Devour the Moment!

I am sitting her with a big smile on my face. What an awesome feeling. I had a great evening last night hanging out with a couple of good friends. These ladies know how to laugh and have a great time. I thrive on that energy. This morning I was able to check off a few items off of my to do list, which is always good for my mood and well being. I have read an article in the past, and might of even blogged about it. Anyhow my recollection of this article, or maybe a study?, recommended that you not live your days by a list and what you accomplish. Sorry that is the extent of my memory on that, but the moral of that, I do and don't agree with my weak memory of this article. It fills me with a sense of accomplishment, pride, and gratitude to accomplish what I set out to do that day. So in that respect, I don't agree. However, I do agree with it's concept, if I allow that list to run my life. What I mean by that, if I don't get my list done or completed in the time frame I set up, then I have to let that go. Shift and re-prioritize my list and things I "feel" I need to do. I also am learning to be a bit more spontaneous. When a friend calls to get together at the last minute, take a serious evaluation of what is on my "to do" list, and make the call whether to meet up with that friend last minute or not. I am also being more aware of how I am feeling before I make a decision to be spontaneous! Anyhow, not sure how I got off on that tangent! I also know the smile is left over from a nice lunch today I had with a dear friend. I devour every moment with this positive, hilarious, intelligent, honest, kind, teasing, respectful, and adorable friend. This friend makes me happy and inspires me. More will be revealed.

I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope your heart and spirit is filled with joy and happiness. If you are lacking any of that, I hope you can pause to take a moment to find a sliver of either or a whole truck load of it to dump into your mind, heart, and soul! They both are amazing to make you feel light and rejoice this beautiful time of year. I have let the stress and worries go for today.

A Little Banged Up

I had an amazing weekend with wonderful friends, way to much delicious food, and lots of time outside! I took a few photos with my ancient cell phone camera. I CAN'T WAIT to have my camera back.

View on Friday when we arrived around lunch time. 

View of the meadow with cattle during our horseback ride.

I love the mid 70 degree weather up on the rim!

 

One of the water holes we stopped at to give the horses and us a break.

Half way through our ride on Sunday, a huge summer storm rolled in with lighting, thunder, and rain! A few of the lighting strikes were a little to close for comfort! I would estimate a couple of those strikes were about 1/2 a mile or less away. We didn't make it home before the buckets of water started coming down. Half of the group pretty much ran home the last couple of miles. The second part of the group, including me, took it easy and took our time getting home. We were already drenched, so didn't make any sense to rush. I was loving every second of the ride. The photo above was a snap shot of when we were getting sprinkled on with the sheet of rain headed straight for us.

On Saturday I took a break from horseback riding and went down the street (25 miles) to the local archery shoot that my family, and some good friends of ours, drive up for each year. It was pretty convenient the event was just down the street from where my other friends bought a cabin! 

My friend took a couple of photos of me shooting one of the targets. Check out that great form! ;0)

Draw... Aim!

Shoot!

With my spare time this week, I had planned to help a dear friend of mine and her husband with their new business adventure. Monday I was able to spend the afternoon helping. However, what happen on my ride home sort of changed what I had planned for this week. I was rear ended on the freeway. I think there were five cars total in the entire pile up. I was one of the cars in front of the line. (Meaning one of the last ones to get hit from the impact behind) Overall, I will be fine. Just pretty banged up and will be going to the doctor for a while. My car is not in the best of shape either and has been towed to the dealer waiting for repair. The icing on the cake was the officer gave my D.L., insur@nce card, and registration to the car in front of me. Then tried to give her information to me. Needless to say I let the officer know that wasn't my license. When he proceeded to swear under his breath that he just gave the gal in front of me, that just took off, my information!! The last several days have been jumping through and over hurdles trying to get things taken care of with the lovely insurance companies and trying to track down my D.L. Simply exhausting. I've been documenting every step of the way. Good news though! Between my amazing documenting skills and my sister's clever investigation skills, she tracked down the gal that had my information and was able to get my documents from her today! Now I can rent a car!

I can't help but wonder is there a neon sigh above me that says, "HEY YOU! Go ahead and hit this gal, she has a new job. See if she can handle the stress!" When I started my last  position just over two years ago, I was rear ended on the freeway. Geez...

A good friend of mine reminded me to not let this accident and all the chaos that follows it ruin my wave of positivity. That was a good reminder. This to shall pass. Perhaps it was a blessing in disguise. Perhaps this was the wake up call I needed to just stay home and relax instead of filling up my couple of weeks off with back to back activities. So the last few days have been time at home with H and the dogs. H gets extremely protective when something happens to me like this. It's kind of adorable. I have been enjoying the time together.

I'm saying a little prayer that I heal quickly and that all goes smoothly with my car so it's back to normal soon.