I really have been meaning to update...

I've just had a lot going on.

Well...not really, but kind of.

I'm still trying to get into touch with my future (I hope) trainer. We've been playing phone-tag because for some reason I accidentally left her a message giving her my mothers cell phone number instead of mine. I was nervous and after I hung up I though, "Oh crap. I'm an idiot."

I'm nervous to talk to her in depth too, really. I hate admitting to people how much of an idiot I am and I've been doing it a lot lately. I'm kind of all...idioted out. Hopefully she will call tomorrow, or I will call her. Either way I'm going to try to talk to her tomorrow.

In other news, I finally heard back from the therapeutic riding center and I start volunteering Monday! As soon as I get a schedule for my training, get out of the woods with all this random day babysitting and find a steady job, I am going to sign up to work there on a regular basis. For now though, I'm mostly going to get training. I coupled this with the riding lessons because I thought I would probably be able to learn from both of them as I go.

Also, I have boots! I have to admit...they're ugly. I knew when I was getting into horses that everything wasn't going to be haute couture, but I still can't help but be slightly disappointed. I mean, don't get me wrong, they serve their purpose, and they're nice and reasonably expensive. But would I have bought them if I wasn't riding? Nope. I really wanted the extreme adorableness that is knee-highs but...$232.89?!? (and that was the cheap pair!) I'm still too new to this to unload that kind of cash.

Hm...what else...Oh, it took me forever to find a place that even sells riding boots, or pants for that matter. EVERYTHING that is reasonably close caters to the Western rider, not the English rider, which is annoying, I don't want to buy everything over the internet! And heaven help me, I am not into the Western thing at all. As hard as it was for me to buy those boots I would have bought a thousand more if it meant never having to buy some sequined, frayed out, button up, cowboy shirt-thing. Or tight ass, acid-wash jeans.

But I have been practicing what general good conformation looks like. I found about two dozen horses that just appeared in the field next to the club house and spent the afternoon sizing them up. The fact that they had a barbed wire fence around them was enough to tell me that they were probably somewhat shitty horses. I'm an idiot and I know you don't keep horses in a barbed wire fence (They spook, go running into a fence they can't see very well and are shredded to bits), so the person who owns these horses must be a REAL moron and thus, probably doesn't know what decent conformation looks like either. I was tempted to pet them but kept away mostly. I didn't like them straining their noses and getting them scratched up through the fence.

Anyway, I feel like I'm more rambling now than being informative.