Very Intersting!

OK, well, I was contacted by a great friend today who wants to sponsor "Rachael's Equine Services" for the 2008 Barrel Racing Year! YAY! He said we will get a graphic for the trailer, some shirts for me to wear, a blanket/sheet for Gabe the Babe, some Business Cards, Ads, and he will sponsor most of my entry fees!!! Man, I just dont know how to say thank you enough! He told me that its time for me to bloom! Its time for my business to be my primary source of income! Of course, this might take several years to really make it my sole source of income, but, this is a great start! Now that I have my website and an awesome horse along with several more babies on the way, I might just be able to take my business to the next level! It felt so good to hear him say "I knew and always knew that you would go on to be something great". I taught his daughter riding lessons and it broke my heart when I had to leave the county to go back to school. Her and I were really changing each other's lives. Unfortunately, she took a bad route after the lessons went away....I wish that i could have stayed to help her reach her full potential. I dont mean that she would have been an awesome barrel racer or anything, but, its amazing what the connection between horse and rider can do to ones soul. She went the wrong direction and I feel that if I could have stayed, she would be in college and working toward a degree to better herself instead of what she is doing now. It really pulls on my heart strings to think that her Dad wants me to succeed! I am just soooooo excited! I really feel that all the bad has been a test on my soul to see how much I am willing to endure to succeed! When in doubt, look up. God is trying to tell me to stay tuff, stick to my guns and reach for greater things! I was getting too comfortable. I was not looking toward the future. Now, I am looking way in the future and it is bright!!!!

Joe Got Saddled!

Well, after my woderful ride on Gabe the Babe, I pulled Joe up to the round pen. First of all, he is having issues with working in the round pen. I have never had one that would go half way around and turn to face. With our past experience of him trying to climb the walls, I decided that a lounge line in the round pen would be safe for my boy. I had some suggestions as to how to get him to move around me and away from pressure. One was to tie a plastic bag onto the lounge whip to encourage him to move way from me. Yeah, well, that did not work! I sacked him out a while back and he was not even scared of the bag! I shook it all around him and even on the opposite side!
Well, after all that, I decided to go get my little saddle and pad and introduce him to the Saddle! Well, he did not spooke to the pad or the saddle. I brought the girth around and he accepted that as well. The only thing that spooked him was the tightening of the girth. He bucked HARD for a total of 10 seconds. ..and all was calm. I then shook the stirrups and moved the saddle. That colt was great! Still, he will only do a half a lap around the round pen and turn and face.....I guess he is just too willing to please! However, we did work on that for about an hour and I stopped him before he decided to stop and got him to come to me. I love my colt!

Gabe did Awesome this Weekend!

Well, Gabe really did good this weekend. We went to Jennifer's clinic and learned a lot! In fact, he ran a 16.4 on barrels on Sunday and a 23.7 on poles!!! He was really rockin' and rollin'!!!

The Meeting

They went into a private meeting and kicked me out. i dont like that.....I dont know what they are talking about!!! It really makes me worried.....

Yawn. The day is dragging. I have a meeting this afternoon. Maybe that will perk me up. Well, maybe not cause I was suppose to write a letter and my Boss was suppose to get me the information to write it and he did not do it. So, its gonna look like i did not do anything. Oh, well, such as life. Cant write the letter with out the STATS!
As far as everything else goes, I feel like sleeping....I am so drained. I wish that I could kick this fatigue that has come over me. I have my moments. Also, i have this funny muscle twitch in my chest. I wish it would go away cause it makes me feel sick. :(

Good Medical Advice..Funny!

Its Almost Time!

Well, its Wednesday Night! Thursday better go fast! I cant wait to go to Denton! I get to ride Hick again and see Jennifer! I also get to make the drive with Hannah! She is a talker, so no chance that I will fall asleep! I will worry about Ruger all weekend, but, I know that Jeff will take good care of him! He is a great midwife. I know first hand that he takes good care of the sick! Ruger is doing good. He is waiting for me to come to bed right now. He said (yes, again, ruger talks just like all my animals) he wants to sleep in the bed again tonight! Jeff said it doesnt affect him!
Anyhow, so this weekend, we get to go to the tack store again, right??? I am so broke that I cant even afford to drive up there, but, gotta go to the tack store! Even if its just to look! Gabe won that saddle. Its dark oil, so, I might need to pick something out to go with it! Maybe just a cheap dark headstall......Shoot, We better stay away form there if we know whats good for us....Anyhow, I am just really excited! We will have a full day at the clinic and then on Sunday we are going to Stonewall to the last CanRunners barrel race! Brooke is gonna exhibition Hick!

Ruger Is back At The Vet

FYI, Ruger went in for his second surgery today. He gets to come home tonight. Hopefully all will go well. This is the deciding factor. If they go in and there is any more black stuff, then, we have to make a decision.
The other issue is that My boss has decide that Ruger can not come to work with me. He said he would give me time off to go check on him, but, I cannot bring him up here...Sounds silly that I can shut down the office to go and check on him, but, I can't bring him up here and stay at my desk....Oh, well, I guess I will just have to put Ellis and Colt in Kennels and leave Ruger out in the house. He cant be with the other dogs cause they want to lick his sutures.
Ho hum. Right now I feel like I could sleep for the rest of the week. I guess its the weather or something. I dunno. I am just totally dragging and I am craving my couch, TV, Pillow and blanket.

OK, so....

OK, so Jeff refuses to talk to the neighbors about the dog issue. But, he says that I cant go around threatening people.....Hm, so, I told him that he needs to go over there and talk to them. He was like "what will that accomplish?" Well, I said cause then you can go talk to them and not threaten them....he then walk out the door. So, i guess I am the type to threaten people??? OK, so then he comes back in and starts to talk about it again.....still no solution. I guess we are going to borrow the Jack Ass and put him out there to stomp out the dogs. I know that Jeff is very non-confrontational, and I am way too confrontational, but, he needs to learn to step up to the plate and not sit back and wait for me to make the situation worse. Anyhow, I think we reached an agreement, we shall see.

Vent, Vent, Vent

OK, you guys know that I live in the middle of no where. Well, I have one neighbor who has 2 border collies that he will not keep fenced. OK, my dogs stay in MY yard. My horses stay in MY pasture. Why can he not do the same? Well, I came home from the grocery store to see his BC's herding my horses. Again. I pulled into the driveway to see that they are in the yard. I hollared over to say "you need to get your dogs out of my pasture or they wont be around much longer" He hollered back "Woman, you need to stop F**king yelling over here, our dogs aint hurtin' nobody, you better not do anything to our dogs cause you will regret it" then he goes on to say that "you better quit yellin' over here, you aint go no business hollering at us..yada, yada, yada." To tell you the truth, i am not really sure what else he yelled at me. I hollered back that we keep our dogs on our place and he needs to do the same. He went off in another rant. Then he says something to the tune if I got somethin' to say to get over there....I said " You got business with me, you know where my door is" then I came in the house.
Keep in mind now, I live next to a real redneck in the worse sense of the term. They have their plywood house.....ok, i dont have to go any further. I told Jeff when he go home what was said and he just threw his hands up at me. I told him that he really needs to go over there and talk to them cause I was really tired of being the "bad guy". I told him that when someone cusses at me that he needs to go over there and stick up for me. He suggested that we get a jack ass.....Hmmm.....OK, bang head here.
Next item of business. Jeff is finally moving out of his apartment. YAY! Bad thing is, my house is tore up from the floor up and will be this way for a week or two knowing my hubby. Unfortunately, everything is too big for me to move around...sigh....at least he hooked the TV up on the floor. I cannot find my bed, my floor, my bathroom, the laundry that I just washed....you get the point. I should take a picture of it and post it...But, its really embarrassing. For once, I would just like to have the house clean!?! Is that possible? Very happy that he is moving his shit, but, can we bring it into the house in an orderly fashion and maybe, set the stuff up??? OK, thats all for now....

Life Sucks

OK, I am really on some kind of emotional roller coaster.
Here we go. So, Got married and it was awesome! Next day, I broke out with poison oak, hives, ring worm on my ankles, and two other un identifiable rashes. Then, Ruger has his face removed, then I sold my saddle which is awesome. But, then I found out that in addition to the psoriatic arthritis, i also have Fibromyalgia which basically means that my body hurts all the time. New meds include antidepressant, and a muscle relaxer everyday. Well, I went to go leave and take my saddle to the UPS store after feeding ruger his morning hot dog and meds only to find my kitty "butters" dead in the road.
On top of everything, I took out a loan to get tires for the truck and trailer...well, had more expenses and spent it all bouncing all over the place. Luck for me, I have a good bank and they are going to increase the loan and pay all my checks as well as waive any bounce fees. I thought that was nice, but, now I really owe the bank. Oh, and i had to write 11 post dated checks for $50 to pay for Ruger's surgery. He has one more to go so, that balance will go up from $520 to around $700. Oh, and I need to get my yearling stud colt gelded, but, with all this new stuff to pay for, he has to wait. Good thing he is not acting "studish".
So, i sold the saddle which almost pays for my saddle upgrade that Gabe won for me, but, Jeff said that he would pay that and the saddle money can go towards Ruger's surgery.
I guess what i am trying to say is that I have had a lot of good, but, the bad is so overwhelming right now. I am going to ride tonight and just go to the back and RIDE. I think that might help me more than anything. I just seem to be having a really hard time stabilizing my mood. I am already on an anti depressant and I have zanax to take when i start to freak out. But, right now, I just really need some prayers.

Yeah! I sold my saddle!

Well, I sold my extra saddle today for a whooping $550 and she is paying for the shipping too! YAY! Money to pay for Ruger's surgery! I was asking way more than that, but, since Jennifer had the stirrups shortened, It makes it hard to sell! So, This lady wants it and batta bing, its sold!

Ruger is Home!

Well, Ruger came home today. He is weeping, but, that is good. The bill so far is $520...Ugh... But, he is my baby. He seems to be doing fine. He got to eat 3 hot dogs for dinner! He thinks he is geting spoiled!

I am sad now....Ruger, poor ruger...

Well, my day sucks so far. I did manage to get some video up on to you tube. But, then I took Ruger to the good vet in Many. Yup, he is gonna have to have his eye removed. The abscess basically killed the eye and he has a huge puss pocket under the eye socket. They will have 4 team vet surgery on him in about an hour. He had such purdy eyes...now he will only have one. Poor baby. The vet says best case scenario is that they take the eye out, find the mysterious cause of the abscess, put in a drain/flush tube and he stays on antibiotics for a month and then will be fine. Worst case is they remove the eye, have to open his face up too, have multiple drains, antibiotics, flush multiple times a day, heal up and the abscess comes back....

Some people..JK, i got new Videos on You Tube!!

Dont Bitch about my Blog lay out...
Anyhow, i am uploading video to you tube as we speak!!!! YAY!!!

Married Life???

OK, Well, Life has begun! I just got my website up for my BIZ!!! www.rachaelsequineservices.biz

I am offering to put peeps ads up on there for $15 a month! I have got to find a way to have it pay for itself! I will also ad a direct link to your website for $5 a month or $30 a year. So, I am trying to install some software to keep track of all that! My poor laptop is going "geez lady, what now???" But, so far, its holding up!

Whats married life like? Hm, well, its good! Jeff was very proud of me for building my site! He looked it over real good last night and was asking about how we can really rake it in for the site! I purchased a program to take video from my DV and upload it to youtube So I can share on my myspace, my site and where ever! Jeff seems to be his same old self! God love him! We decided against joint checking due to my weird expenses and now we are trying to figure out if we will be filing taxes together for 2007. If so, I am forcing him to send his stuff to MY accountant cause he is still working on his stuff from last year!!!

Oh, that whole what s mine is his and VS, well, Whats mine is his and whats his is ours! How do you like that! I like it!!!! Last night he came outside to watch me ride and clean up the barn a little. He was really sleepy, but, I am trying to teach him that its better to go outside and do things than to sit on your hinny in the house!!! When his 3yo gets back (Hick, the horse) he is going to have to be working him in the round pen while I am riding Gabe so that he gets his daily dose of brain treatment. I am planning on working the snot out of both horses to get ready for next spring!

OK, thats my rant for today!

New Name, New Account, New Blog

Sorry, I had to change my blog spot.....Ugh, I am sooooo tired of all the changes!!! But, this is my new blogger! Enjoy!