April Recap

So, I've been a very bad girl this month. My diet has essentially stalled. I haven't really been exercising since mid March. I've been good about not eating too many snacks (baring birthday cake) so my weight has been steady at 129, though today it was down a little. I did get a little exercise this weekend though I'm not at the level I was in March. I think I was overdoing it then because I was hurting all over a lot. So I plan to take it slow.

As for horses, I've been riding a lot but the last show I went to was horrible. I'm going back to basics getting lunge lessons and working mostly on half halts. The major comment I got at the show which correlates to how my workouts have been is that Jollie is forward but the tempo is too fast. I need to slow her down without loosing the impulsion.

As for crafts, I'm working on a bolero in hpl. I have one more strip to make and join to the rest I've already joined and then crochet the ends together to make the sleeves. Soon, real soon now.

I'm talking 2 online courses on horse nutrition. I didn't work on it much in April but I finally caught up yesterday. I wrote a little web page/javascript to calculate IR in horses based on their Glucose and insulin tests. People seem to really appreciate it. That's nice.

I don't think I've done much of anything else on my list of things to accomplish this year. I've been awfully busy though, just not on things on the list.

So, lets set some goals for May.
1. More exercise, work up to 1 hour a day of walking or DDR.
2. Ride Chester
3. Finish bolero and start something else, not sure what yet.
4. Start converting videos.
5. Start on web page for equine diet balancing.

That is probably enough. I think blogging more might help keep me on track so I guess that is number 6.

Afghan finished

Well I finally finished the hairpin lace afghan I started a while back. Here is a picture:



I used a soy yarn which is easy to use but does make a rather holey afghan.