Some of my notes.

Chapter 1 of Fundamental Techniques in Handling People
"If You Want to Gather Honey, Don't Kick Over the Beehive"

Don't Criticize, Condemn or Complain.

I found the first chapter a bit bland and hard to get through. Dale Carnegie is telling me not to do something that is so second nature. While his words make sense, I have a hard time visualizing myself following them 100% of the time. Human fault.. my fault really,...

I got on Annie bareback on Saturday with the help of my sister in law (ROO)! Oh, it felt so great! I haven't been on the back of a horse for well over 7 months! When Rachel (ROO) first boosted me up there, I was semi terrified to move. I kept thinking "Oh boy, if I fall and hurt myself again, it's all over". Thank God for Rachel though She had the patience to lead me around like a little pony ride. It gave me the confidence that - Yes! I still can ride! And there is nothing to be afraid...

There are some portions of my life that I'm content about, and others that leave me stewing. I'm currently content with my horse and horse life. I feel very relaxed and happy when I make it out to the barn to putz around with Annie. She has some things that need to be worked on, but it doesn't phase me. I wish I had more daylight when I'm at the barn, but it's winter time, so I guess I can't complain too much. It kinda sucks trying to work with a horse in the dark, even with spot lights. Oh well,...

Saturday we moved Annie and Moose to their new barn. Annie loaded like a pro, but she's done it before and nothing really seems to phase her. We had a bit of a problem with Moose, but he's just a baby so I wasn't really to upset about that. I think he was just scared and confused. He's never seen a trailer like the one we have, so it was an entirely new experience. With lots of praise and patience he finally loaded. I think it helped some that Annie was already in the trailer munching on hay without...

Well... it's NaNoWriMo time again, and I'm giving it a go again. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and info can be found here @ http://www.nanowrimo.org/ I know I'll do better this year than last year. I am much more inspired this year to write, and I have a great story to boot. I think I will have 50,000 words in no time.. if I can keep myself from being a total spazz about what I've already written. I have this nasty habit of constantly reading back what I wrote and changing things....