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So I came to the realization today that life is good. It hit me quite suddenly and simply when I was thinking about stopping by this weekend to visit Robert at the store. I'm one of those people who imagines snippets of conversations before they happen and I imagined Robert asking the obvious, "How are you doing?" question and that is when it hit me that my immediate response was, you know, everything is awesome. For what feels like the first time in my life, or at least a very long time, I can stop and recognize that life is wonderful.
Work is great. It's hard work sometimes. Hard, muscle-aching work that leaves me sore and tired. But it's a very satisfying tired. I get paid to ride horses. It is not my entire job, mind, but a large part of it. Of course, my other duties include feeding and caring for all 47 goats, 2 cattle, 6 horses, and on occasion caring for any or all of the 5 dogs and 6 cats. I go to the feed store, I mend fences, I prepare pastures. I catch and kill pesky rodents (or try ever so hard).
I operate heavy machinery and farm equipment.
The song "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" has made a sudden transition to ridiculously absurd to relatable (even if I still don't particularly enjoy the song). I have fallen in love with the old Land Rover out on the farm. I used it the other day to harrow the just-cleared fields with a harrow that was originally made to be worked with and was used with mules (in the past). Today we went out and seeded said future-pasture and laid straw atop it. I came home dirty and with straw in my hair and unmentionable places. My arms were speckled with hay spots and scratches. I'm sneezing hay bits on occasion, but it was a good day's work.
Aside from work, James is wonderful. We are wonderful. I would be hard pressed to be any happier than I am about us right now.
I've found a roommate for the upcoming next 12 months or so. Cassidy is her name and she's pretty awesome from what I've learned about her. We exchange e-mails 1-2 times a day and really seem to mesh. She has a dog Ribbie who sounds like she'll mesh well with Kayla and seems so easy going and laid-back. Right now she is teaching English in Korea and I think that is just awesome. She gets back toward the end of July and has to be in Raleigh for transfer orientation at NCSU by August 1st. She's transferring from UNC where she got a 4-year degree and is going to State for a 2-year.
I found some town homes we are trying to get into. I turned the application in today and it just depends whether or not something comes available. If it doesn't, I'll be sad, but might be able to find something else. There's a house down the road a ways that I'm gonna look into but don't know if it'll be as close to NCSU as Cassidy will like.
But I'm very at peace with things right now. Very stable, content, relaxed. This has been by far the most satisfying summer I believe I've ever had.
Work is great. It's hard work sometimes. Hard, muscle-aching work that leaves me sore and tired. But it's a very satisfying tired. I get paid to ride horses. It is not my entire job, mind, but a large part of it. Of course, my other duties include feeding and caring for all 47 goats, 2 cattle, 6 horses, and on occasion caring for any or all of the 5 dogs and 6 cats. I go to the feed store, I mend fences, I prepare pastures. I catch and kill pesky rodents (or try ever so hard).
I operate heavy machinery and farm equipment.
The song "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" has made a sudden transition to ridiculously absurd to relatable (even if I still don't particularly enjoy the song). I have fallen in love with the old Land Rover out on the farm. I used it the other day to harrow the just-cleared fields with a harrow that was originally made to be worked with and was used with mules (in the past). Today we went out and seeded said future-pasture and laid straw atop it. I came home dirty and with straw in my hair and unmentionable places. My arms were speckled with hay spots and scratches. I'm sneezing hay bits on occasion, but it was a good day's work.
Aside from work, James is wonderful. We are wonderful. I would be hard pressed to be any happier than I am about us right now.
I've found a roommate for the upcoming next 12 months or so. Cassidy is her name and she's pretty awesome from what I've learned about her. We exchange e-mails 1-2 times a day and really seem to mesh. She has a dog Ribbie who sounds like she'll mesh well with Kayla and seems so easy going and laid-back. Right now she is teaching English in Korea and I think that is just awesome. She gets back toward the end of July and has to be in Raleigh for transfer orientation at NCSU by August 1st. She's transferring from UNC where she got a 4-year degree and is going to State for a 2-year.
I found some town homes we are trying to get into. I turned the application in today and it just depends whether or not something comes available. If it doesn't, I'll be sad, but might be able to find something else. There's a house down the road a ways that I'm gonna look into but don't know if it'll be as close to NCSU as Cassidy will like.
But I'm very at peace with things right now. Very stable, content, relaxed. This has been by far the most satisfying summer I believe I've ever had.