Random personal blog :)

You ever have those days that you just sit back and think, 'how the heck did I just survive last week?!' Sitting here I had to think back.

Wednesday

I tearfully said good-bye to my boyfriend, Joel, as he left to spend 3 months out of state working in Iowa as an intern for a major seed development company.

That night I went to a bonfire hosted at my friend Jeremy's house after which I got feeling pretty sick.

Thursday

I have to apologize, I felt awful and didn't pay attention at all in class. I went home and slept for about 3 hours.

Friday I woke up still feeling meh, but I went to my sister's to help clean her and her new husband's new appartment to prepare it for moving day. With rain in the forcast we decided to start moving them Saturday and we were at it from 7 AM until 10:30 PM.

Saturday morning I was awakened by my cellphone buzzing on the bed next to me and I groggily answered it to find it to be the rancher who I've been trying to get an interview with for nearly 4 months. He was ready for me to ride and could I be there in 15 minutes? I went out to the ranch and was introduced to the forman 'Dick' and the part owner and the rancher's son 'Brett'.

I was walked through everything! How to saddle the horses, how to run the carousel-like horse walker, how they liked to brush the horses or store the saddles, how they ran the water for the wash rack, the temperment of most of the horses, what they were training them for, how they did in competitions, how the riding arena was ran, how the flag worked, etc. THEN I was asked to brush and saddle their top mare, TR Terri Ray, so I could ride for them to see if I was up to the challenge.

*That's the horse in the picture*

I also rode their favorite stallion, a sweet little red chestnut with a christmas tree brand named Foxy. I enjoyed myself royally and din't realize I'd ridden for nearly 4 hours until the foreman called it a day to go get some lunch... it was 1PM.

I went home to an empty house then realizing everyone was at the apartment still moving things I went to eat there and help some more, then it was run home to make sandwiches to prepare for my younger sister's graduation party.

Sunday

When church let out we went straight to the high school graduation to sweat to death in the gym and watch as my baby sister gave her valedictorian speech and recived her diploma. I was excited to run into one of my really good friends from high school who I hadn't seen since my own graduation because he's been out of state with the Navy. Then we rushed home to start the party... only problem was that most of the day we hadn't had electricity. It's hard to have hot ham and cheese sandwiches when the oven doesn't work.

Monday

After class I ran an emergency trip to the local pet store because the power outage had knocked out two of my fish tank filters, and I'm crazy about my pets, and worry about their health all the time. Remind me again why I'm studying design rather than veterinarian medicine?! While I was at the store I couldn't pass up this little dwarf gourami whom I of course paid the $5.99 for and brought home to call Palo. I'm exhausted and when I sit watching my community tank of fish swimming lazily back and forth I can't help but wish I had their life!

I guess that's I'll I say for now as I see my guitar at the end of my bed calling my name just a bit louder than the rest of the vocabulary for design history :D

Cheers!