Pictures from the show last weekend.
Click on them to make them bigger. =]
http://picasaweb.google.com/Rayzee12/WestfieldGrazers2009#

I originally took over 500 pictures at the GPC Horse Show on Sunday.
I somehow narrowed it down to 208. xD

Here's the link to the album where all the pictures are.
Some pictures on there look really blurry and unfocused, but I swear they're not. It kept the quality of most of the pictures on there, but for some reason it totally ruined some of them.
So try to ignore those ones and picture them not blurry in your head. XD
Look! Look! Look!
http://picasaweb.google.com/Rayzee12/GranbyPonyClubHorseShow2009#
I used my new lens to take them all. =]
It seriously made me all warm and fuzzy and happy inside, lol.

"Maybe this applies to all of us. It's been said that "All the world's a stage." We all have an audience. We all have some kind of influence. We all have a story and a voice. Our lives are our songs. Our hearts are our songs. It's okay to ask real questions. It's okay to say real things. Let's make things that matter and move, and let's chase after those things as well."

-Jamie Tworkowski, founder of To Write Love On Her Arms.

Just ordered my prom dress and my new camera lens. :)

My new lens! http://www.ritzcamera.com/product/541162178.htm
Graduation present from my mom. :)

Prom dress - http://www.overstock.com/Clothing-Shoes/Donna-Ricco-Womens-Chiffon-Halter-Dress/3906239/product.html
Getting it in the brown.

I'm going to Kentucky in November!
Last week I posted about the MA 4-H State Round Up, and how I got 5th place, which meant I was the alternate.
Well the girl who was in 2nd place decided that she is going to Nationals for Communications instead of Hippology, and dropped out. So I'm on the team!
We get to go to the New England Round Up in October, and then to the National Round Up in Kentucky for 5 days in November. =]

I don't even know how this happened. This is my first year competing in Hippology at all, and now I'm going to compete at the highest level, with the three other best people in Massachusetts. We get to represent our whole freaking state in Kentucky.

...Seriously?

I guess reading every horse book, magazine, and website I could get my hands on since the 4th grade has payed off.

I'm currently putting off doing this Sociology paper that was due yesterday.

So me and two other girls from my club competed at the MA State 4-H Round Up this weekend. This is the first year that anyone in our club has competed at Horse Judging, Hippology and Horse Judging even at the local level, even though we've been around for 4 years, lol. But in order to go to the state round up, we had to qualify at the local/regional level first. Originally at the regional level, I got 1st in my county in Hippology, and 1st overall for Seniors (ages 14-18) in Western MA. And I placed 3rd in my county for Horse Judging, and 8th overall for Seniors in Western MA.

The State Round Up was held at a water park/hotel, and we were there for the whole weekend, and it was wicked fun. =D

Friday we got there late, ate, studied with my leader, and then crashed. xD
Saturday was Hippology and Horse Bowl. I ended up getting 5th overall for Seniors in Massachusetts in Hippology. The top four placing seniors get to go to Nationals in KY in November, and the fifth place person is the alternate. So I get to study and stuff with the team, and if any one of the top four drops out, I get to go to Kentuckyyyyyy. =D

Then this morning we had Horse Judging. We had five classes to judge - HUS, Western Pleasure, Hunt Seat Eq. w/ a pattern, Appaloosa in Hand, and Hunter in Hand. They were pretty hard since half the horses we had to judge were spazzes, had bad riders, or were lame. -.o
I placed the HUS and WP classes correctly, and only missed by one or two places on the others.
Then we had to present reasons for HUS and Hunter in Hand. I did good on my reasons for Hunter In Hand, but I completely failed on my reasons for HUS. It took me like, 30 seconds, when it should take you around a minute or a minute and a half. xD
I still managed to place 9th overall for Seniors in MA out of like, 40 people or so that qualified from 11 counties. The amount of people and counties was around the same for the Hippology too.

The blue looks better. =]

I'm not really sure I'm liking the yellow, but at least it's better than the black.
I'm gonna try and find another color, maybe.

I fail at keeping this updated. =\

Anyways. I'm excited for like, SO MANY THINGS.
This weekend we're going to the state Round-Up for 4-H. 1st in Western Mass for Hippology bitchhhh. I'm something of importance in Horse Judging as well, but I don't care much about that. I hate horse judging. xD So I'm hoping to at least place in Hippology on the state level. Being able to go to Kentucky for getting in the top 4 would be pretty sick too, but I doubt it's going to happen. Lmao.
Then there's Granby Pony Club on May 17th. Best. Show. Everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Me & Jennie are grooming for Rachel and Apple, and I'm determined to take as many pictures as I can, of everyone XD.
Then Cape Cod for the last weekend in May. <33333
I really wish I was still going for 2 weeks in the summer, but if all I can get is one weekend, I'll take it.
Graduation the Friday after I come home. =D D= I want to get out of there and graduate, but I don't want to leave. =\
Then North Carolinaaaaaaaa. We leave two days after graduation, for 2 weeks. Wild ponies, and riding on the beach. =DDD
And thennnn, our 4-H club's horse show is on the 28th of June. 3rd year!

THEN OMGZ REGIONALS AT THE END OF JULY/BEGINNING OF AUGUST. =D =D =D =D =D =D
Okay, so I lied. Granby Pony Club is the second best show ever. So what? Regionals is totally the best.
Honestly, what's better than sleeping in a camper for 3 hot nights, and being confined to the local fairgrounds for an even hotter 4 days straight, and doing nothing but showing horses? NOTHING. Bitch.

So yeah, that's about it for the next like, 4 months. xD

I really need to update this thing more often. =\

I could do anything on this horse. Honestly anything.
I miss him. <3

Ftw.
I'd appreciate it if all this fighting stopped.
My parents are fighting pretty much daily now, over incredibly stupid stuff.
My sister fights with me numerous times a day.
I'm currently in an argument with my friend, which has been happening a lot lately as well.
And on fucking VD and YR, almost every god damned topic is currently a fight.
Everyone is getting so worked about the stupidest and most pointless things.
And I'm even fucking fighting with myself.
I just spent close to an hour talking to my friend about how much I freaking fail at riding, because I've been nothing but scared shitless for the past one and a half years.
I'd really like my mind to stop being a bitch and let me fucking enjoy riding, just for once.
I'm sick of not being able to get over my fear, and I'd really like to not have to fight with myself almost daily about how much of a crappy rider I am, mental wise, and how I can't get the fact through my head that I'm not going to die every time I get on a damn horse.

Everyone can seriously just piss off today.