I graduated from college on Saturday, and everything went great. I have a lot to say about it which will warrant a new post. So here are a few pictures my sister took. I handed her my camera and she went snapping away!
It’s the first day of the year. It’s off to a good start since I finished a nameplate halter.
Nichelle of Desktop Stables posted about hobby goals. Which got me thinking and reflecting about my year and what I want to accomplish in 2018. I have some annual resolutions plus some new ones.
I love this hobby so one of my 2018 things I’d like to do is give back more. At Breyerfest two of the most common questions I was asked was about where to get supplies and where to go to find out about hobby gatherings. On facebook I often see questions about performance. So I’m hoping to write more how-to things to help beginners trying to get into the hobby. Or people wanting to try out other parts of showing *cough performance cough.* So hopefully by 2019 I’ll have posted or started a performance showing series (would any bloggers/hobbyists like to collaborate on some topics? I’m always open to ideas!).
My usual hobby goal is to progress in my tack making. I made huge strides in tack making for 2017 and would like to continue on that curve. There’s a huge difference between my saddles at the beginning of 2017 versus the end of 2017. My nameplate halters have gotten better and so have my bridles. Hopefully in 2018 I can make solid boot patterns too.
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| Left is the end of 2017, right is the beginning |
I never thought I’d say that I’ve taken too many photos. But between the summer to today I have thousands of photos to deal with. I know that for some that’d be a day’s worth of photos, but not for me. There are more good than bad, so I’m happy about that. But still. So. Many. Pictures.
They span the summer which started with my first internship. The PA capital is beautiful.
Then the African American Museum in DC.
There’s plenty of barn photos.
And horse shows.
Breyerfest (which I still need to finish the final few posts about).
Philadelphia.
Plus any other interesting places I’ve gone to at some point.
My day totally didn’t go as planned yesterday. I wasn’t feeling great but thought I’d be able to ride, take a shower, take some medicine and proceed to bed. If I felt up to it maybe even start editing NoNANSense and A Good a vintage pictures too.
Thank goodness my mom didn’t let me do that.
I arrrived at the barn and realized my breathing wasn’t up to cantering, jumping and other horsey things so I started home. The closer I got home the worst I felt so since I had a slight itchy throat I stopped and bought myself a smoothie. Not the most brilliant thing I’ve ever done but I didn’t see myself as being as bad as I was. Inconvenient but not dangerous.
So I got home, sat on the couch, said I just needed to catch my breathe, and my mom said no Patient First.
We got there and the doctor and nurse followed us into a room. By then I was struggling to breathe and happy I wasn’t sitting on my couch. They took my vitals and that’s when EMS was called. They started talking about low oxygen levels and acute respiratory failure because my pulse/ox level was 65 and shallow breathing was 44. So in a flurry of motion I was put on oxygen. Which completely freaked me out since the most hospital like thing I’ve ever had done was my wisdom teeth and that was in an dental practice. I rode in an ambulance car for the first time, had X-rays done, and the doctors didn’t find pneumonia. Initially Hershey Med was going to keep me overnight but my breathing improved to where I didn’t need oxygen and I was more alert. One doctor thought it was a reoccurrence from an upper respiratory infection from early spring but it’s still unknown what triggered this. So I was discharged.
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