Monthly Archives: November 2020
13 years of Farley
| November 29, 2020 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
Thirteen Thanksgivings and she’s still here and so am I. That little brown horse is still trucking along and enjoying her retirement. I did get on her a couple months ago because a high schooler that rides at the barn was going to be needing some horses this winter to ride and Farley was offered […] more
Surviving
| November 24, 2020 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
I have this thing where I don’t realize I’m not OK until I get the thing back that was making everything OK that I didn’t realize was making it OK. My not-OK-ness usually manifests by me collapsing on the couch in the evenings, too apathetic to do anything important to me. Mind you, I don’t […] more
Apparently I adult by buying linens
| November 7, 2020 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
If this was any year but this year, there’s a good chance I would be out running in the darkness right now. Rio Del Lago 2020 would have been today. I didn’t finish my 100 mile race in February, so likely I would need a qualifier with time running out. LIKE EVERY YEAR. With a […] more
Oh yeah, that’s broke
| November 3, 2020 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
This is what your toe looks like when you slam the edge of a wooden table on your toes when standing on concrete. There was a lot of cussing. And yelling. No crying because it hurt too damn much. You know what I mean? I knew I had broken some toes, I just didn’t know […] more
If you can’t have goals, pick a project
| November 1, 2020 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
It’s been a dismal year for most things related to my hobbies (except if you count cooking. Any year I figure out what dosas are and how to make them at home can hardly be categorized as fully a failure!), but my writing and time spent with the horses took the worst hit by far. Last month […] more
Goals? What Goals?
| November 1, 2020 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
“My goal is to survive long enough to want to set goals again. That’s the goal.” A friend who has a habit of saying wise things said this recently and it’s been crashing around in my head all day. This is me right now. This has been me for far longer than 2020, before covid, […] more
