I have many many tasks ahead of me. I’m trying to decide exactly how to organize my life….. I can and should make lists… but I don’t want to get overwhelmed in making the lists. THINKING of all the crap I have to do makes me tired. I have to get through this week… then make plans for the next two months.

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I did manage to make in time for a lesson tonight. I had planned to hop on Cook tonight but Mere (and Marilee) had Missy ready to go for me, so I went with it. and boy, am I glad. We got some things accomplished tonight.

so the bad:

I ate the same jump like 3 times! (chipped it… for non-horse people, got too close to the jump which makes it look really ugly). So the reason it makes me mad in hindsight is because I didn’t do anything different. I followed the same path and same rhythm and repeated the chip… I have to learn from my mistakes!

Oh! One time I forgot where I was on course. I didn’t know my next jump was. By the time, I remembered, I was off course. Had to circle.

The good.

We flatted nicely. I got around. Missy was good. She was way slow, relaxed. Our canter was really nice. I thought I had some really really really nice jumps. I did a good bending line with 3/4 strides in between… which wasn’t nearly as fast or bad as I thought it was gonna be (I thought it would come up REALLY fast… it didn’t, it was fine). We went over a scary jump. And after schooling it a few times as a single, it was the least worrisome jump on course.

I’m WAY getting better at controling my nerves. Sometimes when I get nerves, I stop riding and become a passenger. I have been better about that.