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.