I got out to the barn too late to ride but that was ok. Cook has a hive thing going on under her tummy so I took the opportunity to 1) clean that crusty, nasty pus stuff off and 2) shed her out. She wasn’t very excited about having this done but she stood in the cross ties and didnt’ kill me so I consider it a success. I used an iodine / soap mix and it looked pretty good afterwards. I cleaned up her face too. She was pretty sweet for that part, she was just antsy during the scabby scrub part.

Anyway Mere said that she is still spending her days pacing instead of doing normal horsey activities like grazing, bonding, playing. :-( She won’t really attach to anyone but Tig and the baby and well… she can’t go out with them. (Tig might be overprotective of the baby and hurt Cook.. especially after Cook tries to pull a “Hand that Rocks the Cradle”.) I pulled some more splintery things out of Cook’s neck where she is pacing against the fence. Sigh. I dont’ know. Not sure what, if anything, I can do. At least, under saddle, she is listening and good.  My only concern is that she seems stiff and I don’t want her to walk herself into hurting.

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My two favorite songs right now are “Control Myself” by LL and “Hips Don’t Lie”  by Shakira.

fave lines.

“Stop it, don’t make me hurt u”

“Baby like this is perfecto”

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Office is new tonight!  I hope it’s good!  I hope Jim and Pam kiss!

All is well. Work is going better.

Cook was awesome jumper pony today, jumped around a bunch.  I need to start bringing my camera back out to have people snap pics cause I haven’t had any new pics in a while.  I want to start scrapbooking again, took some time off of it. 

My blogging is limited cause my home PC isn’t turning on for some odd reason.  I have to get Scootie to look at it.

I horse showed today. Cook was awesome. We schooled great. Had the best time really. Classes went ok. The first class I picked up the wrong lead… right in front of the judge.. good one, Crystal. The second class I did well but I was left behind on the first jump. Looking at the pic, I’m not sure now if I was really left behind, or if she was just took it really long and I was out-jumped. Matters not either way. Cook was good. Way good. However the drawback was that it was cold cold cold. I froze all day and I’m still having trouble getting my core temp back even as I am sitting here blogging under three blankets. I’m about to hit the shower and stand under the hot water for about 30 minutes.

I have tons of pics of everyone at the show. Look under the gallery under Macnair’s and find the folder with ur name.

I spent the night with Cam’s parents. I actually got to sleep in!! Sleep in!! WOW!!

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I went to the Prime Outlets. U know I had to do it. :-) They had ALL the good outlets. I thought of Theresa often. Man, I wish she was there with me. They had an Ann Talyor loft (I had to physically restrain myself from buying a lil black dress there - who needs 5 black dresses?). Of course, I went to the Gap and found some stuff but I have been disappointed in Gap lately. Perhaps I am getting too old for that store.

Anyway I went to the Banana Republic outlet and I got the prettiest shirt EVER. I LOVE IT. It’s totally my birthday dinner shirt!!
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My cousin Ivan is moving to California to go back to school. So let me pause and tell him how very very proud I am of him. I have ur back 100%! Much love and luck!

So Ivan lives like 20 minutes away in Newport News so we met up for lunch. Ivan took me to a scrapbooking store in Williamsburg!! He even found stickers of horses!! I threatened to snap a picture but he wasn’t having it. (That’s a hint for everyone - when I’m out of town, I’m finding the local scrapbook store!)
Here is a pic of us while we were saying bye. What is that on ur face, Ivan? Is that a … smile? WOW! amazing. (He tries to be solemn in pictures). Click for full size.

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At 4, I attended Cam’s bridal shower thrown by her mom.  It was the nicest, best bridal shower.  Her mom really outdid herself.  I have tons of pics and I will throw them in a folder in the gallery.  It might take a couple of days so keep checking back.  I have something like 125 photos (from the shower and horse show) to DL so it might take me a few days!

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Made it home, cleaned tack and went to bed!

Here is a postsecret that is personal to me.

I love u richie.

I’m slammed packed busy right now hence the reason for no blogging.

This weekend is going to be soooooo busy.   It actually  began yesterday with me being busy at work, stopping by the barn, dropping Scootie off at the airport, and then meeting Rich in Dunn to exhange our vehicles and give him the dogs.   Which really was sort of sad when Birdie did her “howl - don’t leave mum”.  :-(  But they love Uncle so they will be fine.

Anyway I will catch up here eventually and I expect to have a TON of pictures when this weekend is over.   Bridal shower + Horse Show = Tons of pictures.

I forgot 1 REALLY important person.
12. “Now that you have come around to see it my way, you won’t regret it baby, and u surely won’t forget it baby”.

13. “Sid will be there, and so will I.  An Insect til I die.”

So I had no idea that my Theme Song Post would ignite the slew of IMs, emails and calls. HA! I’m not telling who is related to each song. If I have to explain each song, then it makes it less to that person. But I will say that not each lyric is meant to be taken literally….

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I’m trying to get the dogs settled and house cleaned up (there is horse STUFF splewed EVERYWHERE), so I can be front of the TV at 8pm to watch Wenty on Prison Break. Man, they have been on hiatus and its’ been killing me! T and I were talking about him today (she claims to be dating him but how can that be when I’M dating him??) I hope it’s good tonight (i.e he has to take off his shirt for some reason).

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I didn’t see Cook cause it was rainy cold and I’m tired. So I came home. She called me tho and told me she was fine. “I’m just watching the baby”. She’s obsessed.

Listed are lyrics that remind me of the people closest to me (either the words literally or cause the song figured into our lives at some point). But if ur listed below, odds are ur song should pop out at u. I do this cause I can’t come up with original poems like Lauren for my friends. So 1 person has 2 songs cause I couldn’t decide between both. and yes, Cook has 1 and so does Baby Montgomery.

1. “A guy like u, should wear a warning”

2. “One, ur like a dream come true.”

3. “If you fall, I will catch u, I will be waiting”

4. “These words are my diary, screaming out loud”

5. “U wanna see my what??”

6. “I wonder if truly u are nearly as beautiful as I believe”

7. “Never know how much I love you, never know how much I care”

8. “You came into my life, sent from above”

9. “But my God, it’s so beautiful when that boy smiles”

10. “You’ve got, the most unbelievable blue eyes I’ve ever seen, you’ve got me almost melting away”

11. “Love Bites, Love Bleeds, It’s bringing me to my knees, Love Lives, Love dies, Its’ no surprise”

We are expecting rain over the next few days so I decided to ride Cook this AM, even tho she usually gets the day off after shows. I rode in with Ash and Aurin and both were very good. Cook was A+.

Later in the afternoon, I tacked up Cook again to play ‘lead pony’ for a younger person. Its’ where u just set the pace in the gaits (walk, trot, canter) when a younger person is on a new pony OR when Mere is breaking a green horse in (Early, Duly and Aurin all had Cook as the lead pony). Cook didn’t complain when I came and got her (again) to ride, and didn’t complain when we had to trot / canter / trot slow / canter some more / canter some more / trot jumps / canter slow / canter fast / cut corners… u get my point. I asked ALOT of her today and she was sooooooooooooooooooooo good. I love that mare. She really worked for me today. Worked hard and had a good attitude about it.

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With Mere’s blessing (she had named her), I have changed Cook’s name. Cook’s new name is……

drumroll……

My Fortune Cookie.

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Ok, show pics are up. triple creek farm 3-18-06 in the gallery