...And what a craptastic week it's been.

[VTrider]

So tell me - is anyone out there having a good week?

Let's pretend we are at a bar (for those who have never been to a bar - it's a fun place to share in laughs and beverages) - With my new Jeff Gordon Visa card (highlight of the week), I am going to buy drinks for everyone - minors must get Shirley Temples or virgin daquiris. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

State your desired beverage and complaint/elation of the week. By all means, if you have good news - please share! It may make some of us feel better.

I'll go first.

Kahlua mudslide on ice... /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif
Issue: Ummm...there are certain goals in life that I am thinking I may have to abandon soon....


[As I takes a sip...]

Next...

[This message was edited by VTrider on Jun. 27, 2001 at 01:22 PM.]

[VTrider]

So tell me - is anyone out there having a good week?

Let's pretend we are at a bar (for those who have never been to a bar - it's a fun place to share in laughs and beverages) - With my new Jeff Gordon Visa card (highlight of the week), I am going to buy drinks for everyone - minors must get Shirley Temples or virgin daquiris. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

State your desired beverage and complaint/elation of the week. By all means, if you have good news - please share! It may make some of us feel better.

I'll go first.

Kahlua mudslide on ice... /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif
Issue: Ummm...there are certain goals in life that I am thinking I may have to abandon soon....


[As I takes a sip...]

Next...

[This message was edited by VTrider on Jun. 27, 2001 at 01:22 PM.]

[Everythingbutwings]

I will take Wild Turkey 101 with an ice water chaser /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Hephaistion]

I'll have a double crantini.....

VTRider dear, sorry you're having a bad week. Can I help?

As for me, lets say I'm enjoying the moral dilemma of career vs. horses. Thanks to a job that requires me to travel a lot and a short notice, I have just missed out on our two big back to back A shows last week and this week /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif furthermore, since I thought I'd be at those shows, I didn't bother to enter my favourite dressage show which is also this week, since I thought I'd be at the H/J show. and now, I have no shows to go to /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

There are so few A shows here, that I now have to wait until August. *sigh*

Who's next?

[nelson]

Grey Goose and tonic for me!!

Make it a stiff one - I'm not in the best of moods. It's a man-trouble kind of thing. But, I might be overreacting - OK I probably am.

Mmmmm, thanks for the drink VT!

[WHOA!]

Ok, just give me a budweiser. Did I mention that I am a long lost member of the WTC? /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

Serious issue #1: It's occurred to me that the things I want to do do not mesh well together, and that instead of figuring out what to actually do with my life, I'm just hanging out in school getting a bunch of degrees. Not because I need them, mind you, just becuase it's easier than making actual decisions

Petty issue #2: There are no friggin guys in Indiana. I'm tired of only seeing the people I work with. I have no social life here.

Horseback riding neurosis-- I'm getting nowhere. Everytime I take a step forward with my riding it feels like I take 2 back. /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

Happy thought #1-- Vacation starts in 8 days-- Virginia, here I come!!

[Sea Urchin]

Thanks VT....there's an old movie that pretty much sums up my week - "They Shoot Horses Don't They?" Enough said.....

[Van Teal]

Absolute and Cranberry please hold the ice and double the Ab /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

I have not had the worst week but....

I wish I could figure out "the ride" on my current horse so I would not have to hear, "how wonderful my horse jumps and if I would only get my act together I would win in any company" But then again I've only started him less than a year ago, and he's come pretty far already, the lead change issues are almost resolved and he's always jumping 110% no matter what distance I find /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[Wicky]

for me, please.

Week is so-so - Jair, I sympathize, I get up at 4:45 to ride twice a week so I can be in the office by 11 - the rest of the time I STILL get up at 4:45 so I can be in by 7, and leave at 6, so Boss-Husband can't complain since I am in almost 50 hours (alas, he still complains - but that's because I can't be home to make dinner and take care of him). Then, when I travel, I still miss riding.

SO I guess that is this week's complaint, except that it was last week's, and the week before....

On the other hand, Meshuga horse is being much better.

A toast to horses! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[DMK]

Bartender, that would be a double tequila short for me, hold the lime...

Let's see... last week started off with a huge car repair bill, then segued into a HUGE plumber bill (made me wish for those days when I went "oh, landlord... fix this!"), and just for giggles, got to pay for my vacuum cleaner repair. I don't like vacuuming on a good day. Paying for repairing that thing is just icing on the cake.

Oh, and you know what else? When I dropped it off, the vacuum repair person - who was obviously way TOO attached to vacuum cleaners and their health and well being, looked at my vacuum and it's fine coating of Maine Coon Cat hair and Corgi Hair, and told me pets were hell on vacuums. Like somehow I was a degenerate for subjecting my vacuum to (horrors) PET HAIR!!!! I really should have mentioned the various things that get tracked in from the stable at that point.

So while I was stuck at home, earning no good will from The Powers That Be at Work (like I enjoyed spending all my money on this sort of thing), it occurred to me that I was late sending in my car tag renewal (let's just say my annual car tag tax is close to or exceeds a car payment, late fees are just acid on an open wound). Then I came to the conclusion that I really DO have to get the house painted, and I can't put it off for another year (I might have been able to sneak another year out of it, but ALL my neighbors got their houses repainted, so mine looks MUCH worse than it actually is.)

Oh, and to end up the week, I aged another year. And it was that damn penultimate birthday too. I really don't think I am handling it too well either. Won't be fun to be around me next year, I should think.

And the icing on the cake? Raging case of PMS.

Gulp. Bartender - another please!

[VTrider]

Sorry Wicky - can't join in on your toast for horses /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif Why couldn't I have been born with another hobby of interest - i.e. stamp collecting?

I look to my horse during times of need to make me happy. He gave me some great jumps at a show yesterday, but then decided to be a complete Richard around the corners. Sigh...

OK...time to move on to the Puckers and Mt. Dew /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[jacksmom]

itchy-scratchy here. nuff said.

-jacksmom

[FirstCry]

Thanks VT, I'll take a Tanq and Tonic, make it a dbl. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Sea Urchin - ROTF, yes I think they do. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

I'm not having a worse week than normal, but my life pretty much blows most of the time. If I had my way I'd be at the barn 24/7/365. But we all must work to pay the bills, add a husband and 6 year old son to the mix and thats pretty muchs ruins almost all of my barn time. I'm lucky if I get to ride or just stop at the barn, 3 times a week. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif And when I do get to ride, its either pouring rain or 90 degrees in the shade. /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif For instance, last night was so freakin hot I was pouring more water over me then drinking it. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif My heart was pounding so hard from riding cross country - I almost passed out. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Other than that, life is perfect. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

[Erin]

Jagermeister, please!

Crisis #1: 34-year-old pony tried to rip off his lower eyelid on Monday. (This is the second time he has done this rubbing his head on his stallguard -- even after I swaddled every non-essential piece of metal on it in VetRap. He NEEDS the stallguard, because he can't see over the stall door. /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif ) Vet came out yesterday (an hour late, making me very late for work), discovered he has a cataract in that eye, and put him on steroids, antibiotic, Banamine, and atropine. Vet thinks that the reason he keeps rubbing his head is because of a low-grade chronic inflammation... possibly uveitis. Oh joy. On the bright side, the pony has been an excellent patient, even letting me cold-hose his head.

Crisis #2: TB event prospect has a virus -- either left over from the virus he had in April, or a reinfection. Doctor's orders: three weeks rest. Checkup yesterday was not as good as it should have been, so he's now also on Ventipulin, Tritussin, and a vitamin/mineral supplement. Oh, and we should probably send him to New Bolton when he's well, so they can check out his weird breathing thingie (long story), which could mean surgery... oh, double joy. So far, we have scratched from three events already this season...

Crisis #3: Cranky old cat is losing weight, and has thrown up twice this week. Vet appointment (watch those dollar signs add up!) is tomorrow.

Crisis #4: I'm writing the lead article for this week, it was due Tuesday, and I'm still not done. (I don't wanna hear about it Beezer!) And I volunteered to write an extra article for tomorrow. Oh, the joys of working at a startup company.

I should probably also have blood work done on my 24-year-old retiree to find out why he's lost a wee bit of weight, but for now, he's the only healthy animal I have, so we're not going there! /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

Must go writewritewrite now...

[Mazzy]

Gin n' Tonic, w/ a splash of Rose's Lime Cordial in a tall glass, easy on the rocks.

Might as well make two while you're at it Miss Bartender Extraordinaire!!

Yes, I too hate my current existence. The daily trek of 10 steps forward, 10 steps backward is more than my enlargened patootie (blame the accident) needs right now.

Sympathy to all.

P.S. Anyone got a light?

[Everythingbutwings]

I gulped mine too quickly after hearing about Erin's medicine cabinet. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[FirstCry]

Mazzy - heres a light for ya, but I need it back.

Bartender - Another please?? /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Tin]

k, I'll take 2 shots of Smirnoff with a lime and chase that with a Bud please

Sorry bout everyone's crappy weeks, I'm actually for once having a good week.

Good- I went shopping and lounged on the beach yesterday, had a good ride, got money to spend *yay* and this weekend is the first weekend I haven't had a horse show in a looooong time (ie. Friday, saturday and Sunday night are MINE! MUWHAHAHAHAHA!).

Bad- my fish died, this stupid cockitiel has been screaching none stop for the last few days (hey, I'll trade the bird for the fish anyday!), it's been too hot to do labour stuff around the barn and I'm stuck at home the next few days because my mom has my car

~"Be wary of the horse with a sense of humour."~

[GTS]

Sam Adams please.....

Grrrr...still punishing myself for this weekends stupidity. Went to an event...Horse was wonderful, dressage was great!! Cross-country rode like a dream! oh wait it was more like a nightmare when the TD told me I missed a fence and I was eliminated! Would have moved up to 3rd....grrr /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

[nelson]

OMG FirstCry - you crack me up!

Now I'd like a Stoli Vanilla and ginger ale.

[Everythingbutwings]

VTrider, how far is that card willing to stretch?

Someone pass the menu over here /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[DMK]

Hand me that light when you are done (I know I don't smoke, but I smoke when I sulk, and I am in a world class sulk right now).

And I think I need a Black & Tan chaser with that tequila, bartender...

[Everythingbutwings]

Did you leave the Killian's in the RV back at Culpeper?

....you know it's a bad sign when you're reading every post on this thread hoping to find SOMEONE more miserable than you....!

[WHOA!]

Tequila shots for everybody!!! A few more for me and i may end up dancing on the bar--it's been known to happen (only once!!)

[Everythingbutwings]

It has worms in it. I feel pretty good, though, another Wild Turkey, please?

[VTrider]

1. Ask WHOA! about her Jose Quervoe adventures.
2. TINanator
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> k, I'll take 2 shots of Smirnoff with a lime and chase that with a Bud please<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Good girl - Liquor b4 beer, never fear; Beer b4 liquor, never sicker!

3. Wings - $2,500 - but it's 2o'clock - that starts Happy Hour in my opinion - all drinks are half off!! Yippee!!!!!

4. DMK - Black and Tan - ick - why not just take out a bottle of Karo syrup?

[DMK]

Oh great ETBW, now I can add alzheimer's to my list of woes!!!

VT - Don't you be pickin' on my drink, girlie!

[AMom]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>but then decided to be a complete Richard around the corners. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Okay, call me slowwww, but I FINALLY figured out what you have been saying with the "Richard" and "Richard Cranium" references /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
LMAO!!

Mine would preferably be a Stoli Lemon Drop, but, better make it lemonade for another 5 months /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

I stopped riding 17 days ago and I miss it terribly! /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

And, for some reason, the cat has decided to randomly pee on the bed /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

[Cactuskate]

Oh thank you for offering, I'll have a Meyers and OJ, tall, and please make it the color of this lovely dark oak bar. /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

My week has improved greatly. Last week this time Bud was gimping around with what I thought was a good ol' abcess brewing. After a couple of days of soaking and packing, the farrier came out to reset him. We found no signs of abcess and he tested sore across the back of his foot. Not heel, not frog, just lateral. So we put him in an Aluminum Egg bar shoe. Stall rest over the weekend, And Voila! I have a sound horse.

I actually think it he bruised it when the clutzy guy whapped a concrete brick that holds up the "pole" for the dressage arena wall with his whole foot. Well duh, ya think?

So today we rode and other than being a bit fresh, he was a good boy.

My really good news is that my friend and I are going to look at a horse for her this weekend. I don't want to tip our hand just yet, but it will be a treat and have special meaning to we BB'ers. More to follow Monday.

So thanks for the cool one....hope things look up for ya this weekend. /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

"The older I get, the better I used to be."

[WHOA!]

No, please DON'T ask me about my Jose Cuervo adventures! I've left all that behind me!!

[MGR]

Tom Collins if you please its so HOT up here.

Well I need something to calm my nerves. Last night I was home alone, hubby was working late, and I heard strange noises from the front of the house. Now I am a city girl living in the country and have ALL the lights on in the house. Some one or bodies were up to no good and broke my goose statue in front of the house. It�s heavy, 80 lbs and was tossed out onto the middle of the road. Poking my head out the window I saw shadows running away. They also messed with a car down the block. Thank goodness hubby came home right then and the perpetrator or perps ran away without ding anything else.

Other than that all is good. Moving to a new house right near trotter farms. (just in time) The colts are soooo cute, we see them when we go jogging. I hope one follows me home
/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

Maria G. Rocco

Views expressed are mine alone but hope they can be of help.

[Sweet Pea]

Mmmm.... a Guiness, please.

Without boring you with all the details, I have had some MAJOR life changes this week (not in a good way!), that is forcing me to change all of my long term goals, and most likely sell my horse. /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif Very sad. Can I have another, please?

[KentuckyCourage]

...a chilled shot of that Wild Turkey!

I still need to drown my woes from a disappointing horse trial over the weekend. My pony is a star, too bad his mom (me) rode like crap...

Work is sooooooooooooooo boring right now. Can't keep my eyes open. I swear this week is dragging. To top it off, I have a 9m.o. JRT puppy that wakes me up every night at 3:30AM. Love her to death, but man, I need some sleep >yawn<

Wow, that shot went down too easy. Another please?

[hoopoe]

...But for the most part I cannot tell you what has happen since ...well I just can't. Some of you know what I do for a living.

Week started GREAT with a meeting with Bumpkin and VHV at show. What fun.

I passed my National certification exam on Tuesday AM which was three years in the making. Being at work has been very difficult and is the kind of thing the makes you think about going a different direction. Tears and all.

I will have a MacAllen 19 yr old single malt scotch, double shot, straight up with ice water on the side. ( thank you Dick Frances /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif )

[FirstCry]

I'll have some chicken wings w/Blue cheese. Please.. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

CWP - Ya might want to check and see if your cat has a bladder infection. Its been known that when they start peeing like that, thats the first thing to check.

I'll have another Tanq and Tonic pleeethe. ooop Please. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif Starting to feel better. /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[VTrider]

MGR - people can be so mean. Sorry about you statue.

Hoopoe and Sweet Pea - hang in there sisters. I think the band's about to start up.

B/c life has me down, I cried the whole way home from the show last night (96 miles) - but I was not alone - I road home with the horse-hauler. Cried forever!!! Thankfully, he is a friend of the SO's, so he's known for a while that I am not "quite right" /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

I was on such poor behavior last night that I am thinking about calling him to apologize LOL! I made him stop at a shady McDonalds near Staunton to get me a #3...I even made him go in and get it for me b/c I was sure everyone would laugh at me since I was in my TS's, and Old Navy T-shirt and flip flops. :O

Ironic part of the evening...half way home, Mr. Trucker turned on the radio to drown out my crying and guess what was playing!!!!! The Stones' "You can't always get what you want"...how ironic is that? We ended our lovely jaunt through Rockbridge, Augusta, Albermarle and Orange counties by singing Tim McGraw's It's Your Love...He sang the Tim parts and I sang the Faith parts LOLOL! Nothing like music to pick you up from the depths of hell. /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif


When I got back to the barn at 00hours this morning from the show - the barn was completely dark, so I ran up the isle to flip on all the lights. The cat food is beneath the lights. I heard some crunching and scampering going on - figured it was the cats eating - I flipped on the lights - Oh h*ll no - baby skunks!! Talk about freaking me out. /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[This message was edited by VTrider on Jun. 27, 2001 at 02:24 PM.]

[Everythingbutwings]

have teeny little approved baby skunk helmets on?

I think I need some of the quesadillas. And more ice water, oohh! Wild Turkey is a winter drink.

[Van Teal]

would you mind sitting down wind /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif Sorry to hear about you day, but hey you did say you had some great jumps out of your guy and since you just moved up, consider that a good day, at least you are able to move up, I've been stuck in three foot land since 95 Babies (horses) thank you very much, and every time I've had one on the brink of moving up, my husband sold it /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

[VTrider]

Help! Looks like Wings will be needing a DD!!

VTRIDER!!! Please re-read your third paragraph! You did WHAT forever?! This is a PG board you shameless hussy!

[Everythingbutwings]

Present company excluded, of course. Where's Elghund? and Alec? and Moesha, Jair, Robby, Jeb, SU?

Kennett Square is going to want to dance when she gets here.

[moose]

Finally get to an event after working overtime on thursday and getting called in on friday, only to have realized in my stupidity I memorized the wrong dressage test.

As I tack up for cross country, I realize that both girth and xtra girth are gone, even though I marked them off on my check list (I managed to leave both on our fence, after cleaning them). Run to tack trailer which seems like miles away from my trailer, wait 10 min behind snooty customer that doesn't see or care about the panicked look on my face. We are now 20-25 minutes behind our scheduled warm up. Survived cc & stadium only because the horse has decided that if her bone headed owner can't get it right, she will.

Hmmm, a Stoli Vanilla Gingerale...interesting, Can we mix? /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

[Sweet Pea]

Billy Bob - you just made me laugh until I cried!!! LOL /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

(pssst.... VTrider.... - it'sbawled.....)

[FirstCry]

Me too - re: Billy Bob. I had to go back and reread VT 3rd paragraph, Took me a minute (3 drinks will do that to me) /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif Figured it out and ROTFLOL. hehehe /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Tin]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Liquor b4 beer, never fear; Beer b4 liquor, never sicker! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

VTrider> Darn tootin'! Though I have survived many combintaions, thank ye ol' Irish blood.

Other lesson's I've learnt the hard way:
~4 shots of tequilla max a night
~jello shooters should not be made with lime jello *blah* and jello mix does NOT equal kool aid mix
~do not wear high heels when planning to dance on the bar (high to me is anything over 2 cm's /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif )
~stairs are dangerous and it helps to have a strong guy (that you know!) on each side just in case /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
~don't clip a friends pager on you pocket when dancing, this results in pager being thrown across the floor

~"Be wary of the horse with a sense of humour."~

[FirstCry]

Gotta love that Irish Blood. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif We can drink alot more before we get drunk. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif or so we think. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Lord Helpus]

A gin and tonic, please. Heavy on the gin.

Well, all you whiners /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif (Last week was my turn -- remember how depressed I was about not enjoying showing anymore?) I am having a good week (if you don't count throwing up for 2 days with stomach flu -- but I have lost 4 pounds... /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif )

I changed trainers last Friday (very scary -- I HATE having to do things like that...) and had my first lesson with the new trainer yesterday. He had never seen Warren be good, and so he was not thinking that my horsie was nice. BOY, did we knock his socks off. Warren was Da King! He just floated around the courses (well, he DID keep cutting one corner -- but we are working on that...) But I was so proud of him. And the new trainer got pretty excited also.

So now I am having a great week and looking forward to the show next week.

My mood must even be affecting the greenies. I have had GREAT rides on both of them this week. Seems like light bulbs are turning on all over the place. It is SO much fun to ride a greenie when all of a sudden THEY GET IT. Like, "Oh, was THAT all you wanted me to do? Well, heck, I can do that, no problemo."

Happy, happy, happy. Nauseating, eh?

[Tin]

LOL! Defintatly FirstCry! I have alot of Irish and Scottish in me, how's that for drinking blood? lol!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

~"Be wary of the horse with a sense of humour."~

[FirstCry]

Tin- I'm Irish and Slavic, There's a combo, I'm always fightin with myself. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif and drinkin. hehehe.

[Louise]

My usual double rootbeer please!

Its the last week of the month, which means that the powers that be have decided that to make budget everything in the factory has to be shipped at one time.

I went to take my 88 year old Mom to the dr. last week. Got the '88 Bonneville tank out of the garage, only to discover that the airconditioner doesn't work. This on a 90 degree day. Would have taken the other car, but the passenger door is stuck shut. So, I hauled my poor aged Mom with the heart condition to the Dr in a sweltering car.

Then, to make matters worse, I forgot yesterday that I had an appointment to get the tank fixed.

Have a week of vacation next week, the only full week I will have off all year. What am I doing? Painting the trim on the house if the weather is good, cleaning out the basement and painting the inside hall if it is not. DMK - I agree with you about the joys of homeowning - especially when you are single and can't find any appropriate men who want to impress you with their handyman skills. That's all right, they're generally not worth the trouble anyway. (again, present company excepted)

VT - get yourself to Duffy's quickly, before she scarfs down all those gourmet malted milk balls I sent. Last time I talked to her she had made a good start. Those things will improve your outlook.

[CAH]

Okay, I am heading for the gin and tonic crowd. Twist of lime in mine please.

Actually this week hasn't been too bad...yet.

Is it time for another round?

[Hardly there]

Hey guys sorry I'm late I've been fighting twisters with my pony and eating chocolate chip cookies in my lesson on Dan /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Well hay time is here and I am having a battle with a boarder who hasn't paid her bills in over a year /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

And lets see I finaly have a good horse to show but can't afford to even enter one class /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

I can't eat or sleep and I'm losing weight like mad ( not a good thing /infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif )

On second thought I will have a triple whisky /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

If at first you don't succeed skydiving may not be for you.

[Robby Johnson]

Bartender, a flute of Veuve Cliquot for me please. My mamma always said that when life got rough you should put on red lipstick and go dancing!

What's that I hear drumming from the dancefloor?

"Michelle, can you you handle this?
Kelly, can you handle this?
Beyonce, can you handle this?
I don't think they can handle this ..."

My life is going well right now. I'm having a great summer with a new green horse, I'm turning 30 in just 10 more days, and I'm going on a great vacation to Boston to celebrate!

I could sulk that I have credit card debt that equals the cost of a made New Zealand packer, but I'm not going to. I'd rather tell everyone about the Mossimo sandals I charged on my American Express at Target on Sunday!

Robby
"Bootylicious"

[heelsdown]

I'll take a double anything. This has been the week from hell. It all started on Monday, I noticed my phone wasn't ringing... no dialtone. Curiously my computer phone line was working. I phone the phone company, my check to them bounced and they shut off my business lines. Okay. Next I call my bank, "oh, they say, a large check I deposited a couple of weeks ago bounced, uh oh I say." Yes the infamous domino effect has occurred based on the bouncing check I deposited. I'm not even thrilled with doing what I've been doing anyway, one problem after another, bending over backwards for people who oh so often don't appreciate it.

Meanwhile erstwhile scummy boyfriend stops by and doesn't even offer to help me out. All he wants is you know what, fuguring that I'll just figure my way out of this latest nightmare alone.

At the same time the company I've been working or part time is a month behind paying me.

AND the AC on my car has just decided to quit and that is not a good thing in Florida.

And yes I have a puppy in the house who has just mastered jumping up on my bed and likes to play at 3:30 in the morning.

Bartender!

[VTrider]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>I'd rather tell everyone about the Mossimo sandals I charged on my American Express at Target on Sunday! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Are they navy with a lime green stripe - $9.99?!?! I love Mossimo stuff from Target!

"Here we are now goin' to the Southside, I look at my friends as we start to ride - Ride all night, yeah we ride all day...

Excuse me, Ms. VT, thinks you've got some explaining to do missy! (see above).

[MGR]

Thanks for making this day a bit better and giving me a good drink. I needed that.
One more for the road, cause It is close to the end of the day and I have a horse waiting for me to ride. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Maria G. Rocco

Views expressed are mine alone but hope they can be of help.

[Janet]

Last week, the 18 yo "baby sitter" kicked the hell out of the yearling colt's hind legs. The swelling has finally gone down, and it seemed to be healing.

Now it looks as if we are getting granulation tissue that is probably going to turn into proud flesh! /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif Ans I was hoping to take hin to Warrenton in August!

Yesterday moning I got a call from a surrogate for my boss (who is on vacation). The basic message- you need to find another group in the company to work for. if you can't find anyone else who wants you by the end of July, you will get some sort of severence package, but we don't know what. /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

But I am still going in the local division at the Warrenton Pony Show tomorrow. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[VTrider]

- [I] /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif Like duh...that's the new Moby and Gwen Stefano song Southside...it's only been a chart topper for the past 6-week /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[Michelle Mc]

Yours truly's most vile client is pleading out. This is the worst afternoon of my life. I'll never forget 3pm, June 27th.
The bastard will get medically gelded. I got him off.
Sorry. I have to go cry in my car. I should have been a dentist.
I am going for a nice long gallop now.
When I get back, let's have a few rounds of G & T.
Baked Brie, too. My deck has a lot of room. Come.

Thank god for horses.
What a month. Hopefully I never get another one of these dumped on my desk.

[FirstCry]

One more for the road, please. (or the ditch, however you look at it) /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif Everyone, have a nice evening and will chat more tommorrow.. /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[WHOA!]

Michelle MC-- I'm so sorry! You ARE having a bad day. Go ride some horsies, quick! They can't fix the world, but they can make it seem so much more bearable the way it is.

[EarthTo?]

Pimm's and club soda with a lime wedge. Got home yesterday and opened the mail and found a check for $400 from the gummint -- seems I had overpaid my income tax and they were refunding the error. Is this a great country or what?

/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[B.G.M. heidi]

Sumo's breasts bounce when he runs. I will have to buy him a sportbra for leadline.

And, why, yes, I'd love a sour apple martini.

[VTrider]

Wow MichelleMc...so sorry - I think you need the stiffest liquor possible...perhaps some Everclear can soothe this...again - very sorry.

[HN73]

Oh good, we're drinking. I'm REAL good at this.

Its happy hour, so the beer is cheap. I'll have a Hefeweizen. If we are in one of those really WTC places, I'll just have a Lite.

Are we planning on getting really drunk?

My week has been its normal misery. Never enough time, never enough motivation, never enough funds.

But, thank god, no tragedies. Of course, its only Wednesday.

[Everythingbutwings]

Any way they can "forget" the pain killer when they geld the B*****D?

Robby, is there room on your side of the table? I am switching to Moet Chandon and ordering a salad. I need advice.

[AHC]

Wow, look what happpens, I go out for lunch, have a meeting afterwards and check in only to find that Happy Hour started ages ago! Count me in! I'll have a Bloody Mary in a large tumbler please. Heavy on the horseradish and tabasco.

Week is fine except for the usual worries about how I'm going to pay to horse show this summer and fall. My horse is going well and I'm tempted to wrap her in bubble wrap until we leave for Vermont!

Sorry for everyone else's bad weeks. Special sympathy to Michelle Mc.

Okay, all that posting and I'm ready for another drink! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Cactuskate]

Michelle Mc, there are those times when it seems that maybe we are doing things for all the wrong reasons. Huh? My ex defended "the crudballs of society" as we so fondly referred to them. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

There probably is no redemption in the fact you did YOUR job well though? And that I would want someone of your caliber defending me. /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

Barkeep, it seems there is a hole in my glass....and look my mouth covers it. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

I think I will have a Strawberry 'Rita thank you.

How's that credit card holding up VT?
Please pass the potato skins, thanks! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

"The older I get, the better I used to be."

[CAH]

Refill my gin and tonic please....

Send one down to Erin and Michelle Mc - they certainly need another one.

Anyone for some steamers?

[Kellybird]

Mmm, provolone sticks, bowl of cashews and a *virgin* margarita or cosmopolitan if you can do that.... /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

Job started this week--it is the job from heaven, but when you aren't notified that you need not show up 2 days out of 3, it gets annoying. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Filling on monday--tooth is still buzzing and does anyone else think that the devil himself created novocaine for some "before-you-get-to-hell" fun for himself!!?? /infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif
Even better to still be slightly numbed-up while driving out to a certain boy-band concert... LoL, that was pretty fun though.

My good friend left today for a vacation in the Bahamas...[everybody sing] "It's a cruel, cruel summer, leaving me here on my own....it's a cruel, cruel summer, you're not the only one..." /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

My dad and I were painting our rec room--colors I picked were light and dark orange-y apricot hues, look very cool together, esp for our bar/movie room--anyway, dad wanted to blend them by hand... /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif and as you guessed, it didn't work out so well, so he's mad and we're just gonna do a solid ine between the top and bottom or something...I soooooo wanted to scream 'I told ya so!!' but I thought it would be in poor taste, plus I was to tired to raise my voice....

To top it all off, I can't drive for another 4 months--then for 6 months I'll have to be with an adult for my permit because of our crazy PA laws. /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

Life is fun, I swear, someday, life has got to get fun.... /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

KBird

on second thought, how about some sushi? /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif Actually, right now, a full-course seafood and lobster and crab and shrimp blowout dinner seems quite good....lots of butter here, please...

[This message was edited by TKA Kellybird on Jun. 27, 2001 at 05:01 PM.]

[Cactuskate]

OMG steamers!!!! I haven't had any for years....too far from an ocean to trust any. Pass me the bucket and don't go easy on that butter. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

"The older I get, the better I used to be."

[Cactuskate]

Do you think it is too late to call Dover and have them change that size on those breeches to a size larger???? 1-800-FATSO /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

"The older I get, the better I used to be."

[Robby Johnson]

ETBW!

Yes, the doctor is "in" as soon as I finish dancing to "Back That Ass Up" with K Spade, KellyBird, WHOA and rileyt and Portia (who keeps getting them to play all of these "Monster Booty" songs).

Robby

[HN73]

Ugh. I am ready for a shot. How about Jager? And refill my beer.

And some wings...extra crunchy and HOT.

What are steamers? Steamed clams? If so, I'm in. Truthfully, if its food, I'm in! I'm not fussy!

[Everythingbutwings]

Scrunch over HN73! I have bruschetta and mini egg rolls with plum sauce, Jair is on his way as soon as he recovers Alice from the Californians.

Be right back, got to get my bottle.....

.....Back! These silly ice buckets with legs, worse than the stool I had at Mosby's (the one that failed the vet check)

Now Robby, my cousin wants me to carve another watermelon basket for her paratrooper husband's retirement party and my sister is daring me to do "Artie the Airplane". How do I manage to not tick off my dressage judge, Hanovarian importing cousin, while still maintaining my image with my sibling? /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[This message was edited by Everythingbutwings on Jun. 27, 2001 at 05:48 PM.]

[WHOA!]

Robby, darling, the dancing is NEVER done!

[Robby Johnson]

Did you guys see the pole dance Portia and I just did in the VIP section for The George? I don't know what Portia's going to do with her $100 tip, but I'm going to buy more drinks with mine! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

I don't know what Artie the Airplane is, ETBW, but at this point on the Veuve Train, I say do it and chalk it up to whimsy! Diana Vreeland would!

Robby

[CAH]

Steamers....

Steamed clams...the smaller the better. Served with clam juice (for dunking) followed by a good dip into drawn butter.

Best eaten on a deck overlooking a large body of water. Nice ocean breeze. The larger the bucket of clams the better! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Ready for some more cactuskate???

[Tin]

and you eat steamed clams when you drink? I don't know....steamed clams are bad enough but add a little alky-hol and that could be dangerous

K everyone on the bar for a group photo, Potia and Robby please put your clothes back on and get up there too. You'll have to squish together these disposible cameras don't have a big view area, hey Heidi get your hand off VTriders butt and no rabbit ears Merry....now all say "cheese"

~"Be wary of the horse with a sense of humour."~

[sprite]

this is much more fun than work was today!

I'll have an ice cold Rolling Rock. no glass. And keep 'em coming...

Issues? I got issues...

Bosses are on vacation and junior boss is on major, major power trip. Ugh.

Dog torqued his neck last week, they think he might have nerve damage. Meds, "stall rest"..this for a big active dog used to long twice daily walks. Driving me nuts.

Its wicked hot and i dont have AC.

My riding seems to be getting WORSE. Ack. Figures.

Inventory. We're taking it. Nothing on the sheets matches what we have, if we can even figure out what the things on the sheets are supposed to be.

Theres more but i think i'll have another RR instead of grousing, LOL.

[skysmom]

White russian (more russian than white!!).. My day was more frustrating than crappy.. I went to the tailor to pick up my TS's that needed to be taken in (bought them too big to begin with, thank you Dover!! another story /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif ) anyway when I tried them on they fit well, BUT , now the perma-seams up the front are no longer in the middle of my leg!!! they sort of move to the inside on a diagonal path..let me say not very flattering /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif so I probably end up getting new ones anyway. Thanks for the hospitality Vtrider!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[dogchushu]

Polar bear for me (that's some champagne and ice cream concoction).

It's been an up and down kinda week. Had a HORRID lesson on b***h mare Monday. Quit after realizing endless fighting w/ a 1200 lbs beast was going nowhere (2 stubborn "grey mares" fussing at each other is truly ugly).

Then came back yesterday to finish and had a brilliant lesson! Left w/ a huge smile.

Then went to work today, got yelled at by boss and found out the contractors and my insurance company are fussing... so no work has yet to be even started on my water damaged house.

Well, I guess that means tomorrow will be great! Hmmm, maybe a Lotto day!

[Cactuskate]

Well CAH, if you insist....another bucket of clams for moi! Oh and what the heck I'll have a Drambuie on the rocks. After all it is quitting time here and I will be going home soon.

Yah right, quitting time, like I have gotten a thing done all day. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

And VT, darling, thank you so much for the hospitality, be sure to properly tip our virtual waiter...and everyone be careful driving home.. /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

"The older I get, the better I used to be."

[Canter]

I'd like a double Jack Daniels on the rocks please m'am. Craptastic is the kids last day at school which is today. Tomorrow, all hell breaks loose. My life is over. Waaaaaaaaa! /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[Deb413]

Currently enjoying a Killian's making it horse related as there is one on the label. Job is nuts-working in a construction office with construction in full swing. I also pet sit on the side to help pay for the horse habit. Just picked up a job from a fellow pet sitter that got hurt. Watching dogs and cows /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif. Have not ridden my horse in over a week /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif Can not remember the last time I took a lesson /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif . Actually I lease the horse and am trying to find my own. The barn owner is nice enough to save a stall for me while I shop, which has gone nowhere /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif . Can not wait to take vacation with fellow horse nut. Well, time for another Killians.....love that darn horsey beer /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

Deb

[smashing fishnets and feathers]

I'll join...even if i am late, because heck, i been in SunRiver all week. Since im a minor, I'll have a virgin Strawberry daquiri with an umbrella.
my problem? hmmm... my friend who rides at the worst barn of the century wants to go do working hunters with her WP horse, even though shes only jumping him 2' right now. oh yea. AND my lease's owner wants to sell or full lease, and i sure as heck am not full leasing that creature. buying is another story( she wants big $$). Ive got a headache. I just got home from the barn and creature boy was leaning all his weight into my right leg, and acting like Retardo man from Pluto. Before i went to the barn, i was home for 20 minutes. Before that, for 3 & 1/2 hours, i was sitting in the backseat of our car driving through the freakin pass- we spent sunday-wed. in Sunriver where i rained like heck and i was stick in the smallest cabin in the whole place, with 6 mouse traps set in various places. THEN, i get home now and check my email, and ive got an email from a friend who owns a horse im looking at. she sent me two pictures, both of which i can download but CANNOT view. i THINK im having a LOVELY day. and where'd my little umbrella go!? i need it in my daquiri so i can walk outside without getting wet.

[smashing fishnets and feathers]

hey Deb...i once saw a chesnut mare for sale, a 10 yo QH, named Killian's Irish Red. i sware.
[fake drunken drawl followed by a burp]
gimme anutherr Deck-a-Ree!! ane Anutherr wonna thoss urmbrellma thinges!

[Everythingbutwings]

Thanks very much, VTrider! Come on out to the car, I have some treats in my cooler for you to take back - share with WHOA! this time if you please!

My day was better from sharing, great idea!

[Deb413]

What is with all these chesnuts Smash? Everytime I go look at a possible horse, it a chestnut. My trainer's barn is all chestnuts. I'll probably end up with a chestnut...would love to call it Killian Red! He tells me I should have a chestnut to match my red hair..great /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif There used to be a gray show horse around here call Sambucca! Hmmm nice shot-chilled of course!

Deb

[creseida]

Gee, where does one begin....

The old company I used to work for has reached their limitation on the number of times they can declare "fake" bankruptcy before having to finally go for the "real" one in February...so last February they sent out all of this info on rolling over your 401k plans into an IRA...of which mine was lost by the overpaid and greedy USPS until one week AFTER the deadline. /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif *PANIC* Mad scramble to prevent disbursement cheque, less 20% for Uncle Sam, and trying desperately to get a rollover IRA.

THEN, Sunday, my lawn tractor blows up...literally. Riding along, mowing very nicely....*CLANG*CLANG*CLANG*POOF* BIG cloud of nasty blue/black smoke comes billowing out of the engine, at which point I grab the key and bail out. $3000 later, I have a new garden tractor. /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

THEN, at 5:55 p.m. on Wednesday, suddenly...NO WATER!!! The pump finally gave up. Of course, all of the plumbers are closed for the day. The next morning, plumber arrives and not only do I need a new pump, all the wiring is fried, the couplings to the hose that the water goes through are wasted, and the storage tank is shot. $1100 later and I have water. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

(I'll have another virgin daquiri, please...do you have any appetizers, Wings??? I'm starving!!!)

This was the money I had been saving for a new horse. So much for THAT idea! /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

Of course, the icing on the cake has been the month long raging case of poison ivy that has migrated *almost* /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif everywhere. Feet are covered and swollen and barely fit in shoes, which of course makes the feet itch more. It has travelled up my legs to above my knees...so much for showing off the great tan I've got; my legs look like a leper's. My hands are only *marginally* better than my feet...
How it got behind my ear is beyond me...
/infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[This message was edited by creseida on Jun. 27, 2001 at 11:18 PM.]

[larosa90]

I would really really really like to try Kennett Square's preferred drink--Absolute and Cranberry--It looks so festive.

I haven't had a bad week. I have had 4 of them, all piled into one big upper respiratory illness of unknown origin and, worse, no known treatment that will really fix it--Two courses of Antibiotics, asthma inhalers, syrups, assorted pills and lots and lots of bedrest have me finally back to about 80%. I have been sick continuously since Memorial Day, and today made it through my first whole day of work in 3 weeks.

The worst part is that I have been too fatigued and wheezy to ride. This of course is the best news that my barn friends have heard in a long time ("I get to ride Jordan", "No it's my turn, you got to ride him last time!"). My horse will be in excellent shape by the time I am able to go for a short trail ride. Next week I go to see a specialist who will hopefully tell me what's been ailin me and what that spot on the chest X-ray really is.

Bartender, can I have another to make sure that I sleep through the coughing fits?

[This message was edited by larosa90 on Jun. 27, 2001 at 11:17 PM.]

[incentive]

VTrider, since it's almost morning will the server bring me a Mimosa before your wallet closes for the night? Pleeees, pretty pleeeees! One more round for everyone before this distinguished establishment tosses us all out the door. Let the voting begin. Will the winner(loser?) be Contestant #1, DMK; Contestant #2, Erin; Contestant #3, heelsdown; or Contestant #4, MichelleMC? Let the voting begin before last call;but who in this crowd can be trusted to count the votes? Maybe Duffy--since she wasn't
here, she should be sober enough to do the job. Where is that girl anyway? Was she hiding out in ETBW's RV secretly tossing them back and scorning the downtrodden? The mimosa was lovely, but it sure didn't help my scpelling or typping.

[Duffy]

Ah, incentive! For someone so new to the BB, you seem to know me all too well! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Actually, I was dragging my daughter to work today, followed by errands, followed by TRYING to get on the BB, followed by taking her to "Atlantis" (cute - but not great, imo). /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Hmmmmmmm... It hasn't been such a great week for me either, but mine definitely doesn't compare to some of the posts I've read here!! But, give me some wine please, no hard stuff here. /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

The thread is still young yet, let's wait for the final tally until perhaps the end of the week! /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

[Dee]

Slide a bit and pass me what ever's left of the chicken wings. I tried to order earlier during happy hour but infopop prevented me! Anyway, let me have a Kaluha on the rocks please, stick a cherry on a plastic sword, and color me happy!

Whew, what a week this is! Work is a S*** extravaganza(is it the moon?), and I must have lost my marbles. Here's my whine....I decided I needed a new kitchen floor. So I take part of the $$$ from selling my old horse trailer to do this. The rest was to go for the downpayment on a new Hawk GN. So the contractor tells me we need some new subflooring, and there goes the downpayment!

Now, what would you all do here: borrow the money for the downpayment from my 401K, or wait a few months and save up? Delayed gratification is not one of my strong points!

Hey, last round's on me--just put it on the VISA; I'm BROKE! /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[VTrider]

Since we are all sloshed, we all had to have a slumber party at the bar...and let me tell you - some very colorful events occured!

4 words - /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif DMK, Jeb, Janitor's Closet /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

Heidi is laying in a pool of her own puke - Jager, Beam and Quervo don't help cramps heidi - we've been over this and over this. /infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif

Sea Urchin is STILL going strong at the kareoke machine. If he plays one more Tom Jones song, I think Moesha is going to shoot him.

I woke up with my hair in dreads and those mixed drinks' umbrellas stuck behind my ears. CRAP! Where is my skirt? /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

WHOA! (she's so lucky, she's a star) went home with the Elvis Impersonator - at least one of us made it out alive.

Mazzy and AHC and both asleep on the bar. With a man named Pierre lying between them /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

Thankfully ETBW knows her way around the kitchen, so she is going to start frying us up some bacon and eggs. Time for mimosas and bloodies. /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

Thank God!! Jair and Robby have finally gotten that kareoke machine away from Sea Urchin!! Oh...no...stop...please...!! Good lord. I can't believe they are singing "Blame It on the Rain" by Milli Vanilli!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Rut-ro... /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif Duffy's face is a pretty shade of green and she is skipping to the bathroom with both hands over her mouth!! I think I know what happened. I saw Michelle Mc drop some purple die into a glass of everclear - no Duffy, that was not "Grape Wine with a Kick"...bad Michelle Mc!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

OK - we might as well just hang out at the bar today...it's air conditioned and there is plenty of food and libations for all!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Michelle Mc]

A good sleep makes all the difference.

Cried. Parking guy came over and asked if I was ok. Sweet. I said yes, but I have a job where sometimes the bad guy wins. He had no clue, but was ever so concerned (must have been a Labrador in his previous life).
Drove to barn. Rode 2. Put them away. Went home. Sat in hottub (on the deck) with hubby. I mentioned this BB and that is was an interesting venting recepticle (for which I apologize). After 3rd G & T (and yes, baked brie). Then, Well... I won't tell you how kind was the hubby.
Woke up at the usual ungodly 4:30. Hubby had breakfast in bed for me. Cried some more.
Secretary called at 6 and "told me" to come in late. (Memo to self - buy her nice gift).
End of craptastic week looking better.
Have to go shower and put on the blue suit. Bye.
Thanks. Missed y'all last night /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Wings- you make me crack up. It's tough when you want to choke your own client (a common occurrence). Merde alors!

[Michelle Mc]

Paid off final law school loan this week.
Let's drink a TOAST! /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

Belly up to the bar, colts and fillies...

[Everythingbutwings]

Mimosas and Bloody Mary's are ready.

Apple/chicken sausages, home fries, pancakes and scrambled eggs are in the buffet.

Scrapple, grits and S**T on a shingle are NOT in my repetoire!

Whew, good thing I switched over to champagne last night!

[DMK]

See Michelle Mc, sometime things do look up (sounds like a nice hubby and secretary to boot).

After I left the barn last night, I went home and sulked some more, but I didn't sulk as badly as the last week. In fact I fiendishly plucked a small mat off the Maine Coon's ruff, and irreverently tossed it on the floor and said "take THAT, vacuum cleaner repair person! I guess you'll be seeing THIS vacuum cleaner soon!" /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

Sloe Gin Fizz for me, please - Jeb has taught me an appreciation for all things N'Awlins /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[C-Urchn]

Mimosa, please.
And a giant scoop of everything. I have to go do my third horse. If I gain 15 pounds in 5 minutes, I can sit the trot better. /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

[Kryswyn]

and breakfast by ETBW - yummy! The week is looking better already. I was on vacation so coming back is always a let down, if not truly tragic. All dogs and puppies healthy so THAT's really good news, for a change.

Sorry everyone's had such a hard time. MichelleMc, special sympathy; that's one of the reasons I left the field. (Go to the light! Go to the light! Hell, even if it's an oncoming train it's gotta be better than this!!)

Oh, and Cresieda's life just got worse but she doesn't know it yet. I found the perfect 2 yo TB filly for her. Bred to event, will finish just the right size, started by a B pony clubber, quiet, well mannered. Clearance priced because owner is over stressed w/ too many equines and canines. But now Cresieda's too broke to buy her!

Barkeep, another virgin daquiri for my friend!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

~Kryswyn~
"Always look on the bright side of life, de doo, de doo de doo de doo"

[Paddys Mom]

Sorry I'm late. I was at the barn with the vet.

I'll have an Absolute Mandarin and 7up, which will give me an incredible headache, but a wonderful buzz on the way there.

Paddy is well on his way to retirement at 19, having begun to show signs of DJD in both hocks and 3 of 4 ankles. Told this to hubby and mentioned AGAIN [keyword] my plan to move Paddy to a cheap backyard barn and get young horse to slowly take his place.

Hubby suddenly develops amnesia about our conversation on this topic. Tells me I can get a second horse after our children start school. Did I mention we don't even have any children yet??!! @#$%^&* husband!!

This is the same husband that told me we could get a dog when I was pregnant, and now [That darn amnesia thing again!] insists we can get a dog "when we only have 1 cat". So I'm supposed to get rid of one or wait until one dies??!!

After 21 months of marriage, I don't have much left of my former life. [Warning - sinking further into desparation!] My name is different, I live on the other side of town, and I had to change jobs. I had to change all of my doctors, dry cleaners, hair place, etc. that goes along with moving an hour away. I even had to get rid of my cell phone and get one with his cell phone provider - which meant losing the cell phone number I've had for 8 years. I stopped buying books because he complained about the expense - so now I go to the closet-sized library in the next town [we're in the country] and try to find something that I haven't read. Now my car is for sale so we can get me a 4-door inpreparation for above-mentioned future children.

All I have left of my former identity are my horse and 2 cats. Now my horse is slipping into retirement and both of my cats are showing signs of arthritis (at 4 and 6 years old).

I know it's only 10:20am, but I need a second drink and a more comfortable chair, since I plan to stay here rather than go home.

Hey - why isn't there a crying face? /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

[hoopoe]

Bloody Mary for me AND a mimosa ; fruit and Veg serving

Excellent thick cut bacon, not limp not stiff, just medium.

Fly in the bread used by Julia's Fourteen Carrot Cafe in Seattle for toast, no butter.

Eggs over medium and another serving of bacon please.

I too have improved at work, actually got over four hours of sleep last night, managed to staunch my tears to a real vent on my PhD and and now working on this weekends move of my mother to another care facility.

Another fruit and veg serving please.

Could I order up that hubby, hot tub, two horses etc?

Did my triple round of double shots halp max out that Visa card , VT?

[Everythingbutwings]

We do NEED a teary eyed smilie :sad:

The bacon is West Virginia brand, thick sliced, center cut with cracked peppercorns.

More hollandaise, anyone?

[VTrider]

Paddy's Mom - WOW! I was already scared of marriage before I read your post - now I am petrified!!

You need some shots of hard liquor!

First one to pass out by lunch time wins a case of PBR!!

[Paddys Mom]

It has its good points, but I am at a loss as to what they are at the moment. Right now it just feels like quicksand! /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

[Robby Johnson]

In the men's room sink, I'm feeling a bit more revived. (Though I cannot get that Milli Vanilli song out of my mind, "blame it on the rain it was softly falling, blame it on the stars, that fall at night, whatever you do, don't put the blame on you, blame it on the rain, ra-ee-ahyn.")

Paddy's Mom ... you need to run as fast as you can to a nearby bookstore and stock up on the "reclaiming your life" books. You have to integrate your pre-marriage self with your marriage self, and part of that is carving out your own space in the marriage. If you're really feeling helpless, and it sounds like some resentment toward him too, then you and hubby need to work through the issues before you have a child together.

You're still you, and he needs to understand your need to still be you.

Robby

(Can you see why drunk people always seek me out in the bar?)

Horse-related - off to ride tonight, barring rain

[This message was edited by Robby Johnson on Jun. 28, 2001 at 11:26 AM.]

[Kennett Square]

Ok folks, sorry I wasn't here for the first dozen or so rounds. I had to take the proecious pumpkins to Warrenton to be stars, which thankfully, they were. So my week is starting to look up.

But the original Kennett Square is still injured and we haven't decided yet which way to go for treatment. Should we keep wrapping and hope the bone chip attaches and calcifies ( very doubtful at age 20) or do surgery and have it heal in a more promising manner (Problem now becomes 20 year old horse with slight heart murmur having anesthesia). Which is the better option. I have sent the X-rays off to the veterinary GOD, Midge Leitch, in hopes of an insightful answer.

So pour me a big Gallon gulp of Absolut and a wee smidge of CranRaspberry over ice with a big slice of lime....better yet just make a vat and I'll keep dipping all night!

[Magnolia]

Makers and water. Thanks.
Unemployment checks are nice, but don't really pay for squat. All this time and no $$$$ to ride, show or lesson.
Scraped together $30.00 for one last lesson on Nicholas, my one day a week fun, before Kellee, the most awesomeist trainer ever goes to grad school in DC (anyone need a good trainer near DC?). During said lesson, Nicholas, who has been wonder gorse lately decides to be lazy beast of burden. Kellee sets course, Maggie busts thru one jump by riding like an idiot. When Maggie gets her wits about her, Nicholas decides it isn't worth it to respond to my leg, or a crack on his behind, and falls over some more jumps. HOW FUN!!!! THE $%#^ horse has jumped like %^&*$ Roxdene for the last month and reverts to lazy draft horse for my last lesson with my favorite trainer. Oh, and to make things just a little worse, Nicholas owners are there with a video camera and still camera taking pictures of this train wreck of a course.
Another drink please.
Of course, they did get one picture of me jumping a jump that looked good, both horse and rider!
Thanks.

[Kryswyn]

What Robby said. L-issss-ten to Robby. Robby is GOOD at this stuff.

Kryswyn

(who's favorite song includes the lines: You say that we can keep our live alive/ Babe all I know is what I see/ The couples cling and claw and drown in love's debris/ You say we'll soar like two birds through the sky/ But soon you'll cage me on your shelf/ I'll never learn to be just me first, by myself.... )

[moose]

You know, after reading Michelle Mc & Paddy's Mom's posts, suddenly misplacing girths and tests are quite trivial.

I'm quite sober now. I'll have a tall coffee, black.

[Magnolia]

Paddy's Mom-
Just read your post! I hope you cheer up.
Smile, and go hug your animals!
Maggie

[Portia]

Wow, I spend a day and an evening doing actual work, and look what I miss!

Michelle Mc -- I paid off my final law school loan last month! Only took me 15 years. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif As for the client, he'll get what's coming to him, one way or the other. Think of it this way, you could be spending the entire day writing incomprehensible briefs, like I do. /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

The following is a real sentence in a real brief I'm writing. The names have been changed to protect the corporate: "Consultant explains that, rather than requiring bidding at variable costs, bidding hydro power at the expected system marginal cost will generally result in a dispatch equivalent to offering the replacement value of water."

I know it's early, but I'll take a Bailey's Irish Cream, straight up. Thanks.

[This message was edited by Portia on Jun. 28, 2001 at 11:29 AM.]

[B.G.M. heidi]

For what it's worth Paddy's Mom, the marriage doesn't define you - though I suspect your husband may beg to differ.

You are "Paddy's Mom" - not your husband's wife. If and when you have children, the issues between you will grow and what should be a joyful and hopeful time will overwhelm you.

I feel terribly for you and would encourage you to take the initiative and reclaim your identity. As pat as it sounds, marriage really should be a partnership of two equal and independent people. The alternative is imprisonment.

I wish you well. Big hugs to you. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[Everythingbutwings]

Have you been drinking all alone? /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif That gave me a headache that was NOT induced by Wild Turkey!

[Duffy]

I am totally blessed!!!

Paddy's Mom - I'm so sorry you're feeling this way. It's time for a change, for sure! Listen to Robby and Heidi. Heidi has held my hand many times. (I've been through some of what you're describing...E-mail if you'd like.) /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Michelle Mc - I agree with Portia on this one. If I didn't believe the scum-sucking vermin living at the moment would get their due eventually, I would be one depressed individual. And congrats on your hubby, secretary, horses and loan being paid off! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Oh, and decisions, decisions.....I can't make up my mind between a mimosa or a bloody mary...Ok - Ok - I'll choose a bloody mary - not too spicy! /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[Robby Johnson]

know why caged birds sing.

Paddy's Mom, I meant to tell you too that relationships can definitely be improved by stating, very succinctly, your needs/wishes/desires, etc. Always be willing to compromise, but always expect to walk away from one of these "relationship summits" at least with 1/2 or your wishes granted.

Just so you know, my relationship was rocky for the first few years because I had a very hard time integrating myself into the relationship. Once the new-ness had worn off I was ready to go back to being Singular Robby. That was much easier!

I also was suffering a bit from a partner who was very possessive of me - both physically and emotionally. Unfortunately I kept quiet about how I was feeling inside and very quickly I began to implode.

Amazingly things got much better when I actually started communicating responsibly with my partner. I was very lucky that he's a person who wants a successful relationship too. So he was responsive.

Best luck,

Robby

I think I'm ready for a Ketel One on the rocks, twist of lime, please.

[Michelle Mc]

Can't get anything done now. Exhausted. It's hard to keep up with you guys! I might run out of ice!
Taking my assistant (designated driver) out for lunch. Sorry we missed the brunch here!
Next week the hubby and I are flying to "the islands." Can't wait for his foot massages.
Will try to recharge our batteries.
Had 2 molester clients this spring. One man and one woman. I think my mind has blown.

Portia. Tell me it's all worth it. Give me a mindless brief anytime.

[appymare]

well after reading paddy's mom's post my week is not bad at all, it is actually quite good, but paddys mom weren't you the one i takled with a while ago who was on a makeover story? paddy was soooo cute!!!

ok let's start..
-my oldest dog is getting worse and worse, last week she peed on the floor, pooped twice on the floor in 2 days, and threw up this morning, i know she can't hold it in anymore but it is NOT fun to clean up!

-my grandma was taken to the hospital with a horrible nosebleed 3 times last friday, the third time they finally let her stay, came home sunday and got her nose unplugged yesterday and she is finally looking better

-had a horse show sunday, showed hack division, waited for about 2 hours for people that entered their horses in 2 divisions that started at the same time to finish their o/f classes before they would start the hack division grr i was so mad but my horse was awesome so that made up for it /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

-i am only a part-timer at my work but this week i am working monday, wednesday thursday friday saturday sunday!! i only got to ride tuesday night, friday morning and sunday if i can get a ride!!

-my father is now offering out my horse to relative's kids for pony rides!!

but i do feel bad for my friend, her aunt in florida is dying of cancer and has only weeks to live, and she was going to fly out next week to be with her, but was called by relatives friday who said her grandma had her second stroke and was in a coma and on life support or something like that, and she had to fly down to florida a week early for her grandma's funeral. poor girl /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

[FirstCry]

HellO!! Work has been hell this am. /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif Keyboard died - had to go to the store and buy a new one. (wonder if I'll ever get reimburesed for this?? /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif )

I need a LARGE G&T Pleeeease!!

Paddysmom-I think we live in parallel (sp?) lives. YOur Hubby sounds like mine. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif I've learned to just ignore him and do whatever I want. (Ive been married 7 years /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif ) Its gotten better, but you must voice how you feel loudly and often. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif And what you want. Eventually it gets thru and if it doesnt, do what makes you happy. /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

LunchTime!!! hummm lets see - Steaks anyone??

[Court@HJ-OH]

"SEX ON THE BEACH" my drink of choice. Sweet peach shanapps sp? and lots of vodka.


Situation: I really need to sell my horse. Money is just not as plentiful as it use to be. I have been stalling and stalling. Driving myself into debt to save him. Where's daddy when ya need him?

Court /infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif

[FirstCry]

Author: Unknown

On the first day of creation,
God created The Horse.

On the second day,
God created Man to serve The Horse.

On the third day,
God created all the animals of the earth to spook The Horse when Man was
upon his back.

On the fourth day,
God created honest toil so that man could labor to pay for the keeping of
The Horse. (let's hear an AMEN!)

On the fifth day,
God created the grasses in the field so that The Horse could eat and man
could do an honest day toil and clean up after The Horse. (let's hear
another AMEN!)

On the sixth day,
God created veterinary science to keep The Horse healthy and Man broke.
(you know the routine....AMEN AMEN AMEN!)

On the seventh day,
God rested and said, "This is good. This will teach Man humility, it will
tire him out and keep him striving ever forward to meet the needs of The
Horse".


/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif This is our life! Bartender!! shots all around on me /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[Portia]

Michelle Mc, you're the brave, tough one. I'm such a wuss I couldn't even face the thought of doing personal injury, much less criminal. When I start getting down about the law, I try to read some Jefferson, Adams, or Franklin. Now those old boys knew a thing or two about justice. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[Miniwelsh]

I used to work for a crim attorney in MD who had the worst molesting cases. Those are the ones you just don't want to open the file on.

Worst case I ever worked on was a guy who had actually raped someone's horse. Can't say I miss some of that criminal work, although it is a much better read than corporate [YUCK]

No sex on the beach or kamikazes for me - got a bit sick off both of those.

I'll take a Seabreeze or a Salty Dog please. My week is getting better since we just got rid of the trouble maker in my department, but last week was awful!

*If it's true that "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger" I must be training for the Olympics!*

[Michelle Mc]

No G & T at lunch. But I bought my assistant a new pair of shoes. Shopping was more fun. Now it's time for a drink!
Thanks for the back patting. The worst thing about some of my clients is they have no plans to change. One guy this week winked at me as we walked out of court. Guilty as sin. I am proud of my record, but sometimes I get so frustrated. I've been told I have to "get frigid." Ha!
I passed the bar in 3 states (and DC), so I get tossed a lot of cases. Grrrrrrr.

Now, let me serve you a drink. Bailey's for one, G & T, Sloe Gin, Absolut...
And slide over the pretzels.

[msj]

Sure hope we haven't gone too far over your limit!

Bartender, a Red Dubonnet on the rocks please, no twist!

Ahhh thanks, that's good!

Well, not riding much at all this summer due to horse with allergies and trying VERY hard to make him more comfortable. Latest was doing a BAL or bronchial lavage, which is flushing his lower lungs( only a portion) with saline to see if there is irritation in the lower airways (lungs) or upper airways (nose, sinus, etc). Plan on going to try the mask next. Anyway, in order to perform this procedure, the vet had to tranquilize T-Bay. After we were done, I noticed how 'relaxed' he was and decided to clean his sheath. Then pulled Chocolate out of the stall, after a small dose of tranq to do him as well.

Ahhh, the wonders of modern medicine! How nice to not have to even hold the lead rope on either horse. To actually have Chocolate well-behaved was wonderful. I'm seriously thinking about slipping him a daily dose of tranq.

VTrider, many thanks for the drink and listening.

msj

[Tricia Booker]

Thanks VTrider for inviting us for libations. I'm sorry to read that there are so many others out there having a difficult week too. I hadn't the time for a stop at the bar until today... so a nice cold Beck's from the back of the fridge please, sans glass.

After preparing all week to show at Warrenton today, my horse woke up on the wrong side of his stall. When I rode him early this morning before shipping over to show he just didn't feel right, so I decided to play it safe and return him to said stall. Bummer. This was to be our last show together too because he's going back to his owner for the rest of the summer.

And to top it off, one of my favorite judges was presiding. Guess it just wasn't meant to be.

The only good news is that I won't have to polish my boots before my next show in July.

[Paddys Mom]

I was already close to crying when I typed my post, and then when I read your kind replies I really did start crying.

Husband just gets in this "take over" mode and I end up agreeing because the situations individually make sense. Case in point - with his rental properties, it made sense to live on that side of town. But when you add it all up, it gets overwhelming.

I will talk to him about how I need this one last thing of my own.

[AMom]

Attaway Paddy's Mom! It is tough to be with those super-sensible types who always have a good solid reason as to why what they are saying is the right thing to do /infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif My hubby is the King of Sense while I am much more emotional and likely to make decisions based on my gut. Sometimes it is a really good thing he is there to Yin my Yang, but other times I just want to say "I want this just BECAUSE, damn it!!!" and have that be a good enough reason /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

I am lucky though that he DOES accept that as a good enough reason and tells me to go ahead and do it if it makes me feel good and I have thought it all through--good and bad. Robby's advice was great! You HAVE to be you first so you can bring the best of you to the marriage.

This may be a personal question, but do you control your own finances? That can be a key sticking point in a relationship if the one making the decisions is also the one who holds the checkbook. Oddly enough, just an hour ago at lunch we went and opened our first joint checking account after two years of marriage and three and a half years together. We still have our own accounts as well though so we can do whatever we want with our own money.

Hang in there, we're all rooting for ya'! AND YOU TOO MS. MICHELLE MC! /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[MissD]

Can I have a Mike's Hard Lemonade please? Don't worry, I've got fake I.D. I can pass for (what IS the drinking age in the States anyways?) 19 if I put on a little make up and dress a little provocatively. I haven't had a bad week, but if you don't mind I'll hang out with you anyways. I've been told that I'm a very good listener and have a talent for solving personal problems. My only problem involves a boy. What else, at the age of 16? It's pretty trivial compared to all your problems. My sympathies to all of you. /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif You can cry on my shoulder if you want. I'll pull some tissue out of my bra for you. I stuffed to look old enough to be here. Anyways, so about that guy... I've liked him for 4 years now. He's one of my friends older (he's 18) brothers, and I go to church with him. He went tree planting this summer, and I've been going nuts without him. He's coming back Monday. I know I SHOULD say something to him about how I feel, because all I want is to be with him, and I'm ALWAYS thinking about him, but I'm scared. Scared of him saying no (I'd be too embarrassed to ever be in the same room as him again!) and scared of him saying yes (what if it doesn't work out as planned?). So what do I do? /infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif Goodness I miss him! /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif He's leaving again soon, and going to University nexy year. If I want to be a part of his life, I'd better make a move soon. HELP!

[Lord Helpus]

Paddy's Mom -- Your husband is not your father. If you want a dog, go GET A DOG. It is your house, too. Living in the country with one dog and two cats is not an unreasonable thing to do. And I, too, got to the part about thinking that there must be benefits to being married, but they kept escaping me (married sex sure as heck is not one of them...) so I finally got divorced. Happiness is being your own person -- and if you can't do that and be a wife at the same time, your first priority is to save yourself.

Michelle -- There really is more to life than representing ungrateful scum. I no longer wear a watch. I no longer fill out timesheets, and I no longer have to kow-tow to clients that I would not acknowledge on the street if they were not paying me to win cases for them. Priorities, girl! Use your week on "the islands" to step back and ask if this is what you had always thought you would be doing with your life. Change is scary. But trying to win lawsuits for guilty people is not worth the mental and moral anguish.

THERE! Now that I have solved the major problems of the week /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif , I will have a Dewars on the rocks. Hold the water.

[SLW]

I don't know the specifics of the case you just defended but if it was criminal case then was it a jury trial? If so, didn't the jury play a role in your client's outcome? I'm not implying that your not the best lawyer on this site but don't beat yourself up. Didn't they let him walk or affect the outcome?

My husband was a jurist for a trial in my small town this spring. Town population 5,000. If you include the whole county I guess there are 15,000 of us out here. If you combine all three school districts in our county, K-12, the total number is about 5,000. Our town square is bricked, tree lined and the gazebo and fountain are the centerpiece. A monster lived within 3 blocks of that postcard picture.

She was 13 when she had the baby. Her father, a white collar city employee was charged with many crimes, one of which included being the father of the child. DNA proved he was not the father. Testimony convicted him of the other charges. As to the childs father of the now 14 year old girl, a brothers DNA matched and he confessed. The other brother plead to "other charges" not unlike the ones his father was found guilty of.

As to the client who winked at you, sheeessh, what a creep. Like you and that client paths would have EVER crossed in a regular situation. Some nerve. Hope he gets chiggers.

Hang in there and enjoy your trip next week.
SLW

[JAGold]

Are we still complaining? Can I join in? Can I have a Mike's first?

I got a phone call from my RA to tell me that a friend who had been very ill passed away yesterday. I'm stunned that he's gone, though not surprised I suppose.

I'm house-sitting for my trainer right now. Last night, I arived home to be met, in the driveway, by her horse. Who belongs in his paddock, not the driveway. I caught him and went on with chores, which included plucking not one, but two dead, stiff squirrels out of the water trough. (The buggers try to drink, fall in, can't climb the steep sides, and drown). The cat threw up and the dog dug up the garden (and deposited most of it on the front steps).

And I leave CA on July 5 and start work on the other side of the country on July 9. Starting work will be exciting; leaving is traumatic.

I'm going to go eat a pint of chocolate icecream or something /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif --Jess

[incentive]

Add Contestant #5, Paddy's Mom, to the list before the voting begins. Duffy was right damn it! We really should wait until the end of the week before crowning the winner.

VTrider, how is that credit card holding out?

Wow! Robby does give very good advice.

Paddy's Mom, please listen to what Robby said. It's YOUR life, not your husband's life to do with as he pleases. You can't and shouldn't have to give up being you.

Barkeep, a Diet Coke before VTrider comes to her senses. These jeans are getting a little tight in the waist. Does anybody have an Advil? I feel a major headache coming on.

[Robby Johnson]

Lord Helpus - you just cracked me up and it's only 5:43 a.m.! A great way to start my Friday!

CWP - when we purchased our house together in 1999, my partner and I opened a joint account - we call it our "household account" - and we maintain our own personal finances otherwise. It is a PERFECT solution, because he pays the bills (I abhor paying bills and am wont to do it quickly; he is Mr. Pay It The Day It Comes In - make a photocopy of the check, stamp it "paid" and then hole-punch and file it in the filing cabinet ... ex-military, natch).

I think every good relationship has to tilt back and forth until the issues get sorted out and it becomes steady. Sort of like driving a boat. As you begin to pick up the forward motion, it becomes easier to steer and you only occassionally have to make a minor adjustment.

However, leaving the dock and going through the "no-wake" zone can be a bit more challenging!

When you get a new horse you always go through the "getting to know you" phases. How many times have we sat on a tack trunk, red-faced and sweaty, bitching about "why did I buy this can of Alpo?" We find it so much easier to get up the next morning, and where are we the next afternoon? At the barn, riding, making an attempt to make it better!

Robby

[VTrider]

Are you a Clarke County resident now!!!! The Top of Paris Mt.!!!!!!!!!!!! Which side of 17 - East or West!!!!!! And of course, if you have a horse, you better choose the right farrier LOLOL! Email me girl or I will try to find your email addy from Erin!!!

Incentive - Don't worry about the credit card...funny thing those credit cards, once I max them, they still let me use them...upping their maxi-ness LOLOL !

Drink up - it's Friday! Half of us probably have hangovers as it is...

And guess where I am going tonight?!?! MOSBY's!!!

[Everythingbutwings]

And are you going ALL ALONE?

[VTrider]

Nope - will be with some Tech alum and one Hollins alum. I think we are doing dinner in Fairfax first. I am craving Olive Garden.

[Smiles]

I hope Vtrider doesn't mind paying for real late night cap as I have arrived unfashionably late?!?

Anyways I'll have a nice strawberry Margrita with cherrys and an orange on the stick Bar tender!!!

I have been thinking that this show I'm going to this weekend may have not been my best strategic plan ever. If I don't cut the bill in half I may not have enough to go to the show at the end of July. Which is where my 3 y/o will make her showing debue! May god cut my show bill in half or even better 75% to 100%. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif I'll have to come back on Sunday for anoth night cap and tell if it happens!!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_redface.gif

[Paddys Mom]

blink_182 - Yes, that was me and Paddy on the Makeover Story.

FirstCry - I first noticed the similarities about our husbands on another thread. Scary about those long lost brothers, eh?

CWP - He pays the bills. We fought long and hard about that because both of us wanted to be the ones doing it. I eventually let him do it, but I keep myself closely informed on our finances. We do have our own accounts too, but I only put a minimal amount of money into it from my paycheck. One small victory was getting the routine horse expenses paid out of the joint account.

Lord Helpus - You are so funny! He thinks he is my father sometimes. Ditto on the married sex thing. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Robby - You are so insightful. Thank you for your wonderful words of wisdom. I truly appreciate it.

I have prepped him for a discussion tonight by being very very quiet and pensive since yesterday. He is practically begging me to talk to him.

On the plus side, I received a $100 check in the mail yesterday from a former employer and I'm not really sure why. That goes into my account on the QT and gets spent on ME ME ME! Maybe some of those books Robby mentioned.

On the down side, my baby brother (21) got fired yesterday from his first real job as a bank teller for being chronically late. I know its his own fault, but I feel terrible for him and now I can't find him anywhere. I hope he's just hiding from me out of embarrassment.

Raising my glass one last time, hoping that the weekend is better for us all, and being thankful for the good people of this BB!

[Wicky]

You have to draw your line in the sand and hold it! I KNOW what you are going through! I've cried plenty (on and off this board) but I do recommend The Solo Partner by Phil Deluca. "It is possible to heal your relationship without the help of your partner." Only $14.95, paperback, published by Hartley and Marks, and available on Amazon! ISBN 0-88179-129-6. Good luck!!!

[Sea Urchin]

From someone that's had a pretty horrible week..... a "public" thanks to VT for hosting this little lovefest/cocktail party and listening to woes that don't involve point chasing! (VT, as you know, I can drink a lot, so make sure that credit card is not max'd out just yet! LOL)

[Paddys Mom]

Thanks for the suggestion. That still leaves me $85 to buy drinks for the BB'rs!

[Michelle Mc]

infopop makin me crazy
pour me a Dewers now /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[This message was edited by Michelle Mc on Jun. 29, 2001 at 10:40 AM.]

[Michelle Mc]

I need a drink. Fast. Barkeep! A round on me.
Oh. What time is it? Well then, mimosas all around.
Can't wait to see the bills from y'all for this advice! /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif I love it. Thanks. I appreciate the shaking up.
Lord H, I am thankful for your thoughts. I will reconsider the career path. On the beach we'll toast to you. St. Lucia! A friend is loaning us their house while they go to Europe. And they have horses (horserelated)! So I am making the hubby ride while we're there. He will be brave. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
Lord H, I love the challenge. Sadly, a lot of my clients lately have been scum. Wealthy jerks that I've kept out of the pen.
SLW: I am the greatest lawyer! /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif (joking! joking!) I'm sorry, I'm not able to give specifics, but I've kept this jerk out of prison twice. After his "procedure" he'll again be free. The talk on the street here is I can work a deal with the devil. THAT is making me sick! That's not why I went to law school! Crim law is what I do, what I dreamed of and what my dad (who practiced in a gentler time) practiced. But the thought of writing briefs all day is getting so appealing... (are laptops sand-proof?).

Mimosa getting low. I'm hungry. What's on the buffet today? Honeydew, strawberries?

Oh! Oh! A note from my married side- we share everything. Duties, money, kids, dogs, profession. We do not share horses. We have learned to bend and listen, and speak our mind. Of course I am always right anyhow. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif
And the end of my craptastic week... new Lab puppy got stung by wasp last night, and ran terrified through screen door on deck. Old (33!) Morgan driving horse has to be put down /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif and youngest child cried all night because mom and dad are going away and she is afraid we aren't coming back.

Have a happy holiday next week!

[This message was edited by Michelle Mc on Jun. 29, 2001 at 11:03 AM.]

[Bumpkin]

You may be locked down for musing if I post on this thread!!!!

My Horse was wonderful yesterday, doing XYZ!!!

Champagne for everyone!!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif

[DMK]

Sorry to hear about your old driving horse Michelle Mc, but 33 is a good old age for a horse, don't you think? (that's what I keep telling myself about my 31 year old - "if it happens, it is time" has become my mantra).

I think you need to become a Corporate Litigator, that way when you save that particular scum of the earth from their "just desserts" it will probably only involve them not paying some money they ought to have paid in the first place. And as I recall, making a deal with the devil is a major prerequisite for that career. Ability to issue huge amounts of paper is another /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif Besides, once their compliance people get a hold of them, they won't have a chance to violate the law anyway. Never mind the legal system, nothing can slow down an illegal action quicker than some zealous compliance folks with a good understanding of the financial implications of the Whistleblower Law /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

OK, bartender, I need another black & tan. Haven't quite shook that "I'm so damn old depression" (Shouldn't there be a law against turning 39 AND having major, major PMS? I mean am I the only one who thinks that was unneccesarily cruel?)

[C-Urchn]

Whistleblower! Thanks for the idea!
I'll have a mimosa too. Way too early for real booze! I'll have fruit from the buffet too. Think thin. I gained 5 pounds just reading this thread yesterday. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Kellybird]

Wow, give me another something, I don't really care what, maybe a Mike's, that'll wake me up and then put me riiiiight back to sleep /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif ...spent the night not at home and have to go spend the day watching softball[of all games to have to watch] played by 10 year-olds[!]and then walk all over creation for about 6 hours. Wish me luck. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

On second thought, I need a grande latte right now, one Equal in it with vanilla...we'll talk about the other drinks later

[MGR]

I'll have a glass of white wine and some fruit to start. Whats on the menu? Someone mentioned strawberries.

VTrider -- Glad to see that the party is still going on. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Michelle Mc Sorry about your horse. Its always hard to say goodbye.
Once you have tasted the courtroom writing briefs all day can get pretty boring. Then you have to write some on unfair labor practices or worse patents.
Enjoy your vacation and just relax!!!!!

TKA Good luck with the 10yr olds. You have much more energy than I do.

Maria G. Rocco

[Inverness]

I don't even need to have a bad week to order a nice little Bordeaux. /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[Michelle Mc]

MGR! That's a joke in the office here!
"What could be worse -
you could be a Patent Lawyer!"
Thanks for the giggle.
Here let me get you anuther wunna doze--- Whitewine iz it?

/infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif
MMMc

Plane leaves 8am. Can't ride today. Have to do motherly stuff. Let's DRINK!

[2Dogs]

really late, but a Laphroaig, neat.
My saddo stories of the week: I have a hunter prospect that is coming along. Drove 2 1/2 hours to ride her on Sunday and she was lame. Meanwhile I have the ever loving Remy man nearby, the horse I found and who has been extraordinaire.....but...with work and finances being what they are, I had to say bye to one....so just as I am finding out the mare is lame, I promise someone that if they like Remy they can do a lease/option.
Of course, I come home from the lame one and Remy is a saint and of course the woman wants to take him off, which she does. So now, my trooper who is the energizer bunny is gone and I have gimpy (who I know will be all right), but meanwhile I am weepy over the computer convinced I just made a terrible mistake.....
Can I have a refill.....

[heelsdown]

It's been quite the week. Clients who bounce large checks to me can have a devastating effect on so many things, not the least affected of which is the liver. Mumble mumble.

Things are looking up, client's accountant insists that they have wired funds. I'll be happy when my bank says they are here. Until then it's champagne; left over from the cases I bought for a wedding shower that was cancelled when groom found bride in an compromising position.

Michelle I can read the pain and conflict in your words. It must be very, very hard. Can you not refuse to defend someone like this? I don't know the politics of working in a law firm but surely there must be a point at which you can say, "sorry, but I am unable to defend you?" You'll enjoy St. Lucia, it's a pretty big, lush island and the weather there right now is excellent. It'll actually be more pleasant than in many places on the east coast (lower temps and humidity, plus beautiful tradewinds.) I never checked out the horse scene there on my visits but my guess would be that there are a lot of nice places to ride. I also think there is a vet school on St. Lucia too. Have a wonderful time and tell us all about your trip.

But when all seems hopelessly mired in the quagmire that my life lately has been a little furry face can brighten up the worst week. I think you might especially enjoy this pic Michelle since you have a Lab pup too!

[This message was edited by heelsdown on Jun. 29, 2001 at 02:33 PM.]

[MeanderCreek]

to begin with, my first foal born couldn't stand on his own for the first four days - he was sooooo big he just couldn't get it together. I got up every hour to lift him to nurse - this was after staying up with the mare for three days and nights. Then, his IgG came back low and it took not one or two plasma transfusions, but three:-(
Then, I fell off and broke my leg, at an event:-( After a surgery, and a nice little hospital stay I got a cast and crutches to lug around for six weeks. Now, I do all 17 of the horses myself usually so now I have to find help - boyfriend is not happy about neglecting his company to do my job. Finally find someone that shows up regularly and is fairly competent, so I thought life was going to level out. WRONG two month old foal is violently colicing Wednesday morning. Call vet, give Banamine, vet arrives and says to haul him to the major clinic near here:-( Ma doesn't haul well so we load baby and I ride in the trailer with him - on crutches and with a cast:-( We get there intact though and the foal is in so much distress they can't do anything - no US, no belly tap. We say okay, open him up and they find 25' of dead gut. He had a hole in the messentary and a loop of intestine was strangulated:-( Okay, we do the surgery, we need to give him every chance at surviving. Now, he started recovering well, but now we need to get mama up there so that he can nurse. This is not an easy mare to load, tried and tried and finally gave up, then decided to give it one more shot and got her on and up to her kid. Thank goodness and he is MAD that his ma is there but he has a muzzle on. So, I'm on pins and needles, and every time the phone rings I get all choked up. In the meantime, I got my cast off and can't believe how stiff, sore and swollen my leg is. I really feel like getting seriously drunk, but if I do I'll never stop crying so I think I'll just have some nice soothing tea.

[Michelle Mc]

Happy Horsing. Vacation time starts now! My chaps are going to get moldy now, aren't they. Yuck. Have to pick up the kids at mom's /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif She gets them for a whole week starting tomorrow! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif I'm leaving my AmEx card on the bar for y'all. Aloha!
Thanks VT. You throw a great party!!!!!!!!!!! Gotta go.

DMK- get OFF the bar, honey! and somebody turn DOWN that karaoke machine! Geez. Now don't be talking about me. We fly back on July 9th. See ya at Dulles.

[DMK]

Nope that wasn't me, that was VT! I was the one on the table /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

OK everyone, I'm leaving the bar for a while - gotta go buy those ponies some grain (thought for sure I had enough to make through Sat breakfast, but Ishould have know better when there is a "craptastic week" in full bloom /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif )

Save me a barstool (or table top) and keep a B&T on hand...

[Erin]

Okay, I think I'm ready for a couple of kamikazis... /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

Cat went to the vet yesterday, got blood work and urinalysis. Diagnosis: beginning stages of kidney failure. /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif I haven't talked to the vet yet, so I don't know what the prognosis is... she left a message on my work phone while I was working at home, because our internet crapped out.

And the newest wrinkle... I have a WICKEDLY painful canker sore on the side of my tongue. It hurts to swallow, eat, drink, and talk. So far today, I have managed a little yogurt and couscous, but not much. And I've given up making work phone calls this afternoon because it freaking hurts too much!

AAAAARGH! I knew I should have stayed in bed this week... /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

MichelleMc, can I stow away in your suitcase and go to St. Lucia too?? /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[Everythingbutwings]

And give her a send off like they used to do for the Atlantic Crossings! How do you hold the streamer from ship to dock when the person departing is on a plane?

A toast! That's the ticket, a toast to the weekend and the end of Craptastic Week! A toast, the first of many to round out Friday!

I'll go first: "Here's to VTrider, may her lines be perfect and her credit stay intact!"

[heelsdown]

Next week/month has got to be better. It just has to. Erin watch out with that canker sore. I had a friend staying with me a couple of weeks ago who got one like that a week or so after going to the periodontist, turned out he had a wicked bad infection (from the gum scraping) and had to go to the ER for IV antibiotics, in the middle of the night.

I just made a vodka gimlet for you, it should ease the pain.

[Kellybird]

Erin--call your dentist or check in the grocery store. There is a product made by Oral-B [I think] called Amosan--it's a sort of antiseptic for mouth sores, but it makes them feel soooo much better. I used it when I had new braces and wounds from the braces (2nd set of braces kinda ripped up the scars from the 1st set. Gotta love orthodonture /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif )

Anyway, it comes in a packet form and you mix it with warm water, kinda salty-ish, but it helps a ton with fun mouth sores. Good luck with it, canker sores are no fun. /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif A couple--or 3 or 4--Advil can't hurt either /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

~queen of painkillers

[MissD]

Oh my goodness gracious, your weeks all sound terrible! I don't think "crappy" accurately describes them. /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif Since I can't buy you drinks (unless orange juice interests you) I'll lay down my dollars for the comfort food. What'll you all be having? I want ice cream... mint chocolate chip... mmm... /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif You can all have big hugs too. Other than that, I can't help with the crappiness. /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif Hope things turn for the better soon!

[Cactuskate]

THANK GOD IT IS FRIDAY!!!!!!
Ahem, now that feels better. Oh yeah, I'll have a plain ol' margarita, on the rocks. Thank you.

Going on a pretty exciting roadtrip to California tomorrow. More about that next week, it is kind of top secret at this point....does involve horse shopping though, the only hint I can give at this time.....

I will be so glad to get out of this HEAT. It was 110 yesterday, forecast is a mere 109 today. Couldn't bear to contribute to the "heat" thread awhile back. I just don't think anyone can relate until you have lived in this. But hey its a DRY Heat. Yah, right.

My saying for the day would be:

When you are up to your a s s in alligators, it is hard to remember your objective was to drain the swamp!

VT, many thanks for the great "happy 24 hours" or so.....if ya need a loan I'm sure someone will pitch in to help cover the bar bill. My God, someone has a great tip coming...... /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

You all have a very safe and fun weekend. Toodles...Cactuskate /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

"The older I get, the better I used to be."

[KellyS]

It's not too late to tell you about my crappy week, is it? The planets must definitely be out of alignment.

But, first of all, a glass of water please (since that's all I really should be drinking).

I have a history of kidney stones and UTI's - this week I've been in terrible pain. I'm sure any of you who have been through this before know what I'm talking about. Been through a few rounds of antibiotics, a doctor visit, and CT Scan. The final diagnosis - tiny stones and a kidney infection. Too small to do anything about, so I must suffer through the weekend until the antibiotics clear them up - and oh yeah, drink lots of fluids. And the doctor told me to take Advil - not helping much.

So, I've been missing work where I am doing my college externship for credit. Thank God, my mare is an angel and gave me a decent ride today even after a few days off - it helps me forget all the other crap going on. I try to stay optimistic and pleasant, but feel like curling up and telling everyone to go away. Everyone assumes that since I sound normal and look normal, that I am fine. I swear they think I am making this all up.

So here's to a better weekend and better health for all of us. That's not too much to ask is it lol?

[ErinB]

Give me a Shirley Temple, please. Hold the lime. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Well, let's see. The left side of my jaw has been killing me. Hurts when I yawn, chew, or move it around, "pops" in and out, and it's hard to open that side of my mouth. /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

Just found out that my best and at the moment, my only real, friend is moving in a month. To Puerto Rico. Y'all probably know FatLilPony. /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif Anyway when I say goodbye to her who knows when I'll see her again.

"Oh, nobody knows the trouble I've seen- everybody!- nobody knows my sorrow..."

~Erin Lizzy
Visit my Website (http://www.virtue.nu/sugabebe/index.htm)!
"Each day is a gift. That's why today is called the present." -Beth Mount

[Duffy]

Ok, I've broken out ONE glass of wine for now...My friend's flight was cancelled and now won't be arriving at the local airport until 9:55 this evening. Boo hissy. I guess I should cross my fingers that nothing happens to that flight! /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

Oh, and the airline gave him a $10 meal certificate for dinner. Too kind! LOL /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

On a positive note, Riley decided to be WONDERFUL today! We played "cow pony". I don't think I touched his mouth. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Ok, so I don't win "the award", thank goodness!!!

/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[Lily]

Save me a seat- and pour me a cosmopolitan! It's definitely been a craptastic week here. I've been having all sorts of job turmoil for the past few months and it's all culminated this week. Yuck.

And how much does July 4 suck this year? No long weekend=no fun. Stupid stock market.

Hey bartender, how about a bucket of Coronas? /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[Becca]

Ok, Pour me a large diet coke on the rocks, extra lemon. Lets start- i just found the perfect horse. Why is this craptastic? See, this is not the first time I have found the perfect horse. I have actually found several. But EVERY time something seems to twist around so that it doesn't work, or something goes wrong. WHY ME?? All I want is my horse. Too bad they can't just replace legs on old horses.

So then, yesterday, my final grades for the year come. Not horrible, but not perfect. Then comes my college list-0 ranked fromeasy to impossible for me to get into. Naturally the colleges I want to go to are on the evil end of the list. EWven worse? Mom and Dad can NOT seem to recognize the fact that maybe Harvard and Yale are not in fact fighting eachother to have me...that whole blind to their daughter's faults thing. Lovely.

And do you know what can really ruin a day? So your having a non-great day, but your surviving. So then, wearing your FAVORITE pair of barn jeans, you know the ones that are sooo comfortable under your chaps? And you get on your big lug whose butt is the size of Texas, and you hear that ripping noise as you get on, and your pants tear straight across where your chaps have been wearing down?? Thats when I just go home and climb into bed for the rest of the day.

VT-Lovely thread my dear, simply lovely. (Really though, you feel better after whining for 20 mins or so...)

[Kellybird]

Bec~~I have ruined many a pair of Gap boot cuts *sigh* in such a way...thanks to a horrible 'taking-in' job by a local shoemaker/leather...who basically just STAPLED a fold into the leather, right under where my thigh hit the saddle. Wore out a pair of my favorite jeans in ONE ride. /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif Teach me to get the cheap repair job. Fortunately, i hated those chaps, and that convinced my mom to let me get new ones /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif Granted, I had to pay for them, but ya know. /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

Thank goodness it's the weekend!!

[creseida]

Brilliant person that I am, I take the first part of this week off for my vacation. I have plans with my mom, plans for the horse, plans for the farm....OH SH*T!!! I have f***ing JURY DUTY this WHOLE week! /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

I've lived in this county for 6 years, and this is the third bloody time they've called me up for jury duty. I'm gonna show up in leather with a fake tattoo that says, "ANARCHY", and see if they still want me /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif ...I've also contemplated doing the aluminum foil yamika hat and wander around commenting on the CIA trying to control my brainwaves /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif ...Or I could simply respond, "Draw and quarter them", whenever they ask my opinion.... /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

What I do, I do for my horse, and thus I do for myself~me

[VTrider]

b/c I put a hurting on the Jeff Gordon Visa in Middleburg Saturday!!!

[FirstCry]

We can rectify that.

Its the beginning of the new month, and its still CRAPPY!!!! I leave Wednesday for the Adirondacks to camp, and of course the weather, which until last night has been in the 90's, now had dropped to 70 during the day and 45 at night. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif
So that means up in Saranac it will be freakin freezing at night in the tents /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif . on the plus side, at least i'll be on vacation. /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

I'll have a mimosa for now, but will go for the big guns later today /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Dementia 13]

I'll have a large Killian's please. I have nothing to complain about at the moment, but I'd like to join in the fun.

I am nervous about the second Culpeper and the M&S jumper class. I am also obsessing over zone points, and am a bit annoyed at the Maryland Horse Shows Association for not updating their website in 5 months, but those are pretty minor complaints.

[Tricia Booker]

Hey VTRider! Yes, I'm a fellow Clarke County resident now. It's a beautiful place to live--low taxes for a change!

After losing my mount for the Warrenton show, my week got even worse on Friday--we had to take my 14-month-old son to the emergency room for labored breathing. We were there from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. Luckily, it turned out to be quite treatable and, thanks to wonderful drugs, he was back to himself by yesterday. Although during our ER experience I was worried that it was more serious when the ER doc called in an ENT guy for a consult for a swelling in his throat. To top off my lovely evening, after my son had oral steroids he redeposited them all over me so I had to wear a hospital gown for the remainder of the two-hour stay! Talk about embarassing. But by that time I didn't care. Then, to make the whole night even more bizarre, on one side of us they were treating a nice elderly man for heart failure and on the other side was a middle aged woman who tried to commit suicide. After hearing her talking to the crisis intervention volunteer, I am SO THANKFUL for my life, even if there are some difficult moments now and again.

So, I'll resume using VTRider's generosity by stopping at the bar again on my way home from work and toasting to everyone's good health!

[Lisi]

I want a glass of cherry kids tylenol. I have had really bad back pain all week, especially when I am riding. Then on saturday I went cherry picking and picked twenty pounds into a bucket around my neck, which strained my back muscles a little. then in my lesson my trainer made me sit the trot on the most bone-jarring horse for 10 minutes straight. (my mom actually fractured her back sitting the trot). Then i went home and for some reason, tried to see if i could touch my foot to my ear by stretching it behind my back. I can touch my left foot to my left ear, but i can't do it with my right. i discovered that after more sharp pains went shooting through my back and i unbalanced and fell over.

[FirstCry]

Ok, one for the ditch. I'll have a White Russian please!! It's been a very loooooong day and its going to be a very loooong night. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif Must start packing for vacation - and ya never know what the weather will be like, one day it could be 90 the next day could be 55. So I must pack for all seasons. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Repeat after me "I Love Camping, I Love Camping" etc etc etc /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[Cactuskate]

I will have a glass with just the Rocks!!! Having just returned from banking, I hear on the weather report that factoring the humidity the mere 112 degree temp really feels like 130 degrees!!!! I can't even relate too that.

So First cry I will trade with you in a heartbeat. Nothing sounds more inviting than shivering in some tent somewhere. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Oh ok splash margarita over those rocks. Twist my arm.

Poor Bud, he nickers when he sees me pull up after work on days like this. Crowds his stall door as if to say, "Hurry up!! Let's get to the wash rack!! Get ME under that hose.!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif Ahhhhhh...now that's better." Bless his heart. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

"The older I get, the better I used to be."

[Everythingbutwings]

You need my RV. Toted pony home from Chincoteage and white mare to a show at Frying Pan, finished inside and it has been to Canada, Alaska, and all around the continental US. Tows a horse trailer and fits in a regular parking space (well, hangs over a little but no one crowds me)

We have a tent for those who choose to rough it but they always seem to want back in to use the potty and eat that nice Prime Rib hot from the oven /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[SoEasy]

Is it too late?
I need a large Black and Tan please!
In fact, several ...
June in general was a stinky month ...
We lost a dear old campaigner at the barn, I lost my new kitty, one of my friends has breast cancer and the other lost a grandparent, my daughter lost a dear friend (at 20) to leukemia.
My stupid boss shows no signs of retiring now that the PA legislature has finally passed the bill giving him the 'number' he claimed to have been waiting for, which means work won't get any better any time soon ...

Here's hoping July is MUCH better ...
*it has a good start, today is my 25th wedding anniversary* /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Applesauce]

What I want to know is, WHO'S DRIVING??? We gonna need to call a taxi or something.

My only bitch is that my warmblood has outgrown my trailer...so now I'm trailer shopping. Isn't shopping supposed to be FUN?? I mean, it's supposed to be a female thing, right? Well, I'm NOT having any fun. /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

~Courtney~

[FirstCry]

ETBW - ohhhh, can I borrow the RV?? Its sounds wonderful. (Is the Prime Rib Included? /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif ) And then I can take a horse up with me, Not my Mare though, I don't think she would appreciate the Mountain air and critters as much as I do. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[FirstCry]

Ok, I need a scotch on the rocks and keep em coming.

I leave work in 1/2 hour and then onto vacation and boss has not shown up with paycheck. /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif I kinda need that ya know. I just might be staying home this week. /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

[bpatp5066]

cognac please, and leave the bottle.....no grass in pasture, creek dried up. Ya know--just the usual boarding barn blues. The honeymoon's over.

I'm making sure my critter is fed and hydrated, but "I gotta get outta here, if it's the last thing I ever do". (This rolling stone doesn't wait around to gather moss) /infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif

[Reckoning]

I'd like a gin&tonic, and please make that a double! I thought last week was bad... this week has given me a new perspective on 'bad'.

Again, I ponder why it is that as the number of horses I own increases, the number of them that I can ride decreases? Does anyone have insight into this phenomenon?

[Regalmeans]

I'm late....anyways
Drink - something, anything hard - yes I'm underage - deal /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
Problem -
1)I HATE my job!!!! I despise it beyond belief and the idea of spending 6 hours a day for the next 39 days bagging groceries while my co workers are snobs (and a bit racist while we're at it....) and totally unfriendly and the customers are like BEYOND rude...makes me want to curl up in bed and never leave. I'm getting up tomorrow and going job hunting before my shift - NOTHING can be as bad as this....

2) My car is a mess (go backed into last friday at Chili's) and I can't get it fixed b/c, I have work and cannot be without my car.

3) I'm have a nervous breakdown about leaving for school - mostly over leaving Regal. I haven't been riding much just cause I haven't - it's just to hard right now. I had a lesson today - I almost fell off when I first started jumping and then I did a perfect course and jumped a 3'3 oxer (that's HUGE for my horse) and I just wanted to cry -

actually that's more or less what I've been doing all week - sleeping and crying - this totally sucks. I'm normally not this emotional or this easily upset and I never quit at anything - but I just can't deal with this job - or right now with life. Ag.....

Okay </whine>

Sarah * AKA "Regal's Person"

[Kashmir]

I was reading your post about the 13 year old and I realized that you are from the same place as me! My mom is a teacher and had the girl in class. They still keep in touch. What is your email? I have some questions about horse shows and trainers around here.

[This message was edited by Kashmir on Jul. 05, 2001 at 03:52 PM.]

[This message was edited by Kashmir on Jul. 05, 2001 at 03:54 PM.]

[SoEasy]

I belong to the clique Merry was starting the other night ... Mature amateur adults who ride greenies ... you know, insane people!

Just as we were finally starting to make some forward progress, as opposed to running in place! Chance came in from the field this morning with a flap of skin over his right knee that took 6 stitches to sort of close, and under which the vet could stick several fingers all the way to the knuckles. Stall bound he is. Earth bound I am. /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

I need a drink - but lack of exercise will probably land all the calories on my hips. /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[CoffeeBreak]

How about the largest Pina Colada you can find or a Kriek (cherry beer from Belgium)?

I'm burying my horses ashes tomorrow at the farm where he died. I'm saving a few in the cutest little box that is in the shape of a tack trunk. I bought the economy size kleenex to bring with me.

[Freebird!]

Because this has been a pretty craptastic week - (months maybe??) I am bumping up this oldie but goody thread.

[Regalmeans]

Oh yay, I would kill for a drink right now.

1) Had my hair cut and highlighted this weekend, first time I washed it, it turned PINK. PINK. Not so good when you work in an office fulltime.

2) Speaking of said office... apparently my State has major budget issues and it's looking like we're not going to pass our budget in time which means, well, I may have a little unpaid vacation coming up. And by little I mean "as long as it takes to pass the budget." I won't mind the time off but my credit card bill is going to NEED that paycheck...

3) My horse opened up an old wound on his back leg last night feels the need to kick/assault anyone who comes close to it. Oops. He apparently almost took my trainer out yesterday when she dared to unwrap it.

4) Plus said horse needs to have his knees injected (he's 21 and recently was swinging his knees sideways when we jumped so I figured we'd be safe and get it done) - and I was planning to pay for that with, yes, my paycheck - no work = no paycheck.

5) I'm exhausted. Permantly.

Margarita. On the rocks. With salt. Please. Last time we did this thread I wasn't old enough to drink (legally)!

[tullio]

for me, please.

This morning?
1. No hot water. Maintenance man arrives, informs me hot water heater has gone on to the apartment complex in the sky.Will fix.

2. I have not taken a shower. This alone is BAD.

3. Get to the barn to teach 2 lessons. Lesson rider #1 is nowhere to be found. Call her mother to check in, turns out poor kiddo had a bad asthma attack, had to be hospitalized, is home now but tired and out of sorts. In all the fuss mom had not called to cancel lesson. Mom and kiddo are very sweet and lovable - feel awful that they're having a hard time.

4. BM comes out to chat - turns out lessons rider #2 broke her arm (non horse related.) Will not be able to ride for 4 -6 weeks. Again, feeling bad for nice kid. Rather than stay and ride, I return home to babysit maintenance man.

5. While hanging out at home with maintenance man, decide to pay some bills and log in to online account/bill paying sites. Find out restaurant incorrectly charged our card for dinner on Sunday night (our first wedding anniversary, btw) and checking account is now perilously close to being overdrawn...

6. which wouldn't be an issue if a company i did some freelance design work for weeks ago would send me the *hundreds of dollars* they owe me, and have not yet sent due to unexplained 'trouble' in their payroll department.


AAAHHHH! This is just too much. Hope everyone out there is doing ok.

[MeredithTX]

My house is a disaster and I desperately need to win the lottery so I can just pay someone to clean it for me because I can pretty much tell you right now that I won't be doing it anytime soon.

A terrible accident yesterday made my super late for work (it took me an hour an a half on normally 35 minute trip), so now I have to stay late the rest of the week to make up time.

It is approximately the same temperature here in Central Texas as it is on the surface of the sun, which makes for cranky horses and a cranky rider whose face is probably going to start breaking out any second.

There, that feels better. I'll take a Jack and Dr. Pepper please, heavy on the Jack!

[Freebird!]

Well, here's my whine-o-the-day:

My husband and I are now separated.

My 8 year old beloved Katie dog has cancer.

I am currently living with my parents, and my mom is about to drive me CRAZY!!

We lost our wonderful job back in August.

Since loosing said job, I now have no health Insurance, but...I do still have Endo.

My husband bred one of our horses, and while she is a blast to ride, at this point I just want her gone - I own her. However, she is a "Hony" which no one seems to want.

The people who have my dear sweet Thistle, want to give him back, and for whatever reason, I have yet to find him a home.

Hmmm....Well, guess that's it for now....

[A. P.]

Thanks, VTRider! Make mine a Gin & Tonic with lemon.
Well, I decided I am not going to nursing school. Did not get a job that I was almost sure I would get. Job is boooorrrrriiiinnnnngggg. Sold my beloved TWH gelding and am now regreting it immensley. want to get another horse but know the husband won't go for it unless I lose Lexi, and maybe not even then.

I know I have much to be grateful fuo... I just have to keep rteminding myself that.

Pass the peanuts, would ya?

[MissBri]

OH boy, better line 'em up for me

I'll take a LARGE triple (or more) shot Absolut and Soda with a lemon wedge please. :cool:

Talk about a mess - my kitchen, bathroom, living room, and mud tack room ceilings all sustained damage from a leaky roof during the recent monsoons.
I have a roofer living at the house.
He spends a day up there repairing, then complains for three days about a bad back (yes he has a bad back and I am just SO not compassionate after 5 years of him not working).

My mare is twenty-three and in awesome health - but this morning I am running late, go to pick the paddock and stall and toss her hay (quicky job), she walks up to me, turns around, ARGH! SCRUB BRUSH TAIL TOP! SO I rip through the top of the tail with a brush and a comb.:o

My loverly old mutt has a huge lump on her ear, that seems to be getting larger. Does not cause her pain, but it must be uncomfortable.


Oh I have so many bills that I'm on speed dial at the collection agencies.

Ok, I'm ready for my next drink please VT.......;)

anyone have a light?

[jilltx]

Some of you have been stuck in this bar since 2001!! :eek:

I shouldn't complain as my life is primarily just b o r i n g of late.

I'll take a Cosmopolitan please with a lime twist.

I am late on some data that should have been entered in April apparently. I didn't get the memo, and while I have most of them done there are still two on my desk that should have been done last night. :sigh:

It's HOT here. Like August heat. No breeze. Super muggy. HUGE mosquitos and bugs. ...and yet we've had little rain and its almost draught-likre in some areas. What's up with that???

The kids are out of school which means my "free" time is all but a memory.

Friends are out of town so I am performing full service board for free for three weeks plus. Am just too damn polite and nice and am kicking myself daily for this! Like I have the free time??

Old guy in our barn is losing his two horses today. One is a badly foundered mare, the other is an aged mare that he's owned for over 20 years. Daughter (who is worthless on a good day) is taking them "somewhere" to find good homes for them. Now mind you her "show" horse is in full training and gets the best of care, but these other two have had the bare minimum for months. We've all been pitching in to give them extra hay and care and now our hearts are just breaking.

I guess that's my "whoas" of the day.

[Nancy!]

Hubby broke his pelvis. Will be off at least 2 months from doing anything and 8 to 12 months total recovery - hopefully.

Boss is away for rest of school year with a heart virus. And may not return next year.

Another person I work with is harassing me. No idea why but she's laid off at end of month.

So I have full time job until end of month and then 2 months off. I have to also run ranch by myself, and work at our store. Unfortunately employee has very sick dog as well so I have to take time from my job to run store.

Good news: I sold my 5 year old to a great home! Another person bought 4 horses and I get the good LQ trailer for the rest of my shows if I can go.:D

Bottoms up!
Nancy!

[supershorty628]

I'll take a virgin fuzzy navel I guess..

My thing seems so trivial compared to everyone's haha.. getting to the point where pony #1 is looking like she's sold, and pony #2 is going to another trainer so I can afford to keep my horse with my trainer. I like the trainer a whole lot, it's just the thought of sending my baby away to get sold.

I could look the bright side I suppose - I have the new horse and she's amazing.. I just don't like saying goodbye to my 2 childhood best friends.

[Pirateer]

Can I have a mountain dew?

I would just like to fruitbatting RIDE IN A HORSE SHOW.

[Auventera Two]

Holy jesus, some of you have been boozin' it up for 5 years now! **shock** I'll have a buttery nipple and join you because my week sucks too. Dog has a serious ear infection - cost 78 bucks. Sister in law wanted to have a casual dinner at the chinese joint and we ended up going to a fancy restaurant because she "changed her mind at the last minute" so I dropped 80 bucks for her dinner. Farrier price went up so 2 trims cost me 60 bucks. Dentist bill came in - another 72 bucks. I'm sure there's more - just can't remember them all right now.

[beameup]

make it a nice big one.

my old schoolmaster needs dental work due to a loose tooth, which means trailering him to an equine hospital because the local vet/dentist is afraid to sedate him due to his age (30). did i mention that he hates getting into trailers?

i bought an adorable toy poodle pup and rescued a boston terrier pup, and they WON'T HOUSEBREAK. but at least they are facing the wee-wee pads like mecca before they pee on the floor. I really wanted a shih tzu puppy but this boston needed us sooo badly. trying to convince hubby that three is as easy as two....and the boston needs surgery to fix a fractured tail and a facial fracture (due to being kicked around - i told you he needed us)

my former student and still good friend has to put her lovely lusitano mare to sleep due to terrible cushing's...mare is only seven!!

[iownapaint]

I'll take anything wet...

I moved barns this week and the old barn felt the need to call the cops as I was trying to move what is rightfully mine. There were calls to lawyers required and strong-arming to be done. I think it's sorted out now, but I'm not breathing easy yet. I trust those people as far as I could throw them...

[sk_pacer]

Make mine an extra large Laphroaig, or maybe two of them. I am on the vet's list, and missing a season of racing. Horses are sound and in excellent health, I am not. Quack hasn't removed me from the list yet.

[SunsetFarms]

Hmm...not the best of weeks for me either.

Although I believe in starting with good news first.
I'm having a fantastic time with my jumper trainer. She is truly talented and understands me, my horse, and my goals. Plus, she's the coolest and I'm lucky enough to work with her twice a week. This week, we worked on rollback incorporating stride control. Lots of fun and my horse is improving lightyears.

Now for the not so fun news.
I have a psychology exam friday (spring course, and I'm taking a break from studying now). Love the subject, not a fan of the exams.

I have my coach 1 exam next week. I hope I can prepare enough to get a nice passing grade.

I have a flu, which is not fun. Plus my back is pretty sore today (back to the chiro tomorrow, even though I went yesterday:no: )

But the worst of it is, my mother has been diagnosed with cancer. So far everyone in my family that has had it, has died from it (including my grandmother at the age of 34). I'm really scared and she's worried about the surgery leaving a *scar* (upper lip). WHO CARES about the F***ing scar?!?! How about living?
My dad is...well...my dad and the reason why I hardly drink alcohol in the first place. He's retiring at the end of this year and I'm worried about us keeping our heads above water. Not gonna lie...I kinda feel like I'm drowning right now.

But again, my farm has a reputation. I have to stay happy and perky no matter what. And sometimes it's hard. It's hard not to be able to talk about it. And even if someone *'does* want to talk about it...life gets busy.

Tomorrow will be a better day.

[BasqueMom]

Marguarita on the rocks, no salt, and have a second ready. Splash of Grand Manier would be nice!

[Anyplace Farm]

Can I just say how much I love the word 'craptastic'? I am going to try really hard to use that instead of fan-f*cking-tastic.

Now, will someone please ask the bartender to get me another Crantini? And put it on VTRider's tab? Thanks.

[R D Lite]

I'm going to join all those having the margaritas. :)

Not such a great week for me either. My horse went into the vet hospital so we could, as my vet said, "stop dicking around" with his chronic scratches/swelling/etc.

Horse has been there a week and is not coming home for at least a few more days. He was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition that will require long-term treatment with drugs with plenty of side effects. Oh, and when they took his wraps off on Monday, his tendon was completely swollen up and it may or may not be a bow. :mad:

This is the horse who just came back into full work two weeks ago after a seven-month rehab for a suspensory injury.

[MissFit]

I would like a gimlet please--Navy Strength Plymouth Gin would be nice.

1) I'm getting dicked around re: jobs in a new school district--they apparently like to shuffle mediocre teachers around instead of hiring from out of district
2) I have no horse, I have no show helmet, I have no money (see above job issue)--although because of the money not having the horse is a necessity
3) I may have to change my flight to see my SO--in England, after 2 months apart-- because of said job dicking around--(they keep pushing the interviews back). I have already changed flights once. It's driving me batty.

On the plus: the horse that I catch ride did great at his last show (loves XC now), I love my new barn, and I actually have gin in the fridge and can indulge in a drink tonight.

Cheers!

[Kirsten]

VTrider! My goodness, long time no see. Hope your week improves soon. Where to begin...

With a cranberry and soda. Because...

I'm 7 months pregnant, so can't drink booze and can't ride (OK, choosing not to ride after a scary barn accident a few months ago). Every time I stand up, I suddenly need to pee. My mother in law is visiting, and I'm stressed about what to make for dinner tonight. And even though the weather's nice here right now, we can't put the boat in the water because it won't start. But overall, certainly no problems big enough for me to lose any sleep over.

On the up side... I'm graduating with my Masters day after tomorrow. :)

<sip... sip...>

Next?

Edited after reading a few more posts... SunsetFarms, I'm so sorry to hear about your mother. I hope everything turns out fine for her. The good news is detection and treatment have come a long way since your grandmother -- so I'm sure they caught it earlier than they would have even 10 or 20 years ago. Best wishes!

[ChocoMare]

VTrider! My goodness, long time no see. Hope your week improves soon. ...

Uh, note the date of this thread's inception --- 2001. :D ;)

[Kirsten]

Yikes! Alright... who's the joker who revived a 5-year old thread? :D

[equusrocks]

Marguarita on the rocks, no salt, and have a second ready. Splash of Grand Manier would be nice!

I'll have what you're having...but with salt! And def. have a second ready. This one will be gone as fast as a kid drinking koolaid on a hot summer day. Hey, ever tried one with sugar instead of salt?? Can you say YUMMY?!?!

To sum up my craptastic last week/or two Loooonnnngg weeks: I've a poor sick horse, have been taking temps, giving smz's/bute to ALL the horses at the barn (because the BO doesn't have time before work to do 6 of them) And oh, yeah...she's been waking up late too...so I always get a message on my phone on my way to the barn, and it goes something like this: "Hi, it's me, I woke up late and didn't have time to do any of the feeding...can you do it, and feed the goats and clean the stalls? Thanks, you're a doll. They haven't had any medicine yet either (of course)." :mad: And then, then THEN!! she has the gall to tell me I need to pay her more for this extra care because HER SISTER has been medicating the horses at night (sister has horse there too) To quote the guy on the milkyway commercial "Whatev."

And then he began getting a reaction to the buggies (I guess flyspray application isn't covered in my boarding agreement) so now he's lost a bunch of hair on his belly and I have spent a small fortune on tri hist, flysprays, and am now picking up the advance check work gave me so I can go get a fly sheet. Oy vey.

But, oh well. What do you do? Now I get to go fix fence because there's a new horse coming to the barn and my horse was supposed to be out by the 1st...but couldn't leave because he cannot leave premises until we are sure the flu is gone...why another horse is being introduced, I don't know. :sigh:

[A. P.]

"Some of you have been stuck in this bar since 2001!! :eek:"

Sho.... ya wanna *hic* make sumping of it? ;)

[Regalmeans]

Apparently I turned 21 in this bar! And 22. And 20 before all of that :-P

[ChocoMare]

Yikes! Alright... who's the joker who revived a 5-year old thread? :D

:cry: Freebird. Her and her hubby separated :(

[Rayman421]

VTRIder and friends, you don't know me, but I feel your pain of having a craptastic week. First the loyal, dependable truck breaks down to the tune of $1000 repair bill (on 6/6/06 no less) then the water pump goes out at the house/barn well for another whopping repair bill, and all this just before and after a regional horse show that i HAD to go to - entries already paid - thankfully the ponies did well and the good news is I have a futurity champion 2 yr old (in hand) but since things happen in threes, I await the next shoe to fall.

oops, forgot my drink!

Whiskey - imported Canadian please, with a a dollop of Diet Sprite!

As we used to say in the old days, liquor will get you through times of no money, better than money will get you through times of no liquor. Slightly edited ....

[SunsetFarms]

VTrider! My goodness, long time no see. Hope your week improves soon. Where to begin...

With a cranberry and soda. Because...

I'm 7 months pregnant, so can't drink booze and can't ride (OK, choosing not to ride after a scary barn accident a few months ago). Every time I stand up, I suddenly need to pee. My mother in law is visiting, and I'm stressed about what to make for dinner tonight. And even though the weather's nice here right now, we can't put the boat in the water because it won't start. But overall, certainly no problems big enough for me to lose any sleep over.

On the up side... I'm graduating with my Masters day after tomorrow. :)

<sip... sip...>

Next?

Edited after reading a few more posts... SunsetFarms, I'm so sorry to hear about your mother. I hope everything turns out fine for her. The good news is detection and treatment have come a long way since your grandmother -- so I'm sure they caught it earlier than they would have even 10 or 20 years ago. Best wishes!

Thanks! I'm sure everything will turn out fine. We usually land on our feet. Thank you very much for the concern. I'm just worried as I read about cancer all the time (I've taken loads of bio courses and have tried to explain how cancer manifests to my mother).

On the up side....Congrats about your masters! What are you getting your masters in? Very exciting! And even more exciting...you must be getting anxious about your baby! Congrats! Lots of time to ride later. My mother was competing while she was pregnant and evidently I was born a month early! The cool part of that was I showed prelim before I even started riding. Thank you again for the kind words. The big "C" word scares me very much.

[Kirsten]

Freebird -- I'm sorry, that's a shame about you and your hubby. :(

Sunset -- Thanks, my masters is in human-computer interaction (psychology dept., at the uni I'm graduating from). And in a couple of months, I plan to show our little one a picture of her taking her first jumping lesson... in utero (at 3 months, before I stopped riding). :D

[Dhorton]

Thanks for upping this thread (though so sad to hear about your week Freebird)
I'll take a Strawberry Daq & go HEAVY with the Rum please :yes:
~ I took a HARD kick in the gut with two rear hoofs on Monday in the midst of the storm, and while I semi-protected myself with my arms my right arm is badly bruised and I have a (in the doctor's words) "a very nice hoof shaped soft tissue bruise on the stomach" and likley bruised some deeper down - but because I am dealing with allergies real badly right now he can't tell which symptoms are from the allergies (sinus) and whic are from the kick.
~ I have the cutest little Shetland pony (blk/white paint) gelding with the greatest of attitudes....but the rest of the herd has decided they all have some grudge against him. Everytime we catch him to take him out (usually just at feeding time) they gang up and attempt to bite him - and monday hooves were thrown at him, he ducked behind me to "hide" and I got it instead (see above) So now we have decided to try to sell the little guy before things get any worse one day. (Had him since December - this attitude with the herd only started since we moved to new land)
~Work is slow, I can't think straight and I can barely hear or see straight...but another co-worker is off sick and I can't get it in my head to call in sick because that would leave just one person in the office this week.
~ The loan company told my husband that we were approved for the 2nd mortgage, and all was fine and dandy until they asked what other buildings the 6 acres we are buying has on it, and when he said a barn they asked if it was for horses (duh) - and THEN they said "oh we can't do a farm loan" ~ WTF??? **GRrrrr** So back to start from scratch with a new mortgage company.

[EqTrainer]

DMK - I am puzzled... what the hell else is a vaccuum cleaner made for/good for if not cleaning up pet hair?

Sam Adams here, it's not quite 5:00.
In 32 minutes we scan switch to something more effective.

[jilltx]

:cry: Freebird. Her and her hubby separated :(


Oh Freebird. I am so sorry. Can I buy you a drink...or seven???


To top it all off, I think I am getting sick. I noticed this morning that my arms felt weak while I was cleaning stalls, now I feel like I am wearing lead shoes. I have a temp of 94.1 (yes that low), so I'm not sure what's up. Crap. Crappity crap crap.

[cswoodlandfairy]

Well my day DEF falls in that category...gave my two weeks today (I HATE MY job) and well they are sending me packing this friday...my other job doesnt start till 2nd week in July and I have no income till then... :(

I'll Take a Ginger and Captian...maybe 2 of those guys.....

[Blue Yonder]

Tequila. Plain tequila, maybe the whole bottle.

Let's see, stretchin it back just a bit longer than a week, in the last 2, I've:
--Had my TB breeding stallion Warpath die of an aortic aneurysm. 2 of my girls confirmed in foal. 3 more ovulating this week. Great timing. Nevermind that I loffed my bada$$ stallion.
--Had to euthanize a broodmare who went completely neurological post-foaling, as in from stable to unable to rise at all in 36 hours. (Long story, much treatment involved over the last 2 months. Don't ask.) Orphan foal is now 3 weeks old (but doing good, thank God).
--Among foals, in no particular order, have dealt with an umbilical abcess, a partial facial paralysis, and severe diarrhea.

My 5 years of uneventful breeding has come crashing down in the month of June. I suppose I was due for it. This too shall pass, for all of us.

Thank God that my family is whole, safe, and well. And I remain grateful for the blessings that pervade the rest of my life.

[MissintheSouth]

Gin and Tonic!

My in-laws are coming into town for the weekend, and we have to tell them that we are not coming to stay with them for Christmas. And it is MY fault we can't get up there for Xmas, which will just add to the idea that I am a control freak bitch who stole their son. Nevermind that I planned a trip to meet them at Disney for Thanksgiving and took care of everything so they wouldn't have to, yet I am letting them plan everything we do that weekend (thus negating the "control freak" thing). I could go on but it is just too depressing.:cry:

Maybe make mine a double!

[Gunnar]

:sadsmile: I will join in on the Craptastic times. See my thread of trouble (life throwing me curve balls and all that crap!):eek: and just count me in. wow a 5 year old thread. Is Vt even around anymore? In 2001 my life was better so can we get back to that time?

Freebird, sorry for your sad news. Mr. Gunnar and I had our Silver wedding Anniversary yesterday!:) :sadsmile: But it is not all wine and roses!

Cheer up and get thee better is my motto now!

Hugs to you all and keep on drinking!:eek: :winkgrin:

[jilltx]

Tequila. Plain tequila, maybe the whole bottle.

Let's see, stretchin it back just a bit longer than a week, in the last 2, I've:
--Had my TB breeding stallion Warpath die of an aortic aneurysm. 2 of my girls confirmed in foal. 3 more ovulating this week. Great timing. Nevermind that I loffed my bada$$ stallion.

Oh BlueYonder I am so sorry to hear that! :no: He was a lovely, lovely boy with such great potential for an older gentleman!! Sorry about your mare (I won't ask) and ***JINGLES*** for your foals with various ailments.

[sk_pacer]

Pour me a whole mess of Laphroiag - several pitchers will suffice. Rotten wind, plus old power lines plus a poory placed tree left me without power for the whole afternoon. Worse, the vet came and did shots, a rather tricky option with poor light because of heavy cloud cover. Not been a great day, but at least I can cook supper, and don't have to drive several miles to a restaurant.

[Tallabred]

Cosmo - Refinanced farm and closed every credit card we had.

[Freebird!]

Aww, thanks so much you guys, for putting up with my pity party. My son still thinks daddy's at a horse show...a very long horse show...and has to work hard. Even though Mr. Freebird isn't my favorite person right now, I do still love him - well, through God, anyway - and he IS still Tyler's (my son) Daddy, so I refuse to say anything negative about my hubby in front of Ty. I hate, hate, hate seeing adults fighting in front of their kids.

Today, my best friend and I went out and took pictures of two of my mares. We had a lot of fun, but I feel SO guilty for not liking my little TB, Maggie. We bred, raised and trained her, but - I guess since my husband picked out the sire and dam - I just want her gone. She's fun to ride, pretty to look at, etc, but I just don't like her. How horrible is THAT?? Sigh.

As for drinks, I haven't drank anything in a looong time - except for a glass of Muscidine wine every now and then - but I must say, I do love a good Mudslide.

[catknsn]

I'll take a strawberry margarita, heavy on the tequila:
This week's b*tching...
...why is it the movie business involves dealing with 40 year old men that act like 14 year old boys?
...why is it I work so hard and still have to freakin' pet-sit and freelance just to pay my vet bills?
...why do so many people simply not have a conscience about what happens to their animals? I have a 17 year old cat right now that her owner dumped because she wanted to move to a no-pets apartment...what the fruitbat is wrong with people?

[Appassionato]

I'll be easy. Bloody Mary. A bigun. But I always drink biguns. :D

1) Monsterously irritated with a boarder. Idiots, just idiots. Not going into the whole story, I'm tired of it right now. ;)
2) My beloved best friend, the real Appassionato, hasn't been doing so hot healing from a mech. founder. He's better, then not so good, better, then not so good...since Nov. or so. It gets to me some days, and tonight it really hit me. Sometimes I wonder if I am doing the right thing. Y'all understand. :sadsmile:
3) Training a youngster to get some more exercise in. He's smart, he's neat...and some days a brat. Today I lasted 20 minutes until I was completely soaked in sweat. Him? Only under the saddle pad. God's way of telling me I suck or I'm too old for this stuff? :lol:
4) I live on student loans. Sometimes, I feel really stretched trying to make ends meet. I'm sure you guys understand that one too. Money, that is.

Well, that's my complaints tonight. I really shouldn't complain though. Other things in my life are pretty good. I have great and loyal friends, I do very well in school, I get scholarships and grants to help with school, and my horse is at the nicest farm in our area. :D

[Pocket Pony]

DRINK - I'm current;y drinking a glass of duckhorn sauvignon blanc. but were i at a abar, i might have a bloody mary or margarita...

my week is going fine, except for the fact that my stupid broken hand isn't healing after 8 weeks and i have no idea when i'll be able to ride again. poor mr. pp is doing all my chores!!

and i feel like my ass is growing since i'm not really exercising at the moment.

[Lord Helpus]

Oh Freebird,

This is a cruel joke you have played on me. With all the newbies on the BB it doesn't seem like the same COTH I have considered a second home for so many years. Then I open a thread and see VTrider, Sea Urchin, DMK, you, So Easy, Wingsy, Jair and Erin all posting!

Be still my heart!

It took me a whole page and a half of pure enjoyment, thinking that my old friends had somehow come back -- before I came to a post by Cactuskate...:( That was a tip off that something was not quite right with this thread. (OK, so I'm a little slow on the uptake).

CRUEL, I say -- you are cruel. But for one brief moment, it was wonderful to think that the COTH of old was back. :yes:

[equusrocks]

:cry: Freebird. Her and her hubby separated :(

Freebird, I'm so sorry. Lots of Hugs to you!:cry:

[LoriO]

As usual, I am late to the party. Bartender......a Captian Morgan and coke here please.

Definately add me to the craptastic list. For starters, Saturday night when I was driving home I had a tree fall on my car and me :eek: . The only bright spot out of this was that I was lucky enough to see the tree start to fall and took evasive action. So instead of the trunk of the tree landing on me, which would have meant squished LoriO, I just had all the branches land on the car. Still looking at $1,300 damage though :rolleyes: :sigh:

Thoroughly pissed off with hubby because he does almost nothing to help out around the house. Days off ?? HAH what days off. They are spent cleaning the house, doing laundry, doing all the yard work, grocery shopping. Crap, I rather be at work, I do less there!! Hubby's days off he sits in front of the tv and does almost nothing. He seems to think that becuase he handles paying the bills (almost all done on line) cleans the catbox and takes out the garbage, that we are equal in what work we do around the house. Oh, he does do the snow removal in the winter.

Still no way does he do near as much as me. I finally got upset the other day and told him I can not do all this myself, that he has got to start helping more. Waiting to see if that message has sunk in yet.

Of course on top of my one full time job and all the house/yard work, I have a part time Ebay business to run, a part time job doing dog training and still need to make time in there to spend time with my horse.

Ok, whining over but it felt good to get it out.


Bartender another Rum and Coke please...do you have an Ma DouDou (sp)rum?


Edited to add: Lord Helpus, I know what you mean. I posted first and then went back and started reading the other pages. I was all excited when I saw Jair and some of the others but what really threw me was when I saw Cactuskates post. That's when I looked at the dates of the original post!

[Equilibrium]

Hi girls, hope it's not too late, but hard to get spur of the moment planes from Dublin!
Before I start on my craptastic week like to pass a few comments.

Paddys Mom- Can relate to upping ship and moving. I came to Ireland 5 years ago and had to leave everything behind. I kept my cell phone even though it didn't work because it seemed some sort of symbol. For the most part I have a good husband. He does go into d**khead mode occasionally, but has a good heart. We run our horse business together so this is always interesting. Hubby always wants to do everything on the cheap and I always want to spend all the money on keeping the horses happy. Eventually we meet in the middle and no one suffers. It is a bit of a sore point that my OTTB has 10 blankets, but he needs them! Just don't let him control you. I know easier said then done. A good friend said to me ages ago that the secret to a happy marriage is knowing you can pack your bags at any time and walk away. It is very true!!!!!! My bags now include 3 horses I wouldn't part with, but I could do it and it's the knowing this that keeps things in harmony!

Blue Yonder, I'm sorry about all your breeding problems this month. You have had a rough time.

SunsetFarms, I'm hoping everything turns out alright for your mom and family.

Michelle, wow tough job. I don't envy you.

Me, well my craptastic week started with going to Donegal for the weekend with a friend who was judging an Irish Pony Society show on Sunday. We left on Sat to have a good weekend. Carol got sick with food poisoning after we had seafood. It was a mild case, but still crap. Stayed in a horrible B&B where the only highlight was playing with the Irish Setter. Then find out show doesn't start until 1:30pm on Sunday and she had 20 classes to judge. It was boring and agonizing and really wierd people. Don't think they liked us very much. Might have been a bit of complaining on our part. Then hubby calls to say one of the foals is sick and had to get vet out. Amazing for him to get vet out on expensive Sunday, but realized it was a client horse and it wasn't costing us a penny! Monday I decide I'm not PG'g my mare because late foals mean late weaning and we break yearlings then so not doable. Something was up with her and have decide to leave her til next year. She is my favorite mare to foal because all her foals are so friendly and really cool. Also vet bill arrives and hid that from hubby and slipped my vet a check on the sly. Hubby finds it and starts going mental because he thinks it's all the scans related to Stella(my mare and said mare above). Sort of had to point out most of it was from crippled mare(his mare) trying to keep her alive and healthy whilst giving birth to her first foal. To be honest she is a bit of a wuss and is not really suited to motherhood and has hubby catering to every whim. That mare also has a knack for getting me in trouble all the time so I don't really like her and she doesn't really like me. It's very strange.

Other than that things are just peachy. Getting ready to go ride Frank, the one with 10 blankets. He just got his feet done so he's ready to go. He will always cheer me up!

Darn forgot my drink, strawberry margarita please!!!!!!! and keep them coming!
Terri

[maxiford812]

I'll take a sloe gin fizz because I really need to pass out.

My sister and I were walking around my back yard yesterday when a loud, frying-transformer-type noise came out of the 18-year-old central air unit. The house is cool again today, but DH and I are $4,000 dollars poorer. :cry: Oh, yeah, and no job, a sickly bank account and a chronically lame horse who's 19. OK, whine mode off...

[alysheba]

When I drank, my choice was Rumplmintz shots. 100 proof. With an ice water w/lemon back.

I have pics of me in Jamaica blowing fire shots with the 190 proof rum they have there. I held them all spellbound...I am being sarcastic by the way. (:

[DancingPretense]

I will have Grey Goose and cranberry, only a little ice.

I just signed papers on a very expensive farm and had a mini breakdown driving home from the barn...must get through the buyers remorse! My current house is sold and I have 2 weeks to move out and I have 2 months until I can move into above farm...nobody will rent a place for 2 months....couch crashing here i come....

[luvmytbs]

Is VT still buying or has this five year bar fest put her in the poorhouse?

Don't matter, I'll have a Sex On The Beach.....yeah, yeah, I know, a real girlie drink, but I like it sweet.
This week has been o.k. until last night when one of my guys decided to jump forward directly onto my left big toe. Which was not only flat after extracting it from the boot, but also showed a wonderful black color. As long as it doesn't turn gang green I will be o.k.
So this morning I limped, in heels no less, to my breakfast meeting with our CFO. I hope he didn't think I was mocking him, because he has a "real and permanent" limp.

Yikes, the thought of that being reflected in my next raise, I think I will do a Lemon Drop as well, just to make sure......

[Elegante E]

Well crap. I was going to whine that I'd finally found the stallion prospect of my dreams but was going to pass cause I can't sell the four horses I need to sell to buy him (three of said horses have been on the market for a year)...but after reading some of these really bummer posts, I'll just sigh and sheepishly drink a Smirnof Ice.

[Meadow36]

Ketel Citron and Seven .... with lemon and lots of ice. Back up everyone else please.

I can totally relate to those people who are having 2 steps forward, 10 steps back with their riding. I've been riding forever and used to jump around 3' with ease and suddenly I'm having trouble staying with my horse over a crossrail ..... (sigh).

I think my horse has ulcers (double sigh). Just ordered the Ulcerguard to see if he improves.

In general just an overwhelming feeling of depression and another overwhelming feeling that I'm losing it and can't hold on. All due to a combination of personal and work issues (triple sigh).

This board has been my only friend lately, and that just makes me sad. I have no life, and no friends here in FL (quadruple sigh).

Bartender, another round please - hurry!!!!!

[SunsetFarms]

Freebird-sorry to hear your news. This too will pass.

LoriO- that must have been really scary. I've only plowed into a tree (was not driving!), not been plowed by a tree. Good news that you're ok!

Equlibrium- no amount of food posioning is fun. I hope that foal is feeling better.

Maxiford- tough time indeed. I hate when all these things happen at once.

Dancing- Change is never easy, but living on a farm is a dream come true. After we inherited my place, we drove (ran, biked, whatever) back and forth to our house in a small town 5 minutes away. That was for 6 years. Now we have been living at our home that my student's father built for 3 years and I can't remember why we didn't move soon. Oh yeah...that dreaded word...Change. But all and all it's great...do chores in PJs, heaven-forbid a colic occurs, but it is easier to deal with; everything became way easier. Good luck at your new place.

luvmytbs- ouch! I'm afraid to ever go for a pedicure due to the grossness of my feet. Last year, while putting in studs, my mare kicked me super hard. Didn't bother to take the boot off, even though the pain wasn't fun. Turns out I broke my big toe. It still makes weird noises. Still competed though. Gotta love that added colour. Now you just have to wear a complimentary nail polish.

Elegante E-there's gotta be a way to buy that horse! Right horse, wrong time, eh?

Update on my situation-
My mother has been cleared for breast cancer, but not skin cancer (all those years baking in the sun while coaching, plus she fair-skinned).

My father may be put on permanent long-term disability as he suffered a bad accident (freak accident where he was riding a client's horse and got boxed in by a bunch of horses...something spooked them. The horse my dad was riding flipped up over backwards on him and he fractured his pelvis in numerous places severely. Lucky me, at 12 I got to see my father crushed. Needless to say, my dad is always in pain, can barely walk and is afraid of doctors. Sometimes he takes his frustation out in the wrong way, but at least (now) I recognize that. If he ends up in a wheelchair (it's only getting worse), we'll have to sell our farm. But he is way more important.

Good news is that my scoliosis/back problems situation is improving with chiropractic help a couple of times a week. Finally riding and jumping isn't hurting as much.

Thanks you guys for listening. Horse people are, well, horse people. Great listeners and great people to lean on. I'm lucky enough to have some support here, but at times, talking about it with people involved can be emotionally exhausting. Life goes on....

[chai]

Last week I would have skipped the glass...just give me the bottle of Bombay Sapphire: 3 sick horses, flood and mold damage, sick kids, stress up to here. This week, things are better so I'm sticking to M&Ms.

[iwishiwasriding]

I'll take a shot of tequila, and since I'm a minor in a pretend bar, we'll just pretend bartender man didn't give it to me ;). Anyways, my week isnt going to badley...unless you count, needing to go to the denstist...and NOT going, single handedly stacking 40 bales of hay in the heat, we are moving in a few weeks to live with a man that I'm not sure I want my mom to marry (shame it's not my decision) and to top it all off, my friends won't talk to me, no idea AT ALL what I did.

Actully bartender man, skip the tequila, I'm going out to ride and be alone for a bit...I might be back afterwards though : ).

[Freebird!]

I have been in a bit of a funk for the past few days, and just happene to come across this oldie but goodie thread, so.......BUMP!!

<Freebird makes herself some Coffee with a shot of Bailey's>

[FindersKeepers]

Shot of 1800 with a lime please...actually I need 2.

The week started off when SO returned from a business trip, only to find a pipe in the new house burst when the furnace broke (somewhere between Thursday and Friday) and now the bathroom, kitchen, dining room, and garage all must be gutted and rebuilt. It was a fixer upper to begin with, but...

Then my heart and soul little dog... we thought he had a bladder infection, turns out to be liver failure. He will turn 4 on Sunday. So now I am dosing him with morphine while we try to get him stabilized, and he's not letting me sleep. It is like having an infant (I"m assuming, no experience with it). I don't mind, I love him to death, but I am tired.

And now we are having a winter storm. 2 inches of snow, followed by freezing rain all day, now followed by more snow. BUT on the plus side, they did close the office early and sent us home.

I heard mercury is moving out of retrograde though...maybe that had something to do with it??

[atr]

The insurance assessor is currently looking at my car and working out exactly how bad my week is.

VT's credit card must be feeling a bit limp by now... This is the longest binge in recorded history!