
5. Finding an excellent place right by the dance floor to view the "Dancing with the Epic Stars" show thanks to a British couple having two seats free.
6. Seeing a ton of birthday well wishes online.

A year ago today.

12/8/10

1. Going on a very guided scuba diving trip on St. Thomas and marveling at breathing underwater.
2. Sun coming out occasionally and showing blue skies.
3. Casual chatting with other people in the scuba diving/snorkeling trip but not feeling like it was too intrusive.
4. Getting a fruit smoothie with lunch.
5. Taking care of Christmas/souvenir shopping in one swoop at a store running a sale.
6. Enjoying myself at the comedy-magician show and parents also having a good time.

A year ago today.

12/7/10

1. Not feeling too tired despite staying up too late watching Bones.
2. Really excellent hiking tour of scenic St. Maarten coast (Dutch side) by an Argentinian-Italian former accountant guide. Not too fast or slow, interesting info on historical, biological, and personal levels.
3. New camera doing a good job of taking photos on auto setting.
4. Though it looked like it was going to pour, only ever sprinkled.
5. Getting BBQ baby back ribs for lunch at the place I picked out.
6. Getting online to be able to send Dan a quick birthday email message.

A year ago today.

12/6/10

1. Especially good watermelon at lunch.
2. Mom not getting in a bad mood from working out and attending seminars by herself.
3. Noodle dinner with baby bok choy.
4. Second City improv show containing pretty funny brief sketches.
5. Making fun of dad doing a sudoku puzzle slowly.
6. Asking mom about her experience going through the citizenship process while listening to piano lounge.

A year ago today.

12/5/10

1. Grabbing the last bit of breakfast food with smoked salmon on toast.
2. Reading Her Fearful Symmetry, the second novel by the author of The Time Traveler's Wife.
3. Dinner of grilled salmon, asparagus, and rice.
4. More dancers to watch at dinner.
5. Getting fruit snacks after dinner and avocado slices on crackers.
6. Sleeping on the firmer sofa surface.

A year ago today.

12/4/10

1. Finding what we needed in the hotel gift shop so we didn't need to walk 2 miles to the closest drugstore.
2. Getting on the hotel's free wifi to send email and check some Google Reader items.
3. Boarding the cruise without too much fuss.
4. Reading in lounge chair on sunny top deck to kill time before room was ready.
5. Tiramisu for dessert.
6. Mom getting picked out for Blue Man Group show and doing awesome!

A year ago today.

12/3/10

1. Managing to grab some of the "special breakfast" of cheesy grits and goat cheese scrambled eggs.
2. Manager not being annoyed about me being a bit late to our 9:30 meeting.
3. Last week's hours adding up to 80 exactly without trying.
4. Cobbling together answers to tickets right before I needed to leave the office.
5. Making it to meet my parents right on time at 7 without my phone and leaving the office a bit later than I'd planned.
6. Power outlets by our seats on the flight to Miami to be able to watch Project Runway DVD on my laptop.

A year ago today.

12/2/10

1. Pretty much all recovered from the soreness!
2. Picking up The Westing Game to re-read.
3. 12:30-1pm meeting getting canceled so I had time to squeeze in lunch.
4. Happy hour for BM with bar tab.
5. Dinner with AQ/AJ/MG/EM/SS at Cowgirl, laughing and commiserating.
6. Dan still being up to chat for a bit when I got home.

A year ago today.

12/1/10

1. Sushi for lunch.
2. Getting through a long client call without too many issues.
3. Talking to a really helpful woman on Cigna Pharmacy's support line.
4. Getting to the library and picking up a couple more books to take with me on the vacation.
5. Having some of Dan's dad's lentils for dinner, with the remaining homemade croutons.
6. Reading/wiki-surfing on the couch while watching bits of Tropic Thunder.

A year ago today.

11/30/10

1. Productive session in the morning discussing improvements to a getting started guide.
2. Feeling like I carried myself well when presenting some proposed workflow ideas to my manager.
3. EM pointing out that the Brave Girl Eating book I'd just finished reading has the exact same cover as Twilight with its apple.
4. Grabbing the last real (as opposed to cardboard) table in the sewing class even though I was slightly later than usual.
5. Sewing class teacher not being annoyed about me wanting to buy a zipper for the dress even though we were already past closing time.
6. Heating up remaining quinoa for dinner and giving the last biscuit to Dan.

A year ago today.

11/29/10

1. Getting to work not too much later than usual despite walking really, really slowly due to the soreness.
2. Getting a replacement sign-in application since my phone's dead.
3. Lunch with AQ to discuss improving communication skills, with helpful additional suggestions from MG and AJ, who didn't seem to mind when I insisted on keeping it a brainstorming lunch than a social lunch.
4. Getting all my phone shifts covered without needing to send out a mass email.
5. Snagging an hour-long table massage with a recently recommended masseuse to try to work through all my soreness.
6. Dan still willing to eat quinoa dish for dinner even though he'd accidentally heated it with the plastic serving spoon still inside.

A year ago today.

11/28/10

1. Not having to go anywhere or really do anything, so I could avoid moving around too much through the soreness.
2. Dan helping me vacuum. I really like it when it feels like we're cleaning the apartment as a team.
3. Dan going out on a grocery run.
4. Figuring out how to thicken the cornstarch paste enough to put up a test piece of fabric to one window.
5. Making a vegetarian quinoa dish for dinner, to offset all the diner food in the last few days.
6. Chilling out on the couch reading and wiki-surfing for most of the evening.

A year ago today.

11/27/10

1. Dan going out to get eggs and then scrambling a couple for me when I started stressing about already running late.
2. Seeing EM's friendly face at the Crossfit gym in Brooklyn.
3. The Crossfit coach taking mercy on me when I was the last one still struggling to finish the workout.
4. Amazing, amazing brunch at Egg: grapefruit, some kind of egg with cheese on brioche, sauted kale...other delicious stuff.
5. Getting a bunch of fabric shopping done at B&J.
6. Hanging out at the Marlboro diner with old high school friends.

A year ago today.

11/26/10

1. Falling back asleep after Dan went to work and I didn't have to.
2. Two eggs still in the fridge for my breakfast.
3. Getting some sewing done while watching the first disc of season 2 of Project Runway.
4. Getting a same day haircut appointment.
5. Seeing our wedding band play at a "gastro pub" in Byram and really liking their setup as a six-piece band with: guitar, bass, drums, sax, male singer, and female singer.
6. Dan getting us home in record time.

A year ago today.

11/25/10

1. Discovering English muffins in the fridge available for breakfast. Dan had bought them on sale yesterday.
2. Dan doing all the dishes, including mine from last night and this morning.
3. Meeting the maternal side of Dan's family at a diner for Thanksgiving.
4. Dan's grandfather agreeing with me that the jacket probably needs to be sent back another time.
5. Hanging out at Dan's dad's for awhile too with his sisters and P.
6. Making mulled red wine.

A year ago today.

11/24/10

1. Not getting any panicked or particularly urgent calls throughout the day.
2. Extended brunch plus girl talk with the few teammates in the office today, who were all women.
3. Getting an hour-long shiatsu massage.
4. Making it to the hardware store just in time to purchase a Benjamin Moore fan deck for the color consultation on Friday.
5. Getting eyebrows/upper lip threaded in record time.
6. Dan putting in frozen biscuits for me, to go with more beef stew for dinner.

A year ago today.

11/23/10

1. Getting advice from MF on how to express what I wanted to say in a more manager-friendly way.
2. Meditating with PH after lunch.
3. Maintaining my composure during my 1:1 when I had some somewhat difficult feelings to express.
4. Getting help dealing with last-minute tickets while I put out a fire.
5. Sewing class instructors being willing to stay late to re-fit my pattern after they realized the whole thing needed to be shortened at the waist since I'm petite, and giving me the muslin for re-tracing the whole pattern free of charge.
6. Dan heating up stew for me.

A year ago today.

11/22/10

1. Having a meeting with SS about how to set up some testing.
2. Going for a run along the Hudson with BB and BH. Out and back within an hour.
3. Dropping off/picking up library books.
4. Walking back and chatting with JM.
5. Dan heating up stew for dinner for me.
6. Finishing up dress muslin pretty quickly for class tomorrow.

A year ago today.

11/21/10

1. Spending most of the day lying on the couch reading HP#5.
2. Cleaning the other half of the apartment, including getting down and scrubbing the bathroom tiles with a Magic Eraser. Didn't quite work as well as I'd hoped...need to figure out another way to clean grout.
3. Going for a run in my shiny new running clothes. The little pocket on the back of the capris (aka almost pants length on my short legs) really does come in handy for tucking in keys, much better than the little inner pockets in the front that I've had before in running shorts. Also, excellent sports bra.
4. Beef stew where the meat really was falling apart tender, after tripling the amount of time the beef needed to be cooked in the recipe.
5. Clearing out my personal email inbox.
6. Getting an email back from Ted Berg after I emailed him a map I made of his Sandwich of the Week reviews.  

A year ago today.

11/20/10

1. Meeting up with Dan's sister C and her boyfriend at a diner for lunch.
2. Meeting our day-of coordinator Carina and having a good time chatting with her. I think she's going to be really good, she's on top of her stuff.
3. Stopping into a local butcher shop and getting beef chuck to make stew and frozen cheese ravioli.
4. Really scoring at a running store in Paramus that Dan found. Lots of selection, well-organized, and an excellent membership program that saved me enough in that one purchase to cover its cost, plus free shipping for anything that I order on the website in the next year. 
5. Finishing running errands and getting home in time for Dan to help me move my bike into the basement (farewell for the season, dear little bike!) and do some quick cleaning before heading out.
6. Watching HP#7 Part I with JM. Not my favorite of the movies, but hey, it's still HP.

A year ago today.

11/19/10

1. Wearing one of my favorite vintage dresses, a cream and pink floral crepe dress.
2. BB joining our team for lunch.
3. Gossip pow-wow with AJ before she left for the day.
4. Figuring out how to modify the scoring calculator to show "n/a" when adjacent cells were empty.
5. Finishing up the last of the meat sauce and bok choy for dinner.
6. Spending the evening finishing reading HP#4.

A year ago today.

11/18/10

1. Trying out a sprinting/walking set for my run this morning.
2. Getting some other work done during a client training I'd sort of forgotten about.
3. Thanksgiving themed lunch.
4. Finding out in my 1:1 that feedback we'd given in the skip-level yesterday was already delivered to my manager.
5. Getting dinner with several people on the team and having a good time chatting.
6. Staying in the office late but getting a bunch of necessary and unfortunately delayed work done.

A year ago today.

11/17/10

1. Discovering waffle machines at breakfast today, with plenty of topping options. Waffles!
2. Comporting myself pretty well during some feedback sessions, after the practice I've had at it over the last few weeks.
3. Having a really good conversation with EM at lunch about health and the obesity epidemic and inviting myself to her Crossfit gym as a guest in a couple weeks.
4. Reading through my peer reviews and feeling very appreciative of the feedback that people had taken the time to write, both strengths and areas for development.
5. Having a pretty good time at the happy hour, with my fancy girly cocktail paid for.
6. Thinking about different things on the walk home but a large percentage of that being really loving my Duo Bern boots.

A year ago today (happy 1 year, little blog!)

11/16/10

1. Going for a run in the morning in my regular sneakers instead of Converse to ease some slight twinges in my arches.
2. Started my dressmaking class and finding it not too difficult to use their sloper for my size. I had thought they might not cover my measurements but their pattern's pretty big.
3. Having my umbrella with me in my purse when it started to rain because Dan had said the night before that rain was forecasted.
4. Getting to meet up with SR, JH, RC, and Dan at Shake Shack after all, since they met at 8 and my class ended up 8:30 and the location wasn't too far.
5. Shackburger that Dan bought for me for dinner. Mmm.
6. Wandering around Eataly on JH's recommendation. So much pretty food. Ginger infused olive oil!

11/15/10

1. Taking care of some financial stuff.
2. Feeling pretty satisfied with the work day for the first time in awhile. Got everything I needed to get done, done, without feeling rushed, and got a little bit extra done too.
3. Returning a bunch of books to the library all at once.
4. Coming up with a potential plan for how we might merge our finances a little more closely after the wedding.
5. Dan popping in the still damp laundry from yesterday into the dryer, one more time.
6. Email announcement about my promotion going out to the team--finally! Yes, I got promoted!

11/14/10

1. Waking up before 9am naturally and just sitting around reading/watching TV.
2. Dim sum with the fam.
3. Exchanging the Nordstrom store brand tights for the right size.
4. Finally putting down money for a pair of waterproof winter boots that aren't too high to fit around my lower calves. They're purple! Props to my mom for finding them.
5. Dan agreeing to do laundry as I made his favorite meat sauce dinner.
6. Watching Casino Royale for a bit on TV but then popping in our DVD of it to watch the rest without commercials without having to start over from the beginning.

11/13/10

1. Having enough time in the apartment earlier in the day to laze around, read, but also clean a little and accomplish some mending.
2. Successfully using the bias tape foot for the first time.
3. Hot pot for dinner.
4. Scoring at the J.Crew outlet with 6 new tops that fit well around my shoulders and my waist. Snapped them all up since that doesn't happen too often or easily.
5. Laughing over old family photo albums.
6. Watching TV with my mom and sister.

11/12/10

1. Going for a run with BB in the morning and feeling really good afterwards and not feeling like she was judging me at all for my pace.
2. Getting lots of sympathy and empathy from MF.
3. Learning how to actually set up some really useful shortcuts previously demonstrated to us.
4. Dinner date with AM and getting lots of good advice.
5. Dan hanging around while I got another hour and a half of work done.
6. Talking my mom into coming to pick me up from the apartment tomorrow afternoon, rather than me needing to take the train in the morning.

11/11/10

1. Getting myself out of bed and going for a run in the morning in time to make it to class at 9:32.
2. Interview class not being as bad as people told me it was.
3. Attending a productive meeting to generate feedback for management that made me feel I wasn't alone in the things I was worried about.
4. Annual wing-eating competition at TGIAF being even more ridiculous and hilarious than I remembered it being last year.
5. Hanging out with a good number of people on the team over dinner.
6. BB staying over and just hanging out and chatting some more.

11/10/10

1. BH being cool about me being several minutes late for my phone shift. I issued a blanket apology for not being able to get myself on there right at 9am anymore these days.
2. Navigating a potentially tricky 1:1 meeting with a peer pretty well.
3. EM opening up to me a bit about her personal life without me poking too much.
4. Last CSA of the season! Finally over and done with.
5. Paying a visit to Shareen Vintage with AJ and sipping red wine while browsing through their racks.
6. Getting Dan's extended length pants back from the tailor's and finding them perfect.

11/9/10

1. Making the decision to go for a run in the morning in the light and miss hot breakfast at work, rather than putting it off until the evening when it'd be dark by the time I got back from work.
2. Getting no calls during my shift today.
3. Getting good advice from BB and AJ at lunch with regards to the development areas that were mentioned in my review today. They're so smart, and they're so good at making me feel like they're on my side while still giving good advice on what I can do to improve.
4. Hearing other people on the floor cheer and clap when we got some really good news, all of us glued to our computers watching the stream.
5. Chair massage working out tension in my shoulders, plus a little extra scalp massage.
6. Taking my first ticket on the new product, with help from RC.

11/8/10

1. Wearing my new skirt out and about.
2. Listening to my repetitive playlist on my phone.
3. Taking a quick picture with my phone with my Android squishable holding up a sign saying "I heart SP!" as part of my thanks to her for helping cover us last Friday.
4. Taking charge and projecting the slides for a training when they had technical difficulties at the other end.
5. Everyone near our cubicle taking a quick afternoon break for my boots show and tell to decide between the Bern and the Viola boots (everyone, even the boys, voted for the Bern).
6. Making pumpkin cream cheese to supplement our dinner of the last of the turkey stew.

11/7/10

1. I usually prefer to be on Daylight Savings time, but it is nice to wake up in the morning and find that it's an hour earlier.
2. Dan cleaning the apartment under my direction.
3. Finding enough bias tape in my stash to finish up the seams on my remaining skirts, without needing to use a serger.
4. Downloading Bruno Mars' Just the Way You Are from iTunes. I enjoy the music video. 
5. Having a lovely time at the A Practical Wedding book club meetup #2 at a cute little wine bar in Manhattan.
6. Biscuits to go along with leftover turkey stew.

11/6/10

1. Dan making biscuits for breakfast, and then letting me heat up his frozen butter chicken meal for lunch.
2. Finishing up the hand sewing needed for the flare skirt. Done! Unless I decide I do want to add that lace trim.
3. Dan going out and doing all our grocery shopping.
4. Ever After playing on ABC Family. I'd just been thinking that other day that I wanted to watch it again.
5. Turkey stew for dinner coming together easily.
6. Advil helping knockout my headache and letting me get to sleep.

11/5/10

1. Going to my last sync meeting.
2. Going to a talk by the guy from runlikecrazy.com, who's running 52 marathons in 52 weeks and is on his 45th with the NYC marathon this weekend, and leaving feeling inspired. Just gotta love Australians with their down-to-earthness and self-deprecasting, dry sense of humor.
3. Going the tailor with Dan's custom suit and learning that they should be able to lengthen sufficiently without too much of a problem and that the measurements overall are fine, there are just construction issues with the jacket.
4. SP stepping up as always and helping me and EM out.
5. Finishing reading Before I Fall and really loving its bittersweet love story.
6. Dan coming home and helping me fall asleep by reading from Guns, Germs, and Steel. Isn't it weird when you know you're dead tired but still just can't fall asleep?

11/4/10

1. Went to a training unprepared but found that it didn't really require any specific prework, so it was ok. Phew.
2. Found out some really, really good news at work :)
3. Learning that Dan's sisters already got the dresses we ordered on Saturday and that they're just a little bit too big (big is better than small!). Nice work, J.Crew.
4. Grabbing dinner with AJ and catching up, felt like I hadn't talked to her in awhile, even though we'd gone out for dinner just last week.
5. Dan's custom-made suit coming in the mail and damn does it look good in all the areas that suits normally look awful on him! Arms, waist, legs... There are definitely some tweaks to be made, namely the pants aren't long enough, but should be doable.
6. Finding that slitting the back of my yellow rain boots further really helps with opening up the width to make the more comfortable and hopefully putting in end of the various issues I've had with the footbed rubbing up.

11/3/10

1. Finding a lace trim in my stash that matches my flare skirt fabric and liking how it looks pinned up. Not sure if I'll use it for sure, but it's an option and I wouldn't have to go out and buy more stuff for it.
2. A tall stranger pointing out that the train was about to leave as we walked down the staires, causing us to hurry and just make it on. He then also offered to switch spots with me so that he'd grab onto a high bar and I could reach a vertical pole more suitable for shorties like me. That never happens to me on the PATH.
3. Getting my first shiatsu massage. More geared toward being therapeutic than relaxing, lots of pressing on specific points that almost hurt but feel really good afterwards.
4. Lunch with KC and hearing about her engagement and exciting career opportunities.
5. Squeezing in enough time to run errands like picking up some stuff from the tailor and getting my eyebrows threaded, even after running late due to meeting some very nice girls at the tailor's who were chatting about this nightmare princess bride they're bridesmaids for and then assured me that I was being a cool bride.
6. Chatting with Mama G on the phone for almost an hour after I'd emailed her to ask for help on making the decision on the officiant and feeling really good afterwards about how things are going with the wedding planning.

11/2/10

1. Having lunch with AJ and EM and actually not talking about work very much at all.
2. Finding out that I actually won us a wedding-related giveaway that I entered in last minute on Sunday night! Further details forthcoming.
3. Grabbing a power cord in an afternoon meeting right before my computer completely died.
4. Sewing class teacher introducing us to a hem marking tool that I might get to be able to actually mark my own hems.
5. Getting to use the store's serger to finish off the outside edge, the lining, and the bottom of the contour waistband! I think I may have hemmed it a little too short for the look I was going for to start with but I'll figure out a way to fix that up.
6. Leftover fried rice available for dinner and finishing up HP#3.

11/1/10

1. Deciding to work from home and getting a lot of the training I'd been falling behind on done.
2. Mostly successfully attending a meeting by dialing in to a conference number and following along the presentation on my computer at the same time.
3. Listening to a training led by MG and being impressed by how practiced she was without sounding like a robot. She's gotta have done this like at least 20 times by now.
4. Saving $1.50 in coupons on a pair of foot pads at CVS.
5. Cobbling together fried rice for dinner without eggs or onions, just peas, corn, and hotdogs. Dan was horrified by how I'd eaten over half a dozen eggs through breakfast and lunch.
6. Getting the flare skirt done to the point of being able to hang overnight before midnight.

10/31/10

1. Waking up naturally 5 minutes before my alarm was supposed to go off.
2. Getting back to the apartment with enough time to put some stuff away and catch up with Dan before heading out.
3. The lobby of the W hotel in Hoboken really being quite a nice place to have a meeting with another potential officiant.
4. Taking a delicious little nap after lunch.
5. Breaking out the Slanket...
6. Vegging out on the couch doing nothing in particular for most of the afternoon/evening.

10/30/10

1. Going to a zumba class with my mom and rocking out those dance/exercise moves.
2. Dan's family being the most accommodating soon-to-be in-laws ever when we went bridesmaids dress shopping with his mom, sisters, and maternal grandma.
3. Bonding over the ridiculously bad service and paint fumes at the diner we stopped in for lunch.
4. Scoring the dresses we ended up picking for only $40 each and with free shipping.
5. Helping get my dad in better humor by helping him set up the Singer sewing machine he'd bought for jeans hemming purposes.
6. Watching TV in bed with my mom.

10/29/10

1. Feeling pretty cute in my dress with the new cowboy boots.
2. DF deciding to cancel the meeting we usually have over the lunch hour.
3. An honest, straightforward meeting with AC about expectations and what I'd like to do.
4. ES and EF figuring out how to rework the phone shift schedule so that we would have half as many hours now.
5. My mom fighting her way through tons of traffic to come pick me up so I could do laundry while I was at home.
6. Going to bed early after having not slept well this past week.

10/28/10

1. Getting myself in to work and on the phone shift on time, with breakfast.
2. BB letting me sit in on a meeting of hers and scheduling lunch with me to discuss projects she wants me on.
3. Spending a good amount of time helping people on the team with their tickets today, a couple forecasting issues and one lucky ad serving thing that I caught on my laptop.
4. SL agreeing to help me and AZ and SP try to reduce our regular workloads as we do training.
5. Doing some reading in the massage chair to help relax the tension.
6. Dinner at Grey Dog with MG and AJ, catching up, indulging in some bitching, etc.

10/27/10

1. Getting myself out of bed with baby steps and going for a run.
2. Facilitating the team meeting extremely efficiently so that we got to all topics with sufficient time on each and not running over time at all.
3. Dan picking me up with perfect timing at the corner of Washington and Newark.
4. Meeting our first potential officiant and not feeling awkward.
5. Getting the Miz Mooz beige Carlito short cowboy boots (50% of full price from Nordstrom!) in the mail when I wasn't expecting them yet. Mmm, delicious leathery smell.
6. Getting together my absentee ballot for voting.

10/26/10

1. Receiving an excellent chair massage that really relieved a lot of tension in my neck and shoulders.
2. People telling me that a question I'd ask during a VP's 'fireside chat' was a good one.
3. Taking a few moments to quickly eat dinner sitting down before heading to the sewing class, rather than eating while walking.
4. Only 4 people in the sewing class so I felt ok asking tons of questions.
5. Sewing teacher introducing us to the bias tape foot for helping sew on bias tape to fabric edges. Genius.
6. Fixing up the denim A-line skirt's zipper opening and installing half of the straight skirt's invisible zipper during class.

10/25/10

1. Going for a run in the morning.
2. Seeing BB at breakfast, back from vacation.
3. Wrapping up random little things throughout the day, like filling in my own course feedback form and reminding others to do the same.
4. Starting training on the project I've been wanting to get on for a few months!
5. Having some time in the evening to lie around and read for a bit.
6. Installing the invisible zipper into my A-line skirt successfully.

10/24/10

1. Reveling in the pristine apartment all day.
2. Feeling neat and organized after I collected various loose pattern I had lying around into their individual manila envelopes.
3. Daria and Buffy marathons on TV, as well as the Corpse Bride, while I cut out fabric. And cut out some more fabric.
4. Dinner of noodles, bok choy, and the beef my mom had given me.
5. Dan coming home.
6. My denim A-line skirt seeming to fit on me ok when partially sewn up.

10/23/10

1. Thoroughly vacuuming and cleaning the apartment everywhere, attacking marks on the floor made when we moved in with a magic eraser, and even the old dresser and desk furniture and everything feeling much nicer as a result afterwards.
2. Parents stopping by because they wanted the hotpot back from us anyway and then could drop off the winter coat I'd forgotten last night.
3. Getting the down comforter, duvet cover, and Slanket to the dry cleaner's.
4. Biking over to Grove Street Bicycles and getting the tires some much needed air and buying a bike pump for the first time.
5. Discovering that the Sew Fast Sew Easy store was open until 4 and so therefore I could really get everything I needed for the skirt sewing projects.
6. Finding the Miz Mooz styles I had been eyeing to be cute in person and comfortable if only they had the right size.

10/22/10

1. Getting in mostly on time for 9am phone shift, not earlier than SP would have, at any rate, and ending up helping her out since she started to feel unwell.
2. Morning happy hour with mimosas and bellinis, delicious. Also, pumpkin muffins were a big hit, and I realized that being the midst of planning a wedding is great for the kind of small talk that happens at a happy hour.
3. The training on how to better present data visually to effectively make a point being quite helpful and a good use of two hours. Exercises help wake me up from afternoon slump.
4. Leaving work a little early in order to drop off purple dress at tailor's and then also having time to browse through the thrift/vintage stores along 17th St.
5. Dan driving us down to Holmdel to pick up our winter stuff.
6. My mom making me dinner while Dan went to get groceries and to stop at Best Buy.

10/21/10

1. Getting to attend the first hour of a training on a product of ours I don't think I'd even seen the interface of before.
2. SP agreeing to swap a phone shift tomorrow with me so I could attend a different training.
3. Getting time to file an escalation before the end of the day.
4. Dan getting the groceries I needed to make the muffins.
5. Picking up the most recent batch of dresses from the tailor, including a lovely silk crepe one that they serged the inner seams for me.
6. These pumpkin chocolate chip muffins making the whole apartment smell delicious.

10/20/10

1. Chair massage soothing lower back tension.
2. Having lunch with IA and PH to just hang out.
3. Running the last weekly meeting on my watch.
4. Not entirely biting people's heads off at the team meeting when I was feeling irritated about people not paying attention to instructions.
5. Dinner out with AJ, SP, MG, and EM, chatting, laughing, gossiping.
6. Making it back to the apartment with the leftover artichoke pizza and regular pizza without the grease soaking through the box entirely.

10/19/10

1. Going for a run in the morning with the CardioTrainer app for the first time.
2. Official day of move to a new email system and no major fails.
3. The sun starting to shine more strongly during a meeting and the light entering my eyes helping me feel more awake.
4. Making an appointment to meet with another potential officiant for the wedding.
5. Rest of sewing class agreeing to power through the lecture portions to get all those instructions down, which was good for me since I wasn't caught up enough to work in-between those sections.r
6. Sewing teacher helping me cut out the slippery fabric for flare skirt and not getting impatient about staying there a bit late.

10/18/10

1. Bern boots getting delivered and getting SP and AJ's seal of approval for the color and style. Also, the miracle of leather zip-up boots that do actually zip-up all the way on my calves!
2. SP bringing me a giant squishable that feels so soft and is a big hit with everyone.
3. AJ scheduling me for a work session on this guide she wanted to put together and getting a good amount of info in there in the hour and a half we worked on it.
4. Getting good advice from my old manager.
5. The cobbler working miracles in mending the heels of my flat gold oxford-style sneakers with something that matched the shiny but not too shiny gold color.
6. Not really needing to iron the denim fabric for cutting out my skirt pieces.

10/17/10

1. Successfully falling back asleep after hugging CP goodbye in the early morning.
2. Getting in some historical stuff in Philly before catching my bus.
3. EN very sweetly telling me that she's canceling the plan to have all my girlfriends show up in matching dresses despite not being bridesmaids. She had thought of the idea originally to help me with my not wanting to have any bridesmaids to avoid the trouble of having to pick people, plus it was funny (which I do still think it's funny), but now wants to back off given Dan's sisters' and my sister's excitement over being 'official' bridesmaids. I feel very loved, all round.
4. Sleeping for most of the bus ride back to NYC
5. Grabbing a turkey burger with bacon and avocado at brgr and finishing up Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed, which I really quite enjoyed, actually. She's a self-aware and thoughtful person, which is mostly what I ask of people.
6. Making this leeks with quinoa and chicken broth recipe and really enjoying the result.

10/16/10

1. Somehow waking up naturally rather early for a Saturday (8:30!) and getting in some internet stuff and blogging done.
2. Perfectly poached eggs in my Eggs Florentine at brunch.
3. Beautiful, sunny day with blue skies for our walk and picnic in the Morris Arboretum.
4. Lazing around a bit between coming back from the arboretum and going out to dinner (so many food-related activities...hmm). I watched the most recent episode of Glee, which I really quite enjoyed. Original songs and choreography, no particular ham-fisted theme, and some attempts at character development (Brittany the dumb, slutty cheerleader feels just as lonely as the flamboyant gay kid, Rachel actually using her outsider status to sympathize with someone, etc.)
5. Getting dinner at a Burmese restaurant in Philly's Chinatown. First time I've had Burmese food, it's the cross between Thai/Malaysian/Indian food that you'd expect it to be, given its geographical location. I'm a fan.
6. Hanging out at a bar with all the girls plus EN's friend M. Spirited conversation throughout the day, and M and the others being so kind as listen to me ramble on about wedding plans and validate some ideas I have to avoid the patriarchal giving away of bride business.

10/15/10

1. Wasn't raining in the morning when I got up so I went for the run I couldn't go on last night.
2. Lunch with a client who turned out to be really nice and friendly (and pretty and tall, I couldn't stop thinking about how tall she was every time we walked from one place to another).
3. Feeling relatively lightweight in the afternoon because NE took care of a bunch of testing stuff last night.
4. Finally making it to Philly after a 4 hour ordeal on Megabus (never again!), but worth it to see my college roommates EN, LW, and CP. I've missed them so!
5. Delicious, juicy burger with avocado while chatting about being adults and dealing with parents.
6. Watching the Britney Spears episode of Glee.

10/14/10

1. Scrambled eggs for breakfast for the second time this week. Me likey.
2. Finding out that I'll finally be put on a project I've been waiting for ages for.
3. Intentionally leaving work a little early for the first time in awhile.
4. Visiting Mood for the first time to buy fabric for my skirt class.
5. First chat with potential officiant.
6. Using Dan's still hot pasta water to make my own noodles.

10/13/10

1. Making it in just in time for my 9am phone shift.
2. Finally getting to researching officiants, calling up Princeton Township clerk's office.
3. Expressing to my manager the stress from putting together the training so last minute and negotiating to get off phones for the rest of the week to free up more time.
4. Getting an excellent massage. Wish it were longer!
5. Wrapping up various little things that I hadn't had time for this week so far.
6. Opening up the huge Zappos order that had been waiting by my desk for some time. Luckily my desk mate is out on vacation so I've slowly started to take over her spot.

10/12/10

1. Getting myself out of bed for a run despite not sleeping very well last night.
2. Making it in to the office with plenty of time to get avocado for breakfast, plus the really good scrambled eggs they make. I think they have heavy cream in there? Or lots of butter, anyway.
3. My training going quite well overall, in my opinion. No technical difficulties to speak of, flowed pretty well without too much tripping up over the outline I'd set up, people were engaged and asked good questions, and pacing was perfect to finish with 3 minutes to spare.
4. Succeeding in grabbing a couple sushi boxes for dinner.
5. Feeling like I was picking up the concept of patternmaking in this week's sewing class pretty quickly due to ease with geometry and math and spatial relationships in general. Yeah science-y background coming in to play in an artsy field.
6. Not raining when I biked home tonight.

10/11/10

1. Productive morning in going over the training script I wrote up last night.
2. Dan coming in for lunch since he had the day off. Jealous.
3. Zappos order that I put in on Saturday getting delivered.
4. Running over to the tailor's to drop off recent purchases and also bring in a few things that had been languishing in my work basket and that I decided I didn't want to deal with personally.
5. Powering through the rest of the work on the training script late in the evening at the office since no one was around.
6. Dan waiting up for me though I was really late getting back, and then presenting me with my anniversary present early, since I could really use it after walking and biking back in the thunderstorm and walking in totally soaking wet. What was it? A fluffy, soft, and pink bathrobe all of my own. :)

10/10/10

1. Dan finding an emergency plumber to come over and unclog the toilet.
2. Getting a haircut with leave-in conditioner and Moroccan oil making it feel really soft.
3. Running various errands in Union Square, including checking out the camera that I've been eyeing at Best Buy, getting Dan a brown belt and myself some leggings at Nordstrom Rack, and recycling a used Brita filter at Whole Foods.
4. Taking the plunge and putting in an order for two pairs of boots from Duo. I first came across them in 2006, I think, but now their website is viewable in U.S. dollars and shipping is only $20/pair.
5. Taking the first steps to hanging things on the wall by putting up a few prints in the bedroom.
6. Dan doing my laundry for me.

10/9/10

1. Finishing the 5K without stopping to walk at any point and running it faster than I had when I practiced (40:40ish, so around a 13 minute mile). Thank you for pushing me, AL. It's funny because we signed up for this around 2 months ago, it was a reach goal for me, and then it became doable.
2. My mom being pleased about the 5K as well and congratulating me on it.
3. Spending the afternoon with my mom at Mitsuwa and then accompanying her to buy dance shoes.
4. Going back in to the Manhattan Vintage show to give Connie $100 that she forgot to charge us yesterday because of having add to together two separate bills on the same check and overhearing her tell her husband about it as a nice thing someone did.
5. Dan making me laugh and feel better after I was a bit upset from my mom telling me multiple times that I should exercise more and lose weight.
6. Dan thinking of heating up the Trader Joe's tomato soup to go with the potato tart I made.

10/8/10

1. Plenty of avocado available in the morning.
2. Productive, quick meeting with NE to make some decisions for a training I've been suddenly tasked to put together.
3. Hectic afternoon but got everything I needed to together before heading out to the Manhattan Vintage show.
4. AJ suggesting we leave stuff at the office to go back after the show, which meant that I could leave my purchases there as well and not need to lug everything back home on my bike with needing to bring the laptop home too.
5. Both AJ and me making out pretty well at Connie Schwab's booth at the Manhattan Vintage show, plus AJ found the perfect woven/braided brown leather belt I've been hunting for for awhile now.
6. Chatting and hanging out with AL as she spent the night on our couch.

10/6/10

1. Though some guy grabbed the last sesame bagel right before me, I snagged an everything bagel that was really soft, much nicer for toasting that the tougher bagels we've had lately.
2. Not a busy morning, making up for the fact that I plumb forgot I was supposed to be on phones at 9. Didn't get in until 9:45. Oops.
3. Having lunch with the team and joking about movies and various other things. I haven't had lunch in the big group in a bit for one reason or another.
4. Getting our engagement photos back! And MG and AJ pandering to me feeling a little insecure and wanting compliments.
5. DF telling me that he thought I did good job of running the weekly sync meeting, informed and on task.
6. Having dinner with MG and feeling energized about certain work projects afterwards, as well as my creative business idea.

10/5/10

1. Getting in a run in the morning, though a short one.
2. Feeling inspired by the CraftSanity podcast with Wendy Mullin of Built By Wendy. Looking at her clothing collection afterwards made me think that if I start a fashion/clothes/sewing creative business of my own, I'd target the curvy & petite market (you know, basically me) with that effortless minimalist French chic look of lines like Wikstenmade that I've always really loved but are just not at all designed with my body type in mind. Something more like Colette Patterns, really.
3. Avocado slices back at work, finally. I was in too late yesterday (even though I got in by 9:15) and there weren't any on Friday.
4. Needing to send out a couple emails because newbies were competing with each other for work. Best problem ever.
5. More difficult class this week for the skirt sewing class, we fitted our muslins and marked up corrections. Satisfying, though.
6. Having a bit more watermelon when I came home.

10/4/10

1. Starting work at 9:30.
2. My buddy continuing to chug along without needing too much input from me.
3. MG and AJ joining us at lunch and talking about movies, including The Social Network and Catfish.
4. Productive one hour knowledge share session with IA, I think.
5. Getting a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup at the place we got dinner.
6. Enjoyable evening with BB/MG/AJ that was less focused on work than usual.

10/3/10

1. Adding pears to the standard salad of lettuce, tomato, and hardboiled eggs with olive oil, salt, and pepper.
2. Taking the first step towards organizing my online accounts by coming up with an online account hierarchy.
3. Both washing machines being free even though it was Sunday afternoon...I'm used to being foiled in laundry attempts on Sundays in other living situations.
4. Running a distance of 3.1+ miles!!!! And not feeling exhausted at the end! 5K on Saturday, I AM READY.
5. Pork chops for dinner.
6. Exciting Mad Men episode.

10/2/10

1. Watching Pride & Prejudice with the director's commentary and learning quite a bit from it, including a long tracking shot at the beginning that is actually two separate shots cleverly cut together.
2. Finishing sweeping up the apartment with just enough time to get dressed before Dan came back to head out on our date.
3. Really enjoying The Social Network, didn't feel over the top at all and of course had the trademark Sorkin style dialogue of requiring high speed delivery and including witty rejoinders.
4. Finding a good few things at the Gap to use my Groupon, including two tops and a pair of their skinny jeans. I'm a little unsure about the skinniness of the jeans but the ankle length doesn't even need hemming and I think they are sufficiently flattering, though I don't know if it's just that it's taken me this long to get used to the 'jeggings' look.
5. Getting dinner at The Melting Pot, with really delicious cheese fondue and even more delicious chocolate dessert fondue, and Dan not getting sick.
6. Watching Wallace and Gromit in 'A Matter of Loaf and Death' from Netflix Instant.

10/1/10

1. Getting funny emails from my mom about not responding to her more quickly for honeymoon dates and her pride in planning a recent trip to China with her friends.
2. Getting a request for feedback from my manager's manager--it really is very flattering to have my opinion be so valued.
3. Lunch with BB, AJ, and SS.
4. Attending the ping pong tournament final which was pretty evenly matched.
5. Snack run from ES while finishing up the last of peer reviews, finally getting in some really rough unsolicited reviews.
6. Watching Pride & Prejudice while eating dinner of Korean fried chicken that Dan picked up for me.

9/30/10

1. Going to the cobbler and having him cut a slit in the back of my yellow rainboots to widen them a bit more. Really made a difference!
2. My girl EM taking on new tickets at a prodigious rate for a newbie, really.
3. Getting help from RC on a click discrepancy issue that doesn't seem to have an answer.
4. Going to TGIAF and having white sangria and chatting with AJ and JM about various things, including shared love of the Keira Knightley Pride & Prejudice.
5. Getting 3 peer reviews written (the goal was 2.5 or 50% on the actual deadline, but realized one of the people has an entirely different manager who may actually care a bit more about the deadline.
6. Being amused by a somewhat passive-aggressive towards me peer bonus given to someone else.

9/29/10

1. Getting to office in time for avocado bagel before phone shift at 9.
2. BH coming to my rescue when I was stuck in the stairwell without my badge.
3. Sushi for lunch but also this good cider brined turkey and doughnut.
4. My buddy coming along quite quickly and nicely. Hurrah!
5. Finally getting some headway on my peer reviews. Just an outline so far for some of them...but it's a start.
6. Grabbing dinner with MG and getting more advice on how to phrase things for those peer reviews.

9/28/10

1. Dragging myself out of bed finally to get a run (~2 miles) in in the morning.
2. Finding the second half of a roundtable discussion of social networking and advertising to be quite lively and interesting. Smart people with different perspectives and backgrounds.
3. Feedback session with my former buddy going quickly and professionally.
4. Solving my first mobile issue through testing. Pretty pleased with myself with figuring out that one.
5. First sewing class, an intermediate skirt class, and not feeling out of my depth. The instructor was very patient and informative and there wasn't too much interaction with the bitter owner.
6. Getting home earlier than expected since I finished my muslin with time to spare in the class.

9/27/10

1. Getting compliments on my blue dress with white flower pattern and ruffles around the neck.
2. Lunch to catch up with MG/AJ/SN.
3. Picking up 2 bar stools for only $30. They're a pretty nice style, too, even if they are from Walmart originally.
4. Dan coming out in the drizzle to help me carry the stools back.
5. Finishing making cheese pumpkin pudding.
6. Watching the end of Groundhog Day for the first time.

9/26/10

1. Salvation Army still having drop off bins even though the thrift store itself was closed.
2. Getting back to the apartment just in time for Dan's football game, despite traffic and returning things at the stores.
3. Dan helping me move the painted sewing desk into its place!
4. Biking over to Bed Bath & Beyond and getting a few things I'd been wanting for awhile, including a new shower curtain liner. Ugh the old one had gotten so gross.
5. Making applesauce.
6. Going for another ~45 minute run, around 4.4km.

9/25/10

1. Waking up naturally at 8:30, pretty early for me (and good for catching the reported issue that came in the night that didn't wake me up without too much further delay).
2. Cleaning up the apartment.
3. Getting to some quick mending projects that had been sitting around for a bit.
4. Finishing painting the sewing desk an apple green and Dan liking the color.
5. Dan picking up dinner of Thai food for me.
6. Watching the Swedish The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo over Netflix.

9/24/10

1. Cheesy grits at breakfast.
2. Sync meeting ending early enough to be able to grab lunch before getting back on a phone shift.
3. Reunion over VC with my starting class
4. Others acknowledging the ridiculousness of an email we received of someone announcing their own assumption of a newly created role.
5. Resisting the urge to get Korean fried chicken for dinner and went on my first long almost 5K run.
6. Falling asleep really quickly since I was so tired from the week. Working on the waking up earlier consistently goal right now, but mostly it's been waking up earlier and going to bed around the same time = less sleep.

9/23/10

1. Attending a compensation roadshow that explained a lot about how much work goes into determining target compensation.
2. Lunch with MG, BB, and AQ.
3. Finally getting some time with SL this week to finish up the dashboard project. Hurrah!
4. Finishing up all vital work just in time for the dinner plans.
5. Spinach gnocci in a creamy gorgonzola sauce at Malatesta.
6. Fun dinner overall with AQ & bf & friend, MG, AM, and Dan. Outnumbered enough not to talk about work the whole time.

9/22/10

1. Getting up for a run early enough to get it in before Dan left for the day, so he could let me back into the apartment.
2. Finding the extra bike lock key so I could bike back after the run and then bike over again after showering.
3. Getting to the office early enough to have time for a sit-down breakfast before TAing a training class.
4. 2nd anniversary of working!
5. Getting dinner with ES and DK after finally getting some work done on a project.
6. Making it back with most of this week's CSA box, including a pumpkin, with just my backpack and using the giant rubber band to strap my purse to the backpack on the outside.

9/21/10

1. Being reminded that while I don't always agree with Miss Manners' responses, I do enjoy her arch tone and wittiness.
2. Getting in a chair massage.
3. Having my computer to continue work while a meeting was delayed for 20 minutes from technical difficulties.
4. Grabbing dinner with MG, where there was this beef thing that was really delicious.
5. Wrapping up finishing my self-assessment before it was too ridiculously late.
6. Wearing comfortable shoes that I could walk home in after forgetting the key to my bike (and the apartment) at the office.

9/20/10

1. NE running into me in the cafe and reminding me of our ping pong match in the morning.
2. Making a good run of it in the ping pong match even though I lost.
3. Finishing Breaking Dawn during lunch.
4. Client being ok with me getting back to her later after the internet crapped out.
5. Picking up Miss Manners' Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding from the library.
6. Getting mostly caught up on personal email.

9/19/10

1. Slow morning, plenty of time to wake into it slowly even though it was our last day in Michigan.
2. Mama G insisting on running a load of laundry for us before leaving.
3. MG being able to pack my various liquids and "dangerous" tools in with her bag to be checked for free.
4. Getting to sleep a bit on the flight back.
5. Dan meeting me at Union Square to help with my bag and getting home in an hour and a half after landing.
6. Buying Breaking Dawn as an ebook from Barnes&Noble. More trash reading.

9/18/10

1. Making breakfast for the Gs, with home fries and eggs.
2. Finishing Never Let Me Go and really enjoying the whole read.
3. Going for a run, actually making use of the running apparel I'd brought along.
4. Going for a walk with the whole fam.
5. Making test tissue paper pompoms with Mama G.
6. Pulling Twilight from MG's sister's bookshelf a little trash reading before bed.

9/17/10

1. Almost finishing cleaning up the rest of the hotlists.
2. Just one hiccup in technical issues from dialing in to the weekly meeting.
3. Discovering a great, well-organized, big vintage shop and scoring 4 dresses and a belt. Employees were really helpful and honest.
4. Getting to the Franklin Cider Mill and picking up a few more gifts for people plus tasting their amazing apple cider and fresh doughnuts.
5. Having a great time at dinner with MG's aunts, very warm and welcoming and fun.
6. Finding MG's copy of and starting Never Let Me Go.

9/16/10

1. Getting to the office just in time for the 2nd buddy session.
2. Having lunch with DM.
3. Working steadily in the afternoon, having discovered the massage chair.
4. Dinner at the famous Zingerman's with DM and MG.
5. Spending at least an hour going through Zingerman's wares, including candies and olive oil and honey sampling from the enthusiastic samples guy. Everyone seems to genuinely care about what they do.
6. Watching home videos of MG as a young terrorizer of her sister.

9/15/10

1. Making it in just in time to swoop up breakfast and get on the first 9am shift I'd had in awhile.
2. Discussing podding strategy with IS and getting confirmation from him that the OKR was complete.
3. Weekly sync meeting running for less than half an hour, giving me time to clean up some other things before leaving the office.
4. Discovering that the new healthy microkitchens have baked chips in them.
5. Making to LaGuardia in plenty of time.
6. Mama G's welcome basket for me, with various hotel-sized soaps and things but also a little ornament in the shape of Michigan!

9/14/10

1. Went on second-to-last official C25K run. Made just about 2 miles.
2. First official buddy session with EM going pretty well.
3. Working with SL further on the FCR dashboard...looks pretty good!
4. Finally getting to attend the new support meeting with the phone shift schedule change.
5. Getting JVC to sit down and clean up some hotlists.
6. Going out for dinner (tapas) and drinks with SL/BB/MG/DF/NE.

9/13/10

1. Remembering to text my sister happy birthday in the morning.
2. Working code session with SL in which he teaches me various things about SQL and PHP and then we end up deciding to redo the whole project.
3. Meeting AM's sister, first day of work for her.
4. Very detailed measuring for a skirt pattern for the Sew Fast Sew Easy class I'm taking.
5. Caught up with EN a bit over the phone.
6. Finished cutting sufficient foamcore boards to organize fabric stash, reorganized Dan's bookshelf and board games, and cleaned up the rest of the craft bookshelf a bit. Pretty productive for a worknight evening. Now I just need big glass containers for the yarn stash.

9/12/10

1. Running errands in less than an hour in the morning.
2. Getting together the energy to clean up all the mess from yesterday and the apartment in general.
3. Cutting up more foamcore to organize fabric. Looking good.
4. Doing a couple large loads of laundry.
5. Finally selling the brown desk, WOOHOO!!!
6. Starting Week 9 of C25K with a 30 minute run. Felt pretty strong at the end.

9/11/10

1. Getting a 10% discount on the cost of alterations to Dan's suit because they didn't have it ready last night.
2. Getting to the makeup trial right on time, despite having to go pick up the suit first.
3. Makeup trial included false eyelashes, hooray! They felt rather strange at first but I loved the look.
4. Having a great time at the engagement shoot with Kelly, who did a great job of directing us. I brought too many props and there was a random NJTransit cop that stopped us from taking more photos in the train terminal, I'm sad we missed out on the big stairs, but I think we got a lot of other good ones in. Fingers crossed especially fo the bubble ones.
5. Dan making dinner for me because I suddenly felt entirely exhausted by the day's activities.
6. Just hanging around for the rest of the night, leaving a mess around to be dealt with later.

9/10/10

1. Having a sense of when this morning's 28 minute run was completed even though the C25K seemed to have miscounted the time elapsed.
2. Re-reading Ella Enchanted.
3. A long-scheduled client call finishing up rather quickly and not resulting in anything for me to do, really.
4. Catching MG and AJ before they left the office as the attempt to pick up Dan's suit from the tailor fell through.
5. Getting dinner at Frankie's 457 with MG and AJ. Mmmm fresh homemade gnocchi and wine.
6. Relaxing at home watching random TV while waiting for Dan to get back.

9/9/10

1. Lunch meeting got moved up to the morning so I was able to go pick up my new bike helmet.
2. Good meeting with my boss' boss about career development.
3. Making it to Maxwell's juuust before they closed to buy the pearl drop earrings I saw over the weekend and wanted for the engagement shoot.
4. Peddling over to Unique Nails on Newark St. to get a mani-pedi after finding Madison Nails closed.
5. Surprising Dan with a pumpkin donut from Dunkin Donuts.
6. Dan surprising me with a set of Scrabble that he picked up from Target for the photo shoot.

9/8/10

1. Getting to the office in time to grab breakfast and sit down in the cafe to enjoy most of it before rushing off to class.
2. Morning spent in the 2nd level presentation skills class, which was really helpful! Full of interactive exercises to drive home the points (no slides from the instructor at all, actually), feedback on things I should focus on improving for myself (like finishing my sentences, letting loose with the hand gestures and body language a bit more, etc.)
3. Relatively short line for sushi.
4. Pretty good haul from the CSA this week, corn and yellow squash.
5. Dinner of lettuce wraps with quinoa from last night plus slices of CSA tomato.
6. Starting to organize my fabric stash with foamcore boards (6.5"x9"), inspired by this Flickr photo. It looks so much neater already!

9/7/10

1. Quieter day than I thought, having come back from a long weekend.
2. Acquiring white foamcore from a nearby Utrecht art supplies store for a project on organizing my fabric stash that I have in mind.
3. Getting my eyebrows threaded a bit sooner than I usually do it for the official engagement shoot this weekend and feeling less pain. Alas, the same cannot be said for the upper lip.
4. Being right over Dan of the forecast changing to allow for the possibility of rain, based on how the wind felt on my way back from the PATH station (big piece of foamcore in tow, of course).
5. Having a pretty easy time in the second 28 minute run for C25K.
6. Feeling really organized after putting together a spreadsheet of all the apartment projects I want to do and ranking and categorizing them.

9/6/10

1. Waking up refreshed at 9:30.
2. Breakfast of scrambled eggs, cherry tomatoes, and half an avocado.
3. Fitting all the paint supplies I bought at Home Depot into my backpack to bike back.
4. Putting down a deposit on the band for the wedding.
5. Breaking out the mouse sander my dad gave me to rough up the surfaces for the laminate furniture I want to paint and to do some more sanding on the round side table.
6. Not making too much of a mess of priming what will be my sewing desk as well as a nightstand for me.

9/5/10

1. Finding out that the ferry to Governor's Island from Manhattan runs every 30 minutes, so when we missed the 11am by a few minutes, it wasn't too long to wait until the next one, which incidentally also left early.
2. Discovering a Bao Bing (Taiwanese shaved ice) stand at the Food Truck Fest. Mine had red beans, grass jelly, watermelon, and a scoop of green tea ice cream. Really hit the spot.
3. Talking Dan into renting a tandem bike for the two of us and not falling over at any point.
4. Beautiful, perfect clear and sunny (but not too warm) day for biking and swing sets and sitting around talking ourselves into wanting Kindles more. Wonderful time with MG/AM/AJ/MT.
5. Making sandwiches with the leftover chicken, plus avocado and tomato, on ciabatta rolls.
6. Starting week 8 of C25K (28 minute runs) and finding a potential nightstand for my side of the bed.

9/4/10

1. Getting a ton of wedding blogging done, quite a few posts scheduled now.
2. Neighbors not knocking on our door to complain about me setting off the fire alarm like 10 times while roasting a chicken for dinner.
3. Opening the peach wine Dan brought back for me from Georgia and loving the taste of it.
4. Dinner for Dan, his sister, and his sister's boyfriend turning really well overall, though I didn't have time to make the peach dessert I was thinking of.
5. Having a great time in the evening, playing Wits and Wagers.
6. Discovering that Austin and Santino of previous Project Runway seasons have a show together. And it is amazing.

9/3/10

1. Waking up feel much better than I did yesterday, not overly tired or dehydrated or with a headache.
2. Finishing week 7 of C25K with a run set to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me on EN's recommendation, using thew C25K Android app I found.
3. EF coming in a bit early so I could join BB/MG/AJ for the end of lunch after all.
4. Pretty productive live ticket session with the newbies, where I realized something that had eluded me earlier in the day.
5. My French pear martini.
6. Checking out B.D. Lenz at the Salt Creek Grille in Princeton and getting a chance to talk to him during their break.

9/2/10

1. Getting myself to work despite not feeling great right after waking.
2. Continuation of yesterday's class containing more exercises to practice different skills. More lively in general.
3. Beer battered onion rings at TGIAF. First time I've liked onion rings, these were so crispy and the onion rings inside were fully cooked (I'm not a huge fan of raw onion).
4. Stopping in at the Housing Works thrift and book stores in SoHo.
5. Buying Dan a slim fit dress shirt from Uniqlo for the engagement shoot. How novel, a shirt that didn't billow everywhere from the extra fabric!
6. Reading The Dark is Rising, picked up from Housing Works.

9/1/10

1. Getting up for the second 25 minute run in week 7 of C25K.
2. Nothing urgent coming in and being able to cancel an afternoon meeting.
3. Attending to attend an internal training on project management. It was all right, not life shattering but a good basis to start off of.
4. In general a productive but not busy day at work, after getting that presentation done yesterday.
5. Bringing Dan's gray suit to the tailor's and finding that they can do a significant amount of trimming off the mounds of excess fabric without it being too expensive.
6. Finding that the new Trader Joe's does in fact sell whole chickens. Procured one to prep for Saturday's dinner.

8/31/10

1. Informative training session by SL on new troubleshooting techniques.
2. Client call going as smoothly as could be hoped for, really.
3. Coming up with an idea to make a project of cleaning up documentation a bit easier.
4. Presentation to managers (on podding) being pretty well-received, I think.
5. Catching the tail end of a happy hour for JB leaving.
6. Dan already having the AC in the apartment at a comfortable level when I got home, very nice welcome to the 90 degree weather even though it was already 9:30pm.

8/30/10

1. Got a response to the posting about Dan's old desk...fingers crossed it finally gets sold.
2. Really helpful lunch with JB about how to be a better mentor.
3. Leaving work early (brought laptop home since I needed to work further anyway).
4. Enough time in the evening to waste a bit but still get sufficient work on the presentation done.
5. Getting Dan's help on figuring out how to identify which rows of data should be included and which shouldn't.
6. Dan accepting my apology for being randomly bitchy to him about not being fast enough in figuring out the above.

8/29/10

1. Finishing reading The Amber Spyglass in the morning.
2. Getting enough energy together to do a relatively thorough cleaning of the apartment, including the bathroom and pulling out the crappy vacuum.
3. Reading Mockingjay all in one go. Not bad for wrapping up a trilogy, not as wonderful as The Amber Spyglass for the His Dark Materials trilogy, but not bad.
4. Going for the second 25-minute run (start of week 7) and having the makeup podcast from Yes & Yes to listen to when I'd forgotten the full-length C25K podcast.
5. Starting watching the animated Clone Wars series out from Netflix.
6. Staying awake long enough to get through Mad Men (not because the episode was boring, though it was a bit weird, but because from resisting a nap in the afternoon, I was rather tired).

8/28/10

1. Both of Dan's younger sisters accompanying me to the mall to get my makeup done before the fauxgagement shoot with AL, and both of them being very sweetly excited about it.
2. Hilarious lady at the Shiseido counter in Nordstrom agreeing to do my makeup after I got turned away from a few other counters, and doing a great job with the eyeshadow!
3. Finding teal colored balloons along with red and yellow for the fauxgagement shoot.
4. Having a wonderful time wandering Monmouth Battlefield State Park for the shoot.
5. Not getting poison ivy after fighting our way through the tall grasses out from the train tracks to the road.
6. Delicious forbidden fruit of apples and a peach.

8/27/10

1. Client didn't pick up for scheduled call, so got a few more minutes to get work done before heading out for dentist appointment.
2. Dentist adding Netflix for entertainment while you're getting your teeth cleaned. Started in on Pushing Daisies season 2. I forgot how bright and colorful and cute it was.
3. Redeeming the free eyebrow threading session after 10 visits.
4. Completing the first 25 minute long run of C25K.
5. Finding some random children's toy bins that we might be able to use for storage in our apartment, once they're cleaned up a bit.
6. Made some more sliced tomatoes on toasted garlic bread, plus scrambled eggs with the last of the CSA cherry tomatoes.

8/26/10

1. Getting to watch BB practice her reporting demo--such cool features!--and giving feedback.
2. Getting a significant enough done on a set of slides so I didn't feel embarrassed when showing up to a meeting to review them.
3. Finding out that MG planned to be done with Mockingjay by tomorrow so I could have it for the weekend.
4. Finding a really nice blue western shirt at The Gap for Dan to wear.
5. Dinner of sliced CSA tomato on toasted bread rubbed with garlic, shaved parmesan on top and rosemary-garlic infused olive oil drizzled over everything (inspired by this Catalan Tomato bread recipe).
6. Playing dress-up and making lists of potential shoes, accessories, and props for the engagement shoots.

8/25/10

1. Getting an email from the band we're checking out that they are in fact available on our wedding date. I was psyching myself up for a freakout if they were already booked since Dan has a pretty clear vision of what he wants and hasn't been able to find others that fit it so far. 
2. Getting to the office in time to grab breakfast even though I overslept the snooze button several times  and I got rather damp from the pouring rain.
3. Catching the end of an office hours session with some forecasting engineers. They were really good at explaining the technical stuff, actually, and describing what the larger vision and strategy is. I need to attend more things like this.
4. Going for another C25K run and not feeling strained at all during the 10 minutes stretches.
5. Dan writing up his first post for das wedding blog!
6. Dinner from last night being just as good tonight.

8/24/10

1. Finding Dan Savage's The Commitment to be a good morning read.
2. Seeing items in a podding update presentation at the All Hands that I might be able to poach for my own preso.
3. Massive blogging catch up :)
4. Not finding the data pulling task I was putting off all day to be as painful as I thought it would be.
5. Checking out the Hoboken downtown farmers' market for the first time and discovering that they sell watermelons there!
6. Really enjoying the dinner I threw together of caramelized onions (makes everything better), CSA green pepper, CSA cherry tomatoes, farmers' market basil, and goat cheese on linguine.

8/23/10

1. Borrowing RC's large umbrella that he'd left with Dan.
2. Not getting full on blisters from the back edge of my yellow rain boots rubbing against my calves because they're still not quite wide enough. Need to remember that I need to wear leggings with these rain boots.
3. Spending some more time in the afternoon working on the dashboard, successfully fixing an issue I'd had when the query returned 0 results.
4. Ending up being right about how the forecasting system worked, though the client got frustrated and gave up on me.
5. Sucking it up and going for a run (week 6 of C25K, raining too heavily both yesterday evening and this morning) and being right that I would feel better afterwards.
6. Dinner of actual fried green tomatoes.

8/22/10

1. Waking up to a Southern breakfast made by Dan: biscuits, gravy, grits with maple syrup.
2. Lazing around the morning watching a Monk marathon.
3. Well, pretty much in general not doing anything all day.
4. Taking a nap in the afternoon in the midst of all my not doing of anything.
5. Making peach jam with the new peaches that came in the last CSA delivery, plus those that had been processed a week ago.
6. Laughing out loud at the scene of Peggy riding around in circles on a motorcycle in tonight's episode of Mad Men.

8/21/10

1. Finishing a quick cleanup of the apartment just in time.
2. My mom and sister bringing up curry and a whole 'nother watermelon for me.
3. Settling on the strapless J.Crew dress we ordered as my sister's bridesmaid dress. Color isn't quite perfect, a little too green, but closer than anything else we saw, and the style is simple and elegant.
4. Getting Korean food for lunch at the place I'd gone to with RL (for my future reference, it's on 32nd St. and called Seoul Garden).
5. Going to see Billy Elliot with my mom and sister and all of us quite enjoying it. It's the first Broadway show I've been to in quite some time.
6. Watching Memento in the evening with Dan.

8/20/10

1. Tactical sync meeting only going for half an hour, and being joined by DK. 
2. Feeling much better about the support setup now.
3. Heading out from work at 5:30.
4. Getting a haircut.
5. Clothes shopping with Dan and Uniqlo and discovering jeans that are his proper size (though the hipster fit is too tight).
6. Getting pizza for dinner at Arturo's, a random choice for us to stop in but evidently decently reviewed online.

8/19/10

1. Getting up early to go running with Dan in the morning and completing the first 20 minute run with no walking intervals in C25k!
2. Illuminating career conversations demonstration by RL.
3. IS being understanding about my disorganized and slight emotional outburst in our skip-level.
4. Getting going on putting stuff together for the podding OKR, finally.
5. Catching up with SS over dinner. We're pretty similar, actually.
6. Having a good time at BM's going away happy hour. Hung out with SA and LS mostly, but also hilarious time of BM demonstrating the Shake Weight. He also walked me out when I left and said some very sweet things about what I've worked with him on.

8/18/10

1. Talking through process stuff for the metrics team with DF.
2. Not being late to the sync meeting (I'd had a phone shift right before).
3. JC attending the sync meeting and AA speaking up for me that they understand I have other commitments and are happy with my work for them so far.
4. People being patient with me trying to clean up items in the sync meeting and with the slow response times this week.
5. Nevertheless ending the sync meeting early!
6. Dan being patient with me whining and despairing about the SA situation for a long time.

8/17/10

1. Meetings with managers to express my concerns about the support structure that's been set up from SA's departure.
2. Getting help with my manager on how to push a quarter-long project I've been stalling on.
3. Learning that a low survey score I got from a client was due to other frustrations with the product, rather than the service provided.
4. Picking up more than I've done in the past in a walkthrough of the upgraded product.
5. Getting help from SL figuring out some bugs with the dashboard.
6. C25K run with two 8 minute-long intervals.

8/16/10

1. Getting help from DF to figure out how to the drop-down calendar/select your own date feature on a dashboard working.
2. Mostly free afternoon to continue working on tweaking the dashboard.
3. Taking less time than I thought it would to pull together my notes for the 1:1 with my manager.
4. Not missing too much from a meeting I was late to due to phone shift going over.
5. Potential buyer of the brown desk seemingly deciding on renting a car to get it from us (fingers crossed this actually goes through).
6. Having goat cheese to go with  my beets-quinoa dinner.

8/15/10

1. Having time to putter around in the morning before needing to head out.
2. Emily's Cafe testing out the prosecco bar I'd passed along to them at the showcase. I really liked it! Fruity bubbly cocktails, just to my taste, and with the fruit (lemons, raspberries, strawberries) very prettily arranged in glass vases/containers. I also like their use of chalkboard paint to create labels on glass bottles.
3. Deciding on the pulled pork over the mini burgers after tasting both.
4. Largest grocery shopping trip we've had in awhile made easier with having the car.
5. Finally getting to processing the large amount of peaches I've gotten from the CSA. Just sliced them up and steamed them slightly, as I'd learned from our time WWOOFing last week.
6. Having a good time starting off week 5 of C25K with Dan, out in the light rain.

8/14/10

1. Dan running out to buy Honey Bunches of Oats for me to have a non-cheap&sugary cereal.
2. Lying on the couch watching Sky High. I'd seen the ending a few times before.
3. Being somewhat productive and cleaning up the apartment a bit.
4. Arranging the DVDs on the green shelf I dragged home from Manhattan and fixing up the color gradient arrangement of the books.
5. Going on a date with Dan to see Inception and both agreeing it was worth the ticket price.
6. Getting dinner at Leo's Grandevous and enjoying the meal (chicken parm & veal marsala). Just well-done homey Italian food.

8/13/10

1. Feeling cute in my white linen top tied with a red ribbon belt (doubled up on itself and passed through the loop and tied), denim skirt, and laceless Converse slip-ons.
2. No lunchtime meeting so could get lunch with MG & co.
3. Indulging in Korean fried chicken for dinner, from the new Chicken Factory place. Quite good.
4. Stopping by a vintage shop on 6th that I'd been meaning to check out for awhile. Cute, expensive compared to CA but cheaper than Manhattan for sure.
5. Meghan coming over to watch Daria and hang out.
6. Watching random episodes of Monk and staying up late for no apparent reason.

8/12/10

1. Finishing off week 4 of C25K, though for some reason it was harder this time.
2. No questions being asked during the webinar I sat in as a panelist on.
3. Good fun fact question being asked at a meeting: what's your favorite burger/froyo place.
4. Said meeting not going over too long since we got kicked out of the room.
5. Our photographer Kelly telling us that we're more prepared than most couples so far.
6. Getting rid of the big brown TV stand and moving over the white bookshelf instead.