HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Heres to an awesome year, with awesome people!

Mary Mack

Silly baby....

New years isn't until 12:00!

My day started with a trip to urgent care.
A z-pack and some other kind of medicine later we continued on with family festivities.
Fortunately my michigan family is supportive of my "angry birds" addiction.
The saga to kill the queen angry bird continues.

Mary Mack

Road trip

I have successfully played "angry birds" for 11 hours.
Seriously.
The sad part is we have only been driving for 8.
My man flu has not prevented me from smashing wood and glass with pudgy, explosive,  animated angry birds.
It also has not affected my appetite unless it has increased it.
Yesterday I ate miso soup, lipton soup, cheese, grilled cheese, ice cream, an eclair (thanks Katherine), and a fruit tart. I dont even know what tarts are, but I'm pretty sure I ate one.
I watched Real House Wives of New York for like 8 hours.

I'm an over achiever.

I have no voice still. I text Dave when I want something.

I probably should be ashamed of myself.
Poor Dave.
At least my catastrophe thinking went away.

Beast and I still have a future.
My eventing accomplishments have not been tainted or revoked. I may still make it to Rolex.
......
Just not if I have a head cold.
.......
I was thinking I could start a new blog called "confessions of a catastrophe thinker".

Back to todays road trip......
In between moments of full devotion to "angry birds" and distractions of Dave and Maggie talking (the man flu prevents all communication amongst the afflicted), I listened to the words of various songs.

"I want to play in an octopus's garden"?
I assume this is from the 60's.
Why were the Beetles allowed as role models?

Then Katy Perry was singing about "the one that got away."
Poor Russell. It sounded based on a true story.

I think we are in Toledo now. The past 24 hours is such a blur.
I can't wait to get to Nicky's house (Daves sister) and see everybody.

Maggie is being lazy and sleeping. She is full of chex mix. She didn't like the part where she rubbed the salt in her eye.
Silly baby.

I'm going to be full of night time Alka seltzer soon.
Ok, back to Angry Birds for me.

Then starting next week we will be back to the strictly professional blog that this should be.

Mary Mack

come together...

I had an AWESOME lesson with Sharon yesterday!

If by AWESOME you mean flopping around like a fish, and crying the last 15 minutes and not only feeling like your drunk, but also expressing it to your instructor. All though I believe my words were "I feel like I am hammered."

I have been sick. Not real bad, just like a head cold. Then it turned into a chest cold.

Then it turned into taking a lot of medicine and going to a lesson with Sharon White.

The lesson started out really well. Beast was happy and a rock star. I had to take off my spurs!

Then I started to come undone. Literally. I just flopped all over, all while hanging on my poor horses mouth for balance. The bad news (for me) is, she just jumped higher to try to do her job despite my disastrous riding. The worse news is, I just kept thinking I sucked and started to cry like a two year old that just got its toy taken away (bad....very bad).

So Sharon being wonderful as she is put the jumps down to see if I could balance better. Not so much.

Well then, she pointed out my balance was a mess.

I paid for my two lessons but loaded Callie and Beasty and drove out of there. At that point, I would have fallen off if I had tried to ride Callie.

I guess I am not one of those people , that can carry on no matter how they feel.

I am more one of those people who shuts down, pulls the blanket over my head and wakes up drooling to Lifetime movies in the background.

I definitely am not good at acting like a stable individual when sick. (Normally I am pretty good at pretending to be a stable individual :)

The funny part (although I am not to the funny stage yet) is Beast had the time of her life last night. Poor thing.

The good part was that Kelley, and Kim were there to soften the blow to my ego.

Kim assured me that I looked like a mess and I don't normally. I especially liked the "I don't normally" part.

Well we are suppose to be leaving for Michigan now and my arms are feeling like jello from typing this.

I should go nurse my man flu.

And...

Beast got her hur did.
She was a good girl!. Big shout out to katherine for doing it!
Also thank god for" A Bit Better Farm" for their hot water and awesomeness!
Maggie was a good girl all day. She hung out with Courtney while I had a lesson with Vanessa and rode Beasty. Then she helped me bathe Beast and Katherine clip.
She is out like a light now. She missed her nap today.
I'm sad my lessons at Darenth were canceled due to weather.... They won't be soon though, CAUSE WE ARE GETTING AN INDOOR!!!!!

The mares jump with Sharon tomorrow, teaching some amazing girls, then off to Michigan!

Mary Mack

Mary Mack

Mary Mack