I’m happy it’s Friday because I do not really want to be here on campus today. Last night I started with the attitude and even took careful inventory of myself to see if I was developing any symptoms for communicable diseases. No such luck, which is a terrible thing to wish. However, that’s where I’m at today.
I’m very sore because I rode a difficult horse Wednesday evening. We argued about everything I asked him to do. At the end of the lesson, the instructor set up a jump for me and said the horse was very honest over jumps. Why, I asked, when he’s not honest about anything else? Apparently he likes to jump and he went right over those jumps with no argument.
Then I rode a horse on Thursday morning that I had never ridden before. He’s not a school horse but owned by a client of my trainer. I’m not sure why I got to ride him but it was a nice change from Goldie. Monty is probably about 17 hh — his withers are over my head and I’m 5’8". He’s fairly athletic but "looks" at jumps he could easily step over. He stopped once and awkwardly jumped a couple times when I jabbed him at the last second when I should’ve had my leg on him earlier. In any event, my trainer told me I rode him well for it being my first time on him. Maybe I’m getting this jumping thing figured out finally.
Last week I was so disgusted with the way my pants felt that I joined Weight Watchers. I had joined the program earlier in the year and had lost 8 pounds but I was hungry and grumpy all the time. This time I really had to do something. It’s been easier for some reason. I haven’t had any cravings. Today is difficult because I don’t want to be here and my answer to avoiding work I don’t want to do is eating. Thanks to WW I have my food all planned out so there’s not much chance of over doing it. Granted, I could eat my lunch at 9:30 a.m. but who wants baked ziti in the morning? Not me. So I decided to blog instead. I am proud to report that I lost 2 pounds last week. All I really need to do is do some unpleasant chores for a little over an hour then I go to class, which will be a nice distraction for a change. Okay, I can handle an hour.