Sleeping on the floor.....

Recently I have been working out and stretching at home so I could get in better shape for riding. Riding all day can be hard on your lower back and thighs and your occipital muscles (the ones that hold your head straight so your eyes can focus). So I have begun some very light and kind of sporadic work with those weighted medicine balls. I have an 8 lb-er and a 5 lb-er and I got mine at Walmart and they come with a little work out DVD. So I do my warm up on the world's oldest nordic track and then start with Mia Ferguson (sp?) and my little weighted ball routine. Then something thing really weird happens. I am laying on the floor relaxing after stretching and I fall asleep. Sometimes for 20 minutes sometimes for an hour. The first time it happened I slept for like 2 hours! It's very strange. It's like I totally relax and crash.

All in all I have been very good with my eating and exercising. I talked to my Dad today and he helped me to see things in a different light and I feel more relaxed and less anxious about my life right now and that's a huge relief I must say. i was able to get through my day without having this constant panicky weight on my shoulders.

However to keep up this routine it is imperative that I sleep more. So with that said. I think I am going to try and sleep.... in my bed. I guess if all else fails I can work out a little and stretch and crash on my living room floor... :)

Dreams

For the last couple nights, I keep having dreams that Adam has come home early and surprised me. They are good too, it is a shame I have to wake up. Someone said to me you don't have long left to wait now. Part of me feels like she is insane. The doldrums are passing through and all my worries are start to really abate because we have already made it through so much. But yes she is right. Not so long now. I can feel myself getting really anxious and trying to fill my day with as much as possible so I am not thinking about it. I decided to get some free furniture from craigs list. I am tired of not having chairs. I found 2 basically free recliners and a cheap couch. I am going to go get them tomorrow I think. For now just sleep. :) and Dreams.

Long Post

Ok while I was in Washington I took 138 pictures of the place, and I uploaded them to photobucket. I will place the key pictures here and I have labeled EVERY PICTURE on photobucket and many have descriptions or what hte lady told me abotu it. So if you want a walk through of the place I can share you the url for photobucket (I think I have to send you an invite via email). Ok let the games begin.



Here is the map. Eco means these cement areas made out of cement "eco" blocks. They are areas for storing/composting manure or keeping wood chips off the ground, and storing other materials like sand or trailer parking. You get the picture. The little buildings I didn't label are feeding sheds and the big long white thing in front of the Upper Barn in her horse trailer.


Entry Gate (and there is an exit gate) is battery powered like a garage door, exit gate is not powered.


Main Entrance to house (Glass Doors)



Entry Room


Master Bedroom and Bath


Inside MB are 3 closets, two little ones and a huge walk in one. Facing the bedroom had my back to the door, there is a small bathroom (toilet, one sink, shower) and a walk in closet.


This is it (more all around pictures on my photo bucket album)

Going back down stairs though the entry way is a bathroom

which was just re done and

a second bedroom.

Then there are 3 rooms left in the house:

Laundry
and

Living Room
and


Kitchen.

Outside it has a huge beautiful fenced in area and a hot tub, a covered porch and a fire pit. It also has a large fenced in yard.

On to the barns: There are 3 barns: a very old hay barn, with 5 storage areas 3 of which look like very large stalls, a lower barn with 21 stalls and an upper barn attached to an indoor arena with 14 stalls.

Hay barn:
Outside


Inside:
Shavings
and

Hay
and in this picture you can see the tack room and one of the large "stalls"

She has alot of stuff to take with her in these pix. :)

Lower Barn: 21 Stalls

Tow types of stalls, some with more grates, these are better:
These ones dont have the hay sotrage above.
Hay Storage in Lower Barn


Round Pen is next to lower Barn

Half One

Half Two

So in our whirlwind tour:
Upper Barn


I think these stalls are nicer:

They have doors that go to the outside. I would need to put up pens.

Now the Indoor:

One Half


Two Half

And a feeding/ loafing Shed.

This are in the "teal" pen.

I took a million more pix of the pens and I have them on photobucket.
Here is the link: http://s70.photobucket.com/albums/i92/notantisocial/

I made it home

I liked it. If I can swing it I will. I have the pictures. They are on my camera. I am going to bed. I hope you like physical labor Adam.

:)
Jenna

Welcome to the Army: Corruption and Deceit

I cannot believe what I have just heard. Adam has paid a small fortune CONNECTING TO THE INTERNET. A service provided by his government. He pays the US government for internet access. He pays his employer who takes him into war torn service free area, and cut him off from everything at home, and then says, "Oh by the way, if you want to talk to people at home, its going to cost you."

Adam and I don't even talk that frequently. He already gets paid peanuts and now half his peanuts are going BACK TO THE GOVERNMENT. Not to mention the money his Mom and I spend mailing him crap. It's not even free to send him stuff! I get to pay the government to send him stuff too! I would guess that a quarter of what he makes go back into providing all of the stuff that government should, like um FOOD, and um WARM CLOTHES, and um A WARM PLACE TO SLEEP, oh yeah and a way to F***ING PHONE HOME. The army is short sheeting people and not paying them appropriately for the stress of the situations they are in. This is a bad and unfair system in which you are not rewarded appropriately for the services you provide. You are not rewarded for working harder than anyone else, plus even if you were how the heck would they tell?!?!? They are already working you to the bone. I cannot even tell you about the blisters on the bottoms of the feet, the malfunctioning gear, and the ridiculous sleeping arrangements. No privacy, the dust and dirt getting every where, regular showers are a joke.

Why are they so hard on him? I don't get it. He is a good soldier, he does his job. Why do they treat him so poorly? They have invested a ton of money and training into him, and prepping him, you would think they would take better care of their soldiers. You would think they would want them to be awake and alert and energized, but I guess they don't because they don't let the soldiers eat and rest and have time to talk to their loved ones.

Let me tell you how much I despise that particular establishment at the moment. What an cruel despicable almost macabre thing to do.

LOL Memories of Adam

Today I did okay my horse show, not as well as I had hoped, but a lot better then a lot of beginners.I came home today and started cooking so I can recover from all the bad food I have eaten in the past two days. I chuckled a little when I read Lala's blog about cooking. I love to cook and I love to experiment with cooking. I covet almost everything in Williams Sonoma. So today I made some stir fry. It was okay. I try to cut out the sugar and flour/cornstarch, and I used ground venison. So it was.... different, but good. Then I made a venison-bacon-bean stew. Onion, garlic, bacon, thyme, oregano, and beef broth sauteed until its brownish and carmel-y, then the rest of the venison and let it get brown. Then I got out a big pot and put in 3 cans of beans, this time red, pinto and northern, a can of diced tomatoes, and the rest of my beef broth. Pepper and simmer till it tastes good. Um that took abotu an hour, I didn't want it to get too mushy. It smells really good and is really yummy. That one always turns out well. I guess if people weren't worried about the carbs, then you can add pasta, rice or potatoes.

So on to my funny Adam memory, Dane Cooks Vicious Circle Stand Up Comedy was on Comedy Central tonight. I remember when Adam was in Washington before he left, he went to go see the movie theater version of this stand up comedy. He called me after word and told me I had to see it and that it was so funny. It was good to hear he had fun hanging out with his army buddies and that he had at fun at the show. I did eventually end up seeing it. I just remember how animated and happy he was afterwards. Seeing it on tv tonight reminded me of that. Makes me smile.

Decisions Decisions

Hello

I have a lot of decisions to make and one of them is the apartment in Wyoming and its going up out there with out me now and I am terrified that it is going to be all screwed up because I am not paying super close attention to it. Well I will look at windows and figure out walls, and windows.

I thought some more about places in Washington, but I haven't gotten the guts to call the trainers yet to see if they know anything about the area and a place for my horses. I checked craigslist for both jobs and places. Nada. I am going to have to go and actually look. In some ways I am just dreading it. I don't want to go alone, I don't want to be responsible for making the wrong choice, I dont want to find a place to stay.. Yada yada yada.


I have to talk to the people in South Dakota again and email them photos. I hope my horses sell okay. I have to mail them the breeder's certificates AND send them the photos of the horses. Sigh. I sent off the ad to eclectic horseman today and that felt good. Now I just have to fix the ranch website. Yeay! Now just the horses to Joel, look up horse sales in California. Oh by the way I have a horse show this weekend... I didn't pack anything for it. Sigh, but I did by some new shirts, but somehow they are all pink again. That was all they had in my size :( Wish me luck lol. I am not sure how I am going to do, I am afraid I am going to do worse now that my beginner's luck is over. I feel like I didn't ride at all this week, though I have have ridden at least one horse everyday this week, it shows you how my perspective has changed.