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10:09 pm
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showing off my new horse!
Not very exciting videos as she's just being brought back into work but it shows her none the less
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12:56 pm
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Riding goals for the end of February...
Harmony
Get her to Join-up (May be a bit ambitious!)
Get her to accept her feet being picked up
More traffic proofing
Gypsy
Get more condition back on her
Get her to trust me a bit more
Get her to happily accept a saddle if not a rider just yet!
Ember
Introduce to poles (possibly a few jumps if poles and weather go well!)
Teach that stopping from canter means go to trot - not just stop!
Work on Leg yielding, rein-back other basic groundwork exercises
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12:55 pm
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Not the best quality but for those that are interested here's our horses!
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09:30 pm
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Fucking Parents
I go home every weekend costing me £20+ every week to break in a horse my step-mums just bought. I have no issue with this since it was agreed beforehand that I would do it. However I've just had a call from my dad accusing me of not helping out there enough while I'm down there - every five minutes I'm asking if she needs a hand and I'm spending most of the day up with the horse anyway! I'm also the personal taxi for her kids and for her shopping!
There's also been "a lot of things" go missing - snakes and ladders board game, £20 quid from her wallet. That's all I know about anyway, and he was accusing me of taking that.
Excuse me! I'm only going back to help you anyway, it makes no difference to me if I stay here, actually to be honest I'd rather stay here because it's a lot less hassle and it's a hell of a lot cheaper!!
Oh yeah, and don't forget you owe me £300 that was supposed to be paid back by today for my rent, which I now don't have to pay!
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02:08 pm
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Suggestions please!
Sorry for the distinct lack of updates - will explain later.
However I'm going to a craft show Saturday to sell candles. So far I have a few animal print ones, a few chunky ones, a couple stripy ones, one in the shape of a chocolate mousse, one ice candle and a plain one in a glass.
If you were going to a craft show what other kinds would you like to see?
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09:51 pm
[Link] | Been wondering recently over whether or not this is real or just something one of us has made up. Not helped by the fact that recently a lot more than ever before I've not known who I am (which by the way is the reason that I haven't tended to answer the last few days when directly asked).
I almost want to add more to this but don't know what else there is to add.
Tags: chloe
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09:42 pm
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God People can be so stupid....
Apologies to those of you who don't believe horses belong on the road but there are no bridleways near me so what am I supposed to do?!
Anyway, that said... Now Ember's properly broken in, working well on the flat and good with traffic I decided to take him out for a small hack. I avoided the main roads and stayed on the quiet country roads since he would be more comfortable with that and as he's such a youngster it kept us out the way of most of the drivers.
He was brilliant the whole way in one direction (about 20 minutes there and 20 minutes back). On the way back however there was a motorbike. Now he's fine with motorbikes usually, theres often one up at the yard, but this one drove past us on a small country lane way over the speed limit. Didn't slow down, didn't really make any acknowledgement that we were there. In fact if anything he sped up past us.
My horse totally freaked. He reared, unbalanced himself and landed on the floor with me underneath him! (He didn't throw me but since he fell over...)
The motorbike had no number plate so I can't report it, the cars following had no patience either, even after seeing the accident. Fortunately I'm ok, a few grazes and a twisted ankle but considering what happened that's nothing really. I checked my horse as soon as we were both up and he is also ok, have called a vet out to double check
I walked him slowly back taking him just off the road in passing places so he could still see the traffic on the way back but was out the way. Will have to go back to the beginning with his training there!
I also had a friend with me at the time so there was two of us to calm and reassure him but he was still understandably terrified of all traffic that passed after that!
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07:30 pm
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Ember has laminitis!
Went up to the yard today after being away a week. Bought him in from the field spent hours grooming him, picking out his hooves etc and didn't notice anything. Tacked him up and took him into the school. Although he's still green he was playing up a lot. Rearing, refusing to stand etc. He's NEVER reared with anyone before and so I called in one of the staff from the yard to help. She asked me to ride him and see what he did. So I did! He refused to move happily in a walk and wouldn't go in the direction I wanted. I ended up doing a small circle just to end on a good note and left it there.
I got off and one of the staff noticed his hooves were hot and his pulse to his hooves was exceptionally strong. I sort of expected it since he has had a lot of stress recently and the spring grass is just coming through but was hoping he wouldn't get it! Fortunately as he's not exactly lame yet we've caught it very early and so hopefully it won't get too serious.
He's normally turned out 24/7 but they've stabled him to have no turn out at all until he recovers and then he's to be moved to a starvation paddock before being moved back to his 'proper' field. They've given him the treatment the vet would have given him and will call firstly the vet and then me at any sign of it progressing.
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05:21 pm
[Link] | God it's been ages since I last updated this. Partly because of the house move, partly because of general life!
Finally got away from the other house and therefore the house mate. Moved into another which is so much better. Landlord won't let me renew the contract though as he wants to rent to a group of 4. So now we have to start looking for next year! Want to get a privately rented house rather than a student house so that I can stay there after uni rather than coming back here.
( Recent home life, thoughts about it, developments etc )
On the plus side I got a horse the other day. Because he was unbroken he was very cheap and I've broken horses before so that's not a major issue for me. Also if I can get a sharer for him that will pay for the livery and he's not being worked anywhere near hard enough to be shod yet, also as he's kept on grass there's no food cost involved. So that will keep the cost right down. It will also give me the freedom and escape that horses always gave me before and I love that. I never found that sort of feeling with anything else ever and I never realized quite how much I missed that until I got him. Also as I'm starting to revise I'm starting to realize that grammar never made sense to me because it was never fully explained. Now I'm looking it up and revising it properly things are finally starting to make sense!
( Ember )
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08:38 am
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Lol! So true
My Personality
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06:49 pm
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Thoughts surrounding christmas...
Christmas and new year is always a weird time of year for me.
The last couple of years especially I've been free to just say I don't want to come home, I don't want to put myself back in that situation anymore but I go none the less. It's not that I'm not safe here because I know I am now but it's the memories that go with it.
I always say I'm going home because as ridiculous as it sounds I miss my brother and my cat and although that's true to a certain extent I know that's not the whole reason. It's because I've had it drummed into me that Christmas is a family time and I should spend that time with my family. I should also respect what they've given me enough to at least be around over Christmas. So I come home and then start to think about that and I realise that the haven't actually given me anything for me to respect them for. Everything I've achieved I've achieved off my own back without any help from them.
I think part of the problem is culture. I know family in general is considered important but my mum's side of the family is so focused on their original culture that's so family based. When I went over there to visit the rest of my family I went through choice (genuine choice because I really do love and care for the people over there) but that just made me realise how ingrained into me it is to care for the family however extended they may be. I was talking to Saku and I eventually told her everything about me and she was talking to me about how I had to realise that mum was under intense pressure being dragged half way across the world and having to give up everything at a crucial point in her childhood to be taken to live in another country and that they'd really had a hard time because her parents had given up absolutely everything for their kids and were working almost 20 hours a day just to support the family and so mum hadn't really had a role model to work from. And while I totally disagree with all of that I can see what she was trying to do. She was trying to find a way to defend mum so that SHE didn't have to think of the family badly and was trying to help me not to because their culture is so family based it's ridiculous. This culture, although diluted since they moved here, is still really strong. And it's a ridiculous way of thinking that we should put up with and try to explain away the shit that's happened because of culture but it's something that's been so drummed in over so many years that it's going to take a while to change.
( Random thoughts about everything else! )
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06:57 pm
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Stolen from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lion_azure
Pick someone from our system, and you can have:
- three facts
- a reason why living with them is difficult
- a reason why living with them is excellent
People:
Hayley
Heavenly
Chloe
Tara
Michael
Kirsty
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11:08 am
[Link] | So sent an email to the landlord last night because things have finally got too much here. One of my housemates is coming home every night and being generally abusive and threatening. Not only to us but to the dog as well. He's already been violent once and there's been threats of more and we've already had to call police out twice.
Although I've been talking about leaving loads before now last night was when we finally decided enough was enough and in actuality we shouldn't have to have put up with this sh*t as long as we have let alone any longer. The problem was we've signed a 12 month contract with no get out clause but I went ahead and emailed anyway expecting there to be an argument but basically saying I need to leave. This house isn't safe for us anymore and were locking ourselves in my room every night because we're scared of his behaviour and it's ridiculous now. Were sorry it's come to this but she can't expect us to do this any longer.
It's not the first she's heard of it either, we spoke to her before about this and she basically said she wasn't a councellor and couldn't call a house meeting, besides, she hadn't seen any proof of our complaints (even though we'd told her we can provide proof)
Anyway I got a reply from her a couple hours later saying she was sorry and although there was no way we could get out of the contract as it's a 12 month long one she has just bought a house around the corner from where we are now. Shes just closing the deal but the contracts are already signed. She expects to have it ready by the end of December/early January. Although there was still work to be done (decorating/refitting the kitchen etc) they were willing to do that while we were living there, would we like that one?
Obviously my reply was yes! We have no problem with the landlords, they've actually been very good it's just this one guy we live with! So hopefully that will remove a lot of stress
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05:56 pm
[Link] | Had a letter from a debt collector this morning threatening legal action coz I haven't had the money to pay the last couple of months. Spent all afternoon worrying about that till I called them.. they're only reaction was that's fine.. how much do you want to pay! So I've paid for the months I've missed and up till end of this month which should cover me for now at least.
Failing english so badly though. It's all simple stuff which makes it even worse! The communication I'm actually doing quite well with coz its all either common sense or related to Psychology, but the actual English I really don't understand! Had a look at the assignment too (which isn't due in till February so I've still got plenty of time) but don't understand a word of it!
nectarine_words I was sorta hoping you wldn't mind looking over it for me once it's done? I'm pretty sure most of it's gonna need going over after it's done as I don't even understand what I'm writing about!
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02:43 pm
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Ok so Money's almost sorted!
Got money for my tuition fees this year haven't got my Student loan, thats gonna take a while yet. but I've borrowed £400 from the uni (interest free) until my loan comes through so that's more than enough to last.
First thing I'll be doing when I get my loan though is buying books! I've most of the psychology the psychology ones (all out of date to be fair but still relevant) but still need to buy two, bought two english ones already but still need at least 1. Will be able to afford that easily once my loan's through though so thats not a problem.
Got an appt to get Phoenix microchipped tomorrow which is gonna cost £19.95 but it's worth it.
Still way behind on my reading but I've got a reading week coming up so that should help.
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04:59 pm
[Link] | 1. Do you have a tattoo?
2. How old are you?
3. Are you single or taken?
4. Fish?
5. Do you dream in color?
6. Ever seen a corpse?
7. Hipsters or Hillbillies?
8. How did we meet?
9. What's your philosophy on life and death?
10. If you could do anything with me, and have no one know, what would it be?
11. Do you trust the police?
12. Do you like musicals?
13. What is your fondest memory of me?
14. If you could change anything about yourself what would it be?
15. Would you cheat ?
16. What are you wearing?
17. Have you ever peed in a pool?
18. Would you hide evidence for me if I asked you to?
19. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
20. Which do you prefer - short or long hair?
21. What's your favorite day of the week?
22. What's your favorite color?
23. If you could bring back anyone that has passed, who would it be?
24. Tell me one interesting/odd fact about you?
25. What was your first impression of me?
26. Have you ever done drugs?
27. Will you post this so I can fill it out for you?
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07:24 pm
[Link] | heh... Id thought it has been a lot longer than a week since I'd last updated.
Uni's officially started!! I'm actually really excited about the uni course itself. Though it's gonna be busy. I have 12 hours of Lectures/Seminars each week plus the lecturers are planning on trying to get us to do 2 hours of work at home per 1 hour in uni which would make it a 36 hour week. That's not that bad really and the first year in Psychology is just going to be repeating stuff I've already done 5 times over so it's really only the English thats going to cause me the problems.
( Rant about home life )
Although as you can imagine this is causing quite a lot of negative energy! So I've a favour to ask! Anyone got any suggestions on how to clear it? We've tried salt, we've tried black candles, we can't smudge it because of the boys and the fire alarms and we can't leave crystals around coz the boys would take them. Also, at the bottom of the stairs (where most of the energy is) there's a mirrored wall... sooo, not only do we have the energy itself to tackle but the mirror... ideas?
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10:19 pm
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just freaky...
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01:19 pm
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stolen from 20splinters
I couldn't decide between the two so...
Get your own egg here!
Get your own egg here!
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04:58 pm
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I had a really long entry thought out...
But cant remember what a word of it was now!
So its only a week and a bit till we pick up Phoenix and 2 bunnys. Going to get them on the 31st and spend that night at a friends house before going to get the keys for my uni house on the 1st.
After that I'll be staying at that house and moving stuff in until the Tuesday then coming back here for a few days before moving the rest of my stuff down and staying down there for good.
Really excited over it but really nervous too. Ive got enough money to keep me going for now, but still havent got finance sorted. So dont know how much money I've got, if im getting any money at all! So... I don't know.
This is my 3rd time at uni and I've not managed to finish it, in fact I've not managed to get through the first year before now so I just want things to go right this time around
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