brand new year, new chances!

Well my new years started off just fantastic. NOT. I got to ride Yankee exactly twice before I fell ill, then sprained my ACL tendon in my left knee, the same leg with my healing achilles tendon. Awesome.

But here’s to making GOALS and not RESOLUTIONS!

LIST 1 (back to listing, drat it), SCHOOL STUFF

• Finish my remaining semseter at Mizzou and figure out what-the-hell I am going to do for next year
• Study study study, all the effing time. Grades is money. Or is it time is money? Same diff.
• Try to get all I can form my classes, like knowledge wise
• Learn diffrent study techniques
• Stay off facebook whhile studying. FGEEz.
• Don’t be afraid to ask profs questions. They won’t bite. Orsome might….
• Try to make more friends….realize no one is perfect and everyone has issues. Sigh.

LIST 2, HORSES

• reach prelim level by the end of the showing season (sept/nov)
• compete in as many shows as possible, like as many as possible.
• renew membership to USEA
• take more trail rides
• swim!
• try to have double clear rounds in all jumping phases
• break a 20% on dressage test (OMGeez)
• after eventing season, compete in dressage shows, up to 3rd level
• try to eliminate dressage test jitters
• make my braids perfect!
• school tables so much that yankee becomes less afraid of them
• work on my jumping position (ever since my injury, its been weak)
• continue to ride my horse in a way that will present him the best way possible

LIST 3, PERSONAL

• Lose the remaining 5-10 lbs I’ve gained and KEEP IT OFF!**
• remember to STAY RELAXED. There could be something worse, you could be dead.
• find a new job.
• try to become a better person.
• keep in touch with old friends, they are the best. Loves, lindz and Jodi (few others too )
• be a more grateful person
• be a better daughter and sister (getting all sentimental here)
• work on my something special no one gets to know what that means except me
• not spend as much on stupid shit, see above
• try to accept others FOR WHO THEY ARE!

**This is NOT a vanity thing, it is a health issue for me. A regular 5′9 girl should not weigh 165 lbs, even with all the muscling I have. it’s just wrong. Plus I feel gross all the time. I’ve already lost 10 of the 20lbs I would like to shed though. GO ME!

Wintery weather pictures to be added later when I can remember where my cord is!!