Damn

Today started out well. Got 2 firsts, 2 seconds, and 2 thirds at the horse show. And then I came home...

Opened my mail...

And found out I was denied for disability.

Damn. I'm so screwed.

I'm going back to the restaurant...I don't know how I'm gonna manage...but I really have no choice.

Things I can't do:
-Take our trash
-carry heavy items
-come in contact with sick people (yeah..that should be easy u_u)

Factor in doctors appointments twice a week...feeling like shit 4 days out of the week that I have chemo...that means in a two week period I can work a total of 6 days. So if I work 12 hours on each of those six days I should be able to survive.

I'll get right on that...

Horse Show Day 2

So went to another horse show today..because well I'm just that crazy. We took three of the horses since they were holding a poker trail ride as well and we figured we could ride that after I was done showing.

So first Zippy did his English classes
2nd - Go as you please (Walk/trot)
3rd - English Pleasure Open
1st - English Pleasure Amateur Rider
5th - Go as you please Open

So the day started off well. Then we changed saddles and I got on Thunder, my mom was on Zip, and my father rode Hoppy and we headed off to the trail ride.

Okay so for the trail ride you collect Poker cards at various points along the ride. The person with the best hand at the end of the ride wins. My very first card...a Wild card. Score.

So the ride takes about an hour and we collect our cards and I end up with 4 Aces, thanks to 3 wild cards. Sweet.

Turns out I came in second behind someone who had 5 Aces. Cheater XD But considering the amount of people doing the ride I was very pleased. I won a very pretty painted pony statue.

Then I decided to take Thunder in some gaming classes since they were something we don't see very often and Thunder seemed pretty excited about being out and about.

So the 33 year old pony went to this first show in about 8 years. The first class was "Musical Stalls" I have never even seen this game before but what it was was there were poles on the ground that made "stalls" and they played the music and when the music stopped you had to be in a stall. And they took one stall away at a time like in musical chairs. Well we ended up 3rd XD

Then there was pole bending and with a time of 27 seconds we basically were 3rd by only 1 second. They ran this kind of strangely though because we ran head to head. I've never run a race against another horse at the same time before so it was wierd o_o

Then we ran the cloverleaf barrels and we tied for first and had to do a run off. We got 19 seconds in our first run and 20 seconds in our 2nd run, but the other girl got 19 seconds on her second run so we lost by one second again. But its okay because it was awesome fun and we went home happy.

So there are three very tired ponies in the barn. And Phoenix was apparently a very good girl while she was home alone for the first time.

And that was my day.

( Pony pictures! )