8/30/12

1. Another beautiful day in the morning.
2. Grabbing breakfast before a 9:30am meeting.
3. Ordering canning supplies from Amazon and Ace Hardware, exciting!
4. Signing up for an Amazon Prime trial, though this could be dangerous...
5. Another baby watermelon at the CSA!
6. Getting in a sprint run at the gym even after a late work meeting.

A year ago today.

8/29/12

1. Making up a quick panzanella salad in the morning for breakfast with CSA tomatoes, homemade croutons, homemade mozzarella, and home-grown basil.
2. Dropping by the library before work to return a book.
3. Getting to the office just in time before a meeting starting, with a few minutes to spare.
4. Extremely comfortable weather outside, I could actually leave my hair down and not be all sweaty.
5. Asking the restaurant to add sausage to a pasta dish so I didn't have to decide between the basil pesto one and the sausage one.
6. Successfully installing a custom screensaver on my Kindle!! Lots of trial and error but now I've got a custom plate with my contact info on it in case I lose it.

A year ago today.

8/28/12

1. SS visiting the office for the first time since last December!
2. Good 1:1 chat with JD.
3. Getting a peer bonus from an engineer for the first time.
4. Bought two more links of chorizo, one to add in to soup to bump up chorizo flavor.
5. Watching Governor Christie's speech at the convention.
6. Successfully made mozzarella from frozen curds!! Yummy and creamy flavor.

A year ago today.

8/27/12

1. Getting through unread email in the morning before lunch.
2. Finding the right kind of dry non-spicy chorizo in Chelsea Market. 
3. Restocking on fancy olive oil and balsamic vinegars at The Filling Station.
4. Shucking the corn we bought yesterday and finding it to be really sweet and fresh, unlike the other farmer's market corn I had bought in July.
5. Catching up on last week's tempo run.
6. Dan cooking up the chorizo corn soup while I was at the gym.

A year ago today.

8/26/12

1. Picking tomatoes at the farm to bring home.
2. Watching a peach jam canning demo that made the process seem pretty easy. Also, delicious samples (not too sweet!).
3. Going on a tour of a sheep farm, so cute.
4. Stopping by a farmstand to buy corn, potatoes, and a watermelon.
5. Getting home early enough in the evening to take of various chores.
6. Finding that my plants all survived just fine.

A year ago today.

8/25/12

1. Dan deciding to go back to the popcorn store to buy a Christmas gift in advance after all.
2. Excellent home fries at the breakfast cafe.
3. Catching up on sleep in the drive to the farm.
4. Learning to play Bananagrams with some strangers at the farm Open House. Turns out I'm pretty good, too!
5. Playing Chinese checkers and finally beating Dan at the end.
6. Finding the Albany hotel to be really nice, enormous room! Separate living room-like area, separate bathroom with its own sink from shower room.

A year ago today.

8/24/12

1. Dan being a trouper about all the heights-related activities like cable car rides.
2. Getting in all the remaining activities included in our Olympics "passport" despite the late start to the day.
3. Getting to see kids practicing ski jumping into a pool.
4. Going for a run around Mirror Lake.
5. Buying gourmet popcorn mixed with 'smores ingredients.
6. Finishing the Mistborn trilogy and being sucked in to how all the final pieces fit together, just like in Harry Potter.

A year ago today.

8/23/12

1. Wearing the self-hemmed Gap chevron maxi dress for the first time.
2. Taking a fun and informative tour of the Olympic Center led by a guy who was there reporting on the 1980 Olympics.
3. Buying a really cute poster from the Olympic museum gift shop with the raccoon mascot doing all the sports.
4. Getting the beer sampler at the brewery we went to for dinner.
5. Watching a beautiful sunset from the west-facing side of the hotel.
6. Snacking on the leftover fries later at night.

A year ago today.

8/22/12

1. Packing up quickly enough in the morning to get in to the office in time for a 9:30am meeting.
2. Grabbing breakfast for the first time in ages.
3. Being able to call Dan to pack a few extra things I'd forgotten to pack in the morning.
4. Finding that I could read in the car without getting carsick this time for some reason, so kept myself occupied during the long drive.
5. Making good time and getting in to Lake Placid by 11pm.
6. Breaking out my leather jacket to wear in the slightly cooler weather.

A year ago today.

8/21/12

1. Finally getting to looking at the activities that Dan had scouted out for Lake Placid and confirming that none of them needed prior booking.
2. Evening meeting got canceled so could have dinner with SD at the office.
3. Catching up with SD, hadn't seen him in ages. He'll be moving back to NYC after this last year of law school!
4. Getting a run in at the gym. 
5. Thinking of using a pretty little blue fabric bag that a gift from Dan's mom to me came in as a camera case.
6. Deciding to only do preliminary packing before going to bed.

A year ago today.

8/20/12

1. Rain disappearing from the forecast so I could bike to work.
2. Productive day at work, kept inbox down low.
3. Bringing the wedding album home to go through it with Dan.
4. Getting new memory cards for my camera in the mail.
5. A sausage I bought over a week ago still good for dinner.
6. Finishing altering a pair of chambray shorts from J.Crew Factory (took in the waist and put in darts on the legs). Not perfect but it'll do, I'll see if the places that don't match up bother me enough to fix them further.

A year ago today.

8/19/12

1. Shirring the backs of several boxy tops to make them more form-fitting.
2. Feeling better at a 5mph speed near the end of my run than in the beginning when I attempted that speed as well. I suppose I just need a bit more warm-up time to settle into the run before going faster.
3. Seeing the first spinach sprout!
4. Lovely view of sunset colors in the sky from the roof, when I went to go check on my bean plants.
5. Vacuuming the apartment.
6. Getting a load of laundry done.

A year ago today.

8/18/12

1. Buying a working, portable vintage Singer sewing machine (off of craigslist)! Identified it as being from 1956.
2. Talking Dan into getting an Italian sausage sandwich with peppers and onions at Costco and trying the churro I got in addition.
3. Getting a bunch of sewing fixes done while watching random TV.
4. Figuring out that UPS hadn't mis-delivered my package, it just went to USPS first and then came to the apartment later.
5. Dan making a tasty orzo salad for dinner, to which I added CSA beets and tomatoes.
6. Watching Iron Man 2.

A year ago today.

8/17/12

1. Lunch out with the eng team at a fancy Indian place.
2. Picking up stuff from the tailor on my way back to the office.
3. Rain holding off in the evening for the walk home.
4. Getting the speed running workout of the week done at the gym with some hip flexor stretching and planks.
5. Having the rest of the baby watermelon.
6. Opening up a package of Mint Slices thanks to SP.

A year ago today.

8/16/12

1. Yummy gourmet BLT sandwich for lunch.
2. Chair massage with AS.
3. Receiving our wedding album from KP!! It's heavy and gorgeous.
4. Picking up an extremely cute little watermelon (yellow on the inside) from the CSA this week.
5. Chicken fingers and tater tots from TGIAF.
6. Eventually successfully meeting up with the group out at dinner.

A year ago today.

8/15/12

1. Being complimented on my striped vintage dress and my style generally by SR.
2. Getting a cup of freshly squeezed OJ.
3. Catching up with MT and AJ.
4. Fitting in a couple extra chairs into a crowded meeting room so I didn't have to awkwardly lean against something while wearing a dress.
5. Lunch with MB and EN, talking about methods for managing your energy.
6. Dan winning some bids on Priceline for hotels in upstate NY for our long weekend there.

A year ago today.

8/14/12

1. Lunch with EM.
2. Remembering to put fresh basil on the panzanella salad today and letting the bread cubes soak up tomato juices while I tended to my plants, resulting in an even more delicious dish.
3. Assembling the first half of my second self-watering container to get the spinach plants started.
4. Running into RC at the gym.
5. Doing the first homework run from the Run with the Girls program, a tempo run. It was hard! But good for me to push myself to go faster.
6. Picking up miscellaneous beauty products from CVS.

A year ago today.

8/13/12

1. Getting lunch with AJ and BB.
2. Most of my afternoon meetings getting canceled.
3. Finally getting around to dropping off my new glasses to get repaired.
4. Quick checkout at Whole Foods for a thing of small mozzarella balls.
5. Cooking up a whole bunch of CSA stuff, including tomatoes into a panzanella salad and cucumbers into tzatziki.
6. Learned a new way to roast beets that's much easier, just wrap them in individually in foil.

A year ago today.

8/12/12

1. Getting a ride back to Hoboken with my parents.
2. Taking a long nap in the afternoon.
3. Finding a whole bunch of rhythmic gymnastics had in fact been recorded on the DVR (NBC's program descriptions often are inaccurate).
4. Getting the rosemary and bean plants onto the roof to start getting more sun.
5. Successfully taking in the back of a pair of linen J.Crew shorts! Looks pretty good if I do say so myself.
6. Dan making turkey meatballs for dinner.

A year ago today.

8/11/12

1. Pretty smooth EM for EN swap at the PATH train station in the morning.
2. Weightlifting meet being really smooth and well-organized.
3. Hanging out with Dan's family at an afternoon barbecue.
4. Dan giving me a ride to Holmdel so I wasn't late for the birthday dinner my sister made for my mom.
5. Having a few nice golf shots at the driving range, much better than the last few times I've gone.
6. Getting home in time to watch the last diving competition (men's 10m platform), which had some really incredible dives.

A year ago today.

8/10/12

1. An eyebrow appointment opening up in the afternoon.
2. Lunch with AJ.
3. Flourless chocolate cake for dessert.
4. Getting out of work just in time to meet up with EN getting off the bus from Boston.
5. Getting a bunch of sewing mending done.
6. Catching up on Olympic synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics.

A year ago today.

8/9/12

1. Getting some corn tortilla tacos for lunch.
2. Catching up with LT back from Shanghai briefly.
3. Dinner with BG and CL before her maternity leave.
4. Showering off the gross humidity in the air.
5. Having some of the watermelon Dan bought for me from Costco.
6. Pulling in my bean plants and noticing that they've started to germinate and are poking their heads out!

A year ago today.

8/8/12

1. Sleeping in a bit in the morning to recover from the late night watching gymnastics.
2. Picking up another pickle bucket from the Hoboken on Rye store. They're just so nice there!
3. Productive afternoon at work.
4. Signing up for a group running club in Monmouth County with a $25 discount since I know I won't be able to make most of the runs.
5. Making The Soup (corn chowder with yogurt and chorizo) for dinner.
6. Nice steady 4 mile run at the gym while watching more Olympics.

A year ago today.

8/7/12

1. Getting breakfast in the morning for the first time in awhile.
2. Hilarious and pop culture educational lunch with AJ and EM and PJL visiting.
3. Starting to re-read The Hunger Games (only non-fiction out from the library right now).
4. Getting a load of laundry done, mostly just towels.
5. Good run at the gym tonight, 2 mile fartlek with another mile of easy running/walking on either side in just a little bit over an hour.
6. Particularly exciting night in gymnastics at the Olympics with the balance beam tiebreaker, women's floor and men's high bar excellence. I'm glad the Chinese women finally won at least one gold.

A year ago today.

8/6/12

1. Waking up in time to remember the 9am meeting and dial in from my computer at home, at least.
2. Holding my hair up with a brown hair clip instead of resorting to a headband or short ponytail again.
3. Figuring out a way to set up my desk in the new location to make the most of the smaller space.
4. Fully unpacking even though I hadn't bothered in the last move and deciding to get rid of a lot of papers and other random stuff.
5. Bringing a few different items over the tailor's.
6. Making turkey burgers on the grill to go over with the green bean and cherry tomato salad.

A year ago today.

8/5/12

1. Catching synchronized swimming (duet) on TV and watching women's weightlifting on my computer.
2. Exciting end to the China-U.S. women's water polo match.
3. Building a self-watering container from the two pickle buckets I scavenged.
4. Getting in a run at the gym before having to head into Manhattan.
5. Really informative butchery class at Dickson's Farmstand.
6. Dan helping me re-dye my streaks.

A year ago today.

8/4/12

1. Sleeping in a lot (woke up at 11:30).
2. Lying in bed and reading a novel (The Tiger's Wife).
3. Getting to the gym to start training for the 10k.
4. Dinner of CSA peaches, yogurt with honey, CSA tomatoes, CSA basil, and fresh mozzarella.
5. Watching the Olympics while cleaning and cooking.
6. Doing our finances for the month and coming out better than last month.

A year ago today.

8/3/12

1. Getting a good amount of work done from home in the morning.
2. Grilled cheese lunch with EM and AM.
3. Getting to skip the rest of the line for getting my headshot taken by going up to the 6th floor.
4. Productive afternoon in cleaning up various documentation.
5. Succeeding in biking home with the rest of the CSA.
6. Spending the evening watching TV on the couch.

A year ago today.

8/2/12

1. Grabbing a grilled cheese sandwich with just onions and tomatoes on the early end of lunch so there wasn't much of a line.
2. Watching the women's individual all-around finals while eating lunch.
3. Tons of food leftover during my late cleanup shift for the CSA today so I took extras of my favorite stuff.
4. Finding a security officer who accepted that the tomatoes and onions I was bringing in to the theater were not in fact the usual food and drink and found a place for me to stash them during the show.
5. Usual Cirque du Soleil fun, especially the random line of people bouncing on their stomaches on the big bouncy balls across the back while the main performance went on, almost like frogs.
6. Dan's surprise reward to me for completing the triathlon: pretzel M&Ms.

A year ago today.

8/1/12

1. Another grilled cheese sandwich for lunch.
2. Massage with AS.
3. Getting solid coaching on the squat.
4. Lentils for dinner.
5. Finishing watching the evening's Olympics coverage relatively early so went to bed at a more reasonable hour than usual.
6. Getting an email of the official photos from the triathlon which had photos of me at every stage. One particularly good one on my bike. 

A year ago today.

7/31/12

1. No meetings in the morning to miss after I accidentally overslept.
2. Storms holding off for another day so I could still bike to/from the PATH station.
3. Grilled cheese bar in 5th floor cafe: cheddar, mozzarella, tomatoes, caramelized onions, and bacon on rye. Really hit the spot.
4. Afternoon tea break with BB.
5. With EM's help, figuring out a way to fix the format of times in the results file to be able to convert it all into minutes and add in some graphs.
6. Dan making lentil soup for dinner.

A year ago today.