12/31/14

1. Going to the gym in the morning to finish up the workout from the day before.
2. Having time to return a bunch of stuff to Madewell.
3. Picking up a thin balaclava at REI.
4. Walking over to Peacock Lane with LU, her boyfriend P, and her dog Cocoa.
5. Getting all my laundry done, including blocking some of my knitted accessories.
6. Finishing reading Ancillary Justice.

A year ago today.

Top good things in 2014:

1. Being able to be there for family.
2. Feeling much more capable and established in my new career.
3. Seeing AL get settled in her new California life.
4. Earning the Southwest Companion Pass to make most of the travel with Dan free.
5. Establishing a regular gym routine.
6. Giving talks at technical conferences.

12/30/14

1. Realizing I could just bring my bike with me on the bus to work in order not to have to go home in-between.
2. Going to the gym in the morning and evening to get as much of the workouts in that I needed to catch up on.
3. Making it to work in time for a 10am meeting.
4. Informative session at PSU on their computer science post-bac program.
5. Getting to Happy Knits to pick up yarn for a project commissioned by my dad.
6. Getting to the library to pick up a couple books I had on hold there.

A year ago today.

12/29/14

1. Getting a good amount of sleep in the morning still, thanks to a flight that wasn't until noon.
2. Getting a bunch of knitting done on the flights, started and finished a set of wristwarmers for myself and started a hat for my mom.
3. Flight out of Denver not being too delayed in the end.
4. Dan going home first to get the car and coming back to the airport for me and the luggage.
5. Keeping myself occupied at the PDX airport with the free wi-fi.
6. Dan pulling together a filling dinner for us with meatballs from the freezer.

A year ago today.

12/28/14

1. Getting myself to the gym early in the morning to get most of a workout done.
2. Finishing up sewing projects I'd promised my mom and picking out knitting patterns for my dad.
3. My mom and sister giving me a ride up north so I could have a bit more time at home.
4. Having a really fun time at C&L's black tie wedding.
5. Hanging out with Dan's family at the wedding.
6. No afterparty to the wedding so could get to bed early.

A year ago today.

12/27/14

1. My mom complimenting my Liberty floral print shirt.
2. Beautifully sunny and warm day out.
3. Really competent and efficient woman at the JC Penney photo studio for family photos.
4. Red duck curry and papaya salad for lunch.
5. Seeing the first Mockingjay movie with my sister and being pleasantly surprised by it.
6. Having a good time chatting with the other people at our table for the rehearsal dinner.

A year ago today.

12/26/14

1. Remembering to bring the card for AL in the morning.
2. Finishing off The Hobbit movies.
3. Getting a bunch of knitting done on my sister's cowl during the movie.
4. Finishing the sleeve shortenings my mom wanted me to do on some undershirts.
5. Finding a comfortable pair of workout pants on sale at Lululemon and using up a gift card I'd had there.
6. Enjoying top roping climbing more than bouldering.

A year ago today.

12/25/14

1. Getting dim sum with my family in the morning.
2. Getting my sister started on her Despicable Me minion hat.
3. Exercising restraint on food in the afternoon.
4. My Christmas presents for Dan and his mom being a big hit.
5. Doing fairly well at mahjong with my family at night.
6. Finishing up the hat for my sister.

A year ago today.

12/24/14

1. Taking the opportunity while my sister was out in the morning to assemble and wrap her present.
2. Getting most of a workout in before the gym closed.
3. Getting the rest of the presents wrapped.
4. Thinking to search for coupon codes and finding a current Groupon for the gift to KS to get her more for the same amount.
5. Playing Heads Up at Christmas Eve in Shrewsbury.
6. Going home for dinner.

A year ago today.

12/23/14

1. Getting another full night's sleep.
2. Lunch with tomatoes and eggs.
3. Going the gym and getting most of a workout in.
4. Finding a yarn store in Hazlet that was open until late.
5. Meeting up with HTHSers for Festivus in a diner.
6. Enjoying my Italian sausage and peppers sandwich.

A year ago today.

12/22/14

1. Getting another full night's sleep, making up my sleep deficit from last week.
2. Remembering the retro meeting and not being too late despite my long shower.
3. Going to Baohaus for dinner.
4. Being able to walk to the puzzle room destination in plenty of time.
5. Solving the room puzzle just in time before the hour ran out.
6. Making myself stay awake for most of the car ride home.

A year ago today.

12/21/14

1. Pork/chive/shrimp dumplings for breakfast.
2. Making the right call in getting out the door quickly to get to the train station on time.
3. Brunch at The Breslin, with a fried peanut butter and banana with bourbon sandwich, among other things.
4. Shopping down 5th Ave with EM and AT.
5. SD coming up to Morningside Park from Long Island to stop by at the Church of St. John Divine with me, to see the Xu Bing phoenix sculptures.
6. Getting a good amount of knitting done on my hat on the train, and figuring out how to adapt the decreases.

A year ago today.

12/20/14

1. Making it safely and on time to the airport in the morning after all, despite the cab being late and then the cab's windshield wipers getting stuck.
2. Only needed to move one heavy book over into Dan's luggage to meet the baggage weight limit.
3. Sleeping for most of the two flights.
4. Killing time during our layover in Denver at the U.S. Airways lounge, using up the lounge + guest pass.
5. All the canned goods surviving being in the checked luggage.
6. Going shopping at the outlets with my mom and sister and scoring two pairs of leather boots for my sister that fit really well, at only $80 each.

A year ago today.

12/19/14

1. People admiring my setup for assembling the gift packages for people at work, with embellishments.
2. Extended team holiday lunch at The Yard.
3. Trying a very small amount of fancy tequila at Mi Mero Mole.
4. Not minding people bailing out of the Peacock Lane trip since I needed to pack and was so tired.
5. Dan giving me a ride to drop off my gifts for S and the staff at the gym.
6. Finishing packing and going to bed before midnight.

A year ago today.

12/18/14

1. Finishing off the rest of my kale pasta at stitching lunch.
2. Going to the gym directly from the office.
3. Getting a full workout in, including the new HIIT Cardio Complex on the treadmill, without falling.
4. Dan picking me up from the gym since it started raining out.
5. Figuring out how to allocate the requested jams and pickles and focusing on which packages needed to be put together now, vs. could be delayed for later.
6. Realizing I didn't need to pack a lunch for tomorrow, since the team would be going out for lunch.

A year ago today.

12/17/14

1. Not feeling too terrible throughout the day despite the lack of sleep.
2. Getting lunch at Mi Mero Mole with DC and ranting a bit.
3. Using TP's split keyboard while pairing.
4. FINALLY FIGURING OUT THE BUG!
5. L being delighted to receive a jar of pear vanilla jam for the holidays, she said pear is her favorite fruit!
6. Making it to the library in time before they closed to pick up Nom Nom Paleo on hold.

A year ago today.

12/16/14

1. Making the bus just in time thanks to the ramp coming out.
2. Commiserating with KL.
3. Quickly grabbing some food to tide over my hunger from skipping lunch.
4. Going to knit night at Happy Knits with EH and making fast progress on my hat.
5. EH lending me her earbud headphones after I realized I'd left mine at home.
6. Finishing catching up on my workout after 2 hours at the gym.

A year ago today.

12/15/14

1. Giant delicious burger at Tilt for team lunch.
2. BM staying late to help me figure out how to resend a whole bunch of the emails.
3. Bringing over my lunch to have at the bar for dinner.
4. Getting to bar trivia in time to contribute an answer to round 1.
5. Dan and DC getting to play at least one Decemberists song after all.
6. Making it past the ribbing on my Graham hat finally, so I can stop with the reversible twisted rib.

A year ago today.

12/14/14

1. Having a really lazy morning.
2. Getting the apartment and kitchen mostly cleaned up before going to the gym.
3. Fitting in most of my workout before the gym closed.
4. Getting over to American Apparel to use the Groupon I bought a couple weeks ago for new purple leggings.
5. Beef noodle soup turning out pretty well still despite not soaking the meat overnight in soy sauce.
6. Getting a load of laundry done.

A year ago today.

12/13/14

1. Dan giving me a ride downtown to RailsBridge in the morning.
2. Going out to the food trucks for a healthier lunch than pizza.
3. Having a few lightbulb moments with various students throughout the day at RailsBridge.
4. Remembering to call Barclays before their phone lines closed for the day.
5. Running my errands at Madewell and Nordstrom before those stores closed.
6. Vegging out by catching up on episodes of The Mindy Project.

A year ago today.

12/12/14

1. Skipping the sunrise celebration in the morning.
2. Dan giving me a ride to the office.
3. Having enough leftover radish-cream cheese to finish off for a light early dinner.
4. Getting Xcode for Snow Leopard downloaded and onto at least one student's laptop.
5. Going to the gym directly after the RailsBridge Installfest.
6. Finishing the rest of the roast chicken for dinner.

A year ago today.

12/11/14

1. Remembering to bring in more bread for lunch.
2. Making up radish-cream cheese sandwiches for lunch.
3. Getting to the second skein of my tomato red honeycowl.
4. Having some fun conversations at the PDX WiT holiday party without getting overwhelmed.
5. Catching a bus home while still on the same 2 hour bus pass.
6. Having a good time talking to a prospective Hackbright candidate and giving her lots of unsolicited life/career advice.

A year ago today.

12/10/14

1. Getting to eat a yogurt/granola breakfast in the morning at a lightning talks meeting in the lunchroom.
2. Making myself feel better about a disappointment by pulling together a self-study curriculum to start after Christmas.
3. Finding pretty sharp paring knives in the kitchen at work to dice chives for mixing with cream cheese and slicing up radishes for sandwiches.
4. Fitting the larger chicken in the cast iron pan still.
5. Discovering sour cream still in the fridge to use for mashed potatoes.
6. Dan going back for seconds on the roast chicken.

A year ago today.

12/9/14

1. Sleeping in a bit to recover from the headaches of yesterday.
2. Getting to the gym and getting most of my workout in.
3. Pulling together a themed outfit with a silk green blouse and red cardigan.
4. Getting my work done to a safe point right as people started filing in to the office for the holiday party.
5. Getting a caricature done with Dan.
6. Work holiday party ending early enough to be home by 9:30.

A year ago today.

12/8/14

1. Frying up some eggs on toast for breakfast, since I got up early.
2. Yummy broth-less ramen with chili oil at team lunch.
3. Successfully speed-reading chapter 6 of POODR before the book club meeting.
4. Quickly picking up some name tags from Office Depot for the RailsBridge volunteer training.
5. Getting some knitting done during the volunteer training and bar trivia later.
6. The lowest scoring team at bar trivia having left so that we could pick a category for next week.

A year ago today.

12/7/14

1. Getting a load of laundry done in the morning and cleaning up papers before heading out.
2. Delicious food at Tasty N Alder, despite the long wait.
3. DC joining us there.
4. Getting a full workout in at the gym but not being the last person there keeping the gym open.
5. Dan making dinner so I could work.
6. Getting a bit of success on my code!

A year ago today.

12/6/14

1. Dan driving to and from Seattle for the day.
2. Delightful sets for Sendak/Stowell Nutcracker, plus less racist choreography.
3. Stopping in at the Urban Craft Uprising craft fair and picking up a couple Christmas gifts.
4. Being able to move our dinner reservation back by 30 minutes.
5. Managing to get a Cow Chip chocolate chip cookie after all, due to our detour to avoid an accident.
6. Excellent service and amazing foie gras at Le Pigeon.

A year ago today.

12/5/14

1. Efficiently getting team consensus on our new priorities.
2. Getting lunch with ELV.
3. Only eating $6.50 worth of sushi! First time ever.
4. Dan dropping off my dress for CK's wedding so I could bring it over to Nordstroms and get the hemming job started.
5. J staying late at the gym so I could finish my workout.
6. Successfully figuring out how the leg press machine there worked when it wasn't obvious how to unlock it.

A year ago today.

12/4/14

1. Getting in before the unexpected pre-10am meeting ended.
2. Going out for coffee with JC and getting lots of encouragement.
3. Bringing my bike home on the bus so I'd have it for faster trips to/from the gym.
4. Casting on for a new hat.
5. Skyping with AB about our South Africa trip.
6. Getting the house cleaned professionally with the bathroom as well as dusting/vacuuming/mopping everywhere.

A year ago today.

12/3/14

1. Getting a workout in in the morning.
2. Getting coffee with MT, a friend of FDG's.
3. EH letting me try on her slouchy hats to see if they'll work for my head.
4. Finding a mint colored yarn at Happy Knits for a new hat.
5. Picking up the last CSA box (double box!) for the season at Grand Central.
6. Getting a ginger scone with lots of crystallized ginger bits from Grand Central.

A year ago today.

12/2/14

1. Having a later lunch to get email/internetty things done earlier.
2. Finally getting through on the phone to pay my dad's medical bills.
3. Going upstairs in time to grab a last couple slices of pizza.
4. Successfully following along with the talks at PDX.rb.
5. Fun brainteaser coding challenge.
6. Catching a #4 bus to get over to where the #15 bus stop is on Salmon to reduce time out in the cold.

A year ago today.

12/1/14

1. Getting seats together on both flights
2. Sleeping for most of the Philly-Denver flight
3. Getting free wi-fi on the Denver-Portland flight
4. Having yogurt in the fridge still for an afternoon snack/late lunch.
5. Dan picking me up from the office.
6. Pretty quick and no hassle to cancel my Planet Granite membership.

A year ago today.

11/30/14

1. Getting brunch at the Turning Point with my mom
2. Dad measurably improving throughout the day at the breathing exercises he was supposed to be doing.
3. Getting home and packed just before Dan came to pick me up.
4. Dinner at CB/PB’s, despite the compressed time.
5. Global Entry interview being really quick.
6. Seeing SR/CP/AL again at a diner.

A year ago today.

11/29/14

1. Bringing dumplings to go on the way to the hospital for breakfast.
2. Being around to keep my dad company while he was in the ER.
3. Jackie going home for supplies and coming back with food and games.
4. Playing Dominion with my sister while waiting for my dad to go into surgery.
5. Being able to just walk over to the Dublin House from the hospital.
6. Having interesting conversations with several people one-on-one at the reunion.

A year ago today.

11/28/14

1. Succeeding on at least the one route while bouldering with my sister.
2. Keeping my temper while arguing with my mom.
3. Workout at gym with really good cardio session.
4. PG hosting us in his parents’ basement for the usual crowd.
5. Playing games and Sporcle.
6. Not having a curfew for when to get back to my parents'.

A year ago today.

11/27/14

1. Dim sum with the family in the morning.
2. Wearing a holiday-themed outfit with a pumpkin-colored dress.
3. Having time to go back to Holmdel to change before going out to the outlets for “Grey Thursday.”
4. Dan coming with us to help with waiting in line and holding bags.
5. Advising my sister on her clothing purchases.
6. Going to bed early at 11:30.

A year ago today.

11/26/14

1. Dumplings for lunch!
2. All the canned goods I brought back surviving the trip and TSA inspection in my checked bag.
3. Learning how to stoke the fire in the fireplace at my parents’.
4. Booking the last few bigs things needed for the South Africa trip, flight and shuttles to get out to the safari lodge.
5. Getting waved in to workout at LA Fitness.
6. Hair color not bleeding out this time even though it was the first time I washed it since getting it done on Saturday.

A year ago today.

11/25/14

1. Getting the rescheduling fee waived on the housecleaning and still being able to use the promo code for next week.
2. Running into Dan on the red line to the airport.
3. Only being slightly over the weight limit for my checked bag and being able to pull out enough to not have to pay a fee.
4. Passing the time on the flights with the music channels on Southwest’s wifi offerings.
5. Successfully getting to east coast and hotel and beating the weather.
6. Pretty nice room (with king-size bed!) at the Holiday Inn I booked for $35.

A year ago today.

11/24/14

1. Dan driving me over to Planet Granite in the morning to get a workout in.
2. Feeling energetic and awake after morning workout.
3. Getting a delicious pile of fried tacos at Los Gorditos over team lunch.
4. Succeeding in fixing the rest of the tests.
5. Dan bringing dinner for me over to trivia.
6. Finding a Tuesday flight on southwest for not that much more than our original flight to switch to.

A year ago today.

11/23/14

1. Sleeping in until 10.
2. Being right about people not being around for the BC Google Hangout.
3. Reading a book on RC’s recommendation, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, and finding it to be pretty cute.
4. Dan making spaghetti for lunch for me.
5. Strangers walking by the house letting me know I left the lights in the car on.
6. Getting a load of laundry done at the end of the day.

A year ago today.

11/22/14

1. Dan getting me to my hair appointment right at 10.
2. S taking a check so I didn’t have to go withdraw cash.
3. Taking a short nap in the afternoon.
4. Chatting to BK and JS at ELV's Lego party for CLV's birthday.
5. Watching The Red Violin movie for where the music came from.
6. Finishing the Rogues short story anthology.

A year ago today.

11/21/14

1. Getting notice of happy hour being canceled in time to rearrange the stuff I brought with me for the change in plans.
2. Finishing my full workout at the gym exactly in time.
3. Having my lunch for dinner.
4. Finding a seat in the front of the back section so Dan would be able to see me easily once he got there.
5. Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra concert performing the Enigma variations.
6. Dan going to pick up the car so I didn’t have to go out into the rain again.

A year ago today.

11/20/14

1. Having a fun time helping out with a class of 4th-6th graders with the Hour of Code and getting the lightbulb moment with a couple of the girls.
2. EB joining us at our stitching lunch.
3. Getting my eyebrows done right after lunch.
4. Remembering there’s a Bank of America ATM right in Pioneer Square to get some cash for paying the tip.
5. Taking less time than I thought it would to figure out my benefits enrollment for next year.
6. Staying late at the office to get caught up on email.

A year ago today.

11/19/14

1. Finding a few unblemished persimmons to pick with the fruit picker still.
2. Dan giving me a ride to work.
3. Feeling really great with the deadlifts in today's workout!
4. Managing to stop by the RailsBridge meetup for at least a few minutes with the bus schedule and traffic and still get home on time for the HB meeting.
5. Really well-run tech for remote dialing in to HB alums meeting.
6. Clearing out dirty dishes and delivered packages.

A year ago today.

11/18/14

1. Waking up feeling fairly refreshed around 7, despite not sleeping my usual 8+ hours.
2. Taking care of bringing out a bunch of stuff to be composted and packing up a box to return an online order.
3. Strangers on the bus coming after me to give me the hat I dropped.
4. Getting to the tool library just in time to get a fruit picker.
5. Getting to the bus stop on Hawthorne and not waiting long before a bus came.
6. Reading the Rogues short story anthology.

A year ago today.

11/17/14

1. Making it onto the 9:29 bus.
2. Delicious team lunch at Luc Lac.
3. Finding a phone room to make a couple errands phone calls.
4. Learning about SQL explain command from JH.
5. Getting workout in at the gym and feeling better/stronger than last week.
6. Having dinner at the office with what I'd brought in for lunch.

A year ago today.

11/16/14

1. Sleeping in until 11 after waking up a couple times from coughing in the middle of the night.
2. Staying warm enough to be motivated to be active with leggings under pants and vest and scarf.
3. Harvesting a couple undamaged persimmons before it got dark out.
4. Cooking up all the veggies in the fridge to be prepped for the week.
5. Dan running my library/Walgreens errands for me.
6. Thinking to use the salad spinner bowl for mixing up the tripled carrot cake recipe.

A year ago today.

11/15/14

1. Lots of hands on practice in the CPR class! Feel more confident after this one than the first CPR class I took a couple years ago.
2. Fitting in my entire workout between when the class ended and when the massage was scheduled.
3. Getting my first table massage in over a year and working out kinks in my right lower back and left shoulder.
4. Picking up my hemmed leggings from Nordstrom and browsing the clearance racks.
5. Having Dan's "Devils Risotto" for dinner.
6. Starting and finishing The Magician's Land.

A year ago today.

11/14/14

1. Figuring out how to wrangle the tests into submission finally, also used lots of git magic.
2. Afternoon pie (though it was for KM's last day).
3. Seeing LH and J in town!
4. Playing pinball and DDR at Ground Kontrol.
5. Dan picking me up from Burnside where the #20 bus dropped me off.
6. Having Dan's leftover turkey avocado half-sandwich for a second dinner.

A year ago today.

11/13/14

1. Making good progress on fixing tests in the morning working from home after I woke up strangely early.
2. Making it in to the office just in time for my 10am 1:1.
3. Progressing quickly on my knitting at lunch thanks to the index card I wrote up with notes last week to keep with the project.
4. Perfectly making the #4 bus and not having to wait out in the cold for very long.
5. Taking the bus to work out at Loprinzi's.
6. Dan picking me up at the gym after my workout.

A year ago today.

11/12/14

1. Making the bus in time to get in to the office by 11.
2. Quite good chicken sandwich and squash soup for lunch.
3. Being right about there being a bug in the service after fetching 20 items.
4. Being silly in our team Hipchat room.
5. Dan giving me a ride home from the office.
6. Finally letting myself read one of the fantasy books I'd checked out from the library a couple weeks ago and it went quickly enough that I didn't have to stay up late to finish it.

A year ago today.

11/11/14

1. Trying out Waffle Window finally.
2. Getting rides from Dan to Waffle Window and in to work.
3. Absolving myself of responsibility on a SAML pull request.
4. Taking a baked goods afternoon break with KY.
5. Surviving biking from the office over to Planet Granite and back in the wind.
6. Pumpkin ravioli made by Dan for dinner.

A year ago today.

11/10/14

1. Wearing my green ponte knit dress.
2. Multiple cups of tea throughout the day.
3. Catching the bus to the movie theater just in time.
4. Advanced Style movie being inspiring and touching.
5. Dan picking me up from movie theater.
6. Picking out photos for polaroid wall stickers Groupon.

A year ago today.

11/9/14

1. Dan giving me a ride to Planet Granite.
2. Calling my mom.
3. Finally getting around to swapping out the summer for winter clothes.
4. Getting the slow-roasted leg of lamb done at a reasonable time for dinner, despite starting it a bit late.
5. Doing a pretty good job of converting raw ingredients in fridge into ready-to-eat form.
6. Figuring out that the cheap-o dish rack I bought last year actually can come apart, to be able to clean the grossness underneath.

A year ago today.

11/8/14

1. Sleeping in until after 10, after being up late the night before.
2. Sunny and blue skies day out.
3. Going to see the Lan Su Chinese Garden and finding it comparably beautiful to the Chinese garden in Vancouver.
4. Taking a 2-hour nap in the afternoon.
5. Watching and enjoying Who Framed Roger Rabbit? with Dan.
6. Going through and trying on the dresses from my Zappos and Kiyonna orders.

A year ago today.

11/7/14

1. Getting out of bed early enough to assemble a kale/couscous salad for lunch.
2. The large square container I dumped the salad into fitting in snugly into the front basket on my bike.
3. Having plenty of time over the lunch hour to go to Nordstrom to get my leggings hemmed, mail off a bunch of packages at the post office, and still come back to have lunch.
4. Successfully figuring out how to recreate some ActiveRecord queries!
5. Having some more of the kale/couscous salad for dinner.
6. Finishing off yesterday's workout at Planet Granite and doing a bit of bouldering.

A year ago today.

11/6/14

1. Getting myself to the gym in the morning for a workout.
2. Making it into the office just in time for a 10am 1:1.
3. Getting back into my tomato red honey cowl during the first knitting lunch.
4. Finding envelopes of the right size and confirming addresses for the packages I wanted to send out.
5. Figuring out a quick fix to another params display issue.
6. Figuring out a schedule for gym visits over the next couple weeks that would get the most out of the memberships/passes I'd already bought.

A year ago today.

11/5/14

1. Sleeping in until 10 after being up several times throughout the night with the sore throat.
2. Breaking out the vacuum jug for keeping a large pot of tea hot.
3. Working from home in pajamas and fluffy robe.
4. Making roasted eggplant and halloumi for a late lunch.
5. Watching the free pilot for Showtimes' The Affair online.
6. Dan doing a bunch of the dishes to clear out the sink.

A year ago today.

11/4/14

1. Splitting up the mojo pork takeout to get two lunches out of it.
2. Discovering the tea strainers in the office kitchen for loose leaf tea.
3. Sizzle Pie pizza for dinner at the pdx.rb meetup.
4. Bringing home my work laptop in case I needed to WFH tomorrow.
5. Getting over to Planet Granite and checking out their facilities.
6. Making it home in time for The Mindy Project.

A year ago today.

11/3/14

1. Getting the full workout in in the morning.
2. Remembering that I wanted to get the memela the next time we went to Mi Mero Mole.
3. Reading and taking notes on the chapter for POODR book club in the quiet library.
4. KL having code examples to use for the first meeting of the book club.
5. Taking the bus over to not be too late.
6. Winning at bar trivia in both the main round and on the final question!

A year ago today.

11/2/14

1. Breaking out the new fish spatula to make crispy eggs on toast for breakfast.
2. Booking tickets for the Seattle Nutcracker for costumes/set design by Maurice Sendak.
3. Getting a bunch of blog posts organized and scheduled to post.
4. Using a Groupon for a local Cuban restaurant to not have to make lunch for the next few days.
5. Delicious Cuban sandwich with plantains for dinner.
6. Forcing myself to get out some recommendation letter writing.

A year ago today.

11/1/14

1. Went to the rummage sale at St. David's and picked up several large vintage silverplate trays for only $3.
2. Dan doing lots of the dishes generated from the party last night.
3. Getting my whole workout at the gym, with other people hanging around past 5 when it was supposed to close.
4. Dan's dinner of pumpkin pasta with chicken and peas being ready when I got home starving.
5. Caught up on finances for the last 2 months.
6. Finally sat down to fill out my ballot.

A year ago today.

10/31/14

1. Dan doing all the dishes and vacuuming so I didn't have to do too much cleaning after I got home.
2. Co-hosting a Halloween party with LU, with KY and EH from work coming too.
3. Remembering the mummy napkins to bring out.
4. Having more people over at once than we've had up until now (5 guests!)
5. Dan running out to pick up a wine bottle opener after we couldn't find the one we'd had.
6. Getting to keep a bunch of the bacon cheddar crackers afterwards.

A year ago today.

10/30/14

1. Getting to the gym for another morning workout!
2. Staying pretty dry on the bike ride in to work.
3. Using the shower in the women's room.
4. Delicious plantain margarita from Mi Mero Mole's happy hour.
5. Picking up a Halloween tablecloth and cupcake decorating kit at Freddy's for just a few dollars, 40% off.
6. Chocolate chocolate chip muffins coming out really well, didn't overfill the liners at all.

A year ago today.

10/29/14

1. Pulling together an outfit with my Liberty floral print button-down shirt with knit red skirt and black studded boots.
2. Getting lots of compliments on the outfit!
3. Clearing the other distracting PRs I'd had open for awhile.
4. Getting stuff in the CSA that would supplement what I had been planning to make from stuff I still had from last week.
5. Bringing the carrot greens upstairs to compost at the office.
6. Dan getting home before me and putting the CSA meat into the freezer.

A year ago today.

10/28/14

1. Getting to the gym in the morning for another morning workout!
2. Filling up enough at lunch with leftover yakisoba from yesterday and one of the leftover hard-boiled eggs.
3. Pulling out my Greek yogurt and granola during the team afternoon snack break.
4. Getting my replacement Jawbone band in the mail.
5. Pulling together roasted carrots, parsnips, and beets from last week with avocado and orange into a filling dinner salad.
6. Cooking up the spaghetti squash, Swiss chard, and broccoli rabe with rib meat from the pig roast into lunch for the rest of the week.

A year ago today.

10/27/14

1. Team lunch at a Japanese restaurant with excellent yakisoba.
2. Getting started with the POODR book club at work.
3. Dan heating up dinner for me.
4. Getting a torta from Tacqueria Gorditos because I was still hungry.
5. Nightmare on Division St. #4 movie premiere being hilarious.
6. Giving DC a ride home back to NE so he wouldn't have to take the bus.

A year ago today.

10/26/14

1. Bigger group than usual for the hangout with BC friends: EN/DC/CC/DC.
2. Setting up a green tomato chutney and a pear sauce in the slow cookers.
3. Sun coming out for a nice fall day.
4. Getting to the gym to finish the workout in time before closing.
5. Dan helping me take reference photos in front of the house.
6. Writing up the essays needed for the Georgia Tech program and submitting the application.

A year ago today.

10/25/14

1. Wearing my leather jacket out, since I wasn't biking and wouldn't be outside for long.
2. Brunch with my cousin and her husband, in town celebrating their wedding anniversary.
3. Savoring a couple more delicious pieces of chocolate from Belgium.
4. Throwing together a salad with various fruits and veggies already in the fridge.
5. Getting to help out with carving the roasted pig!
6. Watching Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure finally.

A year ago today.

10/24/14

1. Getting up and out for another morning workout! 
2. Finished the workout in an hour.
3. Getting my transcript from BC faxed over before their office closed for the weekend.
4. Getting a popover pan on sale from Sur la Table to try to make the giant muffin with soft-boiled egg on the inside.
5. Dan picking me up from Sur la Table.
6. Getting to be right at the front of the stage for the Rachael Yamagata concert.

A year ago today.

10/23/14

1. Wearing my pageboy hat, since I didn't bike, and getting several compliments on it.
2. Getting DC's help on figuring out what to do about an open PR.
3. Talking to TL about career development.
4. Getting to my eyebrow appointment right on time.
5. Running into CLV on the bus home.
6. Cobbling together dinner of steamed broccoli, grilled cheese sandwich with smoked paprika tomato jam, and roasted acorn squash.

A year ago today.

10/22/14

1. Getting out of bed and to the gym in the morning!
2. Finding that Loprinzi's had all the equipment I needed.
3. Shower facilities at work being really nice.
4. Getting to my hair color appointment on time, despite the rain.
5. Getting home by 8:30.
6. Watching TV with Dan.

A year ago today.

10/21/14

1. Putting together an outfit with a color combo I quite liked: vintage purple blazer with puffed shoulders, silver triangle earrings, olive green utility pants, and brown suede desert boots.
2. Successfully fitting the Eddie Bauer clothes I needed to return into my pannier bag.
3. Fitting the Madewell clothes onto my bike as well.
4. Getting to both stores before they closed to return the online orders.
5. Scooping out perfect amount of soup for dinner.
6. Not taking too long to go through the videos/transcripts in the Getting Started Guide for the IWT-Fit course.

A year ago today.

10/20/14

1. Sleeping in until 9 and waking up feeling well-rested.
2. Going out for lunch with the team to a Thai restaurant.
3. Sitting down and getting a bunch of phone calls done.
4. Dan heating up dinner for me to bring to trivia.
5. Pita chips and sausage-lentil stew going together quite well.
6. Getting a few good answers at bar trivia.

A year ago today.

10/19/14

1. Sleeping in until 10.
2. Only needing to do two loads of laundry, I thought I might have to do four.
3. Re-reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
4. Going to check out the annual Portland Nursery Apple Tasting and getting some delicious freshly pressed apple juice/cider.
5. Converting all the veggies in the fridge into ready-to-eat food.
6. Finding enough space in the fridge for all the food, even with the soup and stew made today.

A year ago today.

10/18/14

1. Getting my stuff and having breakfast in plenty of time before LU came by.
2. Sun and blue skies coming out while we were out at the apple farm.
3. Fitting all my apple, pear, cider, and squash purchases into the box I'd brought.
4. Napping in the car on the way home.
5. Having the turkey club sandwich I brought home yesterday for a late lunch/early dinner.
6. Watching Pirates of Silicon Valley with Dan.

A year ago today.

10/17/14

1. Being silly with the team while we took the time to decide where to go for lunch.
2. Getting the smoked lamb dark mole with nachos.
3. Fitting my work laptop and CSA veggies all on my bike.
4. Staying mostly dry while biking in the drizzle on the way home.
5. Running into KL/KG while waiting in the will-call line.
6. Getting to our seats just before the show started.

A year ago today.

10/16/14

1. Remembering to bring my ballet tickets with me to work.
2. Getting to the office in time to have breakfast before my 1:1.
3. Settling down and figuring out my next task was easier than I thought it would be.
4. Catching most of the pre-show "Performance Perspectives" presentation.
5. Finding that my cheapo ballet subscription got me a seat near the center, 2nd row!
6. Live music performed on stage with the Oregon Ballet Theater shows, so beautiful.

A year ago today.

10/15/14

1. Getting a compliment from KL on my new gray waterproof coat.
2. Getting bibimbap for lunch for a healthier meal.
3. Managing to fit my CSA box into the bottom level of the fridge.
4. Scavenging dinner of tacos from the food they'd had out for the ChickTech imposter syndrome workshop.
5. Sitting down with a group including ND/KY/AC and foisting my feedback upon them in the exercise they were doing.
6. Getting to the movie theater before Dan, despite leaving the office a bit late.

A year ago today.

10/14/14

1. Talking to a rep about our 401k plan options.
2. Getting Ada Lovelace Day chocolates from JS, in even fancier packaging than last year.
3. Booking some flights to/from SFO for pretty cheap using Avios points.
4. Grabbing some chicken wings and pizza at the office for a free dinner.
5. Learning how to play Blokus. 
6. Taking the car out in the rain to pick up ND's credit card from North Bar.

A year ago today.

10/13/14

1. Wearing my leopard print flats and getting through the day without blisters (some pre-emptive bandaids were involved).
2. Figuring out how to do the refactoring and fix the tests all on my own.
3. Pretty cool demo of Ducksboard product.
4. Going out for a walk with ND while doing a debrief of our Hallway Track from last week.
5. Having a long conversation with ND at bar trivia about her career aspirations.
6. Fairly light rain, didn't get too wet in the bike ride home.

A year ago today.

10/12/14

1. Meeting LC and her friend M for breakfast at Pine State Biscuits.
2. Getting to the library in time to return some books.
3. Very efficient to get my flu shot at Walgreens.
4. Finding that my Swiss chard has rebounded since I last harvested it, and even though I was gone for 2 weeks.
5. Harvesting the Little Fingers carrots I'd planted.
6. Making an onion marmalade and Havarti grilled cheese sandwich to supplement my dinner.

A year ago today.

10/11/14

1. Sleeping in with no alarm for the first time in two weeks.
2. Having risotto for lunch.
3. Pulling together a decent pirate-ish costume for myself.
4. Hanging out with DC and ZK and partners at the mystery adventure.
5. Having fun playing arcade games with Dan at the Avalon.
6. Catching up on The Mindy Project and Once Upon a Time.

A year ago today.

10/10/14

1. Really warm welcome back from my team.
2. Finding that KL had even set up all my stuff for me with the desk move.
3. Catching up with teammates.
4. Pretty decent Thai noodles from a new-to-me food truck.
5. Dan coming to pick me up from the office.
6. Spinach-sausage-tomato risotto for dinner.

A year ago today.

10/9/14

1. Chorizo mini-burritos for breakfast.
2. Great talk by EG from AirBnB on pitfalls to avoid for designing better experiments.
3. Meeting more of the recent Hackbright graduates and encouraging them to give talks.
4. Getting the Data Nerd headshot photos taken, by myself and also with AL.
5. Succeeding on at least the first two routes when going climbing with CF and AL.
6. Getting to the airport in time to grab a sandwich before boarding.

A year ago today.

10/8/14

1. Great response to my Ask vs. Guess Cultures talk at the Hallway Track.
2. Bacon and fried chicken sandwich food truck sandwich for lunch.
3. Meeting some cool women at the conference by talking about their cool colored hair.
4. Trying Japanese curry for the first time.
5. EL finding that the coat check at the venue had free ear plugs available.
6. Hanging out at the hotel view lounge and getting gossip from CF/AL.

A year ago today.

10/7/14

1. Successfully getting on the flight to SF despite the quick turnaround/repacking and lack of sleep.
2. Getting lunch with RC/SB/MB at the Google SF office.
3. Beautiful day out at the venue/conference orientation.
4. Delicious food at Kin Khao.
5. Catching up with classmates from my Hackbright class.
6. Going to sleep pretty much as soon we got back to the room.

A year ago today.

10/6/14

1. Showering off the grime from traveling.
2. Not too hot or humid out in Bradenton.
3. Being able to be there for Dan and his family as they mourned.
4. Actually a pretty decent toasted sandwich with cold cuts from Quiznos (helped by my addition of banana peppers and pepperoncini from their fixings bar).
5. No questions asked to check my bag at the gate.
6. Starting to read Sandi Metz’ book, Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby.

A year ago today.

10/5/14

1. Remembering to go back to my room to leave a tip.
2. Running into another ArrrrCamp attendee to have company on the tram ride in to the train station and the train ride to Brussels.
3. Realizing that I was on the wrong train before it was too late and being able to get off at the next stop and get a cab to the airport.
4. The counter agent taking pity on me and checking me and my bag in still, with less than an hour to go before the flight.
5. Getting a bunch of blog post writing done before watching episodes of House of Lies and Girls.
6. The beer and glasses I packed surviving the trip.

A year ago today.

10/4/14

1. Successfully getting myself to Bruges.
2. Fun tour at the brewery, especially the great view from the roof.
3. Getting out from the crowds of tourists into the countryside with low, flat fields and enormously tall trees lining canals.
4. Making it back in time to pick up gifts for people from the brewery shop and some chocolates.
5. Waiting out the sudden downpour in a chocolate shop.
6. Meeting up with an Australia girl from the bike tour, C, and getting dinner of mussels and fries with her at a restaurant recommended by the bike tour guide.

A year ago today.

10/3/14

1. Successfully booking my TPA-PDX flight finally, Chase's website decided to start working again.
2. Socializing and chatting with people I'd met yesterday but also new people during all the breaks today.
3. Conference organizers making me a non-alcoholic mojito.
4. Making it just in time to back to the Belfry to get a couple postcards.
5. Taking a nap before the boat party.
6. Finding a place open late at night to get a cheap shawarma sandwich, which really hit the spot.

A year ago today.

10/2/14

1. Pretty impressive breakfast spread at hotel buffet, including good cold cuts and a make-your-own boiled egg station
2. Talk went really well!!! Felt much smoother than when I was at RailsConf.
3. Getting some fun swag, pirate logo tote bag, stickers, and some Belgian beer and paraphernalia as a speaker gift.
4. Really enjoying the single track, smaller conference style.
5. Free dinner after RailsGirls Hackathon.
6. Going on a group evening walk through Ghent.

A year ago today.

10/1/14

1. Successfully getting myself from the Brussels airport to the hotel in Ghent.
2. Napping and showering at the hotel.
3. Really nice day in Ghent, only partly cloudy with blue skies and very comfortable temperature
4. Successfully finding my way to the church with the Van Eyck painting and getting there 20 min before they closed for the day.
5. Walking up to the belfry tower to hear the 5:30 bells chime from the top.
6. Getting a nicely large portion size pasta for dinner after not having eaten for awhile.

A year ago today.

9/30/14

1. Getting an economy plus seat for the flight to Chicago due to a family wanting to sit together.
2. Surprisingly wide spread of movies on United’s wifi, had a fun time watching trailers.
3. Cubano sandwich from Rick Bayless place being actually really good, and only $6.
4. Plenty of outlets at O’Hare, enough to fully charge my phone and laptop both during the layover.
5. Middle seat in my row being empty for the 8 hour Chicago-Brussels flight.
6. Watching the Lego movie, American Hustle, and Across the Universe (for the music).

A year ago today.

9/29/14

1. Wearing my new light brown sweater dress with brown leggings and cowboy boots, very comfortable outfit.
2. Getting a plug adapter kit from IT.
3. Remembering to print out directions for my trip while still at the office.
4. Having for dinner what I had brought for lunch.
5. Remembering to transfer the frozen blanched vegetables to freezer bags.
6. Finding the sunflower quilt and travel blanket after being unsuccessful when I went looking last week.

A year ago today.

9/28/14

1. Frying up some bacon and eggs to go with toast for a full breakfast.
2. Catching up with my BC friends over a Google Hangout for the first time in a couple months.
3. Much larger harvest that I'd expected of the Swiss chard I'd been growing, and I even left some of the smaller stalks on there still to see how long they'd last on their own.
4. Getting a couple laundry loads done.
5. Sous vide pork chops turning out splendidly, even Dan liked them.
6. Thinking of frying up the CSA turnips in the leftover butter from browning the pork chops.

A year ago today.

9/27/14

1. Sleeping in until after noon.
2. Buying the latest Tana French mystery novel, The Secret Place.
3. Spending all afternoon on the couch reading.
4. Dan making chicken stew for dinner.
5. Dan doing all the dishes.
6. Watching Cheaper By the Dozen (the original from 1950).

A year ago today.

9/26/14

1. Microwaved corn for lunch.
2. Figuring out how to copy over production data to my local database.
3. Doing a practice run-through of my talk with AK and really starting to think about how to adapt it for next week.
4. Getting a burrito from Santeria as I was suddenly very hungry.
5. Happy hour at secret Bailey's and getting to know RC better.
6. Staying up late reading Broken Harbor, just because.

A year ago today.

9/25/14

1. Remembering I needed to get in to the office in time for my 1:1.
2. Getting to try out the dumpling food truck over at the big carts for lunch.
3. Writing tests for the method I'd been fixing actually not being too bad.
4. Deciding to stay in for the evening instead of going to the gym, after having gone out for coffee to meet a new developer.
5. Spending the evening re-reading Alif the Unseen.
6. Going to bed early.

A year ago today.

9/24/14

1. Getting a ride to the office in the morning from my mom/sister, before they headed off to the airport.
2. Not too busy a day to get back into the swing of things.
3. Reading a graphic novel, American Born Chinese, during my hair appointment.
4. Seafoam color hair streaks this time being totally spot on!
5. Fixing myself a last panzanella salad for dinner.
6. Reading Alif the Unseen and getting really caught up in it.

A year ago today.

9/23/14

1. Excellent breakfast sandwich from the food truck Fried Egg I'm in Love, with Havarti, avocado, a fried egg, and sriracha.
2. Picking up bread from Grand Central in the car, so I wouldn't have to bike back up the hill afterwards.
3. Having time to return a bunch of books to the library and pick up fresh mozzarella for panzanella salads for dinner.
4. Seeing lots of salmon at the fish hatchery.
5. Amazing view from the Crown Point Vista House, even with the clouds and rain.
6. Teaching my sister how to play Dominion.

A year ago today.

9/22/14

1. Cobbling together a decent hot breakfast for my mom and sister.
2. Still a good number of roses in bloom at the rose garden.
3. Later start to the day working out with the Japanese tea garden not opening until noon anyway.
4. Playing chess against my sister with a random giant set of chess at a public square area downtown.
5. Playing arcade games with my sister at Ground Kontrol.
6. Going to the gym with my sister.

A year ago today.

9/21/14

1. "Bowl of the Gods" for breakfast at Kure, very delicious and healthy.
2. Taking a short nap in the afternoon.
3. Dan doing all the dishes and vacuuming and setting up the air mattress.
4. Mom and sister visiting!
5. One last roast duck available at Fubonn.
6. Making it to the drive-in in plenty of time.

A year ago today.

9/20/14

1. Getting up in time in the morning to get a lifting session in.
2. Successfully getting the salmon CSA home and fitting 2 shares into our freezer.
3. Great view from Pittock Mansion.
4. Making it to all the downtown locations on our list in time before they closed.
5. Discovering a really nice new food truck pod on Division.
6. Getting ice cream at Salt & Straw.

A year ago today.

9/19/14

1. Sleeping in in the morning and catching up on sleep.
2. Discovering a nearby vintage/thrifty store for 12+ sizes and finding a cute and comfortable sweater dress, brand new, for $19.
3. Taking with RS so much that my throat kept getting sore.
4. A late lunch at Lardo with a really good chicken liver and fried chicken skin sandwich.
5. Dan coming to pick us up from Division.
6. Having a good time listening to the bluegrass band at Alberta St. Pub, not too loud or crowded.

A year ago today.

9/18/14

1. Only a very light drizzle on my bike ride in in the morning, didn't even really get wet.
2. Brown huaraches not rubbing against the back of my feet, didn't need a band-aid at all. Might actually be broken in?
3. Having a fun time volunteering at the SE Portland Tool Library, mainly due to C and J's long-married-couple banter.
4. Fitting everything I picked up at Fred Meyer into just the front basket on my bike.
5. Roasted eggplant soup being easy to make, quite tasty, and finishing up just as we needed to head out to pick up RS.
6. Picking up RS from the airport!

A year ago today.

9/17/14

1. Fish sauce wings and the mussels at Luc Lac being really good, much better than Pok Pok.
2. Meeting CB's friend, BV and having a good time getting to know her.
3. Not failing at last week's weights for squat and deadlift, even though I hadn't gone for a week.
4. Bathroom being sparkling clean after a cleaning service I booked from a LivingSocial coupon.
5. Cooking up some tater tots to supplement a salad for dinner.
6. Sitting and organizing the various segments to the South Africa trip!

A year ago today.

9/16/14

1. Getting lunch from Sonny Bowl for the first time and finding the chickpeas and kale salad with peanut sauce being quite delicious and filling.
2. Going out for coffee and having a nice long chat with DC.
3. Getting a bunch of errands done, including getting my eyebrows done and returning items to Nordstrom and J.Crew.
4. Remembering to check up on my plants and finding that they were actually doing ok, despite not being watered for a couple days.
5. Dan's plan of getting takeout meatballs to supplement dinner working out quite well.
6. The return of The Mindy Project and the last 5 minutes of that episode being delightful (and objectifying, ok, but also delightful).

A year ago today.

9/15/14

1. Waking up refreshed at 8.
2. Getting a load of laundry in.
3. Not feeling too hungry in the afternoon despite skipping lunch.
4. Dan having spaghetti and meatballs all ready for dinner for when we got home.
5. JD and K being back at trivia, as well as DC and a bunch of others.
6. Winning at bar trivia finally!!!! First time in months.

A year ago today.

9/14/14

1. Lazy morning in the hotel.
2. K's friend's mother treating us to lunch.
3. Absolutely beautiful day and great view from our seats for the Mariners game.
4. Napping a bit on the drive back and not hitting traffic.
5. Dinner at home of spaghetti and meatballs.
6. Unpacking quickly for once.

A year ago today.

9/13/14

1. No line at all really to sign up for a Planet Granite membership and get the limited edition free t-shirt.
2. KL having an extra free ticket for us.
3. Fabulous fabulous time at the Washington State Fair: got a deep-fried oreo, seeing all the adorable rabbits and guinea pigs and piglets, riding a wooden roller coaster, elephant ears, chocolate chip cookies...good times.
4. Mutton bustin' (kids trying to stay on sheep) being just as delightful as I thought it'd be.
5. Dan finding the deep-fried butter stand and observing a group of teenagers try it out.
6. Getting on a shuttle that was just about to leave as we left the fairgrounds.

A year ago today.

9/12/14

1. Getting home canned goods from TF's wife for the veggies yesterday: peach butter and pickled strawberries!
2. Having lunch with ND, who was in town for XOXO.
3. Noticing a LivingSocial deal for visiting Pittock Mansion, which I was probably going to go with visitors next weekend anyway.
4. Engaging and interesting discussion with other Ruby devs and not acrimonious at all.
5. Staving off my hunger with the leftover green veggies.
6. Dan making me spaghetti and meatballs for dinner.

A year ago today.

9/11/14

1. Indulging in a chocolate chip cookie and a cinnamon sugar cookie from the afternoon Q&A with our head legal person.
2. Pairing with KM to figure out how to set up an email template for her email with an attachment.
3. Running into TF as I was leaving to hear that someone else had taken his box, so gave him the extra box of veggies I was taking home.
4. Going for the biggest bottle of fancy olive oil to have for salads.
5. Stopping at the library to pick up one book and finding 4 others that I'd just requested on Tuesday already being there as well, nice.
6. First harvest of some of the Swiss chard I planted.

A year ago today.

9/10/14

1. Getting to the gym for a lifting workout in the morning.
2. Running errands on the way home from the gym.
3. Going out in the afternoon for a slice of pie from Lauretta Jean's.
4. Successfully helping KM get set up to send herself emails locally.
5. Fixing both of the encoding tickets on my plate, both of which were one-line changes.
6. Using scallions instead of basil for my panzanella salad for dinner tonight, which worked out quite well.

A year ago today.

9/9/14

1. Dragging myself out of bed before the potential house cleaner came by.
2. Finding an excerpt from the upcoming sequel to Red Rising.
3. The newly hemmed fire red jeans stretching out a bit throughout the day to be pretty comfortable.
4. Fixing a second bug before I left the office for the day.
5. Making up a big salad with the remainders from Sunday, a couple of the CSA tomatoes, the remainder of the lettuce, and some bread cubes.
6. Going to bed early to make up for being up so late the night before.

A year ago today.

9/8/14

1. #14 bus coming by just as I crossed the street to the stop, after dropping off the laptop charger cable at the UPS Store.
2. Getting some practical and useful career advice from BR.
3. Making it to Penzey's before they closed, to pick up some spices.
4. Enough sausage & peppers left for me to heat it up quickly and bring with some bread to the bar for dinner.
5. Trivia wrapping up pretty quickly, got home before 10.
6. Getting really into Red Rising--it's Ender's Game + Hunger Games + Game of Thrones!

A year ago today.

9/7/14

1. Cantaloupe agua fresca being quite refreshing, I prefer it to eating cantaloupe straight.
2. The folks at the Tool Library being very patient in showing me how to work on repairing various tools.
3. Finally getting caught up on our finances for the last couple months.
4. Dan making lentils for dinner.
5. Started writing a Portland visitor guide.
6. Broke out the sewing machine to make a couple quick fixes and start whittling down the pile of jeans to be hemmed.

A year ago today.

9/6/14

1. Getting to the gym for a full hour's workout.
2. Picking up a big load of books at the library.
3. Dan making a delicious sausage and peppers for dinner.
4. Fixing the screws on the wobbly aqua shell chair.
5. Finally finding decent bubble tea in Portland, at the Jade Night Market.
6. Going through my recent clothing purchases and clearing out pants I don't like wearing.

A year ago today.

9/5/14

1. Getting taken out for lunch by BR to celebrate the end of the NA project, pork shoulder yum.
2. Figuring out on my own why my local server was sending emails just to one email address.
3. Getting really good news right before heading out for the day!
4. Dan bringing lime chips to the concert.
5. Getting a perfect spot at the venue, next to a diagonal aisle so wouldn't be blocked by people in front, near the beginning of the hill so wouldn't have to stand up to see either.
6. Really fun Avett Brothers concert!

A year ago today.

9/4/14

1. Deciding to skip an errand to make it to the sneak peek on time.
2. Meeting up with a guy I argue with on Twitter to go check out the gym together.
3. Going to a sneak peek of the new Planet Granite gym opening in Portland.
4. Getting to ask questions of the PG gym staff about their fitness area setup.
5. Learning a new game at board game night, Acquire, and enjoying it even though you don't really know who's winning until the reckoning is done at the end.
6. Supplementing dinner with sliced tomatoes on toast, sprinkled with a bit of sea salt, and one of the cantaloupes from the CSA this week.

A year ago today.

9/3/14

1. Sleeping in and getting 8.5 hours.
2. Going out with sushi with ELV.
3. Getting BM's help to knock out two bugs that I'd been plugging away at throughout the afternoon.
4. LU coming with me to this month's Portland Preservation Society swap.
5. Dan bringing home a new watermelon for me!
6. Finishing up my whole workout at the gym

A year ago today.

9/2/14

1. Satisfying lunch with roast chicken drumsticks and carrots/green beans.
2. Pie at the office to celebrate the opening of the staircase finally.
3. Helping TP realize a bug had already been fixed.
4. Starting to plan my trip to Belgium.
5. Catching up with AB(m) over Skype and planning a potential South Africa trip with him!
6. Having a large slice of chocolate banana cake with milk for dessert.

A year ago today.

9/1/14

1. Sleeping in until around noon, after being up so late to finish off the tomatoes.
2. Arranging the jars of tomatoes to set up a nice Instagram of the before/after.
3. Finally getting around to setting up a batch of red beet eggs.
4. Clearing out and organizing various papers and receipts.
5. Shredded cucumber with Nong's Khao Man Gai sauce and sesame oil for dinner, that was an inspired idea.
6. Pulling out "Elrond" to sweep the Middle Earth category.

A year ago today.

8/31/14

1. Getting the ketchup and 2nd batch of tomato sauce started up in the slow cookers first thing in the morning.
2. Opening up two items from the last canning swap, blueberries in lavender syrup and blackberry jam.
3. Completing all my lifts at the gym, even though they were feeling quite heavy.
4. Maldon salt happening to be on sale at New Seasons.
5. Having the last of the pesto on toast to tide me over before the slow roasted chicken was done.
6. Finishing canning the box of tomatoes at long last.

A year ago today.

8/30/14

1. Not taking too long to set up tomatoes and plums in the slow cookers.
2. Making it to the tool library just in time before they closed.
3. Grand Central Bakery still having the kalamata olive, campagnolo, and ciabatta breads that I wanted.
4. Making a panzanella salad for dinner.
5. Having just enough sugar left to set up tomorrow's batch of spiced baked plum butter.
6. Not taking too long to cook down the plum butter and tomato sauce on the stovetop after being in slow cookers for most of the day.

A year ago today.

8/29/14

1. Weekly demo meeting going smoothly.
2. Sitting with a different group of people than usual at early lunch.
3. Having the yogurt I would have had for breakfast as a late afternoon snack.
4. Heading out from the office at 6 after I had nothing left to do for the day.
5. Getting to the gym with enough time before they closed at 10.
6. Lounging on the couch and watching random Law & Order episodes on TV.

A year ago today.

8/28/14

1. Not taking too long to pull together my plan for tomorrow's demo.
2. Picking up purple garlic at the farmer's market.
3. Resisting the urge to buy more fruit.
4. Making it to the local liquor store before they closed.
5. Finishing off the last of the stale loaf of ciabatta with dinner.
6. Getting together my grocery list for Dan to pick up everything before the weekend.

A year ago today.

8/27/14

1. Getting corn and lots of tomatoes in the CSA this week again!
2. Dan picking me up for dinner with his mom and other Dan.
3. Dan giving me a ride to Powell's and the gym.
4. Finishing up the workout pretty quickly.
5. Figuring out a rough plan for canning all the tomatoes.
6. Going to bed early.

A year ago today.

8/26/14

1. Not feeling too tired throughout the day, despite not sleeping well due to allergies.
2. Making it to the Tool Library before they closed.
3. Getting home safely with the 12' fruit picker.
4. Picking 2 large bowls of plums.
5. Dan bringing home a watermelon!
6. Washing up the pears and plums and finding that most of it was quite good still.

A year ago today.

8/25/14

1. Tackling some changes on my own instead of having to pair to figure them out.
2. Dropping off The Mists of Avalon at the library on the way home after I forgot on the way to work in the morning.
3. Dan only doing an 8 hour day and getting groceries to make up for the busy weekend.
4. Dan's mom and other Dan coming to bar trivia with us.
5. Tying for top score going into the final round, so we could put in Springsteen as a player-chosen round for next week.
6. Going to bed pretty early after coming home from trivia.

A year ago today.

8/24/14

1. Getting a good start to the day from not sleeping in.
2. Having the whole place to myself for the day.
3. Improvised CSA cabbage, meat CSA smoked sausage, and diced tomato stew working out surprisingly well.
4. Going lifting! The gym actually had a bench press bench that's actually low enough to the ground that I didn't need to prop my feet up on anything.
5. Getting 2 loads laundry done.
6. Dan's mom taking us out the Italian-American place that Dan had wanted to try for awhile.

A year ago today.

8/23/14

1. Going on another bike fruit harvest, this time with plums and pears.
2. Lunch of tomato slices with pesto on toast.
3. Plenty of blooms still out at the International Rose Test Garden.
4. Making up a burst tomato galette for dinner, which Dan's mom seemed to enjoy.
5. Making up two batches of plum jam.
6. Having the straw mat in easy reach when I was too hot and needed to sleep on the floor to cool down.

A year ago today.

8/22/14

1. Sticking to easy code changes for Friday afternoon.
2. Catching up with ELV a bit at her birthday happy hour.
3. Significantly cooling off outside for the 2nd half of my bike ride home.
4. Just about enough time to throw the remaining clutter into the basement before heading to the airport.
5. Dinner of tomato slices with pesto on toast.
6. Dan's mom in good spirits and having a good first impression of Portland.

A year ago today.

8/21/14

1. Making it in on time for a 9am 1:1 with a couple minutes to spare.
2. Having breakfast at the office for the first time in awhile, since I got in so (relatively) early.
3. More even-keeled retro than last time's.
4. Snagging more potatoes, corn, and tomatoes from leftover CSA boxes.
5. Walking over to the PDX Girl Develop It launch party with KY and KM.
6. Having microwaved ears of corn with just butter, salt, and pepper for dinner.

A year ago today.

8/20/14

1. Merging in yesterday's PR and opening up a new one.
2. Lots of great stuff in the CSA this week! Lots of tomatoes and corn.
3. Dan going out to get chorizo so I could make soup.
4. Remembering on my way home that I'd probably need to get an onion for the soup too.
5. Coming home to Dan having done the dishes.
6. Having both a salad and slices tomatoes with mozzarella and pesto on toast for dinner.

A year ago today.

8/19/14

1. Getting over 9 hours of sleep and feeling amazing afterwards.
2. Nice cool morning for a bike ride.
3. Not missing the discussion portion of the meeting despite being late, due to their technical difficulties.
4. Actually a pretty comfortable ride home, too, despite it being pretty hot out at lunch.
5. Pulling together a CSA salad for dinner.
6. Starting to get into reading The Mists of Avalon.

A year ago today.

8/18/14

1. Getting in some sleep on the flight back from Sacramento at least.
2. Making it to Pastaworks before they closed and getting fresh mozzarella and some aged hard cheese.
3. Finding that the mozzarella price at Pastaworks was actually better than at Freddy's or New Seasons.
4. Remembering to check on the plants and finding that they actually weren't too wilted.
5. Making a dinner of slices of CSA heirloom tomato on CSA basil pesto and mozzarella on toast.
6. Dan getting me a new watermelon from Costco.

A year ago today.

8/17/14

1. Sleeping in again.
2. Getting tacos for lunch again.
3. Figuring out a way to arrange my pashmina so I wouldn't risk wardrobe malfunctions.
4. Outdoor wedding ceremony being on a shaded patio.
5. Getting compliments on my green feather hat.
6. Getting a compliment from Dan on my makeup for the wedding!

A year ago today.

8/16/14

1. Sleeping in until 10:30.
2. Accidentally going to a Mexican grocery store and checking the unusual-to-us items there.
3. Dan's family being really happy to see him.
4. Lounging around in the air-conditioned hotel room.
5. Disney movie marathon on TV: The Little Mermaid, Mulan, Tangled.
6. Putting together a pretty good dinner with the rolls, carnitas from the supermarket, and leftover potato pickles salad.

A year ago today.

8/15/14

1. Pedicure finished up in time to get back for an afternoon meeting.
2. #12 bus pulling up just as I made it outside.
3. Having a conversation with strangers at the Max station about my potato pickle salad dinner.
4. Running into JG and S on the Max.
5. Making our connection in Oakland.
6. Enterprise car counter still open when we got there.

A year ago today.

8/14/14

1. Driving to and back from the dentist's, with Dan being downtown for a conference.
2. Having a late breakfast at home before biking in to work.
3. Getting the PDX Burger Week burger from Mi Mero Mole: pork-chorizo patty, with a bacon-wrapped chile relleno on top!
4. Making more pesto from the extra basil I'd picked up.
5. Fitting a cookie sheet into the freezer to freeze cherry tomatoes.
6. Not staying up too late to pack.

A year ago today.

8/13/14

1. Relaxing time getting my eyebrows done.
2. Being able to return an item to Nordstrom despite forgetting the paper receipt.
3. Picking up a foundation and brush from Sephora.
4. Tabbouli with the rest of the pretzels for dinner.
5. Canning a few more kinds of peach jam and the plums from our backyard.
6. Feeling less stressed after deciding to skip board game night.

A year ago today.

8/12/14

1. Not feeling too tired in the morning, despite getting back so late the night before.
2. Potato/squash frittata for lunch.
3. Having lunch with the women that are starting up a Girl Develop It chapter in Portland.
4. New (interim) manager being receptive to my "getting to know you" spiel.
5. Tabbouli with pretzels for dinner.
6. Spending the evening reading instead of canning.

A year ago today.

8/11/14

1. Potato-zucchini frittata coming out quite well for lunch.
2. Having a conversation with BK about Ask vs. Guess.
3. Meeting LM at the Cascadia Ruby Party!
4. Playing around with Rubik's Cubes at CP's station.
5. EH giving me some sweet compliments on my process change suggestions.
6. Mostly a comfortable temperature outside by the time I got home.

A year ago today.

8/10/14

1. Brunch at Ned Ludd, with delicious grilled blueberry muffins and corn pancakes.
2. Two garage sales just across the street from us, picked up a couple baskets to organize my stuff at work.
3. Getting through all my cooking projects (blanching peaches to macerate in fridge for a few days, double chocolate banana bread, tabbouli, sauerkraut, potato-zucchini frittata) without making the kitchen too hot.
4. Picking quite a few plums from the plum tree, even with only having a short ladder to be able to reach up.
5. Figuring out how to fit everything into the fridge, including the slow cooker insert.
6. Getting Dan to drop me off at Powell's after the Goodwill run so I could do some browsing.

A year ago today.

8/9/14

1. Sleeping in until 10:30.
2. Finding a bunch of fruit flies in the fruit fly trap.
3. Making scrambled eggs and tomatoes with chive cream cheese on toast for breakfast.
4. Re-reading Fangirl.
5. Making a salad with CSA lettuce, tomatoes, pickled garlic, mozzarella, and pickled sweet plums.
6. Discovering a Rainbow Rowell book that I hadn't read yet, and getting it for just $1.99 on Amazon.

A year ago today.

8/8/14

1. Dan giving me a ride in to the office in the morning.
2. Going for a coffee walk and chat with MAS.
3. Setting up a Q&A with my team and our director.
4. Having leftover sandwich fixings to make myself a second sandwich for dinner.
5. Going to the drive-in theater.
6. Falling asleep pretty quickly once we got home.

A year ago today.

8/7/14

1. Using the toaster oven to melt the cheese on my corned beef/salami sandwich.
2. All-team retro for the first time in awhile for me.
3. Interesting information at the SVP's monthly Q&A session.
4. Getting a flat of peaches at the farmer's market for $20.
5. Successfully getting all those peaches home without significantly bruising or crushing them.
6. Reading Rainbow Rowell's Landline.

A year ago today.

8/6/14

1. Apartment was actually below 80 degrees in the morning!
2. Eventually succeeding in getting the heatmap color gradient into the legend.
3. Making it to the August meeting of the Portland Preservation Society.
4. Getting my top choices at the trade, including a raspberry gin and various syrups with vanilla and lavender.
5. Lots of interest in my pickled sweet cherries! And I thought they wouldn't go at all.
6. Hitting 10k steps thanks to the walk out for lunch, an afternoon walk to the smoothie shop, and biking to/from work and to/from the PPS meeting.

A year ago today.

8/5/14

1. Radish-chive cream cheese-salami-corned beef on olive bread sandwich for lunch.
2. Fixing a bug in with the color gradient scale.
3. Grabbing pizza from the PDX Ruby meetup for dinner.
4. Vegan chocolate cupcake and peach cobbler for dessert.
5. Actually comfortable temperature outside for the bike ride home.
6. Didn't take too long to can up the figs into fig jam.

A year ago today.

8/4/14

1. Bringing corn-chorizo soup for lunch instead of everything that would be needed for panzanella salad instead.
2. Getting a bunch of fresh figs from LC!
3. Figuring out how to set up the new heatmap color gradient scale.
4. Panzanella salad for dinner.
5. Team doing well at bar trivia, got quite a few good answers, though still lost by a point in the end.
6. Finding some fig jam recipes that would let me just macerate them overnight.

A year ago today.

8/3/14

1. Getting a full 8 hours of sleep for the first time in a couple nights.
2. Dan patiently driving me to two different farmers markets and two different Fred Meyers.
3. Picking up a few basil, Swiss chard, and carrot plants to give planting them by the house a go.
4. Making a panzanella salad for a late lunch.
5. Really fun and exciting Portland Thorns soccer game!
6. Getting our car from the parking garage quickly and home by 9:20.

A year ago today.

8/2/14

1. Driving out to Sauvie Island in the morning and picking peaches, berries, and corn.
2. Going home to get the free bread coupons for a few loaves of bread to go with the soup.
3. Feeling revived after a quick nap, re-hydrating, and taking a couple Advil.
4. Making corn-chorizo soup.
5. Peach jams (salted brown sugar and vanilla) and blueberry maple jams turning out pretty awesome.
6. Showering off the sweat and dust from the day.

A year ago today.

8/1/14

1. Dan giving me a ride to work in the morning.
2. Demo going well, lots of praise for how much the team's accomplished.
3. Talking to LM, a family friend, about getting an engineering job.
4. Having a fun time at AB/L's going-away BBQ.
5. Discovering grilled haloumi to be delicious!
6. Bringing home a bunch of the pantry stuff that AB/L were giving away, including pretty much their entire vinegar collection.

A year ago today.

7/31/14

1. Wearing my new woven leather loafer flats ("huaraches") out.
2. Microwaving the potato-zucchini mixture for 5 minutes helping to cook them through and balanced well with unsalted scrambled eggs with basil and cherry tomatoes from the CSA.
3. Stopping by the Thursday farmer's market all ready to check it out, couldn't bring it home then but one of the fruit farmers has canning specials of a box of peaches for $20...next time!
4. Getting my hair color freshened up, colors a little on the bluer end of aqua this time around, as I wanted them.
5. Finding Preserving by the Pint on sale at Powell's for 30% off and full of interesting recipes to try!
6. Dropping in to the Home & Garden store for the first time and realizing that Home = Cooking + Craft books too, dangerous.

A year ago today.

7/30/14

1. Getting up with enough time to pull my thoughts together a bit before talking to MR's summer camp girls.
2. Figuring out an elegant way to do the path highlighting from clicking on the links between the nodes, after struggling for much of the morning to just get it to recognize the click.
3. Assembling a pretty good salad from hard-boiled eggs, buffalo mozzarella, walnuts, and CSA tomato and lettuce.
4. Finding cute pairs of flats and studded boots at Nordstroms.
5. Dan coming to pick me up from the office.
6. Not taking too long to convert the last of the cherries into canned jam.

A year ago today.

7/29/14

1. Sleeping for a few hours on the floor, where it was cooler than on the mattress.
2. Wearing my new triangle print sneakers with short socks whose mint border actually matched the sneakers.
3. Another brisk bike ride in, despite the sun.
4. Pretty quick to run my errands after lunch, thanks to the bike.
5. Starting up another batch of rice just as Dan got home.
6. Watching episode 2 of Orange is the New Black season 2 while pitting the rest of the cherries.

A year ago today.

7/28/14

1. Breezy sunny morning bike ride.
2. Figuring out how to set up the new route in the end.
3. My sandal waiting to break until I was almost home, rather than still on the bike.
4. Chicken provencal and watermelon for dinner.
5. Another fun night at bar trivia, especially with getting the "Whoever is closest" correct on a fluke.
6. All of the canned items from yesterday looking like they sealed properly.

A year ago today.

7/27/14

1. Leisurely morning getting caught up on email and linked reads.
2. Getting an 18lb. box of cherries!
3. Getting cool feedback on Twitter.
4. Starting the 2nd season of Orange is the New Black while pitting cherries.
5. Dan going out again to get another bag of sugar.
6. Fitting everything into the fridge.

A year ago today.

7/26/14

1. Getting to the farmer's market in time to pick up another pint of blueberries.
2. Finally dropping off the comforter at the dry cleaner's.
3. Delicious variety of meats and salads at SE's birthday BBQ.
4. Playing this ridiculous and hilarious post-Twister game called Swivel.
5. Successfully finding a rosemary plant in our neighborhood.
6. Thinking to look for a cherry pitter while Dan was at Freddy's and taking advantage of their buy 1 get 1 half off kitchen gadgets sale.

A year ago today.

7/25/14

1. Dan waking me up before I overslept too much.
2. Getting approval from Legal to submit a new talk proposal.
3. Open Q&A with our director.
4. Fun time at happy hour to celebrate TP's first week.
5. Getting dinner at Mi Mero Mole.
6. Staying awake through watching Her.

A year ago today.

7/24/14

1. Sushi for lunch with the team.
2. Figuring out the source of the excess vertical space issue before I headed out.
3. Succeeding in catching up to the bus that KF was on.
4. Not having too much trouble getting my bike on/off the bus bike rack!
5. Finally getting to try the Pok Pok wings.
6. Comfortable and flat bike ride home from Pok Pok.

A year ago today.

7/23/14

1. Talking to MR in the morning about his summer enrichment program for middle school girls.
2. Finally cracking the puzzling reinitialization bug right before lunch.
3. Smoothie walk in the afternoon to get a green smoothie.
4. Finding a fancy olive oil/balsamic vinegar shop in Portland to replace The Filling Station!
5. Dropping in on the meetup, which had some really nice hors d'oeuvres.
6. Dan giving me a ride home from the office.

A year ago today.

7/22/14

1. Getting 9.5 hours of sleep in and feeling refreshed.
2. Getting a positive mention of my Ask vs. Guess Cultures talk at the offsite from someone who wasn't even there!
3. My 2nd blog post for the New Relic blog coming out and getting recognition from a director and the CEO.
4. Checking online before figuring out which of the margarines would be vegan.
5. Dan buying me a large watermelon from Costco.
6. Making the vegan plum cake and scallion goat cheese muffins.

A year ago today.

7/21/14

1. Getting in to the office in time to introduce myself to the new guy on our team, TP before he had to head off to a meeting.
2. Gorgeous sunny but comfortable temperature.
3. Pasta with fried zucchini salad and steamed potatoes holding up well for lunch.
4. Going on on an afternoon walk to Whole Foods for our team to pick up truffle oil almonds.
5. Getting home in plenty of time to have dinner.
6. Really fun time at trivia, large group that all had some familiarity with the endearing quirks of the bar trivia host.

A year ago today.

7/20/14

1. Getting to the fruit harvest meet up site on time, before they'd gotten started.
2. Bringing home several pounds of delicious yellow and red plums.
3. Pretty straightforward in the end to set up the new laptop thanks to Time Machine.
4. Watching Netflix on the tablet while cooking in the kitchen.
5. Dan going out for the groceries that I needed.
6. Getting through making dinner, lunch for the week, and preserving the split or really soft plums that had to be taken care of today.

A year ago today.

7/19/14

1. Sleeping in until 11:30.
2. No one calling me about work, for a change that went into effect this weekend, which means it went smoothly (hopefully).
3. Using up all the rest of the lettuce for the week in a salad for lunch.
4. Re-reading North and South (the original novel).
5. Dan making risotto for dinner.
6. Watching Heathers with Dan.

A year ago today.

7/18/14

1. Contributing a few clever ideas to the labels placement problem JG and I were working on.
2. Getting the fruit harvest info in time to realize I needed to bring my bike pannier bag home.
3. Returning an order to Madewell.
4. Dan making meatballs for dinner.
5. Doing a Google Hangout with AL and catching up.
6. Rewatching North and South on Netflix.

A year ago today.

7/17/14

1. Unpacking in our new desk location and setting up my standing desk more to the side, so I'd have space on the desk to sit and write if I needed.
2. Lots of people coming up to me to compliment the Ask vs. Guess Cultures talk, and people mentioning that they've been discussing the differences and trying to figure out which side they lie on.
3. Going out for lunch with SC and getting to talk to her a bit, finally.
4. Korean tacos for lunch.
5. Figuring out how to fix the height resizing problem with our SVG.
6. Making a salad with CSA lettuce for dinner.

A year ago today.

7/16/14

1. Getting to Edgefield in time for some of the (very good) hot breakfast.
2. Lying down in the luggage room during lunch to get some quiet time in before my talks in the afternoon.
3. Getting big laughs during my Ask vs. Guess Cultures talk! Felt such a high afterwards.
4. Talking to more of the people from the Seattle office.
5. Dan picking me up from the office, to bring back my luggage and CSA box for the week easily.
6. Watching The History Boys special features before having to return the DVD.

A year ago today.

7/15/14

1. Finding a seat close to the door when the shuttle finally dropped us off there in the morning.
2. Clever way of setting up lunch table groupings by using the random cards that were handed out yesterday.
3. Delicious giant chocolate chip cookies at the afternoon break.
4. Persevering and getting through 75% of the pub golf course holes even in the heat, with a pear blossom cocktail in hand.
5. Hilarious dinner conversation with MZ's description of how he went about finding a compatible partner.
6. Skipping out on game night to head back to my room early instead.

A year ago today.

7/14/14

1. Realizing that I'd forgotten to pack my Vans and turning back to grab them.
2. Stopping myself from polishing off the entire lunch, after I was already a bit overfull.
3. Coming back to my desk from practicing with BK to find that my team had helped dismantle and move my standing desk already.
4. Playing pool and shuffleboard at the offsite and actually making a few good shots.
5. Interesting and ending conversation at dinner about ethical implications of new technologies like Google glass and self driving cars.
6. Playing a space game with JG and winning!

A year ago today.

7/13/14

1. Remembering to get the saltwater duck out of the fridge to bring with me on the flight.
2. Sleeping for most of the EWR-MDW flight.
3. Getting home from the airport in a reasonable amount of time.
4. Showering at home.
5. Dan waiting in line for me to get tacos from Porque No for dinner.
6. Getting out The History Boys from Movie Madness and catching all the small parts I’d missed the night before.

A year ago today.

7/12/14

1. Dim sum with my sister and grandma.
2. Getting a $400 voucher to fly a day later instead.
3. Dan’s mom coming to pick us up.
4. Dan being able to stay at my uncle’s to not have to spend another night at a hotel.
5. Pork/chive/shrimp dumplings and watermelon for dinner.
6. Watching The History Boys and Pitch Perfect.

A year ago today.