4/28/10

1. Getting a comment on my wedding blog from the photographer we didn't hire that just shows how classy and awesome they are--if only we lived closer to Atlanta!
2. Lunch with my favorite work clique (BB, MG, and AJ, of course).
3. Coming up with the idea of converting our messy Quality doc into a site to better be able to organize the links and jump around.
4. RT ordering the same drink that I want right before me so I could just say 'I'll have what she's having' instead of saying the drink's name out loud (they named the drink 'Sexy Bitch.' Other names on their cocktail menu included 'Menage a Trois' and 'Pretty Kitty').
5. Finding out from AJ that we both gave the same strong feedback to our manager yesterday, within a couple hours of each other. Hilarious, in that while we'd expressed our opinions to each other on the subjects previously, we didn't actually both plan to bring it up in our separate 1:1s.
6. Generally a good amount of mingling accomplished at the team happy hour, which lasted 4 hours.

4/27/10

1. Getting a shoutout at the All-Hands referencing that presentation I went out to CA for and people being cool about it.
2. Finally getting to have the 'history of GDO' talk with SA that kept getting rescheduled last week.
3. My manager having an extra half hour free to double my 1:1 because I had much to convey to him.
4. Making an effort to chat casually with the higher ups in town for the week.
5. Getting out early from my (last) JavaScript class to get home in time to watch Glee at the normal time.
6. Finishing hemming up a dress from last weekend's haul.

4/26/10

1. Deciding to eat my cereal and strawberries breakfast in the microkitchen rather than at my desk. Nice to focus on food (well, food + phone) and not worry about dripping milk and cereal on my keyboard.
2. Watermelon for dessert at lunch. Mmm watermelon.
3. Working steadily throughout the afternoon on tickets, no meetings or much other distractions.
4. Finding a quick answer to a YT ticket by digging up a spreadsheet in an old email.
5. The fresh guacamole at Mary Ann's (dinner with FJ and co.). I think it may have been the best guac I've ever had, just exceptionally rich and creamy tasting.
6. Getting to The Container Store just in time to buy cedar blocks, on sale.

4/25/10

1. Dan + two Advil helping me deal with a massive random headache that woke me up in the middle of the night. Felt like my head was in a vice.
2. Cleaning up clutter in the apartment from having been lazy the last few days.
3. Dan going out to buy groceries for dinner so that I could stay inside all day.
4. Getting a good amount of mending/fixing up done. My basket of stuff to take care of is quite full right now, though, after adding more dresses to be shortened.
5. Clearing out quite a bit of my Hulu queue as I worked on the above.
6. Dancing around in the kitchen with Dan as I made matzo ball soup for dinner with a new recipe (definitely lighter and fluffier, I'm a fan).

4/24/10

1. Slow-paced morning, heading into Manhattan to pick up library books with Dan.
2. Dan having a whole pack of generic Claritin in his jacket pocket for me to take one. Love you sunshine and green things growing, why don't you love me back?
3. Having a great time just walking around the Manhattan Vintage show, looking at examples of exquisite craftsmanship and some items so old they look they they'd fall apart if you just touched them.
4. Coming across a ton of stuff at the vendor I hit yesterday that I'd somehow missed in my first perusal of her corner. Another batch of dresses, an interesting belt, and one of the things I actually was looking for, a lace camisole.
5. Dinner with AJ and MG at Omai, a Vietnamese restaurant. Excellent fresh spring rolls with prawns and an interesting rice crepe appetizer, plus satisfying pho.
6. Dessert of strawberry rhubarb pie at Grey Dog and continuing work gossip/girly chat with AJ and MG.

4/23/10

1. Styling one of my more formal looking vintage dresses (mostly just because it's all black) with a wide bright blue belt, big blue earrings, and red shoes.
2. Red shoes broken in enough not to need Band-Aids anywhere.
3. Getting my J.Crew silk skirt (that I'd accidentally machine-washed and dried) back from the dry-cleaners looking pretty good, wrinkles in the main body of the skirt smoothed out now.
4. AJ passing on the amazing deal 23andMe ran today in honor of DNA day--80% off their complete package so that it was only $99! Bought one of Dan and me so that we can have fun looking up the data.
5. Finding at least one vendor at the Manhattan Vintage show that had reasonable prices. Bought a 70s polka dot black dress with short puff sleeves.
6. Dan going to Shop-Rite and getting OJ so there's no worry of running out and having to turn to the awful sugar-lite stuff he got awhile back (it tastes like Crystal Light).

4/22/10

1. Excellent instructor, EN, for the half-day 'Presenting with Confidence' course.
2. The small class size turning out not to be awkward and actually quite supportive and affirmative.
3. Catching Dan's email just in time to claim the free Mets tickets from his uncle.
4. Not getting stuck indefinitely on the 7. It was close there for awhile.
5. SHAKE SHACK FOR DINNER.
6. The run-down between 3rd and home, i.e. watch grown men play tag.