Happy Monday to me!!! While all the normal people are getting ready for their weekend I am busting through my barn chores and paperwork so that I can kick off a 5 day work week. I am very blessed to have a wonderful life going right now, and three amazing horses in my barn who show up and work hard every day, so going to my real job is even more difficult because I would much rather stay here and play.
Yesterday I enjoyed my single day off by doing morning chores and then coming in the house and being a bit lazy. I played on the computer for awhile and ate a relaxing lunch while watching the USA/Germany soccer game. Since it was my only day off I did not try and recruit a team of drinkers to hit the bar and watch the game, but I enjoyed it all the same. Thankfully we are advancing so hopefully there will be more drinking and celebrating options in my future. Then I wandered to the barn and rode the boys. Big Lou is still for sale, and I have had requests for some cross country video of him, so I borrowed my neighbors for a few minutes and schooled him over his first proper ditch and half coffin. Hopefully this video helps to get him sold!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrpa4UcWbB0&list=PLn3nFia-Gk667j1gHZIbD0Vv1cN5RhAFA&index=18Then I went to Hobby Lobby and got some cool stuff to make a couple of shadow boxes with. I got one made for Goose and one for Sunny, now I need one more for my trusty Bubba and I will be a happy camper! I ended up throwing those together when I got back home, but it was a fun project to tackle as I am not a crafty person at all! My friend Maggie and I went for a rockin' run- I am proud of myself! While I did not wear a watch to see if I ran 8 minutes straight, I did run the whole first mile without stopping, and then we walked about 1/3 of a mile and ran the rest without stopping. I am very proud of myself, and I hardly felt like I was dying. Hopefully this is just a small step towards what I can accomplish before the summer is over. Even though I am quite busy I want to keep running a couple of days a week along with all of my riding, and 2-3 days of squats and strength training. Maybe I will have a rockin' body one day!
On that note though I am very happy with how things are going in my life. I have applied to school for the fall and been in touch with some directors in my interested field of study- so that is a step in the right direction. Now to just hope that I did not wait too long and I can get in for the fall semester and that all my finances work out properly so that I can afford to go back and keep riding. But I am in a very good place, I have taken the correct steps forward, and I am not letting little things get me down. I am confident and only getting better with myself :-)
Then today I had a wonderful, breakthrough jump school on the Goose man. He is really starting to grow up and I am beginning to figure out how to ride him when times get a little tense. We kept things small, as we have a proper jump lesson next week and a fitness day tomorrow, but I am very happy with how things went. We finished it with jumping a proper Preliminary narrow (with wings for schooling purposes) and he locked on like he had seen it a million times. I am feeling quite good about Champagne Run right now. Woooo! Also my mom got a new camera so it gave her a chance to play with that- and I am never going to complain about some pictures :-) Sending out lots of good luck to everyone competing at Jersey this weekend-especially my girls Meghan and Hanna! Kick butt!
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