1/31/15

1. Remembering to pull out the ham hock and start defrosting it.
2. Getting to the gym in the early afternoon.
3. Picking up a bunch of gardening books from the library.
4. Taking a quick shower and rinsing my hair without washing it.
5. Dan making a chicken tortilla soup that was quite good.
6. Dan taking me to Twisted to buy yarn for a couple projects on sale.

A year ago today.

1/30/15

1. Dan giving me a ride to work so that I wouldn't have to put bus tickets on my old phone.
2. My manager not minding me taking the time to pull together a few more things for the demo.
3. Going out for happy hour with my teammates.
4. Others on my team agreeing about not understanding another team's difficulties.
5. Going back to the office and working out how to apply the same table sorting and a navigation breadcrumb to the metric table.
6. Biking home so I'd have my bike for the weekend.

A year ago today.

1/29/15

1. Sunny morning for biking.
2. Not losing my flex card despite it falling out of my purse and into my bike basket.
3. Making myself a green smoothie with yogurt, spinach, apple, banana, and honey in 5th floor lunch room.
4. Being released from having to attend a meeting in the afternoon.
5. New books for next technical book club arriving, Fowler's Refactoring.
6. Doing an Angular thing on my own!

A year ago today.

1/28/15

1. Pretty quick to add in Angular filtering functionality for the table.
2. Optometrist appointment being very efficient.
3. Rescuing my phone's button functionality and without having to re-install all the new apps I'd installed earlier in the day.
4. Successfully figuring out how to edit the button functionality.
5. Making myself go to the gym even though I was late getting out from the office.
6. Workout taking just about an hour.

A year ago today.

1/27/15

1. Pairing with EK and getting the traces table to a point of opening up a pull request on it.
2. Remembering to pump up my bike tires at the office before heading home.
3. Easier than I expected to get back up the SE hill when biking home.
4. Making myself some popcorn to stave off my continued hunger.
5. Knitting and watching Agent Carter.
6. Finding House of Many Ways to be a quick read so that I didn't stay up too late.

A year ago today.

1/26/15

1. Guy outside the library reminding me that they didn't actually open until 10, so I could stop struggling with trying to lock my bike up.
2. Doctor seeing me a earlier than my appointment time.
3. Sun and blue skies coming out after I was done at the hospital.
4. Re-heating the pieces of leftover roast chicken with skin in the toaster oven to crisp and brown the skin again.
5. Catching the #4 bus just in time.
6. Getting out of bar trivia pretty early with the guest host.

A year ago today.

1/25/15

1. Catching up with CC/MB/MS this morning.
2. Cooking for the day not taking much prep: slow cooker red-braised pork trotters and spatchcocked roast chicken with grapes and olives.
3. Beautiful warm and sunny day outside.
4. Pretty quick to get through the workout for today, even with doing it with EK.
5. Dan really enjoying dinner, with the grape/olive sauce mixed in with the steamed green beans.
6. Knitting and watching the Sunday night shows.

A year ago today.

1/24/15

1. Sleeping in until 11.
2. Dan picking up Howl's Moving Castle for me to watch in the evening.
3. Finishing up at the tool library's inventory volunteering an hour early.
4. Stopping by the library on the way home.
5. Starting and finishing off Dear Mr. Knightley very quickly, so there was still time for the movie in the evening.
6. Finishing off the purple wristwarmers and making perfect usage of the remaining yarn with just the right amount of extra rows before binding off.

A year ago today.

1/23/15

1. Getting to the post office to mail out my many packages.
2. Pairing with EK to get the slow SQL traces table started in Angular.
3. Apple pie in the afternoon for National Pie Day.
4. Working on knitting my cowl at happy hour at upstairs Bailey's.
5. Going back to the office and opening up a couple more PRs of small things I'd been meaning to get done.
6. Supplementing the potato tacos with slices of avocado that were perfectly ripe.

A year ago today.

1/22/15

1. Teaching ND about functions and watching her excitement at getting it.
2. Going out for dinner and Ruby Jewel ice cream with JG/SN.
3. JG approving of the sushi at Masu.
4. JG saying he'd think I'd be good on the product research term!
5. Not taking long to walk home from where the 20 bus dropped off on Burnside.
6. Getting my stuff together to finally package up the last of the jams/pickles/holiday cards I meant to send out.

A year ago today.

1/21/15

1. Hustling out and making it to the bus that was 2 minutes early.
2. Getting compliments from people on my bright yellow flower skirt.
3. JG getting my Friday interview timeslot swapped (without me even saying anything!) so I wasn't on the hook for a 9am meeting.
4. JQ making a breakthrough in the project to root the Samsung phone.
5. Catching the 4 to 15 bus timing well downtown to avoid walking in the cold.
6. Pretty quick to saute up green beans for having vegetables for lunch tomorrow.

A year ago today.

1/20/15

1. Strapping my two Zappos boxes to the back of my back with a bungee cord and dropping them off at UPS finally.
2. Using the balaclava to keep my face warm for the bike ride in in the morning.
3. Remembering to get truffle mushroom quesadilla at Mi Mero Mole.
4. Talking about programming and Hackbright over lunch with SN.
5. Leftover quesadilla being enough to tide me over on food until I got home for dinner.
6. Finishing my entire workout in less than an hour.

A year ago today.

1/19/15

1. Bus waiting for me as I ran to catch it.
2. My teammates being into the idea of setting up a treadmill desk station.
3. Finding time to start and finish POODR chapter 9 before the book club meeting.
4. Having time to sit down and have pork tacos for dinner before going to trivia.
5. JG and SN coming to bar trivia while visiting Portland.
6. Finishing off my mom's Graham hat faster than I expected.

A year ago today.

1/18/15

1. Catching myself in time not to totally fall flat when slipping on the mud outside in the rain.
2. Having just enough of the guajillo chiles for what the recipe called for.
3. Thinking to ask Dan to check whether the UPS store was even open on Sundays, before I fruitlessly headed over there with packages I needed to drop off.
4. Plenty of time to get my workout in at the gym, which also wasn't as long as I'd originally expected.
5. Deciding to start over after initially burning the sugar for red-braised pork belly.
6. Knitting while watching a lot of TV: Galavant, Downton Abbey, and Grantchester.

A year ago today.

1/17/15

1. Getting started on knitting the balaclava for my dad.
2. Catching up on TV shows: Agent Carter, Empire.
3. Successfully cooking up the butterflied pig heart I got in the pig share to have with roasted Delicata squash for a late lunch.
4. Dan making pasta fagioli for dinner.
5. Getting to Fubonn just in time before they closed to pick up a couple ingredients for cooking red-braised pork belly tomorrow.
6. Figuring out how to set up the glass barometer globe.

A year ago today.

1/16/15

1. Dan giving me a ride to the office in the morning.
2. Getting compliments on my outfit from strangers and co-workers (black ankle boots with triangle studs, geometric print leggings, gray quilted skirt, coral sweater, and layered black/pearl long necklaces).
3. Getting a bunch of knitting done while hanging out with the team at their sushi lunch.
4. Finally getting iMovie on my work computer and being able to edit the video for my Ask vs. Guess Cultures talk and uploading it.
5. Dan making spaghetti & turkey meatballs for dinner.
6. Watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

A year ago today.

1/15/15

1. Really enjoying a schnitzelwich for lunch.
2. Multi-tasking with knitting at stitching lunch and shadowing JQ work on rooting the new phone a bit more.
3. Getting through the upper body workout despite its surprising difficulty.
4. Dan getting out of PJs to come pick me up from the gym out of the rain.
5. Throwing together a quick dinner with scrambled eggs and frozen cherry tomatoes.
6. Buying and reading a new Sanderson novella, Sixth of the Dusk.

A year ago today.

1/14/15

1. Shadowing JQ working to root the new phone.
2. Getting out of the office in plenty of time to catch the right bus.
3. Really delicious bread and lentil-sausage stew for dinner made by EH's mom.
4. Getting to help with cutting up the rib chops.
5. Warming up by going inside and drinking hot mulled cider.
6. Dan coming to pick me up.

A year ago today.

1/13/15

1. Wearing black ponte pants, teal tunic dress, and black knee-high boots.
2. Lunch with a Hackbright candidate I talked to over VC last week.
3. EM gifting me a Kindle book she'd read recently and really liked.
4. Getting an appointment to get my eyebrows done right at the end of the day, to make it more efficient with my other errands.
5. Nordstrom lady finding my old orders for a return, even without a receipt.
6. Whizzing through the first couple weeks of the Stanford CS 101 class.

A year ago today.

1/12/15

1. Sous vide chicken breast with spinach and leftover tomatillo sauce working well for lunch.
2. Green smoothie with almond butter really hitting the spot in the afternoon.
3. Return of POODR book club.
4. Finishing up L2 of the Code School Angular.js class.
5. Having a light pre-dinner with food I had in the work fridge.
6. Getting a good leg workout in at the gym.

A year ago today.

1/11/15

1. Dan finding Frontera brand tomatillo salsa, for the Rick Bayless recipe I wanted to try.
2. Re-reading Eleanor & Park.
3. Getting in my whole workout in about an hour and 15 minutes.
4. Finally getting various accessories together to use up the $18 in credit I had at American Apparel.
5. Pretty quick to whip up enchiladas for dinner.
6. Solid amount of knitting + TV time through Galavant and Downton Abbey.

A year ago today.

1/10/15

1. Falling back asleep after waking up coughing around 3:30.
2. Lounging in bed in the morning, catching up on Feedly and Twitter.
3. Getting around to putting away the Christmas decorations.
4. Knitting and watching the most recent season of Doctor Who.
5. Clearing out a whole box of expired meds from Dan.
6. Making a couple new batches of dilled carrots and bread and butter zucchini pickles.

A year ago today.

1/9/15

1. Dan giving me a ride to work.
2. Demo being in the lunch room so I could eat breakfast during it.
3. Having a later, quiet lunch by myself.
4. Pairing with EK to get started on learning to use lowcharts.
5. Finishing the full workout, including the cardio complex, in just a little over an hour.
6. Getting back home in time to catch Downton Abbey.

A year ago today.

1/8/15

1. Picking up a couple skeins of nice colored wools at the yarn swap at work.
2. Working my way a bit through the Codeschool Angular.js tutorial and better understanding some of those terms more.
3. Deciding to walk to the stop for the 15 instead of waiting for a 4 to take me those few blocks.
4. Running into ELV and bunch of others from work on the bus home.
5. Cleaning service coming by and making the bathroom sparkle and dusting my vanity/nightstand areas.
6. Watching Agent Carter and Empire while knitting and quite enjoying both!

A year ago today.

1/7/15

1. Biking in to the office for the first time in awhile, since it was such a nice day.
2. Getting my new fully split keyboard and new headphones!
3. A Lululemon employee taking pity on me and bringing out the hemmed pants for me to pick up, even though I got there after the store closed.
4. J.Crew employees being very patient with sorting out the confusing mixed up order I was trying to return.
5. Enjoying the leg workout with heavy deadlifts and squats.
6. Talking to two different Hackbright grads.

A year ago today.

1/6/15

1. Working from home for the day due to being sick.
2. Using the insulated carafe to have hot tea at hand all day.
3. Minimal cooking needed to feed myself.
4. Buying and watching the most recent season of Doctor Who.
5. Figuring out I could use AirPlay to project onto the Apple TV.
6. Return of The Mindy Project.

A year ago today.

1/5/15

1. Fish and shrimp tacos at Los Gorditos being really good and just the right amount of food.
2. The sous vide chicken and kale salad holding up really well overnight.
3. Finding lemons in the kitchen for a bit more acid to add to the salad.
4. Persevering and going to the gym to get the cardio part of yesterday's workout in.
5. Feeling awesome and less sick after doing that cardio.
6. Getting quite a bit of knitting done at trivia.

A year ago today.

1/4/15

1. Lounging in bed in the morning catching up on blogs.
2. Frying up a couple eggs to have on toast with marionberry jam for breakfast.
3. Finally getting fully caught up with all the entries from the latter half of last year.
4. Getting most of my workout in at the gym, thus mostly catching up on delay of workouts while in NJ last week.
5. Cooking up: quesadillas for dinner, granola, lamb meatballs, sous vide chicken breast, and roast chickpea & kale salad to clear out a lot of stuff from the freezer.
6. Taking a break after all the cooking to watch some TV with Dan.

A year ago today.

1/3/15

1. Going back to sleep another 3 hours after first waking up at 6:15.
2. Dan going out to get a ton of groceries for our very empty fridge.
3. Clearing out a bunch of my Feedly unreads.
4. Finishing my entire workout despite getting to the gym a bit later in the afternoon than I meant to.
5. Stopping to try a bubble tea at Fat Straw.
6. Dan's risotto for dinner turning out very well in the slow cooker.

A year ago today.

1/2/15

1. Getting a late lunch at Lardo in-between different errands.
2. People at Evermine sticking around for a couple more minutes so I could pick up the jam jar labels I'd ordered a couple weeks ago.
3. Finally finding a yarn store that had the Chibi darning needle set in stock.
4. Not overshooting my stop by too much when I dozed on the way home.
5. Getting my full workout in time for when I'd asked Dan to come pick me up and give me a ride to Twisted.
6. Weaving in the ends on my wristwarmers.

A year ago today.

1/1/15

1. Re-reading earlier sections of Ancillary Justice now that I understood them better.
2. Enough fried rice leftover for me to have a serving for lunch.
3. Pulling together a list of projects to complete for the year.
4. Getting a bunch of mending done for my day of sewing.
5. Sewing and knitting while watching Sleepy Hollow on the Apple TV.
6. Pulling together a dinner of noodles with eggs and tomatoes from the freezer.

A year ago today.