Such a fail week.
Ugh. District, which is pretty much the biggest horse show of the year [besides state, obviously], is next week. Exactly a week from today. It's a two day show, Monday & Tuesday. Monday is speed events, Tuesday is show events. I only do show events, but all of us [there's...four of us going?] are going on Monday and renting a stall, and keeping our horses there, and we're staying in a hotel that night. Anyway, both of my horses, Sheik and Brandy, are at the trainers [she owns Brandy]. And it's just a really fustrating sitaution right now. Sheik was supposed to be home by now, but he's not, he's been gone for eight weeks, and it doesn't look like he'll be home in the very near future.
I was going to go yesterday and ride Brandy and work with Sheik, [we only do in-hand classes]. But it rained, and their arena is all muddy, and there's no way I could ride her in that, at least not if I want a lesson, and to do anything more than a walk, and I need to work more on loping and such. So I ended up doing nothing all day yesterday, because I was waiting for them to call later in the afternoon and tell me whether the arena had improved or not. Today, Pam had to work part of the day, but she said she'd call at two and let me know if it was any better. And...it rained. But they live a half an hour away, so I wasn't sure if it rained there or not. It did. And I didn't get to ride again, and I ended up waiting all day again. So now we're going to try later this week. I'm seriously so annoyed right now, because I can't sit around all week waiting to see if the arena dries out. If their arena doesn't dry out, she said on Friday we can go to the arena we show at, because it's an indoor, but I won't get to see Sheik if that happens, so I really hope it doesn't come to do that.
And then of course, last month when we realized there was a big possiblity Sheik wouldn't be home before the show, my Mom promised that we would go over everyday and I could at least work with him. I've seen him once since then, on Saturday. It's just so fustrating, not being able to do anything. This is important, and it's probably going to end up being a disaster. It's just worse because there's nothing I can do to change anything at this point. Bleh, being completely out of control sucks.