One of my favorite blog titles ever is Diary of an Overanxious Horse Owner, because I can sooooooo relate to that title. Really,I’m jealous that I didn’t think of it first! Anxiety hasn’t always been present in my life. Through school, I was pretty care free. Sure, stuff would come up but I always just kind of assumed that everything would be okay and things would work out for the better overall. I’m not exactly sure when or why it…
Sunday for my lesson, aka the last weekend lesson before the show, it was a balmy 45 degrees, gray and drizzly. Also, I rode like a potato. Hence the title of this post. I was a cold, leg swinging can’t find a distance plopping around all of the place potato. My horse however, was awesome. Also awesome was my trooper of a mother, who took pictures of us in the cold drizzly lesson. You know, nothing like treating your mother…
There’s lots going on here in blog and real life land throughout the rest of the year. For the blog, I’ve got some really fun things planned for y’all for the holiday season. Just about wrapping up prep and organization, so expect some details soon 🙂 On the horse front, we’re getting ready for the year end horse show in two weeks. By getting ready, I mean trying not to panic because this show is always my favorite and I…
About a month ago, I was contacted by someone from the Chronicle of the Horse asking if I would like to be interviewed for their Amateurs Like Us series. Megan had found my blog, and asked her editor if she thought it would good be a good fit. Turns out, they did and I sent a ton of info over! The article posted today – Amateurs Like Us: Lauren Mauldin Takes On Texas and I’m super excited. With an audience as…
I’ve been having a lot of fun traveling and visiting one of my very best friends this weekend, but I wanted to share something super exciting from Thursday night’s lesson. I jumped Simon 3’3″ ish! I say ish because the hole is a little more like 3’2″ haha but still. We worked on gymnastics which are usually a bit anxiety filled for us but this time the strides were set a but easy and Simon was super relaxed and going…
I can be a pretty morbid person. It’s not that I think I’m necessarily going to die tomorrow, but let’s be honest – I could die tomorrow. We all could. For me specifically, I’m most likely to get smushed by a Land Rover outside my office… which is located in a luxury shopping center. If this blog goes quiet, it’s because someone smushed me walking to my car. Lauren died at the hands of people pursuing David Yurman and Louis…
True blogger confessions time: recently I’ve become aware that I had grossly over estimated my abilities as a rider. See, I’ve been a hunter gal all my life (even little local stuff.. still counts) and did one jumper show with moderate success. Plus, my horse is a little bit awesome… when he’s sound. Therefore, I’m obviously ready to make the switch full time to little jumper, right? Yeah, no. So the jumpers are much harder and I have a lot to…
I waffled about doing 2pointtober this year, but apparently I easily succumb to peer pressure. Last year I participated and impressed myself with a BLAH time. I said to myself, “Self – you are not a horrible two pointer. Good job you!” Then my trainer told me I was doing my two point incorrectly. Whoops. Let me draw you a picture: This is the cartoon version of the two point I thought I was doing. Also, please note how beefy…