I'm back!

Okay, sorry for the lack of blog posts lately.  Believe me, if I had something to blog about I would!  But my life hasn't been all that exciting lately!  Well with the exception of this past weekend.  That was eventful.  My sister and I spent the weekend working at a horse show.  Now, this isn't all that exciting.  We have been working at horse shows throughout Michigan for the past 3-4 years and we normally work about 6 shows each summer.  This show was at a showgrounds we've worked at several times before.  Because they were fairly short on staff, I went directly there after my "normal" job on Thursday.  Got there around 4 PM and worked until 12:45.  Considering we needed to be up by 5:30AM the next day, it was a good thing we worked it out with the show manager to sleep there in the club house.  We get the key to the club house and walk in and what do we see?  Guess.  No really, go ahead and guess.
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It was a BAT!!!!!  Ahhhh!  Luckily we only saw him that once and he stayed out of sight for the rest of the weekend. 

I got to deal with some wonderful people as well.  One rider, let's call her "Princess" was particularly fun to deal with.  Princess grew up with money.  Lots of it.  I actually had the opportunity to visit her barn a few years ago.  Nicest barn I've ever been in.  Or seen.  We're talking flat screen TVs, granite counters, brass nameplates.... Princess has 2 very nice horses she shows.  She also has her groom sleep in the barn at the shows with her horses.  Okay, now that you kind of get the picture of this lady (who is probably in her 30's, by the way), let's get to the part related to the show.  At dressage shows, we are required to check the tack and equipment of the horses.  To save time, we only have to do 1/3 of the horses in each class.  We also do this each day and I try not to check the same horses each day.  So Princess has 2 horses out of a total of 4 in a certain class.  Basically, considering 1 of the 4 will be checked each day, and she has 2 of the horses, one of her horses is going to be checked.  Pretty simple math, right?  Well apparently not for Princess.

I walk up to her and tell her I am going to do a mandatory bit check.  She sighs loudly and proclaims that she finds it very fishy that she gets checked at almost every single show.  She thinks there is a conspiracy against her.  I explain that we have to check 1/3 of the horses in every class (see math above.)  She proclaims that she's "been fed that bleep before."  Well you've probably heard it before because it's true!!! And then she complains that I don't have an official nametag and that's a rule.  Yes, Princess, it used to be a rule, but it is no longer.  Ugh.  What she doesn't realize is that if I had the option not to bit check her horse, I wouldn't, just so I didn't have to deal with her.  I do feel kind of bad for her though.  I don't think I've ever seen her smile or be happy.  Just goes to show money can't buy happiness.  I'd definitely rather be poor and happy than rich and miserable like she is.

Anyways, I get home Sunday, and I ended up with heat stroke from being out in the weather all day.  It's not a fun feeling.  And I had 2 huge bottles of powerade and a bottle of water during the day.  So be careful out in the heat everyone!  Heat stroke is no fun!

Today was a busy day.  Met with my mentor from church in the morning and then off to work.  After work I stopped by the vet school to meet with a 2nd year student so I could try on her coveralls so I knew what size to order.  The smallest size is still pretty big on me, but not unbearably so.  Then I stopped by to say hi to one of the deans, two of the secretaries, and check in to make sure they got my most recent transcripts.  Luckily everything was all set.  Then off to meet this guy who was selling a book shelf on Craig's list.  I was kind of nervous because no one could go with me to meet this complete stranger... so I gave my dad all his contact info and told him to come get me if I didn't call him 20 minutes after getting to this guy's apartment.  Luckily the guy wasn't a weirdo and I ended up with a super nice book shelf.  It's over 6' tall and very solid.  And it just fit into my car.  And the best part?  It was only $15! Yay!  Unfortunately there is no way I can move it by myself, so it will remain in my car until Jake comes to visit this weekend.  I'm so excited to see him!