It’s now January 2015, which means a theoretical new start, and new resolutions and goals to be made. Some of the below list should be completely do-able, others, a little more dreamy but possible if luck stays with us and we’re dedicated to the effort. Here’s our list of hopeful accomplishments for the year!

For the Horse:

• Here’s the big one! Move up to Training!
  Aiming for a May unrecognized horse trials at CHP. By then I hope we can come to grips with jumping more consistently again (boo daylight savings time) and hopefully have some Training CT’s under our belt. Date may move because, well, horses.
• Increase strength in haunches
  Cavaletti work here we come.
• Walk-Canter-Walk transitions
  which hopefully leads to….
• Lead changes?
  Maybe! But it also leads to…
• Completing a Second Level dressage test with a score over 63%
  A lofty goal for sure, but might be possible by the end of the year, if our schedule works out.
• Get a 7 on a lengthening
  Which is going to be hard for my pony.. but we’ll try!

Preparing for Training, I hope.

For me:

• Be a better competitor
  By this I mean, get to the damn warm up ring with plenty of time, get to the start box with at least 1 minute to spare, put together a first-aid kit just for shows
• Stop over-thinking the distance
  I’m irritating the you-know-what out of myself for overanalyzing the spot- looking forward to hopefully not doing this so much in 2015
  
• Stop overthinking people
  Let it go, let it go!
• Insert annoying weight-loss resolution here!
  I’ve got a beach vacation in February (hopefully) and a sexy bridesmaid dress in April- motivation!

For the House:

• Granite countertops in the kitchen!!
  Please happen! Because I’m. So. Excited.
• Aerate + seed front and back yard
  So we’re not the worst lawn in the neighborhood
• Paint upstairs hallway
  Because red wine stains are not the color-du-jour
• Paint the NC State Room
  Let’s face it, the Carolina room should never have gotten that much of a lead.
• Be better about blogging about the house!
  Since 2 posts a year kind of makes the blog’s title a joke.

Better grass for Drake, please.

Happy 2015 to all, and may you accomplish all you set out to do this year!