rain and

Alright Chelsea, just for you I am blogging. I don't have much accept a couple of different short stories. This is what happens inside my head when I am bored. I can guarantee that none of these stories have ANY relevance to eachother, this is just whats coming to mind. Random thoughts....

At the show this weekend I was reminded how much I like announcing. I had a lot of fun. However, when you get tired you do get tongue-tied. When trying to announce 3rd place at one point it came out "thirty place" and another time what was supposed to be someone's name came out as a sneeze...
Then later I told my sister I think I want to go be a radio DJ and she actually laughed at me. I was serious. I like announcing and I feel like Im pretty decent at it. It requires me to enunciate...and when forced I really can avoid mumbling....

Since its rainy I'm thinking about summer and mowing lawns. This past summer was the first time in ten years I have had to mow a lawn- my lawn- and I really don't mind. Well, one day I made the mistake of offering to help Julie mow the laneways between the paddocks. I was supposed to be using the "zero turn" riding lawnmower. Julie's instructions were " if you panic, it panics with you because its so sensitive." She should have said, "go slowly dumbass because if you try to turn too fast you will hit the fence." I started out fine. I was boppin along mowing and then I had to go around a cross country fence, well I got to close to the four plank fence and when I tried to turn around I pulled too hard on the right toggle and spun the damn thing around and got trapped between the jump and the fence. I wasn't sure what to do, but every time I even slightly moved the whole thing moved. After about 40 minutes of desperatly trying to gently work my way out of there without taking out fence or the mower and being so fried that to this day I don't think I will ever be able to mow with a riding mower again...

And finally all I can think about because of this weather is the fact the our awesome Tough Mudder team now has 5 whole members! We still need a better team name though so if anyone thinks of anything please let me know... and yesterday at lunch I got to tell about my awesome skydiving adventure again which is always fun. The whole staff here has labeled me as crazy which I think is about right. I like to jump large solid fences on a 1300lb animal running at 35mph, I get a rush jumping out of perfectly good airplanes, and now I am voluntarily signed up to run a military obstacle course that includes jumping into a dumpster filled with icewater- in March- in Indiana- so you know its gonna be cold.

Thats really all I got right now. Its raining, so my brain is foggy. I have nothing to do, and I can't write on demand Chelsea...so there.... However reading about Adelaide makes me miss eventing. I wish the weather was better so riding was easy, that and there was an event to go to that is close because then I would have a goal. Its a lot easier to ride when you have a goal.. I also still wish I could go to Florida for the winter....I miss that... A lot....

signing off~ Mandy