Not my day!

 Today is just a frustrating day! But.. not the end of the world. And I guess only at times, because I'm feeling as bipolar as the weather today. And the weather is literally going from bright blue skies to storming monsoon to bright blue skies, back to rain, back to bright blue skies and back to storms!

 

I had my yearly physical this morning and got blood drawn, which was no big deal. My blood pressure is back to normal, so yay! Then I stopped at the bank to deposit some checks.. LOTS of checks because I'm a slacker and the freakin' ATM ate my checks... Couldn't return them.. just...ate them. Nothing but a reciept saying I needed to file a claim. UGH!!! And my dumb self entered everything into my work program but didn't pay attention to how many checks it was, how much the total was, etc. So...like I have no idea... And of course it was the UGA checks, so I know it was at least $15,000 because of shockwavapalooza! I want to cry! I'm sure they'll find them and figure it out, but.... I don't actually know that. Sigh. So then I stopped at the mammogram place and got my CD of images. Thank goodness I did because clearly they hadn't bothered to try to do it to mail them to me and my appt with the specialist is in two days. So then while I was waiting on that, I called the bank and started a claim. And then I drove back to the bank to see if they could help. I was in luck because the ATM pickup guy was there! YAY!! Thank you Jesus! Except.. nope... He found my personal account check, which had gone through literally seconds before the stack of business checks. But he did not find the business checks. How does that even happen? Like... it literally was `10 seconds later!??! I guess that means my checks are just stuck in the machine??? They told me that they would send another guy out to try to find them. Okay, but why can't THAT GUY who is ALREADY HERE just do it? Sigh... what a freakin' mess. So much for paying my shockwave off. Gahhhhh.

 

Anyways, then I was so frustrated I drove home and forgot about the grocery store so had to turn around and go get groceries. Then I got them unloaded. And it still hadn't rained. Although now, Mackenzie was teaching Jean and the interns in the arena so I couldn't ride. Which was probably best. I ended up going through to try to figure out which checks I had in the thing and sure enough, it totals up to at least $16,125 and quite possibly $17,000. But at least I have a better idea now. Then I ate lunch. And then I went to grab Dan because while it was supposed to storm, it was looking like I might make it. So I rode him first and had an okay ride. Then when I had just finished untacking him, the bottoms opened up, so back inside I went. It poured buckets!!! Like... Flooded the front porch a little downpour. Of course it hasn't rained in months and we've gotten so much rain this long holiday weekend. So... I was supposed to have a lesson with Jacel at her house at 4:30 and then was going to ride Drago for her. I looked at the radar and... it wasn't looking good. It was basically supposed to storm on and off the whole rest of the afternoon with a bad storm around 6ish. Before I texted her, Mackenzie texted me and said she had just gotten there and Jacels' phone was in the house charging but that the footing was not conducive to jumping so if I wantet to come for a flat lesson I could but we couldn't jump. Which, would have been totally fine, but... given the radar and the potential for more downpours... I decided to just cancel. It's a long haul to her place and it just was no big deal to skip a lesson after our weekend of showing to avoid getting drenched or worse!

  

But then the sun came back out a bit and it looked like I had a window before the next storm blew in, so... I went out and grabbed Funny. The skies were bright and glorious blue on one side and dark and scary on the other. But... I figured we would take a chance. I put the dressage saddle on and we hacked up the road to the arena. We did a nice walk warm up and then we picked up the trot. And then the thunder started rumbling. We managed to get mostly through our ride before the rain started spitting here and there and the skies got more omininous. It wasn't a great ride. She had some good moments, but she's still really against my left leg. Which, honestly, I think is me. I can't seem to turn my shoulders left. I'm really anxious for my chiro appointment in two weeks. I'm so crooked! And I was trying really hard to not cross her neck... and don't think I was, but... we were struggling. Other than that though... she wasn't too bad. She was quick but not as quick. We had some really nice moments. And we worked on our sitting trot and canter departs and actually had some really nice canter departs! We also practiced the trot walk trot stuff. So... not great, but not bad. I wanted to do more but the rain had started and I knew I was going to risk the storm if I kept up, so we found a good place to quit and headed home. By the time we got to the culdesac it was proper raining. I untacked and hosed her off, because she was still dirty and sweaty and it was hot and gross. Then she got turned out in the rain ;) And then the rain quit.... again. But not to worry, because it came back and rained again. And then quit again. And will probably storm again tonight. Ha ha. I guess I could have done my lesson??? Who knows!? It did apparently pour buckets at Jacel's too. And I didn't need to spend the money or the time. I was able to get some of my extra stuff sorted and cleaned up for the tack sale, so yay!.