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Thursday

Since Alivia stayed the night, the girls rode horses. In the afternoon, we took Alivia home went to Spillmans. Jayden stayed and rode with Makenna. The plan was to have the girls get a lesson from Jenni Lee who was back. That never happened, but the girls had fun riding bareback. Jake stayed too, He and Alex hit it off and had a great time together. Jake really needs a good friend, so I excited he got to stay. Later, Mom came down to get Jayden and Jacob for the night. I went to stake the barrels at the arena in preparation for the Match of the Broncs event. I was down in the arena with Lori S. watching clouds overhead. I wanted to be quick. Mark called and Jayden telling me to go home there were tornado warnings and bad weather coming our way. My phone kept ringing and getting texts. Lori was not worried and we kept on.  When we got done and got in our cars, the rain started pouring hard and heavy. That is all it did and the storm passed on. 
 Life is so busy and I am not enjoying the hustle and bustle. Something has got to give. I don’t know what or how or where but it has got to change. Somehow I got involved in the Dayton Wranglers Youth Rodeo and Match of the Broncs events. It started out I helped run the barrels and flags events for Match of the Broncs the past two years. I figured I might as well since Jayden had to be at all the events for Serpentine. I did not really enjoy it and it always got me so stressed out. I have never been a leader or a run the show kind of person. I do not do well running things, end of story. Last year I more less got roped into helping at the youth rodeos too. In the fall a meeting was held and Frank insisted I come. My plan was to bring in T-shirts and help sell them and would line up serpentine parents to help at the events. That was going to be my contribution. Last fall was a disaster with no help at all and it was embarrassing.  This spring, one of the main personnel that ran all the speed events up and quit about a month ago and somehow I was the only logical person to take it on. I repeatedly stressed I did not want to be in charge, I did not want to run it. My voice was never heard and more and more got pushed onto me. Now here I am the one person in charge of all the speed events for both youth rodeo and match of the broncs, along with lining up all the help, and designing, ordering, and selling t-shirts. There are so many details an little things that are involved. I am so frustrated and angry about having all this put on me. I feel stuck now, but I guarantee I will not be doing any of it next year. Last year I stressed and fretted over the events. It is not worth it. This year I have decided just to go and have the attitude of it will be what it will be and not stress. What is the worst that could happen, I could get fired! I would love that!!

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