Sunday, October 19, 2008

Time to de-stress

Do you ever feel like there's just not enough time to get everything done? I'm trying to simply my life by prioritizing , doing what's important and cutting out the crap. My work has really been stressing me out lately, seems like I don't have a spare moment anymore. Don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful to have a job that allows me to have most Fridays off, pays well and affords me 4 weeks vacation a year..... but sometimes I wonder what it would be like to just go to work for Target as an hourly employee - no decision making, no deadlines, no stress.........

So Saturday, a couple of friends and I joined a BIG benefit ride and had a wonderful stress free day riding our ponies, meeting new people and riding new trails. You can see more pictures and a narrative of that ride at my other blog First Coast Trail Blazers. You won't believe some of the trailers that I saw and the horses.... beautiful ones, fugly ones, fat ones, skinny ones, old ones, babies that shouldn't have been ridden....... you get the picture. With 160 riders you get to see everything.

Marilyn & Spirit

Traci on Tucker & Cathy on Busta

Sunday started off great - went to church and then lunch with my husband and mom. Dropped Mom off at Wal-Mart while Bobby and I headed home to meet our trimmer. We were trimming every 4 weeks, but this time we held off until 6 weeks and he was very pleased with how both girls did. He barely had to nip anything, mostly rasped and cleaned up their bars. That's good news, our diligent work has paid off and I think the venice turpentine has helped toughen up Stylin's soles. Bobby power washed the horse trailers and I slung poop and did some chores around the yard. At 4:00 my phone buzzed and when I looked at it, it said "W&O Party". OMG! I had forgotten all about a company get together that I couldn't miss and it was a good hours drive away! Thank goodness I put it in my phone calendar and set the reminder with enough time for me to get ready and drive out there. The dinner was actually good and I got to catch up with our national managers that I only get to see a couple times a year. So that's been my weekend..... how was yours?


4 comments:

  1. I love a fun trail ride! And that is a lot of people and horses!! At least the weather was nice!! Great way to destress

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  2. Anonymous3:12 AM

    How was mine? Not as fun as yours! You know that old saying about the outside of a horse being good for the inside of a rider? Good one, huh?

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  3. Wow. 160 riders?? That's alot of people. Does anything crazy ever happen? Or is everything really calm and peaceful?

    Riding horses is such a great way to destress and live in the moment, isn't it? I totally lose track of time while up on my horse...and love every minute of it :)

    ~Lisa
    New Mexico

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  4. Something almost always happens when you get that many riders together! Luckily no one got hurt. Last year I participated in a ride that had 400 people registered. Unfortunately, some people will pull out their horse that they haven't ridden in a year and try to ride in a big scary crowd in a new place....causes some accidents and out of shape horses are asked to work harder than they're able to.

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