So here I am, 25 with 2 degrees working as a bus driver. It would seem my goals in life grow further and further away from me as the money coming in twindles as well. But you know what, I'm actually happy with my life as it is right now. It's taken a long time to get to this point and life is still a struggle, but I trust in God to get me through and have had some amazing developments in my life lately.
First and foremost is my amazing boyfriend, without him and his family, this experience, this blog, heck even my life as I currently know it, wouldn't be possible.
Next is the fact that I am blessed to not only have a job, but in addition I own my own business. While I am having to start my business over from scratch practically due to my recent moves, I'm excited to finally be in a position where I know what I want and I plan on staying here so I'll really be able to take off with it as I work with it.
Finally is the reason you're even reading this blog lol. It again goes back to number 1, because it's my boyfriend's family that owns the horse I'm attempting to train. Basically, his late step-grandpa used to own dozens of horses and kept them just to watch them... While that was his dream, my dream has always been a little more interactive lol. While he has passed on there is still one horse left, Flash. He's about 4yrs old and he's a Paint Gelding, I'll get photos up soon.
Flash is my next project and I am looking forward to it, but nervous I'll mess something up too. My whole life I've wanted to have and be around horses, it's evidently a genetic thing bc my mom did too. I used to literally do anything in order to ride even 30 minutes. At first when I was about 8 I convinced my parents to pay for some lessons so I could go to a horseback riding Girl-Scouts camp, then when I was a freshman in High School I would go home with a friend on friday nights, spend the night get up really early and go to the stables where we would groom the horses, tack them up for the riders' lessons, and yup even clean out stalls. Then my mom would pick me up and drop me off at my church where I'd take a quick shower and start work watching the children of the employees and then doing Saturday night children's service, not actually getting home till about 8:30 that night then waking up early again to volunteer for the Sunday services. That lasted a few months before my mom decided it was too much for a 14 yr old to handle while also in the most difficult academic program. Finally my last involvement was actually as a carriage driver in Philadelphia, PA. That was a fun and work intensive experience, but it too had to come to an end.
Now a few years later and I finally have the opportunity to work with horses again. I've been kinda begging for Flash to be trained and I finally got told that if I wanted to ride him to train him myself. I know I'll probably get a lot of people telling me I should hire a professional, and trust me if I had the funds I would, but for now I'll take it slow, do a bunch of research and post my findings here. I will also hopefully start riding someone else's horses soon if our schedules can work it out so I'm hoping to talk to her and refresh my memory on a lot of stuff lol.
Well this is enough for now, will post more soon!
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