Monday, September 30, 2013

9/12/13

  1. Falling into a groove for fixing the tests associated with my password complexity change.
  2. Being impressed and amused by RC's Facebook-stalking and deductive skills.
  3. Settling Dan's meal for AJ's wedding.
  4. Dan taking care of picking up another gift for AJ off of their Bed Bath & Beyond registry.
  5. Spending the evening in after the social events earlier this week.
  6. Video-chatting with Dan.
A year ago today.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

9/11/13

  1. Deciding to pack leftovers from dinner last night into a bento box lunch.
  2. JVP helping me figure out the right files to look at for the changes I needed to make.
  3. Reading up on Rails validations and successfully writing in the additional password validation rules.
  4. Delicious flaky peach/raspberry and plum pies at monthly demo meeting.
  5. First CSA pickup, with corn, tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, plums...yay!
  6. Hanging out with LH and J!
A year ago today.

9/10/13

  1. Remembering to bring in leftovers from dinner last night in for lunch.
  2. Buying a pro-rated CSA share for the rest of the season.
  3. Slowly figuring out how to do things via an API with curl statements.
  4. Taking some time to review and re-organize my notes for easier access to reference information.
  5. VW having extra yarn and needles at the maker night so I could test out my theories for how to fix my honey cowl.
  6. Cooking up the salmon, Swiss chard, corn, and chanterelle mushrooms in the fridge.
A year ago today.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

9/9/13

  1. Practicing using the Asian bumpit and teasing brush to make a puffy bun.
  2. Figuring out the bug that was causing the scheduler app to break!
  3. Schnitzelwich sandwich for lunch from the Tabor food truck.
  4. Going for a quick run in the beautiful sunshine.
  5. Hanging out with BBL and DL, here on vacation.
  6. Sea salt/caramel and cinnamon snickerdoodle ice cream from Salt & Straw.
A year ago today.

Monday, September 9, 2013

9/8/13

  1. Waking up refreshed at 9:30.
  2. Making porridge for breakfast.
  3. Watching Harry Potter movies while working on Ruby koans.
  4. Re-heated galette pastry being just as delicious as it was last night. Trader Joe's frozen pie crust is quite good.
  5. Discovering Heather Havrilesky's been writing an advice column.
  6. Going for my first run in awhile and feeling pretty good.
A year ago today.

Sunday, September 8, 2013

9/7/13

  1. Perfectly gorgeous day, clear blue skies, sunny but not hot, no humidity.
  2. Shopping at the farmers market.
  3. Going over to our duplex and re-measuring the rooms to figure out the floor plan.
  4. Remembering that I'd forgotten to buy pie crust before getting too far out from Trader Joe's, in order to make this burst tomato galette.
  5. Stopping at the office on the way back to drop off some of the weight of the groceries I was carrying back.
  6. Catching up with DC, LW, and SD (separately).
A year ago today.

9/6/13

  1. Realizing that the sound I heard was just the rain, not some random person who broke in and was typing, or mice in the garbage.
  2. Making sunbutter-avocado toast for breakfast after I couldn't go back to sleep.
  3. Dan getting through to the movers to get an estimate of when they'd get here.
  4. Going for tea and dumplings with BR.
  5. Doing a couple loads of laundry.
  6. Making an omelette with spinach and goat cheese for dinner.
A year ago today.

Friday, September 6, 2013

9/5/13

  1. Figuring a potential floorplan for the bedroom utilizing a headboard that would double as nightstands.
  2. Getting a chance to try out the Georgian (country, not state) food truck.
  3. JR being very encouraging on how much I'd figured out so far about how the scheduler app worked.
  4. Realizing I didn't actually break the scheduler app, something funky happened with my cookies.
  5. Videochatting with AJ.
  6. Rain letting up by the time I walked home.
A year ago today.

9/4/13

  1. JR showing me where the actual repository for the scheduler app was.
  2. DC explaining assert statements to me and actually understanding them this time.
  3. Working through some of the Codeschool Ruby tutorials.
  4. Making a bunch of progress on the Ruby Koans.
  5. Dan making an effort to be more positive about the new place even after we discussed some of its challenges.
  6. Working on a floor plan for the new place.
A year ago today.

9/3/13

  1. Bringing my red silk vintage dress to the tailor and only getting charged $45 to have the hips let out, even with the rush fee to get it done in time for AJ's wedding.
  2. Having my phone with me to answer the call that the place I saw yesterday was ours if we wanted it.
  3. Calling up Verizon to get my phone activation fee waived.
  4. Signing the lease!!
  5. Taking measurements at the new place.
  6. Remembering to take down the window screens and lock all doors/windows before heading out.
A year ago today.

Monday, September 2, 2013

9/2/13

  1. Sleeping in in the morning.
  2. Cooking up the entire bag of spinach in the fridge into an omelet.
  3. Making this one-pan farro with tomatoes recipes, very quick and easy and delicious.
  4. Finding another really cute house. It's pink!
  5. Getting lucky with buses pulling up within a few minutes of walking to the stop.
  6. Stopping at Trader Joe's on the way back but getting back on a bus within the 2 hour validated ticket window.
A year ago today.

9/1/13

  1. Going back to sleep after calling Dan to tell him about my bad dream.
  2. Snacking on leftover guacamole and tortilla chips.
  3. Walking through the NW area after looking at an apartment there.
  4. Making it out to the NE and back within the 2 hour validation window on my ticket.
  5. Heating up the other half of the Swiss chard and salmon that I cooked up last night.
  6. Wikipedia-surfing and watching a Sex and the City marathon.
A year ago today.