Unfortunately it's been raining quite a bit lately, which is great for the grass and greenery and whatnot but awful for my nerves for not getting Oops out there to school cross country yet... and I sent in my entry for Morven today! Yikes. He's gotten into really good conditioning shape and all but we haven't really gotten out there to gallop or school fences from a gallop and it's freeeaking me out. It's nice (and so helpful) to have someone on the ground helping you every time you jump, but when you only jump once or twice a week, it's hard to work on what you need to over and over again so it becomes muscle memory. I had a great lesson today, but all I want to do now is keep jumping and working on all the mistakes I made before I forget how it's suppose to be! But I can't do that so I'm just going to have to work on the flat and pray that it translates into my jumping habits quickly. I also looked at my bank statement tonight (something I rarely do because it depresses me) and discovered that I am officially broke. Not just like kinda scraping close to bottom, but literally rock bottom broke, so THAT'S cool. And it just so happens this is when I'm finding more and more things I need/want for show season. This is when it would be handy to work somewhere I can make money.
Other than my financial downfall, Oops is really getting back into the dressage mindset faster than in previous years. He is now fully clipped and I had to buy him a neck blanket cover because he was coming in very cold from his nights out in the paddock. And Al jumped the other day!! The first time since before he was injured last summer, he was so lazy about it, which shouldn't have really surprised me.
I'm doing everything humanly possible to delay these college applications any longer but if I don't do them now I may not be going back to school this fall!
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