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Mini Melt Down

Well, I haven't written on my blog in a very long time as some of you continually remind me.  :)  Thank you for that.  This is something that I love doing because not only do I get to share some of my photography, but a part of my life with you all.  I will begin backdating some of my blogs to get you caught up with all that has happened since I last wrote...WOW quite a while.  It's been just about 2 months!  NO WAY!  Where oh where does the time go?!

The last couple weeks I have had a really bad cold that I have been recovering from.  This is my first week back to working out for just about 2 weeks!  Praises!  Since I do not have solidified results from my MRI from almost 3 weeks ago, I am also trying to take it easy on my hip as to not injure it for life.

Well today after a pretty pathetic workout (I should just be thankful I was back at the gym today!), I had a mini melt down.  When I got into the pickup Heath asked how my workout went and I just started crying.  Well, my workout was poor, I am struggling with body image, I had my third bloody nose in two days while I was taking a shower, and then blah blah, poor me.  Heath being the wonderful man he is, supported me through it for about 2 seconds and then told me to name all my blessings.  He was totally right, I needed to snap out of it and get over myself.  There are people in much more pain on a daily basis and cannot do anything about it and there are people who don't have friends and family to support them, there are people without food on their tables.  Humbling.

Guess what, life is good!

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.  ~Psalm 46:1

I got to have lunch with Kristin Schiff today!  We try to get together on Monday's for a quick lunch as she passes through town.  We got to catch up and she inspired me!  Always good to have girl time!

After work, I was going to head over to Ashley's in Huntley to help her with wedding stuff and have another girls night, but nature called!  Garry had called me earlier in the day to tell me about his mama that was beating up her baby.  She was awful!  Anyway he wanted me to come sweet talk her into being nice to her sweet little baby.  It's funny how nature can cause that.  She is not a heifer therefore should know what her calf will do but she must have forgotten since last year.  Anyway, Garry had tied her up so that her baby could suck in the morning and then left for town.  When Heath and I got there this evening, we found Mama way up out of the corrals and out of their pasture.  By the time we got the four wheeler running and back out there, she was long gone.  We had to circle the creek to see if we could find her...boy was she fast....trying to get out of her motherly duties.  Well, long story short, she was quite a rascal!  I was riding on the four wheeler with Heath and he politely asked me to get off so that he could be crazy on that thing  trying to get her out of the trees.  The last thing we needed was for me to fall off the back....LOL!    We got her going good and headin' back towards the corrals only to have her back in the electric fence  and then she ran through it ....TWICE!  The boys got her back on track while I walked the fence line finding insulators that had been scattered and putting fence back up.  Thank goodness it was down somewhere else so it wasn't hot at the time!  :)

When we finally got her tucked in, back with her calf, we had to go back out and tag a baby that had been born today.  By this time, Ashley had texted to see if I was still coming and we just decided it would be better to reschedule.  It is so nice to have friends that understand   livestock and the time they take sometimes.

I enjoyed a nice dinner with Barb, Garry, and Heath to finish up my day.

Blessings!

A Day in the Life

Today, I decided to take it easy and work on physical therapy in the pool today.  First, I got into the really hot therapy pool to get all stretched out and then I went to the big pool.  They have these cool foam “water weights” that add resistance to your workout and it really works.  Later, as I was aqua jogging in the big pool, Heath was swimming laps.  I am working with him to help him with his stroke as he is learning how to swim competitively.  Go Heath!  Learning how to swim is no easy task.  I started swimming a year ago January and I can remember wondering how I was ever going to swim a ½ mile in open waters.  I just had to keep forcing myself to get into the pool and practice.  The biggest thing for me was to keep struggling through it and not give up.  Most things that I put my mind to, I have been able to do, but this whole swimming thing was a humbling experience.

At work, we sat through another insurance seminar which was, again, excellent!  The topic today was ‘OSHA Inspection Training.’  We had seven guys from Stateline attend the conference.  Since, I am on a first name basis with our insurance rep (I guess this is what happens when you talk every day because something new always arises), we got a lot of our questions answered by the guest speakers.

I got to see the tail end of Andrew’s track meet tonight as I arrived in Mitchell a little later than I expected.  I saw him in his last race of 5, the 4x200 meter relay.  Tonight, he told me that his three favorite things are:   1. His mom and his dad 2. Track 3. Basketball.  Supper with the boys and off to my Home Sweet Home in God’s country!  J

Right before I left Mitchell, I got a text from a very good friend of mine from vet school, Mr. Nick Henning.  I called him on my drive home and we got to get caught up.  It was so great to be able to do that.  They are entering a very intense time of the year as spring break just ended and they are getting back into the groove of things as the semester is rapidly coming to a close.  I am so proud of my whole class for sticking with it day in and day out.  Don’t ever give up!  Call me anytime you need support!!

S.P.I.N.N.I.N.G.

First day of spinning for the spring session.  I have been looking forward to this since I moved back to the area.  Roger and Wendy are our instructors for the morning session and they are so fun and inspirational.  It’s fun to do group workouts, especially since I already know most of the people in the class from before.  I waited to start this spring session because I wanted to allow my hip some time to rest/heal.  After 6 or 7 weeks of physical therapy, nothing seems better.  It did feel better for a short time period, but it’s BACK!  I found out this weekend, that the more time I take off and don’t use it, the more it hurts.

Soooo……I went to spinning this morning with the intentions to not push it very hard and to just stay seated the whole time.  Well, I did not push it to the max, but I sure did not stay seated!  It felt so good to be back on the bike with the music pumping and being surrounded by old friends.  Heath let me use his heart rate monitor that his son got him for Christmas!   I don’t know if he will ever get it back; it is awesome!  I’m kidding, I couldn’t do that!  It was a great way to start my day!

More of the same at work, dealing with “big girl” things and having to deal with confrontation and sometimes uncomfortable situations, but I feel like we are making big strides.  This is my cheering squad!  :)

Saturday

Today, was great.  I was able to sleep in a little bit!  I was just relaxing when Heath stopped by around 9 or so.  We were just sitting there when we saw a great big semi slow waaaay down on Stegall Road.  Our first thought was that the dogs were out in the road, but with a second look, we found something waaaay different.  The neighbor horses were frantically running their fence line and there was another horse on this side of the fence, running along side of them.  Yep, sure enough, I recognized that back white sock the moment I saw it.  Miss Penney!  Crazy girl!  I threw on some clothes and hollered at Heath to grab her halter (which I had run right out the door without it).  He got in the pickup while I was grabbing her bridle, just in case.  I hopped into the truck and he dropped me off on one side of her as he gently rolled up a bit further to cut off that option.  She was pretty panicked until we could ease her off the edge of the shared fence line with our neighbor horses.  Once she reached the end, and they turned the other way, thankfully I was able to walk right up to her.  Good girl!  I walked  her most of the way home and then hopped on her bareback and rode her up the drive, saddled her, checked her for wounds, and then tied her up while I checked my corrals.

She had broken out a board on a gate in the corrals.  She had a few minor scratches and I doctored them as soon as I found them.  Heath said that he could fix the corral for me, he just needed to get a few screws from his dad.  He called over and they invited us for lunch!  It was a happily accepted offer!  Heath drove over with Mya and I rode Penney over.  She did great!  Pretty much a dream of mine....having someone help me fix my fence, riding her across the rolling prairie for lunch, and then enjoying the company of good friends!~ 

We got my seeds started in an small indoor garden!

Friday~Sad Day

http://kneb.com/news/index.php?more=9hv9jaft

This is so sad, this was on KNEB today.  My old home sweet home on Highland caught fire.  I was so very sad to get this news.  I need to call the old owners who lived there for over 54 years and where they raised their family.  This is so sad!  I cannot even believe it!  I had so many good memories there!

Thursday Conference

Today, Heath and I went to a Food Safety conference with our insurance company.  It was held at the Hampton Inn in Scottsbluff, the lunch they served was excellent, by the way.  We both learned alot and realized how important food safety is to our business.  We have lots to do, but we will get it accomplished because we have the backing of our board and our management team.

Our next item on the agenda today was a house inspection on the potential largest purchase of my life so far. Heath came with me after work to meet with the home inspector.  I was not impressed by the inspector because he did not inspect up to code, but other than that, all the big things checked out well.  I am so excited to keep moving forward with this purchase!

Last, but not least, we went back to the office to eat leftovers from lunch today that they gave us.  Then, we headed over to Connie and Ernie's house for our Crazy Love Bible study.  Embarrassing as it was, both Heath and I were blatantly falling asleep while Ernie was speaking.  I felt so bad, Ernie even said extra prayers for us because he knew how tired we were.  Heath and I both made it to the gym for the morning session three of the four days this week so far!  Makes for an early morning, but is so great to get up and get it out of the way early and feel good all day!

Wednesday-Mid Week

Wednesday's Justin and Andrew get to have dinner with their grandparents, so Heath and I get to spend some time together.  This week, I went over to his house and Briggs, Mya, and I all went running on the ditch bank.  It was a fabulous run with the light lingering longer and longer each evening!  The weather was perfect and this was a new trail for us to explore.  About half way through Mama called and I just put her on speaker and we kept running.  A few goat heads and me carrying Mya over the cattle guard later, we were back in the yard.  Heath had supper ready for us when we returned!  So sweet!