12/31/11

1. Pork and chive dumplings for breakfast.
2. Finishing up the door stoppers for my mom and having them fit perfectly.
3. Not needing to buy tools from Lowe's and just getting them from my dad instead.
4. Finding a washable hat with a baseball cap brim but with ear flaps and insulated with goose down as a present for Dad.
5. Shrimp and bok choy with rice for dinner.
6. Making the best apple pie yet, thanks to actually keeping the butter and dough as cold as possible.

A year ago today.

12/30/11

1. Getting to AL's a couple minutes early, even with the Roberts Rd. detour.
2. Really really enjoying the Muppets movie, just a fun time. Great wardrobe for Amy Adams' character too.
3. Picking up a few things at the mall in desirable lengths (socks) and colors (coral tights, mustard clutch).
4. Finding my purple cowl still in the Gap changing room after having left it there.
5. Started knitting a pair socks for my grandma.
6. Watching rest of digitized home videos with mom and sister.

A year ago today.

12/29/11

1. Making up a quick breakfast for myself of quinoa with steamed eggs and fresh herbs.
2. Brunch at work with the eng team members; crab cakes and biscuits with sausage and gravy were highlights.
3. Checking out the new, much larger Purl Soho store that has both the knitting and sewing stuff. Really nice, though somewhat surprisingly crowded when we went.
4. Got home with enough time to finish packing up stuff, physically and electronically.
5. Talking to my sister and finding that she's matured a lot in the last year.
6. Beef noodle soup at home for dinner.

A year ago today.

12/28/11

1. New type of massage with AS.
2. BB being around for lunch.
3. Meetings in the afternoon ending earlier than expected.
4. Finishing the documentation project I wanted to do this week!
5. Quick groceries stop at the Garden of Eden to pick up dinner (burger) and snack food (apples and cheese) for myself.
6. Sewing up the door draft blocker and dog bed projects for my mom going more quickly than I expected.

A year ago today.

12/27/11

1. Eating breakfast and reading my Kindle.
2. Reese's Pieces for snacking throughout the day. 
3. Easy-going and quiet day at work.
4. Dan having washed our new thick robes during the day so I could change into it after getting pretty soaked on the way home without an umbrella.
5. Leftovers from yesterday for dinner.
6. Downloading more materials to add to my Kindle, including the PDF of Midnight Sun and my favorite Austen novels, all free.

A year ago today.

12/26/11

1. Movement from putting gifts and such away actually calming my queasy stomach a bit in the morning.
2. Finding a sock knitting pattern to make another pair for my grandma that would use up yarn that I've had around for awhile.
3. Watching North and South on Netflix.
4. Watching Sherlock on Netflix.
5. Getting off the couch long enough to vacuum the dustiest parts of the apartment.
6. Dan making delicious Swedish meatballs (along with mashed potatoes and broccoli) for dinner.

A year ago today.

12/25/11

1. Dim sum with the family.
2. Getting bubble tea from Kam Man.
3. Watching home videos at my grandma's and all of us laughing a lot.
4. My sister coming with me to Christmas in Marlboro and staying for playing charades as well.
5. Plenty of parking spots available when we got back to Hoboken.
6. Leftovers available for dinner.

A year ago today.

12/24/11

1. Dan not being too annoyed that I got the time wrong for when he was going to pick me up to go to Costco.
2. Finishing off the rest of the red duck curry for lunch.
3. Making a few online purchases to get enough debit card transactions for the month.
4. Relaxing in the afternoon reading on my Kindle in front of the fire.
5. Heading over for a bit of Christmas in Shrewsbury.
6. Watching home videos and later Family Feud with my mom and sister.

A year ago today.

12/23/11

1. Deciding to go to this mini-reunion at our high school and not missing much even though we went 2 hours late. Plenty of people there, actually, even surprisingly so.
2. EL, old calc teacher, and JB, chess team coach remembering me. 
3. Finally getting to get to talk to MR a bit after waiting a long time.
4. Catching up with AL and a mint hot chocolate at Dunkin Donuts.
5. Red duck curry and papaya salad for dinner, my favorite.
6. Going to see Sherlock Holmes 2 with my mom and sister.

A year ago today.

12/22/11

1. Potstickers for breakfast.
2. Meat sauce with noodles for a late lunch.
3. Getting a good amount done throughout the day, working from home.
4. Finishing off 3 loads of laundry across the day and figuring out a way to hang and drap my many pairs of pants from various racks
5. My sister helping me wrap up all the presents, which didn't use that much wrapping paper.
6. Winter solstice today...days will get longer from here!

A year ago today.

12/21/11

1. Getting in in time to grab breakfast.
2. Crashing AJ and PJL's lunch with EM.
3. Afternoon meetings getting canceled or rescheduled so I could leave the office a bit early and stop by the library on the way home.
4. Having enough time to clean up the apartment a bit and pack up my stuff before my sister came.
5. My sister battling traffic to come pick me up and give me a ride home.
6. Getting set up on my new Kindle!

A year ago today.

12/20/11

1. Grabbing lunch with AJ and MG after a meeting.
2. SS visiting the office!
3. Going to a bakery with SS and JE to have a hot drink and chat.
4. Stopping by the 23rd St. library right before it closed.
5. Getting my eyebrows threaded. I've been lazier about it lately, averaging closer to once a month or so, so it was good to get this done.
6. Making it home without getting too wet from the rain.

A year ago today.

12/19/11

1. Getting to the gym in the morning.
2. Mostly casual lunch to catch up with MS while she's in town.
3. A weekly meeting not having too much on the agenda and ending in sharing of gossip and funny travel stories instead.
4. Despite the people staffing the tables being rather snotty, finding coworkers who were willing to let me check their versions to compare before picking which one I wanted.
5. A surprising lack of waiting to pick up the holiday gift.
6. Though leaving the office a bit late, getting to the library in time before it closed.

A year ago today.

12/18/11

1. Waking up well-rested at 9:30.
2. Being able to eat the rest of the soup for lunch after all.
3. Getting a good cleaning of the apartment done.
4. Being able to help CS put together dinner.
5. Finally figuring out how to play a board game with a rather long booklet of rules and enjoying it.
6. Not getting home too late.

A year ago today.

12/17/11

1. Having the leftover sandwich from Taco Truck for breakfast. 
2. Re-reading bits of Pegasus throughout the day while lying on the couch.
3. Dan making Italian wedding soup for dinner again, with the various improvements we discussed.
4. Dan figuring out a better way to make hot chocolate with the Swiss Miss packets.
5. Watching the last Disney movie, Tangled, on Netflix.
6. Getting Dan to agree at least that there was too much of an age disparity in Tangled.

A year ago today.

12/16/11

1. Making it in time to catch the tail end of a team breakfast.
2. Getting lunch with AJ, EM, BL, and ST. Had been getting lunch mostly by myself this week, it was nice to have company.
3. Leaving work early to pick up books from the library for the weekend.
4. Dan agreeing to me getting takeout for dinner.
5. Chorizo tacos and a carnitas torta from The Taco Truck being delicious.
6. Starting and finishing Pegasus in the evening.

A year ago today.

12/15/11

1. Missed breakfast, but made it in time for my first meeting of the day, which also ended early.
2. Another productive working session with SS and a clear plan of action going forward.
3. A demo for the engineering team going better than I thought it would. 
4. Pleasantly surprised by my bonus of the year and raise for next year's salary.
5. Deciding to skip an evening social event (which turned out not to be much of a real wine and cheese tasting anyway) to just go home.
6. Finishing I Love Yous Are For White People.

A year ago today.

12/14/11

1. Back-to-back chair massage.
2. Learning how to play bocce.
3. Delicious burger all to myself, and well-spiced fries.
4. Really great space for a work off-site, different activities and sitting areas and getting to talk of each of the members of my team that I normally don't interact much with.
5. Others deciding to leave about the time that I was done for the night, so it wasn't awkward.
6. Getting home extremely quickly for having come from Brooklyn, thanks to the cab to WTC PATH.

A year ago today.

12/13/11

1. Starting and finishing Will Grayson, Will Grayson and finding it to be unlike what I thought it would be.
2. All morning and most of the afternoon free to catch up on email and such.
3. SH being very patient with me when I was being a bit stubborn about simplifying some metrics work.
4. Writing up my accomplishments for the quarter taking less time than I thought it would.
5. SR and RC coming over to eat dinner and hang out in our apartment.
6. Finding an edited version of BC's appearance on Millionaire Matchmaker and find it amazing and hilarious. Thank you, anonymous person!

A year ago today.

12/12/11

1. Meeting room booked for the working session not being very far from my desk (since I ran a bit late...)
2. Really productive start to the week with a long working session with SS.
3. Grabbing food after a noon meeting and bringing it back to my desk to browse Google Reader.
4. Dropping off books due to the library.
5. DC sending me a funny email response to this post about a 26-toed cat like the one her family has.
6. Starting on Lauren Oliver's second book, Delirium.

A year ago today.

12/11/11

1. Sunny day compensating for having to wait outside for awhile.
2. Having a great time going out to brunch with the folks I met at the APW Party a few months ago. Couple friends!
3. Dan indulging me in walking through the Union Square holiday market a bit.
4. Chocolate covered pretzels for an afternoon snack.
5. Dan making Italian wedding soup for dinner with really delicious turkey sausage meatballs.
6. Dan going to a bar for the first half of the Giants game and letting me have the TV to watch Once Upon a Time 

A year ago today.

12/10/11

1. Finally checking out the Brooklyn Flea market with MB and finding two glittery blue Christmas tree pins as gifts for KS and ES.
2. Getting an Asia dog and lavender lemonade for lunch.
3. Fitting the meat order into the shopping cart and despite having to carry it up and down stairs on the various forms of public transportation
4. Dan helping me clean the apartment very quickly in case people would come over afterwards.
5. MG, AM, and EM coming over to Hoboken for a birthday dinner at Cucharama with us.
6. The appetizer I ordered being better than expected, coming with this yogurt and cilantro sauce that complimented it quite well.

A year ago today.

12/9/11

1. Breaking out my white raw silk dress to wear to the opera.
2. Getting lunch with EM, BB, and MG over at the Chelsea market cafe that opened awhile ago but I hadn't tried until now, where they had veal bone marrow that was deliciously rich.
3. Getting a sandwich from Lucy's Whey with a bottle of Honest Tea from the office for dinner.
4. Getting to the opera in plenty of time to meet up with my parents despite some misadventures in meeting up with Dan.
5. Finding the production of Madame Butterfly to be breathtaking and beautiful.
6. My dad calling and leaving an apologetic voicemail after I reminded him as we were leaving that he forgot it was my birthday today.

A year ago today.

12/8/11

1. Getting a quiet lunch with EM.
2. Finally having a solid chunk of time to write up feedback for AJ on the materials for a webinar.
3. BB getting peer pressured into going to the holiday party tonight.
4. Being really impressed by the venue; I'd actually never been to the New York Public Library before this.
5. Winning some scratch-off lottery tickets in the casino room.
6. Staying much later than I had planned but having an awesome time in the piano bar room, where the pianist was just a great entertainer and had an astounding repertoire in meeting the requests from the audience.

A year ago today.

12/7/11

1. Feeling like I was helpful on a client call in the morning, which SF did a great job of leading.
2. Participating in the great APW book buy and watching its Amazon rank climb throughout the day until it reach #29!
3. Chair massage with AS.
4. Successfully making dinner reservations for Saturday.
5. Stopping by the vintage pop-up market in Chelsea market. Didn't buy anything and found most of it to be too expensive but had fun all the same, especially at the last booth that had more reasonable prices and interesting stock.
6. Starting and finishing Chalice.

A year ago today.

12/6/11

1. My favorite breakfast: yellow scrambled eggs, avocados, potato pancakes, and re-read Sunshine some more. Saved some of it and had it for lunch later too!
2. Getting really nice feedback from my colleagues about my tone on a client call I jumped on--good to know those client-facing skills aren't getting rusty.
3. Really liking one of the pairs of short boots I got on a whim from Zappos.
4. Getting reassurance from my manager that I'm not digging myself into a negative personal brand thing.
5. Having a good time at the cooking lesson offsite with the team, which included a really tall alcohol fire--fortunately no one was hurt.
6. Making donations to the NYPL and the NJ Food Bank and getting them match by both the company and my boss' boss.

A year ago today.

12/5/11

1. Taking a sick day and sleeping in a bit after waking up every couple hours through the night.
2. Not running out of soft tissues during the day.
3. Finally getting to cleaning up the receipts and such for November.
4. Managing to keep up on work email and dialing in to a meeting late in the day from home.
5. Having EN over for the night, sadly last time this semester. It's been so great to see her this regularly!
6. Watching more home videos from an even earlier period, 1988-1990, with video footage of my maternal grandparents in there!

A year ago today.

12/4/11

1. Sleeping in in the morning.
2. Making it to the craft fair exactly on time and soaking in a bit of sun.
3. Buying some sausage bread from Antique Bakery.
4. LH showing me the apartment she bought with her parents and talking through the renovations they have planned.
5. Finishing making apple dumplings in time before Dan wanted to get to bed.
6. Putting my final edits on my sister's resume.

A year ago today.

12/3/11

1. Getting myself to the gym in the morning and figuring out my 1RM for deadlift at 173lbs.!
2. Making an enormous meal of scrambled eggs, andouille sausage, and apples with cheese and sunflower butter and fresh herbs.
3. Letting myself lie on the couch for much fo the afternoon re-reading my favorite bits of Sunshine by Robin McKinley.
4. Taking a two hour nap on the same couch.
5. Getting a call from SD and catching up for over an hour.
6. Finally doing productive stuff again and cleaning the whole apartment with help from Dan on the dishes.

A year ago today.

12/2/11

1. MB and her boyfriend MP coming in for lunch and a quick tour of the office.
2. Packing up my desk pretty quickly for the move.
3. Helping my sister hone her resume further after she did a good job of taking in my initial feedback to produce a good second draft.
4. Going for what ended up just being a nice walk in the warmer weather with AJ since the line for the Madewell sample sale was ridiculous.
5. Getting dinner at Leo's with Dan and enjoying its low-key ambiance.
6. Watching another disc of home videos from around my 4th birthday.

A year ago today.

12/1/11

1. Breakfast at home of apples and cheese.
2. Getting ready at AJ's place with BB as well.
3. Finally breaking out the Stila liquid eyeliner I bought a couple months ago.
4. Having change in hand to give AJ for the cab and pizza.
5. Leaving the holiday party earlier than last year and making it home quite quickly.
6. Dan putting away his reading and staying up a bit to listen to me talk.

A year ago today.

11/30/11

1. PS giving up his seat at the table during the review meeting so that I could see the monitors better.
2. Finding that most of the items from the shortlist have already been built.
3. Brainstorming ideas for a new UI for a certain feature with JE.
4. My manager taking on the difficult parts of a project.
5. Going to the barbell class and getting a good workout.
6. Relaxing after the class by reading on the couch.

A year ago today.

11/29/11

1. Commuting in the morning with MB on her way back home.
2. Winning a few small battles at work, or at least an acknowledgement that the situation has not been handled well.
3. Getting my eyebrows done for the first time in a few weeks with a free pass.
4. Realizing I could deposit a check into my Provident account at any time using their ATM and doing so.
5. Really productive late night meeting.
6. Finishing up putting the rest of prints and posters and such into the Ikea frames purchased a couple weeks ago and deciding that none of them really needed to have the mat recut.

A year ago today.

11/28/11

1. Being able to drop off a meeting a bit early after my part was done.
2. Ran my 9th St. errands (cobbler, library).
3. MB coming over all the way to Hoboken to hang out!
4. Having plenty of food on hand (red duck curry from my mom) to feed myself, EN, and MB.
5. Going out for delicious ice cream at Cold Stone after discovering we wouldn't be able to go see the Breaking Dawn Part I because the theater didn't have 10pm showings anymore after the first week.
6. Having a bit of a girls' sleepover on our place, chatting even as Dan watched his football game.

A year ago today.

11/27/11

1. Dad touching up the paint jobs on the shelves while I was out.
2. Mom offering me cash for Coach outlet store credit that I had with the option to get this beautiful large purple crossbody/shoulder convertible bag if I decided I did want that instead.
3. Bringing home enough food for meals for the next few days.
4. Fitting everything I wanted to bring back into Dan's car, including both shelves and a ladder.
5. Figuring out a way to get the lampshade up on the ceiling fan fixture even though it didn't quite work as a tutorial I found online said it would.
6. Dan reminding me about catching Once Upon a Time.

A year ago today.

11/26/11

1. Sleeping in.
2. Dad having all these supplies to build the shelves I had in mind for putting over the heaters, allowing me to return $60 of supplies back to Lowe's.
3. Dad being pretty patient in giving up most of his day to help me build and paint those shelves.
4. Dad and my aunt coming out to help me with the balloon lamp.
5. Stains on mom's jacket from glue mixture coming out with water.
6. Making salsa and guacamole with my mom and sister.

A year ago today.

11/25/11

1. My mom telling me a lot more of her family's history and her stories from growing up than I had heard before.
2. Getting sunshine outside on the balmy day while watching my sister play tennis.
3. Getting my mom and sister to agree to a few of more points after I was a bit offended by her tennis coach writing off CrossFit as the worst thing ever.
4. Finding two drum lamp shades at Marshall's for pretty cheap.
5. Managing to make it to the diner in the end, though I took a few turns and was lost for half an hour.
6. Seeing SR at the diner and hanging out with her, Dan, RC, and some of RC's cousins.

A year ago today.

11/24/11

1. Sleeping in until 10.
2. Going to see my grandma and hanging out with her.
3. Really good dim sum at the Dynasty Palace on Rt. 22--not from frozen stuff.
4. Getting bubble tea for the first time in a long while.
5. Skipping Thanksgiving hullaballoo and just having hotpot for dinner.
6. Going to the outlets that started opening at 9pm and helping my sister score a pair of Lucky jeans for $18.

A year ago today.

11/23/11

1. Feeling like I got a full sleep cycle in after Dan left this morning.
2. Last of the carnitas for lunch and then discovering the dark chocolate pretzels in the pantry to have as a snack/dessert.
3. Working from the couch covered in blankets and my slanket.
4. Replenishing my cheese stock from The Cheese Store and finding a new favorite cheese in Midnight Moon.
5. Through my sister's friend, getting into the Fire Lounge and having an amazing view to a pretty exciting game ending in a shootout.
6. Not running into any traffic in the drive back to Hoboken and then on to Holmdel.

A year ago today.

11/22/11

1. Scooping up scrambled eggs and avocado for breakfast.
2. Fun lunch with RC visiting.
3. SN running a bit late to our meeting so I had time to run out and pick up the last CSA fruit share.
4. My red Marc by Marc Jacobs bag that I bought off eBay arriving.
5. Getting a cab from the PATH station back to the apartment since it was so miserable out and I was carrying so much stuff.
6. Microwaving the corn tortilla from Trader Joe's working out quite well to heat them without drying them out at all.

A year ago today.

11/21/11

1. Avocado actually getting replenished while I was grabbing breakfast.
2. PH visiting for lunch!
3. Discovering the smores with homemade thick graham crackers in the newly re-opened cafe.
4. Grabbing dinner at the office with plenty of time to make it up to the show.
5. Having a good time at the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, with all its cheesiness. Good family fun.
6. Finishing my mom's cowl and giving it to her.

A year ago today.

11/20/11

1. Coming up with the idea to put Dan's old nightstand in his closet so that we wouldn't have to get rid of it and he would have the additional storage space he's been wanting.
2. Sitting down with Dan and hammering out a new and more detailed monthly budget for next year.
3. Cleaning the apartment going faster than I thought it would.
4. Unexpected set of Indian-themed gifts in the mail from MS!
5. Making carnitas for dinner.
6. The burning on my face from accidentally wiping my hands that had been handling sliced hot peppers eventually stopping.

A year ago today.

11/19/11

1. Sleeping in until 10.
2. Skyping with CP, currently in Azerbaijan.
3. Finally getting rid of the last of the wedding stuff (milk glass cake stands) by dropping it all off at Salvation Army.
4. Dan being patient as I ran around Ikea trying to find the various sizes of Ribba frames that I needed.
5. The new coat tree from The Container Store being pretty easy to assemble and fitting pretty well behind the round chair.
6. Ikea cinnamon bun warmed up in the microwave with a cup of ginger tea.

A year ago today.

11/18/11

1. Not being too late for my first meeting of the day at 10am what with staying up late the night before.
2. Grabbing lunch with MF, EM, and MG.
3. A meeting I was dreading a little turning out just fine since we didn't have to focus on the metrics too much.
4. Picking up some meat from Dickson's Farm Stand for the weekend.
5. Dinner of apple slices and cheese.
6. Starting and finishing Enchantment by Orson Scott Card and quite enjoying it.

A year ago today.

11/17/11

1. Plenty of scrambled eggs and avocado left still when I got in at 9:35, so I could have  rather leisurely breakfast and read.
2. Working out of the massage chair for a stint.
3. Finding the actual Steven Alan part of the Steven Alan sample sale and admiring the workmanship, even if I didn't find anything to buy for myself.
4. AJ having a coupon for me to use on a sequined dress from Express for the holiday party.
5. This New Orleans pizza joint that AJ led us to having slices that really hit the spot after all that shopping.
6. Staying up late to finish reading Sunshine by Robin McKinley because it was so addictive.

A year ago today (happy 2 years, little blog!).

11/16/11

1. BB being really happy with her cowl.
2. Delicious pork belly at the reopened cafe on 8th.
3. Cobbler cutting me a deal on a 2nd attempt to stretch out my red Tsubo shoes...if it's not enough after this time I will have to give them away, just about half a size too small.
4. Picking up a whole new set of books from the library.
5. Going to the barbell class for the first time in awhile and getting 133lbs. as my front squat 1 rep max.
6. Catching up on last week's Once Upon a Time episode On Demand.

A year ago today.

11/15/11

1. 11am meeting ending early due to technical difficulties so I had time to go grab lunch.
2. The yarn for my mom's cowl arriving rather earlier than expected as well, given that we'd just bought the yarn on Friday. It was from a store that offers to wind up your yarn for you before they ship it too, quite brilliant.
3. Getting dinner at work with EM, AJ & co.
4. Calling CP to catch up, I hadn't talked to her since the wedding! And I may go out to visit her in the spring some time.
5. Finishing BB's cowl already...that was really fast.
6. Finishing watching the rest of the How the States Got Their Shapes original TV special in order to return the DVD to the library tomorrow.

A year ago today.

11/14/11

1. Getting lunch with MF, EM, and ST and talking about how architecture school really does seem to be the worst thing ever.
2. Particularly excellent shiatsu massage with AS. We also talked about various healing strategies for dealing with the onset of fall and winter.
3. The yarn for BB's cowl coming in the mail already, when I wasn't expecting it until Tuesday.
4. Deciding to attempt the WOD from CFH on my own since the timing didn't work quite right to make it to the gym for an actual class.
5. Cooking up a Dickson's Farmstand burger (80% beef, 20% bacon) for dinner, along with green bean salad and remaining turkey burgers.
6. Really good and long talk with EN about life and relationships. It's nice to have a sympathetic ear.

A year ago today.

11/13/11

1. Finding enough stuff in the fridge to make omelets for breakfast.
2. Getting good service when I brought some watercolor prints to get framed.
3. Figuring out the mysterious cheese from a few months ago was most likely a Gouda, thanks to the friendly cheesemonger at the Garden of Eden giving me a few different samples of some really good aged Goudas.
4. Dan agreeing to get this coat tree I found from The Container Store that I like the look of and actually has a pretty small footprint.
5. Spending a few hours fabric shopping online to use this 15% off coupon.
6. Despite a few mistarts, successfully re-applying the newsprint fabric back to one of the chairs using a starch mixture (I had taken it off to wash it because it had gotten a bit dirty).

A year ago today.

11/12/11

1. Surprisingly productive afternoon, cleaning the apartment and doing laundry.
2. Dan retrieving the laundry loads out from the dryer for me.
3. Catching up on a lot with MB while walking around Hoboken and checking out the new park.
4. Finally visiting the sewing studio and yarn store in Hoboken. Tightly packed spaces but very cute.
5. Figuring out how to crochet a slipstitch around the neck of my teal sweater to prevent it from getting even wider.
6. Going out for Italian food at a BYOB place. The tomato sauce for my pasta had incredible tomato flavor.

A year ago today.

11/11/11

1. Avocado bagel for breakfast.
2. Dan coming for lunch since he had the day off.
3. Grabbing time with JE to clear out the inbox pretty well.
4. Going for a long walk up and down the Highline with MG.
5. Getting a text out of the blue from MB who's in town and wants to come over to Hoboken tomorrow, yay!
6. Dan helping me move the coffee table again in order to put additional rubber matting underneath the new carpet configuration, which also allowed me to get up on a stool and clean off the dust on the ceiling fan. So gross!

A year ago today.

11/10/11

1. Grabbing a quick power lunch with BB since neither of us had much time.
2. Attending a webinar on fabric run by Colette Patterns.
3. Getting some really touching peer review feedback from people whose approval I've been working really hard for.
4. Really open talk with MG initiated by her. It was a very brave thing for her to do.
5. Deciding to go back to the office for my coat when it wasn't quite warm enough out to go home without it. Still, it's been unseasonably warm this week.
6. Spending the evening talking over various things with Dan.

A year ago today.

11/9/11

1. Avocado bagel for breakfast.
2. A whole bunch of morning meetings being canceled.
3. Finding sushi being available for lunch when none of he other options seemed very appealing.
4. Checking things off my to do list for the day without needing to stay very late.
5. Dan reminding me about Psych being on and so I watched another hour of mindless TV.
6. Going to bed relatively early for the week.

A year ago today.

11/8/11

1. Taking photos of the recent finished knitted cowls to post to Ravelry.
2. Surprisingly warm day out, high of 70. Fine with my jean jacket and not a full-on coat at all. 
3. Lunch with MG and EM.
4. Pulling it together to focus for a couple hours on learning to pull some metrics
5. Finding the acne products section at CVS, even though it wasn't in the skincare aisle.
6. Not taking forever to do the dishes leftover from yesterday.

A year ago today.

11/7/11

1. Putting together an outfit with blue ikat dress, gray long-sleeved t-shirt underneath, gray leggings, and brown lace-up boots.
2. Quick and smooth running of errands after work: tailor, returning extra skein of yarn to the Lion Brand store, library.
3. Being able to turn off the smoke alarm while standing on a chair with the use of a wooden spoon to extend my reach.
4. Pulling a loaf of bread out of the oven and hearing it crackle like in Ratatouille.
5. Remembering that I'd frozen the meat sauce leftovers before going to Boston so could pull it out to defrost for dinner tomorrow.
6. Vegging out in front of the TV for the evening.

A year ago today.

11/6/11

1. Making it to my bus in plenty of time, thanks to the B line actually running rather quickly.
2. Going for the salad when the bus stopped at Arby's.
3. Sleeping for most of the bus ride back from Boston since the power outlet in my row of seats wasn't working.
4. Having CS and PB over and showing CS how to hem her pants.
5. Dan making risotto for dinner.
6. Putting out the chevron rug from Overstock that Dan picked up from FedEx earlier in the day into the living room.

A year ago today.

11/5/11

1. Really sleeping in, until past 11am.
2. Getting to talking to one of the alums who made a big change in his career direction after getting a PhD in science, he was pretty easy to talk to.
3. Picking up some good photos of us during the France trip. We look so young!
4. Getting back from going to Target and Shaw's before anyone arrived at DC's place.
5. The make-your-own pizzas going over quite well and LW seeming to have a good time for her birthday.
6. Finishing up knitting the blue cowl for my mother-in-law while watching Once Upon a Time through On Demand with DC.

A year ago today.

11/4/11

1. Dan waking up early to go to the PATH station with me and help me bring my luggage along.
2. Inconsistent internet connection but not missing out too much on work stuff.
3. Getting to the Boston office in the afternoon and still getting a good amount of work done in those few hours.
4. Realizing that EN and JR would be going over the alumni dinner from Cambridge as well, so met them in Central Square and shared a cab with them.
5. Seeing JT and others at the cocktail reception and dinner.
6. Running into a couple guys who helped point me towards the shortcut to get to DC's place, saving me a lot of walking with the luggage.

A year ago today.

11/3/11

1. Blocking out my purple cowl in the morning to approximately the right measurements as specified by the pattern.
2. Parents coming by to pick me up and give me a ride to Flushing.
3. Managing to work pretty normally for the day with the wi-fi at the tennis center being pretty good.
4. Watching my sister pull of some nicely played points.
5. Going out for dinner of soup dumplings with the family and my sister's tennis coach.
6. Dan letting me draw a face on his big toe.

A year ago today.

11/2/11

1. Bread, cheese, and an apple for breakfast at home.
2. Running errands on the way to work and finding that the library had more books than I expected waiting for me.
3. Finding that my work laptop fits inside my Mod Green Pod tote bag.
4. Coworkers at dinner encouraging me to send back the overly salty duck confit.
5. Finding a Hojiblance Intenso olive oil at the Filling Station that has a nicely strong flavor.
6. Managing to carry all my bags of stuff home without stopping too many times.

A year ago today.

11/1/11

1. Getting to the office on time for the 9am meeting.
2. All of the items on my shortlist being reviewed during the planning meeting.
3. SH conducting herself well during our Stage 1 career conversation where I may have dipped too much into therapy territory.
4. Finding some fluffy blue yarn to make a bulky cowl for my mother-in-law.
5. AQ helping me rip out the bind-off and top few rows of the purple cowl because I missed the directions in the patterns to purl a row before binding off.
6. Nice red wine at dinner that didn't have much of that bitter tannic flavor, a Malbec.

A year ago today.

10/31/11

1. Getting to the office before 9--still late for the 8:30am meeting, but not too late.
2. Canceling a meeting in the late afternoon so I had an uninterrupted block of time.
3. AJ coming by to show off her engagement ring!
4. JW mentioning the blockades around 6th Ave., reminding me to look up where the Halloween parade was going and therefore deciding not to go the library since it was probably closed early for the parade.
5. The tailor seeming to have figured out the right alterations to make a nice red coat that my mom gave me look much less 90s on top.
6. Finishing off my two favorite cheeses from the class (the Comte and the Roquefort) as a dessert plate of sorts.

A year ago today.

10/30/11

1. Making a full breakfast of home fries and fried eggs.
2. Not taking too long to clean the apartment, put away clothes from the last few days, and vacuum.
3. Putting together an organized spreadsheet of picture frames to get from Ikea to properly frame my various prints and such.
4. Talking Dan into finally buying one large rug for the living room! A black wool and jute chevron kilim rug from Overstock.
5. Throwing together dinner in 30 minutes, including washing up dishes.
6. French cheeses tasting at The Cheese Store in Hoboken, including a Comte that's really amazing.

A year ago today.

10/29/11

1. Showered and dressed to get out the door by the time Dan pulled up with the car.
2. Passing some time by playing foosball and ping-pong with Dan and PB respectively.
3. Getting to sleep a bit on the drive back from Philly.
4. Hot tea and spiced cider with rum at AJ's party.
5. Wind outside calming down so we could just walk back to the apartment instead of taking a cab.
6. Warm lentils as a perfect stick-to-your-ribs dinner to end the day.

A year ago today.

10/28/11

1. Wearing the new wool coat and the bulky pink cowl I finished knitting a few weeks ago, since it was the coldest day in awhile here today.
2. Dropping off a boot at the cobbler's to get the sole re-glued down.
3. Not having to attend any meetings across the entire day.
4. Going to see Being Elmo with Dan.
5. RC bailing me out by calling up Dan to go watch Game 7 with him instead of me needing to watch it with Dan.
6. Finishing off rest of spaghetti squash that I made last night. It reheated pretty well.

A year ago today.

10/27/11

1. Getting to the office in time for breakfast of yellow scrambled eggs and potato pancakes.
2. Lunch with AJ after she was back in the office.
3. AJ and EM both complimenting me on my gray sweater dress.
4. Back-to-back chair massage with AS.
5. Sufficiently warm with the navy blue military coat and sweater dress in the cooler temperature when I left the office.
6. Picking up my new coat with shortened sleeves and dry-cleaning.

A year ago today.

10/26/11

1. Being able to zip up my Duo Bern boots over my Madewell skinny jeans!
2. Being warm enough in a cozy sweater without a coat.
3. Noon meeting ending early to meet up with AL and MG for a bit of lunch.
4. Clearing out the maintenance tasks pretty quickly, fortunately.
5. Pulling together a dinner from leftovers in the fridge and freezer.
6. Dan keeping me company while watching TV.

A year ago today.

10/25/11

1. Getting to the gym in the morning for the first time in over a week. Good workout, too, with getting to do the same exercises as the barbell class they had last night and the rowing not being too bad.
2. Finding a VC room just around the corner that I could duck into for a meeting.
3. EM going a bit earlier to pick up the fruit than she had planned previously so I could leave the office a bit early.
4. Fitting all the apples, my work laptop, and my purse into my backpack to bike home easily.
5. Rest of red duck curry for dinner, plus making up some green vegetables in the fridge.
6. Late evening meeting not going for too long.

A year ago today.

10/24/11

1. The dry cleaners recognizing me and pointing out additional stains on the blouse I brought in to clean. Also dropped off the new-to-me coat to have the sleeves shortened and the whole thing cleaned. 
2. Plenty of avocado left when I got to the office to put together an avocado bagel (no tomato though, that's a first).
3. Finding an extra book ready for me on the hold shelf at the library.
4. Figuring out a way to hang Dan's suit off my backpack so that I could carry it and walk my bike the rest of the way home to get it out of the predicted rain.
5. Quiet evening by myself, reading and surfing the internet.
6. Getting out the comforter as the nights really are getting to be cold enough to need it.

A year ago today.

10/23/11

1. Having a really fun time at our glassblowing class (wedding gift)! Didn't burn ourselves and it was a fascinating exercise in human ingenuity for this kind of craft.
2. Getting back to the apartment earlier than I thought we would.
3. Red duck curry with rice for lunch and dinner and reading Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone.
4. Finding what I think are a few new small leaves on the latest rosemary plant. Fingers crossed that I don't kill this one too.
5. Starting my new cheese & alcohol blog, "Did I like This?".
6. Watching a DVD of home videos my parents made between July and November 1990. Hilarious and sweet.

A year ago today.

10/22/11

1. Cleaning up the dishes going quicker than expected.
2. Not missing anything in the morning (dropping off EN at the train station, me at my parents', Dan to the dentist) despite leaving the apartment a little late.
3. Dim sum with my parents.
4. My mom helping me return the big boxes of stuff to Nordstrom and J.Crew.
5. Finding out that Coach stores will accept returns for store credit even without a gift receipt.
6. My mom making my favorite meal for dinner: red duck curry with rice and papaya salad.

A year ago today.

10/21/11

1. Nice enough weather out to bike to the station in the morning.
2. Getting in to the office just in time before breakfast ended.
3. Having a great time shopping the Manhattan Vintage Show with EN, she scores lots of nice stuff that fit her perfectly and I managed to find a coat. Also proud of myself for putting back a dramatic forest green coat that I really like but was just a little bit too small in the arms.
4. Talking over some recent life stressors with EN and getting sage advice.
5. Getting Thai food delivered in.
6. Re-watching a Project Runway episode with EN, talking over this current season and finding we agree in our opinions of most of the remaining designers.

A year ago today.

10/20/11

1. Finding out about my sister winning a big regional tournament!
2. Managing to fit all the CSA groceries and my purse in my backpack to bike home.
3. Not getting hit by a car in revenge after I had a shouting match with its driver.
4. Dan patiently listening to me rant and rave about people who annoy me.
5. Last package from a large Nordstrom order waiting for me at home.
6. Watching Project Runway and being right about the results of this finale part 1.

A year ago today.

10/19/11

1. Remembering to bring in the old computer to swap it for a new one.
2. Decision to wear yellow rainboots came in handy.
3. Feeling pretty comfortable throughout the day in leggings and red Tsubo wedge shoes, after I'd gotten them stretched by the cobbler a few months ago.
4. New device's box fitting inside my yellow flip & tumble bag.
5. Picked up a book from the library.
6. Wiling away the evening lounging on the couch and watching TV.

A year ago today.

10/18/11

1. Bern Duo boots with green plaid dress, gray leggings, and red leather Madewell belt.
2. Getting to the office in plenty of time to grab breakfast before the 9am opening talk.
3. Really productive meeting with JE to get out responses on the feasibility of recent feature requests.
4. Managing to keep up with taking notes during the very active feedback and Q&A session I attended. 
5. Coming home to two large boxes of potential wool winter coat replacements from Nordstrom and J. Crew.
6. Catching last week's Psych season premiere episode.

A year ago today.

10/17/11

1. SL in town and joined us for lunch!
2. The names I came up with for some new blogs I want to write being available on blogspot for me to register.
3. My manager reassuring me that it was ok that I shot off my mouth a bit yesterday in the skip-level.
4. Finishing off the Bed Bath & Beyond wedding gift card by purchasing a Bodum knife block and a Cuisinart sharpening steel.
5. Getting home just in time for an 8pm meeting after running errands and getting eyebrows threaded 
6. Snipping off some fresh herbs (parsley, basil, dill) to mix into Trader Joe's tomato soup, topped with slices of bread made yesterday and more cheese.

A year ago today.

10/16/11

1. Vacuuming the apartment not taking too long.
2. Successfully hemming two pairs of Madewell jeans, one by actually cutting into it because it was too tapered to  while actually cutting them, rather than just folding them under, and hemming the denim pair the usual way.
3. Brisk but sunny weather outside as I biked to various errands.
4. Finally checking out the Hoboken Cheese Shop, nice selection of stuff and it's really not that far (5 blocks away).
5. Making up a couple loaves of bread using the artisan bread in 5 minutes/day technique.
6. Vanilla beans purchased over three years ago still being really fragrant for making vanilla roasted pears with CSA pears.

A year ago today.

10/15/11

1. Making chive and pork dumplings for breakfast/lunch.
2. Dan making it to Rutgers to pick up some library books and to Princeton library access office in time, despite me making us 30 minutes late in the morning.
3. Pumpkin spice latte from coffee shop in Princeton.
4. Having AB's company while browsing the White Elephant Rummage Sale in Princeton.
5. AB teaching me to make broccoli and cavatelli, which isn't too complicated overall, actually.
6. Dan making some tea for me when I got home with a bit of an upset stomach after eating some dark chocolate ginger candies from Trader Joe's.

A year ago today.

10/14/11

1. 9am meeting getting rescheduled since everyone else was late too.
2. Grabbing enough avocado to make up an avocado bagel.
3. Good flatbreads at lunch today, there was one with lots of spinach on it so I felt like I got more vegetables in.
4. Ibuprofen knocking out my headache and allowing me to summon up motivation to tackle my long to-do list at work.
5. Calling ahead to getting dinner at The Taco Truck, making it ready for me when I got there.
6. Lazing around watching TV in the evening.

A year ago today.

10/13/11

1. Getting up and going to the gym in the morning.
2. Putting together an outfit with my new black Duo boots, gray leggings, and circle print green vintage dress.
3. Being able to grab a single seat on the PATH to sit down and have plenty of room to put band-aids on my feet where the boots were rubbing uncomfortably.
4. Dan sending me an email remembering our 8 year dating anniversary :)
5. Finally getting over to Re/Dress in Brooklyn to try to sell some of the stuff I cleared out from my closet.
6. Not missing the PSEG technician or the UPS delivery.

A year ago today.

10/12/11

1. Snagging a double-shift chair massage session.
   
2. Grabbing lunch with AJ.
3. Cleaning up the desk next to me and returning some of the Converse-replacement rejects, even as a different pair of shoes I ordered yesterday got delivered.
4. During the actual massage session, AS setting up the floor mat so he could do more work on my back and glutes.
5. Grabbing dinner with RK and hanging out for a bit.
6. Finally finishing up the bulk of the work on refreshing the upgrade schedule.

A year ago today.

10/11/11

1. Waking up in the morning before my alarm so had some time to spare in the morning to take some photos of the big pink cowl for Ravelry.
2. No avocado when I got in to the office, but the potato pancakes that I like and yellow scrambled eggs were quite good and I didn't take too much and overeat.
3. Finally, finally fixing the WebEx installation on my work laptop, without having to go to our tech support people, just followed the instructions from a page on their site.
4. Picking up maple syrup and honey at the CSA to be able to toss Dan's pancake syrup.
5. Feeling up all the nice fabrics (silks of all kinds, basically) at the DVF store after work.
6. Hanging out on the couch catching up on Google Reader.

A year ago today.

10/10/11

1. Dan waking me up after coming back from moving the car so I didn't totally oversleep.
2. PATH being surprisingly empty, I guess most people have off for Columbus Day.
3. Getting in just in time to get enough avocado to put together with a hollowed out bagel.
4. Having two lunches, one to catch up with Abby and one with Dan coming in since he had the day off.
5. Ordering a few different coats and bags from J.Crew and Nordstrom with free shipping.
6. Getting to the gym for the weightlifting class and totally exceeding my own expectations for how much I could back squat--5 reps at 143lbs. when I thought I'd go for 120!

A year ago today.

10/9/11

1. Finishing clearing out the closet and swapping summer for winter clothes. Really satisfying!
2. Thoroughly cleaning and dusting the apartment and running a couple loads of laundry pretty quickly. The new washers are definitely loads better.
3. Ribs coming out quite well. Used both leftover homemade BBQ sauce and a new dry rub recipe.
4. Dan calling the fire department after the carbon monoxide alarm kept going off.
5. First floor neighbor suggesting using a credit card to get past the lock to the basement of our building in order to shut the gas off.
6. Getting back into the apartment after not too long and finishing off the bulky pink cowl that I started yesterday.

A year ago today.

10/8/11

1. Updating Ravelry with some photos of recent yarn purchases.
2. Rescuing an avocado from going totally bad and making it with scrambled eggs and cherry tomatoes.
3. Dan making pasta fagioli for dinner.
4. Dan helping me wind the skein of really bulky yarn I bought yesterday.
5. Deciding to get rid of quite a few clothes as I swapped out fall/winter stuff for summer stuff.
6. Dan not being too mad that I started doing that not too long before bedtime, kicking up a lot of dust in the bedroom.

A year ago today.

10/7/11

1. Not being too late to a 9am meeting after arriving at the office just past 9 and then grabbing breakfast.
2. My manager giving me a call in the afternoon before she headed to specifically say that upper management is really pleased with and recognizes my work on a product launch we had this week. Yay!
3. Going to the Sew Fast Sew Easy store's closeout sale and picking up some yarn and sewing notions with pretty good discounts.
4. Fitting all of that stuff along with the pears left at my desk into my backpack for biking back without too much difficulty.
5. Lying on the couch and watching the rest of the episodes from season 5 of Psych on Netflix streaming.
6. Dan passing along that his sister would like to ask me to be a bridesmaids for her if I would want to--how sweet!

No link to "A year ago today" - weird, guess I forgot to do 10/7/10 entirely?

10/6/11

1. ML not seeming to be offended by my speaking up a lot during a long morning meeting to go over all the feature requests from a particular EMEA client.
2. Returning a couple overdue library books while holding a walking meeting with MF.
3. Getting confirmation from MF that I wasn't unusual in finding certain working relationships to be a bit difficult.
4. Going to my first art gallery opening, at the Kouros Gallery (family friend of MF's).
5. EM having enough cash to cover me at dinner.
6. Catching the end of Project Runway when I got home.

A year ago today.

10/5/11

1. Getting to the gym in the morning for the 2nd day in a row.
2. Having my laptop with me to squeeze in a bit of work when they made us wait around awhile after getting the flu shot, to make sure we didn't feel any side effects. I don't think I've needed to do that before when getting a flu shot.
3. Lunch with the usual suspects--AJ/MG/BB--but also joined by AZ.
4. Chair massage with AS.
5. AJ's fashion show of loot from the Shareen Vintage store in LA, including two fur coats!
6. The client CM being extraordinarily laid-back about not being able to log in to the product.

A year ago today.

10/4/11

1. Getting to the gym in the morning after deciding not to go last night.
2. Got in a good workout where the pull-ups were actually the slightly easier part compared to the walking lunges/bear crawl bit. Also, wasn't the last one to finish.
3. Getting an email from RL asking if EM and I wanted to go work out with him while he was in town. Too bad his schedule was too full.
4. The old YT team being sweetly excited to see me at the demo meeting.
5. Proving why I was right to worm my way into that meeting by being able to answer a good number of their questions.
6. Grabbing dinner with AZ (visiting for the week), EM, and KV.

A year ago today.

10/3/11

1. Lunch with BB and AS.
2. Contacting Groupon support and clarifying that our Hoboken Comedy Festival tickets should have also resulted in vouchers for another set of shows in NY.
3. Bandwidth targeting issue getting treated urgently and taken care of by other people.
4. EM sending over early the peer review she wrote for me, which had some very nice things in it.
5. Ranting with EM about a stupid survey that was sent out and finding the resource where one of the questions asked was already answered.
6. Getting some more votes on the fixit items I proposed.

A year ago today.

10/2/11

1. Being able to fall back asleep after Dan got up early and left in the morning.
2. Taking care of internet stuff, paying bills, entering receipts into Mint, etc.
3. Getting lots of laundry done.
4. Having the apartment to myself for most of the day with Dan out.
5. One fewer Giants game to listen to with Dan watching the game at his dad's.
6. Excellent penultimate Breaking Bad episode.

A year ago today.

10/1/11

1. Deciding to hold off on dinner before the show since I was still feeling pretty full from a late lunch.
2. Remembering that I quite like alcoholic cider and enjoying a bottle before the show at Maxwell's.
3. Getting in to the space early enough to grab seats on the semi-bleachers in the back.
4. Enjoying quite a few of the stand up comedy acts, particularly the last one by Amy Schumer.
5. Getting some pumpkin-sage ravioli for dinner at Leo's Grandevous, which was delicious and worked out quite well because I still wasn't that hungry. Normally ravioli comes in so few pieces that it's not satisfying at all.
6. Getting home in plenty of time to catch the 11pm replay of last week's Doctor Who episode and then the midnight viewing of the season finale.

A year ago today.

9/30/11

1. Finishing up the two peer reviews I needed to write, not too far after the deadline.
2. Realizing I needed to get started on the feature list for this release and getting a good amount done before the end of the day.
3. Watching the first half of Please Vote For Me, recommended to me awhile ago by MG and AM and quite enjoying it as I got my teeth cleaned.
4. The dental hygienist using photos of plaque on my teeth to show I should be careful not to let my handedness dominate my teeth brushing technique.
5. Returning a library book to the 23rd & 7th location.
6. Deciding to go back to work after the dentist appointment since I felt it was a bit too early to just go home for the day.

A year ago today.

9/29/11

1. Distributing all the muffins I made, a few at the early morning meeting but mostly later on the 6th floor, where NE actually called it as "Top 5 muffin."
2. Talking JW into re-scheduling our afternoon meeting of reviewing updated feature dates since she was pretty sick and really should just go home, but that bought myself some time to actually get prepared for that meeting.
3. Fun and quick lunch with AJ, discussing her slight dread/nervousness around waiting to get proposed to when she's not a romantic.
4. Chair massage with AS.
5. Picking up RK's weekly CSA which had lots of great stuff, including things that would keep for awhile like potatoes and shallots.
6. Remembering to bring in jewelry pliers for EM to help her fix her necklace.

A year ago today.

9/28/11

1. Figuring out a way to set up our snippets group for minimal fuss in the email reminders.
2. Getting a post-mortem on the EL call from AJ and SS picking up something to investigate further to prevent problems later on.
3. Helping out with sim calls for the newbies and getting my feedback to them reinforced by SP.
4. Managers deciding to cancel next week's monthly meeting.
5. Made pear-ginger-lemon muffins for the morning meeting tomorrow.
6. Found that I'd stashed the cupcake liners with the muffin pan (smart, self) and there were enough left still for the amount of muffins I wanted to make.

A year ago today.

9/27/11

1. Getting to the gym in the morning and finding pull-up portion of the workout to be easier than expected. Also, the other in the class cheered me on as I finished up.
2. My mom being really quick to get back to me with the address of our apartment in Shanghai, which helped increase the odds I'd get budget to go on a trip to the office there along with the UX team.
3. EM picking up the fruit this week and bringing the haul to me at my desk with ST as well.
4. Tasting concord grapes for the first time and learning how to eat a slipskin grape. Also, they really do taste like grape flavor! That flavor isn't just faked and made up!
5. Catching up with MS at dinner with MG. She showed us photos of her new boyfriend who is really quite cute.
6. Getting a salad with some tasty duck as its protein.

A year ago today.

9/26/11

1. Lunch with BB and MG.
2. Getting an reminder to sign up for free flu shots at work and snagging an appointment quickly.
3. DC actually letting me to let me know that she did get to the sport medicine doctor to look at the cyst on her hand.
4. Having box mac & cheese to give EN for dinner.
5. Reading through the PSP directory that came in the mail and finding that someone I knew from our original class just started in the same job that I did!
6. Being right about my sister liking this wrapped bracelet style.

A year ago today.

9/25/11

1. Teaching LW to make bacon and omelets and having them come out pretty well.
2. Though unexpected traffic from a 5K made us late and miss my 12:30 bus, the next one wasn't too much later at 1.
3. Leftovers from dinner last night tasting just fine still cold.
4. Time on the bus passing pretty quickly with a few naps.
5. Being right about the smell in the apartment coming from the kitchen trash can, not the worm bin.
6. Installation of the new showerhead with a filter going pretty smoothly.

A year ago today.

9/24/11

1. Randomly recognizing a classmate from our freshman year honors class in the crowd at the game and catching up with him.
2. Leaving the football game early and going to the yarn store!
3. Yarn store ladies letting us stay a little late to finish winding our skeins.
4. Finding a Jeeves book at the Brookline Booksmith's Used Book Cellar.
5. Really delicious Indian food for dinner.
6. Starting a new knitting project while re-watching Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with LW.

A year ago today.

9/23/11

1. Just making the CT2 bus connection despite traffic along Comm Ave delaying the 57.
2. Finding sauted spinach added to the lunch buffet as well as some pureed roasted butternut squash with pecans that was smooth and sweet.
3. Catching up with DRW! I didn't realize before that we're similar in our general contentedness but sometimes worry about inertia.
4. Got to haircut appointment late but he wasn't ready for me yet anyway.
5. Not raining too hard on my walk back to DC's place.
6. Eating up LW's chili and hanging around shooting the breeze at DC's place.

A year ago today.

9/22/11

1. Going to the gym in the morning and coming in under the slowest time for the workout from earlier classes in the morning.
2. Health consultation at the office going really well! All my numbers like cholesterol getting loads better.
3. Meeting with FDG and knocking out the details on a PRD.
4. Bonine kicking in and internet connection on Boltbus staying pretty steady so I could be on the internet and get a good amount of email done.
5. DC coming to pick me up from South Station.
6. Discovering that Dan had tucked a little surprise/reward for finishing Whole30 into my luggage.

A year ago today.

9/21/11

1. Getting the thumbs up from my manager for my self-assessment after spending most of the day on it.
2. Shiatsu massage with AS.
3. Having an easy time talking to SN for our first monthly sync.
4. Completed last day of Whole30!!
5. Packing for the trip to Boston going pretty quickly.
6. Finishing up the rest of the watermelon.

A year ago today.

9/20/11

1. Forcing myself out of bed to go to the gym.
2. Feeling pretty good and not too sleep-deprived throughout the day after going to the gym, where I shared the class with one other person.
3. Getting some online shopping done for other black boot candidates and a grow light for my plants.
4. Finally ordering the custom lamp for my mom with photos from my sister's and my childhoods.
5. Figuring out some good answers at the team trivia event tonight.
6. Still some leftovers for dinner, yummy roasted vegetables.

A year ago today.

9/19/11

1. Getting direct advice from my manager on how to fix up my self-assessment to word it better.
2. Getting to the library and finding several books on the hold shelf ready for me.
3. Thought of a way to put the planter in the dining area to give it more light while still having enough room for the kitchen table.
4. Making chicken stock with the remains of the roast chicken from yesterday.
5. Making carrot fries and remembering to take them out before they burned.
6. EM telling me some funny stories about her life lately.

A year ago today.

9/18/11

1. Dan coming to Maker Faire with me, where we saw 3D printers and a life-size mouse trap (like the board game).
2. Really nice partly sunny weather outside.
3. Getting home with plenty of time for the roast chicken and timing it such that dinner was done really early.
4. Roast chicken coming out better than the last one after having been salted for longer.
5. Roasted vegetables (carrots, butternut squash, cauliflower) coming out really well.
6. Having EM and PJ over for dinner and crafting.

A year ago today.

9/17/11

1. Going to the farmer's market and picking up a large watermelon.
2. Picking up new and healthy plants from the garden center.
3. Oiling the planter to give it a darker color and more finished look.
4. Even Dan saying that the planter looked better after being oiled.
5. Being able to put the carpets back in place.
6. Watching Doctor Who.

A year ago today.

9/16/11

1. Showing AJ that the new product isn't that different.
2. Getting a response from MT to set in motion temporarily disabling the wrong queries in the tools system and setting in motion getting in the right queries, finally.
3. Confiding in AJ and getting advice about how to approach MG.
4. MG agreeing to a quick meeting and being open to the things I wanted to express to her.
5. Hanging out with Dan for a quiet evening.
6. Watching Silence of the Lambs through for the first time.

A year ago today.

9/15/11

1. Not too many issues while on maintenance duty. 
2. PD verifying my instincts on one of the tickets.
3. Lunch with AJ and BB.
4. Chair massage from AS.
5. Grabbing dinner at the office after a failed trip to Re/Dress in Brooklyn (closed for repairs).
6. Shooting the breeze with BL and ST in the 5th floor cafe.

A year ago today.

9/14/11

1. Finally getting my rust orange dress delivered by the tailor.
2. Having lunch with AJ and MG for a bit to catch up on the various work issues we're dealing with currently.
3. Meeting our forum TCs over VC and getting to know them personally a bit more.
4. Running over to Chelsea marketplace to get our kitchen knife sharpened for the first time in a long while.
5. Tasting all the different fancy olive and other kinds of oils at the Filling Station.
6. Making it to the new weightlifting class at the gym.

A year ago today.

9/13/11

1. Finding a YouTube video of a dog singing along to "Happy Birthday" to send to my sister as a birthday greeting.
2. SS visiting for lunch!! She looks so happy to be in grad school.
3. Having just enough time to pick up the fruit share for the next two weeks and swing by to grab AJ's extra copy of the Vogue September Issue.
4. Getting myself to the gym and meeting my goal of finishing the workout in less than 19 minutes.
5. Coming home and talking through some things with Dan.
6. Despite showering and eating dinner pretty late after lying on the couch talking to Dan for so long, still went to bed at a reasonable time.

A year ago today.

9/12/11

1. Getting a couple compliments on my newly hemmed navy blue dress with batik border on the top.
2. Running a bunch of errands in the morning, dropping off laundry for Dan, buying elastic in the Garment District.
3. Sorting through the deluge of emails from an afternoon full of meetings pretty quickly.
4. A couple dresses I'd dropped off last week to get dry cleaned being ready a day early with the wash-and-fold laundry.
5. Breaking out the mandoline to make ratatouille for dinner, which came out pretty well.
6. Beginning of EN coming over regularly on Monday nights to stay before her Tuesday morning class at Columbia.

A year ago today.

9/11/11

1. Spending most of the morning lying around and finishing Inspector Imanishi Investigates.
2. Starting and finishing hemming the navy blue dress with a white batik border along the top while at CS and PB's place.
3. Exerting willpower to avoid buying any expensive snacks at the grocery store when I was hungry.
4. Getting back in plenty of time before Breaking Bad so I could watch some other random TV in-between.
5. Having a second dinner of roast beef that I made yesterday and the cherry tomato and green bean salad.
6. Getting a funny email from DL about his and BB's wedding gifts to us.

A year ago today.

9/10/11

1. Dan taking me to another farmers' market in Jersey City, this one with more stuff (including watermelon!)
2. Dan bringing the lemongrass plant over to my parents' for my mom. Took up too much space in our apartment (and it's kind of a messy looking plant...)
3. Having the apartment to myself in the afternoon and cleaning it.
4. Remembering to catch last week's Doctor Who episode in the afternoon.
5. Finally trying out the 3-D SET game that AL got us from Comic-Con.
6. Dan getting The Adjustment Bureau out from Redbox. I had a good time watching it with him at home, since it was enjoyable enough use of the time, plot moved along quickly enough, but we could also make cracks about the hats.

A year ago today.

9/9/11

1. Catching a bit of sleep on both flights back.
2. Being able to fit the stuff I needed on the flight into my purse when they forced me to check my carry on bag on the second flight.
3. Roasted almonds available for purchase on the longer flight so I wasn't totally starving on the way back.
4. Watching an episode of Jeeves and Wooster to pass the time before my laptop's battery died.
5. Getting home before Dan, even, so had the entire evening to settle back in after my whirlwind trip.
6. Making a dinner of just carrot fries and avocado.

A year ago today.

9/8/11

1. Dan not minding how I kept waking him up every couple hours with needing to pack and then needing to leave after two hours of sleep.
2. Knocking myself out with Dramamine and sleeping pretty much the whole flight to Phoenix.
3. Attending the client meeting and finding the clients to be really genial and open to our suggestions.
4. Learning more about ML through one of the clients asking him a lot of questions.
5. Fancy steak dinner! Served on a 500 degree plate sizzling and really accommodating about my request not to have butter on anything.
6. BG giving me a ride to the hotel in her rental car so I wouldn't have to feel bad about another expensive cab ride.

A year ago today.

9/7/11

1. Chair massage with AS. He's still the best combo of strong but targeted pressure.
2. Remembering to grab extra food from lunch for dinner, and the chicken sofrito from the burrito bar being surprisingly good even when cold. Possibly due to all food tasting better when you're hungry.
3. My mom seeming to have a really great time at the NY Philharmonic's live performance of the score for West Side Story while they played the movie with the original lyrics on the big screen.
4. Several of the original cast members and producers of the movie being in attendance! Most notably Russ Tamblyn (Rif, and Amber Tamblyn's dad) and George Chakiris (Bernardo).
5. Nobody giving me dirty looks for stashing a big umbrella at my feet or for taking off my rainboots during the second half when my feet were getting overheated in all the rubber.
6. Rainboots and umbrella coming in handy for a few random heavy downpours in the evening.

A year ago today.

9/6/11

1. Lunch with AJ and keeping her in the loop on what's being asked of her team.
2. Breaking out my new clear bubble umbrella with map of NYC subway on it in the rain today.
3. Ducking out of the work happy hour early to run errands.
4. Getting to both the eyeglass place (to have glasses tightened a bit) and library (to return books) just in time before they closed.
5. Not stepping on anything sharp when I needed to take my shoes off to wade through flooded streets on the way home.
6. Quick dinner of a salad with cherry tomatoes, orange bell pepper, and roast chicken. Broke out the avocado oil for the first time.

A year ago today.

9/5/11

1. Falling back asleep for a solid hour after waking up the first time around 9.
2. Lounging around for most of the day working on sewing projects and having the TV on (Star Wars, NCIS, How I Met Your Mother marathons).
3. Setting up the navy blue cotton dress with batik print along the top to be ready to be hemmed next weekend. Looks like it'll be really cute on, too.
4. Managing to contain the spill from knocking the Brita over after dropping other sewing supplies.
5. Fully finishing one project by the end of the day through hemming the splotchy purple knit dress by machine.
6. Dan comforting me after I woke up in the middle of the night from a nightmare.

A year ago today.

9/4/11

1. Not feeling guilty about not going to the gym after looking up the schedule and seeing that it was closed for Labor Day.
2. Getting complimented by Dan's younger sisters on my style.
3. Green bean and cherry tomato salad coming together pretty easily (while watching How the States Got Their Shapes, good and even educational background TV!) and going over pretty well at the barbecue.
4. Not too difficult to eat at the barbecue for me, with plain burgers and slices of London broil available and plain fruit for dessert.
5. Watching Dan teach PB the game Go.
6. Our hosts going the extra mile of washing all our dishes so no worries about grease drips or anything on the way home.

A year ago today.

9/3/11

1. Waking up naturally at 9am.
2. Making myself breakfast of fried eggs, breakfast sausage, and peppers.
3. Dan driving me around to all the errands I wanted to run today: Target, Salvation Army, Home Depot, BBB, farmer's market (found many of the things I was looking for!), gardening center, Shop Rite...
4. Re-potting and replacing some of the plants in my herb planter that weren't doing so well.
5. Roasting a chicken for dinner.
6. Spending some quality time with Dan for the first time in awhile, hanging out watching movies on Netflix streaming.

A year ago today.

9/2/11

1. AJ letting me know about Madewell putting jeans in their 30% off Labor Day sale, which their email customer service agreed to give me without even needing to go into the store again.
2. Grabbing lunch and hanging out with Abby at her desk.
3. MF readily giving me a pep talk re: not feeling driven to aim for another promotion right now and switching managers again.
4. SH suggesting I should consider going out to LA next week for the client on-site.
5. Eating a bowlful of peaches and plums from the CSA.
6. Having the apartment to myself for the evening.

A year ago today.

9/1/11

1. Spending the morning mucking around in the database to pull data.
2. Finding out from EL that we don't need to do something we thought we would need for upgrades.
3. Really nice weather outside to sit in the outside section of a local bar for happy hour with some of my new teammates.
4. Bringing a burnt orange dress from Empire Vintage to the tailor to get hemmed.
5. Making lamb burger patties with carrot fries and bell peppers for dinner. The ground lamb from the meat share a few weeks ago was delicious.
6. Catching the whole Project Runway episode for the first time in a couple weeks.

A year ago today.

8/31/11

1. Picking up my engagement ring, finally shipped back! Really sparkly and fits much better now.
2. Getting in to the office early enough to get breakfast before an 8:45am meeting.
3. Chair massage with JP where he thought to give me a blanket because I was feeling pretty cold.
4. Going shopping at Madewell with AJ and scoring two tops and two pairs of jeans.
5. Finding a place that made Whole30 compliant salads for my dinner.
6. No peer pressure to stay later after the show with coworkers as everyone else seemed to want to head home too.

A year ago today.

8/30/11

1. Sleeping really well back in my own bed.
2. Really delicious omelet with onions, peppers, mushrooms, and bacon bits, and heaps of avocado on the side, for breakfast.
3. Not a bad size share from the CSA this week, since they harvested it before the hurricane.
4. Dinner at The Spotted Pig with MG and MZ, which I'd wanted to try for awhile. Burger patty was juicy and delicious and their shoestring fries, while I didn't have any, smelled like they would be amazing with rosemary and garlic in them too.
5. Catching up with MZ visiting from Australia.
6. Remembering to pull out a chicken from the freezer for making roast chicken this weekend.

A year ago today.

8/29/11

1. Heading over to my uncle's for power and internet, so no need to commute in on what probably would be really crowded buses, since the North Jersey Coast Line trains weren't running.
2. Catching up with him even though I lost him a few times while following him to his place.
3. Finding a store open where I could get a Whole30 compliant dinner.
4. Dan coming all the way down to my parents' to bring me back to Hoboken.
5. Having some time (and energy) to tend to the plants, worms, clean out the fridge.
6. Remembering to get Dan to sign a bunch of things.

A year ago today.

8/28/11

1. No trees falling on our house or visibly downing power lines in our area.
2. Finishing most of the remaining thank you cards!
3. Reading The Corrections during the day to keep myself occupied.
4. A neighbor lending us a generator to power pumping water out of the flooded basement (and that I could use to charge my phone).
5. My aunt hauling out the gas burner back outside to make dinner and scrambled eggs for me, to stay Whole30 compliant.
6. Going to bed early and sleeping pretty well.

A year ago today.

8/27/11

1. Waking up on my own not too long after the early time (7am) that my mom wanted me to wake up to help out with preparing the house for the hurricane.
2. Scrambled eggs with perfectly ripe avocado (nurtured in Hoboken, brought back to my parents') for breakfast.
3. Said preparation of house only taking a couple hours in the morning, and not too much hard labor or anything.
4. Not being too difficult to have a Whole30 compliant lunch, with roasted chicken wings and Chinese okra that was fortunately cooked without sugar or soy sauce.
5. Getting a ton of computer stuff done during the afternoon: researching and buying things, going through other sets of wedding photos, writing vendor reviews.
6. Remembering to catch the return of Doctor Who!
   

A year ago today.

8/26/11

1. Getting to the office in plenty of time for breakfast with generous amount of avocado.
2. Meeting the afternoon all got canceled.
3. Accomplishing the task of going through the feature prio inbox to make sure I read everything in there even though I hadn't had time for it in the morning.
4. Cobbling together a Whole30 compliant dinner from CSA stuff I needed to use up (tomatoes that had unfortunate holes in them).
5. Getting a ride to my parents' on their way back from Flushing.
6. Fitting the dirty clothes I'd brought back into one load of laundry.

A year ago today.

8/25/11

1. KC coming over to say she really loves my style and wardrobe. Really nice and flattering compliment to receive!
2. Grabbing some food in Chelsea Market and catching up with AJ a bit.
3. Getting adopted by a group of 3 couples to hang out with during the Yay New York party. 
4. Meeting Meg Keene, founder of A Practical Wedding, in person!
5. Showering to wash off dance sweat and makeup.
6. Having the leftovers from last night to have for dinner part 2.

A year ago today.

8/24/11

1. Though I left the office a bit later than originally intended, still had time to pick up a few groceries to make dinner.
2. Dan clearing out the freezer of a lot of stuff, making it a lot easier to fit things in.
3. Coworker coming to Hoboken to pick up the laboratory glassware from the wedding. Two big boxes fewer in the apartment.
4. Making a Whole30 compliant dinner of salsa verde with CSA tomatillos and pork tenderloin, as well as carrot fries.
5. Group Skype chat with LW, DC, and EM!
6. Finally going through the full set of wedding photos from Kelly and falling in love with so many of them.

A year ago today.

8/23/11

1. Remembering to pump my bike's tires in the morning and having a much smoother ride for it.
2. Having time to deposit a check at Provident.
3. Getting an omelet with red peppers, onions, and broccoli, and avocado on the side.
4. Really excellent sports massage and deep tissue massage with one of the new therapists, JP. 
5. Picking up extra veggies after doing the late volunteer shift.
6. Dinner with EM and BL.

A year ago today.

8/22/11

1. Not being too late to my doctor's appointment in the morning.
2. A meeting ending early so I could participate in a Relay for Life fundraiser.
3. Really comfortable weather, even in the city, surprisingly.
4. Getting various errands done, applying a coupon at BBB, eyebrow threading, picking up books from the library.
5. Dan letting me watch some SyFy TV.
6. Going to bed early.

A year ago today.

8/21/11

1. Being able to fall back asleep after waking up on the early side.
2. Really good fried eggplant meat sandwiches for lunch at home.
3. Working on the Alaska puzzle with my sister.
4. Finding worms still alive in the worm factory and the herbs to be profuse as well.
5. Finishing up the rest of the Mint Slices with Dan.
6. Dinner of stuff my mom sent me back with: curry squid, saltwater duck, fresh Chinese cucumbers.

A year ago today.

8/20/11

1. Family letting me sleep in until 11.
2. Getting various errands done like laundry and returning an online order to Nordstroms.
3. My favorite pork, chive, and shrimp dumplings for dinner.
4. Going to the driving range to hit a few golf balls.
5. Picking up a couple tops from the J.Crew outlet.
6. Watching TV with my mom and sis.

A year ago today.

8/19/11

1. Packing up and getting out of the apartment just as the car service came.
2. Check-in and security lines at the airport going much more quickly than expected.
3. Getting some sleep on the plane and having books to keep me company.
4. Flight only being a little delayed, unlike the next one from SFO that was much more delayed, so I could still have the evening to unwind.
5. My sister picking me up from the airport just before the really heavy rain hit.
6. My mom making red duck curry and papaya salad for dinner for me.

A year ago today.

8/18/11

1. Breakfast of maple bacon, scrambled eggs, crispy hash browns, and blueberries.
2. Getting compliments from coworkers on the new-to-me green floral vintage dress I debuted.
3. Pulling together my notes on the feature prio process so that they were sufficiently organized.
4. Fancy pizza at Thirsty Thursday this week.
5. Playing air hockey and other games with my cousins and aunt and uncle.
6. Getting back to the corporate apartments in time to watch most of Project Runway while packing.

A year ago today.

8/17/11

1. Bus to the SF office getting there a bit early, which helped make up for the first shuttle being late for the one I'd originally intended to take.
2. SH rescheduling a meeting so I wouldn't have to find a room to dial in from.
3. Finding Green Apple Books down the street while waiting for JW and picking up a couple really cheap used books (~$2 each) to help pass the time.
4. The wait for the food at Burma Superstar being totally worth it: ginger lemonade, tea leaf salad, creamy coconut curry noodles.
5. Catching up with JW about weddings (mine past and hers upcoming) and her work in Kenya this summer.
6. The extra fleece I brought being sufficient to not be cold in the evening SF weather.

A year ago today.

8/16/11

1. Good hash browns at breakfast, along with kiwi fruit.
2. Lunch out with SH, JM, and AQ.
3. Tutorial from AQ on how to use a straightening iron on my hairstyle and get the ends to curl in but also give it some more volume.
4. Clearing out a bunch of tickets.
5. PH giving me a ride to the local CVS to pick up the meds prescribed by the doctor yesterday.
6. Getting more delicious sushi from that same Japanese place as the other day.

A year ago today.

8/15/11

1. Getting squeezed in to see the doctor at the local Wellness Center.
2. Finding the group at lunch despite bicycling back from another building a bit later into the lunch hour.
3. Pretty productive afternoon, I've been getting better lately at focusing to power through tasks.
4. Getting a group makeup lesson from MT with AQ and CT. So helpful to watch her do eye makeup for someone else.
5. Really good steak at dinner.
6. Picking up some toiletries and makeup at the local CVS.

A year ago today.

8/14/11

1. Getting to the Caltrain station just in time before the train came.
2. Having some time to get a breakfast bagel sandwich before SP came by with SC to pick up AZ and me. 
3. Buying a bottle of the amazingly delicious Moscato wine from the first place. Fruity and sweet.
4. SP's car re-starting with some encouragement from the tow truck driver.
5. Settling into a nice little buzz a little while in to the last winery.
6. Finding a Japanese restaurant still open by the time I got back to Mountain View to finally get some buttery smooth sushi.

A year ago today.

8/13/11

1. Finding good breakfast food items at Starbucks, particularly their protein package of food with a hardboiled egg and firm grapes.
2. Getting a great haircut from MT's stylist for only $40.
3. Taking the ferry on a beautiful day from SF to Sausalito. 
4. Really interesting and informative tour of the Heath Ceramics factory. It seems like a thoughtfully well-run business.
5. Thick grilled cheese sandwich from Cowgirl Creamery for dinner.
   
6. Enough power left on my phone to call Dan and complain about my public transportation woes.

A year ago today.

8/12/11

1. Having plenty of time to grab breakfast before getting on the shuttle to SF.
2. Finding an empty office whose usual occupant was on paternity leave, to use for a meeting.
3. Grabbing a few of the small, warm chocolate chip cookies with crispy edges, soft centers, and sea salt sprinkled on top. Best chocolate chip cookies ever.
4. Getting lunch with SK and VF.
5. Discussing the myriad of website projects and LC also coming around to the point of view that the revamp projects that always pop up are silly.
6. Getting back to Mountain View just in time to grab a little bit of dinner, which included tabbouli made with really fragrant olive oil.

A year ago today.

8/11/11

1. Productive day getting through maintenance items, escalations, commenting on PRDs, etc.
2. Lunch with RC and SV, with comfort food like mac & cheese and oven fried chicken, as well a really good slider.
3. Getting a boost in confidence for my new job from ND.
4. Hanging out with some more people at a pink-themed Thirsty Thursday.
5. Getting to Empire Vintage Clothing and having a great time with Tiffany.
6. Catching the end of Project Runway by the time I got back.

A year ago today.

8/10/11

1. Really productive meeting with NA. He's so competent.
2. Homemade pasta dishes at lunch.
3. Running across some kind of picnic/outdoor festival with food trucks, including freshly popped kettle corn.
4. Getting around the technical issues for gChat with video on my laptop by using cell phone on speaker to call Dan but still have video.
5. Catching up with my cousin CW.
6. Really excellent salad for dinner at Sprout.

A year ago today.

8/9/11

1. Delicious breakfast with maple bacon and yellow scrambled eggs.
2. Taking my first escalations.
3. Going to a CrossFit class with AQ.
4. Pho for dinner with AQ and JM. 
5. Getting a ride back to Mountain View from AQ.
6. Late night dim sum with some support team folks.

A year ago today.