8/31/19

1. Making it to prenatal yoga.
2. Chatting with another mom after class for a bit.
3. Having time to stop by the farmers market quickly on the way home.
4. My sister and her friends being total troupers and building the shelves I got from Costco for the garage.
5. Getting the garage to a manageably organized state!
6. My mom being ok despite the car accident.

A year ago today.

8/30/19

1. Waking up feeling better rested than in the last few days.
2. Having time to fold the clean laundry.
3. Doctor's office having the flu shot available.
4. Nico handling the shot like a trouper.
5. Getting back from the doctor earlier than I'd expected.
6. Being able to schedule a prenatal consult with a new pediatrician pretty quickly.

A year ago today.

8/29/19

1. Getting a prenatal lactation consult in with some good ideas to get started on.
2. BS' branch being in a state where I could pick it up and contribute some test writing.
3. Starting to work on book sorting and annotating the words in the Chinese books that I don't recognize.
4. Dan finishing off the rest of the chicken salad.
5. Remembering to move the laundry to the dryer.
6. Going to bed on the early side.

A year ago today.

8/28/19

1. Dan helping me with carting out the chunks of bad watermelon.
2. Making dumplings for breakfast again.
3. Dialing in to this week's podcast recording.
4. Getting the finished photos from our family photo shoot of a couple months ago.
5. My mom bringing over basil pork and luro.
6. Nico successfully climbing out of the bath himself onto the stool we already have in the bathroom.

A year ago today.

8/27/19

1. Nico sleeping in until 7:30.
2. Organizing Nico's toys and the gated off area in his room finally.
3. Making dumplings for breakfast.
4. Realizing I should switch to another refactoring task to avoid rebasing hell.
5. Finding my Costco card to be able to go an outing there by myself.
6. Succeeding in loading my Costco purchases into the back of the van.

A year ago today.

8/26/19

1. Remembering to make pasta for Nico's lunch.
2. Doing some organizing while waiting for the water to boil.
3. Getting out to run a few different errands before my first meeting.
4. Dan taking the rest of my egg noodles when I wasn't into the texture.
5. Not actually taking too long after all to put away the playpen and organize the new area a bit.
6. Dan helping with vacuuming the now-cleared area.

A year ago today.

8/25/19

1. Waking up feeling uncongested and much closer to normal.
2. Nico playing contentedly in his room while I had another dumplings breakfast.
3. Perfect unhumid mid-70s weather.
4. Finding paved areas at a local for Nico to push his shopping cart around.
5. Finally finishing the Oh Crap! book and starting on some other books I'd wanted to for awhile.
6. Pretty chill Sunday overall.

A year ago today.

8/24/19

1. Making dumplings for breakfast.
2. Getting dressed instead of going back to bed.
3. Pretty painless to start installing the cabinet locks.
4. Making it to yoga for the first time in a couple weeks!
5. Taking a nap in the afternoon myself as well.
6. Dan's mom coming over to help with the afternoon and bedtime.

A year ago today.

8/23/19

1. Folding and putting away clean laundry.
2. Fitting in a quick shower.
3. Red roast duck curry for lunch.
4. Lots of family visiting.
5. KS staying to help with bedtime.
6. Going to bed on the early side.

A year ago today.

8/22/19

1. Syncing with DM and getting clarity on what's in progress and what work should be next.
2. Successfully refactoring a set of tests!
3. RC having picked up some snacks from Trader Joe's for us.
4. Nico being ok with the delayed start to dinner.
5. Theraflu kicking in well.
6. Successfully fixing the zipper on Nico's sleep sack.

A year ago today.

8/21/19

1. Nico sleeping in until 8, whoa!
2. Nico doing just fine with being dropped off by himself at summer camp.
3. Getting more clarity on the interview process.
4. Finding that someone had already brought in the recycling/trash bins back to the house for me.
5. My mom making roast duck curry for us.
6. Dan coming home!

A year ago today.

8/20/19

1. Nico sleeping in until 7:30.
2. Having zucchini bread and peaches for breakfast.
3. Making more noodles with my mom's sesame/tahini sauce.
4. Canceling some of my meetings.
5. Eating my dinner while watching TV on the couch again.
6. Theraflu seeming to kick in better than the night before.

A year ago today.

8/19/19

1. Going back to sleep after everyone headed out.
2. Montessori school having a trucks bin.
3. Arriving within the apparent 15 min grace period for my midwife appointment despite leaving home late.
4. Picking up generic Theraflu at theWalgreens pharmacy attached to the hospital.
5. Visiting Dan.
6. Someone passing by offering to help me with pulling the recycling bin to the curb and chatting for a bit.

A year ago today.

8/18/19

1. Nico letting me sleep in until 7:30.
2. KS coming over to help by 8.
3. RC rescuing me after the others left.
4. Making zucchini bread with Nico.
5. Having help the rest of the day.
6. Catching up with finances for last month.

A year ago today.

8/17/19

1. Still going out for dim sum.
2. One of the vendors helping me carry a watermelon back to the car.
3. Getting all my errands done well before 3.
4. Finding free parking.
5. Bringing Dan some food for dinner.
6. Others putting Nico to bed successfully.

A year ago today.

8/16/19

1. Successfully figuring out how to add error checking to the branch on my own.
2. Biking out to pick up more noodles for lunch.
3. Making the decision to skip the library in order to get back in time for retro.
4. My mom coming over to help.
5. Managing the bedtime routine ok on my own.
6. Taking time to shower before bed.

A year ago today.

8/15/19

1. Managing the morning routine ok on my own.
2. Getting less spicy pad kee mao with tofu for lunch.
3. Dan finally getting discharged.
4. Eventually succeeding in rebasing against master.
5. Making eggs with tomato to go with rice for dinner.
6. Finally putting up the shelf in the entryway.

A year ago today.

8/14/19

1. Starting to see how to change our tests for Go.
2. Taking a break in the afternoon after being on several hours' worth of meetings.
3. KS being able to come over to help with Nico.
4. Making it to the hospital to see Dan and bring him some stuff.
5. KS successfully doing bedtime.
6. Finishing reading and reviewing the rest of the talk proposals.

A year ago today.

8/13/19

1. Nico playing contentedly in his playpen for a long time.
2. Getting around to sorting through makeup collection to throw out old stuff and give all my brushes a good cleaning.
3. Family stepping in to provide backup childcare coverage.
4. 1:1s moving up to be bundled together.
5. Getting pairing time in to revive our branch from last week.
6. Not needing to stay up too late to pull together the conference tracks I'm curating.

A year ago today.

8/12/19

1. Getting home pretty quickly with a Lyft.
2. Remembering where I put the extra key.
3. Taking the morning off to sleep instead.
4. Showering and washing my hair.
5. Cooking up the rest of the frozen dumplings.
6. Second watermelon from last week still being good.

A year ago today.

8/11/19

1. Getting myself to go back to sleep for a few more hours.
2. Timed it well to be ready to go before 9 as planned.
3. Not needing to check my luggage.
4. Persevering in getting an acai bowl.
5. Getting back to the spa with enough time before the massage.
6. Cab ride to airport turning out to be $20.

A year ago today.

8/10/19

1. Chorizo breakfast burrito.
2. Making it out to Mono Lake with its pretty shrub landscape and tuffas.
3. Turning back from the drive after starting to feel nauseated.
4. Woke up from nap in time to check out a thrift store.
5. Getting a peanut butter and banana smoothie.
6. Fun dance music at AL's wedding.

A year ago today.

8/9/19

1. Enough time to shower and make a tomato mayo sandwich before heading to the airport,
2. Finding an outlet to charge my phone by the gate.
3. Sleep and a new book keeping me occupied on flight.
4. CP meeting me at the local airport.
5. Showering travel smells off.
6. Lava fudge cake and ice cream for dessert.

A year ago today.

8/8/19

1. Not too difficult to saw up the carpet roll into pieces short enough to fit in the garbage can.
2. Nico accepting a handoff back to my mom.
3. More productive pairing with BS.
4. Finding a UPS drop off box not that far from the library. 
5. Choosing wisely not to try for an additional evening project.
6. Sewing kit available to tack neckline of dress.

A year ago today.

8/7/19

1. Picking up plants for the planters in the bathroom.
2. Stopping by the Asian Food Market to pick up sesame oil in a glass bottle.
3. Pairing with BS on our project.
4. Sticking around long enough for the yoga class instructor to arrive despite all the flooding and traffic.
5. Dan fixing the seatbelt tangle in the car.
6. Joint compound in the bathroom seeming to help smooth out the edges of the wall against the tub.

A year ago today.

8/6/19

1. Paint patches looking not bad in daylight.
2. Using joint compound for the areas next to the tub in the bathroom where tape is popping out.
3. Dan being able to go out and pick up a replacement strawberry milk and milkshake.
4. Figuring out the crashed process that was behind all the alerts I kept getting.
5. Catching up with folks 1:1.
6. Remembering to start a load of kiddo laundry before it was quite too late.

A year ago today.

8/5/19

1. Successfully driving to and from my midwife appointment.
2. Not actually having gained as much weight since the last appointment as I've felt like.
3. Page during the middle of the appointment self-resolving.
4. Not needing to stay online too late for a new incident.
5. Making dumplings for dinner.
6. Not taking too long to do a first coat of paint over the areas needing touchups.

A year ago today.

8/4/19

1. Frying up shishito peppers for breakfast.
2. Helping Dan and Nico make muffins together.
3. Successfully driving over to Home Depot and Target during the day.
4. Dan going out again to pick up puff pastry for me.
5. Making the summer tomato/corn/squash galette for dinner.
6. Indulging in barbecue kettle chips.

A year ago today.

8/3/19

1. My mom coming over and taking Nico out for his inaugural session with a toddler grocery cart.
2. Biking over to yoga and then to the farmers market afterwards making it more bearable in the heat.
3. Picking up peaches and nectarines at the farmers market.
4. Rain holding off so we could keep our scheduled family photo shoot time.
5. Getting to the park on time.
6. Talking some teenagers at the park into letting me use their bug spray on Nico.

A year ago today.

8/2/19

1. Pairing with MB on fixing the problem behind a flapping alert.
2. Making dumplings for myself for a bit of a brunch.
3. Kudos to teammates going over well.
4. Pretty quiet afternoon allowing for wrapping up the week a little early.
5. Taking care of the Torrid store pickup.
6. Getting dinner together before there was a hangry meltdown.

A year ago today.

8/1/19

1. Getting my eyebrows threaded.
2. Pretty quick to run the rest of my errands thanks to being on my bike.
3. Also quick to give painting the wall a shot.
4. Having a lot of watermelon throughout the day to combat thirst.
5. Nice visit from my mom.
6. Giving the toaster oven a really good scrub inside and out finally.

A year ago today.