Stressed! (Bit of a rant, sorry!)

Yes I agree, my foul harrassed stressy mood lifts the second my horses raise their heads and say hello. They are always pleased to see me and I am them. I don't begrudge my lack of sleep and chasing my tail all day on my life as it is exactly what I want
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and its what I love doing
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I am just very jealous of these people who leave work at 4.30/5/5.30/6 - I wish! Not only do I never leave at a reasonable time, I get to work half an hour early to keep my sanity, and live an hours commute from the office! No time for a horse, otherwise I wouldn't actually get any sleep!
 
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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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haha your house sounds exactly like mine!
 
average day for me

7am 3 horses to sort
8am breakfast + chores eg put washing out
9am get to work (only 15 min drive if at office)
7pm leave work ( accountant )
go home , ride , stable horses for night
9.30ish prepare dinner
10pm eat dinner & watch telly for an hour
11pm tidy kitchen , put washing machine on etc then have a bath
12pm go to bed

next day if i'm unlucky & working 80 miles away i'll be up at crack of dawn
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yes i am VERY busy , but i'm generally not stressed & i certainly don't complain about my life/schedule , i chose this lifestyle , ie, a good career & horses as my hobby
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I keep that in the back of my mind when I'm at work, or when I want to buy something and can't afford it - I work to pay for my horse and I can't afford x because I am paying for my horse. Makes it all worthwhile. And no matter how stressed I get at work/home, it all melts away as soon as I see my neddy in the field
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. She used to be hard to catch and yesterday she cantered across the field to the gate just because I shouted her name out of the car window, made my whole day worth it, I nearly cried! So now I'm moany and sad to go with it
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i cant moan dont work at mo but i did 4 4 yearsrather than work i have 2 kids and nephew to run after school runs and house work , dog to walk and brother to sort out thats before Hubby comes home and i run aftre him add with 10 weeks pregnant and im tired by 7
 
My wonderful OH has just txt me to say if I want to ride tonight he will see to kids and cook tea.......so by 6.30pm I will be saddled up and heading off for a lovely evening hack. Which is what makes my one-eyed early morning mucking-out worthwhile
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PS...I may have to 'be nice' to him again
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I am going to join in too
6am get up
6.30 yard
7.30 work till 5.30
5.45 yard till 7.30-8pm
8-8.30 home
cook tea, make lunch for next day, house work, bath, bed.. in winter am at yard earlier
 
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My wonderful OH has just txt me to say if I want to ride tonight he will see to kids and cook tea.......so by 6.30pm I will be saddled up and heading off for a lovely evening hack. Which is what makes my one-eyed early morning mucking-out worthwhile
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PS...I may have to 'be nice' to him again
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oooh lucky you
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My hubbys life patch is handgliding, so I have a lot of "credit" already for the long Winter months ahead of me, just by sending him merrily on his way for weekends of camping and flying competitions, buying him beer, giving him the remote control, and warming his side of the bed up he WILL help me out during the Winter hahaha
 
I get the impression people think I don't enjoy my lifestyle. Please don't have that impression, I don't complain often, sometimes I just need to let off a bit of steam. I know I chose this lifestyle and I really really wouldn't change it for the world, I just hate when people have it quite easy (I'm certainly not saying everyone without a horse has it easy) and everyone goes on about how they must be very busy and stressed. Sometimes I'm knackered, and IMO I have reason to be knackered (as does everyone else here) and it would be nice sometimes for people just to recognise that I work hard too, and I do a lot more with my time than them, can I have some sympathy off them sometimes too. My problem is, no-one ever knows I'm knackered cos I don't complain about it, ever! Vicious circle! I should complain when I'm knackered sometimes but it's just not me
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I'm having time off tonight. Taking my friend to the yard with me as she likes to come sometimes, just feeding and doing feet then putting her back out (and praying the OH will have thought to put some tea on as he's staying at home
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). When I get home I'm going to desperately try and finish this effing assignment then I might have some time to myself and have a cuppa and maybe even a bath. I struggle to sleep well sometimes so I have to have a routine at least half an hour before I go to bed when I can't watch telly or read or anything like that as I think about it all night as I'm trying to get to sleep
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. I love weekends...
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I feel exhausted just reading this thread. I don't know how you folks do it tbh, especially long term.

I am already getting the pre winter blues and am not looking forward to dark mornings etc. I get too spoilt having them live out all summer.

My routine

fall out of bed about 8.00am
check ponio's all have four legs
shower / change and get to work for 9.00am
Finish work and get home by 5.30
Potter down to field to say hello to ponies.
Take dooglie to the park for walk
Back for half six for tea, telly and fun
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I feel exhausted just reading this thread. I don't know how you folks do it tbh, especially long term.

I am already getting the pre winter blues and am not looking forward to dark mornings etc. I get too spoilt having them live out all summer.

My routine

fall out of bed about 8.00am
check ponio's all have four legs
shower / change and get to work for 9.00am
Finish work and get home by 5.30
Potter down to field to say hello to ponies.
Take dooglie to the park for walk
Back for half six for tea, telly and fun
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I'm coming to live with you. Will bring horses....dogs, kids and OH can all stay at home
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There's a girl on our yard who works 3 jobs: in a pub, in a shop and at the yard. She gets one day off in 9, the way her shifts work etc. I put breakfast in for her boy in the morning, otherwise she does him all herself (god knows when). She still manages to be friendly and funny and she watches over my boy when she's working on the yard. I think she is a bluddy saint.
 
It really is amazing how much people are capable of! I know I have it easy compared to some people. And no matter how knackered I am after work I still feel full of energy when I get to the yard too. People at work here say they have a bath or read a book to relax and re-energise, I ride/muck out/groom etc. I know that should make me more tired but I feel ready for anything when I get home (for a while at least). I started this thread to let off some steam, now I not only feel better, I feel damned lucky
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Going to pee you all off now

8.30 get up take dog out
9.00 breakfast and read paper
9.30 up to yard, do 4 horses
11.30 back home, coffee and finish paper
watch Bargain Hunt and News
fiddle about doing housework, etc
take dog out again
4.30 back to yard do 4 horses
6.00 home Watch news
Have dinner
Watch telly. read book
Take dog out
10.00 Bed


Sorry retired person !!!
 
here's mine...

5am alarm
5.10 out the door
5.30 yard to do the two boys
6.30-7ish arrive at work to shower
7-7.30 at my desk
leave work anytime from 5pm onwards
Get home anytime from 8pm onwards go straight to yard from work and do the usual horse things
about 9ish think about eating some toast (lol only me so cant be bothered to cook)
Try to get to bed around 10ish but not always that lucky...

Do try to have a social life a few nights a week and wonder why there is no OH to be nice too
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T x
 
5.45am alarm
6am start breakfast, feed dog and let dog out.
6.30am wake and feed kids
7am make sure both showered (4yo needs help) shower myself.
7.30am iron uniform, get kids dressed.
8am leave for school (public transport)
8.30 am arrive at town, walk to school.
9am drop kids off, walk 2 miles to work
11am, walk back, stop en-route to do shopping.
12 collect youngest, walk mile to OH so he can take us home (bearing in mind he'll only have had 4 hours sleep himself as he doesnt get to bed till 7am).
12.30 get home, let dog out, check ponio.
1pm - 2.45pm, housework
3pm drive with OH to collect eldest.
3.30pm housework.
4pm start dinner, whilst doing housework.
4.30pm dinner
5pm, do hour's homework with kids
6pm kids baths, sort unform and do lunchboxes for next day.
6.30pm youngest bed, eldest gets 15 mins on laptop for good behaviour.
7pm eldest bed. Then I do paperwork/ phonecalls till 8 or 9pm.

I then get ten minutes in the bath before finally relaxing.

I wouldnt swap it for the world
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Suddenly I feel quite lazy
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Get up at 05:15;
Get to yard (11 miles away) for 06:00;
Get on ned by 06:30;
Have to leave yard by 07:30;
Currently 50-odd miles to work, or between 1.5 and 2 hours;
Go for a walk at lunchtime.
As I get in late, I have to work 'till 18:00;
Home by 20:00;
Review software/websites/look at childrens home ed. stuff;
Bed between 21:00 and 23:30.

But at least on this contract I get to be at home during the week, and I get to ride Dizz most days (when I'm organized!) so I'm happy
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I am a disgrace. After reading all of the above I feel truely guilty, I could never do what you gals do, not even in my 30s

6.45 - Alarm - get up make hubbys breakfast and sandwiches for lunch. Put on the washing
7.15 - Return to bed
9.30 Get up, have breakfast lesiurely in front of computer surfing net, pick up emails. Hang up washing cut grass. etc
11 am - Take dog for hour walk
12,00 - Home, coffee and snack, make wholesome dinner for hubby, bake some cakes, clean house, do ironing (shirts for hubbys work) , scrub skirting boards, clean loos, all housework etc etc. Groom moulting JRT, & endless hoovering

3pm - Get to field, poo pick,groom horse, paint field shelter or some other equine related chores, take horse out for hours hack and maybe 20 mins schooling alternate days
5 pm - Do some food shopping, or ebay shopping or just shopping
6pm- Take dog for another walk, me jogging perhaps
7pm - Make my self `wholesome` for the evening, shower etc
8pm - Serve dinner with all the trimmings and homemade dessert etc to exhausted hubby (oil industry)
9pm - Load dishwasher
10pm - Cuddle up with Hubby while he falls asleep on settee, whilst I pondor the meaning of life.
12.00 - Check emails, surf net for nice youngsters etc etc
1-2am - Collapse into bed vowing to get up earlier,make more use of my time and make an appreciable contribution to the household finances!
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Are there any other homebodies now in need of finding a way to justify their existance- please contribute
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Luxury!!!
There's 24 of us that live in't shoe box in middle of road, get up 4 hours before I go to bed, eat a cup a' cold gravel before working 28 hours at mill, and pay mill owner for't privaledge....


tell that to youngsters today - they won't believe you!
 
I am so uplifted to read that other people cram in as much in their day as I seem to
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I have three part time jobs that I just about manage to fit in around the children. house, dogs, cat, chickens etc etc.

I seem to spend my life chasing the clock, driving up to 80 miles a day, keeping the horses fit for hunting, helping kids with homework, doing packed lunches and I can't stand the house being untidy and yet...I still stay up until this silly hour on the computer because I find it hard to sleep!
 
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