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| Last night at e-cowboy, my singing of Love Shack with Josh won him a trip to Mexico. We probably should have won the VIP party they were giving away to the winners of the kissing contest, but you really can't compete with girl-on-girl action when you're in a room full of drunks. We were 2nd place anyways = )
Josh sang Brown-Eyed Girl while I recruited people to dance (cause crowd participation is of course a factor). Josh was announced as tied for first, but when he went up he was kicked down to 2nd because they looked at the 4th judge's card, which had the other guy scored higher. So no trip won. Then, for some reason, the first place guy was really really REALLY adament that Josh got robbed and should have won and only didn't because he stayed on the stage the whole song and so he kept saying he would give Josh the trip, or he was gonna get them to split the trip so they could each have half (it's a trip for two, kinda), and the guy kept bugging the DJ about it. SOOO-- standard operating procedure includes a second song by the 2nd and 3rd place winners. Josh really wanted to sing Love Shack (cause he's really good at it), but needed a female. Well. Kelsey had left at this point and had talked about singing it with him, soooo.... with 3 shots and 3 beers in me I said I *supposed* I could sing it. (But only if he asked nicely.)
So I sang Love Shack. It was awesomely fun, except for the girl part of the song that I didn't know (enough to karaoke it.) He had to help me through that a bit. And right near the end of the song Austin (The DJ- who's adorable) came up and said he'd decided to give Josh the trip! Awesome, haha.
Josh's first time to Electric Cowboy. It was a fun night---- lots and lots of dancing. He even went and slow danced with me to one of the other karaokers slow songs- minimal arm-twisting required.
Oh, the reason we went in the first place is because one of the girls on the team's older sister won a VIP party, so free cover for 10 and a $150 bar tab. Her sister doesn't drink and Katie's not 21. Half the girls that went with us weren't 21, so the bar tab was mainly between 5 of us. Unfortunately, drink specials don't count on the tab, so it ran out pretty quickly, but after it was gone we got to capitalize on the $2.50 U-Call-Its until 11. This meant that in total I spent $11 last night. $6 of that was tip.
So, uh. Yea.
Other than that- at the last feed meeting I think I signed up to feed three times in two weeks. Cause the Webbs kept yelling at me not to feed! But now I've been bad about getting up... well, that's not true. I've been bad about setting an alarm because I'm not entirely sure when I need to be getting up. Luckily most mornings this week I woke up about 15 minutes before I really needed to be up.
Today? Today I have no idea when I'll be expected to do what. Webb left for Kansas yesterday for a horse show and normally Susan doesn't come in to ride on Fridays so it's just me and Webb. I'm not sure how Sue's getting in town, but all I think we have today is riding TRO horses at 2. I'll probably go out and catch a couple horses to ride other than that, because Skipette needs ridden and Flash and maybe Dixie and really I should probably ride Smokey earlier today even so that by this afternoon someone else can ride him, too. We're gonna try to use him tomorrow in TRO, but yesterday was the first time we'd ever worked with him in the mounting area and with side-walkers and with toy-throwing.
Something to note-- I love team sports. We know this, I know, but yesterday was the Ag Picnic out here at the farm and we had a volleyball net set up and I played a lot of volleyball. It makes me happy that I don't make a total fool of myself (any more than anyone else) playing sports. Then, after dinner, we played wiffleball. The teams were way way unevenly matched, so it may have been a little frustrating at times, but no one was keeping score and pretty much everyone was just batting so see how far they could hit the ball. I pitched the whole game for my team. Again- I didn't make a huge fool of myself. Caleb pitched for their team. I made it to base every time I was at bat. I just had bad luck in the batting order because the people behind me always pop-flyed or drove it straight down the center to 2nd base.
The story I would have told you yesterday? I went to campus yesterday (yea! amazing! but with $500 on the line, you have to make the time) and when I was leaving I got out to my car and saw I couldn't get to my door because the Grand Am next to me was parked really really close. So I thought, well I'll just get there from the front- squeeze in back past my door and open it and get it. Well, the view from the front wasn't quite that optimistic. I was a little peeved as I walked to my passenger door and prepared to climb through. Instead, I dug out a piece of paper and a pen and wrote (something along the lines of): "Dear Too-Close-To-The-Line,
I literally had to climb through my passenger-side door to get into my car so that I did not hit your car with my door." (something else here but I don't remember what- thank you, or something) "Sincerely,
More-Considerate-Than-Your-Average-Joe," I walked around my car to put it under their wiper and I remembered that I was in the last spot of the yellow lot, meaning they were in the blue (faculty and grad student) lot. This made me angrier until I looked at their tag. It was yellow. I walked back around my car so my pen and added "PS- You're in the wrong lot." I really really wanted to finish that sentence with ", idiot." But I refrained. I left the note and then had a heck of a time backing out of my spot because I was inches from their car- even though all I had to do was back straight out. I'm not sure how important it is to mention, but I feel the cross hanging from their rearview mirror was a little ironic.
Um-- other than that? My class went well on Tuesday. I think I'm getting better about getting them better at the things I want them to be doing- like grooming efficiently and saddling quickly. They lunged and then even got on and we ran through the full set of exercises going one direction. I kinda ranted at them during the mounting and position demo about things I'd rather they know now so I don't have to pick up the pieces later. I like to think it helped.
I..... yea. I think we'll leave it at that. Caleb still loves me, for the record. I'm not sure what he thinks about this Josh thing. I mean, he knows about it and has met him, but he hasn't changed his attitude towards me at all. Oh well. Fact remains that he has a girlfriend and that's his problem, not mine.
Oh! Desi made me eat green pepper the other day. So now I can handle it raw-- I think still better than I like it in food. I really don't like it in marinara sauces. It just doesn't make sense to me. We also all took garlic shots-- half cloves, chewed up. It made Kelsey thing she was gonna throw up. Andy wasn't the biggest fan. Surprisingly I kind of liked it. I mean, it's not something I'm gonna do weekly or anything (though I guess I could with the fresh garlic I have leftover.) But green pepper chunk on a garden salsa Sun Chip? Quite good = ) And she also made me buy a box of rosemary and olive oil Triscuits. Holy cow! That's like eating Italy. Very very good.
Our spontaneous dance party/sword fight was pretty epic and exhausting and hilarious. I love my friends sometimes. (Yes, as opposed to "all the time.")
Josh is a brave man and went out on Labor Day with us- us being Kelsey Desi and I. We wandered the streets of downtown looking for a place that was open. Big Whiskeys was about the only building with lights on and people around-- I guess they decided they didn't want to skip a College Night just for Labor Day, so we drank cheap beers and discussed religion and politics (not me though-- the lot of them are more outspoken on those subjects than I could ever ever be.) Then we walked home. Walking is fun. I have the blister on the back of my heel to prove it. Oh yea, that was the one night so far going out with Josh that I wore my glasses.
Last thing- what should I wear to Stina's wedding? | | |
| Yesterday 162 went well in the morning. I didn't feed cause another girl requested some morning shifts, but I really think it's silly for me not to feed on a day that I have to have the barn and myself ready for class by 8. It makes sense for me to be up to feed and be done by 7ish and awake for prep instead of dragging myself out of bed around 7 or 7:30 and feeling kind of lost. So, next feed meeting I will give up other mornings, but not Tuesdays.
Then we had the first jumping practice of the semester-- new people and old people who are just starting down the path to jumping..... I've got my work cut out for me and I think a little bit of torture is not uncalled for (ie: riding without stirrups.) I have a lot of [lack of] leg issues to contend with. It's hard to remember all the way back to my first lessons towards jumping. I was 12.
Oh yea. I rode Flash english and over poles and such and he was doing soooo well (well, well for him anyways) until he bucked me off. Even after that he returned to normal-ish, which is the pain of it all. His bucking is really just an overexaggerated overreaction that, if he had a brain in his head, wouldn't be much more than startling. As the day progressed from there my dorsal right hip, right above my butt and so extending down into the right butt muscle, got sorer. This morning it's not as bad as I would have expected.
THEN I had to run practice and didn't really want to keep riding Flash and didn't want to get a horse from the pasture and didn't want to ride a Webb horse, so I rode Dixie!! Let me tell you-- I was very impressed. I lunged her a little bit and we walked and warmed up for a good bit while I was instructing. We trotted then and she's really very sane. Then I even demonstrated the patterns I made up on her, which until recently I wouldn't even be able to do with Skipette or Smurf or Flash! 4 year olds! Still not sure I could demo on Flash cause he's lazy and stupid. ANYWAYS. The last pattern we did I stuck a lope in and she loped off, correct lead, and I was more or less able to steer her back to where I wanted for the pattern! After patterns we loped a section of the rail and she took the correct lead there, too, and went in a straight and even-paced line! I was so very proud and I was glad both Sue and Webb were witness to the whole of it. Here in an hour me and Susan will be riding all the 2 yr/olds and I think I'll probably go easy on Dixie = )
After jumping practice I changed out of my long-sleeved shirt into my red IHSA shirt. While riding 3-5 I got a message from Josh that he'd scored some tickets to the Springfield Cardinals game for yesterday at 7. I agreed to go and thought my choice of red shirt was then ironic. After practice I hung around for ranch horse team for a bit before heading back to the apt. He called and laid a gameplan out and I think most people who know me would be impressed with the short amount of time it took to shower, blow dry, make up, and straighten my hair. We walked to the field, which was about 20 minutes and really nice. The tickets were, technically, the first row of seats along the first base line-- Drury's presidents tickets. That row was full except our seats and the game was not sold out by any means. We sat first row in the section over instead. We did a lot of talking while keeping an eye out for foul balls (of which there were many, but none that threatened us.) It was a fun game, though the Cards were pretty much slaughtered by Tulsa, because Josh (his name is Josh) used to play baseball. We left early and walked back to his house, wandering through the coming-dark streets of Springfield. He's from Springfield, so his take on the city's a bit different than mine. Plus the loft he just moved out of this weekend was in the middle of downtown, so he knows it like his front yard.
Don't tell him, but I'd never been to a Springfield Cardinals game, or any game at Hammons Field.
And I still think he's a good kisser.
That pretty much summed up yesterday. Today is my busy day...... colts and class and class and class. (teach teach student) Oh, then me and the Horsemen's officers are baking cookies for cookie-decorating tomorrow!!! Victory for me. | | |
| So, I met a boy.
We made eye contact.... at the bar, but still. Eventually (and I'm not exactly sure how) we struck up a conversation or danced and then conversed? I'm not sure. Details? Halfway through his MBA at Drury. Kelsey's reasons why I should not spend any more time with him that night than I already had: 1- he's a ginger. 2- he's not ag. 3- he's too skinny for me. And then later- he's wearing a striped shirt.
Yes. All reasons why I won't talk to someone who is interesting, or dance with someone who's a good dancer, or want to spend enough time to see if there are really any (cute, available, intelligent) men for me who don't see their future as visions of cows and horses.
I just talked to him for nearly two hours, and we talked a lot the night we met, but maybe most importantly at this point in time 1- he friended me on facebook today (and not vice versa) 2- he called me, and 3- most importantly, like I said- I successfully executed evasive manuveurs to avoid watching "Hannah Montana: The Movie" with Kelsey and Toree.
Good timing Josh. Literally I don't think we were any further than 15 minutes into the movie.
Future plans to hang out: in limbo, but mentioned in conversation.
Adorable, by the way. (After spending some time talking to him, Kelsey retracted her earlier statements.)
Good kisser. (Which seem to have been few and far between, as I tend to be pretty picky.)
Rode April and Dixie today and Susan rode Boo(mer) and Blaze.
Afterthought- he hasn't read Harry Potter. I plan to remedy this like I remedied you.
I love this weather. Perhaps too much. (I'm not sure this makes sense.)
Tomorrow's gonna be a long day. Today was a little long.
I am halfway through The Mouse and the Motorcycle. I love it = )
Ok. Time to be doing something else. | | |
| Found these videos on YouTube. From the Pageant 6/25/09 (in no particular order)
Seth sings The Ballad of Love and Hate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQjkZzZLVRk (Favorite part at 3:45)
The Weight of Lies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6-fTtxWcIQ (Love love this song)
I Would Be Sad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48mNLza0aag (Love Scott)
Bella Donna http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdZ9Pl_7f1I (from the balcony)
I and Love and You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT3T5TOK9FA (holy cow I can't wait for this album)
Paranoia and B Major http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Rn-TCbkGM (2:15-2:35 is and was the best part of the song)
Wanted Man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICA05WNoTCE (scream much?!?)
Distraction #74 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJqhB_6eJbs (Joe Kwon is awesome, love @2:00)
Nothing Short of Thankful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io0VPWWkHIg (Scott's harmonica, great song. Mmm.)
Die Die Die! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6hzG5Kvq60 (omg. that's all)
Down With the Shine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_yaVX7QhHw (All that comes, it comes here to pass.)
The Lowering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMuZc8AQoU0 (Opening song-- that's why there's all the noise. Really starts at about 1min.)
Talk on Indolence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-avfUA62gfk (Holy head-banging, Batman! Not to mention the bass bongo and the tambourine!)
Samantha Crain, Bananafish? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHLLRVLXn14 (With TAB's Bob Crawford on trumpet)
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| Welshmen. are. the aces.
A list so that I'll remember: Andrew Baines, Kristian and Brendan Lampitt, RobJohn Shutty, Buzz (Leighton), Dai Tovey, Dave, Gareth (Man of the Match).... That's all the names I can remember, though I can picture their faces.
Spfd players: Mark Nelson, Colby, Bryant, Tall Tim, Greg and Charlie.
It's funny that "No Shirt Tuesdays" can so very quickly become "No Pants Tuesdays" with even a thought towards "Naked Tuesdays."
I can't remember if I dreamt some of what I'm remembering from the past few weeks or if it all really happened.
Next stop: Newport, South Wales. Surely I can find a couch sofa to crash on. | | |
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