STASH

April:
+197
-1,229
= (-1,032)

About -2,000 total this year.

Oh Month of Vacation!

I am really happy right now! So happy that it would probably disgust people if I fully told them. I think I am happy because I am making choices that are bringing me closer to the way I see myself inside. I am challenging myself to reach new goals and to push my body to do things that I thought would be too hard. It feels great!

April went really well. I believe I met every single goal with the exception of buying yarn, but I ran out of yarn six rows till the end of the BSJ and really you can't just leave it like that so I had to buy one more skein. I plan on adding a tomten hood now so that there isn't any remnants. The trees in the backyard look beautiful and I realize that I look after them with the diligence that some people might look after their pets. Every day inspecting looking for a new leaf or blossom. Eagerly watching for the peaches to grow bigger and bigger. Watering and adding compost; constantly checking on them. They are a part of my family and give me a ton of happiness to see them growing and know that they are helping this earth.

So goals for May:
~Continue pushing myself to go that extra mile or extra minutes
~Continue to eat/fuel myself non-stop
~Knit over 2,000
~Finish some books that have been plaguing me (Cryptonomicon you know who you are you 940 page book)
~Have Judy's b-day present done and mailed off BEFORE her b-day
~Perfect the spare 'oom (Narnia reference)
~Have a wonderful, happy, stress-free, enjoying each other vacation!!!

Gig that darn frog

So every single thing I have taken up to knit lately, I have had to frog at least once. I was going on my merry way with a Baby Surprise Jacket and had to frog a couple of rows, but I was still happy. Now I find that I have to frog even more! Arggh!!! I want to just knit something I have never had this many problems with knitting in my entire time doing it. Where is my brain? I just knit and knit and then stop to read the pattern and whoops I did it again. Am I getting over confident and not reading the pattern enough? Obviously so. I just want to read the directions once and go! I am hating this constant referring back. Yet, I am loving my BSJ! I love the idea of it and I LOVE the way the yarn is knitting up in the pattern. Because of this darn frog I want to stop what I messed up on and start afresh with something untainted. This leads to LOTS of UFO's. Problems, problems, problems! I think I need to think about what this says about my character while using some Malabrigo to begin knitting a Clapotis. ;)

April Goals

So I met all of my March goals!!! April Fools! =( I met none of them. I added more to my stash than I knit and I didn't run 5x a week only 3x a week. I also only completed 2 books. Must do better this month.
April Goals:
~NO BUYING YARN!!!
~Knit: MD wash clothes, a pair of socks, more of W sweater & blue socks
~Read: Finish 5 books this month
~Health try the Biggest Loser 30 Day Jump Start
~Be a size smaller by end of month

Stash:
March-
+1,658
-1,216
Month Total +442
Year thus far -988

March Madness

So it is half way through the month... How am I doing on meeting my goals? Not great. I am only about a third of the way there. You know what I would really love to do right now..... Go to our cabin on the lake and just watch movies that I loved as a kid while I knit. I would love to take a walk around the lake. I am feeling really reflective right now. I love history the world and in my own life. I like to be friends with people forever. I love having known a friend for a long time. Having shared memories of important times in our lives because we have known each other so long. That is where I feel safe. Feel I have some connection. Giving up an old friendship is hard for me. I will drive hours both ways just for a birthday party, baby shower, funeral, kid's soccer game, Christmas party. It doesn't matter. If my friend wants me there I will be there. Yet, I feel weird like I am the only person who does this. I go to the birthdays and everyone is from their church and I am the weird one who drove hours to come. People that I see several times a year, but it is always catching up. Everyone else knows what happened in there lives a couple of days ago I am finding out stuff from weeks sometimes even months. Yet, I can't give it up. I need that connection.... Someone who knew me when...

Birthday Month

Well, my birthday is coming soon and I am shifting this blog and my life! I would really like to use this blog to state where I am in terms of my goals for this year. Not as much personal stuff; okay well there will still be some announcements. So here goes...

Congrats Cortney on beautiful baby Isabella weighing in at just over 7 lbs. I am knitting up a ton of cute stuff for the shower on the 15th of this month.

February was one of the best months in recent history. Super fun times with friends going to see movies and hanging out. Some that I haven't seen awhile. Using up yarn. Devoting time to working out. Still some things were not as I would have wished and some things that were tragic the death of a good friend and her two babies.

So the goals for this month's knitting:
-Use 3,000 yards from stash
-Knit for Cortney's Shower
-Finish up things and start Will's sweater

Book goals:
-Finish three books this month
-Go to book club

Working out goals:
-Weights twice a week
-Running or kickboxing 5x week

Stash to this point:
Jan (-1,850)
Feb (-1,000) (+ 1,420)
Total of (-1,430)

SHE WON!!!

Kate Winslet won the Oscar for Best Actress for the Reader! I was screaming and crying! Go Kate you are such an inspiration to people everywhere. I loved seeing your dad so funny. I feel like all is right with the world because her talent is recognized. I must say that I thought it would be for Revolutionary Road which I found to be the better film, but I am still glad she won. Oh, and why didn't R.R. win any awards? Maybe because two films walked away with almost everything. I still need to see Slum dog Millionaire. I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and liked it, but I still loved Revolutionary Road the most of all of those films nominated.