[	Tags	|	horse camp, jozee	]
[	Current Mood	|	la-dee-da	]
[	Current Music	|	fireworkses	]

So, how are ya'll...cool. I just took a health test and am now puttering around on here. :D I got a 97. *squee*

Horsie camp is now officially over with, which is pretty good. I loved it (volunteering + horses = wonder volunteering) but it was getting a little stressful, especially when having to deal with the kids that just stare at you like lumps on logs when you tell them how to do anything important, like steer. *sigh* So, now it's all good. I don't need to worry about that anymore.

We found out about two days ago Uncle Dave and his family (my little cousins that I like a lot) are coming to visit Saturday. I'm sorta upset about it though cuz they chose to not come at Christmas and told everyone last minute, which was sorta disappointing, and now told us last minute and expect us to be there. :/ I had plans to go to the lake on Saturday but now I can't. What really gets me though is how they say last minute, and if we don't come everyone gets their panties in a knot. Blaaaah...there is some other underlying stuff too, but that's the short of it all.

I was able to convince my dad to let me work Jozee again today, which was needed. Short story: Jozee is a mare at our barn who belongs to a very nice lady named Tera. Tera is attending medical school and thus cannot work Jozee much but obviously would love to. Jozee is now my summer project cuz I <3 Jozee ^.^ So now Jozee and I have bonded quite a bit more than before, which is vury gut. She looks for me now, which makes me feel loved. Today was only the second time I actually worked her (on a lunge line-no riding yet). Last time she challenged me a lot and I had to crack the lunge whip more than I like (not whip the horse, make the whip *crack* sound). Just FYI, mares challenging is a butt of a thing to work with. XP Today though she only challenged me three times and responded nearly entirely to my voice. Even when she was tired, I'd say 'trot on' and she'd push a little harder. <3 I feel proud of Jozee, and happy that we're making a better 'herd', and amazed at the quick progress. Yay.

So that's my life today. Weeeee. Now people are setting off fireworks on my cul-de-sac. Ah, the good weeks of before-after the holiday of 4th of July. XD I wanna go watch.
<3

[	Tags	|	broken nose, camp, horse camp	]
[	Current Mood	|	sunburnt & busy	]

(I've not had time for anything really until now. <3 me anyway? I <3 j00.)
So, I'm back & alive. 10th-17th  = camp. At the best camp eveh. <3
So, some stuff was different this year with it being the second year Mable's family was directing and the like. But it made it amazing. I signed up for high ropes & lurvly sit-on-tops the first two days then high ropes & crafts later XD.
Well high ropes...I'm so friggin' proud of myself that I did it. (It's basically a whole bunch of obstacles you perform 25+ ft in the air.) I've always been nervous, then one of my good friends from the week, Haley, said she'd do it with me and I was gone. I completed the first course relatively easily, which was a cat-walk pole, wires, then zip line. (Zipline = clip self to looooong wire from 30+ ft, run, jump, & fly down huge hillside...= <3) Then the 2nd course was harder. It was 1 wire for your feet to shimy across while you reach for support ropes, then an opbstacle bridge where the obstacles flipped under you when you shifted your weight. Two people in our class fell. Twas freaky, but awesome, then to zip line. David tried to bribe me across with an orange on this one, which was the best. XDD After that I did the big swing and pamper pole. Big swing = 25 ft high, clip waist to heavy wires, climb a little (with wires), lean, free fall, feel like ground is going to eat you, wires tighten, swing out for most amazing adreniline rush ever. Pamper pole = climb 25 ft high wobly telephone pole, attempt to stand at that height (scary), get guts up, jump and catch trapeze bar. Getting the bar is hard, but I did it! Thinking about it still makes my heart rush. XD Haley yelled at me "Just suck it up and juuuump!!!" which was the best. Sit-on-tops are still my favorite boats ever, end of story. <3 In crafts I ended up with an award (the crafts lizard) at the end of the week cuz everyone was apparently impressed with a wolfy picture I made. I'll post it here. ^.^

The best night at camp was the dance night. My cabin went canoeing over to Needle's Point to camp, but a lot of girls wanted to go to the dance. So they all went, but Mable (who got to come with us <3) and I stayed on the point with just one counselor. It was the best thing eveh! We had such a crazy time... Basically Mable and I have gotten to be really close in just short amounts of time, which is amazing, and we both think the same and such so we can be crazy together. I want to have her come visit some time so she can meet everyone, cuz that would be amazing. Anywho, we basically did ordinary camping responsibilities, like bear-proof the food, but made them take twice as long since we had forever, and had an amazing time doing them. That was honestly one of the best times I've ever had. <3 A bunch of other stuff happened (of course), but I don't want to ramble too much, but it did make a (awesome) week of my life so some rambling is required. XD So, finally, I believe I broke my nose when I got shinned in the face on the bannana boat. I didn't think it was possible at first, but I discovered just how easy it is to do such a thing and how little can be done for it, and realized that it must be broken. So, wippee. It cracks now XD.

So, other than that I'm home. <3 When I came home I rapidly became crudily sick, which lasted until about weds or thursday. Yay. XP I helped a bit with the horse camp I'm volunteering at, which was cool. Thusday my hamster, Oido, died, which sucks. I lurved my Oido. For those that didn't know, she was calico and had big cute ears (thus her name) and a little black star shaped mark over he shoulders. I'm gonna miss her a lot. Yesterday I went to the lake as Richard invited me to go with three of his neighbors who are my age. It was really nice. We went to a less stuffed lake and probably only saw about 20 boats on a Saturday, so it was nice. The water was like glass. I kneeboarded a lot, so I now have that addiction. I was up on water skis, then the rope popped against my fingers, which popped my tendons, which equaled no more tendon pressure for me. We tubed a bit, then someone stole our tube. XP We also saw a wildfire, which was cool. It's too dry though(poor pasture...). Now I am quite badly sunburned and feel sick-ish again. Tomorrow the second session of the camp I'm counseloring at starts, which is bleh-ish due to burn. Ah well, suck it up. Also, dispersed between all that is a health class which is quite easy but tedious as crap. I'm already halfway done, though, so it's all good. So this is a shout out to everyone as I have not made contact with -anyone- except (very shortly) Tanya, my nice neighbors, and family. <3s for you all. I'll try to call you all sometime this week.

[	Tags	|	field trip, migrane	]
[	Current Mood	|	artistic	]
[	Current Music	|	DDR Butterfly	]

I didn't go to school yesterday because I had about the worst migrane I've ever had the night before and it hadn't entirely gone away, so I stayed home and was lazy. XP It was a weird, bad migrane as it started with me losing vision in my left eye, so my parents had me go to the doctor. But yep, it was pretty much just an evil migrane. Today was nice cuz we went on a field trip to a local museum place to leanr about chocolate. We also saw an IMAx about the Amazon, so it was fun. Me, Moehawck, and Justin were all in the same group, so twas much fun. Cept now Moehawck is being abducted for the weekend. *cries* 
On the bus ride to the museum, we were listening to Moehawck's iPod with a splitter and such and singing, and we'd get relatively loud and some people would look at us like we were crazy. It was fun. Philip turned around at one point and glared like 'WTF?" He was trying to be cool, but it just made me laugh. Ha! I also bought the endangered species chocolate bar like this wolf one my youth instructor gave me once, only this time it was a black panther. So, nothing much else to say.

Yay, weekend!

[	Tags	|	family, horse, jumping	]
[	Current Mood	|	awake	]

So, I got back Wednsday night. The whole thing wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, thankfully. I'm still rather glad it's over. Best thing eveh: Weds morning I was out in blustery awesome cold weather and it was -snowing-!!! zomg, amazing! Irony: got home and it was hot and sweaty. XD, ah well. While the family was eating at one point during the trip I was talking to my step-Uncle Fred (he used to hold me by my wrists and swing my around when I was small. ^.^) and he said he had a violin I could have. Apparently his dad just sorta made it appear outta the floorboards when he was in about third grade and wanted to play. Thus, no one really knows anything about it. Unfortunately it needs some work before it's in playing condition again (new bridge, new strings, replacement of the two of four fine tuners(<----super bad)) and it's about a 3/4 size when I play on a 4/4 but it's still amazing. I'm all enthralled...it's my project violin. I was nosing aound in the loose parts of the violin and I found a piece of aged cardboard-ish paper that  has 'cc' painted on one side and '1748' on the other. That's the only identification I can find in the whole thing...and it's awesome! If that violin was made in 1748, I'm blown away. I can't wait to hear how it sounds.

Yesterday I wanted to go see Moehawck but then ended up having a sorta crappy day and just sorta wanted to be left alone so I ran off to the barn to talk to Jazz E. I feel bad though cuz I never got to see Moehawck and sorta left her hanging. *feels utterly guilty* And it'll suck if this whole spring break goes by and I don't get to see any of my hy0man0id buddies. At least she called me from a random parking lot carnival at the mall last night and was having fun, so that's good. And now, I'm cheered up so hopefully I can see her today. *woot* 

Barn rambling: Jazz and I jumped 2'6" yesterday, which was the highest either of us have ever jumped before, and it was the second jump in a row. That's also the first time I ever pulled Jazz through two jumps in a row, and the first time Jazz jumped verticles without shying away. It just...the shorter jumps where jumps, but that jump was flying. (>> << There's gonna be some random jumper I don't know who reads this and thinks I'm a dork, but then they don't remember their first flying jump. XP) Speaking of jumping, Moehawck said Dene jump the electric fence to get to the grassier side. XD That's awesome! Dene is now proof that the grass is always greener on the other side. 

Finality: I don't wanna go back to school!!! *whimper*