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.