Busy Busy Busy!

Well it's been a crazy past few days! 

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were spent working at the Copper Creek horse show.  Friday was scorching hot and a lot of the work done was manual labor, so by Saturday I was extremely sore.  Not a promising start to the weekend.  However, despite the yucky weather and long days, it was actually enjoyable to be at a horse show again.  I would have preferred to be showing, but luckily I was kept very busy so I didn't have time to think about Brutus.  I showed him at Copper Creek quite a few times last year, so there were lots of memories with him at the showgrounds.  I remember showing him there 3 or 4 years ago back when we were doing 1st level.  He was a naughty pony back then.  Then last year we made our 3rd level recognized debut there.  We also scored our 1st ever "10" (well our only 10!)  We qualified for regionals at 3rd level, had our first show season where I wasn't scared of him for even a second, and won every single class we entered at Copper Creek last year.  I was hoping to make our PSG debut there this spring.  Man I miss that horse.

Anyways, Saturday night after the show, Jake and I went to a party of a friend of a friend.  We watched Tangled which I have wanted to see for a while now and played Nerz.  The movie was really cute, especially since it had a horse, Maximus!  While super fun, the late night didn't make the 5AM wake-up easy the following day.  Sunday night was spent with more friends, Rex and Christine.  While Christine's Chicken Tortilla soup was delicious, I have to say the best part of the night was sitting in front of the fire at Grand Traverse Pie Co. eating pie, chatting, and getting strange looks from the other customers.  And I learned that apparently my love life involves my future husband riding a horse to my apartment to profess his love for me.  Hey, who could complain about that?!

After working 36 hours in 3 days, along with hanging out with friends late 2 of the nights, most of Monday was spent sleeping.  I slept in until 1 PM!  I don't ever recall sleeping in that late!  But it was really nice to have a relaxing day after the busy weekend.  Today's been spent cleaning, since that was something that desperately needed to be done after this past weekend as well.  Something about horse shows makes my apartment and car look like a tornado just passed through. 

I went to ride Bingo, my friend Christine's horse, again this morning.  She's adorable and while a little naughty today, nothing too bad considering it was cold and we rode outside.  Christine leaves for Ghana this Friday, so for 1 month, I'll get to ride Bingo pretty much as often as I have time for.  I'm looking forward to it!  She's a fun little mare.

In vet school news, we got information on how to get our ID card to access the vet school building.  I also need to go get my picture taken for the vet school and order a lab coat.  Fun stuff!  This vet school thing is getting closer!

Sorry this post has been a bit jumbled, but I kind of feel that's how my life is right now.  Lots of little pieces that somehow come together to make up my life.  I think this is probably because I'm a little lost right now.  No longer in undergrad, but not yet starting vet school.

As one last random piece of information, I've been working through "Discipleship Essentials" with my mentor from Church, Kerri.  This week's lesson dealt with "Being a disciple."  The author states, "Being a disciple is one who responds in faith and obedience to the gracious call to follow Jesus Christ.  Being a disciple is a lifelong process of dying to self while allowing Jesus Christ to come alive in us."  Along with the memory verse for the week, Luke 9:23-24, ("Then He said to them all: 'If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.  For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.'") this made me realize this journey is going to take a while (ok, a lifetime!) and requires me to make an effort every single day to deny my selfish desires and ask God to show me what he has in mind for me.  After all, He knows me better than I know myself, so I'm sure whatever he has in store for me is better than I could imagine (1 Cor 2:9!)