Rabbit (That's Me!)

It's 9pm on a Saturday night and I am at work. To be more specific, I am sitting in my office during the 3rd quarter of a basketball game while the pep band is hanging out in the band room enjoying their free time. My head is absolutely pounding with a sick headache. I spent last night here at work till 10pm. I guess it beats sitting at home, since I have ZERO social life! Maybe I am too busy or too old for a social life. At what point does one become too old? When suddenly did going out and having FUN take a back burner to everything else in life? I can't pinpoint the date, it must have been happening gradually throughout the years. Time to STOP the madness! What's the point of life without some rip-roaring fun every once in a while? I need to suggest this to Kevin, force him to make a date. We both need this desparately.

My schedule isn't going to get any easier. Next weekend is solo and ensemble contest, plus there is a basketball game every weekend through the end of February. Taylor goes to Kentucky in 2 weeks, and then it will be weekly drives to Kentucky to ride and learn. Plus the school musical starts soon, anbd that means a lot of nights directing pit orchestra. On top of that is junior high solo and esnemble to prepare for on April 1st, and starting a new 5th grade band class next week. It can be disheartening to see all this work ahead of me, but I really like it. I really do like this job...just wish I din't have to wake up so darn early in the mornings!

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I think the most effective and long-laqsting personal relationships are the ones that are multi-dimensional. How many of us have a relationship with someone that is only on one level or one dimension? We share only one single part of our lives with that person, be it work, a hobby, or home...but not a combination of 2 or 3. The best relationships exist on several levels - maybe your work, hobby, home, or some other facet of your life that is shared in several ways with that person.

 I think most of my relationships are single-dimensional, sadly enough. We are firends or we are close only in one area of my life, and do not share on any other level. Developing multi-level personal relationships is a lot of work. You have to open yourself up to new experiences, or things that may not be particularly interested in. Hopefully it goes both ways in that the people you are 'relating' with also try to share in the other facets of your life.

At times I have this driving urge to develop more personal relationships with people I am only casually close to, or people in my life that I just want to make more important. But then at other times I strive for the 'island' mentality...it is so much safer on your heart and soul to just stay apart form people so you don't get hurt or be disappointed. Of course, that's a rather cold, isolated way to live. It is safe...can't break a heart that never leaves your body, right? I guess it's all in how you view life, whether you embrace the risks or just go into a protective mode. I find myself wavering between the two. I wish there was a way to have that deep interpersonal relationship and still remain safe.

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Wow my legs are burning today. I only rode for maybe 15-20 minutes, but I made it good (lots of sitting trots and leg yields). Then I went to the Y and did 3 1/4 miles on the elliptical machine. The burning feels great!!! It's the one pain in life that actually feels good. Nothing is nicer than to come home and sit down in the chair and have your legs throb with pain from a good workout. Sounds sadistic LOL!

I am trying to think of other pains that feel good (so that I actually have a point to this blog entry) but I cannot think of any. So there really is no point to this whole topic. Cool!

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Looking through my calendar book, it's like a personal journey through the year. Here are some of my most memorable dates from 2005:

• January 5-6-7 - the great ice storm! I was trapped in the house for several days, the roads were almost impassable. But it was a nice little break with the family, we sat around and watched a lot of movies.
• March 28-April 2 - Band trip to Florida. I spent 3 nights lying awake worrying about what could go wrong, all for naught! It went so smoothly, it was a week of great memories and a great performance.
• Monday, May 2 - memorable day because our band plants were delivered, but what made the day most memorable is that it snowed in May!
• May 21 - A memorable show in Edinburgh, Indiana, where Courtney earned her first youth points under saddle on taylor, and we both had an extremely successful day.
• June 10 - I finished the 2 mile Battle race and was the first woman back for our team...a great accomplishment for someone like me who NEVER runs!
• June 25 - Corky takes 5th place at the Tom Powers Futurity in Michigan...a HUGE accomplishment for me and my little breeding program!
• July 10 - Taylor wins the Hunter Under Saddle Classic at the Findlay Firecracker circuit, and earns me some good spending money for Florida. It was nice to win something closer to home, and Kevin got to share in the moment, which made it extra special.
• July 16-25 - Our family vacation to Florida. Memorable times...including a wine tasting tour (yuck!) and tubing down the French Broad River in North Carolina...brrrr!
• August 13-14 - I headed out in 100+ degree weather across teh state to a place I had never been, all by myself (well - with Pasta and Taylor!) to an AQHA show, and had a successful weekend showing completely on my own.
• September 13 - Getting that phone call that Corky's injured leg had gotten worse while I was in Kentucky...coming home the next day and having x-rays done and hearing that she may never be sound for riding.
• September 20 - Corky's scheduled surgery, whcih was cancelled since the antibiotics were working on her bone infection.
• October 19 - Showing Corky in the Open Hunter Longe Line at Congress...a huge moment for us since only a month earlier our prospects of ever showing looked bleak.
• December 16 - Unloading 203 bales of hay, with kevin there helping me. Not a fun time, but I look back at the momemnt and remembered that he offered to help, and helped so willingly...reminds me of how our marriage truely is a partnership.

There are so many more memorable moments that weren't written on the calendar! Moments spent alone, moments with family, moments with students...each year just keeps getting better and better.

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I just discovered that the last entry was #100. I can't believe this is the 101st time I had a bunch of nothing to say, and decided to spend time typing it.

BRIAN GO AWAY! STOP READING THIS you big slackard!

In honor of Brian FORGETTING about practice last night, here is a list of ways he can remember important events (like Brucie concert practices, etc.).

• Wrap a string around a finger, pull it really tight. Then when your finger loses blood, festers, and falls off, you will remember to come to practice. RECOMMENDATION: Use a finger on your left hand.
• Set your alarm clock for 6:30pm, that will give you enough time to get in your yuppiemobile and arrive at rehearsal on time
• Tape a dollar to your forehead. That will remind you to come to rehearsal (and pay that outrageous dollar parking fee)
• Pay Jan and Gene a dollar to call and remind you every hour on the hour.
• Write yourself a note on your hand in thick permanent black marker. You will soon begin to associate that marker smell with rehearsal, and then all it will take is a whiff of the marker to remind you to show up for practice.
• Tape a reminder note to your loafers.
• Tape a reminder note to any place (or person) you tend to look at a lot (mirrors don't count!)
• Think of what it would be like to have Gene and Jan cover your lead parts, then hightail it to rehearsal really fast in sheer terror of the idea.
• Remember that is an honor and a privgelage to play in Brucie's band, and remember that sick guilty feeling you felt when Todd called to remind you about the rehearsal you were missing!

Laugh, Brian, all in fun!!!!

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I need to live inn a world where the day has about 36 hours instead of 24...then I could get everything done and enjoy life.

 Today I am back to work...back to reality. Last week was SO nice! I slept in every day, stayed up till 3am each night, and worked at my own pace. It was a total recharging of the mental batteries. I spent a lot of time at the barn, and it reminded me of why I love having horses. NOT just to go clean their stalls every day after work and then come home! I have 2 horses that need a lot of work, I need to buckle down and just get the work done every night after my 'regular' job, no matter how tired I am. I always feel so good after I get done, it's just motivating me to put in the extra time that is difficult. When it is cold and ugly out, all I want to do is go home and curl up in the chair with a good book.

I wonder what I would do if each day had 36 hours? I'd work my usual 9 hours at school, then go spend maybe 3-4 hours at the barn. That would leave 15 hours to hang out at home, spend time with Kevin, get housework and painting done, and still leave 8 hours for sleep. I might even get to fit in a nightly bubble bath! I think I'll call my congressman, this sounds like a great idea!

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