9.07 a.m. CST

1. Ate breakfast, made to-do list for the day, did some important SparkPeople stuff.

2. Theory, strength training, attempt a run.

10.31 a.m. CST

1. Theory, chatting on Gtalk, reading stuff on Facebook.

2. Strength training, attempt a run, physio, stretch legs.

11.37 a.m. CST

1. Chatting on MSN, reading LiveJournal, looking at the patterns in the new Knitty.

2. STRENGTH TRAINING, ATTEMPT A RUN, PHYSIO, STRETCH LEGS.

12.41 p.m. CST

1. Facebook stuff, strength training, run.

2. Lunch, SparkPeople, start laundry, start editing the third section of a report.

1.42 p.m. CST

1. Lunch, SparkPeople, phone with Mom.

2. Start laundry, start editing the third section of a report.

~ Waves Hello ~
3:25pm EST
1) Worked on my frog while on the ref desk
2) Go to the work holiday party :-)

Nice to see you again, Rachael! :)

2.44 p.m. CST

1. Started editing third section of report.

2. Finish editing report, start laundry, start third section of other report.

Hi Janna – Thanks for keeping the frog train going!

4:53pm EST
1) Work holiday party – yummy food
2) Make tea, go back on ref desk & figure out next steps for my frog (double check all the recent edits & changes)

4.13 p.m. CST

1. Finished editing report. (Need to wash brain. Can’t edit other report now. Yes, it was that bad.)

2. Start laundry, Batman’s blog, Personalized Home Management blog, writing, editing, writing music, start dinner.

Hey Janna,
Sorry I missed eating that frog with you.
I hope you feel like lots is out of the way now.

6:11pm
1) Worked on ref desk & (I think) finished up review of frog edits
2) Get feedback on a couple of frog items from a couple of colleagues, send out frog docs to my committee

Hey Brooke,
Sort of. I had a lot of trouble getting going this morning. Going to try not turning on the computer until lunch time tomorrow and see how that goes. :P

5.18 p.m. CST

1. Started laundry, Batman’s blog (http://hoskinpigs.wordpress.com/), Personalized Home Management blog (http://makingaplan.wordpress.com/).

2. Start dinner, move wet clothes to dryer, put away clean dry clothes, writing, editing, writing music.

Everything depends on when hubby gets home, of course.

Also, I found this: http://queenofuselessinformation.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/polar-bear-and-wolf.jpg

Best. Picture. Ever.

6.22 p.m. CST

1. Started dinner, moved wet clothes to dryer, put away clean dry clothes, writing.

2. Hubby is home, so going to have dinner and hang with him while knitting. Catch you guys tomorrow! :)

7:24pm EST
1) Bided time (& posted on your blog, Janna!), talked w/ colleague who is looking over my frog docs
2) Hopefully send out these docs & go home

Guys, the prospect of starting my fun long weekend having possibly finished what’s been a long, ongoing, tedious frog makes me want to do a great big Happy Dance!

Thanks for the comment! I have approved it! :)

BIG HAPPY DANCE for you, Rachael!
(I actually got up and did it and Zephyr asked, “What happened?”)

I did the Happy Dance in my head, pretending I was Snoopy.

LOL, thanks Brooke! :-)

“Played with belt sander…” hmmmmmmm,. I’ve never thought of belt sanders as ‘playful’ but then I didn’t get mine from reputable breeders so that could explain that.

Do tell more! And did you write??

I’m trying to sand down a door. It used to be the door from the bathroom in our church when I was in high school, but they got replaced and so I painted it and we put legs on one end and my filing cabinet under the other end and I used it as a desk.

I want to re-paint it and use it as a desk again. The doorknob hole is perfect for computer power cables to go down, and of course it’s huge. But it needs sanding before I can paint it. So… belt sander! :)

No, I didn’t get any writing done at all. Hoping Thursday (today) goes better that way.

Oh boy, playing with power tools! Something I miss from my theatre days. Anyway sounds like a great project, good luck on it! A+ for creativity on the desk-door.

10.06 a.m. CST

1. Finished my to-do list and did a bunch of internet stuff, mostly LiveJournal reading and commenting.

2. Strength training, Physio, leg stretches, more sanding with the belt sander.

I’m game…
11:29am EST
1) Got clarification from colleague, made tea, procrastinated, implemented the change & left voicemail for someone & just heard back…
2) Figure out how to best delegate a portion of this frog in a way that doesn’t make it more work

Good luck on the delegating, Rachael – not fun!

11.08 a.m. CST

1. Phone call from mother of young woman I do community access with (cancelling this week), strength training, physio, leg stretches.

2. More sanding with the belt sander, dishes/sink/counters/sweep kitchen floor.

Thanks!

12:49pm EST
1) Gathered info, delegated, phone call w/ a colleague,
2) Attend a lunch & learn on OneNote, double check the edits I’d done on Sunday

12.06 p.m. CST

1. Got leg support off door, sanded a little of the end and the bottom, put away clean dishes.

2. Lunch, SparkPeople, start laundry, dishes/sink/counters/sweep kitchen floor.

2:02pm EST
1) Attended session on OneNote, which I wish I’d known how to use a long time ago! Especially for today’s work w/ a colleague at another campus.
2) Make tea, review delegated work, make new screenshots of those changes for the supporting docs

1.22 p.m. CST

1. Lunch, SparkPeople, chatted with Mom on Facebook about Christmas plans (able to make her day by telling her we would be coming up on the Day if it was okay with them).

2. Start laundry, edit second section of both reports.

will come back to “dishes/sink/counters/sweep kitchen floor” as soon as I can

3:04pm EST
1) Realized I don’t have OneNote on my computer, sent request to have it added, combed through delegated edits & made phone call. Want to cry over all the minutiae.
2) Pull up big girl panties, open the docs I need to put new screenshots into, start making & incorporating new screenshots.

2.13 p.m. CST

1. Started laundry, started editing first report.

2. Finish editing second section of both reports, move laundry to dryer, put away clean dry clothes.

4:04 p.m.
1) Finished writing a sample for manager’s review.
2) Started on the next one (after a tea break)

3.04 p.m. CST

1. Finished editing second section of one report.

2. Move laundry to dryer, put away clean dry clothes, edit second section of other report.

4:06pm 4:38pm EST
1) This & that, finally got everything opened & started on new set of screenshots. Extremely tempted to tear my hair out. Helped a friend out.
2) Get back to the frog at hand.

4.08 p.m. CST

1. Moved laundry to dryer, put away clean dry clothes, started editing second section of other report.

2. Finish editing second section of report, send post-NaNo regional message, complete survey, update Batman’s blog, update writing project, update editing project.

5:36pm EST
1) Slowly working on frog while coming out to ref desk for 5-6pm.
2) Scoot on out of here at 6pm, for 7pm massage :-)

5.11 p.m. CST

1. Finished editing second section of report, started survey.

2. Start dinner, package meat in fridge to go in freezer, finish survey, send post-NaNo regional message, update Batman’s blog.

will come back to “dishes/sink/counters/sweep kitchen floor,” “update writing project,” and “update editing project” as soon as I can, assuming hubby doesn’t walk in the door first

My first frogathon! Jumping in late, but better late than never.

6:25 PM EST
1) Put in laundry, finished a job app
2) Put away laundry, work on writing project

6.11 p.m. CST

1. Started dinner, packaged meat and got it in freezer, finished survey, sent post-NaNo regional message.

2. Eat dinner with hubby, knit, read, etc.

I’m done for the day, time to spend the evening with my honey! :)

Rowan,
Look at you, just jumpin right in there!
Now you won’t be able to call yourself a Frogathon virgin anymore — whatever will you do? :-)

OH NO. I am ruined for marriage now! Or something.

…Maybe next Frog-a-thon I’ll actually remember to check in more than once.

Just bake me a nice dark chocolate cake (not too sweet) (real chocolate), and we’ll call it a clean slate.

Rowan – one check-in; not bad for your first time. :-)

I wish I could knit properly, I once took up knitting whilst I was giving up smoking and it took me 3 and a half years to knit that scarf! (I kept starting smoking again in between). Now I am smoke-free…but knit-free too. I admire people like you who are so creative in what they make!

ps what is a soaker?

Oh, good, someone asked…soaker?? Not a knitter, always wished I could, though. Impressive!

1. Knitting is not hard. It is two sticks and a piece of string. There are lots of videos that can teach you how for free! YouTube or – my favourite – http://knittinghelp.com are great.

2. Soakers are wool and you put them over cloth diapers. People get really creative with them. The ones I’ve made have skirts on them (they are having identical twin girls). They’re basically diaper covers. I’m still trying to decide about lanolizing them; I might just send them as-is with a note saying that I haven’t lanolized them and then she can do that if she wants to (it makes them more waterproof). http://diaperpages.com/soaker.php

My profession is full of knitting librarians, but I’ve yet to look into it. Maybe one day.

Best knitting blog ever is the Yarn Harlot, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee. She’s written a few books, too. I’m in the middle of her latest at the moment. She is hilarious. :) http://yarnharlot.ca

hmmmm I may have to check out those links! Thanks Janna!

I love sharing links! Tell me what you’re interested in learning about, and I just might have a link for that! :D

Oh boy! I’ll definitely keep that in mind, Janna! :-)

Uh-oh… should I be worried, Mary Ann? ;)

Not if you really love sharing links! :-D

Nah, you don’t have to worry, Janna.

I’ll be held hostage by the friggin Restive Season, the Season of Frenzy, for the next 3 weeks. Won’t be able to think about anything I’m interested in learning about, except how to escape this stupid idiocy without alienating all my relatives and out-laws.

But come December 27th – watch out! :-)

No. Wait. I’ll be sitting motionless in a chair for a few days first, except for lifting my mug of tea or hot chocolate, picking up cookies and/or Belgian chocolates, turning the pages of a book, and putting in one of several DVDs of burning fireplaces.

Let’s say, come December 30th – watch out! ;-)

Yay for new babies! Sorry about your elbow…

A pretty eventful day you had.

Hope your elbow feels better soon!

Have you tried Arnica?
Can be in pill form or spray on.
It has done aMAZing things for us on bumps and bruises… even after the fact.

I think we have that movie – must dig it out and watch it!

Snuggling with Batman. (sigh) Nice. Fave movie. More nice. Good way to get through a Saturday, Janna!

Nice all around!

love that movie

Batman is an awesome name for a pet! :D

Agreeing that Batman is a fabulous name. What kind of pet is he?

Souffle! Yes, Janna, please. An excellent name for a small animal, too, in my family. Fruitcake, Pudding, Tarts etc came before. Souffle would be good.

Nice report, nice result!

Rowan, Janna’s Batman is a (Caped) Cavy. He has a book about him AND he is writing one, too. Perhaps he will inspire yours to take pen in little paw…

Adorable! What an accomplished little guinea pig. I’m not sure my girls have the attention spans to write though, they’d probably rather play tug o war with the pen…

Tee-hee, “my girls” . . . so cute! :-)

Decent days off. Gets my vote! How nice to have a transition from one month to the next…that’s what it sounds like. And a little relieft after NaNoWriMo ended, too—not a bad thing. :-)

Do you meet your NaNoWriMo goal? Hope so!

Almost. I nearly got to 48,000 words.

Wow! Impressive! I didn’t get anywhere near there. Next year.

Oh, Janna, fantastic finish! I’m really proud of you and happy for you, too. I also didn’t come anywhere close to even my ‘half goal’ but I’m still glad I did ‘something’ and really enjoyed starting something different.

At 48K, do you feel it’s nearly done, done, or needs a lot more words? I misjudged mine last year. I thought I was 2/3 of the way there—and I totally wasn’t, more like 1/3.

Have you run into PlotWriMo? No writing involved, lol, it’s exercises to clean up the plot over the course of December. I’m going to do it to get back into my 2010 big project, which has had some plot issues I’ve been reluctant to dive into for a year now!

If interested, http://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/

That’s really cool, Cynthia, I think I will use that for a few of my longer stories as I prepare for NaNoEdMo (http://nanoedmo.net) in March. :)

The story is about half-done. I wrote all of the most important plot points and skipped over a lot of the other stuff. Writing a fantasy was a different adventure – I’ve been writing YA novels for the last few years (since 2006, with only 2007 being different) and those are finished at 50K (of course, they need a lot of editing and rewriting afterward).

I’m a little disappointed that I didn’t win this year, but I figure next year I’ll be better prepared and I’ll finish earlier. :) (I say that every year. And yes, I have won three times. Next year will be win number four!)