Saturday & Sunday, July 28 & 29

Did
See a friend's play at Lincoln Center
Accidentally avoid several rainstorms
Watch a lot of Olympics
Nap in the park
Reluctantly admit that squats are not helping
Finish the camping meal planning
Really wish we were already gone

Didn't
Finish supplying or making lists
Follow through on emails to peeps
Successfully do birthday prep
Remember about jury duty until the last minute
Sew Husband's pants for him
Do enough PT stuff
Write

Did
Make the stupidest, unthinking e-commerce decision ever
Head downtown to a coworker's farewell lunch
Get an excellently punny package
Laze around reading and napping
Waste a lot of time at the gym
Squat more, hurt more
Make fun of athletes' costumes
Demonstrate mundane love

Didn't
Find out if my boneheadedness will have consequences
Get sucked into the usual last-minute office frenzy
Find out about the bloody MRI
Get through much of my to-do list
Retain the conviction that squatting is a great idea
Make progress toward doing stuff that scares me

Did
Wear my pretty party dress
Make some exciting zoning diagrams
Write a public participation plan
Throw together some promo materials
Make coworkers laugh
Point out something BossMan was missing
Actually get him to say that I made a good point
Finish my 40 hour workweek
Resist LadyBoss's rabid desire that I come in tomorrow

Didn't
Find out the MRI results
Want to seem naggy by calling a second time about it
Leave work before 8
Spend any time outside
Get rained on noticeably
Lift
Write
Do anything brave

Did
Work on four different projects, plus bookkeeping
Finally get a big-girl bank login
Attempt to find out my MRI results
Enjoy having DOMS for the first time in a while
Receive powdered eggs and more trail guides in the mail
Work on breaking in my weight belt

Didn't
Get enough sleep
Snap at people who have no idea that I'm not just a bookkeeper
Get through to the Dr
Win a mighty battle against Acrobat's reluctance to compress pdfs
Lose anything major when my deskmate turned off my power strip
Eat any birthday cake
Work on any personal projects

Did
Walk 4 miles in blistery shoes
Have black sooty feet by the time I got to our meeting
Give a totally confident presentation
Get compliments on my maps
Descend into the chthonic depths of a year of old bookkeeping forms
Manage to get BossMan to do what I needed before 7pm
Go to the gym
Get complimented on my lifting technique

Didn't
Wear my new party-ish dress, for fear of looking like a goofy amateur
Rescue someone's keys from the middle of the street
Sweat the unintended redundancy of the meeting materials, despite BossMan's glare
Get out meeting minutes in a timely fashion
Hesitate to admit my mistakes
Take anything personally
Manage to keep double overhand grip for a deadlift set of 5 at 175lbs
Throttle Husband's obviously single boss for calling us at 10:50pm

Monday, July 24

Did
Spend 11 hours at work
Discover and freely admit to a sizeable screwup on taxes
Eventually develop a storyline for the morning's presentation
Wallow in the sappy awesomeness of The Newsroom

Didn't
Get to actually think about the project instead of the presentation
Meet with sub-boss about the project he wants me to manage
Think about non-work stuff
Write

Did
Do the chores that hadn't happened yet
Watch some strong ladies fight some heavy barbells
Ditch early after the best stuff
Run errands
Work on the book for an hour
Write about the narrator taking a nap, because I was sleepy
Crash out asleep on the living room floor while Husband made dinner
Get all serious for a minute or two

Didn't
Do a lot of other things that were on the to do list
Break in my new belt
Figure out anything of great importance
Lift
Get MRI results
Plan sufficiently for the camping trip
Melt into a sweaty pile of sweat
Want the weekend to end

Did
Have a lazy morning
Leave the house at 1 and stay out until 9
Pretend to be New Yorkers
See a fantastic movie
People watch
Hang out with little kids on rocks in Central Park
Slide down the rocks on our butts
Have a pretty fantastic day

Didn't
Do anything on a to-do list

Did
Get injected with strange liquid
Walk slowly on a treadmill while wearing two tents
Lay in a magnetic tube for an hour listening to it make a hideous racket
Eventually wander out of the building and get rained on a lot
Try on seemingly every piece of clothing in the 34th St Macy's petites department
Triumph in my multi-year quest to find a not-indecent white shirt
Wear a hoodie, jeans, and socks without sweating
Nap
Go on an after-hours mission to procure chocolate

Didn't
Work on the book
Come up with a Super Awesome Plan for Husband's birthday
Go to the gym
Type up recipes
Run any errands or do any chores
Successfully convince a passerby that he won't find a taxi where I live

Did
Type up a bunch of recipes after blogging last night
Make some decent looking maps
Take way too long to do it
Finally sort through the pile of reports a client's intern sent me
Confirm tomorrow's MRI twice, once with someone who thought it was for my arm
Accidentally forget to leave work until 8
Find something to be too salty for the first time in years
Lay around like slime mold watching Whip It
Fantasize about doing roller derby

Didn't
Write
Lift
Go outside to enjoy the not-swelteringness
Let Ladyboss derail my fun work with boring admin junk
Have good luck at ordering sporty-looking clothes from a website
Figure out what's coming next after this phase of life
Figure out how to get a dog

Did
Make it to work on time 2 days in a row
Do some actually productive work
Foist a huge heap of paperwork on the intern
Get distracted by the thunderstorm
Burn out early
Take a train wreck of a nap
Indulge in watching the lives of fictional Brits
Write a snotty facebook comment on a former friend's post

Didn't
Remember to ice my hip before work
Make an ass of myself on either of two conference calls
Figure out an ongoing graphics/framing problem
Work on the book
Type up recipes
Apply for a production manager job
Make any major life decisions
Stop thinking about opportunity costs

Friday, July 13 - Tuesday, July 17

Did
Take a blog vacation
Lift at mostly-ex-gym
Have a nice talk with ex-new-coach about squatting on a hurt hip
Schedule an MRI
Spend the weekend whacking my nephews with foam swords and throwing them in pools
Watch the 9 year old devour my friend's book
Play hooky Monday morning and still work 8.5 hours
Get summoned for jury duty
Suffer through a performance review
Confess that I think anyone could do what I can do, and get a 9% raise anyway
Give unsolicited gym advice like a punk

Didn't
Work on the book at all
Give a definitive answer about going "full time" again
Quite get a continuous 5-rep set of deadlift at 170
Tell snotty trainer at the new gym that yes, she does actually know me
Figure out how to describe a data geography question to a steering committee
Observe much interesting train behavior
Get around to typing a mini-cookbook for some new psuedo-paloeites

Thursday, July 12

Did
Finish my book three minutes into the morning ride
Start work on an end product way in advance
Keep it a secret from the office so they're not scandalized
File everything!
Take steps toward revolutionizing the office calendar system
Actually get organized
Set a new sudoku PR on the train home
Crash through the last 3 episodes of Downton Abbey

Didn't
Remember to put the ice cup back in the freezer this morning
Offer my seat to a pregnant lady on the train
Leave the office and go outside
Prepare for next week's performance review at all
Sass anyone much
Sound like a moron
Get the blog post up in time because I was brain dumping to Husband

Did
Avoid getting sucked in to a third day of bookkeeping
Impress Boss Man with my fancy-pants spreadsheet skillz
Get away with a surprising amount of sass
Escape the office for lunch
Get to concentrate on a single task for three whole hours!
Make progress on two projects
Fail to discuss a third new project
Watch some fascinating gym antics after work
Row, squat, deadlift, and do some push-ups amid the bros

Didn't
Disappoint anyone, including myself
Apologize for the sass
Learn to fly
Hurt myself
Write
Kidnap a little dog on the way home

Did
Manage to make other people apologize to me for something I kind of screwed up
Agree to something I really don't have time for
Spend the day in a frenzy ping-ponging between bookkeeping and project phone calls
Cry in the bathroom as a follow-up to last night
Get a lot of facebook love
Accurately predict that one of my coworkers was quitting
Stay late to work on ridiculously finicky invoices

Didn't
Get nearly enough sleep
Convince anyone on the project that I'm not a moron
Manage to avoid scheduling a performance review
Go to the gym after work, although it would have been great
Figure out if I'm satisfied or dissatisfied, or what to do about it
Make time to write
Apply for a PM job at Columbia
Appreciate the good stuff enough

Monday, July 9

Did
Get inadvertently snarled at on the train
Deal with Boss Man's slightly manic side
Finally get him to understand my uber spreadsheet
Bookkeep
Go out after work
Remember that I know some people doing some pretty cool stuff
Know that I chose this little life, and I pretty much like it

Didn't
Get sad or jealous hearing about people who are making it in theatre
Panic and forego the whole social occasion
Manage to convey why supporting industrial use in Gowanus is good
Make or witness scintillating conversation
Go to bed nearly on time

Saturday-Sunday, July 7 & 8

Did
Do a little writing
Give in to ice cream, with disastrous effect
See an excellent Malvolio
Stay up late reading Measure for Measure and wishing for rain
Experience some new NYC summer odors
Do some chores
Go to the beach!
Walk around in my parents' footsteps some more
Have a decent email exchange with my sister
Succumb to the pleasure of shows about servants

Didn't
Accidentally get divorced during Saturday Afternoon Doom
Get to do the celebratory rain dance
Make my shoulder stop freaking
Responsibly do PT exercises
Go to the gym
Get reprimanded by MoM for not telling her about my hip
Write enough
Figure out how to get a dog
Say hello to the guy climbing around just under our window

Friday, July 6

Did
Kill a couple of hours at work
Demonstrate sustained hip discomfort sufficiently to merit an MRI
Confirm that a high salt, high fat diet can coexist with awesome blood pressure
Share a Wodehouse moment on the train
Lift some weights
Observe a funeral for a Harley rider
Crash for a sweaty couch nap
Ice
Bug the neighbors by singing bad songs loudly while cooking
Eat

Didn't
Have anything coherent to say about the effect of physical therapy
Get flummoxed by that
Take advantage of a relatively cool evening
Lift with people I know and like
Feel like further damaging my hip was worth worrying about
Write
Worry

Did
Slather myself in sunscreen and wear a hoodie to work
Analyze workshop materials
Keep some books
Invest in better sunscreen and aloe lotion
Do PT exercises (but not all of them)

Didn't
Spend any time outside
Jump in any waves
Write
Do much worth blogging about

Did
Discover that the Jacob Riis beach is way better than Coney Island
Spend 5 hours laying in the sand and jumping waves in the ocean
Get pretty awesomely sunburned
Fall asleep waiting for dinner to be delivered
Watch a pretty good movie
Affirm that clandestine fireworks are better

Didn't
Even think to invite people to come with us
Worry about paleo purity
Grill anything
Do anything remotely patriotic
Have a bad time even a little bit

Did
Finish with PT for now
Give an intern a key
Leave the office at 2
Take a paid midafternoon nap
Hike to the gym and return with a backpack o' meat and lots of veggies
Watch way too much Louie
Actually make plans for tomorrow

Didn't
Use my surprise afternoon off productively
Inquire about the boxer mix in the park
Destroy the two people who jumped the line in the bank
Remember to ask if the PT will communicate with the ortho
Finish nervously rehearsing for that appointment on Friday
Stick around to listen to our neighbors' whole pre-party sound check

Did
Cut a chunk out of my ankle in an attempt to be presentable
Secure my reputation with a project team as being kind of dumb
Flub a conference call with eight other people on it
Go to the gym
Squat 95lbs 15 times without pain
Go home happy

Didn't
Figure out how to fix the scanner for the intern
Resolve the topic of the call
Work on my other project
Write
Play with dogs
Go to bed early enough

Did
Finally get enough sleep
Wake up un-sicked
Talk to MoM when she called
Avoid telling her about my hip without arousing suspicion
Pass on roller derby tickets for a chance to babysit my nephews
Write for about 3 hours when Husband took the cable modem to the laundromat
Remember we live near a beach
Swim in the ocean

Didn't
Manage to connect with That Guy or write more about his idea
Go to a dog adoption fair in Manhattan
Do panicky research into better campsites for August
Melt
Waste the entire weekend after all