Did
Sleep late
Wake up sick
Take a three hour nap
Start reading about racism in architecture
Make Paleo Challenge plans
Lose twice at Mr. Jack
Watch a bunch of Luther

Didn't
Follow through on tentative New Year's plans
Sleep enough
Unpack
Do the grocery shopping
Go outside

December 24-30, 2011

Did
Spend a week in places with no internet access
Find myself continuously surrounded by boys less than waist high
Enact many, many gory deaths by Nerf weapons
Allow a 2 year old to change Husband's name to Sean
Have a real Xmas morning with kids under the age of 10
Get a little disgusted by the sheer number of their presents
Receive the best game ever and play it about twenty times
Witness a lot of unnecessary family drama
Successfully give away 250 cookies
See a family friend I haven't seen in a decade
Eat a lot of deliciously non-paleo junk
Remember that there are stars at night in cold, cold VT woods

Didn't
Get sick until the drive home
Have an appreciative audience for handstands
Work on the book
Blog
Do anything much other than play

Did
Wake up un-sick
Convince Husband to replace some damn lightbulbs
Get out the door by 11
Work on the book!
Allow an acquaintance to believe I was listening to music when really I just like wearing headphones to write
Mess around at the gym
Wrap about half the gifts
Indulge in cookies and beer

Didn't
Write very much
Play with dogs
Abjectly fail every time someone engaged me in conversation
Un-fuck my SI joint
Finish the wrapping
Bake anything
Buy anything
Connect with people

Did
Finish the shopping
Vow to bake only 5 types of cookies
End up with about 250 cookies
Clean a lot
Catch Husband's cold

Didn't
Go too crazy
Resist the suggestion to go the fuck outside
Take pictures for arty blog
Work on the book
Nap enough
See friends

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Did
Do the laundry
Bake 80 or so cookies
Glaze/frost cookies, with varying success
Go insane from too much sugar
Go to the gym
Exchange mushy love notes with coach
Watch the best South Park ever

Didn't
Finish the shopping
Wrap gifts
Get started on the next 4 kinds of cookies
Do very well at pistol practice
Stay to watch the total
Keep in touch about work stuff
Apply for new jobs
Work on the book

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Did
Engage in some overdue mobility torture
Celebrate my single annual shopping day
Make three cookie doughs
Realize people are still proud of me
Clean the kitchen
Wrap a bunch of presents
Overdose on "Chopped"
Get a sugar headache

Didn't
Go to work
Catch Husband's cold yet
Mess around with coconut flour
Write
Egg the double-parked car outside that led to all-day honking
Get a winter coat
Play with dogs

Did
Feel guilty about having loudly been proud of myself
Cry a little
Get over that stupidity
Procrastinate the HECK
Visit the Fairest of Ways
Create elaborate cookie plans
Set up Christmas
Waste hours and hours on teh intarwebs

Didn't
WORK ON THE BOOK
Do all the chores
Finish the shopping
Bake any of the cookies
Read
Go crazy yet
Leave the tree needles all over the floor

Did
Eat a LOT
Do some Christmas shopping
Remember what it's like to make people proud of me
Find out what I look like while lifting
Make a lot of cookie-based plans

Didn't
Lift anything that weighed more than 3lbs
Hit the downward slope of the soreness curve
Sleep enough
Finish the List
Stop grinning

Did
Weigh myself five or six times in three hours
Watch a little kid play 'chase the pigeon'
Spend six and a half hours in the gym
Set three new personal records
Make my last lift of the day
Drink beer
Talk to some people
Walk home in the very very cold

Didn't
Say the things I wish I had
Hear all the jokes I laughed at
Communicate my admiration for an incredible lifter without being rebuffed
Give up when it got hard
Care or even keep track of where I ended up in the rankings

Did
Go to my last 8-hour AutoCAD class
Get excited and then nervous about tomorrow
Reread a damn good book
Cook some excellent dinner
Feel like my life is unraveling

Didn't
Go to work
Go to the gym
Get to class on time
Fall asleep during the intro lecture on lighting cones and colors
Write
Get a dog

Did
Go to the office for the last time until January 9
Watch a guy race the train
Take a picture of the last man standing in Zuccotti park
Waste a good four hours reading teh intarwebs at work
Get totally fed up with Underling for 2 seconds
Clean my desk
Leave
Regain full use of my neck thanks to New Chiro
Get catcalled at while walking home

Didn't
Do a heck of a lot of work
Tell the truth about our vacation plans
Convince myself that this long vacation is actually a good idea
Manage not to worry about the meet
Schedule a time for work meetings I've been assiduously avoiding
Play with dogs
Write
Do anything I was afraid of

Did
Have a party in my head because it was my penultimate day of work before VACATION
Help Underling as much as possible while she was getting shat on
Give Underling excuses to get out of the office when I could
Entertain nasty, happy thoughts at lady-boss's level of frustration with Underling
Write two proposals
Have a bar math fail at the gym, resulting in some freaked-out-edness about the meet
Do some kickass single leg squats
Do a quick archaeological dig while doing the dishes
Experiment with positive thinking about Saturday

Didn't
Volunteer to postpone our vacation to do an interview for a project we're short-listed for
Come up with small talk for a whole 2 minutes with Potentially Interesting CoWorker
Get to the gym early enough
Feel like I could squat my goal weight when it was on my back
Remember to deposit my bonus check
Work on the book
Play with any dogs
Disappoint anybody

Did
Dutifully mash my shoulders up before work
Still have a kink in my neck from Monday
Spend the day buried in numbers
Write myself a pretty little bonus check
Lie about our vacation plans so they won't ask me to work next week
Look for a new job
Do the best of the Xmas shopping

Didn't
Give in to peanut butter demons
Correct the heinous spelling mistakes on the gym blog
Feel more scared than excited about the meet on Saturday
Use my evening very productively
Regret anything that happened today

Did
Do a chin-up and some mobility work before work
Still get a cramp in my neck at our two-hour staff meeting
Kiss the asses of people I've never met
Make an angry puppet out of my stapler
Read Harriet the Spy on the train
Try to find out wtf we're doing for Christmas
Do some dishes

Didn't
Hurt Underling's feelings
Disappoint our hilariously-accented French/Israeli client
Use my better judgment about drinking coffee
Get caught doing Samson stretch in the bathroom
Forget that I only have THREE DAYS of work left before vacation
Give in to my peanut butter addiction
Get a dog

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Did
Sleep really late
Get totally jacked on caffeine
Go out while it was still light
Stress out unproductively about Christmas
Eat crap
Nap on the Husband
Finish 1Q84, at last!
Get my Fairway on
Do the dishes

Didn't
Write
Play with dogs
Crash the Settlers game at Southside
Become a fan of football
Lose my Heidelberg hat forever
Wish my sister-in-law a happy birthday
Get anything productive done at all
Feel bad about it

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Did
Have a Saturday morning internet binge
Take at least three naps
Have a batshit crazy dream
Write a Christmas card
Read a lot of 1Q84
Make our annual holiday party pilgrimage to Harlem
Eat my first cookie in about a year
Listen to a really talkative guy talk a LOT
Get home again in under an hour

Didn't
Go outside while it was still day
Regret being a big lazy bum
Finish 1Q84
Think of a good comeback to the drunk subway couple until after they were gone
Uphold my peanut butter abstention at 2am
Figure out the Christmas presents
Write
Clean
Get a dog

Did
See a fully grown woman on the subway with 7-year-old-boy handwriting
Mutter rude things at bad sidewalk walkers
Get praise for rotating a digital cube lickety-split
Demonstrate affection for Awesome Gym Chick with enthusiastic hugs
Get a bit intimidated by Really Strong Girl's very impressive bench press
Do lots of spidermonkeying and rope-jumping
Foam roll every part of my body
Eat damn tasty crispy duck with deep-fried basil leaves
Vow to help bring the phrase "in our cups" back into common parlance
Play with a dog

Didn't
Offer to accompany Coach to see the Muppet movie should the need arise
Cheat any reps
Answer the third email Lady Boss sent me during my class
Have an actual conversation with Awesome Gym Chick
Finish 1Q84
Figure out Christmas presents
Take the subway home, even though my legs wanted to eat my face
Work on the book
Get a dog of our own

Did
Get up a little earlier than usual
Maul my upper body with various mobility torture devices
Cause office drama through stupidity
Draft a surprise SWOT analysis that's due tomorrow in ten minutes
Get a holiday bonus
Drink 2 beers in under 2 hours at the office holiday party
Leave the party early to get to the gym late
Do a little loud drunk singing at home

Didn't
Wear a coat
Learn anything from the drama situation
Quit my job
Say anything too inappropriate at the party
Talk to Acquaintance
Screw up benching the bar because I was a tiny bit drunk
Walk home coatless in the cold
Feel bad

Did
Get an unsolicited subway smile on the way to work
Show up late and leave early
Diva my way out of a particularly pointless meeting
Keep testing the limit of obnoxious behavior I can get away with
Spot a me-reflection on the train home
Stand up with 240lbs on my back
Finally unrack a bar correctly!
Get positive feedback on internet-me
Walk home in the rain, singing out loud to music no one could hear

Didn't
Get enough work done
Quit my job
Give the client what he wanted
Screw the office out of pre-tax metrocards again
Show up to the gym too late for mobility work
Have to carry a bag of frozen meat home
Feel overly embarrassed about people reading this here blog
Talk coherently to either of the people who talked to me about it
Get a magic, hypoallergenic dog
Write

Did
Listen to a stereotypical NYC conversation on the subway
Churn out reams of paperwork
Hurt my knee while sitting at my desk
Break a solemn vow never to get into internet arguments
Watch the blog's happy return to obscurity
Read about research I contributed to on NPR's website
Watch a tv interview of some excellent mustachioed gentlemen I happen to know

Didn't
Help Subway Single Gal out of her cooking-for-one conundrum
Screw up any important financial stuff
Eat junk food when I got hungry
Hand out any business cards at the after-work meeting
Do any research
Find a new job
Write
Get a dog

Did
Get a jump on more thrilling park research
Fiddle with my mysteriously possibly-recently-broken finger
Only sort of freak out when someone mentioned this blog in public
Frantically re-read everything for dullness and embarrassment (both plentiful!)
Think a bit about why I'm doing this
Get a hug from Long Lost Coworker, returned from down under
Sit next to a pretty mild Subway Weirdo
Eat a bunch of meat

Didn't
Finish the additional park work
Freak when Bosses decided I should present the park research to the rest of the class
Reassure Underling that she won't be fired
Fix the gaping hole in my jacket
Close down the blog because it's now visible
Succumb to facebookery
Find a better job
Make any friends
Get a dog

Did
Go outside three whole times
Nap
Spend an hour on mobility torture
Enjoy the thrilling conclusion of yesterday's Fun With Dog Allergies
Play with the Husband
Read
Post to the arty blog
Have more slammin' good times at Fairway
Look at the facebook

Didn't
Get to play with dogs
Hang out in the cemetery
Work on the book
Forget that meatloaf has more ingredients than just meat
Totally OD on the facebook
Convince myself that rejoining it was a good idea
Miss the last few minutes of sunshine
Get sad

Did
Get up bright and early
Do some work for arty blog
Have a second glorious day off from lifting
Do FOUR unassisted chin ups with only a minute's rest in between
Row a 2k and then some
Walk our neighbors' dogs!
See the Muppets movie, and cry during "Rainbow Connection"
Discover that "Manamana" and "Feliz Navidad" cancel each other out
Eat two dinners

Didn't
Receive a World's Biggest Sap award, although I think I qualified
Meet any Chalk Objectors
Make eye contact with people who read what I was writing
Avoid exchanging slobbery kisses for clusters of hives
Extend my facebook hiatus
Work on the book
Mope

Did
Loom over a kool-aid scented Emo Couple on the subway
Listen to Jonny Polonsky on the train
Sit through Cad Instructor's opening gambit for the third and final time
Draw some stuff pretty fast
Crash on the couch at 5
Sleep for three hours
Go out after dark

Didn't
Pester Acquaintance with more attempts at connection
Go to the gym
Make dinner
Get out to the water
Get arrested for trespassing on restricted NYPD property
Talk to anybody
Feel sad

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Did
Totally forget to blog!!
Feel amazingly better after a day off from lifting
Send my coach a third email in two days to tell him so
Have a nice, slow day at work for a change
Find out the deadline we frantically met was false
Review the client's dumbed-down version of my powerpoint, now so dumb it's actually wrong
Have time alone at home

Didn't
Get sucked in to last-minute-proposal mania
Find out if Underling is getting fired
Do kooky mobility work at the office
Get sucked in to last-minute-redesigns because of the delayed deadline
Get sad during my alone time at home
Look at facebook when Husband had it open
Cry