So... We're down to... half a horse? 

We had two for lease until crazy owner of Andy wanted her horse back because he was supposedly in poor condition. Erm. No. He's not, you stupid bearded cow face. He's just no longer obese and looking like a sausage roll!
So had the vet out today to verify he's NOT in poor condition and that by taking him back she's breaking the lease contract and that she can then thus pay for the vet bills we got for him (got his teeth done because they hadn't been done in YEARS according to the vet). As I don't generally make a habit out of getting horses from people, spending money on getting them polished up and working readily and training excess fat and flab off of them and building up muscle and what else not, only to have them come around after a month and a bit to get him back.
I'm not a fucking horse rescue, I want something in return (e.g. a horse to ride for several months) or you can reimburse me for the money I blew on YOUR horse.

So since we had the vet out (who said Andy was in fine condition and no worries what so ever and said he was looking fit and not emaciated as his owner made him out to be.) decided to have her check Mel out as she'd been a bit weird with certain things riding wise, she seemed very foot sore on and off and just has no strength in her hindquarters and does everything within her power not to engage her hindquarters and is just not building up muscle because of it.
After some poking and prodding from the vet an some trotting up and down the drive way (painstakingly so) vet said she probably has some arthritic problems. She could do a full lameness examination but alreay said depends on how much you're willing to spend on her.
Again, I'm not a rescue service, I love Mel but she's not my horse! So I told the vet that much and then she suggested starting her on bute with a few days off and then keeping up with that to see how she goes... I just feel sorry for her because she's such a sweet thing and I do love her it's just... ugh. She doesn't deserve this...

So we have one healthy horse who the owner wants back because he's unhealthy according to her and one unhealthy horse which we're probably going to give back to the owner because I just can't afford/don't want to afford that much money on a horse that's not even mine...

Blegh... day of suck. This is why I don't get up early because days tend to suck and then there's sooooo much time left to feel sucky about it.

Update time for everyone who cares! 

Lots of good stuff, lots of bad  stuff.

Good stuff;
- Officially in equine dentistry now! Hurrah! 
- Had a long morning gallop with one of the horses through the pine forest and GALLOPED WITH THE ROOS! Hello thar aussie exp.!
- My half chaps came in the mail today! Yey! I can look snazzy while riding now. They're soooo nice!
- Won winery voucher at a trivia quiz night in the raffle, so lunch is paid for one day!
- Expecting a new saddle!
- Horses are being all sorts of good.
- Having a ton of fun and then some.

Bad stuff;
- Shittiest job in the world which I will be quitting friday.
- No other job at the moment >.<
- Eating away at the savigns acount more than I'd like
- Pony hit her face really hard so she's out of the running for a while =/

I'm now just going to whore myself out as a trainer/instructor I think for whoever will have me. Since neither of us have a job yet an currenlty I'm paying almost all rent, board for two horses and groceries and it's just too much to keep up for long.
We'll work it out, no doubt but just at the moment we're having a bit of a rough spot XD

Eitherway, all is well~! The good feeling of the good still outweighs the bad feelings of the bad!

I'll be posting another blog entry this week to help all of us better grasp what 1,519,501,005 words means to humanity, and whether that many words would actually weigh more than a grocery store filled with donkeys (early results point to yes).

The top 10 wordiest regions this year were…
1) Seattle
2) Maryland
3) Germany and Austria
4) Los Angeles
5) Holland and Belgium
6) Chicago
7) Twin Cities (MN)
8) New York City
9) Portland, OR
10) London"

So that makes e feel sort of awesome because I contributed a lousy 55,000 words to that. Buuuut I don't feel as accomplished as I'd hoped. I said I'd finish the story by the end of november and i haven't. I could've done it easily, I had days to spare but after hitting 50K I just got lazy and wrote measle 5K in 6 days time. So while it was epic and rather gratifying, I'm still left a bit unaccomplished.

I'll finish the story over december, I'm pretty sure I can do it, but just a bit annoyed that I didn't make the goal I set for myself.

Oh well, 20K or so more to go.

In non-NaNo related news;

Bought a saddle for Trev (cost 75 dollars, fully mounted, haha) and been working with him and Will they're doing quite good. Also got another little horse to ride called Amber (formerly known as Emma) the little chestnut mare that got dumped on the property. She was originally given to this lady called Mary to ride and have fun wiht but Amber is a bit gree nand a bit naugty, so I'm riding her for now, a few times a week, to train her up a bit and then we're probaby going to sell her and I'll get half the monnies! Which will be good =D

I think we can get 3 K for her, 2,5K at LEAST, so that would mean a clean 1750 dollars in profit clean on the hook since I have no costs on this horse whatsoever. I get driven there and back, Mary pays for feed, worming, farrier and everything an we still split it fifty-fifty. Goood monnies.

Anywho; went to see Australia (the movie) at a fundraiser thing for the RSPCA (I'm ever os charitable) with horrible terrible sushi snacks and equally terrible wine (whihc burned in ways wine should never burn). The movie was long... and... got rather boring and "is it done yet?" toward the end of it and didnt have NEARLY enough scenes wit ha half naked Hugh Jackman showering from a jerrican. But it was nice if we ignore the utterly shitty CGI.
But yeah after three hours of watching Hugh Jackman chase after cows muttering 'Crickey' Bexx and I got into the spirit of things and actually took our horses out into the paddock with the cow today and we did some 'droving' of our own!

We went to see the ponies... I had hopes of riding Trev and Emma but Trevor is too fat to wear tack and since I felt bad for Bexx standing around watching I figured I'd give her a lesson on William, but then it started to rain and just sorta never stopped anymore.

So mght get some riding done later on in the week since Bexx has a full week of work ahead of her... Hopefully we'll get some pictures taken then...

Aaaand am already behind LOTS on my NaNo was supposed to write tonight but meh... will spend most of tomorrow writing probably. Might need to find myself some junkfood first though somewhere in this odd little town. Which reminds me I need to do some financing and moving around of moneys... and I still owe money t oa friend...

Note to self; do finances...

The flight was uneventful... had a wee bit of turbulance over europe but that was all... and the guy sitting next to me climbed oer my chair (stepping on the armrests and everything) everytime i tried to sleep. Becuase I'd refused to sleep at what was 2pm inthe afternoon for me as the plane said i should...

I tried to NaNo... did some NaNo... but since the muses crappd out when i opened my laptop I wasted most of the batteries on playing pokemon... aaaand i got about 1300 words on the laptop which won't live ofr me just yet... and a whole page of long hand but lack of elbow room kinda buggered me over on both accounts.

Aaand thne i arrived at Kualal Lumpur hihc was ridiculously easy to navigate... thanks to the lovely plus shaped construction of it...so I wandered around wanted to buy these awesome looking ramen at an actual ramen shop but they didn't speak english very well at all so I didn't know if they would accept either of my types of mickey mouse moneys... plus i had no idea what the hell they were all chucking in there and the concept of vegetarianism seemed ot puzzle them most of all... so I thanked them ofr the info and continued on... lacking ramen noodles sadly... I shall try again on my return flight.

Then got back on the plane which all went a lot quicker than at Amsterdam because much less phobia I'd bring a bomb to Perth than to Kuala Lumpur apparently... wherei  had ot unpack everything at schiphol I could leave everything in the bag at KL and no one cared... boarded wit ha whole lot of poms all coming from england and a bunch of asians so I was about the only dutch person left... aaand flew ot Perth whih was more uneventful.. ended upwatcing the kiddy movies of the inflight entertainment set because I'd seen all the others just baout. Can recommend Jack and Jill for those curious, it was actually kinda good but it's a girly sorta movie but not overly so... just niiice movie..

Got to Perth I figured I'd be quick try ot beat them all got stuck in the aisle at ifrst then when i was out made up ofr the loss by speedhicking past the tiny tiny asian people and the short chubby poms. Got fairly quickly ot thep assport check breezed through that headed ot the carrousels of baggage claim and spend 40 minutes waiting for the conveyer belt to evne start moving and spewing bags. There went my headstart. There was another flight arriving at the same time so the queue to customs was getting fucking EPIC. It took me another 30 minutes or so for my bag ot finally get to me.

Then into the queue for customs, i brought strawberry sugar water for Bexx which needed hcecking when they saw i was a horse trainer they wanted to see my horse equipment... i'd oly brought my spurs but since thye were used they needed treatment whihc would cost 30 dollars hiwle i can buy new ones for the same price os I told them to just chuck them... too bad, 'tis a shame because they were nice but oh well.. shit happens.

Found bexx fairly quickly because Perth is a tiny airport... her brother gave us a ride home, I dragged my stuff into my room got the tour "And this is your room it smells of wet carpet."  and that WAS the tour of the place... =P

Then i walked around a bit to stretch my legs while not killing my knees and Bexx did some laundry and then we headed off to the ponies! And I met Trev and WIll and Emma and the shitty litle pony who hasn't got a name i think and Baby the shetland
and i ended up riding Will.. how was... amusing, sooo amusing haha. And everyone came to see him trot because OMG! he was trotting! 

Had a talk about him and the other horse,s helped Bexx walk him around a bit but he'd already worked pretty hard and scared Bexx by trying to toss me... Ended up staying there until almost 9pm.. at hiwhc point we realized we didn't have much food so bought out the gasstation with junkfood... and while Iwas supposed ot og to bed early to seriously beat jetlag we ended up chatting nad talking until like 4am... then wnet ot bed where I fought wit hsheets and pillows (or lackthereof) and awoke at 10:30... but my body was in denial and went "nuuu!" and slept on until 11:40 or so... and now I'm here!

It took me 20 minutes ot make my sandwich(which is defrosting painfully slowly) and 2 minutes ot break into Bexx' laptop... xD

Oh and it RAINED! Yesterday and again today! I picked hte coldest bloody day to arrive at it was only 24 degrees and today it looks grey and dreary...! D8
I brought rain wiht me!

No cut, I'm lazy, deal with it. And i do think I beat jetlag... buahahaha!
 

Dear horse,

Please stop making me fall in love with you.
It's not a good thing. You're going to be sold soon-ish and I can't afford to buy you right now. So seriously, cut it out. Please?

So that means no more letting me sleep against you while you nap. No more chasing off the young colts to have all my attention to yourself. No more coming up to the fence just for a hug when you see me. No more resting your nose in my arms whenever I'm within reach and definitely, definitely no more fun hacks and outrunning everyone else to be at the front. No more cutesy stuff like asking for hugs on hacks. No more patiently standing around at lbierty in the barn while I untakc you, put cream on your legs and gets your food.

Please be the neurotic stupid little idiot you were two years ago, who wouldn't be caught in the pasture and who refused to believe me when I said it wasn't going to eat you and still spun around and ran off (or tried to).

With love,
She who fixed you.

p.s. stop growing because now you're almsot hte perfect size for me too. And while you're at it? Go back to being a silly noodle instead of a gorgeous solid stocky chestnut with a big butt, lots of shoulder muscles and a stallion's neck. kthnxbye.

The first one!! He's born!





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