Truthful Tuesday

Ahhh winter... A time of rest. Hahaha! Just kidding. It's cold and everything is harder. BUT, I do make the most of my Mondays off. This week I spent the day cleaning the house. I focused mainly on the kitchen, doing the deep clean where I actually moved all the stuff off the counters instead of just cleaning around it. Long over do. I also cleaned out the cabinets, getting rid of any past date items. But that's not my confession. (Clearly, that's actually productive...) No, my confession is that whilst I was being productive I spent the entire day watching Hallmark channel's tribute to Betty White on her birthday. That's right. 10 hours of Golden Girls followed by a movie that she starred in. It was glorious. Golden Girls is pretty timeless. 
 
Confession two though... That took place on Saturday. Saturday it was too cold to ride. The indoor never got above 6 degrees Fahrenheit (-14C). I did head over to the barn in the afternoon to hand walk everyone, but otherwise, I hid in my house all day. And I was a complete garbage human. I ate snacks and sat around playing games on my phone pretty much the entire day. 

So those are my confessions today. 10 hours of Golden Girls and a garbage human day. What do you guys do when you (rarely) get some free time?

Truthful Tuesday

 

The days are shorter and the leaves are coming off the trees, which means it's nearly time to move the horses for the winter. 

Dreary day on Saturday, but the leaves are pretty, and I mean,
P is always adorable, no matter the weather

The boarding barn is very full at the moment, so I can't move Eros and Shiny over until Bellino and Fefe head back to Florida. They are leaving early next week though, so it's very soon. One of the nice things about being at the boarding barn, is that we can ride no matter the weather since there is an indoor. (Hence why I go there for the winter.) 

Which leads me to today's confession. It's pouring here today, and the rain will continue through tomorrow morning. Thus, it's a rain day for the horses. I have decided to be a real garbage human today for what's probably my last rain day until the horses come back home in the spring. I'm going to do a little Chanukah shopping online, and obviously I'll tend to the equine as needed, but otherwise, I'm sitting on my lazy ass all day. I was feeling really guilty about that prospect initially, but I've decided not to. Life's too short to feel guilty for taking a lazy day. Besides, getting holiday shopping accomplished early is pretty productive anyway. Win-win!

Truthful Tuesday

 

Today I must admit to being a bit of a garbage human this weekend. I had a four day weekend scheduled because in the before times I used to go Florida this weekend for the annual boat parade. Alas, here in the after times that's not a thing right now. But I have something like 120 hours of vacation left that I can't rollover so I kept the days off. 

It wound up working to my advantage as Artie needed to see the vet just for some bloodwork and the tall kids also had a visit scheduled. Both happened Friday and it was nice to already be off work. So I figured Friday would be dedicated to all the fur kids but the other three days I planned to do so many things. Like wrap all the presents that have arrived. And clean the house. And maybe get back to cleaning out the house. (I made great strides during lockdown but then abandoned the project and it's a real issue now...)

So what did I actually get done? Not much of any of that. I did get some gifts packaged up to ship, but I'm still waiting on the holiday cards to arrive so they haven't shipped out yet. Did not clean the house. Did not clean anything out. BUT I did catch up on the laundry! Washing it anyway. Putting it away can't really be finished until I go through all my crap. I have every season of clothing in every part of my house. Clothes just everywhere. That's going to be a big project. Hopefully I will not be such a garbage human when I'm off between Xmas and New Years.

Honestly though, I don't feel that guilty about being a garbage human for a few days. The days are generally long between the horses and work, and it was kind of nice to just spend some time not feeling rushed and kind of just doing what I want to do. (Obviously that includes riding, I did get that accomplished all weekend!)

Do you guys ever just slack off completely? Just me? Can't be!