My life has been so chaotic lately that I feel like I'm on some endless roller coaster of busyness and work. My courseload is insane this year - three APs, two honors, Latin III, accounting, and religion, but I'm getting used to it. Field hockey is going pretty well; I can hardly believe the season is halfway over already. I love my sisters to death and I don't want it to end. Rita's turned out to be a fun job and I like it there a lot. I'm working about two days a week there and it's going well so far. Plus, I have my other job at the newspaper on Friday nights, so that three days work. Yuck. Adam and I are doing fine too. I haven't really talked to him much this week because of hockey, homework, and work, but I'm sure he's doing good. Hahaha.

Brooks! I had a game show with my boy on Sunday and it went okay for the most part. Delaware combination stunk so bad; we blew a barrel, lost time on the turn around the poles, and ended with a nice little series of bucks. But, it was his first time gaming in over a month, so I wasn't expecting anything. Texas barrels went better, but we needed more whip in our turn to get a faster time. We got fifth in double baton and had a 13 and change! Our poles run was actually really nice for us. We made it through clean and easy a 28 [which is normally slow], but it had to be our best run all year. Poles just isn't our thing too much. Barrels was atrocious. He was tired and mentally shut down on me, even though I used spurs on him which I never need to do. Coming to the first, he hesitated and we knocked it, did okay at the second, went wide coming into the third and didn't haul butt home. I didn't care really because I knew he was done after two weeks of laziness and pasture. Dolly taped it for me, but I don't think I'll post it because it's just that horrible.

Hopefully, we'll go to the game show again this weekend and do better. I hate that feeling of being rusty and off.

At the barn, we have two new babies. Danny's got a big ole 2yo roan colt and Dolly bought a 2yo grey filly that she's calling Daisy. The girl has a a nice body and butt to her already and Dolly even said she can be my project for halter at the qualifying shows this year. The ponies, Rocky and Gilbert, are supposed to be leaving soon because Brenda is giving them to Janean and they're still trying to get rid of the crazy old Appy mare, but no one wants her. Jason's buddy is supposed to be bringing in a roping horse for the winter and Jasper is coming back with another pony horse. So, between Easy, Jesse, Clay, Diablo, Wyatt, Doc, Brooks, Lacey, the App mare, Daisy, the roan colt, Jasper, the roper, and the ponyhorse, we'll have 14 horses at the barn. I think that's the most we've had there in a long time.