Wednesday, January 30
Jan. 30th, 2025 12:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Getting SOME sleep, though the last few days my sleep has been interrupted a lot.
For some reason, maybe our land line phone number has been recently resold or something, our house phone has been ringing....fifteen times a day or more between the hours of 6am to about noon. More or less the hours I sleep.
When I remember, I disconnect it and plug it back in when I wake up. If I forget, the phone rings and it penetrates my subconscious and half awakens me, but I can't wake all the way up to go unplug it, so I'm just lying there aware of it all morning.
These are all just scam numbers, and I wish it would stop.
I did normal animal feeding and such, and talked for a while with Sister E.
The last call I had with her a few days ago, she talked for about 45 minutes about driving in winter, a conversation that just follows this script about different dangerous road conditions, mentions of whatever local accidents have taken place, and crazy drivers.
She started up right away about her "winter driving" script, and I cut it off. I tried to be funny about it, but firmly said "I think we talked that through really thoroughly the other day, there MUST be something else we can talk about".
She did talk about an animal rescue not far from her that's been under investigation, though it appears the charges have been dropped.
Then I went to see River. It's so nice and warm right now, and very enjoyable.
Our lesson went well. R still ran almost 15 minutes into my lesson with the previous people, but I did get that time at the end, so all is well.
Circles, circles, circles. Sigh. Then we also worked on ridden work with the side pass, trying to improve his very slow, sticky back up, and I stood again for 30 seconds.
A good lesson, but it is hard to have to commitment to go back and improve basics, even though that is the absolute core of improvement at any level. Part of you always wants to move on to something more flashy, but if you want to really get good, it's the basics that have to improve.
Then I came home and I put Dandy back first, then went inside.
I made supper, and we didn't have time to watch anything. We just chatted and caught up on each other's day.
Getting SOME sleep, though the last few days my sleep has been interrupted a lot.
For some reason, maybe our land line phone number has been recently resold or something, our house phone has been ringing....fifteen times a day or more between the hours of 6am to about noon. More or less the hours I sleep.
When I remember, I disconnect it and plug it back in when I wake up. If I forget, the phone rings and it penetrates my subconscious and half awakens me, but I can't wake all the way up to go unplug it, so I'm just lying there aware of it all morning.
These are all just scam numbers, and I wish it would stop.
I did normal animal feeding and such, and talked for a while with Sister E.
The last call I had with her a few days ago, she talked for about 45 minutes about driving in winter, a conversation that just follows this script about different dangerous road conditions, mentions of whatever local accidents have taken place, and crazy drivers.
She started up right away about her "winter driving" script, and I cut it off. I tried to be funny about it, but firmly said "I think we talked that through really thoroughly the other day, there MUST be something else we can talk about".
She did talk about an animal rescue not far from her that's been under investigation, though it appears the charges have been dropped.
Then I went to see River. It's so nice and warm right now, and very enjoyable.
Our lesson went well. R still ran almost 15 minutes into my lesson with the previous people, but I did get that time at the end, so all is well.
Circles, circles, circles. Sigh. Then we also worked on ridden work with the side pass, trying to improve his very slow, sticky back up, and I stood again for 30 seconds.
A good lesson, but it is hard to have to commitment to go back and improve basics, even though that is the absolute core of improvement at any level. Part of you always wants to move on to something more flashy, but if you want to really get good, it's the basics that have to improve.
Then I came home and I put Dandy back first, then went inside.
I made supper, and we didn't have time to watch anything. We just chatted and caught up on each other's day.
