Love :)

There are so many things I love.

Buck- I am going to dedicate a paragraph to my dog. Ha! I am a crazy dog lady, don't hate. He is my one and only true best friend in life. He will always be there, doesn't judge, and loves me because I have food in the morning. He's 90lbs of just plain cute. I will never get rid of him and he will always be my couch partner.

Joe- Not much to elaborate about on here. He always wants to try no matter how crazy I am. To any woman that thinks she won't be crazy, just wait. You will one day. You will entirely flip out. It's really ok. As women in general we have been known to do that. Joe puts up with it and still cuddles in the morning. Can't ask for much else.

Pancakes- yes, a food item made it to my list of loves. There is nothing better than waking up to pancakes. Lightly sweet cut with melted creamy butter. Covered in warm pure maple syrup and a cup of coffee. Le Sigh.

Horses- Holy patience teachers. You screw up and frustration city. I love these giant animals. I cannot wait to own one.

Coffee- I drink so much coffee. I am even somewhat of a snob. I like the little micro brews (in a sense) I buy whole bean and grind myself. That's how snobby I am. But its just so good! Don't hate.

There ya go. My top loves in life. Shadow is in there too... she makes goofey noises when she sleeps. :)


I ordered 80 cupcakes today. 1/3 chocolate, 1/3 vanilla, and 1/3 strawberry. I told the lady I wanted buttercream frosting and bright vivid colors on the frosting. I really don't care which colors she picks or if she airbrushes or colors the frosting. She said I am the easiest bride she has ever worked with. Yay! I really just want them to taste good and look pretty, I refuse to stress over the details of it. I know sh eis a trained professional so I feel fine with it.

I am trying to figure out centerpeices. I am going to lose my damn mind. I want plants. I do not want cut flowers. My whole cushy hippy side is coming out here. I'm torn between lavender plants or potted herbs. Absolutely torn. I love lavender and think big plants would look awesome but the cost is prohibitive. I am not willing to blow a large chunk of the budget on that when I could upgrade the wine or apply towards our bands. So potted herbs it may be.

I don't really ahve anything else to do. I order the bands at the end of this month. Joe and I need to get the music situated. But that's nothing really. We just need to get a big enough music list together and randomize. I get my hair done in May and me my stylist had talked back in Feb about it. I'm not worried about that either. She's been doing my hair for 4 years and it always looks amazing when she is done so she can have at it. (not to say that I go often enough to keep it amazing...)

I have 7 confirmed yes's for the wedding and I just sent the invites out last week! People are excited! Yay! Getting married.

Mornings

I woke up in such a good mood this morning! Joe's alarm goes off at 6:40... he snoozed it, rolled over, and cuddled with me. It is an amazing feeling to have him all snuggled up behind me, our legs intertwined, and him gently rubbing my side. I freaking love that shit. He's so cute when he wants to be.

Tonight is tax night. How much fun does that sound like? Oh thats right... none. I need to pay my taxes and then mail them off. Tomorrow I will print and mail. I don't have the energy to do so today. Lazy ya see?

Nothing else new on the home front. I really wish I could find the cord to my laptop! I miss it!

Horses are funny things..

I rode Chex today. I am past happy about it and much to his startled self, I gave him a big hug. We started out the ride with a small buck in which I sat it just fine, pulled him up, and went on. Then he began to hate a corner in the arena. I think part of it was my fault. I didn't snug in the stirrup leather and when I gave him a leg pressure, the leather rubbed him thus the first buck of the day.
Fixed that problem. Then my patterns started and every single time I came around a certain corner he would start to flip his head around and try to dart. Pull him up again, sooth talk him, gently nudge him forward, and continue.
Then we changed the pattern. I asked for a trot. For NO REASON, well that I could see, he started explosively bucking. I was giving him no real cue at the moment. No leg pressures, no reins, no seat, nothing. We just trotted around a corner and towards the dreaded side of the arena.
I sat four HARD bucks. I pulled the reins up and this caused his head to flip upwards and he reared up. I let the reins out which helped alot. I know the reason he reared up was pulling the reins, I was trying to pull him back together but he wasn't having it. When he went up I was sure we were going to flip over and he was going to land on me. Thats cool. Whatever. He went forward again and gave a mini buck and for whatever reason this knocked me out of the saddle. I desperately tried to hold on with my legs and sit back in the saddle. I ended up begining to fall off sideways. By this time my right leg was out of the stirrup and that leg was trying to do everything it could to keep me from falling off.
At this point my left leg was in the stirrup and was holding my weight at least but bailing wasn't a good option because that left me in trample range. Cool. My trainer had at this point grabbed the reins and whisper to me "thank god you didn't fall off and you did an awesome job staying on" . She then gruffly told Chex what was on her mind. She asked if I still wanted to ride, shit yeah I did. I let her work him out a little then I got right back on him to continue what I was doing before.
Lesson learned? Don't try to pull a horse up when bucking. I could have dealt with just the bucking, it was the displacement of his upward movement followed by a small buck. Of course, getting back on. :) I told her I can't wait to ride him next week :)

Two posts in one day!

Oh the joys!

So at work today I had a crapton of stuff to do. Got most of it done for the most part. I still have stuff to quote and people to follow up on, but I'm regaining footing. I noticed that my boss has grown 46 (I think ) apps YTD while last years TOTAL apps were 36. I am doing something right and am going to show him those numbers on Monday. Not as many as I hope to be doing but a hell of alot better than I thought. I need more selling direction though, something he would rather give me a book to read than show me. I need more than just reading something. Oh well, he wants to meet on Monday so that will be nice.

I really need to go camping again. I love it so much. I need to expand my camping gear to include wet naps. It is the most needed thing ever when camping with no running water. I need to add that to my list of things. I have basically everything else ever. I do believe my dutch ovens are hands down the BEST camping gear ever. You have to be car camping to use them because of the weight... but the best food ever made is out of them.

We always bake biscuits in them. Along with potatoes, egg casseroles, pancakes, ribs, and a favorite - peach cobbler. Basically anything you can bake, you can make in them. Though the pancakes were made on the upside down lid of them and place in another warm one. I really do hope that all the friends that have been camping with me keep the great memories of the food that I slaved over for them. ;)

On the brain

I have about 5 minutes to type before I go to work. So I don't know how detailed or long this is going to be. I plan on rambling on about nonsense for a bit. You can feel free to click away at any point now.

10 weeks! 10 effing weeks! I sent the invites out on Wends and YESTERDAY I got a call from my MIL stating that she recieved hers already. Good god postal system!!!! Oh well, everyone has just a hair under 8 weeks to get them back to me. I need them back by June 1st so the caterer knows the exact number. We handed em out at Joe's work yesterday and Floyd, bless his hippy heart, said he wouldn't miss it for the world.

Then all the other body guys started goin on about how great this is going to be, ragged on Joe a bit about how marriage sucks after about 5 years, and in general were happy for us. I didn't anticipate that kind of response from a bunch of body guys! I love that whole group though!

Eep! out of time. I'll type more later!

Wedding stuff again.....

I got the new dress today!!!! EEEEEEEEEE!!!! It's too effing cute! I need to call my taylor and see if he will alter it for me next month.

I also got porta potti's rented. Thank god.

I also got stamps to send the invites out tomorrow.

I still need: to clean the barn, get the sound system figured out, and make sure all my ducks are in a row with cupcakes. That's it. Otherwise the wedding is peiced together!

Weekends

Friday after work we met up with some friends for mexican. One of my favorite cheapy foods! Good times were had and I love just sitting around with friends telling stories and laughing. We then have movie times ready to go see 2 Fast 2 Furious and know that it is showing every 30 minutes. We all head back to my place for a drink and then to head out to the movies. One friend, bless his heart, had just a wee too much. Thus ending the plans to go out and further ingraining the need for a new couch. So we ended the night making sure he was ok, the rest of us drinking and then all passing out. I am kinda pissed about the couch thing, kinda, only because well... its my couch. Though I do understand shit happens. At least my couch is old as dirt.

Saturday turned out ok yet bad. I felt really bad because me and my trainer looked to have a miscommunication. I thought I told her I was going to be there, she thought I told her I wasn't. So she was suprised needless to say when I did show up. I felt really bad and still do. The lesson was "ok". The sweetheart of a horse that I wanted to ride has gone lame. She should be making a comeback just needs lost of stall rest among other things.

My poor trainer had a trail ride after my lesson with a lady that said she knew how to ride but not how to saddle. I always figured that came hand in hand with riding. There was a time I did not know how to saddle but had been on a horse. I still then, didn't know anything about riding. I'm happy I can saddle now on my own. People never cease to amaze me.

I then wanted to go home, lounge, and clean house. I got roped into going with the boys on a road trip. Two boys with ADD in one car for 5 hours is so mindbending. I can't believe the amount of crap that can be rattled from two boy's mouths.

Went to the machine gun shoot last night which was ok. The intial explosions are cool, the sound of machine guns is cool, watching things blow up is cool, but maybe I'm ADD myself. I get bored after about 10 minutes of it. Once everything was blown up I really did just get bored. Kinda sad. It was cool walking the booths though! There is alot of cool stuff that people keep.

We didn't get home from that till 11pm. So that was a taco hell run, eat, and then pass out. This morning I have woken up with what feels like my body revolting. I want to hit the asian food store up and try this recipe for pho that I have in my vietnamese cooking book. Everything I have made out of that book so far has been delicious so I think I may just take my hand at it. I need something refreshing like that instead of being all bogged down with the nasty from Friday and yesterday. And I can make it beef, which is what I want to eat anyway.

Excellent. Just as long as I can quit coughing and be able to breathe! That's really all I'm asking for.