Friday, October 4
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
However tenuous this is, I am grateful that Roxy seems comfortable, is eating and pooping well, and is of good cheer.
She is on medication for the next few days, and we'll have to see if the well-being extends beyond that.
I am grateful that her sleep seems genuinely restful.
I am grateful for being able to set alarms on my phone to remind me to give her pills on time. I don't know how people managed before, did they set multiple manual alarm clocks? That must have been awful.
I felt pretty emotionally burnt out today, so I didn't tackle anything more than I had to, I just stuck to the necessities of animal care.
I did talk for quite a while with D from pottery, about how her new dog is doing, I told her about Roxy's week, and we talked a lot about the situation at pottery with the huge influx of new people and the lack of policy regarding how many people we can feasibly have using the studio, and so on, and wondering if we need to bring ideas to an upcoming meeting. Maybe even creating a committee to create the policy about new members, feasible class sizes, and total membership caps.
She wanted to know if I would be on a such a committee, and I said maybe, but not if this person S (the one who has become the pottery overlord) is on it, because if she is, we will accomplish nothing. I say this because I was on a committee a few years ago created only to address a need for different shelving, and believe it or not this woman S created so much drama (literally tears and manipulation tactics) and shot down every good idea presented to the point where the project ground to a complete standstill, and the president at that time had to bring in an outside facilitator to get it done. I am really glad that no one backed down though, and the shelving did get resolved, and this S person was not allowed to destroy that initiative.
That president is not in that office any more, so if S pulled that crap in another committee (that is trying to address a problem she created, really) I doubt that the current president cares enough to intervene and make sure it moves ahead.
I would only be on such a committee if it were clear that I would have no further commitment once we created a policy about beginner students and membership numbers, and if S were not on that committee.
I went to the riding barn, and brought with me a huge length of weeping tile (basically big flexible plastic hose) as a trial "sand snake" prop for the freestyle that I want to do; Beetlejuice themed.
I am going to turn the weeping tile into a sand snake by painting white stripes on it, and making some kind of head like the one from the movie. Today it was just a plain 12 foot chunk of hose.
River was fairly worried about it, the way it moves is weird. I gave him lots of time and space to look at it and react freely, and after about ten minutes of snorting at it and glaring with huge eyes, he settled down.
He did great after that, and I was trying different things to see what might work with that prop for the freestyle.
River did really well at just going along with stuff I asked him to do.
Then I stayed and worked with Maverick (FKA Quidley) and the girl with many health challenges. I felt a little superfluous, as R has worked enough with Maverick that I'm not really accomplishing anything with him, but I know that part of me being there is to be social with this other rider, as she seems happier if there are other people there. I like seeing her progress, and interacting with her too.
When I got home, I was ahead of my Sweetie so I made supper, and we watched the 2024 "Beverly Hills Cop" which eerily felt like it could have been made in the 80's. It felt a bit low budget, had all of the same ridiculous chase scenes, the same music, and a lot of the same actors (just older now). It was good only as nostalgia. Just reasonably fun.
However tenuous this is, I am grateful that Roxy seems comfortable, is eating and pooping well, and is of good cheer.
She is on medication for the next few days, and we'll have to see if the well-being extends beyond that.
I am grateful that her sleep seems genuinely restful.
I am grateful for being able to set alarms on my phone to remind me to give her pills on time. I don't know how people managed before, did they set multiple manual alarm clocks? That must have been awful.
I felt pretty emotionally burnt out today, so I didn't tackle anything more than I had to, I just stuck to the necessities of animal care.
I did talk for quite a while with D from pottery, about how her new dog is doing, I told her about Roxy's week, and we talked a lot about the situation at pottery with the huge influx of new people and the lack of policy regarding how many people we can feasibly have using the studio, and so on, and wondering if we need to bring ideas to an upcoming meeting. Maybe even creating a committee to create the policy about new members, feasible class sizes, and total membership caps.
She wanted to know if I would be on a such a committee, and I said maybe, but not if this person S (the one who has become the pottery overlord) is on it, because if she is, we will accomplish nothing. I say this because I was on a committee a few years ago created only to address a need for different shelving, and believe it or not this woman S created so much drama (literally tears and manipulation tactics) and shot down every good idea presented to the point where the project ground to a complete standstill, and the president at that time had to bring in an outside facilitator to get it done. I am really glad that no one backed down though, and the shelving did get resolved, and this S person was not allowed to destroy that initiative.
That president is not in that office any more, so if S pulled that crap in another committee (that is trying to address a problem she created, really) I doubt that the current president cares enough to intervene and make sure it moves ahead.
I would only be on such a committee if it were clear that I would have no further commitment once we created a policy about beginner students and membership numbers, and if S were not on that committee.
I went to the riding barn, and brought with me a huge length of weeping tile (basically big flexible plastic hose) as a trial "sand snake" prop for the freestyle that I want to do; Beetlejuice themed.
I am going to turn the weeping tile into a sand snake by painting white stripes on it, and making some kind of head like the one from the movie. Today it was just a plain 12 foot chunk of hose.
River was fairly worried about it, the way it moves is weird. I gave him lots of time and space to look at it and react freely, and after about ten minutes of snorting at it and glaring with huge eyes, he settled down.
He did great after that, and I was trying different things to see what might work with that prop for the freestyle.
River did really well at just going along with stuff I asked him to do.
Then I stayed and worked with Maverick (FKA Quidley) and the girl with many health challenges. I felt a little superfluous, as R has worked enough with Maverick that I'm not really accomplishing anything with him, but I know that part of me being there is to be social with this other rider, as she seems happier if there are other people there. I like seeing her progress, and interacting with her too.
When I got home, I was ahead of my Sweetie so I made supper, and we watched the 2024 "Beverly Hills Cop" which eerily felt like it could have been made in the 80's. It felt a bit low budget, had all of the same ridiculous chase scenes, the same music, and a lot of the same actors (just older now). It was good only as nostalgia. Just reasonably fun.
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Date: 2024-10-06 10:43 am (UTC)