Stressed! (Bit of a rant, sorry!)

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I'm sick of people saying they're busy, or they're stressed cos they've got so much to do! Then they ask if you watched xx on telly last night - no, I was busy! A friend of mine is complaining that she has to go shopping with a friend tonight, and says her diary is busy for the next 2 weeks. Mine is busy every day and night! I get up at 6.30am and go feed/turn out/bring in/rug up etc neddy, come to work for 8.30am, work until 1pm when I stay at my desk during lunch to finish my latest assignment (home study HND) or 1000+ word essay, then head to OH work to pick him up, go home and feed the dog, head back up to yard where I ride or on a good night just feed, head home and do tea, housework etc, more of assignment, then go to bed exhausted! Shopping huh, sounds tiring. Sorry to be a whinge, I know there are busier people, it just annoys me when everyone then gives these people sympathy and talk about how tired they must be, just because I don't complain about it 24/7 doesn't mean I'm not busy and tired too! Now I'm knackered from ranting!
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I feel better now.
 
Am glad you feel better so i may join you too
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6am up
630am - yard
7.30am- leave for work
8-4.30/5pm- work (teacher)
5pm- yard
6pm-home & tea
7pm- marking & planning
9.30/10 -BED!!!

I am not moaning but it does take the biscuit when people moan- and i have to fit the gym in twice a week as well!!!!

I do feel better too
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so you work till 1 pm?

Sorry if I read it worng but alot of us on here work untill 5 or 6 then have to do all you described, no simpanthy your choices I'm affraid
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Lol!....and ...breathe.....

IMO people who own horses are the only ones entitled to use the 'I'm very busy and permamnently knackered' line.....
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ETA...ok you lot have put your timetable down...heres mine

6.15am...alarm goes off.....open 1 eye.
6.30am- arrive at yard still with one eye open, hair on end- fleece on inside out. turnout/muckout 3 horses
7.30am arrive home....ensure kids ready for school- shower/change etc.
8.45am drop kids off
9am- start work
9-5.30......work interspresed with HHO
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6pm get to yard with both eyes open....do more horse stuff.
7.30pm get home....tea, bath kids, housework etc etc tec....bath myself.....drink wine
10.30pm go to bed and possibly 'be nice' to OH
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Can I join the club too please?

Up at 5.30, feed cats, drive to yard.
6am - turn out, muck out, leave everything ready for evening
7am - leave yard and fight through traffic to get home for 7.30
7.30 in shower, get ready for work
8am - breakfast and housework
8.30am - 4.30pm - work (ok, only 5 mins drive away)
4.30 - change and leave work
5pm - arrive at yard, bring in, feed, groom, go to another yard to ride some evenings
Anywhere between 6.30 and 8.30pm, arrive home, cook dinner, more housework, fall asleep on sofa by 9.30, before being woken by husband at approx 10pm to go to bed.

And then there's other people on the yard who won't even check on their horse in the morning because they're too busy!!! They only work part time! AAARGH!!! Fair enough, it's their choice, but why do they moan to me that they're busy, knackered and stressed?!!?
 
I think i deserve a rant here too!

5am ALARM!
5:30 Leave to get tube to stables
6:00 Tack and Groom
6:45 Ride
8:00 Untack, wash feet, feed groom
8:45 Tube to work
9:00 Shower + start work
6pm Finish work
7pm arrive home + eat
8pm study
10pm BED!
PHEW
 
IMO people who own horses are the only ones entitled to use the 'I'm very busy and permamnently knackered' line.....

I dont own my own horse!!!
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Chestnut Mare, I didn't put that properly sorry, I work till 1 when I have my lunch and do my assignment, then I go back at 2 and work till 6, didn't realise that came across wrong. I wish I finished at 1, definitely would not be complaining if I did! I know it's my choice, and I wouldn't have it any other way, but I don't feel the need to moan about it constantly like some other people who don't do half of what pretty much everyone on this forum does on a day to day basis. I think I'm just having a bad day today cos my assignment is due in on Tue instead of two weeks time like I was thinking (oops). Tomorrow it'll probably go straight over my head and I won't care that they're complaining, just gets to me today for some reason
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Ok here's mine:

5.45 first alarm
6am get up
6.20 yard
6.45 back home, shower etc
7.30 leave for station
8.45 get to work
5pm leave work for station
6.20 get home
6.45 yard, ride, feed etc
8.15 home, cook dinner, housework
9 have dinner
10 bed
 
O sorry was bit confuzzed, it's not my day today, I'm another tiered person..... do feel sorry for you now my bf also studying for HND and working full time but doesn't have horses, I think you need a nice bath and some chocolate... surely you can find a tincy bit of time for that....
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6am up and out of the door to drive to the yard, feed, muckout and turnout 2 horses
7.15am back home to get children ready for school and hubby ready for work.
8am wave off said children and hubby and walk dogs
8.30am head off to Uni for day of lectures
4.30pm home after long drive back from Uni, organise tea (which stroppy teenagers turn is it to peel pots!- argument every night!) and put joint in oven
5.pm head off to the yard to poo pick fields, lug more water down and ride (except Tuesdays and Fridays as 3 of 4 kids go to martial arts at 6pm) bring in, haynets, lay beds and feed.
6.30pm home and finish cooking tea.
7ish argue with other stroppy teenagers whose turn it is to wash the dishes
7.30pm argue with 10 yr old son to get in the bath.
8pm read journals or work on assignments, presentations
9.30 rubbing eyes by now as so tired, feeling older than my 40 yrs and hubby decides hes not tired! ..gulp..

When I am on placement I work 12 hour shifts, prefer to do the nights as can still look after said children, horsies and hubby (in that order lol) during the day. Sleep nahhh I slept last year.....
 
My timetable is all over the place! Some days I have to leave my house at 4am to get to work, which means getting up to see to the horses at 3am!! Other times I can leave home at nine or ten, so can fit in a ride in the morning. My actual work hours are 8.30am - 5pm but I work 1hr and 20mins away (not taking into account rush hour traffic) so I have a long day. My work is seasonal, and based around agriculture so in the spring and summer through spraying and harvest I can work from first light until dark, i.e. 5am-10pm. When you add into that horses, OH, dogs, housework etc I have very little sleep in the summer. Winter is my "catch up" time (although have to get up at 5am to get horses done before leaving for work).

It means I rarely see anyone at the yard, as it seems they don't work (they do, but one lady PT and the other works from home, less than a minute down the road). They are at the yard at 8.30am when I am already at my desk, and 5pm in the evening before I have left my desk.
 
Ok am I allowed to feel sorry for myself too please?

Although I do not have to go to the stables every day (I am very fortunate to have my horse on full livery) I do go every night. However currently we have someone off work on long term sickness so I am covering 2 job roles and from 9 to 5 do not normally find any time free to eat most days!

The main thing that keeps me sane is knowing that I am doing this in order to be able to afford my Bess and that she is the best thing that ever happened to me!

Have to say big big big big big hugs to all you guys who have to get up and go to the stables early I admire you all so much words can not describe.

Boo x
 
I'm glad everyone else is busy too, I thought you all would be somehow
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. I only have one horse so I sympathise extra with everyone who has more than one, how do we manage when some non-horsey people complain about having to do their food shopping or similar one night a week. I used to be like that before I had a horse and I'll admit I probably complained about being busy, but isn't it amazing how much people are capable of doing when it's something you love.
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Completley agree. Am always too busy to play sport or go to the gym or cook properly. But add a horse into the equation and I do what it takes to be there!
 
Meh! I actuallly don't think any of us should whinge about being busy.

We choose to have horses. We choose to squeeze it all in.
If you don't like it change it. Or quit whining!
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My day
05.45 - up
6.00 yard, muck out feed turn out
07.00 - home shower ect head to work
1800 - finish work
1830 yard ride, groom,feed,haynets
2000 home, tidy up cook, washing machine load, out clothes away
2100 sit down watch tv
2200 tv in bed
2230 / 2300 bed
 
I think bessieboo has hit it on the head- I may air my views on lack of time but the entire reason i work is to enjoy my horse and use him as a stress relief instead of drinking lots and going out on th etiles and wasting ( in my opinion) my money in other ways.

My nags are amazing stress relief which is why my new one had to arrive so soon after i lost my last one.

They keep us sane and we love them very much!!!
 
My day :-

Alarm goes 5.30
Up at 6
Yard 6.45
Feed, muck out, sweep up, turn out, change for work
7.45 - 5 work (usually no lunch or coffee break, on my feet all day....physical and stressful job as I work in operating theatre) 5.20 yard (if I finish on time)
Feed, haynets, change rug, brush etc. and give boy a cwtch
7-7.30 home exhausted
Have usual arguments over laziness of my teenage kids because house is a mess when I get home
Cook tea at some point
Visit my dependant mother at some point
9.30-10 bed usually after falling asleep first on sofa

I used to work full time, but now 3 days because its all too much and wanted to spend more time with my jeej
 
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