SNOW....!!!
Oh, how I love the first good snowfall of the year! There were huge white flakes pouring down as I left the barn tonight; I don't think I've seen it snow that hard in years. It always makes me feel like such a little kid - I want to run out and stick out my tongue and make snow angels and throw snowballs just because I can! But all without leaving footprints, you know... you can't disturb something as pristine and beautiful as the first snow. It was like a winter wonderland coming home, my own little private Narnia. I think I might have even seen Mr. Tumnus grazing in the neighbor's field. (Or maybe it was a deer. But you never know.)
True to form, 2008 is already going by WAY, WAY too fast for me. Over the past two weeks, I've frozen to death and ridden in short sleeves, rediscovered the joy of homemade waffles, obtained the perfect new student, caught on my lesson log, spent a lot of time buried in books, gotten DRENCHED in the rain, started jumping Bailey again, made some really good chili, finally saw the Stardust movie, went nuts over my Tractor Supply gift card and their massive Breyer model clearance sale, finally bought stamps, reluctantly took down some (not all) of the Christmas decorations, cried a lot, laughed a lot, did a lot of yoga, and learned to cast on and to do a knit stitch. Go me! Am still intimidated by purling and will probably put that off until my knitting stops looking like I did it in the dark.
Overall, things are off to a pretty good start.
My goal for this week is to relearn how to write first-drafts. I want to rekindle the romance with writing, and be able to do it again without the bothersome little voice in my head saying, "That line doesn't sound right. Are you sure that's the word you want to use? None of this story fits together. Nobody will ever think this is any good, because it's not..." and so on. ENOUGH ALREADY.
This week, I'm going to choose a story, and I'm going to write 5000 words without looking back. I did the first thousand today over lunch and it really wasn't that hard! I just have to learn to let go and let the story write itself.
True to form, 2008 is already going by WAY, WAY too fast for me. Over the past two weeks, I've frozen to death and ridden in short sleeves, rediscovered the joy of homemade waffles, obtained the perfect new student, caught on my lesson log, spent a lot of time buried in books, gotten DRENCHED in the rain, started jumping Bailey again, made some really good chili, finally saw the Stardust movie, went nuts over my Tractor Supply gift card and their massive Breyer model clearance sale, finally bought stamps, reluctantly took down some (not all) of the Christmas decorations, cried a lot, laughed a lot, did a lot of yoga, and learned to cast on and to do a knit stitch. Go me! Am still intimidated by purling and will probably put that off until my knitting stops looking like I did it in the dark.
Overall, things are off to a pretty good start.
My goal for this week is to relearn how to write first-drafts. I want to rekindle the romance with writing, and be able to do it again without the bothersome little voice in my head saying, "That line doesn't sound right. Are you sure that's the word you want to use? None of this story fits together. Nobody will ever think this is any good, because it's not..." and so on. ENOUGH ALREADY.
This week, I'm going to choose a story, and I'm going to write 5000 words without looking back. I did the first thousand today over lunch and it really wasn't that hard! I just have to learn to let go and let the story write itself.