gosh, I am such a crappy rider. This sucks! I tried doing what I originally thought would work to make bennie and I better, but the thing is, I just kept getting angry at him for every little thing he did. I cant hold him together anymore, my position sucks, and its my fault that he's being the way he is, yet I still punish him for the things that ( Read more... )

Amy is coming tonight. Amy is Craig’s 15 year old girlfriend who lives in Vermont… yes, that’s right, Vermont, as in two and a half hours away. Craig was originally making me cart his butt up there to visit, but for some reason Amy and her family are going to be in Durham today, so Craig and Amy came up with this genius plan that she would come ( Read more... )

Got caught dancing next to my truck tonight. It was awesome. It was one of those moments where you are on the verge of breaking out into tears, but manage to turn the bottled up emotion into something else. It felt good. I had just pulled into my driveway around 11:20, and American Pie came on the radio, I blasted it, parked the car, and began to ( Read more... )

Lately, my riding has been crap. Last year Bennie and I were doing great. We had a connection that we could both feel and we could join together to do consistent work. We almost always got that feeling of unity; we were able to read each other, anticipating the next movement of our ride. It was a feeling of knowing that I could ask for anything, ( Read more... )

Today had a great start ( Read more... )

Okay, so I just thought I'd update with a reminder about beach day. Graham and Tim have it all set up and even chose the beach. So far we have about 11 or so people who are coming. The plan is to meet at my house tomorrow (Saturday, August 5th) around 8 am. From there we will decide who goes in what car, etc and go to the beach. Hopefully it will ( Read more... )

When I went to the barn I work at today, I got out of the truck and saw Rose (my boss-like person), Jimmy (Rose’s son), and Abel (stable hand) standing next to the barn. Rose smiled at me and told me that there was something in the barn for me. Curious, I walked over to the tack room door, opened it, and stepped into the stall. There was a bucket ( Read more... )

I went to work yesterday, and as soon as I entered the test center, I saw my mom surrounded by Jerry (this incredibly nice guy who works there), Kam (the electrical engineer) and this really cute college sophomore named Alex. They were all talking and I joined their group, like I normally do. It was fun, and always is, we always find things to ( Read more... )

Yesterday, when I came home for break around 8:30, I walked in to a dark, and seemingly empty house. I assumed no one was home, so I went to climb the stairs to continue talking on my phone in my room, but my mom said something to me. I was surprised because she was laying down in the dark with no lights or TV on, so I asked what was up. She told ( Read more... )

Monday morning I was awoken by Craig shaking me, while asking when I could take him to the store to get target clips. I tried to throw something at him, but just rolled out of bed instead and threw some clothes on. Craig met me by the truck and I opened the door to get in. My center console was flung open, and all my papers were strewn across the ( Read more... )