5/31/14

1. Getting to the right gate in the end after being at the wrong one initially.
2. Women’s bathroom line moving quickly enough in the end.
3. Pot Belly Italian sandwich with hot pickles for lunch.
4. Getting a seat near the exit row with extra legroom
5. Going through old family photos, some of them really old!
6. Going to bed early.

A year ago today.

5/30/14

1. Dan checking us in early in the morning for our Southwest flight.
2. Making it on the 9:29 bus in plenty of time, for a 10am all-hands.
3. Dan picking up my library book for me.
4. Blackberry pie with a crumble topping for celebration of team's accomplishments in the past month.
5. Getting home before it was dark, even with leaving the office around 8.
6. Enough steak/quinoa salad leftover to finish it off for dinner.

A year ago today.

5/29/14

1. Making it in in time for standup.
2. Pretty simple fix for the account ID search in the end.
3. Sun coming out in the afternoon/evening.
4. Seeing the Decemberists!!
5. Looking up lyrics on Dan's phone that still had battery power.
6. The band/venue fixed the sound equipment for the second set.

A year ago today.

5/28/15

1. Fitting the Madewell boots box into the front basket on my bike.
2. Figuring out how to read the Backbone app enough to fill in a default value.
3. Browsing Anthropologie and Sur La Table after returning the boots at Madewell.
4. Stopping by Cartopia to get PB&J fries from the Potato Champion food truck.
5. Talking Dan into staying up a bit later than he'd originally wanted to.
6. Finishing watching the rest of the Mad Men episodes from this year's season.

A year ago today.

5/27/14

1. The creamy green dressing actually going quite well with the sous vide steak and quinoa/arugula salad.
2. Getting a $25 statement credit on the AMEX blue card.
3. Breezing through the Ruby chapter of the Rails tutorial.
4. Hanging out for a bit at Maker Night.
5. Watching a couple episodes of Mad Men from the current season.
6. Getting to catch up on the Tom&Lorenzo blog posts about Mad Men afterwards.

A year ago today.

5/26/14

1. Actually selling off the little green desk I'd painted and been using as a sewing table.
2. Pulling together a new tracker for a Starting Strength lifting program, with calculators for the warm-up sets and an app to figure out how to get to a certain weight.
3. Getting the first row of plastic cap molding up behind the sofa.
4. Packed away the unhung prints and frames--apartment is pretty much pulled together!
5. Finally getting to organizing all the phone photos.
6. Finishing Mad Men season 3 and then getting the season pass for the final season.

A year ago today.

5/25/14

1. Having avocado toast and scrambled eggs for breakfast again.
2. Catching up with EN/CC/DC for the first time in a couple months.
3. Booking the flights back to NJ for the holidays at pretty good prices.
4. Getting a load of laundry done.
5. Remembering about the free buy 1lb. get 1lb. free of housemade sausage from Zupan's.
6. Going to KM's birthday party and hanging out.

A year ago today.

5/24/14

1. Remembering the ripe avocados before they went bad.
2. #pdxboil alert being lifted!
3. Having enough beef noodle soup left for dinner today and lunch tomorrow.
4. Dan doing all the dishes.
5. Spending most of the day lying on the couch reading.
6. Re-watching the season finales for The Mindy Project and Once Upon a Time.

A year ago today.

5/23/14

1. Lemon poppyseed scones from EB for breakfast.
2. Dropping by Lulu's Vintage and picking up a few evening bags.
3. Happy hour at Bailey's.
4. Getting to know KH and CP better.
5. Good view of the Rose Festival fireworks from the office (and no glare in the Fortress of Solitude room).
6. Finishing reading First Meetings.

A year ago today.

5/22/14

1. Taking a later lunch and reading more of A War of Gifts.
2. Having some time with chat privately with VC before the end of the day.
3. Stopping by the library to pick up a book on hold.
4. Having enough time to have cook up beef noodle soup for dinner.
5. Having a fun time lifting with RJ.
6. Making it home safely with the car.

A year ago today.

5/21/14

1. Packing up enough lunch for the next two days.
2. Getting in with a few minutes to spare before the 10am demo meeting.
3. Happy hour at secret Bailey's.
4. Walking home in sunny golden light through leafy neighborhoods.
5. Making less noodles for beef noodle soup dinner this night.
6. Reading Shadows in Flight.

A year ago today.

5/20/14

1. Going back to sleep until 9:30.
2. Sous vide chicken breast + kale/quinoa salad working out quite well for lunch.
3. Succeeding at setting up the sample Rails app to use Postgresql locally.
4. Beautiful golden light when biking home.
5. Stopping by the library to pick up a bunch of books they happened to have the Belmont location already.
6. Re-reading Shadow of the Giant and enjoying it more this time around.

A year ago today.

5/19/14

1. Waking up pretty well-rested.
2. Not taking too long to find the right place to wrap the text on a bug.
3. Finding a git alias to use for pushing up to current branch.
4. Beautiful comfortable day for afternoon smoothie walk.
5. Walk/run home in the golden light.
6. Assembled the new sewing table!!

A year ago today.

5/18/14

1. Getting out of bed before 9.
2. Re-reading Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets.
3. Table top looking pretty good after a couple coats of the stain.
4. Talking to GG to help her prep for her talk on pair programming.
5. Wearing my new green feather hat out, stayed on surprisingly well.
6. Very energetic Joshua Bell and conductor for the Oregon Symphony Orchestra.

A year ago today.

5/17/14

1. Making it over to Beaverton in plenty of time, even with the detour to drop off recycling.
2. Getting everything I needed from Lowe's in the end, after asking 6 different people for help along the way.
3. Getting a bubble tea and roast duck from Fubonn.
4. Getting home in time for the Belmont race.
5. Stopping by a couple different yard sales.
6. Clear weather to get started on the table top.

A year ago today.

5/16/14

1. Walking in to work and catching up on a various videos.
2. Stopping in to Lulu's Vintage and picking up a gorgeous green feather hat.
3. Getting a ride from CLV/ELV over to the roller derby evening events.
4. Fun time at roller derby, sitting very close up.
5. Amazing and delicious Ruby Jewel ice cream sandwich.
6. Dan picking me up from the roller derby match.

A year ago today.

5/15/14

1. Getting in by 9:30 and getting a bike rack spot.
2. Cinnamon ice cream at ice cream walk.
3. Getting eyebrow makeup lesson while getting my brows done.
4. Spending some time browsing makeup at sephora (kind of relaxing).
5. Getting home while it was still light out.
6. Finally replacing batteries on the extra bike lights.

A year ago today.

5/14/14

1. So warm out! Warm enough to wear a sleeveless dress.
2. Putting on the braided rope belt to go with my purple mosaic dress.
3. Sitting outside at Mi Mero Mole with sloppy tacos for lunch, pretty perfect.
4. Getting through to Chapter 3 on the Rails Tutorial at study group.
5. Actually unpacking quickly.
6. Opening up all the various packages and mail I got while I was away.

A year ago today.

5/13/14

1. Catching up with RC.
2. Delicious corned beef sandwich from The Sentinel.
3. Actually not taking too long to fix my broken tests from yesterday.
4. Looking up the flight status on my phone to know about gate changes.
5. Finding free wi-fi at the airport.
6. Flight delayed only 2 hours in the end, not 3.

A year ago today.

5/12/14

1. Going for a run in the morning.
2. Practicing makeup again.
3. Hanging out at Hackbright with RD/CF/LL, talking algorithms and garbage collection.
4. Returning stuff to Sephora.
5. Thai food for dinner.
6. Watching Call the Midwife.

A year ago today.

5/11/14

1. Having leftover dim sum for breakfast.
2. Practicing makeup in the morning.
3. Meeting CH’s girlfriend after going to hang out with CH/JH/AF.
4. Snoozing on the train ride down a bit.
5. Hanging out with AL.
6. RC DVR-ing Once Upon a Time season finale remotely.

A year ago today.

5/10/14

1. Going out for dim sum in the morning and happening on a garage sale.
2. Seeing JL and her brand new baby boy
3. Hackbright class reunion!!!
4. CF saying a highlight from our class was when I asked him to give us one last lecture.
5. EL giving me a makeup lesson and LC giving me a nails lesson.
6. Catching the last train home.

A year ago today.

5/9/14

1. Going for a run in the park in the morning.
2. Made N-Judah just in time.
3. Lunch with old Google people.
4. 4 chocolate chip cookies at SF office.
5. Going makeup shopping with my cousin CW.
6. Catching the N-Judah just in time on the way back.

A year ago today.

5/8/14

1. Construction noises subsiding so I could fall back asleep for a bit after waking up before 6 initially.
2. Avocado + strawberries for breakfast.
3. Hanging out and chatting with SF people for most of the morning.
4. Tacos for lunch with JG/LP/EL.
5. Girl time with EL/JT/KR.
6. Amazingly delicious, balanced, light, healthy dinner at Chez Panisse. Such tender salmon and duck.

A year ago today.

5/7/14

1. Fun lunch with an interview candidate.
2. Figuring out the answer to a question from the last couple days with SE’s help and talking to WHF/JK back and forth.
3. The rebase to master and fixing merge conflicts not being too terrible
4. Indulging in chicken nuggets at the airport.
5. Napping a bit on the plane.
6. RC having OJ around for me!

A year ago today.

5/6/14

1. Running socks being good combo with combat boots to protect heel from slipping -- definite keepers.
2. Talking DC into going for a walk and chat and run my errands at the same time.
3. Cool demo station at Bose with sample airplane/train background noise to test the noise canceling capabilities.
4. First study group working session with KY, finally got set up for Rails Tutorial.
5. Talking about my day with Dan a bit before he went to bed.
6. Plenty of pasta left for dinner and to pack another lunch.

A year ago today.

5/5/14

1. Biking to/from work for the first time in awhile.
2. Snoozing for a bit in the morning.
3. Lunch with M and P (Epicodus students).
4. Having Dan’s pasta for lunch.
5. Struggling but figuring out how to fix the tests in the end. 
6. Ran an errand to Madewell and was able to pick up loafer socks

A year ago today.

5/4/14

1. Sleeping in until 10.
2. Making home fries with scrambled eggs and avocado slices for breakfast.
3. Not taking too long to do the finances for the last month and figure out my ballot for the May election.
4. Finally getting to emptying out all the jars of stuff I canned in 2012 that I hadn't gotten to.
5. Catching up on Once Upon a Time.
6. Sous vide chicken breast coming out really well, flavorful and juicy.

A year ago today.

5/3/14

1. Organizing a home improvement plan for projects I want do around the house.
2. Finding an Ikea knockoff of the white tulip dining table I decided I wanted...then finding that one for 40% off on craigslist.
3. Not taking too long to clean up the kitchen and take out the recycling.
4. Dan driving me around to run a bunch of errands.
5. Trying out the Viking Soul Food truck finally--just in time too, they're closing in a couple weeks.
6. Figuring out how to use some of the pieces in the toolkit my dad gave me years ago to make it much easier to remove/put back on the legs of the old dining table.

A year ago today.

5/2/14

1. Making it to the bus just in time despite doubling back when I thought I had left my phone behind.
2. Having fun at the focus group to help articulate New Relic's culture.
3. Feeling really cute in my bright large floral Madewell cami dress layered over black linen t-shirt with heart polka dots and black leggings.
4. Catching up with MF.
5. Pie and homemade Kahlua with the team in the afternoon.
6. Lovely performance by the Portland Columbia Orchestra (Berlioz's Marche Hongroise from The Damnation of Faust and Beethoven's 5th, among others).

A year ago today.

5/1/14

1. Getting photo from JC for the talk right before the scheduled tweet for the blog post went out.
2. Getting complimented on my aquamarine t-shirt/headband/leopard print flats.
3. Getting positive responses on my blog post reflecting on my Railsconf talk.
4. Getting a beef/raisin empanada for lunch.
5. Getting a great suggestion from KM on how to fix the back of my fish necklace snagging on my shirt--nail polish! I had gold nail polish to match the necklace, even.
6. CD visiting portland and coming to game night!

A year ago today.

4/30/14

1. Getting compliments on my mosaic purple dress.
2. Got a compliment from JVP that I have a lot of interesting necklaces
3. Pretty quick fix in the end for the failing tests from yesterday.
4. Saving the lentils for a light early dinner, after samosas for lunch.
5. Submitted my talk to another conference.
6. Finished up my blog post for reflecting on my RailsConf talk.

A year ago today.

4/29/14

1. Pulling out my black headband with a bow on it, feeling whimsical today.
2. Gorgeous sunny day, didn't need a coat at all!
3. Going for an afternoon walk out to the riverfront and back.
4. SE coming up with a solution to the surprisingly trickiness of putting up a text overlay.
5. Dan picking me up from the office again.
6. Catching up on The Mindy Project.

A year ago today.

4/28/14

1. Talking to people about how the conference and my talk went.
2. Crossing off most of my catching up to-do items.
3. Pairing with SE in the afternoon to get some coding work done.
4. Dan picking me up from the office.
5. Getting 2nd place at bar trivia.
6. Getting the Southwest Companion Pass finally and booking a few different east coast trips.

A year ago today.

4/27/14

1. Delicious brunch with RS and getting to see her apartment.
2. Browsing cute shops with RS, picking up some cards/gifts and a pair of triangle design earrings for myself to commemorate the trip.
3. Great timing on brown line and bus back to SR's place.
4. A walk to the point for a view of the downtown area.
5. Getting a ride from SR's boyfriend K to the airport.
6. Dan making lentils for me to bring for lunch for the week.

A year ago today.

4/26/14

1. Bus driver waiting for me as I ran to catch up with it.
2. Really educational and engaging architecture boat cruise! Learned a lot of Chicago history, details in buildings that I would not have noticed otherwise for sure.
3. Whirlwind tour of the Bean and the Art Institute in about an hour and a half.
4. Second City show with RS.
5. Breaded steak sandwich from Ricobene's, yum.
6. Deciding to take a cab home after the Hancock Tower lounge because I was so tired.

A year ago today.

4/25/14

1. Took just about as long as I had predicted to shower and pack up my stuff.
2. Running into D again to encourage her to submit proposals for talks too.
3. Meeting B before LS' talk, who also gave me props on my talk, unprompted!
4. In and out of the cafe in 20 minutes to get a kale salad for lunch.
5. Not waiting too long for the bus to get to SR's place.
6. Getting fish cakes and pad see euw with roast duck for dinner.

A year ago today.

4/24/14

1. Skipping the keynote to chill by myself and caught up on Twitter.
2. Awesome talk by Sandi Metz, really energizing and easy to follow along!
3. Another chair massage.
4. Catching up with JC over lunch at Portillo's, both fun to get to know her again and delicious, juicy beef-sausage sandwich.
5. Several people coming up to me to give me props on my talk, even saying it was smooth and they would share it with others
6. Catching up with RS, managing to get in to the zombie adventure, and contributing to the group succeeding at solving puzzles to breaking out of the room.

A year ago today.

4/23/14

1. Finding it pretty easy to talk to people at booth duty, surprisingly.
2. People being around so I could slip away for a talk on reading code to learn more about programming.
3. Slipping in to get a chair massage (which was good!) right before the crush for lunch.
4. Handling the questions for my talk pretty well.
5. JC and JVP not minding when I literally put my head down on the dinner table because i couldn't keep my eyes open.
6. Going to sleep at 11.

A year ago today.

4/22/14

1. Found CLV before the morning keynote, which resulted in getting seats with JVP and VF.
2. JC finding me!!! Literally haven't seen her in 10+ years and was just wondering if she'd be at this conference!
3. Being able to set up a time for testing my slides tomorrow during lunch.
4. Grabbing some appetizers from the club lounge next door to sate my early hunger for dinner.
5. Surprisingly good quinoa salad at the bar for the Kickstarter happy hour.
6. Getting to know a few different people at hte Kickstarter happy hour, despite the crowd/noise.

A year ago today.

4/21/14

1. Getting an aisle seat on the first flight and a window seat on the second flight, despite being later in the line on Southwest.
2. Showering after getting to the hotel after the flight.
3. Organizers registered us for us, so could sleep in later tomorrow morning.
4. Fun dining companions at speaker dinner, especially CAE, who's hilarious.
5. Discovering I can sign in to the free wi-fi from the lounge from my room, since I'm right next to it.
6. Not taking too long to fall asleep.

A year ago today.

4/20/14

1. Dan getting me tomatoes in the morning so I'd be able to cook up tomatoes/eggs for lunch before he got back from the Easter service.
2. Finishing off the leftover rice and Swiss chard in the fridge.
3. Finishing re-reading Dreams of Gods and Monsters.
4. Timing it well to make up rest of masa for fresh tortillas and tacos for dinner again.
5. Going to soul music concert with Dan.
6. Succeeding at getting my Hackbright project's server running locally, at least.

A year ago today.

4/19/14

1. Slept in until 9.
2. Finding the right address for the Oregon Ballet Theater in the end.
3. "Girl from Ipanema" encore piece being delightful and evocative.
4. Getting a subscription for the next season! Feels very grown-up.
5. Sun came out.
6. Tacos for dinner with freshly made tortillas from the class last week.

A year ago today.

4/18/14

1. Making it in on time for 9am meeting.
2. Not taking too long to pull together the blog post to go with my talk.
3. Fitting in one last practice at work to try out some new things I'd added since yesterday, with TF/JH/JS.
4. Reformatting my speaker notes and tweaking slides while connected to projection.
5. Dan coming to pick me up from work.
6. Pulling together quick dinner from frozen dumplings.

A year ago today.

4/17/14

1. Chatting with JK/ELV about workshop plans and workplace culture.
2. Bigger audience than I expected for my 3rd practice talk at work.
3. Making people laugh in off-the-cuff responses to feedback.
4. Fun time chatting up eyebrow lady at Macy's.
5. Really nice makeup to fill in my brows.
6. Missing rain again in evening (blue skies came out).

A year ago today.

4/16/14

1. Good questions after the practice talk at Epicodus.
2. People coming up to me to say how they appreciated the talk.
3. Going on a chocolate walk and getting a spicy chocolate shot.
4. Missing most of the rain when I was out biking.
5. Getting to the Portland Code School right on time.
6. Getting my hair color redone and trimmed into some light layers.

A year ago today.

4/15/14

1. Refraining from the ice cream party in the afternoon.
2. Actually finishing solving a ticket with BM's help, I'd gotten most of the way with my code spelunking.
3. Catching up with JG a bit on his visit to the Portland office.
4. Grabbed a couple slices of pizza from a work event to tide me over until class was over.
5. Getting through my last pole dance class, time flew by with mostly review of previous work.
6. Dan having made dinner for me on the stove again, ready when I got home.

A year ago today.