Well, I didn't make anyone cry ...
I happened to be messing around on Facebook and saw a post that Miss T. was down with the stomach flu today. I texted her and asked who was filling in for her classes today and she said she was going...
View ArticleHumility moments
I had some time today at work so I thought I'd ride Beetle for a change. Usually when I ride him it is lovely with his smooth, easy trot and his slow, loping canter. I was a little anxious though...
View ArticleI'm really not that nice ...
I took my daughter to the book fair yesterday after school because she'd made a wish list of books she wanted to buy with some of the money she'd earned working at pony camp last summer. She was...
View ArticleComparing apples to chainsaws
This last week seemed to be the week of comparing myself to others in my head even though I intellectually knew the comparisons were like apples to chainsaws. Not apples to oranges, apples to...
View ArticleTemporal Conundrums
This morning over breakfast my daughter asked if I'd heard of The Grandfather Paradox (yes, these are normal over breakfast conversations for us ... it's hard for my non-morning brain to keep up with)....
View ArticleMagical farmhouses and meth houses
I really had my heart set on my husband looking at a particular house on "the magical island" - a house that is absolutely beautiful and out in the middle of the woods and has lots of flat land that...
View ArticleAll about necropsies
There are two dueling parts of me - the super-empathetic, bleeding heart part of me and the super-into science part of me. Well, usually they aren't dueling, usually those two parts of me get along...
View ArticleThis is what middle age and chronic illness looks like ... apparently.
Last weekend I was taking my Manual Ligament Therapy course and the school had written on a white board some of their upcoming classes and one of them just said "Trick Riding" for this weekend. I...
View ArticleLevels of Reality Beyond Our Immediate Senses
My daughter is really into the shows Cosmos and Into the Wormhole so I've been getting a hefty dose of family-oriented science lately. I like it because it gets my imagination going and my poor little...
View ArticleThe Collection Controversy
Doesn't that subject line sound like a sequel to one of the Bourne Identity movies? Ok, maybe not to anyone else, but it does to me. I had a little kerfuffle on a social networking site yesterday for...
View ArticleBumbling along ...
I've been trying to write a business plan for what I want to do with my equine massage career, now that there is some hope I may actually be certified someday (I've been going around with the Dept. of...
View ArticleOne of those afternoons
We're having one of those Sunday afternoons at our house where everything is oddly peaceful. The dogs are sprawled on the floor sleeping, one cat is buried in couch cushions sleeping and the other is...
View ArticleI've been thinking a lot about this ...
Last week I posted a photo on social media (that I thought was a non-descript photo of someone far away) and asked if my horse trainer folks could clarify if the horse was being ridden in classical...
View ArticleMigraines and Sutures
I was brushing my teeth last night and suddenly I felt like I was on a boat in rocky waters. A few moments later my head started to hurt right over my left eye and quickly spiraled into "I have to lie...
View ArticleThings I get excited about ... and not ...
I got to do a ground lesson with one of my students yesterday which I was both excited and nervous about. The nervous part was more that teens would rather ride a horse in a lesson than do a ground...
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Running away from my problems
I started up my Couch 2-5K runs again today after a few months off. For one, the arthritis flare-up in my feet has gone down a lot, another reason is my jeans are really tight and I don't like tight...
View ArticleThe end of an era ...
I knew this day would come eventually because this wasn't a permanent endeavor from the start, and I was already feeling burned out on working Saturdays, but somehow the pieces fell together and I gave...
View ArticleYour ritual sacrifice appears to have worked ...
The weather has been weird the last couple weeks - sunny when it says it's supposed to rain and not raining enough when it does (and they said it was supposed to be sunny). So when it finally poured...
View ArticleSome serious couch time and randomness
My daughter was sick all last weekend with some sort of nasty cold/flu thing with a fever for three days and lots of coughing and sleeping. I'm feeling like I was run over by a small ATV this morning...
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... and right next to an active volcano.
I spent last Saturday either in bed or on the couch recovering from uber-energy-drain illness I caught from my daughter. It was actually very good for me despite I was feeling depressed from...
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