Cranky and sick
I am so unbelievably tired of being sick. Seriously. I wish my immune system would locate whatever antibodies it's looking for, and then carpetbomb the hell out whatever is currently plaguing me. Ack.
I'm up at this completely unreasonable (though I guess it's not so unreasonable now...) hour because my inhaler is out of medicine, I have no refills, I'm out of cough syrup too, and my husband has work early. So I decided that instead of lying there coughing up a lung and waking him (at the risk of making him cranky now /feel horrible tomorrow) that I'd just get up. So I've been up for about 2 hours, in which time I've taken a long shower, made myself some hot tea, tried to mess around with my myspace profile (I hate you, myspace...), and now I'm writing this entry. Fun, huh?
I had a busy day yesterday. (Even though it still technically feels like today) It was nice to actually see the sunshine again, after days of rain. The grain truck shorted us a few bags of sweet feed day before yesterday, so Susanne and I took a road trip up to Frederick, MD to the Farmer's Co-op homeworld and picked them up. Then we went to Wal-mart in Leesburg (just shut up, okay? If you're morally opposed to wal-mart, that's fine and dandy, but don't give me a goddamned lecture about it...I had a gift card and I'm poor, thus, walmart trip. I don't agree with half the shit they do either.) and Tractor Supply. And then we went by Heza's (potential) new house in Haymarket. And then we went to Saddlery Liquidators in Haymarket. And then we went to the Sheetz (gas station) there and I got a Pepperoni Sub sandwich, which was amazing. And then we went to the barn, where I got Heza out and handwalked him (almost dying from the cold), and assed around in the office for a while.
My main gripes for the day were (a) someone messed with and subsequently damaged one of my bridles, and (b) I get so sick of people bitching about my horse. The first ene doesn't bother me so much as the second one. I know I'm partial to him, yadayadayada, but I also know decent horseflesh when I see it, which is why I started working with him in the first place. He's cranky, because he's OLD and ARTHRITIC, because unlike half the horses at the barn, he actually DID something before he came there. And the thing is, he's not dangerous or anything like that (contrary to popular belief), as long as you know how to handle him. I am fully in acceptance that I have a special relationship with him...if I didn't I sure as crap wouldn't take on the responsibility of making him my own in the financial situation that I'm in right now. But that doesn't mean that he's a horrible, terrible, ferocious, fire-breathing, spook-tacular beast who will stomp you into the ground on a whim. He's really not an especially tricky horse to understand...in fact there ARE horses at the barn that I dont "get", but he's easy to read, if you take the time to. Grr...
Thing is, he's too smart for his own good. He's also lazy, and will avoid work if possible, much like half the other schoolies. Which is what has made him a good rock creek horse for the last 12 (!!) years. And it irritates me that he's been there THAT long, put in that many years of good service, and now all anybody can do is bitch about him. Of COURSE he's acting up right now...it's cold, and he's not being ridden. When a horse goes in 2 lessons a week, with 5 days in between where he does NOTHING (aside from being hand walked by ME, who shouldn't even have been out in the cold...), they are usually a little cranky. Hi, welcome to the REAL world of horses...they don't actually function like Rock Creek horses. I get sick of the whining, the griping, and the bitching about stuff there sometimes because people think they know so much, haven't a clue, and then try to b.s. it. SO either put him back in classes until he leaves in a month and a half, or take him out of classes completely, other than mine. Because I have the wherewithall to actually "prep" a horse for class ( a completely foreign concept, apparently), and therefore have NO problems with him. God, I cannot wait to get him out of there. *sighs*
Okay, that's all for now...I've actually gotta go to bed for a bit.
I'm up at this completely unreasonable (though I guess it's not so unreasonable now...) hour because my inhaler is out of medicine, I have no refills, I'm out of cough syrup too, and my husband has work early. So I decided that instead of lying there coughing up a lung and waking him (at the risk of making him cranky now /feel horrible tomorrow) that I'd just get up. So I've been up for about 2 hours, in which time I've taken a long shower, made myself some hot tea, tried to mess around with my myspace profile (I hate you, myspace...), and now I'm writing this entry. Fun, huh?
I had a busy day yesterday. (Even though it still technically feels like today) It was nice to actually see the sunshine again, after days of rain. The grain truck shorted us a few bags of sweet feed day before yesterday, so Susanne and I took a road trip up to Frederick, MD to the Farmer's Co-op homeworld and picked them up. Then we went to Wal-mart in Leesburg (just shut up, okay? If you're morally opposed to wal-mart, that's fine and dandy, but don't give me a goddamned lecture about it...I had a gift card and I'm poor, thus, walmart trip. I don't agree with half the shit they do either.) and Tractor Supply. And then we went by Heza's (potential) new house in Haymarket. And then we went to Saddlery Liquidators in Haymarket. And then we went to the Sheetz (gas station) there and I got a Pepperoni Sub sandwich, which was amazing. And then we went to the barn, where I got Heza out and handwalked him (almost dying from the cold), and assed around in the office for a while.
My main gripes for the day were (a) someone messed with and subsequently damaged one of my bridles, and (b) I get so sick of people bitching about my horse. The first ene doesn't bother me so much as the second one. I know I'm partial to him, yadayadayada, but I also know decent horseflesh when I see it, which is why I started working with him in the first place. He's cranky, because he's OLD and ARTHRITIC, because unlike half the horses at the barn, he actually DID something before he came there. And the thing is, he's not dangerous or anything like that (contrary to popular belief), as long as you know how to handle him. I am fully in acceptance that I have a special relationship with him...if I didn't I sure as crap wouldn't take on the responsibility of making him my own in the financial situation that I'm in right now. But that doesn't mean that he's a horrible, terrible, ferocious, fire-breathing, spook-tacular beast who will stomp you into the ground on a whim. He's really not an especially tricky horse to understand...in fact there ARE horses at the barn that I dont "get", but he's easy to read, if you take the time to. Grr...
Thing is, he's too smart for his own good. He's also lazy, and will avoid work if possible, much like half the other schoolies. Which is what has made him a good rock creek horse for the last 12 (!!) years. And it irritates me that he's been there THAT long, put in that many years of good service, and now all anybody can do is bitch about him. Of COURSE he's acting up right now...it's cold, and he's not being ridden. When a horse goes in 2 lessons a week, with 5 days in between where he does NOTHING (aside from being hand walked by ME, who shouldn't even have been out in the cold...), they are usually a little cranky. Hi, welcome to the REAL world of horses...they don't actually function like Rock Creek horses. I get sick of the whining, the griping, and the bitching about stuff there sometimes because people think they know so much, haven't a clue, and then try to b.s. it. SO either put him back in classes until he leaves in a month and a half, or take him out of classes completely, other than mine. Because I have the wherewithall to actually "prep" a horse for class ( a completely foreign concept, apparently), and therefore have NO problems with him. God, I cannot wait to get him out of there. *sighs*
Okay, that's all for now...I've actually gotta go to bed for a bit.