Did
Sleep a LOT
Have a sore throat the whole weekend
Schedule a cortisone shot for next Tuesday
Send overdue thank-you notes
Clean and put away all the camping gear
See a neighborhood Soap Box Car Derby
Hang out watchin' movies at the gym on Saturday night
Play with Herschel
Repot our overgrown jade plant
Explore additional degree options
Nap on the fire escape
Miss the woods
Fix our TV
Figure out that this blog is valuable to me
Resurrect it
Didn't
Mope excessively at being back
Lift any weights
Read enough
Make any rash decisions
Work on the book
Hang out with people
Commit murder while at Fairway
Sunday, August 19, 2012
August 13 - 17, 2012
Did
Suddenly get an unofficial promotion to Renderer
Get temporarily put in charge of the office?
Get in way over my head
Gradually get sick just from being back in NYC
Take initiative
Make exciting plans for two weeks from now
Do some excellent work for Husband's birthday
Find the best present ever
Get mildly rebuked for sarcasm in work emails
Successfully act like a project manager
Insinuate myself into other people's work
Know what was going on
Feel a bit guilty about ditching work on Friday
Didn't
Go to work on Friday
Deal with all the menial tasks people wanted me to do
Completely lose the sense of competence and relaxation from vacation
Work through lunch
Stay insanely late
Lose perspective
Care very much
Suddenly get an unofficial promotion to Renderer
Get temporarily put in charge of the office?
Get in way over my head
Gradually get sick just from being back in NYC
Take initiative
Make exciting plans for two weeks from now
Do some excellent work for Husband's birthday
Find the best present ever
Get mildly rebuked for sarcasm in work emails
Successfully act like a project manager
Insinuate myself into other people's work
Know what was going on
Feel a bit guilty about ditching work on Friday
Didn't
Go to work on Friday
Deal with all the menial tasks people wanted me to do
Completely lose the sense of competence and relaxation from vacation
Work through lunch
Stay insanely late
Lose perspective
Care very much
8/4/12-8/12/12: Vacation!
Did
Treat the car like a giant backpack
Hike up two tiny "mountains"
Kayak 6 miles in 4 hours and explore a teeny island
Discover crazy new bugs and the Meadow Jumping Mouse
Play pattycake with some animal on the wall of the tent
Discover that squats are excellent prep for peeing in the woods
Read many books
Cook breakfast on a waterfall
Hike in the rain
Ditch camp to see two movies
Incur major wrath by eating boil-in-bag meals involving dairy products
See about thirty different frogs
Fall for a wonderful walking stick, and leave it behind for other travelers
Take many dips
Convince Husband to swim with me to an island
Exclaim over teeny snakes
Get attacked by exceedingly devious grass seed heads
Eat wild blackberries by a beaver pond
Slosh across many beaver dams and rain-slick trees
Find some truly remarkable outhouses
Meet a few fellow hikers
Finally do an actual backpacking trip
Make new jokes about the fundamental necessity of algebra
Cultivate very strong smells
Feed a few thousand blackflies
Didn't
Do the usual overly-anal packing job for car camping
See any megafauna
Get nearly as soggy as possible
Sleep through the giant thunderstorms
Actually take entertaining cartoony pratfalls that seemed imminent
Offer to help a particularly glum hiker
Take advice about seeing waterfalls
Stay at the easy places that came before the good places
Ever see the GIANT BIRDS we flushed out of the woods
Call Husband's mom on her birthday
Forget to take pictures
Sit with the giant stuffed lumberjack at the Lumberjack Inn
Explain to the locals what Moonrise Kingdom was about
Manage to stick with the awesome Quebequois radio station
Get to do enough
Decide to never come home
Treat the car like a giant backpack
Hike up two tiny "mountains"
Kayak 6 miles in 4 hours and explore a teeny island
Discover crazy new bugs and the Meadow Jumping Mouse
Play pattycake with some animal on the wall of the tent
Discover that squats are excellent prep for peeing in the woods
Read many books
Cook breakfast on a waterfall
Hike in the rain
Ditch camp to see two movies
Incur major wrath by eating boil-in-bag meals involving dairy products
See about thirty different frogs
Fall for a wonderful walking stick, and leave it behind for other travelers
Take many dips
Convince Husband to swim with me to an island
Exclaim over teeny snakes
Get attacked by exceedingly devious grass seed heads
Eat wild blackberries by a beaver pond
Slosh across many beaver dams and rain-slick trees
Find some truly remarkable outhouses
Meet a few fellow hikers
Finally do an actual backpacking trip
Make new jokes about the fundamental necessity of algebra
Cultivate very strong smells
Feed a few thousand blackflies
Didn't
Do the usual overly-anal packing job for car camping
See any megafauna
Get nearly as soggy as possible
Sleep through the giant thunderstorms
Actually take entertaining cartoony pratfalls that seemed imminent
Offer to help a particularly glum hiker
Take advice about seeing waterfalls
Stay at the easy places that came before the good places
Ever see the GIANT BIRDS we flushed out of the woods
Call Husband's mom on her birthday
Forget to take pictures
Sit with the giant stuffed lumberjack at the Lumberjack Inn
Explain to the locals what Moonrise Kingdom was about
Manage to stick with the awesome Quebequois radio station
Get to do enough
Decide to never come home
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Sunday, July 29, 2012
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
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
Friday, July 27, 2012
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
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
Thursday, July 26, 2012
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
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
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
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
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
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
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
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
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
Sunday, July 22, 2012
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
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
Saturday, July 21, 2012
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
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
Friday, July 20, 2012
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
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
Thursday, July 19, 2012
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
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
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
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
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
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)