Thursday, January 21

Today I am grateful for:

I'm noticing more sunshine.

Cleaning for the family. That went smoothly, and it was good to see them again.

For my sweetie taking care of the feeding/meds this afternoon for the animals.

Coming home and having a nice nap. Just having a quiet evening at home.

Wednesday:

Going to town for groceries. I am always grateful for the means to buy food and other necessities, and to have access to these things.

I also went to Winner's, and that was nice.

Fatty is acting pretty much like his normal self.

Friday, January 22

Today I am grateful for:

Reasonable weather.

Getting to the riding barn just in time to watch River get his chiropractic work done. This is the first time with this barn/practitioner, so it's good to see her work. Her findings were consistent with what the vet said a week or so ago, lots of tension on the right side. The chiro says it's compensation for a few things being out on the left. So she worked on that. We've noticed a lot of tension in River, so this is good to get done.

This is all part of putting together a program of work/training/supplements for him at this barn.

I didn't get much else done today. I was tired from the poor quality of sleep I've had lately. A lot of it is just the reality of my sweetie working such weird hours. I might go to bed at 4 am, but then he pulls into the yard at about 6:30 am, the dog freaks out and I wake up, and can't fall asleep until he's done bathing etc. roughly an hour later, and sometimes I don't fall asleep right away. So, I'm not really sleeping until 8 am, but lots of days I have to get up at 1 or 2 pm, which isn't a full night's sleep. That's also barring having the phone ring, or the cats wake me up, or me needing to pee, etc. I slept really well over the holidays, because he was just at home, so when I went to bed I just went to bed. Less disturbance.

My life is just so strange, and lots of days I really don't do anything. I can waste hours just sitting in front of the computer and it doesn't matter. I'm only ever awake at night anyhow, so it's not even like I can do much outside or go anywhere, and it even limits who I can talk to on the phone. It's isolating, and it's hard to stay motivated. With Covid, now it's not even like I can look forward to doing fun things with my sweetie on his days off. The art museum is closed, we really shouldn't go into the city to shop for books or go for supper, and we can't go to a movie or anything. So, we might go for a walk somewhere, and watch movies at home, but that's it.

Anyhow, I am still grateful that I can ride River, that the barn owner is so conscientious, that Fatty is doing better, that I have the other animals, and so on.