Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Under the Radar......

There is something to be said about operating under the radar.

I have had the experience lately of people getting into my business and my life and trying to cause trouble, strife and just be generally nasty.  It is getting boring and tiring.  I don't get into other peoples lives, I am not that interested to be honest.  I don't go behind people's backs and do and say nasty things, try to undermine them or create trouble.

For some reason, the dressage world in South Jersey, is full of these types of people.  I moved here from New York a year ago, my horse, until then, was always boarded up in Northern New Jersey, where I just never really was involved in any kind of behavior like this.  We just got on with training, showing and practicing and practicing. Everyone doing their thing.

So I am ducking back down under these people's radar, where I am happier, where I am not distracted by their constant chatter.  I don't want them to know anything about me.  I have adjusted my FaceBook page so that only my "friends" see me, not everyone.  I have edited my Friends list - imagine that??  If you have said something about me that is not nice, you are out.  What I don't get, is how these people can think I don't know???

I am done with all this nonsense.  I am done with these people.  Time to regroup and refocus.

It is funny how we slowly let this stuff seep into our lives.....


Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Trying to get things going....

I am a bit of a go getter - I defo do not hang around and wait for someone to do something or wait for something to come to me.  I am a firm believer that if you want to do something you had better get off your butt and just go and get it done.  I don't like to stand around and "talk" about things to death, if you want to do it, just do it and stop talking about it.  Kinda gets on my nerves.

This is probably both a good thing and a bad thing.  Good because I just go and do stuff and get on with it and bad because I think it irritates those that would like to just stand around and talk about things, and not really get on with it.

I also don't like waiting around for other people to make their decision about if they are going to be involved in something or not.

Anyway, in other news - we have qualified for the Championships this year - which is nice - so Tee and I are headed to them in September.  We have a very busy September showing.  There are a bunch of shows we are going to never mind the Keuring Tour for Catalina - the other horse I have in training.  The Keuring Tour is a big event for the Dutch Warmbloods.  She is competing for her Dressage Certification - and the Iron Springs Cup.  So to say we are working hard at the moment is an understatement.....

My little boy really really wants to help at the barn - he is completely horse mad and it is both endearing and sweet and terrifying.  I have to make sure he is involved but out of harms way all the time and that is a very fine line and quite difficult to manage....but we do it.  He is very good at doing what he is told around the horses.....but he is never out of my sight....and safety ALWAYS comes first.

So off to the barn we go, for another training session......in the heat and the humidity......