5/30/11

1. Getting through 5 loads of laundry and not needing to run extra dryer loads for any of them.
2. Making home fries and scrambled eggs with avocado for lunch.
3. Watching a few episodes of Cake Boss (in the background) for the first time.
4. Dan making a very creamy risotto with chicken cutlets for dinner.
5. Crossing off most of the things on my to-do list fo today, including clearing the drains, despite copious amounts of lounging around.
6. Catching up with EN over the phone.

A year ago today.

5/29/11

1. Dan agreeing to run the AC while we were at home.
2. Lounging around for a long time.
3. Having plenty of red underlining fabric left to make bias tape for finishing the waist seam.
4. Pretty much finishing the wedding dress, just some hand stitching and the hem to do.
5. Dan picking the dress that I made over the backup Modcloth dress.
6. Watching Easy A with Dan.

A year ago today.

5/28/11

1. Getting up in time to get to yoga class in the morning, randomly running into A on my way out from the apartment.
2. Making myself the last Dickson's Farmstand burger for lunch.
3. Getting the last major pieces of sewing my wedding dress done.
4. Getting off at Newport with my mom and sister after running wedding errands in the city, right before the PATH system was shut down due to "police activity."
5. Dan running out to pick up my Korean fried chicken takeout dinner.
6. Catching a rerun of last week's Doctor Who episode.

A year ago today.

5/27/11

1. Spending some time in the morning cleaning up the apartment a bit.
2. Waking up pretty much pain free in my left ear.
3. Successfully figuring out how to set up database access on my mac at work. 
4. Getting to the gym with EM and going through a purely strength-based workout, overhead, front, and back squats.
5. Making a really satisfying dinner of Dickson's Farmstand burger (20% ground bacon), steamed broccoli dressed with the fancy olive oil, honey ginger balsamic vinegar, and truffle salt, and avocado.
6. Helping EM seam her first cardigan together while finally watching The Royal Tenenbaums, which I've had out from Netflix for several weeks.

A year ago today.

5/26/11

1. Getting a good amount of stuff done during the many meetings I set up for the afternoon.
2. Running to the Michaels in the upper west side to return some unneeded craft supplies from a couple months ago, and having a really nice cashier help me.
3. Our officiant agreeing to push back our meeting by 30 minutes since I was running pretty late.
4. Making it to the library to drop off and pick up books.
5. Dinner of just rice with the remaining red curry sauce.
6. Having Dan help explain the edits we wanted for the ceremony while on the phone with our officiant.

A year ago today.

5/25/11

1. Getting to the client's office on time, despite leaving the hotel a bit late.
2. Sunlight outside the meeting room helping wake me up a bit.
3. Getting an internet connection on my laptop in the afternoon.
4. Getting on the 7pm flight, an hour and a half earlier than our scheduled one.
5. Napping a bit on the flight.
6. Getting home quite quickly from the airport and having a dinner of curry with rice.

A year ago today.

5/24/11

1. Going to the doctor again in the morning and having him flush out both ears--a weird yet pleasant sensation. Left ear immediately started feeling better.
2. Attending the first 30 minutes of a talk by visiting engineers from Pittsburgh and seeing it go really well. Also, they brought me a t-shirt!
3. Just making it under the wire for checking in, even with SS forgetting her passport.
4. Didn't really feel any ear pain with the pressure changes in the flight.
5. Getting dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory with SS, a childhood favorite of hers apparently.
6. Free wi-fi at the hotel, to clear out work email but then Wikipedia surf a bit before going to bed.

A year ago today.

5/23/11

1. Getting in to see the doctor at PromptMD pretty quickly in the morning.
2. Very friendly pharmacists next door filling my prescription.
3. A training session that I ran on client communication skills going over really well, a bit of an ego boost for me.
4. Practicing arranging flowers with MG.
5. Getting dinner at Hummus Place with MG, finally using up all my Groupons there.
6. The funny sensation of hydrogen peroxide fizzing in my right ear to loosen up the ear wax there (separate from ear pain in left ear from an infection).

A year ago today.

5/22/11

1. Mom putting on a fashion show for me to pick out a dress for her to wear to the wedding.
2. Popping enough Advil throughout the day to dull my ear pain.
3. Hanging out with JW and meeting her fiance IS for the first time.
4. Picking up 2 (!) watermelons from my family as well as duck curry.
5. Dance lesson going well, not many new criticisms.
6. Talking Dan out of going to Trader Joe's and just going home directly instead.

A year ago today.

5/21/11

1. Getting to the dentist's early due to Dan lying to me about when we needed to leave the apartment.
2. Stopping at a Matawan church flea market, enjoying the browsing with Dan and picking up a few random things (frisbee, glass cloche, handkerchiefs, including London-themed ones for AL).
3. Finding chalkboard place markers at Michaels to use as food display signs at the wedding.
4. Getting fussed over by Dan's sisters during our hair and makeup trial that afternoon.
5. The meet-the-parents dinner going over quite well, I think, everyone was really trying.
6. Picking out wedding jewelry with my mom from her collection.

A year ago today.

5/20/11

1. Lunch with MF, MG, BB, and SS, discussing funny stories that illustrate our significant others' various foibles.
2. Deciding to stay at work a bit late and skip the gym to get a better handle on regular work.
3. Nothing major flaring up in the forums when I didn't have much time to devote to it.
4. Remembering to print out a coupon for Michaels.
5. Calling in my dinner order at Hummus Place and the timing working out perfectly to pick it up right from work before going home.
6. Wiling away the evening indulging in some Wikipedia surfing.

A year ago today.

5/19/11

1. Not running into or disturbing any of LW's roommates in the morning.
2. Getting a haircut at Zen Hair! Last pre-wedding haircut, hence going to Boston.
3. Tech guys in the Boston office being really nice and accommodating when my PC up and died on me, procuring and setting up a Mac for me.
4. Getting to know JD, a new hire in Boston, a bit better and being able to help him with some tickets he was working on.
5. Taking two Dramamine tablets seeming to do the trick for keeping my bus motion sickness at bay.
6. Getting a hot dinner (shakshuka) at the Hummus Place, using the first of my three Groupons there.

A year ago today.

5/18/11

1. Waking up at 5:49, before the alarm went off, and getting myself to roll out of bed and get to the gym in the rain.
2. Feeling great after finishing the workout.
3. Shiatsu massage.
4. Talking AS into holding the weekly meeting that he'd canceled right before it normally would start, and it turning out to be quite productive.
5. Grabbing enough food for dinner to take on the bus, since I didn't have time to run over to the Hummus Place and use my soon-to-expire Groupons after all.
6. Crashing at LW's after getting in to Boston on the Boltbus.

A year ago today.

5/17/11

1. Finishing a book in the morning and so being able to drop off a whole bunch of stuff at the library at once.
2. Checking out the new cafe on the 5th floor and being quite impressed by that floor's decorations in general, as well as the food. Not as crowded as I thought it would be.
3. A training session that I ran taking up the full hour. I had been worried that it might end a bit awkwardly early.
4. Dinner with MG, DM, BL, KV, and JK at a tapas place. Delicious tapas, sangria, and good conversation that generally wasn't too focused on work.
5. Despite getting to the Lululemon store after they'd closed, a very nice employee was willing to give me my hemmed items.
6. Going over the first draft of our ceremony in Dan and finding ourselves in agreement on most of it.

A year ago today.

5/16/11

1. Whipping out my umbrella just before the light mist turned into a really heavy downpour for the two minutes during the last block of my walk to the office in the morning.
2. Having several pairs of backup shoes at my desk to choose from, as the Birkenstocks I'm trying to break in combined with getting wet raised blisters on the bottom of my feet. Blisters! On the bottom of my feet!
3. Lunch with BB, SS, and new manager AS.
4. Only had one, short meeting during the entire day.
5. Getting the photos from our mini-photo shoot with our wedding photographer from a few weeks back and really liking them!
6. Deciding not to go to the gym tonight in order to squeeze in sewing up the ties for the photobooth backdrop (found an Ikea curtain I'd bought from the As-Is section for the fabric to do something with, turns out it's just about the right dimensions for the photobooth!) and a bit of sewing on the wedding dress.

A year ago today.

5/15/11

1. Waking up naturally at 8:30 feeling quite well rested.
2. Successfully threading the serger with white thread and serging the skirt pockets before needing to get dressed to go to class.
3. Breaking 100lb. front squat at class! 3 reps at 103lbs, to be exact.
4. Making brunch of home fries and greek yogurt.
5. Dan apologizing for his strong reactions when his head gets tapped accidentally.
6. Finishing all the fiddly sewing tasks--redrawing facing pieces, cutting out everything that was still needed, ironing on interfacing, stabilizing the neckline with silk organza--leaving mostly just actual sewing on the machine left for the dress, which is a lot easier to do in shorter period of time.

A year ago today.

5/14/11

1. Getting up for yoga class in the morning.
2. Breakfast of quinoa with raisins and steamed egg, biscuits with almond butter.
3. Using our new Miele vacuum for the first time myself and finding it to be indeed quiet, effective, and having a sleek design.
4. Putting together most of the skirt part of the wedding dress.
5. Dan making a white turkey chili for dinner.
6. Really interesting Doctor Who episode written by Neil Gaiman, better than last week's.

A year ago today.

5/13/11

1. Mostly figuring out the database query puzzle SS left me while she had a meeting in the morning.
2. Trip to Lululemon with PJL and splurging on some tops and shorts.
3. Getting a couple tacos from a taco truck in Union Square, with the carnitas one being surprisingly good, not dry, and the chorizo one dripping chorizo juice.
4. Not taking too long to get through Whole Foods and purchase the netipot I was looking for (plus some almond butter...delicious).
5. Getting a whole bunch of packages delivered from stuff I'd bought online earlier this week.
6. Winning an eBay auction for a cake stand and finding a few other listings that my previous searches had missed.

A year ago today.

5/12/11

1. Getting in to the office late for breakfast but able to grab a good enough breakfast off the carts as they were able to roll the food away.
2. Very last phone shift ever.
3. Getting sufficient content together just in time for the first training session with EM and LC (guest appearance SC).
4. Grabbing a gelato pop from the 15th floor on my way back down.
5. Playing around and setting up a netbook I'd forgotten I'd signed up for. It's really fast and quite sleek!
6. Getting myself to the gym and finishing the workout, all 7 rounds of it.

A year ago today.

5/11/11

1. Foot feeling a lot better and not limping as much throughout the day today.
2. EN taking on the bride cake topper project and my bridesmaids taking on making bouquets.
3. Venting some of my communication frustrations to BB.
4. Bellinis available while AJ and I browsed at Shareen Vintage.
5. Having a book to read while being stuck in the tunnel on the train. Once we started, we didn't have very far at all to go until the station, actually.
6. Getting the Modcloth backup red dress in the mail and finding that it just about fits.

A year ago today.

5/10/11

1. Getting to the office in time for breakfast, despite being so slow walking to the train station with my limp.
2. DD and PH seeming to be quite enthusiastic about taking on projects I wanted to pass off to them.
3. Finishing Proust was a Neuroscientist on the train in the morning, allowing me to drop it off at the library along with Whip It and pick up two new books on hold for me there.
4. Dan driving the car back from Newark to be able to give me a ride from the PATH station to our apartment.
5. Dan's tortellini and sausage soup for dinner.
6. Churning through more wedding tasks and assigning out projects, including asking my dad to look into finding a Chinese poem to read during the ceremony.

A year ago today.

5/9/11

1. No calls came in during my morning phone shift.
2. Making some decisions and finishing the ceremony questionnaires to send to our officiant.
3. Lunch in the World Trade Center area and then an offsite with the eng team -- sailing!
4. Interesting conversation about capitalism, government responsibility, and objectivism with SS, PJ, and ML.
5. The rest of the team acceding to having dinner and drinks on the local area due to the limp that I developed from some strange foot pain. Ribs and mojitos were quite good, actually.
6. Deciding to take a cab from the PATH station home due to the limp.

A year ago today.

5/8/11

1. Getting a headstart on the day by waking up at 8:30.
2. A beautiful day outside compensating for a CrossFit workout with lots of running.
3. A productive early afternoon with making many wedding decisions over email and organizing information in spreadsheets.
4. Remembering to catch Doctor Who on BBCAmerica at 2, since I missed it the night before.
5. Dan mentioning a wedding reading that he quite liked, which turned out to already be on my list. We went through the rest of the ones on my list and found that he also liked a couple other same ones.
6. After my brain turned off from all the wedding-related work, indulging in some Wikipedia surfing before bed.

A year ago today.

5/7/11

1. Waking up early enough to get in some computer work before getting myself to the yoga class.
2. Really encouraging yoga teacher who seemed to be impressed by the class' skill level...not sure if I contributed to that much, but cobra and child's pose are awesome as always regardless.
3. Picking up some flowers on the way to JB's for brunch.
4. Hanging out at JB's with MG and AJ, getting good life and work advice while the church singing from across the street came in through the windows.
5. Going to the office and using a conference room to cut out fabric while projecting Netflix on the big screen. This was really awesome, so much space to spread out, could lay everything out easily, and had easy access to snacks as well.
6. Getting home so late that even though I'd forgotten my keys, Dan was just about to leave Ro's anyway.

A year ago today.

5/6/11

1. Spending most of the work day with SS going through the database and learning how to write SQL queries!
2. Shadowing some interesting meetings.
3. No major issues coming in while I was off doing all that.
4. Calling and scheduling my last pre-wedding haircut with my Boston guy.
5. Dan comforting me when I wanted to just lay on the couch and whine.
6. Starting to figure out some muslin adjustments to remove the sleeves on the Crepe pattern.

A year ago today.

5/5/11

1. Excellent chair massage from AS, he really kneaded my shoulder muscles.
2. AL and JH stepping up and volunteering to take over the entire photobooth project! And lots of people responding to my wedding volunteers recruitment email.
3. Really productive meetings with my current and future managers, powering through stuff I need for my transition.
4. Getting mani-pedis with BB, EM, MG, and SC. EM picked out a nice Tiffany blue color that I swiped for my pedicure.
5. Winning an eBay auction for laboratory glassware to use for wedding flowers.
6. Dinner at Bill's Burgers with BB, EM, MG, RC, and AJ. Delicious alcoholic milkshakes and good solid burger.

A year ago today.

5/4/11

1. Working on UAT with SS and finding a few different items to submit feedback on.
2. Lunch with SS, EM, and RC, where we learned about SS' extensive plant collection.
3. Attending a fun demo meeting.
4. Grabbing a couple boxes of sushi for dinner before leaving the office.
5. Productive meeting with our wedding coordinators, making me realize which decisions I needed to just make already.
6. Dan admitting that us being 15 minutes late to that meeting was his fault for stopping off at a library on our way there.

A year ago today.

5/3/11

1. Strength-based workout at the gym this morning, in which I exceeded what I thought I would be able to lift with a hang power clean.
2. People being loopy in the afternoon and RC convincing IS to do the cupcake toss challenge (he throws the mini-cupcake minus the frosting, she catches it in her mouth), which she successfully caught on the 2nd attempt!
3. Earning $175 for attending a pretty interesting focus group on credit cards.
4. Dan's fried rice for dinner.
5. Getting some more finishing/pressing down on the green Crepe dress, for its debut tomorrow.
6. Getting a good amount of wedding project planning done.

A year ago today.

5/2/11

1. Remembering to bring running clothes to work for a Feldenkrais Method running workshop.
2. Attending a session JM held on cooking without recipes and picking up a few useful tips.
3. Getting some schwag from the workshop.
4. Giving EM a pep talk that she found helpful.
5. Successfully dealing with a tricky client situation.
6. Hanging out and grabbing dinner with EM and RC.

A year ago today.

5/1/11

1. Getting to Crossfit in the morning for my first Sunday morning class.
2. Pretty smooth time doing laundry.
3. Red dress fabric coming out of the wash without needing much ironing.
4. Finding Psych easier to sew to than Monk.
5. Finishing the test Crepe dress!
6. Staying up to watch President Obama's speech on bin Laden's death.

A year ago today.

4/30/11

1. Getting to my first yoga class at CFH, which ended with a really nice-smelling oil being rubbed onto my forehead by the instructor.
2. Going into Manhattan and buying red fabric for my wedding dress!
3. Getting the library in time to pick up some books.
4. Swinging by the Manhattan Vintage Show again just to browse some more.
5. Getting dinner at the Taco Truck while reading a book I'd picked up from the library.
6. Remembering to catch Doctor Who at 9 on BBCAmerica.

A year ago today.

4/29/11

1. Observing SS during various meetings and learning a lot, particularly the ones with DF.
2. Finding out that my inability to test a feature wasn't my fault, but rather ND's for using a special character that invalidated the rules.
3. AJ sharing MG's news with me and the two of us deciding to hang back a bit to debrief with her.
4. Manhattan Vintage Show people letting us get the $5 discount for being newsletter subscribers by just showing it to them on my phone, since I forgot to print it out.
5. Relaxing by shopping the Manhattan Vintage Show with AJ while talking through work drama.
6. Picking up two dresses, a nice plain green day dress and a fancier white raw silk A-line dress, and a belt with a neat wooden buckle from CS' stand.

A year ago today.

4/28/11

1. Getting in for the 8:30am meeting on time, grabbing breakfast and my laptop.
2. Attending a bugout and actually finishing it entirely, for the first time.
3. EM playing old school pop tunes (Hanson) during the bugout session.
4. Finally figuring out how to book my flight and hotel for the Toronto trip.
5. Dan sending me a hilarious Star Wars economics article. One of the best links he's ever sent me, for sure.
6. Dentist being really prompt and upfront about my question regarding a difference in what they had billed me and what was on the statement the insurance company sent me, resulting in a refund to my card for the difference.

A year ago today.

4/27/11

1. Despite train troubles in the morning, getting in just 10 minutes late for my shiatsu massage and AS working his magic regardless.
2. Helping MG prep for an interview.
3. Having lunch with BB, checking out the new cafe, and talking over career development with her.
4. Second lunch with SS, now that I officially got approval to attend a client visit in Toronto!
5. Feeling really great after the workout of the 10 minute thruster test, hitting the goal of exceeding 40 thrusters.
6. Making my sister really happy by deciding to buy tickets from a coworker to the Glee concert, since she really wanted to go and the price wasn't too bad.

A year ago today.

4/26/11

1. Getting to class in the morning and feeling good afterwards.
2. Going to Steinlauf & Stoller's in the morning before work to pick up horsehair braid trim and fusible interfacing.
3. Getting over to Chelsea Market to pick up a couple more glass vases and buy more fancy olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
4. Dinner with AJ, MG, and AQ.
5. Not being too late to the Step Up networking event despite heading to the library to drop off and pick up some books.
6. Grabbing a drink with AQ after the networking event.

A year ago today.

4/25/11

1. Passing out wedding invitations in person to AJ, MG, EM, and BB.
2. BL setting up a meeting to get advice for a newbie from me.
3. MF being willing to meet last minute to go through how to bring up my concerns about not having enough time to learn from SS.
4. SS attending said meeting to help me at least raise these concerns, even if we weren't able to get many specifics out of it.
5. DG agreeing to let me get off phones and reassign Gold clients in my desired timeline.
6. Finding out from JW that her cousin actually also had her wedding at the Mountain Lakes House a few years ago.

A year ago today.