X-mas

Finally my problem with Betty has been resolved... on Monday both of us yelled at each other for 20mins then laughed about it 1h later. We agreed on January being the month when we go buy me new stuff.
But i just realised today that I can't find my locker key for my locker at the stables, so instead of going riding today I sat at home all day... and I still have no clue where the hell it could be.... :S:S:SGRRR!
My grandpa and my dad promised ages ago that they would make me a 'tack locker' thing like this one

but we took the measurements and everything like half a year ago and they were 'perfect' but my dad gave it to my grandpa who knew that he would lose it... and well he did. So now we have to plan and measure the locker again :/ and dad said that my grandpa will only work on it in the winter and im afraid that by the time all the planning is done spring will be here and i'll have to wait another year for it to be done. Nevermind :/
Getting to the point of this post :D I never know who to buy an x-mas present... and if I decide to buy them something then WHAT to buy.. I mean the rule is supposed to go something like ' the more you know someone the easier it is to buy them something' but I think it's the exact opposite... because since you know them well you want to get them the perfect present and then you spend ages planning and making/buying their present then they with no effort get you something ... .Like for example last year for my friend Robby I got him a white dressage pad got the silver border sewn on especially for him, then took it to another place and got our teams emblem and his horses and his name embroided on.

Yeah, I found a picture of it :) this was one side and the other had Robby's name on it with another emblem.
Then when it was my birthday... he took me (a few days late) to a tack shop... and told me to pick something... I asked him to tell me what he liked best sicne after all it was HIM that was picking for me... he wouldn't say a thing... so I chose one I liked... turned out it cost more than a fortune... with a sour face he bought it for me, then afterwards told me that next year... we should swap. He'd buy me the cheap thing and i'd buy him something expensive... :/ so much for 'the thought counts' or whatever...
But the thing is, I feel bad if I don't buy the person something thoughtful and personal...

Till next time ;)

Oh my god and OH MY GOD

Okay so once again I have yay and not so yay news...

Let's start with the bad and leave the good for last.

So I went riding yesterday and I drove my dad out :D (I still have to practice driving a bit before I really get the feel of it since i've only had my licence for about 2-3months 1of which I was abroad) because once again Betty wasn't able to drive me out to ride. And so I went with dad, and I have this stuff cleaning fetish kind of.. like my stuff HAS to be clean or I go crazy. And i've been asking Betty if she knew where my cleaning kit was... she said she'd look.. and then texted me that she found it.. but when I asked her where it was she didn't reply.. so when I was out with my dad I phoned her .. she didn't pick up but sent me a text that she was in uni and couldn't pick up, so via text I asked her where my stuff was... Once again she didn't reply....

Riding went great, Pilgrim was really sweet and everything, but ofcourse afterwards my stuff was really icky.. so i remembered that betty had some babay wipes in her grooming box... So I went ant looked... and there were my empty packet of babywipes... and me neogranormon caked in dust... My babywipes were in my cleaning kit.. and were full when I left..
Explanation... she took my cleaning kit.. (when she NEVER cleans her stuff) and has for the past 2 weeks forgotten to put it back.. and thats why she wasn't replying to my texts...
So much for friends...

Okay so the good news :D
After a year of horsey talk with my parents... I brought it up with my dad about 2 days ago and he was totaly normal and said that he would let me have a horse it's just that my mum wont...
Then today i bring it up at lunch and my mum says that she's afraid of something happening to the horse because that is something that you can't count on... It's not like you calculate something happening to the horse into your yearly budget... Which as sad as it sounds is totaly true... But even so she told me that I should write a monthly budget plan thingy for the horse.. so everything divided down the the month... the farrier, the boarding fee etc...
And I swear in the last 11years of my riding.. this is the closest I have EVER gotten to my mum agreeing and be willing to give a horse a chance... Because there was this one time where my parents were like okay fine... But it didnt feel right.. it was like they didn't take it seriously at all... but this time it feels different.. although I have a really bad feeling that when I mail her the excel sheet she's going to say.. nope sorry too much. See? this is why you can't have a horse, because these are the 'everything is going perfectly' fees, so not counting that anything happens to the horse...
But WOW i'm surprised we even  got this far :)

Well I'll write soon ;)

Oh by the way

I just realised I forgot to mention what the chiropractitian said he was really quite awesome he goes ' It's not the sport that should be stopped but the 6-7 hours of sitting in school, but then again no-ones asking about that' :D

Afterwards my mum who had earlier said that she doesn't want to make me stop riding it's just that if it's bad for my back then I should just put it on pause for a while, now afterwards she tells me in a grumpy voice 'Oh.. i'm never going to get you out of horses' -.-Yeah so much for trust your parents.

So now I have to go to the chiropractitian twice a week and hopefully in the end of the 6-12 week therapy my posture and back will be better.

On the down side i've been sick since Tuesday.. well atleast the not going to school sick kind, because i've had this weird cold thing where nothing hurts my nose is stuffy, I sneeze a lot and my ears are like bunged up a bit and because my ears are really sensitive (when I was little I had to have my eardrum burst :/ ) my mum is overprotective when it comes to my ears. :)

Atleast I get to sit here with my little kitty sleeping in my lap/on my bed :)

Mine or Yours

This is a bit late but it's still a thing thats bothering me :/

[A little back story, before I left for France my friend Betty (just f.y.i. me and her are fire and water.. i like to keep my things tidy and clean... and well lets just say she doesn't)asked me if she could borrow my wool black rising pad (even though she has her own) for her show, I said fine, but the only reason I agreed was because she caught me off guard and we had to leave like 4 seconds later -.-
But i told myself that it's fine because I was going to be there the whole time and I would take care of my rising pad (we call it fur here) and that was how it happened.
Then when I was abroad I had a bad feeling that Betty might be using my stuff behind my back but told myself not to be silly beause I don't have any reason to think she'd do that]

So this is where the interesting part starts, the first or second weekend back my friend Betty had a showjumping competition, and she asked me if I wanted and had the time to go and help her, I said yeah sure ofcourse i'll go :)

We get there and i'm just about to start tacking up her horse and she casually says
'Oh, I have your fur and your grooming stuff here by the way, and i've been using it where you weren't here.'
As if it were the most normal thing ever... I was so shocked that I couldn't even reply
Later when I had gathered my thoughts I go up to her and in my nicest voice go
'Um... Betty I don't mind you using my stuff just as long as you ask me first'...
Cool as a cucumber she replies 'Yeah, it's just that you weren't here and I couldn't contact you'...
I go 'Oh..'
'But i'll buy you new ones anyway' O.o

Now that I think back at it... I would have had every right to get ticked off and start bitching at her... But I didn't and I just agreed and told her that a fur isn't too cheap but if she insists.

But I mean... how arrogant can you get? Firstly I had my phone with me the whole time.. and she even sent me a text once....Secondly if you can't contact the person who's stuff you want to BORROW.. and I repeat BORROW then you don't bloody use it! Especially if you have your own... or have been too lazy to get your own for the past 2 months...

So I look up the stuff that I have an Olympic brush and a no-name but quality fur, both very expensive, but I got the brush from a friend of mine so I didn't know exactly how expensive it really was... Unfortunatly all of the stuff that she took isnt being made anymore so I had to find an alternstive -.-I tell her the next day how much just the brush costs and add that it even costs more than a Stübben [another expensive and well known brand here] and I don't even know why I expected anything else from her, but she swiftly says

'Won't a Stübben be good enough for you then?'

-.-

Every single person who i've told this story to so far has gotten so annoyed and asked me why I didn't had a fit then and there.

But I mean atleast I've learnt a valuble lesson... Don't lend anyone anything...

Although knowing Betty she'll either never buy me my stuff or take a year or go and buy me random shitty cheap stuff instead

Oops :/

Well ummm... my diet isnt going QUITE as planned x3 I haven't been able to take any picitures yet :/ And i've been slacking a lot... hmmm motto of the day! 'I'll start tomorrow'

BUT :D I have good news also :P two actualy
No 1#
I'm going to the chiropractitian today so IF all goes well my mum's going to let me go ridinng agaiin :D YAAY but I swear if he tells me that i'm not allowed to ride i'm gonna cry! BUT if everything goes well he'll tell me that i'm not allowed to run [so I wont have to do PE] but that horse riding is okay :D:D So my mum wont be able to make more excuses to stop me riding ;)

No 2#
I saw the most gorgeous! pair of heels in the store and so I tried a pair on. It was the last pair in my size. After about 3 mins of walking around in it [they were SO comfy] my mum looked at me and goes... 'hey.. is it just me or are these two shoes a different shade of black?' xD and they WERE :D:D it was hillarious one of them looked really dull and the other one was a really nice black. So we talked to the pple in the store and they're going to phone us when they get another pair of MATCHING heels from one of the other stores :D !

'till next time ;)

Diet Program

So basically what I'm going to do to try and keep me motivated is that around the same time every night, I'm going to take a sideways and front full body picture, and whenever I feel like I want to give up I'll look at the first picture I took which is today, and hopefully realize that I'd be throwing all that hard work out the window and I'd go back to looking like this.

At the end when I'm happy with the way I look and my weight is in the normal zone again, I'll put all the pictures into a video and speed it up and see how much I've changed and then maybe even upload it onto here :)

Rules
- I'm only aloud to eat snacks 'till noon, because then I feel like I will work it off by the end of the day.
- Drink LOTS of water.
- Walk whenever I can and have time[after school instead of taking the bus, when I go to the mall and other little distanes]
-Exercise atleast 3x a week at home [we have a treadmill and a spinner bike]
-Eat smaller portions
-Healthier snacks
-Take home made food to school instead of buying it there.
- No food after 6!!

These are just my rules for MYSELF they're basically just the average rules every diet tells you to stick to.
Today I'd probably give myself a 3/5 because I did'nt have as much as I usualy would, but I did unfortunately break a few rules :/

'Till next time ;)

France Trip

So as I mentioned in my last post that I went to France for a bit of intensive french learning, unfortunatly I couldn't take my normal camera because it's too heavy to carry around all the time and I was really worried about it getting it stolen.

But I took a few pics with my phone instead.

This was the view from one of the lookouts in Monaco onto it's pier.

We also went to Marineland in I think Biot.

Orcas, Killer Whales :)

Orca Kiss

This stingray had SUCH a beautiful pattern I took so many pictures of it.

This fish was HUGE and had the most adorable little baby teeth :)

I found Nemo ;)

There was one seal in the show that kept yapping at his caretaker for more fish :D

I can not remember what type of seal this was or if it was a seal at all, but it was HUGE.

Overall I felt really sorry for the animals at Marineland beause they had tiny little enclosures, the polar bear enclosure for example didn't have any ice just barq. Most of the animals lived in the 'show ring' and there wasn't really anything natural in any of the enclosures :/ :(

This was just a quick snapshot I took in Grasse of the view, right before we got soaked.

'Till next time :)

Hello There

I just got back from Antibes in France, I had a 3 week french learning course. I feel it helped a lot but I still feel that it's a bit embarassing telling people that I've been learning french for 7 years and I have next to nothing to show for it.

Anywho back to the point, so during my time spent there we had great weather, but I could never get myself to go out sunbathing in a bikini because of my extra that has been slowly but surely gtting bigger and bigger kilo by kilo. So I've decided once and for all that I'm going to commit myself to losing weight.

So I thought what better way than to keep an online diary which other people can see, so that I will hopefully be less likley to give up. :/ which I have SO many times in the past. Also I'll probably just add in posts about my day to day life which basically looks something like this: horses, school, horses, driving, lifestuff, horses :)

Yeah so I just quickly wanted to write a post as a little intro explaining what my little blog I going to be about.

'Till next time. ;)