A.) invest in rent house for Z since I'd rather have something to show for it, rather than shoveling away several more years of rent money.
B.) schedule grows increasingly crowded w/my recreational events (endurance rides, cycling events) & family obligations (Dad's BD, looking down the barrel of another shoulder surgery for Z while I've already agreed to accompany Hubby like any good compliant wife to his family reunion in June).
C.) draining my checking account down to the last dime - boy does this juggling get tedious! But you've already resigned yourself to supporting your child at least until his college fund runs out - 2 more years, in other words.
"The Future"
Sunday, July 25, 2010
I consoled/distracted myself from my absence at the Tevis ride** yesterday evening by taking my colt to a mini-training seminar...
I wasn't expecting great things; just dressing casually for the heat in shorts & tennis shoes, prepared to do lots of ground work if nothing else. However, Moonie was SO GOOD about everything from the 1st trailer ride he's taken in a while, to his 1st saddling, to being unperturbed about the dozen-or-so other horses churning up the sand in the arena, that I couldn't resist - on our 3rd pass past the mounting block I went ahead & clambered on!
...& it was no big deal; you'd have thought I'd actually been working intensively w/this colt for a while.
Just goes to show you the awesome wonder of genetics; he is truly his dam & grand-dam's son.
I rode him for about 15 min, gave him a short break to wash the dust out of my throat [can't imagine why I might have been a teensy bit anxious?], then rode him again for another 10 min. That was a perfectly acceptable First Ride.
I look forward for many hours/miles to come. That's my boy!
I wasn't expecting great things; just dressing casually for the heat in shorts & tennis shoes, prepared to do lots of ground work if nothing else. However, Moonie was SO GOOD about everything from the 1st trailer ride he's taken in a while, to his 1st saddling, to being unperturbed about the dozen-or-so other horses churning up the sand in the arena, that I couldn't resist - on our 3rd pass past the mounting block I went ahead & clambered on!
...& it was no big deal; you'd have thought I'd actually been working intensively w/this colt for a while.
Just goes to show you the awesome wonder of genetics; he is truly his dam & grand-dam's son.
I rode him for about 15 min, gave him a short break to wash the dust out of my throat [can't imagine why I might have been a teensy bit anxious?], then rode him again for another 10 min. That was a perfectly acceptable First Ride.
I look forward for many hours/miles to come. That's my boy!
A New Commitment
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
With my son safely returned home, I feel as though a great weight has been lifted off my shoulders... It's hard to describe the mixture of gratitude & regret that washes over me as Z has repeated, "It's so good to be HOME!" more times than I can count.
[It isn't the life I'd have chosen for you, my son, but we just have to make the best of things.]
This past week has felt positively Sisyphesean [sp?] as I struggled against an overwhelming wave of fatigue: in the early part of the week I blamed it on travel backlash; this past weekend I blamed "stress" as I counted down the hrs until I got my boy back; so NOW what's my excuse?
I read an interesting counterpoint in my aimless blog-surfing: basically asserting that even IF you were feeling overwhelmed & exhausted, go ahead & make the effort to do SOMETHING & you would reap positive benefits from your effort regardless...
This is contrary to my premise of "Do It Right or Don't Do It At All" - but what the hell, as I continue to make mini-gym visits of 20 or 30 min when I don't have TIME for a full hour session - it undoubtedly is a fact that "Something is better than nothing."
Let's just see if I can string together "something" sufficient enough to roll my ass off this plateau!
[It isn't the life I'd have chosen for you, my son, but we just have to make the best of things.]
This past week has felt positively Sisyphesean [sp?] as I struggled against an overwhelming wave of fatigue: in the early part of the week I blamed it on travel backlash; this past weekend I blamed "stress" as I counted down the hrs until I got my boy back; so NOW what's my excuse?
I read an interesting counterpoint in my aimless blog-surfing: basically asserting that even IF you were feeling overwhelmed & exhausted, go ahead & make the effort to do SOMETHING & you would reap positive benefits from your effort regardless...
This is contrary to my premise of "Do It Right or Don't Do It At All" - but what the hell, as I continue to make mini-gym visits of 20 or 30 min when I don't have TIME for a full hour session - it undoubtedly is a fact that "Something is better than nothing."
Let's just see if I can string together "something" sufficient enough to roll my ass off this plateau!
- vHOPEFULHIPPO
yes...I too have the all or nothing mentality and I think all or nothing has led me to the nothing end of it. LOL
So, going for all or something from now on! LOL
3197 days ago - vSERENITYKC
I too suffer the "all or nothing" mentality. And look where it's gotten me. Today my neurologist asked that I just try to do five minutes of exercise a day. That's way less than the 30 minutes I assumed I'd have to do.
Something is better than nothing, right?
Let's go, sister. Let's go.
3197 days ago
