3 posts tagged “4h thing”
Well, glad that's over. 4H thing wasn't too awfully bad. Still no real fun, but whatever. The little horse I was handling (Suzie) in the paint halter class took first, for some strange reason. I've never really looked at her all that closely; she's cute, and I guess she's got good conformation. She behaved herself better than I thought she would in the arena, that's all I really care about.
The day started off kinda chaotic, but amusing, all at the same time. Got Casie's horse bathed early, and we started banding Suzie while Fanny was drying... well, turns out we didn't really have a whole lot of time before we had to have the horses at the arena before the show started. We weren't in our show clothes. So we bring them both over to the arena and hand them over to M. Wolf who tells us to get changed, and fast. So we BOOK it for my truck, and tear back to the dorm. Casie forgot her keys in her truck, which was back at the arena, so she went sprinting back to Randolph, drove her car back, and still got changed about 2 minutes after I got done. Let me give you a little perspective here: We handed the horses over to Wolf at 8:45. We got back to Randolph at 8:51. Fastest clothes change this side of the Mississippi.
Had to narrate the parade of breeds... dumb, dumb dumb. Had this retarded stupid dumbass, nope, no good adjectives for this piece of paper I had to read off of. Oh well. Really didn't care. Read the thing, hung around, and left for the day. Grabbed a bottle of the River Red from the wine shop (yay!) after the show and went to Genny's after feed. We mostly sat around, drank wine, and told stories all night, was fun.
Count down to graduation is ticking in my head... kinda wanna slow the clock down, kinda don't.
So yeah. This weekend is either going to suck really badly or be rockin' awesome. We've got the 4H show (suckage) and Katie's gone for the weekend (major suckage) but! Saturday night after the 4H thing a few of us are going over to Genny's to wind down with some pizza, smirnoff and wine, and games, which is gonna be wicked cool. Then Sunday I have a serious wallyworld trip to make (gotta get stuff for my teaching project) and I'm gonna drop by Borders too to grab a birthday present or two for myself. So, hopefully, I'm gonna be busy enough to not notice Katie not being around (fat chance) or the thing at Genny's is gonna make the weekend.
My day was (once again) made today! I've been helping Genny in training 1, just for this week, but Genny wanted to keep me for the rest of the quarter. I couldn't really, unless I lost a training baby. So Genny goes to Jen expecting to have to fight her about this, and Jen just said "Okay." So guess who I lost? CASH!!! *does another serious happy dance* Not only am I happy about not having to beat work with him again, I'm happy that he'll have the chance to work with someone else... maybe he and Kelly will get along better than he and I do. Which would be pretty hard not to do. I DON'T HAVE TO WORK CASH ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got way too much satisfaction out of walking by his stall today and saying "You're an asshole Cash. But you know what? I don't care, because you're not my problem anymore!" Speaking of him being an asshole, we're gonna have to get a grate put up in his window. He's now rearing up and biting -over- the extra board in his window. Douche-bag.
Other than that, my b-day is wednesday (and hopefully there will be no showing!) and there really is nothing else! Have fun!
I helped Genny in Training 1 today with Cricket. She needs someone as a ground person and Ashley wasn't around, I'll be helping her all week, actually. But that's not the point here. The point is, I got to handle a normal horse. And now I don't know what to do with myself. I had to deal with Cash first, but I didn't have to work Lark (she'll get worked tomarrow) and helped Genny... and I've like, forgotten what a halfway normal horse is like. It was so wierd. She didn't completely flip out, she didn't fight me over every little thing, she more or less just did what I asked. *shakes head* Going out into the industry is gonna wierd me out.
In other news, I had a fairly good weekend. Katie, Amanada and I went over to Genny's house on Friday to avoid the dorm (Yay for 4/20!) and watched Madagascar and played games until 1 AM. Wicked fun. I suck at Outburst, but we played this game called Dirty Minds which is a hell of a lot of fun. You have 3 dirty clues that lead to a clean answer, which is what you have to guess. I actually won a round of that. There was a lot of immature giggling and it lead to some interesting conversations. The weather was gorgeous, so I sat out and oiled my saddle in the parking lot.
This weekend is the 4H judging thing. Poopy-effing-squat. I've gotta handle a horse in the morning and talk during the parade of breeds in the afternoon. Whoopie. I think I kinda scared Rebecca. She came up to me and was like "Have I given you something to do yet for teaching?" "Do you really wanna piss me off that bad?" but the talking isn't too bad, I'll have a little piece of paper to read off of. The only really good thing about the 4H thing is I get my birthday off from Showing. That's in... holy crap, 3 weeks or so. 22. Scaaary.
