Friday, January 14, 2011

Travel here, travel there

Seriously, this term is FULL of traveling. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it ... but sometimes being gone every weekend is stressful, especially after a long week of busy school. Not to mention, calving starts soon, as well as lambing -- so my weeks will be stressful with lack of sleep!

My calendar:
1/14-15 - Coeur D'Alene, Idaho - rabbit show
1/20-22 - Pendleton, La Grande, Baker City, OR - cattle conference
1/28-29 - Saint Helens, OR - rabbit show
2/1-6 - Denver, Colorado - cattle conference
2/11-13 - Home :)
2/18-20 - Scottsdale, Arizona - rabbit show
2/25-26 - AQ competition
3/5 - WA - rabbit show
3/12 - dead week; studying for finals
3/19 - WA - rabbit show

So hard to imagine that I am only on the first weekend of the term, and that I have many more to go before I can relax for spring break!

This weekend I am showing Wall E & Badger... There will be some Silver Marten competition, which I am excited for, even if Badger is still young. Wall E, I am somewhat not sure, because I feel judges see her differently than I do -- however she is in great condition. 2BT2 is going to Sara, I am getting a chocolate chestnut and a REW daughter from Melinda x Stitch breeding. I also have 2 of Jill's Dutch and 2 of her Thrianta's... so I have a full load :)

So if I don't post much...I'm just busy -- however I hope to keep up to date with my travels :)


Friday, January 7, 2011

Getting back to "normal"

One week of school has kickstarted me back into gear. Thoroughly enjoying this new term, I am just so happy!

Probably does help that I dropped the Holland project, and I sold my Checkered Giant pair. I was searching through my "spam box" and read an e-mail that shouldn't have been sent there. It worked out the lady's friend was up in OR at the time and was willing to bring them back for her. So I lost a cage and a carrier in the mix, but i have my two big cages back and now I am down to just the Mini Lops and my small Silver Marten project. It feels so good to be back to normal!

I am down to just 14 rabbits:
Stitch
Hank
Brianna
Lila
Montana + 6
Lettuce
Rylee
Nemo
Wall E
2BT1

Badger
MGD
Maddy + 7
Pyro + 8

Certainly a more manageable number for these busy times!

Coeur D'Alene, Idaho show next weekend! I'm showing 2 rabbits... making the 16+ hr RT trip just to work with an out-of-state judge :)

Monday, January 3, 2011

2011 Goals

I said I would post them... so here goes:

*Obtain my judges license
*Start showing & raising Silver Martens actively.
*Attend atleast 5 shows
*Reduce on numbers, getting back down to the bare minimum

*Apply for graduation
*Raise my GPA (I have a set number in mind)
*Pass Repro & Advanced Repro with atleast a B
*Payoff the loan I'm taking out
*Get a good summer job/internship
*Find a career goal by June

annnnnd that's it for now. All of them are pretty obtainable I suppose :)