6/30/15

1. Wearing my Anthropologie blue tie-dyed maxi dress.
2. Picking up bibimbap for lunch.
3. Good attendance at the tech talks lunch, even with picking a talk that we'd have to play in two parts.
4. Getting to try the fried chicken at Son of a Biscuit finally.
5. Picking up olive oil ice cream from Salt & Straw.
6. Making everything good with AL.

A year ago today.

6/29/15

1. Getting Los Gorditos for lunch.
2. Swinging by Madewell on the way back to return some items.
3. Finding a straw summer hat that actually fits my head and looks proportional!
4. Making it to the hardware store in time before they closed.
5. Finishing up an arms workout at the gym.
6. Making it to bar trivia still with Dan and BS.

A year ago today.

6/28/15

1. Only waking up once during the night, despite the heat.
2. Google Hangout with EN.
3. Dan giving me a ride over to Sewallcrest Park so I wouldn't be late despite dawdling the afternoon away.
4. Scoring a run at the kickball game.
5. Hitting my steps for the day by walking back from the game.
6. Getting the reading for tomorrow's book club done in the evening.

A year ago today.

6/27/15

1. Making fried egg on avocado toast sandwiches for breakfast.
2. Not getting too hot during the day after all.
3. Going to see Inside Out!
4. Watching all of North and South with KY and EA with lots of fun commentary.
5. KY's dad still being awake to help us get the internet back from the timer.
6. Dan getting back to KY's place just in time to pick me up.

A year ago today.

6/26/15

1. Pork belly gyro for lunch at Lardo with KL.
2. Managing to drop by the happy hour at Bailey's for at least a few minutes.
3. Dan coming by to give me a ride home.
4. Tacos turning out well for the dinner with KY/AL/T, including tortillas from fresh masa on the griddle.
5. Winning at Pandemic!
6. Actually didn't take too long to do the dishes after our guests left.

A year ago today.

6/25/15

1. Not being too late for the 9:30am meeting despite the bridge being up.
2. Finishing off the rest of my bucket of salad for lunch.
3. Another very interesting conversation about managering with my boss.
4. Getting a full hour-long massage.
5. Deciding to stay in for the evening.
6. Getting off the couch to do the prepping of the pork shoulder for tacos tomorrow.

A year ago today.

6/24/15

1. Getting to the podiatrist's mostly on time.
2. Getting in to the office before 10 still.
3. Helping ZK with another practice talk round.
4. Fun time at PDX.rb book club.
5. Dropping off my prescription at Walgreens just a few minutes before they closed.
6. Successfully bringing back the Amazon Locker packages home on my bike rack.

A year ago today .

6/23/15

1. Good discussion on the feedback for WHF/BW's talk for the offsite.
2. Solving a support ticket through to the end and fully understanding what was happening!
3. Getting to watch Katrina Owen's Therapeutic Refactoring talk finally at the Tech Talks Lunch. 
4. Finally calling to ask Amex to downgrade a credit card I had so there wouldn't be an annual fee anymore.
5. KL being willing to walk with me to return sandals to Nordstroms while we chatted.
6. Remembering that I still needed to pick up my silk brown polka dotted dress from the tailor.

A year ago today.

6/22/15

1. Remembering to drop off a library book in the morning.
2. Lunch with CP at E-San to talk about managering.
3. Deciding to skip trivia to go to the gym instead.
4. Didn't take as long as I thought to make sausage.
5. Food processor being able to handle the frozen meat cubes even though I'd left them in the freezer for a bit too long.
6. Taking a quick shower before going to bed.

A year ago today.

6/21/15

1. Working on my garden, with ripping out the bolting Swiss chard, planting spinach and carrots, and harvesting basil, broccoli rabe, and snow peas.
2. Getting my steps in for the day by walking over to the kickball game.
3. Listening to CS lectures on my walk.
4. Getting on base a few times!
5. Dan making a pesto + cherry tomatoes/onions/chicken pasta for dinner.
6. Finishing Postrel's The Power of Glamour since it was due back at the library the next day.

A year ago today.

6/20/15

1. Clearing out the fridge and pre-processing a bunch of veggies from the CSA for upcoming meals.
2. Delicious food at Full Cellar Farm visit, especially a cilantro-walnut pesto.
3. Finding my old Verizon sim card at my desk, when I thought I might've thrown it out in the last move.
4. Catching a #4 bus perfectly from the office.
5. SB running late to our Google Hangout too so it was ok that I hadn't made it home by walking yet.
6. Having a fun time helping SB come up with ideas for technical talks.

A year ago today.

6/19/15

1. Getting appreciation from both sides on a long email I wrote to bridge a request between two different teams.
2. Getting hazelnut gelato from Spella on the team afternoon coffee walk.
3. Watching the videos for week 1 of the Confident Communicator course over the time the kickoff meeting had been booked for.
4. Getting my step count for the day in with the walk over to Movie Madness.
5. Rather enjoying the Jerry Seinfeld documentary, Comedian.
6. Finishing attaching spare buttons to their respective pieces of clothing.

A year ago today.

6/18/15

1. Engaging conversations around management in the Hackbright Slack channel in the morning.
2. Wearing my new Anthropologie blue tie-dyed pattern high-low hem maxi dress and loving it.
3. Getting the middle school girls at the STEM summer camp to warm up during the lunch discussion by sharing fantasy book recommendations.
4. Really interesting discussions about management and psychology in my 1:1 with my manager.
5. Not taking too long to do the late tool phone calls for the tool library.
6. Deciding to go home instead of going to the gym so I'd get back to hang out with Dan for a bit on our 4th wedding anniversary :)

A year ago today.

6/17/15

1. Managing the influx of support tickets tolerably with JC's help and explanations.
2. Team lunch at Los Gorditos.
3. Getting a burrito with chile relleno, that was a good life decision.
4. Finishing up fixing the tests on a PR with enough time to walk over to Nordstrom and return some more online purchases.
5. Learning about procs, lambdas, and blocks at the PDX.rb book club session.
6. Fitting this week's CSA into the front basket of my bike with enough stability to make it home.

A year ago today.

6/16/15

1. Wearing my black jumpsuit again for a cozy pj-like outfit.
2. Getting an architecture overview from JC that put into context a lot of the things I'd seen from the other side.
3. Getting a pedicure for pretty shiny pink summer toenails again.
4. Finishing up reading the Refactoring book from book club months ago.
5. Pretty quick to do the reading for tomorrow's PDX.rb book club.
6. Getting myself to the gym and getting most of workout #1 for the week done, including the cardio portion with a 2 minute sprint at the end.

A year ago today.

6/15/15

1. Feeling really welcomed onto my new team!
2. Going out for lunch at Luc Lac with some of the other agent engineers.
3. Stopping by the mall and Nordstrom on my way back to return some online orders.
4. Getting in a legitimate first-day commit on the Ruby agent!
5. Deciding to take the bus home from Williams-Sonoma.
6. Fast night at bar trivia with a guest host but also some pretty good questions still.

A year ago today.

6/14/15

1. Making up the perfect amount of noodles/bok choi/lamb ribs for lunch.
2. Catching an out at the kickball game and getting on base a couple times.
3. Having plenty of time to go to the gym and finish up workout #3 of the week.
4. Reading Gertie Sews Vintage Casual on the treadmill while walking a bit longer to get in my steps for the day.
5. Doing a Google Hangout with AT to catch up since I last saw her months ago.
6. Dan's sausage-lentil stew for dinner.

A year ago today.

6/13/15

1. Dan driving me around to all the various errands up and down Hawthorne.
2. Savvy Plus taking some of the clothes and accessories from my closet purge, got $21.
3. Finding my squat sponge at the gym! Must've left it there ages ago too.
4. Timing it well with getting back from the gym to make dinner before Dan had to go to his jam session.
5. Sorting through old t-shirts and such to cut up for the eventual t-shirt quilt, dealing with my knitting swatches, etc.
6. Actually getting to the bottom of my jeans-to-hem pile, only took a few hours total.

A year ago today.

6/12/15

1. Delicious sushi as Masu for my goodbye lunch from my team.
2. Getting a Mexican chocolate donut from Blue Star on the way back to the office.
3. Playing a game of Pandemic with TP while waiting for KY to finish up.
4. Helping KY finish her skirt from sewing class!
5. Having leftover noodles in the fridge and a quarter of Dan's sandwich for dinner.
6. Continuing sewing after I got home and successfully making alterations to a black vintage dress to convert it from a wrap to buttons in the back.

A year ago today.

6/11/15

1. Stopping by Powell's in the morning to check out some sewing books that they had used copies of.
2. Happy hour at Bailey's with the larger team for sending me off to my new one.
3. Making it in time to the SEPTL to drop off some tools to donate.
4. Skipping to doing the cardio portion of the workout so I wouldn't have to make it up on the weekend back-to-back with another cardio portion.
5. Skyping with CP over in Turkey.
6. Making up noodles for dinner with meatballs (and stopping eating after I was full!)

A year ago today.

6/10/15

1. Watching videos from my Craftsy class on making a bodice sloper while on the bus in to work.
2. Joining KL/MD/ZK/EB/KY (and later JS) for lunch.
3. Not taking too long to pull together a couple somewhat longstanding PRs.
4. Using some lettuce from this week's CSA delivery to have a bit of salad and tide myself over before biking home.
5. Finding the back of my vintage shell chairs to work well for draping a skein of yarn around while I'm winding it into a ball.
6. Finishing watching the recent season of Doctor Who finally.

A year ago today.

6/9/15

1. Getting compliments on my vintage green with tiny florals dress.
2. JG being really receptive to the feedback I thought of for him for how we could make the team more inclusive.
3. Really enjoying my salad with sous vide chicken, a random dressing I threw together along with some scallions, cherry tomatoes, apples, avocado, and butter lettuce from the CSA.
4. Dan giving me a ride to check out a dress form going for only $50 off of craigslist.
5. Stopping at home first so I was able to grab some dinner and tend to my garden while it was still light out.
6. Getting myself to the gym and finishing the whole workout, including the cardio bit!

A year ago today.

6/8/15

1. Didn't take too long to get to the root of a ticket I was working on from Friday.
2. Getting nachos with lamb mole for lunch.
3. Finishing my slides in time to do a practice run and not miss too much of the book club meeting.
4. Seeing MC/NA at the FutureTalk event!
5. KL saying that she actually had good time giving her talk.
6. Burger from last night reheating decently well.

A year ago today.

6/7/15

1. Being able to keep the blinds in the bathroom raised after covering the bottom window with the corn starched fabric trick.
2. Homemade jewelry cleaner working beautifully for some of the silver and sterling silver jewelry I tried it with, including a pair of vintage earrings that had always been a dirty gray, now shiny!
3. Finally fixing the crooked hems on the black bedroom curtains.
4. Getting myself to the gym.
5. Finding that the extra jar KS mentioned that I had in the office fridge had been put back in the fridge so I needn't have worried it had been left out all weekend.
6. Making shackburgers for dinner.

A year ago today.

6/6/15

1. Harvesting Swiss chard to have with noodles.
2. Finishing up the round pillow cover right before the bobbin ran out of thread.
3. Watching the Belmont Stakes as American Pharaoh won the Triple Crown!!!
4. Getting a bunch of other delayed sewing done, like shortening the sleeves on a fleece jacket from work and replacing the front fabric on my circular knitting needle holder.
5. Making a broccoli rabe and potato pizza with broccoli rabe from the garden.
6. Setting up the photo printer I bought a year ago for scrapbooking purposes.

A year ago today.

6/5/15

1. Watching "Too Many Cooks" with the team.
2. Going out to happy hour to celebrate EB and EA's first 3 months on the job.
3. Dan coming by to give me a ride home after I realized I didn't have all the materials I needed to make use of the Friday Night Sewcial space at Modern Domestic.
4. Successfully threading the serger on the first try.
5. Finishing my Scout Tee!
6. Making an organza pressing cloth with finished edges by learning how to do a rolled edge on the serger. Looks very clean and neat.

A year ago today.

6/4/15

1. Wearing out my black jumpsuit with gold accessories!
2. KY coming by and talking about sewing over breakfast.
3. Figuring out how to unpick the neckline facing on a vintage dress I'm trying to refashion.
4. Meeting up with GR for coffee.
5. Getting caught up on email/draft blog posts/etc.
6. Cartopia food trucks still open when it was pretty late and I stopped there for some food on my way home.

A year ago today.

6/3/15

1. Didn't actually lose my keys!
2. Team offsite at SE's house for the day.
3. MV bringing in freshly made fresh spring rolls for breakfast.
4. Learning to play Pandemic and winning!
5. Getting reeeally close to finishing up my Scout Tee in class.
6. Dan taking me back downtown to pick up the week's CSA share from the office.

A year ago today.

6/2/15

1. Insightful meeting in the morning on product priorities.
2. Bibimbap for lunch.
3. Watching an excellent talk by Hsing-Hui on parsing for Tech Talks Lunch.
4. Finding a bunch of useful storage stuff at Freddy's.
5. Dan coming by for me to give him all my bulky purchases.
6. Not giving up in figuring out how to attach the hose splitter and eventually succeeding.

A year ago today.

6/1/15

1. Getting the luggage down to the basement in the morning.
2. Lunch at Mi Mero Mole with my teammates.
3. Going back up into the office to retrieve and heat up the leftover portion of my quesadilla for a snack before trivia.
4. Good turnout at bar trivia tonight, even if we didn't do that well on the questions.
5. Being satisfied that I had the right answer for the final question, even if we ended up going with something else.
6. Dan's lemon chicken pasta for dinner, with some watermelon slices for dessert.

A year ago today.