4/30/19

1. Easy to Instant Pot food for Nico after prepwork last night.
2. Making up an apple and cheese plate for myself to tide me over until lunch.
3. Addition of tomatoes and parsley to the chicken salad working out well.
4. Finishing lunch in time to be on time to my 1:30 meeting.
5. Catching the regression and deploying the revert pretty quickly.
6. Taking the evening off from working on house stuff and just reading instead.

A year ago today.

4/29/19

1. Not being too late to my massage.
2. Getting a bagel and working from the bagel shop.
3. Beautifully sunny day out as I biked to my errands.
4. Family answering the call for help with childcare next week.
5. Taking a shower.
6. Successfully doing laundry!

A year ago today.

4/28/19

1. Taking Nico out to dim sum without having to bring all his nap stuff.
2. Realizing the dryer vent kit was missing parts in time to add to Dan's list for Lowe's.
3. Getting to caulking the exterior vent before it got too dark.
4. Getting the kitchen to a functional state.
5. Spending the evening researching products online instead of more unpacking.
6. Clearing out my office to be navigable for the work day tomorrow.

A year ago today.

4/27/19

1. Getting a bagel for breakfast.
2. Not losing my beloved Panama hat despite several good attempts from the strong wind.
3. Picking up groceries and prepared foods from Whole Foods.
4. Dan succeeding at packing and cleaning the apartment without needing to stay too late.
5. Fixing the dishwasher between Dan and me both.
6. Making myself a cheese plate.

A year ago today.

4/26/19

1. Nico re-acclimating to KS quite quickly.
2. Stopping to get myself a bagel for lunch.
3. Taking a shower.
4. Making steady progress on packing up the apartment.
5. Succeeding at pulling out the wall anchors for the blackout curtains, thanks to using pliers.
6. Heating up oxtail for dinner.

A year ago today.

4/25/19

1. Taking Nico to the shoe store with the nanny's help and picking out a pair of summer sandals for him.
2. Getting my eyebrows threaded finally.
3. Continued quiet pull request review queue.
4. Packing up all of our overnight stuff and enough additional to fill up the car, without delaying dinner too much.
5. Dan taking Nico out for an evening Whole Foods run.
6. Leftover egg noodles already having brought up to be able to use for Nico's lunch tomorrow.

A year ago today.

4/24/19

1. Pretty quiet pull request review queue.
2. Being able to dial in to another podcast recording.
3. Architecture review meeting ending early.
4. Remembering I could use Citi Thank You Points to reduce the cost of the flights to/fromt Austin.
5. Making social plans for the next couple trips.
6. Quickly pulling together more bins of kitchen stuff for Dan to take up.

A year ago today.

4/23/19

1. Making breakfast tacos.
2. Getting a few more boxes and bins of kitchen stuff packed for Dan to bring up.
3. A few of my meetings ending early enough to grab lunch in-between.
4. Having some time after work but before dinner as a breather.
5. Making more pasta to fill out the remaining broccoli rabe.
6. Getting a couple loads of laundry done.

A year ago today.

4/22/19

1. Feeling much less achey than yesterday.
2. Mac & cheese heating up better in the toaster oven than in the microwave, and not taking too much longer either.
3. Finally finishing up looking out finances for the last few months and filing my expense report for work.
4. Lovely refreshing weather out.
5. Getting a bunch of stuff printed out and packaged up for returns.
6. Dan bringing back more kale caesar salad for me.

A year ago today.

4/21/19

1. Going back into Nico's room when he didn't settle down for his nap and picking up that a diaper change was needed.
2. Riding my bike for the first time in over a year.
3. Getting kale salads and tacos for lunch.
4. Dan having packed a magic eraser.
5. Getting the gate mostly set up before we had to head back to Hamilton.
6. Remembering the leftovers in the fridge before we'd headed out too far.

A year ago today.

4/20/19

1. Dan managing to find a U-Haul truck when Budget canceled on us.
2. Windy but refreshing weather.
3. Dan and CK managing to fit all of our furniture and some boxes as well into the truck.
4. Remembering to request a blanket for the handles on my desk as well.
5. Having time during Nico's nap to make both mac & cheese, another loaf of chocolate banana bread, and still have a bit of time to chill before he was up again.
6. Managing the drive over to the truck pickup location to bring the mahjong table home.

A year ago today.

4/19/19

1. Remembering a pull request I had meant to submit.
2. Retro ending early.
3. Combining some peas in with the chana masala to make chickpea toasts for lunch.
4. Productive 1:1 with NN.
5. Prepping the remaining furniture items to move.
6. Taking a shower to get rid of the dust.

A year ago today.

4/18/19

1. Getting an update about the HVAC permit early enough to do something about it while at home.
2. Finding a working outlet to recharge my phone.
3. Deciding to return the yellow skirt, as lovely as the embroidery was.
4. Enjoying my salad for lunch.
5. Going for a walk with MB with the babies in our carriers.
6. Making it to 30th St. Station in plenty of time this time.

A year ago today.

4/17/19

1. Getting an above average quality night of sleep.
2. Remembering to get going in the morning with Dan's early meeting.
3. Dialing in to the podcast recording.
4. Getting help figuring out why the manual datable table vacuum had gotten killed.
5. Managing dinner and bathtime fine on my own, even with the diaper change needed.
6. Taking a night off from packing.

A year ago today.

4/16/19

1. Finishing up the script to extract log data.
2. Finding clever VLOOKUP solutions to make spreadsheets of the data.
3. Making the right amount of angel hair pasta for lunch to feel full but not overfull.
4. No big deal to run the first table setting update process.
5. Getting good advice from AU.
6. Having the leftover bittersweet chocolate bar in the pantry to use with the banana bread.

A year ago today.

4/15/19

1. My mom coming over to help out in the morning.
2. Finding a "buy a pair, get a pair half off" sale on shoes at Target.
3. Nico's nap going long enough for me to make myself lunch.
4. Making good progress on a script to extract data.
5. Pulling together many more bins of stuff ready to be moved.
6. Showering before bed.

A year ago today.

4/14/19

1. Having the morning to myself.
2. Dan saving me a sunbutter cup.
3. Taking a quick nap in the afternoon.
4. Hanging out with Nico in his room without needing too much involvement from me.
5. Finally getting to re-organizing some of the early baby stuff into the new plastic storage bins.
6. Succeeding at keeping a straight face until Dan pulled out the fake sunbutter cup.

A year ago today.

4/13/19

1. My dad finding a way to block out the windows in Nico's room for his nap.
2. Delicious freshly fried banana roll at one of the garage sales.
3. Enjoying lunch outside.
4. Cafe being willing to break the $100 bill I had.
5. Dan picking up my bike.
6. Not too much protest from Nico when we had to stop watching trucks and turn back to the house.

A year ago today.

4/9/19

1. Getting a bagel for breakfast.
2. Washer getting fixed.
3. Roofers happening to come back for the remaining work today rather than tomorrow.
4. My dad doing a few more fixes around the house.
5. Surviving my giant block of meetings in the afternoon.
6. Rain letting up for my walk to the train station.

A year ago today.

4/7/19

1. Going to dim sum with my parents.
2. Not too difficult to get Nico down for his nap.
3. Discovering I'd left a note in the manual for my dad's sewing machine.
4. Hemming both pairs of pants for my mom.
5. Fixing the tears in two pairs of Nico's pants.
6. Running a load of laundry while we were there.

A year ago today.

4/6/19

1. Having a quiet morning to myself.
2. Dan picking up a shop vac.
3. Organizing the boxes of stuff that had already been brought up.
4. My aunt helping Dan clear out the attic.
5. My mom giving me a ride to the bike shop in time to drop off my bike.
6. Having time to return the leftover box of flooring.

A year ago today.

4/5/19

1. Not having to commute for the first time this week.
2. Happy and productive retro.

A year ago today.

4/4/19

1. Getting to the house right after the contractors did.
2. Trying out the bikeshare in Metuchen.
3. Picking up bagels and muffins.
4. Very smooth delivery of new fridge.
5. Bringing home a lot of food that my mom had made.
6. Getting two $50 Amazon gift cards for various surveys related to the house buying process.

A year ago today.

4/3/19

1. Getting bagels for breakfast again.
2. Indulging in cold-pressed orange juice from Whole Foods.
3. Being able to take an earlier train home.
4. Making potato latkes for a late lunch.
5. Dan taking Nico to Grounds for Sculpture after all, so I was able to get some pairing time in.
6. Taking the plunge and buying the rug for Nico's room from West Elm's sale.

A year ago today.

4/2/19

1. Getting a much better night of sleep.
2. Picking up bagels for breakfast.
3. Leaving for the bank in time.
4. Remembering this angel hair pasta recipe to make for dinner, spiced up with a couple eggs and olives and sun-dried tomatoes from the pantry.
5. Helping Dan with prepping the potatoes.
6. Discovering a significant error on our tax return.

A year ago today.

4/1/19

1. Making it to the train on time.
2. Google Pay successfully working to buy groceries and lunch for myself at Whole Foods despite forgetting my wallet.
3. Making it to the 4:14 train even with leaving the house at 4:05.
4. Doing fine with the mac & cheese for lunch even though I didn't take a Lact-Aid.
5. Successfully wrangling dinner, bath, and diapering/dressing Nico on my own.
6. Going to bed early.

A year ago today.