9/16/12

1. Going raspberry picking and wine tasting with my sister-in-law CS and having a wonderful time chatting with her in the car.
2. Successfully making 7 half-pints of raspberry jam with our hand-picked raspberries! I had been a little worried that we didn't have enough berries but we were fine.
3. Napping on the ride back to Hoboken.
4. Squeezing in a run at the gym right before they closed.
5. Frozen water bottles really helping with my shin splints.
6. Dan helping me with my laundry tonight.

A year ago today.

9/15/12

1. Discovering a green bean that looks almost big enough to pick and eat.
2. Being able to sit in the office to watch my sister use the Groupon for a shooting range experience with rifles and other types of guns.
3. Coming home to find that the pizza dough I'd made last night and set out in the morning on the kitchen table in the sun had risen quite a bit.
4. Making delicious caprese salad and sausage and mushroom pizzas with my sister, they turned out even better than when we made them last year.
5. Going bridesmaid dress shopping with CS & co. Great fun to all be trying on dresses together.
6. Making it in to the city to MF's bachelorette party for a couple hours at the tail end of the pasta making lesson and hanging out in her hotel suite for awhile where it was quieter and easier to talk to people.

A year ago today.

9/14/12

1. Catching a page right before I would've missed it on my bike.
2. Picking up books from the library on my way in to work.
3. Mac & cheese bar at lunch.
4. Shopping for pizza ingredients at the Italian market and Manhattan Fruit exchange. 
5. Dan running out to get me more sugar to make yellow tomato jam.
6. My idea for using binder clips on the pizza peel to replace the flimsy plastic clips seems to work.

A year ago today.

9/13/12

1. Amazing massage with AS. Used some kind of Eastern equivalent of Bengay oil that smelled really herbal-y good. 
2. Wolfing down crispy onion rings before a noon meeting.
3. Grabbing a whole box of extra CSA tomatoes!
4. Fitting my extra CSA tomatoes bounty into my backpack and the rest of the CSA into the front basket of my bike.
5. Avoiding any collisions with cars, unlike the biker in front of me who was going on the exact same route that I was.
6. Finding peeling tomatoes to be a lot faster and easier than peeling peaches.

A year ago today.

9/12/12

1. Working from home in my PJs.
2. Lunch of home fries and scrambled eggs with CSA garlic and parsley.
3. Checking up on the roof plants and the baby green beans continue to be adorable.
4. Picking up another pickle bucket.
5. Going for a 5K with the 0.5 incline this time, 37:10.
6. Wikipedia-ing some old manga/anime series.

A year ago today.

9/11/12

1. Weather has cooled down to the point where it was almost...cold this morning. Nice change from hot and humid.
2. Getting to work in time for breakfast.
3. Sushi for lunch.
4. FedEx guy leaving his number on the door tag and coming back after I called him since he was still in Hoboken to deliver my package (shiny new Cuisinart stock pot)! So nice of him.
5. Fastest 5K yet!! 36:28, though the incline on the treadmill was at 0 instead of 0.5.
6. Cooking up and canning a batch of peach butter! A lot of the lids had an audible popping sound indicating that they had sealed right after I lifted them out of the stock pot. 

A year ago today.

9/10/12

1. Getting to work in time for a leisurely breakfast.
2. Lunch with RC/EM/ST.
3. Successfully biking back a heavy box of peaches home.
4. Peeling all the peaches and cooking them down to a sauce in the Dutch oven which was just big enough for the amount of peaches I had.
5. Cutting in to the watermelon Dan bought for me at Shop-Rite yesterday.
6. Dan bringing me back another flat of 12 half-pint jars from Wal-Mart.

A year ago today.

9/9/12

1. Calling Citi Cards and getting them to waive a $20 service fee.
2. Taking a nap in the early afternoon after unexpectedly waking up early.
3. Hauling up baby spinach and broccoli seedlings up to the roof and then noticing that some of the bean plants not only have flowers on them, but some of the flowers have turned into baby green beans!
4. New longest distance run: 6.5 miles!
5. Dan getting out of bed to make me some toast with sunflower butter when I continued to feel hungry despite grazing constantly the whole day.
6. No new Breaking Bad episode, but that meant being able to go to bed relatively early and without any meth-related dreams.

A year ago today.

9/8/12

1. Much more success in finding the garage sales in Highland Park after picking up a map.
2. Getting in a run at the gym where I think I could've improved my 5K time further (but stopped at 3 miles).
3. Making it to the restaurant just in time despite the various transportation and weather woes.
4. Fun, funny time at the wedding dinner with Dan and BB/DL/AJ/MT/RC.
5. Much smoother set of connections on the journey home.
6. Getting a compliment from a stranger at the 9th St. PATH station on my vintage teal lace dress.

A year ago today.

9/7/12

1. Remembering to bring my checkbook in the morning to get my eyebrows done in the afternoon.
2. Breakfast with my favorite things: sausage gravy, biscuits, scrambled eggs, and avocado.
3. Lunch by myself in the Chelsea Market cafe.
4. Picking up a set of canning utensils from Crate & Barrel in Soho for cheap! $4.95 down from $12.95.
5. Making the corn and chorizo soup again. 1 link of the dried Spanish chorizo to 5-6 ears of corn is about the right ratio, it seems.
6. Re-reading Graceling after checking it out as an e-book from the library again.

A year ago today.

9/6/12

1. Grabbing breakfast of scrambled eggs and sausage before a morning meeting.
2. Getting a juicy hot deli meat sandwich for lunch and discovering olive oil potato chips.
3. De-stressing with a table massage.
4. Going back down for the CSA pickup and bringing back a box of extra peaches to be canned in some way later.
5. Staying late to catch up on work and prep for the planning meeting the next morning.
6. Perusing the Food in Jars blog and reading more about canning.

A year ago today.

9/5/12

1. Sleeping in since I was still feeling tired after the long Monday night.
2. Getting in for lunch with EM/AJ/RC.
3. Venting to my manager.
4. Reading the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving.
5. Going to bed early to try to catch up on sleep further.
6. Dan reading me to sleep after he woke me up and I couldn't fall asleep again easily for several hours.

A year ago today.

9/4/12

1. Lunch with RC and later EM.
2. Mostly clearing out my inbox by the end of the day.
3. Managing to complete all of my errands before any of the stores in question closed--matboard from an art supply store, half pint jars from the hardware store, pickle buckle from the sandwich store.
4. Yummy potato pancake and knish for dinner from the Hoboken On Rye store.
5. Canning supplies and book delivered from Amazon, now to peruse it and dream of different recipes to can.
6. Doing a time trial run for a 5k (3.1 miles) at the gym and finishing at 37:45!! Definitely seeing an improvement in my running speed and capacity.

A year ago today.

9/3/12

1. Getting 3 loads of laundry done.
2. Snipping some fresh rosemary for a lamb rib roast marinade.
3. Slaking my thirst with slices of watermelon.
4. Using fresh CSA garlic in my panzanella salad today--gives it a nice bite but it's not too harsh a flavor at all. 
5. Sneaking a few Swedish meatballs cold.
6. Handing over two flats of pint jars to Cara at the fantasy football league draft.

A year ago today.

9/2/12

1. Messing around with eye makeup and hairstyles.
2. Vacuuming the apartment.
3. Completing my longest run ever, 5.5 miles.
4. Printing out an engagement photo at CVS to put in a frame for Dan to have on his desk at work.
5. Dan making really delicious Swedish meatballs (the gravy in particular) with mashed potatoes and steamed green beans for dinner.
6. Dan helping me re-dye my purple streaks again.

A year ago today.

9/1/12

1. Dan running a bunch of my errands for me while he was grocery shopping.
2. Really productive day, cooked up a bunch of CSA stuff, made banana bread, planted broccoli.
3. Finding various sales going on while running errands at Ricky's and Ace Hardware (two flats of pint jars for $14! Figured out how to strap them both onto my bike to carry home safely, too).
4. Getting in a tempo run in at the gym, finishing all of it except the 0.10 mile before the gym closed.
5. Catching the Doctor Who Christmas special and the premiere of the new season, now on BBC HD.
6. Finally getting to hanging the series of four season watercolors over the couch.

A year ago today.

8/31/12

1. Catching up on sleep.
2. Working from home for the day.
3. Panzanella salad for lunch and chorizo corn soup for dinner. 
4. Checking up on my bean plants and finding them thriving even with the heavy rain on Monday that killed one of my spinach plants.
5. Getting a bunch of tasks crossed off my list, including purchasing various wedding gifts.
6. Finally getting to putting together a pair of Luna sandals from a DIY kit. They turned out pretty well, too, with the aid of sandpaper that I remembered I had around from a painting project to smooth the rough edges.

A year ago today.