9/30/14

1. Getting an economy plus seat for the flight to Chicago due to a family wanting to sit together.
2. Surprisingly wide spread of movies on United’s wifi, had a fun time watching trailers.
3. Cubano sandwich from Rick Bayless place being actually really good, and only $6.
4. Plenty of outlets at O’Hare, enough to fully charge my phone and laptop both during the layover.
5. Middle seat in my row being empty for the 8 hour Chicago-Brussels flight.
6. Watching the Lego movie, American Hustle, and Across the Universe (for the music).

A year ago today.

9/29/14

1. Wearing my new light brown sweater dress with brown leggings and cowboy boots, very comfortable outfit.
2. Getting a plug adapter kit from IT.
3. Remembering to print out directions for my trip while still at the office.
4. Having for dinner what I had brought for lunch.
5. Remembering to transfer the frozen blanched vegetables to freezer bags.
6. Finding the sunflower quilt and travel blanket after being unsuccessful when I went looking last week.

A year ago today.

9/28/14

1. Frying up some bacon and eggs to go with toast for a full breakfast.
2. Catching up with my BC friends over a Google Hangout for the first time in a couple months.
3. Much larger harvest that I'd expected of the Swiss chard I'd been growing, and I even left some of the smaller stalks on there still to see how long they'd last on their own.
4. Getting a couple laundry loads done.
5. Sous vide pork chops turning out splendidly, even Dan liked them.
6. Thinking of frying up the CSA turnips in the leftover butter from browning the pork chops.

A year ago today.

9/27/14

1. Sleeping in until after noon.
2. Buying the latest Tana French mystery novel, The Secret Place.
3. Spending all afternoon on the couch reading.
4. Dan making chicken stew for dinner.
5. Dan doing all the dishes.
6. Watching Cheaper By the Dozen (the original from 1950).

A year ago today.

9/26/14

1. Microwaved corn for lunch.
2. Figuring out how to copy over production data to my local database.
3. Doing a practice run-through of my talk with AK and really starting to think about how to adapt it for next week.
4. Getting a burrito from Santeria as I was suddenly very hungry.
5. Happy hour at secret Bailey's and getting to know RC better.
6. Staying up late reading Broken Harbor, just because.

A year ago today.

9/25/14

1. Remembering I needed to get in to the office in time for my 1:1.
2. Getting to try out the dumpling food truck over at the big carts for lunch.
3. Writing tests for the method I'd been fixing actually not being too bad.
4. Deciding to stay in for the evening instead of going to the gym, after having gone out for coffee to meet a new developer.
5. Spending the evening re-reading Alif the Unseen.
6. Going to bed early.

A year ago today.

9/24/14

1. Getting a ride to the office in the morning from my mom/sister, before they headed off to the airport.
2. Not too busy a day to get back into the swing of things.
3. Reading a graphic novel, American Born Chinese, during my hair appointment.
4. Seafoam color hair streaks this time being totally spot on!
5. Fixing myself a last panzanella salad for dinner.
6. Reading Alif the Unseen and getting really caught up in it.

A year ago today.