One of my favorite features about Eventing Nation is that we are all united by a common love of the horse. We each learned to love horses in our own way–maybe we grew up next to a horse farm, or read a book about a horse–but at some point in our lives something clicked and we decided to make horses an integral part of our lives. Whether working in the barn or at an office, our readers spend their lives working for their horses.
We work most of our waking hours and most of us work in a cubicle in the midst of a wide expanse of space. Therefore, we work in a cube farm. Usually, everything is monotone, right down the chairs. So in order to maintain sanity, most everyone ‘decorates’ their cubicle to make it habitable. You will mostly see pictures of folks’ kids and other family members. There is also a requisite wall calendar of their choice. Some have plants too so the environment will be a little more livable. Indoor plants do well in this environment as we spew out lots and lots and lots of CO2, especially if management is walking around.
And then there are the crazy horsey people. I think the number of horse pictures you have in your cube coincides with how much you don’t like your job, personally. The more horse stuff, the more you can’t stand your job. And the reminders of why you keep this job are hanging on your wall.
I have one pic from Loudon, one from in front of The Fork’s barn when we won the ATC’s (Winston’s first year competing), and a calendar. I usually get a Beth Collier calendar for Xmas but not this year (boo!) but did get a free fly predator one.
I even have this horse shoe that matches Winston’s perfectly. It was our first prelim at VA and we nailed the water perfectly and the hubby was watching. He saw a shoe fly up on our landing from the first chevron and thought it was ours. So, he picked it up. It even had the same studs in. I would have turned it in but the hubby gave it to me Sunday afternoon. It wasn’t mine but I kept it anyway, thinking the person has probably gotten by that point. Now it’s in my drawer here at work. I do use it as a weapon when people are being buttheads ;o)
At least now I know that the shoe I lost at the VHT went to a good cause. At any rate, Lisa and all of our other readers working hard in an office today inspired our Ecogold “Horses in My Life” photo contest, as described below.
