Wednesday, January 22
Jan. 23rd, 2025 12:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
More good sleep. How different the world is, when you sleep well.
That the weather has settled down, and it is not as warm as the forecast said it would be today, which is actually FINE, because it isn't great to be above zero this time of year. It was about -6 C, which is great.
I talked with Sister E, and we ended up talking about...winter driving? For almost an hour. Well, at least it wasn't about "getting older" which is what almost every other conversation I have seems to become. I dove in and asked her how SHE was doing, and she talked for a while, then was like "well, gotta go". I stopped her and said "If you have maybe five minutes, we COULD also talk about how I AM DOING". I think she was a bit taken aback to realize that she never even bothered to ask, but that's pretty normal for my family, to not bother asking ME how I am doing.
Then I went to see River, after doing normal chores. During chores, I thought Roxy had taken off, because I called and called... so I went back to the barn and sure enough she was in there. Usually she stays right with me, but I guess she got distracted. I'm just happy she was okay, as I was worried that she had taken off somewhere.
Looking for Roxy made me a hair late for my lesson, but that was fine, since R was also running late. Again, it was the same people as last week, just taking a long time to finish up.
Our lesson was good, but it's feeling repetitive again. Circles and circles and circles. MORE CIRCLES.
We did a tiny bit of ridden work, and that was okay. River did really well with the cantering.
AND one of the girth straps (thank goodness there are two on each side) on my bareback pad came loose again. I only got that repaired before Christmas, and it came completely off again, which is NOT GOOD.
I'm not sure what to think about that. R has had zero issues with hers, maybe I got a defective pad? I've had it for almost two years, so no returning it.
Sigh. I will likely end up just using the new one I bought as a future replacement, but I was hoping not to use it for YEARS yet.
Then R and I chatted for quite a while, about GETTING OLDER. In some ways it was nice to talk about the changes we are both experiencing in perimenopause, because sometimes you can feel a bit like you're just falling apart or going crazy, and it's nice to hear that in it's own way, it's "normal". That other people you know are going through the same things.
She also mentioned that her husband K just bought Jordan Peterson's "Masterclass" set, which took everything I had to keep a straight face and not say anything. I did warn her about Peterson's "all meat" diet beliefs, since they are maybe useful to someone like Peterson, who seems to have an autoimmune issue where he can barely tolerate most foods, but MOST PEOPLE probably don't need to be so extreme.
Then I came home and took Dandy back to his normal pen, my Sweetie was already home and had cooked.
We didn't watch anything, but talked and caught up on each other's day.
More good sleep. How different the world is, when you sleep well.
That the weather has settled down, and it is not as warm as the forecast said it would be today, which is actually FINE, because it isn't great to be above zero this time of year. It was about -6 C, which is great.
I talked with Sister E, and we ended up talking about...winter driving? For almost an hour. Well, at least it wasn't about "getting older" which is what almost every other conversation I have seems to become. I dove in and asked her how SHE was doing, and she talked for a while, then was like "well, gotta go". I stopped her and said "If you have maybe five minutes, we COULD also talk about how I AM DOING". I think she was a bit taken aback to realize that she never even bothered to ask, but that's pretty normal for my family, to not bother asking ME how I am doing.
Then I went to see River, after doing normal chores. During chores, I thought Roxy had taken off, because I called and called... so I went back to the barn and sure enough she was in there. Usually she stays right with me, but I guess she got distracted. I'm just happy she was okay, as I was worried that she had taken off somewhere.
Looking for Roxy made me a hair late for my lesson, but that was fine, since R was also running late. Again, it was the same people as last week, just taking a long time to finish up.
Our lesson was good, but it's feeling repetitive again. Circles and circles and circles. MORE CIRCLES.
We did a tiny bit of ridden work, and that was okay. River did really well with the cantering.
AND one of the girth straps (thank goodness there are two on each side) on my bareback pad came loose again. I only got that repaired before Christmas, and it came completely off again, which is NOT GOOD.
I'm not sure what to think about that. R has had zero issues with hers, maybe I got a defective pad? I've had it for almost two years, so no returning it.
Sigh. I will likely end up just using the new one I bought as a future replacement, but I was hoping not to use it for YEARS yet.
Then R and I chatted for quite a while, about GETTING OLDER. In some ways it was nice to talk about the changes we are both experiencing in perimenopause, because sometimes you can feel a bit like you're just falling apart or going crazy, and it's nice to hear that in it's own way, it's "normal". That other people you know are going through the same things.
She also mentioned that her husband K just bought Jordan Peterson's "Masterclass" set, which took everything I had to keep a straight face and not say anything. I did warn her about Peterson's "all meat" diet beliefs, since they are maybe useful to someone like Peterson, who seems to have an autoimmune issue where he can barely tolerate most foods, but MOST PEOPLE probably don't need to be so extreme.
Then I came home and took Dandy back to his normal pen, my Sweetie was already home and had cooked.
We didn't watch anything, but talked and caught up on each other's day.
