4/21/10

1. Getting myself to the gym for the first time in a month. I've canceled my membership after this month, it's been confirmed that I am not a gym person, but I want to make an effort to get some use out of the $82 for April.
2. Getting to the office just in time to scoop up some breakfast. Breakfast ends at 9:30 and they are pretty on the ball about pulling things right on time.
3. My heels no longer rubbing painfully against my new sandals. Hurrah shoes actually breaking in!
4. Well-run team meeting, the last few had felt a bit like we were spending too much time on certain things but today's was far better, in my opinion.
5. Going on a nice long walk with Dan to check out the area of our new apartment again.
6. Same roast duck with pasta dinner again. I think roast duck is one of my favorite meats, definitely.

4/20/10

1. Making it to the classroom right on time at 9am, even with grabbing my laptop and breakfast first.
2. The class of 'Managing Your Energy' actually re-presenting known tips about improving your productivity in a more helpful and useful way.
3. Sushi for lunch!
4. Feeling a kindred spirit in another woman (L?) who was at my table for the training for the afternoon, who had recently moved to this office from the London office.
5. Briefly browsing the wonderland that is an Anthropologie store (a new one just opened in Chelsea marketplace).
6. ES helping out with a ticket that got updated as urgent today.

4/19/10

1. Instructive lesson on the political landscape for YT as a client from SA.
2. AF call planned by DM going over well with the client.
3. Finally getting to finalizing my Q2 OKRs.
4. Reassuring chat with MG at his office hours regarding the management change.
5. Roast duck from my mom with pasta, tomato sauce, and pea shoots for dinner.
6. Reading the copy of Catching Fire MG brought in for me while Dan watched sports.

4/18/10

1. Leaving my parents' with loads of food, per usual.
2. Easy pickup of an Ikea two-tier coffee table offered for free from a colleague.
3. Delicious, delicious nap once I got back to the apartment, and waking up early on enough in the afternoon to feel like I still had much of the day left.
4. Catching up with LW on the phone.
5. Reinforcing the shoulder seams of one of my new-to-me vintage dresses.
6. Successfully shortening one sleeve of the Liberty of London coat I bought on the spur of the moment at Target last week.

4/17/10

1. Papaya salad and red duck curry for lunch!
2. Walking in the park with my mom and the dogs to the monthly Shiba meet up.
3. Getting the same pair of Clarks sandals I'd ordered from Zappos last week at a much reduced price.
4. Parents approving of the decreased sugar and added nuts to the banana bread cake I made for my dad's birthday.
5. Spending quality time with my mom watching NCIS.
6. Fixing up the holes in the pockets of the new-to-me plaid coat.

4/16/10

1. Realizing during the O&O weekly meeting that I needed more info from SA on the politics of the different client/internal interactions.
2. Not too busy during the extra phone shift I took to cover a coworker in the afternoon.
3. Good chat with NA about the unsatisfying/weird prio meeting yesterday, feeling he's on our side and is a good person to advocate for improving the process to PM.
4. Picking up and dropping off items at the tailor's and getting a bit of a discount on some alterations, I think because of the delay for the first batch due to one of employees getting sick, but hopefully my politeness of the unexpected delay helped there too.
5. It not raining heavily outside when I needed to get to and from the PATH station with my items from the tailor.
6. My parents coming to pick me and my batch of laundry up from the apartment so I didn't have to take the train back.

4/15/10

1. Being able to walk more easily in my doctored up Clarks sandals (padding strips to soften rough edges, gel arch supports added.
2. Hearing a lot of support from fellow GTS people for the feature enhancement request from my client.
3. Being validated by others in my feeling that the response from PM was kind of weird.
4. Learning that EL is also a knitter and that she wants to start up a crafting group with people interested on the team.
5. Being successful in feeling better about the day by spending the evening at Barnes & Noble reading the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire.
6. Dan complimenting me on my outfit for the day looking a bit 50s (black cropped shrug with front ties and gray silk skirt with roses).