3/25/12

1. Leftover lentils for lunch and dinner.
2. Having the apartment to myself during the day while Dan was at Princeton.
3. Buying The Hunger Games trilogy and re-reading them all day.
4. Lounging around in my PJs.
5. Dan breaking out the secret stash of Tim Tams.
6. The return of Mad Men!

A year ago today.

3/24/12

1. Dan sending me the link for Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch.
2. Watching The Lion King on TV.
3. Dan walking me all the way to the movie theater.
4. Getting a free bag of popcorn for remembering to use my Clearview card.
5. Really enjoying the adaptation they did for The Hunger Games overall.
6. Coming home to a dinner of lentils cooked up by Dan.

A year ago today.

3/23/12

1. Feeling loads better in the morning.
2. Getting in to have lunch with AJ/EM/MG.
3. Quiet afternoon to catch up on email.
4. Having a smoother introductory meeting than I had expected.
5. Getting complimented by another shopper on my choice of a lovely red and light blue patterned silk charmeuse at Mood.
6. Celebrating getting my appetite back with dinner at the Taco Truck.

A year ago today.

3/22/12

1. Spending the day at home again.
2. Not much urgent work after a couple meetings at the mid-day.
3. Making myself an actually substantial meal with fried eggs and avocado on English muffins.
4. Reading The Name of the Wind and getting absorbed in it.
5. Catching up on Jeopardy with Dan.
6. Catching up on other DVRed shows.

A year ago today.

3/21/12

1. Remembering to use a cool wet towel to cool my fevered skin.
2. Deciding to stay home in the morning and sleep some more.
3. Managing to make it in to the office to pick up my laptop.
4. Soap.com order with Tylenol night cold medicine delivered to the dry cleaners' across the street.
5. Getting through the late evening meetings from home.
6. Going to bed pretty early, even before Dan got home.

A year ago today.

3/20/12

1. Stranger in the elevator complimenting me on my HP shirt.
2. Lunch with BB and AJ.
3. Leaving work a bit early since I'm still not feeling so hot.
4. Returning a ton of books to the library.
5. Still light out when I got back to Hoboken. Daylight Savings Time is the best.
6. Registered for the Jersey Girl Triathlon omg!!!

A year ago today.

3/19/12

1. Falling back asleep in the morning and feeling better after I woke up later in the morning.
2. The few meetings I would have needed to attend today either getting moved or canceled.
3. Getting my work inbox down from ~250 emails over the last week down 12.
4. Showering and feeling a bit better after that too, though I still went back into PJs.
5. Dan letting me have the rest of the cavatelli for dinner.
6. Advil and drinking more liquids at least helping reduce my headache.

A year ago today.

3/18/12

1. Warm, sunny day out--I was a tad bit overdressed at times with a scarf and a coat.
2. Getting brunch with RC/AB/AB/ST and Dan.
3. Dan making a good pick in suggesting Court Street--good portion sizes, tasty food (I had eggs Florentine, decent amount of spinach).
4. Finally finishing up a few small sewing fixes that have been sitting around for awhile.
5. Catching up with Emily over Skype and going through the Turkey photos with her to identify the locations.
6. Dan making the rest of cavatelli with sausage and broccoli again for dinner.

A year ago today.

3/17/12

1. Having a cleaning service come and make the apartment sparkling to be enjoyed for the remainder of the weekend/my vacation.
2. Backing up my hard drive and Dan's onto the new 1TB external hard drive.
3. Dan making cavatelli from scratch with a delicious and well-spiced sausage, broccoli, and chicken broth sauce.
4. Sorting through my entire iPhoto library to clear out duplicates and better categorize them.
5. Finishing four loads of laundry to achieve both a clean apartment and wardrobe.
6. Successfully peer pressuring RC/AB/AB/ST into coming over to our place to hang out instead of having to go out.

A year ago today.

3/16/12

1. Delicious brunch at Surrey's Breakfast Cafe and Juice Bar, which was really cute on the inside too. Not a pretentious place at all.
2. Getting some strangers at the Audobon park to take pictures of us in our matching Harry Potter shirts.
3. Remembering to pick up a couple food-based souvenirs for my family.
4. Getting another, larger soft shell crab po' boy at Mother's!
5. Despite the flight being delayed to the point where the cheap shuttles to Manhattan were done for the night and the cab line was ridiculously long, getting in a cab and splitting it with someone else headed for the same general area and ending up paying only $15 for the ride.
6. Dan meeting me at the Hoboken PATH station to help me with my luggage on the way back.

A year ago today.

3/15/12

1. More bananas and peanut butter on toast for breakfast.
2. Listening to Stephen Fry read HP#6.
3. Chicken nuggets at McDonald's for lunch, so delicious.
4. Pensacola Beach with Thailand-like soft white sand and blue-green water. Very refreshing to dip my feet in.
5. Really amazing and fresh raw and chargrilled oysters at Acme Oyster Grill.
6. Watching the beginning of the HP#6 movie before going to bed.

A year ago today.

3/14/12

1. Satisfying breakfast of peanut butter and sliced bananas on toast and an apple.
2. Well-organized system at Universal Studios for directing people through paying for parking and actually parking in an efficient manner.
3. HARRY POTTER WORLD OMG!!! So many delightful little details!
4. The day not being too humid so when there was cloud cover or shade, quite comfortable.
5. Riding on the family-friendly roller coaster "The Flight of the Hippogriff" for a second time.
6. Propping my feet up at the end of a wonderful day.

A year ago today.

3/13/12

1. Listening to Stephen Fry reading HP#1.
2. Figuring out how to set up cruise control on AL's car.
3. The snacks we picked out suiting our needs quite well: beef jerky, dried apricots, pretzels, grapes, apples, bananas, and honey & oats granola bars.
4. Quite comfortable ride in the afternoon for the third stretch of ~5 hours.
5. Arriving before it was even dark out and finding the room I'd booked on AirBnB to be quite well set up--private entrance, private bathroom.
6. Chilling out watching TV and eating Popeye's for dinner.

A year ago today.

3/12/12

1. Despite getting out late in the morning, getting to the plantation area in time for the 9:30am tour.
2. After various mishaps, finding Houmas Plantation with its amazing gardens and gnarly Southern oaks.
3. Heavy thunderstorms holding off until near the end of our visit at the plantation.
4. Getting fried chicken at Willie Mae's.
5. Picking up lots of snacks and an aux cable at Wal-Mart.
6. Chilling out for the rest of the evening and exchanging and editing more photos.

A year ago today.

3/11/12

1. Springing forward so it stays light out for longer now, plus I'm basically just staying on Eastern time.
2. AL making breakfast of scrambled eggs with onions and Nutella on toast.
3. Sunny day for walking around the Garden District admiring all the beautiful houses and stopping in a few shops along the way too, where I picked up some vintage jewelry.
4. Having brought along my fleece for when it got chillier on the swamp tour.
5. Really engaging tour guide on the swamp tour, plus getting to hold a baby alligator at the end!
6. Chilling out organizing and swapping photos to prep for making more photobooks.

A year ago today.

3/10/12

1. Getting to LaGuardia early enough that even the massive line to get through security due to so many people traveling for spring break didn't delay me much.
2. Though I was assigned to the worst seat on the plane (middle of the last row), switched for a middle seat in a higher up row where I'd be able to lean the seat back a bit thanks to some friends wanting to sit together.
3. Freshly fried soft shell crab po' boy at Mother's. Omg delicious.
4. Walking around the French Quarter with AL as my trusty guide.
5. Getting in to Cafe du Beignet just before they closed for the day. 2nd to last customer!
6. Chilling out in the evening finishing up The Likeness to allow my stomach to recuperate a bit.

A year ago today.

3/9/12

1. Lunch with EM and ST.
2. Grabbing various different people to give them updates and ending up chatting for awhile.
3. Getting enough wrapped up to leave work a little early for the day.
4. Checking the CFH website to see that they had canceled Friday night open gym hours (instead of going over there and then having to come back).
5. Despite various snafus, seems like successfully got the keys to JW's renters.
6. Finding that I have enough clean underwear and socks to be able to skip doing laundry tonight.

A year ago today.

3/8/12

1. Sleeping in a bit in the morning and cobbling together a breakfast for myself while doing some work email before actually going in to the office.
2. Amazingly beautiful day--I wore a dress with cropped leggings and no coat!
3. Getting in to the office and then being invited out for lunch in the sunshine with JE, AS, and AD in celebration of International Women's Day.
4. Dropping in on HJ's office hours and catching up with her about her wedding planning.
5. Realizing MF was in town after seeing her in person at a couple meetings.
6. Catching up on Jeopardy watching with Dan as well as Project Runway and a new-to-me show, Smash.

A year ago today.

3/7/12

1. Waking up feeling pretty well-rested.
2. Hour-long table massage with AS in the morning, just made everything in life so much better.
3. Managing to actually finish reading several books that are due/overdue before bringing them to library.
4. Getting in for mani-pedi despite missing the fine print on the Groupon about needing an appointment first.
5. Succeeding in getting more corned beef to make more Reubens at the Garden of Eden, after two delis in NYC didn't have it.
6. Also picking up some dried dates from the Garden of Eden.

A year ago today.

3/6/12

1. Getting in to the PATH station and only being delayed by one train--I saw after a certain point they were actually stopping people from going in to the station at all.
2. Running into DS at the station and managing to carry on a conversation all the way to work without feeling too awkward.
3. Not being too late to the planning meeting.
4. JE and AS reminding me to go to the vendor snack food fair, which had amazing number of samples including lots of gluten- and nut-free stuff! My favorite thing was this ginger ale.
5. Improving on both squat and hang power clean form at gym, and almost getting to next level for bench press (failed on last rep).
6. Dinner of fried eggs with avocado on English muffins.

A year ago today.

3/5/12

1. Tan boots with black leggings, gray cowl neck sweater dress, and teal cardigan.
2. Avocado available at breakfast.
3. Picking up books from the library.
4. Getting my new United credit card in the mail.
5. Hearty Reuben for dinner with remaining Swiss cheese and corned beef.
6. A bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats for dessert.

A year ago today.

3/4/12

1. Going to the gym and succeeding at 3x5x58lbs. overhead press!
2. Breakfast/lunch of scrambled eggs, slow-roasted tomatoes, avocado, and sunflower seed butter toast.
3. Doing a first pass of the Turkey photos and editing it from ~850 down to ~550 photos or so.
4. Recreating the Caribbean cruise photobook on MyPicTales to use a coupon on it.
5. Dan going out for the second grocery run of the day (and third of the weekend) to get ingredients for Reubens for dinner.
6. Buying tickets to CA for a family vacation and getting much closer to hitting that spend requirement on Dan's Chase Sapphire card.

A year ago today.

3/3/12

1. Starting and finishing the second book in the Book of Jhereg compilation.
2. Getting to Mood to use one of my Living Social coupons ($15 for $30).
3. Fitting my half of a spring lamb from the meatshare into my backpack.
4. Stopping at Whole Foods and finding both Midnight Moon (my favorite cheese) and frozen kale.
5. Remembering to pick up a dry cleaned dress.
6. Mac & cheese with kale and sunbutter (in place of butter or milk) for dinner.

A year ago today.

3/2/12

1. Sleeping in a bit in the morning.
2. Creamy mac & cheese at lunch along with buttermilk fried chicken.
3. Going back to the office to print out some Living Social coupons I'd like to use this weekend.
4. Getting eyebrows and upper lip threaded for the first time in a couple weeks.
5. Reading the first book in the Book of Jhereg. Good old fantasy genre.
6. Dan making scrambled eggs on English muffins when I was still hungry.

A year ago today.

3/1/12

1. Lunch with AJ and BB.
2. Chair massage with AS.
3. Catching up with SN, hilarious as always.
4. Joking with EM about MP being like my mom.
5. Dinner with EM and ST and lots of cynicism.
6. Bench pressing 3 sets of 5 reps at 68lbs!

A year ago today.