Horse Show; Two Days Away; Nervous Butterflies.

[1.] The love for a horse is just as complicated as the love for another human being...If you never love a horse, you will never understand.

[2.] A horse doesn't care how much you know until he knows how much you care.

[3.]There on the tips of fair fresh flowers feedeth he; How joyous is his neigh, there in the midst of sacred pollen hidden all hidden he; how joyous is his neigh - Navajo Song

[4.] When your horse follows you with out being asked, when he rubs his head on yours, and when you look at him and feel a tingle down your spine you know you are loved...do you love him back?

[5.] The Sugeon General said nothing about SMOKING THE COMPETITION!!

[6.]Here is one little girl who would rather clean a stall than her own room...Here is one little girl who would rather wear chaps than a party dress...Here is one little girl who would rather go to the barn than the mall...

[7.]Stay away from a horse long enough and you'll start tapping your fingers in the beat of a post trot.

[8.] Nothing is more sacred as the bond between horse and rider...no other creature can ever become so emotionally close to a human as a horse. When a horse dies, the memory lives on because an enormous part of his owner's heart, soul, very existence dies also...but that can never be laid to rest, it is not meant to be...

[9.] I have often been asked why do I like horses so much. Look into one's eyes. There you will see generations of horses who have served the human for thousands of years faithfully for nothing in return, beaten horses, starved hoses, horses who no longer pocess a sprit. They deserve to be loved and respected as much as humanly possible. Let them run free again. Let them no longer be a faithful beast, but embrace them as you would a dear friend, for they are.

[10.] No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle - Winston Churchill


So, I have showing on Tuesday.
The showing class, I'm in, starts at 9 Am.
I have to be in Pekin, at the stable, sometime between 7, and 7:30.
I have to brush Mike out, and shine up his hoofs and check in and get dressed and feed him and all this other stuff. I have nervous butterflies, thinking about the fact, everyone's eyes are going to be on me, as I set up Mike, and I trot and walk with him, and do pivot circles and all. Its sort of thrilling, yet nerve-racking.
Like, when I first sang in front of alot of people, I was shaky at first, then let it all go, and got better.
I was shaky in training, I was better in the second one. But I was in the showing areana yesterday, helping them set up ropes and all, I have to admit..It's pretty big.
I have to wear boots, and tuck the black jeans into them, a western button up shirt, tucked in, and I'm going to wear a black tooled belt, with a rectangular belt buckle with two horse heads on it, and of course, my cowgirl hat.

I'm excited!
I want to atleast place.

Wish me luck!

I just gotta let it go, and not worry, have fun, and be confident.
I know Mikey-boo will do good.
[Haha, Real name is Micheal Jackson, everyone calls him Mike. I call him Mike, or Mikey-boo]
Mike is a black Morgan/Quarter mix,with a white mark, under his forelock.
He's smallish too, 14.3 hands.

Songs:
It's Been Awhile - Staind
When You're Gone - Avril Lavinge
Going In Blind - P.O.D
No Reins- Rascal Flatts
Strange Boy- Kerli Koiv

Quotes

If you can promise me anything, promise me that whenever you're sad, or unsure, or you lose complete faith, that you'll try to see yourself through my eyes
PS I Love You

I can't really offer you much.But I can offer you thatempty spot of carpetright next to me.I can offer you late nights,of you and I sitting together.I can share with you mymind, and my words,and my music, and maybeit'll move you, like you move me.

Rainy days, and sorrow drowned roads,your everywhere I go, in the faces of strangers, on the boardwalk,down by the harbor, in the ripped waves, I feel you in the stars, on a cold nightyour everywhere But here.

Look in my eyes
'Cause you're my dream;
please come true.

There was no one but you and me
We would hide from passing cars and we would have the summer stars
And we were better than we'd ever been before
You came back to me after walking out my door

And you honey, you need to know that you, you took the world and made it glow.

His hello was the end of her endings,
Her laugh was their first step down the aisle.
His hand would be hers to hold forever,
His forever was as simple as her smile.
He said she was what was missing,
She said instantly she knew.
She was a question to be answered,
& his answer was I do

Let's dress up like dreams and pretend we're free.

Live, Laugh, Love. Don't Turn Back.

So I start school sometime in August. I'm excited, but, like I'm a bit scared too. The excitedness is starting to take over, and the scaredness is being calmed and soothed by my rational thoughts of "It's just school, you will find some new friends, Its just a bigger place, with better classes, and it's a chance, to express yourself. Live it and Love it."
So, I'm taking Marine JROTC, as an early bird class.
My normal classes are:
Algebra 1-2
Biology 1-2
Enriched English [With Debate]
World History

My Two Electives are:
[I'm Taking Two, Most People Only Take One, There's 6 Class Periods In A Normal Day, I'm Taking Seven. So That's Why I'm Taking Early Bird As Well.]
French 1-2
Mixed Choir

I might try to get on the newspaper too, I'm not sure yet. Depends on how busy I am, I'm still going to volunteer just as much as I can at CIRT. Its very relaxing and I love being there, I love being around the riders and the horses.

Oh yeah, that reminds me; I'm going to be in a show, on the 29th. =] It's halter showmanship, so I'm on the ground, and I have to know the quarters of the horse, for when the judge comes around, and I have to know where to stand, and I have to keep my hands up and even like I'm holding a tray. And I have to do a pivot turn, which is where one back leg basicaly stays the same and I turn the horse away from me. And I trot and set up and all this. Wish me luck! First show EVER! I just have to come off as confident, Micheal Jackson [Or Mike. That's what we all call him, He's the horse I'm showing.] And the judges will sense it, and I'll come off stronger then I would, if I were all nervous and all.

So today's title, is Live, Laugh, Love. Don't turn back.
Live your life, to the fulliest extent, you're young, you're bound to mess up a few times. You learn from your mistakes, and you become stronger. Sometimes, life is going to push you around and knock you to the ground. Failing isn't falling down, failure is staying down, or refusing to see that you were down and never fully got back up. So live it up a little, but don't lose yourself while you're letting lose a little. Be who you are, and keeps your morals.
Laugh. Laughing is the best meds sometimes. Enjoy the time you have with your friends. Inside jokes, show how connected you are someone, and of course, they normal make you laugh, or crack a big smile =] Be able to look back on some stupid stuff you did, and laugh, knowing you've learned on it.
Love. Love your life. Even it gets tough, you have friends who will be there, through thick and thin. Count your blessings when you can. Sometimes you will get down, that is normal. Love nature, love feeling the sun shine down on you, love the natural beauty of the earth. Who knows how much longer it'll be around?
Don't Turn Back. This one's harder. I know this happens to all of us, from time to time. We all look back on the past, and beat ourselves up over somethings, that we can't change now. I still do that, from time to time. But basicaly, try to live without regrets. Learn from your past, and do what you have to now. But also reflect on your past in a postive way, when it's needed.

Some Good Songs:
I'll Always Be RightThere;; Michelle Branch
Elephants As Big As Whales;; Play Radio, Play!
I'm Only Me, When I'm With You;; Taylor Swift
Collide- Howie Day [The regular, or the accoustic. Both are amazing. =] ]
Blush (Only You);; Plumb

Quotes <3

And I could see the world in different colors,I'd read it in the air as signals, send them through,but everyone is just a different shade of you.

Because you're beautiful and you don't know it.Because you're smart and you don't believe it.You're the kind of girl that guys never get over.You're the kind of girl that other girls get compared to

Don't be afraid of what will happen to you if you love; be afraid of what will happen to you if you don't.

& since I've been with you, I don't even need mirrors anymore because when you tell me I'm beautiful, I don't care who else thinks I am

In the day by day collision called the art of growing up, there's an innocence we look for in the stars. To be taken back to younger days, when there was no giving up on the people we held closest to our hearts.

Cause love remembers
The smell of a summer day
Lying in a hammock over fresh cut grass
And the promise of forever
Yeah love remembers
The sound of the pouring rain
Beatin' down on the top of a car
On the side of the road
Where it couldn't wait
Yeah love remembers


And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.- the notebook

"Don’t be afraid." I murmured."We belong together."I was abruptly overwhelmed by the truth of my own words.This moment was so perfect, so right, there was no way to doubt it,his arms wrapped around me, holding me against him...it felt like every nerve ending in my body was a live wire."Forever." He agreed.- Breaking Dawn


So Live, Laugh, Love. And Don't Turn Back
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