Last week, we got to go help some good friends brand. It's the time of year here where it's cold in the morning, and hot in the afternoon.
What better way is there to spend the day than surrounded by good people doing what you love?
xo xo Liz
Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts
Spring Time
If it hadn't been for the posts of my friends on Facebook, the fact that today is the first day of Spring would have completely passed me by! Which actually makes me disgusted with myself. Insert me snorting in disgust (here).
I take my math final on Friday and then sweet relief, I'm free!! Happy Dance!
Until the next semester, that is.
When I first got sick, I had a really hard time allowing myself to A) be sick, and B) let people help me. I wanted to do it all by myself, even if that meant I'd get sicker, feel crappier and make my entire family frustrated with me. I can be alarmingly like a toddler learning to feed itself.
I'm hard headed. But I've slowly been learning to listen to my body, swallow my pride and let people help me so that I can do more things on days I don't feel so great.
Lyme disease is weird, one day I can be feeling great, go for run, do pushups, ride, do homework, braid some rawhide and then BAM, not be able to walk by myself the next day. And then I can be back up and at it again the very next day. I'm hoping to make it to a friend's branding this weekend and because I haven't been feeling too hot lately, I've been taking it easy.
Which means that on this glorious first day of spring, I went for a little ride with Adrian. Not the long, "training" adventure I wanted, because hopefully I'm finally starting to carry learning forward and me babying myself today will make it so I can brand later. Sigh. Sometimes it takes me a long time to learn an easy lesson.
So my little sister was incredibly kind, caught and saddled my fat man and let me go on a short little ride around. And it was a wonderful way to celebrate the beginning of spring. As are the storm clouds hovering in the background...come on rain!!
Does anyone else do that? You finally learn a lesson that you had been bashing your head against for the longest time, and realize that it wasn't that hard to begin with?!
I take my math final on Friday and then sweet relief, I'm free!! Happy Dance!
Until the next semester, that is.
When I first got sick, I had a really hard time allowing myself to A) be sick, and B) let people help me. I wanted to do it all by myself, even if that meant I'd get sicker, feel crappier and make my entire family frustrated with me. I can be alarmingly like a toddler learning to feed itself.
I'm hard headed. But I've slowly been learning to listen to my body, swallow my pride and let people help me so that I can do more things on days I don't feel so great.
Lyme disease is weird, one day I can be feeling great, go for run, do pushups, ride, do homework, braid some rawhide and then BAM, not be able to walk by myself the next day. And then I can be back up and at it again the very next day. I'm hoping to make it to a friend's branding this weekend and because I haven't been feeling too hot lately, I've been taking it easy.
Which means that on this glorious first day of spring, I went for a little ride with Adrian. Not the long, "training" adventure I wanted, because hopefully I'm finally starting to carry learning forward and me babying myself today will make it so I can brand later. Sigh. Sometimes it takes me a long time to learn an easy lesson.
So my little sister was incredibly kind, caught and saddled my fat man and let me go on a short little ride around. And it was a wonderful way to celebrate the beginning of spring. As are the storm clouds hovering in the background...come on rain!!
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| Sometimes when Adrian sings I have to do a little fist pump. |
Does anyone else do that? You finally learn a lesson that you had been bashing your head against for the longest time, and realize that it wasn't that hard to begin with?!
xo xo Liz
Checklist for Spring
If you want things in your life to be different, you can’t do things the same way you’ve always done them. I look forward to periods of my life that seem light years away and think to myself, “Oh by that point I’ll feel different. I won’t get nervous talking to people or I’ll be in better shape or when faced with a challenge, I’ll be so confident I won’t get embarrassed!” HA HA!! I make myself laugh. I can’t expect for things to feel or BE different, unless I continuously test myself and create change in my enviorment. This is my checklist to having a life changing spring. What’s on yours??
You Will Need:
An adventurous heart.
A tough attitude (ability to handle constructive criticism).
The decision to not give up, no matter how hopeless or hard things seem.
Trying something that is challenging enough to you that it scares your pants off.
Figuratively of course.
A group of people to surround yourself with that are kind, talented and uplifting.
Hang around people that you want to be like!
Learn to cook something completely new. (I’m a foodie, I think about what I’m gonna eat basically all day long, so if this is weird, forget I said anything!)
Learn a new skill (learn to team rope, barrel race, braid rawhide, make saddles, paint, play an instrument, learn a language….something!).
Muscles are sexy. Muscles help you burn off more fat.
Muscles make you look amazing in clothes or out of ‘em! Lift heavy weights!
Forgiveness. For yourself and the mistakes you will make and
to others that will hurt you along the way.
This is my checklist, what is on yours?
xo xo Liz
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