Merry christmas everyone!!!

So I opened my pressies this morning and guess what Santa got me...
A fondue set! a tad random but what ever its chocolate! and its yum so I was happy.
I also got a protection vest for jumping (which is well needed after last pony club's event) and I got a new pair of converse (thank goodness!)

But enough about my pressies, guess what Minky got... A packet of minties! I think minky will be happy with me.

Anyhow, merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all get very nice presents.

Minky's little acheivement.

I had my riding lesson on Minky last night, and I finally got Minky to do something really special...

It has been about six months now since I started my riding lessons, and when I first started doing them, Minky was a mess! she would pull, stop, back up and spook at almost every thing!
(but now Minky doesn't do any of that)

What I'm so happy about is for the last six weeks, I have been training Minky to go on the bit and stay on the bit, and last night without any fuss, Minky slowly turned her nose in and went on the bit for a whole lap without me even having to asking!

By the end of the lesson Minky looked like she had jumped in the dam because she was saturated in sweat...my poor baby :(

I am so proud of my Minky that she will have to expect a few more pressies under the tree this year!

Thanks again...

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who put in the effort to give me a well done for my school award, I felt that it was a really big achievement and I am happy that I got your support in that.

I am really grateful for all the nice comments you guys leave and I am also very happy with the feed back I'm getting from this blog because that means your giving me room to improve on my grammar, content etc.

And one more note, I will get that Toohey video to you guys as soon as possible or at least when Toohey starts muttering again! I think Toohey has picked up that I am trying to post a video of him muttering, and he has stopped doing it!!! I will catch him one day....

Oh cripes...

I'm falling into Dads habits again and I am forgetting to post things on my blog (don't tell dad I said that)

However at the moment there is hardly anything to post because I have had a horse free week, but that is not an excuse so I am sorry :)

If you do want some interesting but completely stupid information, The Australian Government is looking into banning showjumping and cross country over here because it's too dangerous for the horses and the riders.

I think that's a load of horse feathers because riding a horse in general is dangerous, so what dose a silly little jump change? if a horse wants to be naughty it will, and that is something that us riders are happy to deal with because it all comes in the package of wanting to ride a horse anyway... besides the government wont ban it, because our government doesn't live up to any thing they promise, because they are a bunch of sooks.

Anyhow, enough grumbling, because I have the quote of the week!
I used it in front of my dad and he nearly spat his coffee out it was that funny... here goes "Dad they're just like a show bag, inside they're full of crap"

Please just don't ask me who I was referring to.

Oops I did it again...

Last nights riding lesson was fun, I fell off Minky again!

I said to my riding teacher that I had a reasonably bad fall and that I wanted to do jumping for my lesson so that I didn't loose any confidence, which is all well and good except Minky decided to act like a spack head, and refuse a jump.

I was still a little nervy from falling off the day before, so I wasn't planning to mess around.
So with that I gave Minky a hard kick, and Minky decides to do a gigantic bunny hop over the fence and I slid off the saddle and landed flat on my bottom.

Luckily I didn't get hurt and I continued on with my lesson, and I continued to jump until the lesson ended.

The main thing was, that I took some time to rebuild my confidence and even though I got hurt on Sunday, I was going to ride, whether I was in pain or not.

My day at pony club.

Well, yesterday was a test of my patience!
So, there I am lying in my bed, when I just remembered that I had to get out of bed at 5AM to wash Minky for the the gymkhana, however that didn't happen because when these thoughts where going through my mind, I didn't realise that it was 7:30AM! (cripes!)

I rushed out of bed and threw my tack in to the car, only to realise that I had forgotten my saddle blanket, so I ran inside and found that the dryer had spun out and all my blankets where still wet! so after that I had to put the dryer on super speed dry.

At this point I am already peed off so then I thought a nice wash would calm me down... correct, not going to happen, because the pump from the tanks had died!

I had officially cracked it, I threw the half dried blankets in the car and Daddy, Minky and I, finally made it out the gate.

We had gotten half way to pony club, and you guessed it, the float tyre had popped!
I was sat in the car thinking that this day couldn't get any worse however, Minky had handled the situation really well so we were gone with in half an hour of the tyre popping.

I was so late for pony club that when I got there, I quickly off loaded Minky, threw her saddle on, and cantered up to my first event, not knowing it wasn't even my event!

Then after about five minutes, the speaker called my jumping event, and finally I thought I had a good chance of turning the day around.

I had a five minute practice, and then I was called up for my round, I was so exited that I forgot the 45 second starting rule, and took about 3 seconds before I went over my first pole, I was almost galloping over some of them, because I was trying to get as much of the course done as I could.

As I was coming up to my last pole, Minky decides that she wont be going over it, but I on the other hand would be! Minky screeches to a halt jumps backwards and spins around to head for the gate, I did some retarded dive on to the sand, scraping my side on the way down!

I was in a lot of pain, I thought I might of broken something! however after the shock had worn off I realise that is was just a scrape and that I was just being a sook.

The pain had eventually worn off enough for me to stop crying, when all of a sudden the stupid nurse lady had sprayed dis infectant on it, and then the pain was worse that when i had fallen off!

I was mostly concerned about not getting a place on the showjumping, because I actually did a really good job, but it had turned out that I came 4th out of 16 riders and I got a ribbon and to top that off I got another one for a consolation prize, and i got 2 certificates for doing two pony club gradings!

So the day from hell was actually really good, except now I have a really sore side!

Sorry for the silent treatment.

I had nothing interesting to post because my week has been just crap, but we will not go there because its already been posted on dads blog, and to quite honest, i am completely over it.
I will get the video of Toothy soon i promise...my dad hasn't reminded me to do it and I keep forgetting :(
However aside from the crap week, I got an A+ in English this week! (just don't ask me what I did to get it, unless you want me to post my speech about cleaning your toilet and your cat at the same time)
And I will try to remember not to forget my blog again :)