Journalhttp://happyfroggyknits.squarespace.com/journal/en-US2009-11-27T13:05:02ZSquarespace Site Server v5.8.3 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Obsessionhttp://happyfroggyknits.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/18/obsession.htmlhappyfroggyknits2009-11-18T15:21:31ZSo - the puppers has been home for a week and a half. We are slowly trying to figure out housebreaking and crate training. I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed on the training front. I'm thinking about enrolling puppers in a puppy kindergarden.

Knitting....ummmm I think I got a few rows of sock worked on while watching Hook at our local free movie Sunday at Shea's. They had the Wurlitzer out for the prelude music. That was wicked cool.

]]>Puppypuppypuppyhttp://happyfroggyknits.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/10/puppypuppypuppy.htmlhappyfroggyknits2009-11-10T19:05:21ZWelcome to Chez Happyfroggyknits Mr. Tupper!

Sorry for the radio silence. It's been hectic as all get our around here. Christmas knitting has commenced, and I've got a new pal. Tupper is a French Bulldog - Mini Poodle hybrid.

]]>Stupid PChttp://happyfroggyknits.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/14/stupid-pc.htmlhappyfroggyknits2009-10-14T16:53:32ZHad a post - the internets ate it. Hope I get a stroke of writing mojo again today.

]]>Getting it togetherhttp://happyfroggyknits.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/6/getting-it-together.htmlhappyfroggyknits2009-10-06T13:46:23ZLast night I tossed a turned with visions of becoming "that girl" rambling thru my brain. You know "that girl", she's the one who looks put together and thin, can decorate and keep her space tidy, natty dresser, and doesn't have interesting food experiments rotting in the fridge. Alas, I have never been quite that girl. Currently I'm behind on my bills, my house is a wreck, work is a tangle, and my relationship is dead. Oh, and I think I've been compensating with ill-advised consumption of beverages. I've always wanted to be "that girl" even though at my soul it is an irritation that this level of competence seems out of my grasp. I can try to chart a path and work out baby steps in my quest to "that girl"dom, but here is a problem. I never follow them. Just like my meticulous budgets that run off the rail, the diets I can't follow, and the FlyLady whom I ignore...I am a self-improvement failure. How does a confirmed, life long self improvement failure stop the sabatoge?

]]>Gah! And other expressions of frustrationhttp://happyfroggyknits.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/4/gah-and-other-expressions-of-frustration.htmlhappyfroggyknits2009-10-04T13:41:31ZWeekend where NOTHING got accomplished - check

Although, I did meet a lovely red wine of the Beaujolais variety. Yum.

]]>Backing away from the shiny, slowly.http://happyfroggyknits.squarespace.com/journal/2009/9/30/backing-away-from-the-shiny-slowly.htmlhappyfroggyknits2009-09-30T14:49:04ZIt's 2 days before my next paycheck. Man, I have so many ways to spend it. New Boots, a new coat, Spanx, tights, briefcase, shoes, food, yarn, clothes, and oh, yeah BILLS!

I've gotten myself into trouble the last few months, moneywise. I've had to re-evaluate the budget after the housegust moved out. Budgeting...well, I'll write them - but they are NEVER followed.

I started thinking about The Compact. I started thinking about all the crap my house has filled up with in the last 2 years. I started to think about relearning how to sew, in order to alter all the school teacherish long wool skirts my mom gave me into something cool.

So, I'm laying down a challenge to myself. Other than BILLS, food, household goods, and a few pairs of patterned tights, and some craft supplies (cloth, thread NO YARN!!) no more spending. Nada. Until the end of the year. Gifts will be created or repurposed items. Waste reduction measures will be under taken.

Should be interesting.

]]>Fits and startshttp://happyfroggyknits.squarespace.com/journal/2009/9/29/fits-and-starts.htmlhappyfroggyknits2009-09-29T12:52:46ZLast night in Western Ny it was incredibly windy, rainy, and cold. Perfect weather to pop a stew in the oven, wrap up in fleece from head to toe, and knit on my Tangled Yoke cardigan. I have so many projects lying around the house, just begging to be finished. So, I joined Fran's 10 minute ruleon the KR forum. I need to now come up witha list of everything that needs to be finished.

The baby sweater for the baby that was born 8/25

Socks for the same

Bibs (2) one needs buttons and weaving and the other needs to be knit on

The bathmat - Center down, 2 strips to go

My fuzzy feet that I started when I bought the house - 2 years ago

the mohair sweater in the round

Banff

the Green Mohair Cardi

Tangled Yoke Cardi

Socks

That is 100 minutes a day of knitting - if I only do 10 minutes on a project. Good thing I live alone, people might start to talk! I need to clear all of this stuff off my plate so I can start working on hats, mitts, scarves, stuff I need for the winter. I'll try this system for a week and see how far ahead I get.

]]>Football and sock knittinghttp://happyfroggyknits.squarespace.com/journal/2009/9/28/football-and-sock-knitting.htmlhappyfroggyknits2009-09-28T13:16:11ZA couple of weeks ago I scored some tickets at work to go see the University of Buffalo football team play University of Pittsburgh. Sunny day, yummy hotdogs and sock knitting. Happy happy!

]]>Alone againhttp://happyfroggyknits.squarespace.com/journal/2009/9/27/alone-again.htmlhappyfroggyknits2009-09-28T00:39:30ZOn the knitting front, the usual. Too many projects, no finishing.

Cooking - homemade granola, chocolate chip cookie bars, blueberry muffins, bread dough for the week, yogurt sitting in the crockpot.

Baking is my way for taking on the furnace wars. No heat until November!

I've never been alone like this. For the last 30 years I have lived with my parents, roommates, or lovers. Or had lovers while maintaining my own apartment. But this constant of knowing that I'm going to bed alone, with my laptop, 2 demons masquerading as felines, and a book is new. No one to say good night to. No one else here to talk to in the middle of the night when I can't shut my brain down. It makes me sad, and lonely, and scared. What if this is all it is? What if the comment a boy made to me back in collage, that I wasn't marriage material, is true? That voice, quiet for so long is back, telling me that I'm too....well everything. Too fat, too hard, too giving, not enough, never enough. Humph.

]]>Happiness ishttp://happyfroggyknits.squarespace.com/journal/2009/9/26/happiness-is.htmlhappyfroggyknits2009-09-27T00:46:51ZFresh baked bread

BLT's using the bread and an heirloom picked up at the Elmwood farmer's market this morning

Going to the library to pick up 4 books they had for me and finding 8 more had come in!

Wrapping up on the loveseat, reading and listening to the rain.

The start of the Furnace War season

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