Horse show yesterdayyyy. =]

Buster is a freaking saint. He was soooooooooo good yesterday. Since it was a schooling show at my barn, and they used mostly the lesson horses, he got ridden like a million times, and almost everyone used him for their jumping class, because he's like, the only decent jumper we have as a schoolie right now. But he still behaved all day, and he carried everyone around with no problem.
Our first class was Equitation, and he did so well. He got his leads and everything and he moved wicked nice for me. We got 1st. =]
Next classes was pleasure. He did really well in this class too. Only problem was that he had a little issue picking up the canter, which was my fault. He got really unbalanced in the corner, and he couldn't pick it up right, so it took us the whole long side of the arena to pick it up. We placed 3rd in that class.
After that was command. He did everything right when I asked, and he did all his canter departs like, right when I asked. We got 1st in that class as well. =]
Then our last class was x-rails. He was a little fast when we did lines, so he took off kind of big in those, but I can't blame him. He was probably wicked tired and sick of jumping. >.<>

We ended up getting Champion! =D It was my first champion or reserve champion or anything like that. I was so proud of Buster. =] He's such a good boy. <3

Walking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPl-ZyZAvnc
Trotting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n684vDWGohQ
Cantering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iv4ILzrBWw
Jumping. I know that I'm not consistent in this course, I switch from the trot to the canter. My plan was to do the whole thing at a trot, but he likes to canter in between jumps, so I kind of just let him go with. If I interfered with him right before the jump, he would've gotten all screwy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ-z2CwyYZs

I might put up videos of some of the whole classes if I get a chance to upload them. But they're all like 6 minutes long, so idk when I'll get a chance to, because those will take forever to upload. >.<

Pictures will be up at some point.

So someone needs to buy me one of these. [Video starts at 0:29]



And one of these.



Omfg. xDDDDDD One of these ninja cats too.

Soooo the barn owner called me back today. Buster is actually $6500. >.<> But I just got home from school (I was helping out at an open house after school, so I just got home) and my mom was like "So I hear Buster's a little too expensive?" I was like mhmm...And she said "There's no other horses you're interested in there? Just Buster?" I just said yeppp. So she was like, "Well, I asked Nana (my grandma) how much they'd be willing to spend on a horse, and once she figures it out, me and Ricky (my stepdad) can probably pay the rest as your graduation present from us. Then once you get a real job, you can make some payments and pay us back for some of him."

So as long as he passes the vet check in the next month or so, I'm deff. buying him. =]

Buster has to have rabies. There's no other explanation for his actions. xDDD

Buster had his hocks injected on Friday. Finally. =] So hopefully he'll be feeling good this weekend. We'll have to see, but I'm hoping that he'll be completely sound now, and that he'll be happy and moving well.

Saturday I had a lesson on Diamond. He's sooooo smooth. But at the trot, he gets nervous about the rider catching him in the mouth whenever he goes forward, becuase he's used to having so many little kids and beginner riders on him who catch him in the mouth whenever he goes faster than a turtle. So it was kind of hard to ride that, but other than that, he was good. =]

I called the barn owner yesterday and left a message about Buster and how much he was and that I was interested in him and everything. So I'm just waiting for her to call me back. Hopefully she'll get back to me by tomorrow.

So I just went to dinner with my grandparents and I brought up the topic of the pre-purchase exam (700 freaking dollars! >.<). I was worried that I was going to have to pay for it by myself, becuase they said that they were only going to pay for my horse, and everything else I'd have to pay for by myself. But since it's pretty much like, included in buying a horse, they said that they'd pay for ittttt!. =]=]=]

AND AND AND! My parents said that they'd help me out with board a little bit, so that means I can stay at my barn! I was looking into other barns in my area that were cheaper, because I wasn't going to be able to afford to pay board at my barn by myself, becuase it's kind of expensive, but I reallllllyyyyyy didn't want to have to leave my barn, and have to go somewhere else and leave all the people at my barn and everything, and now I don't have toooooo!

*is exciteddddddddddddddd =D =D*

So I'm talking to the barn owner in like 2 -3 weeks about buying Buster. :) :) :)

Jennie jumping Buster in her lesson on Saturday -

Fail update.

Ok, I haven't posted in forever. x.x My lesson went reallllly well last week. I rode Buster, and he was awesome. =] I jumped him, and I got to do a 2' vertical a few times with him. Only at the trot, at 2' is nothing incredible, it's actually really tiny, but still. It felt really good. :]

Then I had another lesson yesterday. It was another half hour private in the afternoon, and I rode Chester. It wasn't as bad as the first time I rode him, but he was still really hard to get used to. He's got so much freaking power packed into such a small little horse. Everyone says I look so good on him, and that I look so pretty on him, and when my instructor was talking to me after my lesson yesterday she was like "You know, I hate to tell you, but you do look really good on him." She said I looked really secure and good on him, but I really felt like my leg was wobbling all over the place, and that it was soooooo unsecure. And I felt like I was posting huge, but my instructor said I actually looked perfect, it just felt big to me. *shrugs*

I get to ride Buster next week, and we're gonna practice a small course outside, to get ready for the barn's schooling show in 2 weeks. I haven't jumped outside in like, forever. I honestly can't remember the last time I jumped outside was. But Buster jumped sooooo good for Jen outside yesterday, he was really nice and soft, and was cantering so softly in between the jumps, and he wasn't jumping big or rushing at all, so I'm hoping he'll be have that well for me. xD

We're making these lesson times our permanent lesson times too. Which I'm actually really liking. It's actually really helping me a lot. When we had our lesson first thing in the morning, for an hour, I think that that was part of what has been bugging me. When I fall asleep, I was already thinking about what would happen in my lesson the next morning, because it was first thing. When I woke up, I would already be thinking about it, and I'd think about it all the way to the barn, and we'd be rushing around in the morning, and we'd usually be first to ride.

Now with these lesson times, I get to sleep later, it's not all I think about when I fall asleep, and when I get up, we're not rushing around, and I get to just like hang out for a while before we leave, so it's not the first and only thing that I think of when I get up. And we get to the barn like an hour or two early, so we just walk around and hang out ahead of time, so that keeps my mind off of it too. If riding is all I think about, and I don't keep my mind busy with something else, that's when my mind starts to wander, and get ideas of it's own, and that's how I get all worked up about it, before I even get on my horse. So this new time and stuff is really helping so far, and I'm really liking it. =]

Wow. o.O Long post.

If evil is attractive, then call me the devil.

Argh. >.< Stupid grounding. I'm freaking grounded from the computer because I apparently hate my little sister, according to my stepdad, and I didn't LOOK at her when I said hi to her last week.
Whatever.

I had another lesson on Saturday. It went ok at first, but then once we started to do some cantering and jumping, it started to go downhill. I rode Ace again, and he has a very short strided canter, and it's very uncomfortable to sit to. And he gets strong after jumps. He's fine riding up to the jump, and the actual jump is fine, but he just like takes off after. My instructor gave us, well, mostly me, this lecture at the end of our lesson, about how we could do more, and we had to push ourselves to do more. She doesn't know anything about my accident, and that I have confidence issues, so she just assumed that I wasn't pushing myself, and that I just wasn't "there" that day. So later in the day, I went to her and I talked to her about it. I apologized for my lesson, and I told her that I had a bad fall last year. I said that most days I'm fine, but some days I wake up and it's just all I think about. It like, literally takes over my mind, and I can't think at all when I'm riding. It just replays over and over in my head. She said that she understands, and that I just need to talk to her, and let her know how I'm feeling at the time.

This week, my sister has a soccer game at freaking 8 in the morning (WHO DOES ANY SORT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY WILLINGLY AT 8 AM?) so my lesson is rescheduled to 2:30. It's a half hour private, so all the attention is going to be focused on me, and hopefully I'll get somewhere. >.<>.<

So I guess we'll see how it goes.