FOUR JOBS I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE :

1. Stall cleaner
2. Assistant manager of The Cookie Jar
3. Director of Bands - Mssissinawa Valley High School
4. Director of Bands - Delphos St. John's

FOUR MOVIES I HAVE WATCHED OVER AND OVER

1. Top Gun
2. Lean On Me
3. Ferris Bueller
4. Seabiscuit

   
   FOUR PLACES I HAVE LIVED:

   1.  Lorain, Ohio
   2. Bowling Green, Ohio
   3. Greenville, Ohio
   4. St. Marys, Ohio

   
   FOUR TV SHOWS I LIKE TO WATCH:

   1. Survivor
   2. Law and Order (all of them)
   3. The Amazing Race
   4.  The Apprentice

   
   FOUR PLACES I HAVE BEEN ON VACATION:

   1. Florida
   2. Grand Cayman Island
   3. Caribbean
   4. Horse shows in Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia

   
   FOUR OF MY FAVORITE FOODS:

   1. Spaghetti
   2. Pizza
   3. Mom's chicken soup
   4. Chef Boyardee 94% fat free Ravioli 

   
   FOUR VEHICLES I HAVE HAD:

1. 1978 Mustang
2. 1985 Mustang
3. 1990 Mustang
4. 1998 Ranger

FOUR PLACES I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:

1. At a horse show
2. In Kentucky
3. On vacation in the Caribbean
4. Receiving my champion bronze at Congress
   

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I am getting sick. I have been in the process of getting sick for 3 days now. Sore throat, headache, nausea, cough, and a general feeling of ick. I can physically feel my body fighting off the attack of the germ. Is that strange, or do other people experience this also? I can actually feel the cells of my body fighting against the invading flu germs. I can actually feel the war going on. I think I might be winning! Am I just especially in tune with the mechanisms of my body, or do I just have a very vivid and weird imagination? Don't answer that....

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Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine

Interesting thought, isn't it? Who's to say that you are the normal one and I am the oddball? Who gets to decide what is the norm and what is different or abnormal? In MY world, you are all weird, strange, abnormal, odd, square pegs. More people should be like me - different in an abnormal sort of way.

I am tired of being forced into a slot I don't belong nor fit into. I am the peg that I am, be it square, round, or hexagonal. I will fit into my own space thank you, and there is no need to hack off my corners to fit me into yours.

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Horse training is a tough business. Just to show you how things aren't always perfect or smooth...here's a video clip for ya.

This is Corky and I today. Corky has mastered a lot of her basics, but the canter transition seems to be the sticky point. It's not that she can't do it, it's that ocasionally (more than 50% of the time!) she chooses not to do it. Once you convince her that cantering off is in her best interest, she does it and is fine.

www.janhare.com/badcorky_3_17_07.wmv

Don't worry, it only left a small bruise. But look how beautiful she looks once she finally canters off!

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I like the smell of:

• Sawdust
• Chips and salsa
• coffee (hate the taste, love the smell - reminds me of Dad!)
• Leather
• brand new books
• ditto machines (remember those?)
• garlic
• spaghetti cooking on the stove
• SOUP (my mom's, no other)
• Very subtle men's cologne
• Pizza
• garlic
• horses
• fruity-smelling candles
• Moonlight PathBath and Body Works
• Garlic
• freshly mowed grass
• the ocean
• did I mention garlic?

What was the point of this list? NO point. Why does everything have to have a point or a reason? Some things are stand-alone. They don't need a purpose. The most enjoyable things in life are random, scattered, and without merit. Kind of like ME!

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I have the most creative (and funny) students on the planet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aDPf-g5pHI

Oh, what fun we have! 

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It's 50 degrees and sunny out!

YES!!!

I feel spring coming. Tonight Daylight Savings Time begins. More daylight in the evening! Yippee!

I spent the morning printing out showbills for various AQHA shows this spring and summer. Now I am pumped. I watched Corky's latest training video several times now...

http://www.janhare.com/corky_2_18_07.wmv

It really gets me excited for this coming year.

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MORE

I need more time

I need more money

I need more love

I need more peace

I need more faith

More more more !

I wonder if we are ever really satisfied in life. There have been so many things I have wanted and/or needed in life, past and present. It seems whenever I become blessed and what  want, I actually get, then I just want MORE. That doesn't make for a very satisfying life.

But then again...if we stop wanting, we are dead. If we stop needing, then there is something wrong with us.

Time

I need more time. More time to not only go to work, but time to ride my horses, work out at the Y, watch a few TV programs, paint my art orders, spend time with Kevin, keep up with my family, practice my trumpet, plink on the piano, clean my desk, etc., etc.

Money

I need more money. More money to pay my bills, upgrade my truck, enter more horse shows, take more trips, buy some new clothes, buy some new shoes, pay my bills, pay my bills, and pay my bills.

Love

I need more love. I need to feel more loved, to feel valuable again, to feel wanted, to feel needed. I need to walk in the door and feel the love surround me. I need the security of knowing that no matter what mistakes I make, there is someone that will always love me for who and what I am - those obscure little good qualities that I have that only they can see.

Peace

I need more peace. I need to be able to sleep at night. I need to be able to wake up in the morning with anticipation rather than dread. I need to be able to walk into my house and feel at home. I need a peaceful, loving, kind home without the fights, nitpicking arguments, and talking behind your back.

Faith

I definitely need more faith. Faith in God, faith in myself, faith in knowing that whatever He throws at me, I am perfectly capable of handling because He made me strong. Faith in knowing that there is love in my life even if I can't physically see or touch it.

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It's that time of the year - Goal time!

Mainly I think about my horse show goals. All other personal goals are usually wored as 'New Year's Resolutions' and written down on January 1st. Now that it is March, I have a better handle on what my horses might have in store for me this coming season.

One of my elusive goals is that open Register Of Merit that I am trying to earn with Taylor. That's proven to be very elusive. We earned our Amateur Hunter Under Saddle ROM last year, and are only a half point away from Amateur Showmanship ROM. My goal a few years ago was to reach 100 AQHA points with Taylor, and I checked out record last night and we did achieve that this past year...YIPPEE! I wish I had kept better track - I would have celebrated when that 100th point was earned.

With Corky, I have huge goals. NSBA Breeder's Championship and World Show, along with Congress. I think the hardest thing about those goals is earning enough money to actually attempt them! I am looking forward to this year - Corky is 3 and this is the year that wil really set her up for success (or failure, but don't wanna think about that!).

Corky begins step one towards my goals. As I type this she is on her way to Tennessee to hang out at a 4 day show down there...learn how to handle the commotion and the crowds.

Spring is coming, I can feel it! Not in the air - since it is only about 25 degrees outside. But I can feel it in the energy of the earth...the earth is revving up for a new season.

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This is BORING, why are you even reading this? Go away and immerse yourself in your own life.

BORING

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