6/7/12

1. Doing lots of freestyle in my swim workout this morning.
2. Leaving my bike parked at Stevens so I could carry in the mirror to work but then walk back up there to bike home at night.
3. Getting to the library to return a book and paying the $0.25 late fee with change I'd found around the apartment.
4. Lunch with BB/AJ/MG/AQ for the first time in a long while.
5. Getting lots of compliments on my orange dress today, including one from AJ about matching it with a pale green cardigan.
6. RC ordering the truffle cheese fries as a side at dinner for everyone to share.

A year ago today.

6/6/12

1. Getting to the gym in the morning for a bike workout.
2. Getting waylaid by an associate manager at the club and getting them to offer me a month-to-month membership with the usual $79 fee for doing month-to-month instead of a full year's membership waived.
3. EM really liking my subtle purple highlights.
4. Fun team dinner (AS/AS/PD/AQ/RC) at Crispo. Everyone admired my technique of using labels on my different credit cards to remember which categories had bonuses.
5. PATH train pulling up just as I got in to the station.
6. Finding a full-length mirror on the sidewalk, which I'd been looking for to have by my desk at work.

A year ago today.

6/5/12

1. Getting to the pool in the morning for a swim.
2. Fun lunch with SF and her husband, visiting NYC on vacation.
3. Getting to the GW bridge bus terminal with plenty of time to spare.
4. Feeling better during the run today than I did yesterday.
5. Didn't have to cook dinner since I had leftover tofu still.
6. Got laundry done when late night meeting was canceled.

A year ago today.

6/4/12

1. Getting up early with enough time to finish up some work.
2. Breakfast of eggs, avocado, and potato knishes.
3. Lunch with RC/AQ/AS since they're in town this week.
4. Going to the gym and getting a run and some light lifting in.
5. Getting dinner at work after coming back from the gym since I was starving and couldn't wait to eat until I got home.
6. Working through the rest of the planning needed for the Big Sur trip next week.

A year ago today.

6/3/12

1. Remembering the leftover noodles in the fridge that I could heat up for a quick breakfast.
2. Successfully making crepes on the griddle for the first time! They came out quite smooth and thin, too.
3. Finally finishing the switch of summer for winter clothes.
4. Dan voluntarily vacuuming.
5. Cooking up my mom's homemade tofu.
6. Dan gifting me a sports-free day so I could watch random movies like Center Stage.

A year ago today.

6/2/12

1. Although the official group training for the morning had been canceled last minute, still went on a bike ride in scenic Sandy Hook with two other women who were there.
2. Hanging out in Red Bank with AL and successfully buying another pair of my standby black/silver earrings from Quicksilver. 
3. Dan getting us back to Hoboken a couple minutes early for my hair appointment.
4. Getting purple highlights in my hair!
5. Remembering to go pick up the dry cleaning before they closed for the weekend.
6. Dan making delicious meatballs for dinner.

A year ago today.

6/1/12

1. Getting to Chelsea Market only a couple minutes late for eyebrow appointment.
2. Lunch with EM, hadn't seen her in awhile. Surprisingly good Korean food at that cafe, too.
3. Accompanying Dan to his first acupuncture treatment, which was quite interesting.
4. Rain holding off until I could bring my bike in to the apartment for the night.
5. Having the whole apartment to myself in the evening while Dan was at RC's.
6. Not eating all of the tomatoes/eggs/noodles that I made for dinner and so didn't feel overstuffed.

A year ago today.

5/31/12

1. Walking to the PATH in the morning with Dan.
2. Getting a proper breakfast at work for the first time in...weeks. Avocado bagel, scrambled eggs, fruit.
3. Massage with HS visiting from LA office.
4. BB showing me some wedding stuff.
5. Picking up my fixed up blue bike from Grove St. Bicycles.
6. Dan making sausage/peppers/onions on griddle for dinner.

A year ago today.

5/30/12

1. Getting up in time to take a quick 7:30am meeting from home.
2. Finishing An Economist Goes to Lunch by Tyler Cowen finally.
3. Going to the gym for a bike ride and watching TV.
4. Getting to the library just in time to return the book and pay the fine ($5).
5. Dan pausing the hockey game (Stanley Cup final game #1) to listen to me complain about the doctor I went to this morning for a bit.
6. Leftover chicken and cooking up a sausage and onions for more pita sandwich dinners.

A year ago today.

5/29/12

1. Deciding to work from home for the day.
2. Leftover turkey burgers for lunch.
3. Taking a nap in the late afternoon since I stayed up late the night before.
4. Dan making chicken with cucumber dill yogurt sauce in pita pockets for dinner.
5. Catching up on Jeopardy.
6. Removing the shelves over the A/C unit actually helping cool down the bedroom a lot faster.

A year ago today.

5/28/12

1. After resigning myself to having lost my camera at the drive-in last night, thinking to check the chairs we sat in and discovering that it was safe in sound in the chair's cupholder after all. Whew!
2. Sunny, clear day for excellent views from the Cape May lighthouse.
3. Renting an umbrella while reclining on the beach reading from my Kindle.
4. Satisfying shawarma and falafel for lunch from a Mediterranean Grille place that caught my eye in passing.
5. Not too bad traffic on the way home (through which I mostly slept, of course).
6. Making turkey burgers with sun-dried tomato aioli for dinner and discovering some leftover spinach to get some greens as well.

A year ago today.

5/27/12

1. Taking the first tour of the day of Lucy the Elephant.
2. Dan pointing out the mechanical cycling bear and train along the ceiling during lunch at Duffer's ice cream parlor.
3. Fun mini-golf with animated pelican song in the background and holes with tunnels. I got a few holes-in-one!
4. Coming across a stand at a flea market that sold items branded with the motto "It's Gravy, Not Sauce" and the Italian flag. Got a couple magnets for the ABs.
5. Playing skee-ball on the Wildwood boardwalk.
6. Really nice weather out and enjoyable experience at the Delsea Drive-In theater.

A year ago today.

5/26/12

1. Reading the second book in Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicle series, The Wise Man's Fear.
2. Dan going out for groceries.
3. Taking a nice little nap in the afternoon.
4. Showing Dan how to make the eggs-tomato dish my way.
5. Realizing that the first book in the Kingkiller Chronicle series was still on my Kindle, so started re-reading that.
6. Packing pretty quickly (old pro at this by now).

A year ago today.

5/25/12

1. Great variety of foods at brunch on the 8th floor.
2. Reading some more of An Economist Goes to Lunch while eating.
3. My suggestions for how to get started on the product assurance project being accepted.
4. Eye exam indicating that my vision is still steady from last year!
5. Being introduce to the concept of Asian fit sunglasses...very cool and made me feel and look like a movie star with the large black plastic frames that actually could rest on my nose. Too expensive so ended up just getting some modern-looking bottomless wire frames to contrast with the plastic frames I've gotten the last couple of years.
6. Dan reheating some of his egg/tomato/broccoli + noodles dish for dinner.

A year ago today.

5/24/12

1. Remembering to bring in paper samples, my blurb photobooks, and my home laptop to show SK.
2. Having a good time talking to SK about various topics over lunch.
3. Going to midtown to get fitted for new underthings. Very friendly and warm sales associate.
4. Getting back only 10 minutes late for a meeting with SN.
5. Going running at the NYSC near work and watching part of a Criminal Minds episode. Made it go pretty quickly.
6. Remembering to bring in a pair of contacts and my FSA card for the eye exam the next day.

A year ago today.

5/23/12

1. Walking with EN to the train station in the morning.
2. Noticing that former managers of mine were in the same "Building Authentic Relationships" class in the morning but not sitting near enough to them for anything sensitive to come up.
3. Going to the NYSC near work for some lifting and finding that the floor there was more level than at David Barton's or at NYSC Hoboken.
4. JR coming in to the office for dinner and catching up with her for the first time in a couple years.
5. Getting to the library before they closed to pick up a book on hold.
6. Doing the bike workout at NYSC Hoboken on the way home.

A year ago today.

5/22/12

1. Remembering the 9am meeting I had soon enough after waking up that I skipped a shower to get in to the office on time.
2. JM being cool about rescheduling our noon meeting so EN could come in for lunch.
3. Coming up with the idea for EN entering the Book of Mormon lottery for tickets. Didn't win, but good thing to try for.
4. Positive 1:1 with JD.
5. Finding that we could rent Pocahontas from Netflix for $2.
6. Leftover soup for dinner.

A year ago today.

5/21/12

1. Finally succeeding at getting a breakfast sandwich at Chick-Fil-A!
2. Driving for 3.5 hours without any issues. I'm pretty sure that's the longest stretch I've ever driven before.
3. EN letting me nap for about an hour after a late lunch in D.C.
4. Discovering ice cream candy bars in a Wawa stop.
5. Coming home to Italian wedding soup for dinner made by Dan.
6. Watching episode 3 of Sherlock season 2.

A year ago today.

5/20/12

1. Getting to sleep in a bit in the morning.
2. Delicious brunch out with CP and EN where we split 3 breakfast dishes as well as some churros with dipping chocolate.
3. Successfully finding our way to the quarry swimming hole on the third attempt. Beautiful area and top two inches of water were warm.
4. CP's friend falling on the sword to get written up in the warning for having brought boxed wine to the quarry.
5. Getting BBQ for dinner which included freshly fried hush puppies.
6. Watching a couple episodes of Game of Thrones and one of Girls, which was surprisingly quite funny.

A year ago today.

5/19/12

1. Exploring the UVA campus in the morning to feel like we got some Jefferson architecture in without going to Monticello.
2. J.Crew Warehouse Sale in Lynchburg, VA. Crazy! Found a lot of good stuff for EN.
3. Getting to CP's safe and sound.
4. Dinner at a Cuban place, food tasted particularly because I was so hungry.
5. Fashion show for CP of J.Crew haul.
6. Mostly successful solution of running two laptop to play Serenity from Netflix, one hooked up to the TV and one for sound since it wasn't working on the TV for some reason.

A year ago today.

5/18/12

1. Deciding to skip the gym in the morning in favor of sleeping in a bit more and packing.
2. Catching up further on sleep during Dan's drive to Philly.
3. Getting Paesano's for lunch in Philly.
4. Catching up with EN over the drive south.
5. Sunset over the mountains in the south somewhere.
6. Beer & pizza & The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (American version, first half) at MB's.

A year ago today.

5/17/12

1. Going to Stevens to swim for the first time, for triathlon training.
2. Massage with AS.
3. Spent most of the day steadily churning through email with the next day being off again.
4. Remember to check in with KV at SH's request to help him figure out how to approach writing an upgrade manual.
5. Remembering to water my lily plant for the weekend.
6. Got to J.Crew to return some stuff and picking up the hemmed lululemon t-shirt before closing time.

A year ago today.

5/16/12

1. Getting to the airport in plenty of time for my 5:50am flight.
2. Pretty easy time from EWR to the office.
3. RC still in town so had lunch with him and EM.
4. Finding Jeopardy to watch while on the stationary bike at the David Barton gym.
5. A nearby guy (former competitive high school powerlifter) complimenting me on the depth of my back squat, saying it was better than most of the guys who lift there.
6. Getting dinner at the office before going home.

A year ago today.